Creating a character from scratch in Affinity Designer | Tutorial

[@Hey_me]

U made it look very simple. Wish I could be this good.

[@ItsMeHelel]

I know it seems like you are doing the same thing over and over again (and in a way you mostly are indeed haha), but for beginners like us it's gold! Also, your charisma is super nice and makes the tutorial time go by much faster! Please, do more of it! ^^

[@MegWayne]

Thank you so much! I'm glad it helps! I'll for sure do more. Is it specifically Affinity that you're interested in? Just so I know, it helps me decide what tools to use to introduce processes.

[@ItsMeHelel]

@@MegWayne Yeah, it's mostly the Affinity programs that I'm looking for, rn... I saw you mentioned Webflow, but it's not something I'm learning since I already do my webpages elsewhere ^^

[@agi1041]

Wonderful. I learn better by watching somebody doing it from scratch. Thank you.

[@MegWayne]

Awesome! Thank you for watching!

[@dandavid2027]

Had a blast watching your video. Thank you for sharing.

[@bonanz3000]

wow I just picked up affinity designer on black friday sale. Looking to get into designing some things for some projects for myself. Came across this as the first video in my tutorial search and was blown away! What a talented designer, effortless teacher, great attitude funny tutorial! instant sub! looking forward to going through every one of your affinity design videos. Thank you so much

[@MegWayne]

That's so nice! I'm definitely planning more with Affinity! I'm glad it helped!

[@thesillyman_]

I love your channel, you're so funny! I love the sound effects and memes you put!

[@joemadden1381]

Very talented and entertaining... great job lass.

[@lotharen]

More tutorials like this please! :) Learned a lot and love to hear your commentary. You have a wonderful voice.

[@KennyFully]

You hit a home run on this tutorial! Goodness I just wanted to learn how to make game assets and characters and you pretty much showed me a ton a tips and tricks! May GOD bless you!

[@ramirezvilla]

So much respect for you! These style of tutorials are gold. Thank you!

[@oldtejera5626]

Holy moly, your attitude towards everything is hilarious in a good way. Subbed. That drawing is mad cute too.

[@MegWayne]

Haha thank you so much, 5 stars to this very funnily delivered comment

[@senhorlampada]

I have to watch this multiple times. I just cannot balance how much I focus on the art and how much on your expressions 😜

[@breejesh2212]

This is just wonderful! I am new to Affinity and Illustration in general so this helped a lot. And it was hella entertaining as well xD Keep up the great work! Looking forward to more Affinity Designer content!

[@PlusPassie]

Wow, just bought the app and searched on KZbin what I can do with it. What an inspiring video! Thanks!

[@MegWayne]

Glad it helped!!

[@PlusPassie]

Meg Wehrlen Especially the way you explain it. Because of that I understood what your where doing. Thanks!

[@_indomitus_]

Such an underrated channel tbh. loved the content.

[@MegWayne]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!

[@cjdazz8647]

Wow..great work. I love it.

[@LuketheSmith]

How has this only got 600 odd likes?! I love your presentation style, super helpful seeing your workflow ESPECIALLY in 4k so I can see whats going on with players and the UI with ease. TOP STUFF! keep it up

[@MegWayne]

Thank you I appreciate it! I wish I had more time to make more videos! Correction: I wish KZbin hadn’t set the bar so high to monetize videos altogether so I could prioritize video production.

[@MrDrwatson01]

Really impressive stuff, ive learned loads off your 13 min video. i will watch this several times to work out all of the techniques. thanks.

[@damianbridlington55]

Great tutorial, I've been an illustrator user for two decades but the price is just too attractive now to ignore affinity so watching a few tutorials like this is great.

[@denisstpierre7140]

I watched from start to finish! Nice flow to your presentation. Hint of humour. Several useful techniques demonstrated! Thank you for sharing your talent 😀

[@carlierixon5034]

Can you explain how to do the mask layer on the grey lower part of the eye. Like how to stop the blur from going onto the outside of the eye. I've replayed the vid and googled and cannot for the life of my figure it out. :-)

[@MegWayne]

Oh yes! I simply put the shape I want masked “inside” of the masking shape in the layer panel. Just by grabbing the layer to mask, and dragging over the masking shape layer and try to move your pointer slightly to the bottom right, you should be able to release the click and have the shape under it. And it’ll be masked and both will still be editable.

[@MegWayne]

Carlie Rixon I replayed it and I’m actually explaining that at 4:03!

