Chris Heath

Design a Simple Decorative Band

Wow! This is an amazing project -- a circuit diagram for sure. The colors are fantastic. It's fun to look at, rather like a maze!

Thank you Sheri. I really was trying to think laterally to create a completely different pattern to what I covered in the class. It also reminds me of an underground rail system map, with the nodes being railway stations.

Is Affinity able to make guides from objects like Illustrator does? I might download your grid and recreate it as guides. I have taken a lot of classes and have a list the length of my arm of projects I'd like to create and share. But, someone makes me go to work every day. Oh, yeah, the mortgage company, and the electric company, and and and....

I haven't found an automated way of doing it, however, with each release, Affinity Designer keeps getting better and better, so perhaps that's on the roadmap. 

There are a lot of snap settings, and you can snap guides to objects, as well as objects to guides. 

I know what you mean. My day job gets in the way as well.

Fantastic, I especially love the bottom design with the gray background. Simple yet effective.

I skipped the hand-drawing stage for this project and had a go at building this pattern from scratch using the 'Symbols' functionality in Affinity Designer.
<img style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" src="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/9d0366f4dd97c25a5dfc01c79988673c/a25691e2" alt="Circuit Diagram - image 1 - student project" srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=600,format=auto/uploads/project/9d0366f4dd97c25a5dfc01c79988673c/a25691e2 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/9d0366f4dd97c25a5dfc01c79988673c/a25691e2 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
<img style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" src="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/9d0366f4dd97c25a5dfc01c79988673c/3fd00d50" alt="Circuit Diagram - image 2 - student project" srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=600,format=auto/uploads/project/9d0366f4dd97c25a5dfc01c79988673c/3fd00d50 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/9d0366f4dd97c25a5dfc01c79988673c/3fd00d50 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
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Bonus Pattern
I thought I'd add a very different pattern that was built with the same grid taught in this class. It's a Persian floral/biomorphic pattern.
<img style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" src="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/9d0366f4dd97c25a5dfc01c79988673c/7009c41d.jpg" alt="Circuit Diagram - image 3 - student project" srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=600,format=auto/uploads/project/9d0366f4dd97c25a5dfc01c79988673c/7009c41d.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/9d0366f4dd97c25a5dfc01c79988673c/7009c41d.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">

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