I have recently shifted from Adobe Illustrator to Affinity Designer. I’ve been using it for a month. It’s a great package overall but there are some very basic things that are lacking in it that I want to highlight here. Please correct me if I’m wrong and give me solutions. No way to execute freeform gradients/gradient meshes. Optimized for the latest tech on Mac, Windows and iPad, Affinity Designer is setting the new industry standard in the world of design. Best in class for creating concept art, print projects, logos, icons, UI designs, mock-ups and more, it’s already the top choice of thousands of professional illustrators, web designers, game developers and other creatives who love its silky-smooth combination of vector and raster design. Digital Art Concept Painting with Siobhan Twomey — SkillShare — Free download In this class you’ll learn key, important principles for composition that are fundamental to background. I wanted to see how Affinity Designer's pixel painting feature set stacked up to Photoshop's with a little experiment. I had created this retro styled Bunny originally in Photoshop and decided to take a crack at it in AD. I was excited with some earlier attempts at painting in AD so I thought a comparison would really reveal it's strengths and/or weaknesses.
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