[@carlierixon5034]

@@MegWayne Thank you so much!

[@kenzieevans3742]

This is absolute gold! I love your style and commentary, you're hilarious and had me laughing out loud at some of your comments :') I've been hesitating about buying AD for myself as I have zero design experience but it's always interested me, your video has inspired me to take the leap. Thank you for making this! Subscribed :D

[@Imel520f]

please do more character video, I love everything in this tutorial and you makes me smile 😘

[@Altek2k]

This was really good. You made it look so easy. I sense that I may be cursing my screen later when I try this. Thanks!

[@Neceros]

Wish you would slow down and explain how you are doing it. I really like you. Good art eye

[@jordandesigns5797]

It almost pointless when people speed up their design work 100x and expect us to be able to follow the mouse and see what she does. she also talks so damn fast like typical girl

[@mcvwsavagejmoney1194]

This was amazing to watch 👍 just what I’ve been looking for home made designs from scratch. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@abrahamzakaria4028]

Good job Meg

[@777wisdom7]

Cute and really fun to watch, thanks this made me happy.......Yay!

[@MegWayne]

That makes me so happy to hear! I'll try to keep the same tone for next week!

[@videosfromtheheart6294]

Fun Watch .... would like to learn each step --it moved so fast. Gonna go explore you other videos. new fan!

[@MegWayne]

Thank you! I’ll be working on a full course this year!

[@hachibee3690]

haha I love your commentary very much!! also i learned more of the affinity designer from this video. i stopped using it because of complexity of vector but now I want to use it again. your creation is very pretty! can't wait to see more videos like this >w

[@MegWayne]

Thank you!! I can't go back to illustrator personally. The layer system is just so much better in Affinity

[@TheGamingSnob]

Just found your channel! Gonna be diving into your videos soon! Thank you!

[@ZoeysMusings]

Your humour is everything 😂Thank you for this tutorial 🙏🏽

[@mygiguser]

i think this was great! thanks for making this tutorial!

[@tedgrimshaw4933]

Hi again Meg, Sorry I have just come across your tut about creating the character and I find this very intuitive and thank you very much. Kind regards. Ted

[@MegWayne]

Of course! Happy new year!

[@ArtistWizardry]

OMG that was great! So funny and so educational. LOL that was fun.

[@MegWayne]

Thank you so much!!!

[@LGADK]

Very easy and fun to follow. Do you ever use the isometric tools? Thanks for your expertise!!!

[@soniajones4244]

this is so good I'm a newbie to affinity

[@fifislife63]

how did you get the backround that you are drawing on to be black , thanks so much .

[@gabbyg561]

I am just starting with Affinity having downloaded the trial version. You have demonstrated what it is capable of in a fun entertaining way. 😁

[@verstrahlt1907]

I work in similar style/way, but in inkscape. You are doing great (both are) cute.. Nice idea w/ Error404 and that you will wait here.

[@zahwacchan5312]

Thank you very much! This tutorial really help me because I bought this app without knowing how to use it

[@rami7012]

Great tutorial, just i kept looking all the time to the mouth and telling myself it should be different. Thank you it was really useful

[@searchin4trouble]

"What do you think I'm doing? GRADIENTS" lol that was great.

[@gregdotlola]

Very good and entertaining. Thank you.

[@samjp3626]

Really clever, great to watch this. from a beginner's perspective I've got a long way to go lol ! Thanks for a great video, subscribed :)

[@lutzoffun2459]

Thanks for the video! Would appreciate if you do more of them!

[@heyglamourkillss]

this was suuuuper helpful! thank you so much ❤️ I would love to see more affinity tutorials

[@MegWayne]

Thank you! Doing my best! They take way longer to make than they look so it's impossible to keep a schedule with a full time job.

[@GerryThePigeon]

really well done, thank you for helping us with your tutorials

[@lindachamberz4372]

Wow!!! The best tut for a beginner. Thank you soooo much.

[@MegWayne]

Awww thank you so much Linda!

[@Michael_Lak]

Great video Great personality.

[@barkovision1048]

Thank you for making this video!!!!!

[@shockdog0784]

Amazing! XD It was funny as hell!

[@KalleTheodor]

This is pretty awesome! Thank you so much for sharing! :-D I do understand, that you do the same thing over and over again, but couldn't do a tutorial of only one of these shapes and how you color and grade these and how you add the shadows? :-)

[@MegWayne]

Thank you! Do you mean how to define what color goes where and how to set shadows? (I’m working on a full course outside of KZbin that goes more in detail but it’s gonna take a while to finish)

[@elenacastuera6]

Love it!!!! Thank you!

