Butterfly, Reflected

Affinity Designer Folk Art Butterfly

As you know I’m taking Delores Naskrents Affinity Designer MasterClass to learn more about the tools in Affinity Designer. The florals and leaves here area all created with vector tools.

What an important class. We learned to use a reflective template so that we only needed to draw on one side and the motifs automatically display/repeat on the opposite side.

For motifs, we learned to use the stroke width to create leaves and petals, drawing additional ones easily with the created stroke path.

After the strokes are created to be petals or leaves, then expand each stroke [highlight all to expand at once] and add them together into a curve shape to which we learned to add textures and patterns to add interest in the design.

I added a textured background and created a mockup using Tracey Capone’s template. I wrote about the mockup here.

Each class is building on another, and as we learn new skills we are practicing the ones taught before. I’m really enjoying it and feel much more confident with Affinity Designer at only half way through the class.

Next: Learning more about the stroke width panel and mirroring with symbols. Very cool.

See you in the next post.