Create a Brush From Selection in Affinity Designer for iPad V1 | Creating Illustrated Nests

Learn to create beautiful textured brushes in Affinity Designer for stunning bird illustrations! In this quick tip class, illustrator Tracey Capone shows you how to craft a versatile nest brush with two distinct perspectives – top-down and side view – using a single brush.

This tutorial focuses on the powerful "New Brush from Selection" feature in Affinity Designer, enabling you to quickly generate a pixel brush from your vector or pixel shapes. You'll discover how to:

• Create a textured nest scatter brush with customizable colors, shapes, and textures.
• Generate a single brush that, with minor adjustments, produces a bird's nest from both a top-down and side view.
• Add depth and atmosphere to your nest illustrations using shading and highlights with Gaussian Blur and the Transparency Tool.
• Design realistic eggs for your bird nests by combining vector shapes and raster textures, then shade them for added realism.

This class is part of the "Birds & Birdhouses 101 in Affinity Designer" series, building upon foundational concepts. While beginner-friendly, it's best suited for those familiar with Affinity Designer's interface. New users can benefit from Tracey's "Textured Florals in Affinity Designer for iPad" class first.

Tracey Capone, a professional illustrator with over ten years of experience, shares her expert tips and tricks for digital illustration and texture creation.

Join her Facebook Group, "Textural Illustration for Digital Artists," to connect with fellow artists, share your work, and get inspired!

What you'll need:

• iPad
• Apple Pencil or stylus
• Affinity Designer app

(Note: The process is similar for the desktop version of Affinity Designer.)

Start creating unique digital art today!