[@m89_studio9]

awesome!!! simple but clear..keep upload affinity designer process please :)

[@222dillon]

I had to subscribe, such an amazing video and you’re an awesome person to listen to. Thanks!

[@MegWayne]

That's such a nice comment! Thank you!!

[@jan-ovejohansson841]

Thank you! I have so fun when doing this. I also use Affinity.

[@DaveyC34]

As a person who just into this app on iPad this was wonderful :)

[@Whatbih2]

Great video! I'm buying this program soon for my daughter soon. You said you were using a pen. Is the program in your tablet or computer? Sorry if that's a noob question, I have 0 knowledge about graphic design.

[@MegWayne]

Hi! I use the desktop version only and have a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse. They do have an iPad version. Depending on how old and proficient your daughter is, and if the goal is to do illustration work, I’d strongly suggest accompanying that with illustration books/courses if needed or just encourage illustration practice outside of Affinity, cause Affinity is just a tool, it doesn’t help becoming a great designer on its own. It’s the number one concern I get in comments and it’s common to put a lot of hope in the tool and feel crushed when the result is not as good as work from designers who’ve been practicing for over a decade outside of software. Regarding the pen/iPad option, it depends on preferences and what people end up more comfortable with, the same way some artists hate doing realistic drawing with pencils and favor ball pen instead. I hope this helps, sorry for the long answer, I tried to be thorough!

[@thymbasilic6820]

thank you very much for this tutorial, actually which keyboard key do you use to duplicate please? too bad i don't understand english 😕, (i use google translate to write).

[@MegWayne]

Cmd C - cmd V (Mac) Ctrl C - ctrl V (PC) Thank you for watching!!

[@jimhagler3716]

Great tutorial! i'm just getting into designer.

[@Zedior]

Hello! Magnificent video! What version of Affinity do you use? Thank you.

[@MegWayne]

Thank you!! I always use whatever version is up to date when I record. And always Designer.

[@Zedior]

@@MegWayne Thank you! And do you use maus or graphics tablet?

[@elisestewart6202]

Do you have any more drawing tuts from scratch... I could only find one more and it was a speed tut (I never watch them)

[@MegWayne]

I don't! They take a ridiculously long time to edit so I never have time to make them 😔

[@cantstoplion]

Extremely helpful. Thank you very much!

[@robb2869]

Great tutorial thank you, I must confess I had to watch it at 0.25 speed though so I could keep up when I was following along :o))

[@honorcoleman7302]

I'm new, how how did you get your background black instead of white like on paper.

[@MegWayne]

Hi! If you're talking about the artboard, you just need to select it, and click a color in the color panel (you can also just make a big rectangle and lock the layer). If you're talking about the gray background in the app, it's under UI preferences.

[@juanrombado8296]

this had me chucklin' something fierce :') thanks

[@user-wv1rd4he4e]

That's so cute. I love the design and colors! Although why is there no subtitle option? There is a subtitle option in your other videos but not this one. There are some words I don't understand because English isn't my first language.

[@MegWayne]

I didn't set the language, that's why! It should auto generate from now on, but I don't know how long it takes for the video to be scanned. Thank you for telling me!

[@user-wv1rd4he4e]

@@MegWayne ​ I should be the one who say thank you! lol Thank you! and you're awesome!

[@ManiacallySmithing]

Next time you do abeginner tutorial you might wanna consider showcasing common workflows (ie how to set up the document etc) before jumping right into the project itself.

[@robosoap2857]

Very cool. Thanks.

[@BrettKromkamp]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks for your time. Subscribed!

[@MegWayne]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!

[@jaztobefree2012]

Love it!

[@zavierorlos1948]

Meg every time i watch on of your videos i get inspired and then frustrated :( ... ill never be so good.

[@MegWayne]

That's what I thought when I was younger and think when I see crazy good animators or 3D artists. That's the beauty of the job! It's about willing to put in the work to get there.

[@zavierorlos1948]

@@MegWayne can you please make a vid. of what you think is the best prototype tool out there?

[@ethanlee5317]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@MegWayne]

Thank you!!!

[@leni1029]

that was extremely helpful and interesting! thank you! :)

[@mufeedco]

Thank you Meg. Great tutorial.

[@MegWayne]

Thank you Mufeed!

[@belajb]

nice and ty! great workflow.

