How to create an isometric castle in Affinity Designer with Jeremy Child from The Artifex Forge

[@literaturix]

You are really great, Jeremy. I work with nearly every of your five million brushes...

[@ArtifexForgeDesignTutorials]

Aw, thanks for your support Literaturix!

[@jockneyranger]

Love these Affinity Designer tutorials! Keep them coming please 😎

[@paulwilliamson7870]

Wow! I am so impressed with the talent, tools and dedication that were used to put this together! I am going to watch the video again but slow it down so I can jot down the steps to make this. I have not seen many professionals back up their products with such detail as this or the instructions that come with his products. I have a few of Artifex Forge's brushes for Affinity the how-to documents that come with them are top notch! I haven't seen that too often. One of the reasons I buy them!

[@ArtifexForgeDesignTutorials]

Thanks so much for your support and kind words Paul!

[@beckeybarton4412]

Thank you Jeremy. This is brilliant. So many useful tips. I love your brushes, and am slowly collecting them all!

[@ArtifexForgeDesignTutorials]

Hey Beckey! I'm pleased you enjoyed it . Thanks for picking up so many of my brushes.

[@argentgrove]

Thank you, Jeremy. I learned a lot watching this. And thank you for creating the brush pack.

[@Goldmangun]

Brilliant work. Very enjoyable and informative; thank you!

[@guy7622]

Great job!

[@Mystic_Dragon_Art]

Great tutorial and showcase of the brushes. Thanks so much!

[@CarBenDioxide]

if you're in pixel persona, you can hold down command on mac (I think ctrl on windows? idk) and click on the thumbnail of any layer to set it as a selection for a quick and dirty clipping mask instead of doing all that erasing (and then since the selection is usually a little blocky/shrunken, I usually feather and expand it a bit to smooth out my edges)

[@ArtifexForgeDesignTutorials]

Hey Ben, good tip! As I'd already shown how to create a clipping mask earlier in the tutorial, I wanted to show the erase method too.

[@SimonHakai_]

These tutorials are amazing

[@mickeyromeo]

I love affinity!

[@alejmc]

Just wanted to chime in to say that this tutorial (and similar endeavors) demystify a lot the apps themselves. As a photoshop user and slowly getting into Affinity Photo, I must say that I have started to play with Designer whereas I would never find the motivation/reason to open Illustrator (except for format import/rexport).

[@markoehlschlager3862]

I noticed you applying a brush preset with a fixed stroke width and then have to go to the stroke palette repeatedly to reduce the default stroke width. Probably could have saved some time by creating a duplicate of the original brush and adjusting it's default stroke width. However, a much larger thought occurred to me, which has to do with the problem of brush management and the need for the app developers to improve/innovate here. For any specific project, the artist will want to cut through the clutter of all the long lists of brushes, and cultivate a short, project-specific set of brushes. It's possible to do that presently but it requires a lot of clicking and naming. What's called for here is a better brush management feature, and a more direct solution to the problem of moving or copying brushes between sets. Apart from having a Brush Manager window, it would be nice to be able to show two or more brush panels side-by-side and to be able to drag and drop brushes between brush set panels. The objective would be for the app to allow a quick and intuitive way to assemble a short, project specific set of brushes for a more efficient workflow. Also, it would be nice to have the option of having the brush name display in the brush panel without having first to roll over the brush.

[@GeekRedux]

Those are great suggestions. Affinity maintains an area of their forum for feature requests: forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/53-feedback-for-affinity-designer-on-desktop/

[@ArtifexForgeDesignTutorials]

Hey Mark. This is a good idea. For the tutorial though, I wanted to use the brushes as they are to avoid any confusion.

[@alejmc]

These are great suggestions! Add a ‘size multiplier’ to that panel that receives the drag n dropped brushes (and basically acts as a “Brushes Swatch”), that way a multiplier of 10% (or 0.1) means that all those brushes that are 64 in their original library would be 6.4 when picked on that brush swatch.

[@MACH_SDQ]

Very goooood !!!!

[@thanhphamtrung5627]

The brush is great. it can be used for photoshop ????

[@markoehlschlager3862]

Having to break the curve of your window shapes to get the vector brush line to connect is a hack. This ought to be addressed by the app developers. It shouldn't be necessary to break curves to achieve continuous stroke lines.

[@CarBenDioxide]

THANK you! I've been trying to voice why this is so annoying to me and you hit the nail on the head. It really should just be as easy as a slider in the stroke settings panel

[@postmax81]

You could create brushes that are continuous so they connect seamlessly on closed shapes.

[@ArtifexForgeDesignTutorials]

Hey @@postmax81 I've created a few of these for other packs but the downside is that they don't have ends. I am considering adding both to some packs where it could come in handy.

[@postmax81]

@@ArtifexForgeDesignTutorials Yes, having two options is useful to have, for sure.

[@paulwilliamson7870]

Where is the castle sketch??

[@ArtifexForgeDesignTutorials]

You can see it at the beginning of the tutorial Paul.

[@paulwilliamson7870]

I was looking for a download link. I used Snag-It to capture the image. Thanks.

[@lozinja]

Would you help me to design a Dalaiiii Lama?

[@nanotechnicianhq]

8 dislikes? Must be Adobe bots 😂😂😂