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Design Design Tools Affinity Designer

The Affinity Designer Crash Course

Learn everything you need to create amazing vector graphic illustrations!
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (676 ratings)
2,661 students
Created by Brad Colbow
Last updated 5/2018
English
English [Auto], Indonesian [Auto], 
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Students will learn all the tools necessary to take their sketches and turn them into finished professional looking vector artwork.

Requirements

  • You will need Affinity Designer installed on your PC or Mac (iPad coming soon!)

Description

Creating art is fun and your online courses should be too.

In this light hearted course I teach my zombie friend how to break down a complex poster design into small easy to create chunks just like the pros do. We learn all the tools you need one at a time by actually creating art with them and adding them to our poster.

By the end of this course you will be able to turn your sketches into professional high quality vector illustrations that will blow away your friends and family.


About Affinity Designer

Affinity designer is a fairly new program but is gaining traction fast due to it’s deep feature set and its place as an inexpensive Adobe Illustrator replacement. It is available on bot Windows and on Macs.


Affinity for iPad

There is an iPad version of this course available here on Udemy. Search for "Vector Drawing on the iPad with Affinity Designer". If you're using the iPad I would recommend that course over this one, the interface is much different.



Who this course is for:

  • Beginners who want to learn how to make digital art
  • Adobe Illustrators users who are looking for an inexpensive alternative

Featured review

Ashik Jonathan E
Ashik Jonathan E
13 courses
10 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 55 months ago
has been using inkscape so far. Its a wonderful competent tool and I've done a ton of projects on inkscape. So learnt about a almost free platform called affinity. anything without a subscription is free for me. Hope to master things perfectly from an experienced tutor. Let's see how it goes.

Course content

6 sections • 26 lectures • 3h 30m total length

  • Preview03:43
  • Interface Tour
    08:51

  • Preview04:35
  • Modifying Shapes
    10:13
  • The Text Tool
    07:22
  • Snapping and the Grid
    04:22
  • Geometry Tools
    04:21
  • Gradients
    08:56
  • The Color Picker and Styles
    04:23
  • Color Swatches and Global Colors
    05:42

  • Step One - Inspiration and Sketching
    06:18
  • Step Two: Laying Down the Basic Shapes
    13:00
  • Step Three: Adding the Details
    11:36
  • Step Four: Adding Shadows and Transparencies
    09:50
  • Step Five: Making it a Haunted House
    07:41

  • The Pixel Persona
    08:21
  • Layers
    05:35
  • The Pen Tool
    06:36
  • Advanced Shapes
    05:49

  • Part One: Tracing with the pen tool
    14:16
  • Part Two: Finishing the foreground elements
    09:10
  • Part Three: Designing a logo
    11:39
  • Part Four: The Background art part one
    10:19
  • Part Five: The background art part two
    12:59
  • Part Six: Effects and finishing touches
    05:33

  • Preview09:39

Instructor

Brad Colbow
Freelance Designer and Illustrator
Brad Colbow
  • 4.7 Instructor Rating
  • 17,910 Reviews
  • 61,733 Students
  • 9 Courses

Hi, I’m Brad. I’m a professional graphic designer and Illustrator.

I’ve published comics, run conferences but what I’m best known for is running a Youtube channel where I talk about technology for illustrators. In that time I’ve published reviews on everything from the Surface Pro to the iPad pro. And everything in between. 

I believe drawing and illustration is a journey, we are all constantly learning and getting better and I blog about that on my channel as well. I think anyone can learn to draw all it takes is practice.

It’s never to late to pick up a pencil and start learning.

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