[@mynicknameisjosh]

this is beautiful like the creator

[@MegWayne]

Glad you like it!

[@TerryMinorJr]

Affinity Designer is 🔥🔥 I use it and have the book too

[@MegWayne]

Do you like the book? I never looked into it.

[@TerryMinorJr]

@@MegWayne Trust me, the book is AMAZING!

[@toni3124]

One of your Pictures was a class test at our school.

[@MegWayne]

Omg really? Can you send me a photo if you come across it again, that makes me so happy!

[@ruzaqir354]

Thx for the tutorial it's very usefull for us. Just bought the program. And your explanation is a golden. Also you are gorgeous 😁

[@РафаэльАйли]

Good day! How do you save gradients in an EPS file? I have all the gradients rasterized when opened in Adobe Illustrator

[@MegWayne]

Hello! I use SVG for pretty much everything, and EPS when it's being exported to After Effects (never keeps gradients including when they were built in Illustrator), so I can't really help :( I'll try tomorrow though!)

[@MegWayne]

I'm guessing that, if you need to have something exported as an EPS, you could export as SVG and get it to transit in Illustrator, and export your EPS from there.

[@РафаэльАйли]

@@MegWayne Thank you very much! You helped me! Exported to SVG and the object with the gradient is not rasterized.

[@Manish-mb8cq]

Love this ..and you funny af 😄🙏

[@MuzzJoob]

Wow ! Love your work > suscribed !

[@khalidhussein2613]

I learned a lot.. thanks

[@setmane]

Looks easy 😁. Wonderful thk you

[@LGeeThomas]

Happy to see another character design from you...you haven’t posted much lately.... please keep the character designs coming....... do you do this stuff for a living?

[@MegWayne]

Thank you! I don't do character design often, probably once every 2 years for work (I'm a web designer/animator/producer). Almost nothing from my YT channel comes from my job, that's why it takes longer to make but I'm trying to be more consistent as I like KZbin more than the other creative outlets.

[@LGeeThomas]

Meg ..Well I definitely look forward to more design work from you, especially the character design...This type of stuff really catches my attention and I watch the videos over and over..I use Affinity designer (and photo) on the iPad Pro ..so when I see others doing the work I am trying to perfect, I get really excited to watch...so please keep them coming as often as possible :-)

[@MegWayne]

@@LGeeThomas I mostly do them for training cause I'm more of a background person. Have you checked Behance for inspiration? There are some amazing character designers there that are.... actual character designers, haha

[@ck35478]

Very helpful!

[@thatchipmunksings]

You’re awesome!

[@elijahjns81]

Wow, cool stuff.

[@toni3124]

Oh my god thats cute. Nice tutorial

[@shlokapoojary5069]

Hii Need a small help..i create pattern in affinity designer.. wen i export my pattern design EPS file in affinity designer , the file size is around 200 to 300kb..how can i increase my file size upto 3 mb? Please help me..!!

[@MegWayne]

What’s the reason behind wanting a larger EPS file? There’s no way to make it larger unless you purposefully hide shapes or images in the background until you reach the file size you want.

[@shlokapoojary5069]

@@MegWayneok.. i tried uploading my designs in shutterstock and freepik..bt got rejected coz they said the vector file should be in MB ...they dont accept KB files..

[@MegWayne]

@@shlokapoojary5069 i checked and they say mp (megapixel) here not mb so they mean the size of the artboard must be larger, not the file size. support.submit.shutterstock.com/s/article/What-are-the-technical-requirements-for-images?language=en_US#:~:text=File%20Size%20and%20Dimensions,photos%2C%20100%20MB%20for%20EPS. I hope this solves it!

[@shlokapoojary5069]

@@MegWayne yes...u r ryt...how can i increase the size of my artwork..? Plsss help me..

[@louisebastard2091]

love your video put can you slow a bit and show the tools but still a great video but a bit too advance for me

[@crocoTVnetwork]

thanks for this video, I am inspired by you.! more of this video please...

[@Signor_Mao]

So cute 😊

[@theveganmedium7663]

I loved this video as I am fairly new to affinity designer. You went way too fast and talked way too fast, I have no idea what 75% of this is. I wish you would make another one and slow down so people with no experience can learn.

[@PeterRatcliffe]

cool vid, thanks for inspiration

[@SGWEBDEV]

you are just great Mam. Thanks a tonne :)

[@designchallengetv1731]

that's great

[@MegWayne]

Awesome thank you! More coming!

[@ck1425]

Great. Make more videos