Affinity Designer Tutorial - How to use the Pencil Tool

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  • Опубліковано 26 лис 2024

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  • @poncardas
    @poncardas 4 місяці тому +10

    Wow! Affinity's pencil control is much more intuitive vs Illustrator 😮Great tutorial as always!

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  4 місяці тому +1

      Thanks, I use it all the time. I don't even think of illustrator anymore. It's like a distant memory

  • @arsom5552
    @arsom5552 8 місяців тому +3

    Thank you for this tutorial 😊

  • @nikkilesley2525
    @nikkilesley2525 4 місяці тому +4

    Thank you! I don’t think I’ve seen such an in depth tutorial on the Pencil tool. 👍😁

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  4 місяці тому +1

      Cheers, I tried my best to give all the important info

  • @pdrg
    @pdrg 8 місяців тому +5

    Always love your videos, demystifying and encouraging!

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  8 місяців тому

      Thank you so much! I try to make it as clear as I can so I appreciate it

  • @meinhendl
    @meinhendl 8 місяців тому +2

    I can't say enough thankyou for your brilliant work and teaching !

  • @nordiclightphototours153
    @nordiclightphototours153 8 місяців тому +1

    Just another excellent tutorial. Your teaching skills are second to none! Thank you!!

  • @ronallen2458
    @ronallen2458 8 місяців тому +1

    Your tutorials are so good and engaging. I’m always on my toes for easter eggs!

  • @WimVeen
    @WimVeen 8 місяців тому +1

    This is a very good tutorial. I learned quite some of this. All elements of the pencil tool are shown here. Thanks for the great work.

  • @หน่อยคริส
    @หน่อยคริส Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for your help very clear 🎉

  • @jimnjoroge
    @jimnjoroge Місяць тому +1

    Affinity Pencil tool is a BEAST 🔥🔥🔥

  • @brazzilianboy
    @brazzilianboy Місяць тому +1

    this is so wholesome to watch, thanks for this, m8

  • @tmw_62
    @tmw_62 26 днів тому +1

    Thank you, very helpful

  • @carlcasparo
    @carlcasparo 8 місяців тому +1

    best tutorials ever! Thank you so much!

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  8 місяців тому

      Thank you I'm glad you think so

  • @ing_great_art
    @ing_great_art Місяць тому +1

    Thank you for your step by step and clear tutorial.. it's really helpful! Big Thanks!🙏🙏🙏

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  Місяць тому +1

      No problem, check out my latest videos (all Affinity Designer)

    • @ing_great_art
      @ing_great_art Місяць тому +1

      @@ArtistWright Btw can we transform weight of stroke effect to be node? (to make sure no prob when we convert it to pdf and open it on AI)

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  Місяць тому

      @@ing_great_art I'm not sure as I don't use illustrator, wouldn't take long to test it out.

  • @martinh4982
    @martinh4982 8 місяців тому +2

    Nice! You've inspired me to dig out my (Huion) graphics tablet which hasn't seen much love lately.

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  8 місяців тому

      Yeah do it! I love the look of the huion tablets

    • @martinh4982
      @martinh4982 8 місяців тому

      @@ArtistWright Blimey - what a battle! So I dug my tablet out, grabbed the pen and... no response from the pen. Re-installed drivers, did fault finding, but no luck. Then I remembered it's a powered pen and I might need to change the battery. Spent ages trying to figure out how to do that, to then remember it has a rechargeable battery! I then spent ages looking for the cable - a USB to a very thin barrel jack cable. By some miracle I hadn't thrown it out and it eventually turned up. Plugged it in and got it charging... but the charge light wouldn't go off, even after hours. Unplugged it and tried it... but still no response! Tried it plugged in and that worked so... I guess the battery had gone bad. Ordered a new pen, which arrived today and, finally, I'm able to use the thing! Sometimes I think the universe is trying to tell me something.
      I don't suppose you have any tips on using a graphics tablet with Affinity apps? My tablet has hard and soft buttons you can bind to keys/key combinations. Do you have any bindings you add if your tablet has the same features? Any other tips also appreciated!

  • @carlhughes1206
    @carlhughes1206 8 місяців тому +1

    Another cracking tutorial!!!!Thank you!

