Isometric Renewable Energy Icons | Speed drawing + iso tip | Affinity Designer

[@raho2005]

Damn, those trees are so minimalistic, yet so cute!

[@dowi5204]

You are so good!!!

[@SimonBarnsley]

How do you know when you have it at true isometric perspective - i.e. 30 degrees?

[@MegWayne]

Excellent question! I'd suggest to always work with a grid, and depending on your object, use other geometric shapes over the grid to help you model it (the wind turbine would look better if it were built inside an ellipse for example, or better, a distorted triangle to fit the grid). If it's a rectangular shape, you just have to have 2 edges parallel to one side, and the two others should only be parallel to each other with the angle of your choice. I hope this helps.

[@SimonBarnsley]

Meg Wehrlen Thanks. That helps.

[@thesillyman_]

"And to remain consistant with the direction of your shadows" Yeah, basically the opposite of what I do.

[@karlamichelle4946]

where did you learn to draw this is amazing

[@MegWayne]

Aw thank you Karla! I started when I was a kid on my own and just never stopped. It's all about practice!

[@karlamichelle4946]

​@@MegWayne cooli don't know how to draw hope someday i can make impressive things like the ones you made

[@MegWayne]

Learn it! Little by little! Or get into 3D if that's more fun for you!

[@karlamichelle4946]

@@MegWayneI am actually working on 3D at the moment

[@IanTanLK]

Awesome!

[@julienkopoin]

this is soo cool !!

[@jasondain8540]

Hey Meg, if you have not heard of Hexels by the way, its worth checking out :)

[@MegWayne]

That's super interesting! Thank you!

[@LearnBasicdotId]

I like it, where do you get color picker sample ?

[@MegWayne]

I made the brand guidelines for the company the illustration was for, so I just included them in the file.

[@thisismyalias]

Hey, could you give me a short explanation what steps were necessary to give the white plane at 00:54 a „depth“? It was a little too fast for me.

[@MegWayne]

Sure, so you make a square, rotate it 45° to have a diamond shape, right click, group, and then the grouping will get it to be combined in a "squared group" again. So you can just use the top handle to drag it down and give it the illusion of perspective.

[@elonrichardson1743]

I know it's 4 years later but I just learned this trick today from you.@@MegWayne

[@barefacedquestions]

Hi Meg. I'm a big fan of your illustration. I have a question, though: Do you consider Affinity Designer a good tool for icon design? By “good”, I mean you use it frequently in your workflow. I feel like AD is not as efficient as Illustrator in designing icons. Once I've gotten past the “uh”, “ah” jaw-dropping moments, I realize that AD still got a long way to go. It lacks many features that I consider as essential for precise drawing. But maybe I'm so used to all the shortcuts in Illustrator that I don't feel ready to make a full switch to Affinity Designer.

[@MegWayne]

Hi! And thank you! So I very very rarely use Illustrator since I got used to AD, which was... 4 years ago and I used Illustrator for massive illustrations. The only times I use it now are for the mesh tool and for text distortion. The only thing I'd really want in AD is outline stoke and perspective, but that's it. And yeah I do all my icons in it as it has SVG export :) But at the end of the day, what matters is that you feel comfortable with your tools.

[@kaidenhuynh9135]

Can I do the same in affinity designer IPAD

[@MegWayne]

I guess so! I'm not using any complex techniques

[@kaidenhuynh9135]

@@MegWayne Thanks, I will try

[@queenofstamford3141]

Why don't you use an isometric grid when creating these things? hmm... Cool tutorial btw :)

[@MegWayne]

QueenOfStamford thank you! I feel like it disturbs the way I see the illustration as a whole, and I'm used to the snapping a lot. Good old habits

[@WanP1su]

Very high speed, even at 0.25 I can not see what you're doing. But work is great

[@MegWayne]

Dzmitry Svitsenka yeah it's not a tutorial, more of an overall process. Which is what I tend to watch. Will see for next time!

[@yomayoha]

I like it!

[@Ben-qh1ku]

Nice!

[@MegWayne]

Thank you Benny!

[@Condition_svk]

damn woman :D this work is extra interesting :) continue in this video creation please its inspiring :) I can imagine how companies fight for graphic creator like this :)

[@MegWayne]

C#ndition Hey! Thank you so much! That was part of a commissioned work for once, I rarely post about those.

[@Condition_svk]

I understand that :) But anyway I checked more of your videos and its great all time so any video is great for us I think :) I purchased Affinity designer yesterday and I trying to get into, I am just bit confused about separing of tools by that personas (first I was working on to merge them :D what was unsuccessful unfortunately :D) but I rly like this piece of software and your videos is that thing what make me to decide go for affinity :) Thank you :)

[@MegWayne]

Ohh I'm so glad to read that! Yeah it's basically vector/pixel being separated, I love the minimum loss it provides when working, and people get more used to using vectors instead of rasterizing everything, so nice when you're exchanging files in a team! Let me know how it goes for you after a few weeks!

[@Klilkaiser]

More tuto pleaqe

[@MegWayne]

So much to do, never enough time!

[@Klilkaiser]

Meg Wehrlen Too bad, you really do beautiful things.

[@MegWayne]

Thank you so much! The thing is, the more videos I make, the less graphics I put out, so I try to go for the middleground.

[@Klilkaiser]

It's really beautiful what you do. I think we just need the video does not speed up and we could follow. The particularity of your videos is that you do beautiful design with affinity and I would like to learn from you.

[@MegWayne]

That's unfortunately what takes so long to do. I'll try to livestream when I have good bandwidth, that would solve the problem

[@glitcheetah2971]

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