Course Introduction

Digital planning continues to grow in popularity. Apps like Goodnotes, Zoomnotes and Artful Agenda continue to gain in popularity. People often love the ease of use once you get through the initial learning curve of using a digital planner. People also absolutely love the idea of having an endless supply of digital stickers you can reuse over and over again. Personally, I love having an endless supply of ideas to create digital stickers that I can use whenever I feel inspired. And that is what this month’s class will be all about - designing digital stickers on your iPad in affinity designer version 2. Whether you want to create digital stickers for personal use or eventually to sell in a digital shop, making digital stickers

Doesn’t have to be complicated and it is absolutely fun.

Welcome to Class!

Hi everyone! Welcome to class. I am Jen Veguilla-Lezan and I’ll be the one guiding you through this creative course. I’m a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and educator based out of the midwest and I run Bella + Sophia Creative studio. If you want to learn more about me, you can find me online at: www.bellasophiacreative.com. You can also check out my YouTube channel: The Creative studio where you will get a behind the scenes view of the work I do as a creative freelancer and find a huge library of free tutorials catered to those of you interested in graphic design, programs like Affinity and procreate as well as art and illustration.

If this is your first foray into my classes relating to digital planning I highly suggest you check out some of my previous classes. I have a variety within my course library that show you the basics of digital planning and one of my more recent courses dives into the process of creating your very own digital planner: Design a Digital Planner in the Affinity Publisher 2 iPad App. I’ll make sure to leave it linked in the course description. Also, if you are working in a different version of the Affinity Designer app, specifically version 1 or the desktop version, I have a couple of classes that will help you to do what we are doing in this class, but in those versions. I will leave those linked as well.

Aside from my work in graphic design and illustration, I really enjoy planning and designing stationery! As you saw in my How to Build a Digital Planner course, some of my top selling products are my digital planners and digital stickers sets in my Etsy shop. One of my top courses is my how to design digital stickers with affinity designer v1 on the iPad and desktop. I wanted to do an update to this class as serif released an update to all three of the Affinity products and I wanted to take people through the sticker design process in the new version of Affinity Designer V2 on their iPad.

This is because the interfaces are a bit different - so this course will get you comfortable with the iPad version of V2 of Designer. Creating digital stickers for use in goodnotes or your other note taking app is not nearly as hard as you think. I wanted to share some tips, my knowledge of the iPad app and help you build a digital sticker set that you can customize to your needs. These sticker sets give digital planning a bit of creativity and a nod to the “real thing” and the beauty about working in Affinity Designer is that you don’t necessarily need to have too much artistic ability as we will be working with shapes and vector tools, but you can still flex your art skills in the app if you chose to. These are great to use for digital planning and scrap booking and can reuse them over and over again.

What the class is about

In this class, you will learn how to create a digital sticker set in Affinity Designer V2 for the iPad. This is an update to my prior class as I received messages and requests to do this class to highlight the iPad Affinity Designer V2 interface. I really enjoy using Affinity Designer on the iPad for working on projects on the go and for creating digital stickers because it allows you to simply and quickly create precise shapes, align and space items easily, add vector effects to the shapes and export your images as slices to PNG files without a background. This basically allows you to prepare them for your digital note taking app and apply them to pages without a white background.

This course is a fantastic class to also get comfortable using Affinity Designer V2 on your ipad - as you are going through the basic process of creating in the program and you get a tangible project that you can use after you are done. The goal for this class is to highlight the interface of the iPad version as it is a bit different than what you might find on the desktop version.

A few of the skills students will learn

You will learn how create your own digital planner stickers in Affinity Designer V2 right on your ipad. We will start with the basics of understanding the tool bars and functions in the Affinity Designer iPad workspace, then we will start to build out our digital sticker set.

You will learn how to design simple functional stickers that don’t require any artistic prowess. You will learn about the different types of stickers for planning. How to set up your file and prep your art boards. You will get an understanding of the layers function in the program. We will also go over how to use the shape tools, the line tool and how to use the the move and align functions. You will get a better understanding of the layer FX tools and how to add things like shadows to make items feel more 3-D and realistic. We will go over how to load your digital stickers into goodnotes and how to place them onto your layouts.

To make things easier, I will be including the class project affinity designer template that you can edit and get acquainted with before you start your own. I will also include a file with all of the stickers I created in the class for personal use in a zipped file as PNGs.

TOOLS NEEDED

All you need to take this class is your iPad, The Affinity Designer ipad App and The Goodnotes app or any other note taking app.

WHO IS THIS CLASS FOR

Artists

Graphic Design enthusiasts

Illustrators

Digital Planners

Digital Planning Beginners

Anyone creative who would like to create seamless patterns

FIND INSPIRATION

Find Inspiration on Pinterest

Find my shop on Creative Market

SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNERS

The class is geared towards beginners as it will walk you through and help familiarize you with the new affinity designer V2 interface. I walk learners through the process step by step and I am also reintroducing the interface due to the update.

Check out my other digital planning courses

Design a digital planner in Affinity Publisher V2 on the iPad

Design a digital planner in Affinity Publisher V1 on the Desktop

Design a digital planner in Affinity Designer V1 and Keynote

Design digital stickers in Affinity Designer V1 on the iPad

Design digital stickers in Affinity Designer V1 on the desktop

Design Illustrative Stickers in Procreate + Affinity Photo V1 for Digital Scrapbooking and Planning

Debbie Merhege

Artist, Illustrator, Teacher

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