  • @Lida22
    @Lida22 5 місяців тому +2

    @ArtistWright - thanks! You make some of the best Affinity tutorials available on UA-cam. You explain things clearly and use excellent examples, and do a very good job of zooming in where we need to see what you're doing or selecting. Here's something that might make your tutorials even better and more useful: Change your interface to the LIGHT mode for the recordings. I know many people prefer the dark mode (as you do) for actual work, but it is VERY difficult to see in the tutorials. Medium-dark grey on a black background is very low-contrast and sometimes impossible to make out which element on the interface you're talking about. It is a very simple thing in all Affinity apps to change to the light mode for recording, then back to dark mode if you need it for your work. If you do this, it will be ever so much easier for us viewers to see what you're doing. Thanks so much for your excellent tutorials, and keep up the good work.

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you so much Lida, Wonderful feedback! I have never used light mode in all these years 😂 Will try on the next one, thanks for the tip

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  5 місяців тому +1

      Hello Lida, check out my latest tutorial, with light mode thanks to you. Let me know if it's better this way. Cheers

  • @leythecg
    @leythecg 8 місяців тому +1

    learned a lot! Thanks a lot :-) Really awesome in content and presentation!

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  8 місяців тому

      If you learned something then Im happy! Thanks

  • @miro_juric
    @miro_juric 8 місяців тому +1

    Thank you!! Great work! Cheers!

  • @rapidraga
    @rapidraga 6 місяців тому +1

    What an amazing tutorial! Thank. You so much.

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  6 місяців тому

      No problem, also the new 2.5 update has made a big difference, way less nodes on a curve

  • @user-KoreanJB
    @user-KoreanJB 3 дні тому +1

    great. thanks

  • @leni1029
    @leni1029 5 місяців тому +1

    this is such a great tutorial! thank you so much!

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  5 місяців тому +1

      My pleasure,also check out the stroke width tool tutorial. Very handy

    • @leni1029
      @leni1029 5 місяців тому

      @@ArtistWright uhh, thanks! I will definitely do that!

  • @MaknaOnlineStore
    @MaknaOnlineStore 8 місяців тому +1

    Thank you so much!! Great content👍

  • @kdeuler
    @kdeuler 7 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for this vid. I was wondering if you have, or are planning to have, tutorials on how to use a drawing tablet with AD.

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  7 місяців тому

      I've not made any on that subject yet. But you're the second person to ask now. Perhaps I will, although I honestly use it in the most simplest of ways. I hardly ever press the buttons on my graphics tablet except for the buttons on the pen which I've mapped to certain shortcuts

  • @JC-xx6rr
    @JC-xx6rr 8 місяців тому +1

    Really helpful thanks.

  • @Marsupioll
    @Marsupioll 8 місяців тому +1

    This helped me sooooo much 🤯
    Thank you!

  • @cchung3311
    @cchung3311 23 дні тому +1

    Thanks for the Pencil Tool Tutorial, I been looking for a long time for freehand drawing as opposed to just shapes! Also would you recommend Logoist 5 as a Vector program for fast illustration? (if you use the program)

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  23 дні тому +1

      No worries! I've never heard of that software, I would stick with Affinity as you have photo and publisher that work seamlessly together with designer

    • @cchung3311
      @cchung3311 23 дні тому +1

      @@ArtistWright Thanks for your reply, I only stumbled upon it on researching Vector programs hoping one app would allow freehand painting vector export and not just export as bitmap,

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  23 дні тому +1

      @cchung3311 ah yes I see your point. One important point you might want to know, in Affinity Designer the vector brushes are not real vectors. They are bitmaps along a path. The basic brushes are vector though (basic outlines)

  • @djmaddogffm
    @djmaddogffm 7 місяців тому +1

    First of all thanks for the great video. One Question: I don't have the "autoclose" on my screen. Where can I find it?

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  7 місяців тому

      It will be there in the context tool bar, you will see it when you have the pencil selected. Sometimes on smaller screens some of the options will be hidden and there will be an arrow you can select to see the hidden options

  • @dkickelbick
    @dkickelbick 8 місяців тому +1

    Cool. Thank you!

  • @MrDistracted
    @MrDistracted 3 місяці тому +1

    Hi great tutorial thank you!
    Can I ask what model of Wacom you use with your Mac setup please?
    Thank you!

