![]() ![]() Whereas Illustrator relies on its mainstay of drop-down numerical boxes, Affinity Designer’s sliders are a more intuitive way to determine sizing, whether you’re determining the appropriate stroke width or layer transparency.īoth programs have the ability to customise their toolbar, meaning you can be rid of the tools you don’t use and prioritise the ones you use the most, and both have the ability to make simultaneous changes across all instances of similar objects in Illustrator, this is called Global Editing, whereas in Affinity Designer you can designate an object, such as a logo, as a Symbol, giving you the opportunity to automatically copy across any changes made to all instances of it. One of the more intuitive elements of Affinity Designer’s user interface is the use of sliders to control sizing and zooms. I draw things that make me happy, and love to teach anyone who'll listen.Affinity Designer's Workspace (Image credit: Beth Crane) I'm currently living in Calgary, AB and working for. I'm hoping I can stay true to this with this blog. I like to play around with each tool to get a sense of how it works, as opposed to following precise steps and creating a carbon copy of the tutorial file. Over time, I was spending MORE time illustrating than I was designing.īack then there wasn't much online in terms of learning materials, and I hated the basic tutorials you could find. Soon all my free time was spent drawing whatever I could think of to upload and sell. I had no idea what I was missing out on.Ī few years later I discovered Adobe Illustrator, then microstock, and was hooked. I never even considered vectors as a serious artistic medium: All my illustration courses focused on painting, or ink, or sculpture, or pencil crayon. I started with simple logos and learned how to trap files manually in Freehand: The sorts of things any design student should learn. I'm currently the Senior Manager of Illustrations for iStock and Getty Images. I first fell in love with vectors during a digital illustration course while completing my Graphic Design degree at Red River College, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. My name is Jennifer Borton, and I'm a vectorholic. ![]()
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