Fast, smooth, and precise

Affinity Designer is a digital art studio for your iPad that has many tools and features you can use to streamline your projects. Affinity Designer, like most art applications, offers some unique features. The app is fast, smooth, and provides precise vectors for all your graphic design needs. If you are a UI designer on Windows, until recently your only options were Photoshop, Illustrator, or online tools like Webflow.Well, things have changed and now there are three new tools you can use for UI design: Adobe Experience Design (XD), Figma and Affinity Designer.

Affinity Designer is a powerful graphic design software that can change the way you work. It contains many similarities to the desktop version, except for a few iPad specific changes.

Optimized for iPad

Affinity Designer is a digital art studio for your iPad that has many tools and features you can use to streamline your projects.

Affinity Designer, like most art applications, offers some unique features. The app is fast, smooth, and provides precise vectors for all your graphic design needs.

This program uses professional RGB, Grayscale, CMYK, and LAB color models to provide accurate color settings. You can also view how exported projects look more professional because of the live pixel option.

The Affinity vector tools make it easy to draw the way you want with accuracy. This is especially true when you use a stylus. There is a variety of industry-standard tools like a pen, brush, eraser, and zoom tool.

Along with these, Affinity Designer supports a wide variety of file types. The supported options include PSD, PDF, JPG, SVG, and many more. This makes it easy to import or export a file that you’re working on.

However, for all the application’s workflow improvements, the interface is uncomfortable to use. The menus fly out and twist all over the place. This is frustrating and makes it a chore to search for a specific tool you need.

Overall, this application is designed to improve your workflow. Applications free for mac os x. To do this, you can use an unlimited amount of artboards, access savable history, customize your shortcuts, and align elements with ease.

Where can you run this program?

Affinity Designer is available for iPads running iOS 11.1 or later, as well as Mac.

Is there a better alternative?

Google voice for mac. Yes. Procreate is another iPad drawing application that offers many of the same features found in Affinity Designer. However, it has over a hundred brushes and a better layout for its menus.

Our take

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Affinity is a great tool for digital artists and designers that has many useful utilities hidden behind its complicated flyout menus. It’s an excellent option for experts in the field.

Should you download it?

Yes. If you’re looking for a powerful art tool and to prioritize colors or a fast workflow, then this is a great choice.

Highs

• Great color selection
• Precision vector tools
• Built for smooth workflow

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Zebra for mac. 1.7.3

So, how were they made?

When you work with textures in your designs you can’t help but notice the gnarly old paint on the slide when you’re at the park with your kid. Collecting interesting and unusual real-world textures is where this started, many of which were taken from this same dilapidated playground, they were then edited to create a bold, inked look.

Originally the collection was created by Bob for use in his own projects, the Styles in this collection are a shorthand way to apply awesome texture and pattern to projects. Paired with vector brushes that add interest to line-art and texture to the edges of shapes, plus a set of ultra-useful assets, this collection grew and grew into the monster you see before you!

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What do you get?

• 92 Assets
• 25 Vector Brushes
• 100 Styles (split into 3 parts)
• Part 1—44 Styles
• Part 2—36 Styles
• Part 3—20 Styles (100 in total)

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How should I use them?

The Shizzle Style and Brush Pack is a toolkit for enhancing your vector art. The vector Brushes can be added to vector lines to add texture and pattern, the Styles add instant bitmap texture and grunge to your vector shapes and the Assets are a collection of useful resources that can be dropped onto your canvas at any time. Resize and fine-tune your creations through the wonder of Affinity Designer’s Appearance Studio.

The Shizzle Brushes

Draw a vector line and add a vector brushstroke for instant interest. It doesn’t have to be an outline either, use the brushes for scribbled textures and gradual grainy shading. The great thing about using vector brushes for shading is you can change the brushstroke, tweak the vector curve and recolour them til your heart’s content, no erasing or redrawing necessary. If you need to make quick changes to your client projects or like to change your mind a lot, this is the way to go!

The Shizzle Styles—in three parts

Grizzle up your vectors using the Shizzle Styles. In just one click, you can add grains, dots, shadows, hand-drawn patterns, tones and textures to your work to give it that extra oomph. Styles work by selecting a vector shape and clicking the Style of your choice in the Styles Panel to apply it to the shape. You can then edit using the Appearance Studio.

The Shizzle Assets

Drag and drop or insert an asset from the Assets Panel, colour it, clip it, use it as a mask, the options are endless. Shapes and patterns, great for building up comic book panels or for experimenting with the other elements of this collection.

Subcategories include Shiznuggets—bits and bobs to play around with, shadows, lines with brushes pre-applied and ready to edit, line groups that create patterns waiting for some magic and perfect for clipping, irregular circles and rough edges squares and much more.

Inspiration

Check out some of the cool illustrations Bob has created using the brushes, styles and assets in The Shizzle Style and Brush Pack.

Where can I get hold of this epic collection?

The Shizzle Style and Brush Pack is now available to purchase on the Affinity store.

About the creator

Bob Byrne is an Irish freelance illustrator and product designer. Since founding Clamnuts design studio 20 years ago with its roots in Irish underground comic and zine culture, Bob has expanded his company to encompass the Dr Moku language learning apps and product range, animations and illustration for top brands such as Cadbury and mobile game development, with more products and apps on the horizon. Bob has been involved in the development of Affinity products from the early days, with his feedback and experience helping shape the apps.

You can see more of Bob’s work on the Clamnuts website and Twitter.

You can also read our behind the scenes interview with Bob here and check out his Affinity Lockdown 2020 Creative Session on YouTube where he talks us through how to use Styles in animated projects.