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  3 місяці тому

      No problem! I used a wacom intuos pro medium. I also have the smaller wacom intuos (but I usually only use that when I don't want to pack alot on my travels)

    • @MrDistracted
      @MrDistracted 3 місяці тому +1

      @@ArtistWright awesome thanks for the quick reply! I use a Mac mini mainly so would mostly be desk use so medium would probably be a good bet for me then. Just looking at them now - really appreciate the feedback! Thank you!

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  3 місяці тому +1

      Yeah I think that's a good call! It's going to make your design life better that's for sure

  • @morizanova
    @morizanova 7 місяців тому +1

    Affinity stroke studio/editor indeed the main reason I'm converted from other brand . That's possible in another apps but what AD offer easier for me

  • @gregorioportela
    @gregorioportela 8 місяців тому +1

    muito pratico , bem explicado

  • @CBM64
    @CBM64 6 місяців тому +1

    Wow amazing tutorial! I am just now trying this pencil+pressure controller on my MacBook trackpad and notice that the pressure sensitivity is quite extreme. With only a light touch the size goes from 1 to 1000. Is there any way to calibrate the pressure max/min?

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  6 місяців тому

      Thanks, yes try the pressure profile and you can set min and max

  • @jillwirsing7544
    @jillwirsing7544 8 місяців тому +1

    I enjoyed this video! Thank you! Are the pressure profiles that you save available when you open other files, or just for the file that you save them in?

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  8 місяців тому +1

      That's a good question actually, I believe it only works on the document you are working on. There is an annoying workaround though. Draw out a line, use a stroke profile you made. Then create a style. then in a new document you can just apply that style

    • @jillwirsing7544
      @jillwirsing7544 7 місяців тому +1

      @@ArtistWright Thank you! That is good information to know!

  • @ДенисКам-ъ8о
    @ДенисКам-ъ8о 3 місяці тому +1

    Please tell me how to draw closed contours with this tool. Because if I draw a complex contour and use the sculp mode, then the auto contour closing does not work. I have to do it manually. And it is very sad that such a program cannot do such elementary things.

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  3 місяці тому

      HI, i've just tested this out and you are completely right. I cannot auto close the curve whilst using sculpt mode. Perhaps they don't know about it. I will let them know. Thank you

    • @ДенисКам-ъ8о
      @ДенисКам-ъ8о 3 місяці тому +1

      @@ArtistWright thanks for the quick response. I just started learning this program, I want to find an alternative to Adobe Illustrator for creating vector illustrations. When rendering a sketch into vector format on a graphics tablet I often use pencil in Adobe Illustrator, it's convenient and fast, but in Affinity Designer at the moment it's a problem. I hope they hear you and fix it

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  3 місяці тому

      @user-uq3vc1ts4n no problem, I made a video of it and posted it to the official forum. Hope they can sort it. Not sure how that one slipped by me to be honest 😂. Affinity is definitely the way, they seem to be updating it and a much more rapid rate these days

  • @ronaldsmith8354
    @ronaldsmith8354 2 місяці тому +1

    how do set up my Affinty user interface to be the as here online

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  2 місяці тому

      I teach you how to do this in my new video -Affinity designer the comprehensive guide under the light dark mode section

  • @johnlepore1562
    @johnlepore1562 7 місяців тому

    Thanks!

  • @biggertree7063
    @biggertree7063 28 днів тому +2

    Adobe Illustrator ad while I'm trying to learn Affinity Designer. 😂

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  28 днів тому

      It's awful isn't it! I have noticed that too. Adobe have their tricks

    • @biggertree7063
      @biggertree7063 28 днів тому

      @@ArtistWright 🤣

  • @oo0Spyder0oo
    @oo0Spyder0oo 3 місяці тому +1

    No need for the music inserts when introducing the options, it’s annoying af. Save your self some editing time too.

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  3 місяці тому

      Cheers for the feedback, the less time editing the better

  • @AllanLobo
    @AllanLobo 8 місяців тому

    Hey man how can I contact you?

    • @ArtistWright
      @ArtistWright  8 місяців тому

      Hi, my links are on my UA-cam channel homepage. So either my website or X