This tutorial is like a lighthouse in the fog. You've laid out the pen n node tools in clear practical usable detail. Also I like your clear diction, no razzamataz - no fluff. Just good old fashioned tutoring, passing on of knowledge. Well done, keep up the good work. I am knew to art n knew to digital art, I need this kind of tutoring to show me the way. Thank you.

I saw the runtime of this video and thought, "No way. I'm not watching a 1 hr. and 20 minute video which could have been an email!" I was completely wrong! This is incredible. Thank you for taking the time and meticulous care to craft this video. Cheers!

This is an absolute gold mine. I wish I could hit thumbs up more than once. No where on the internet is there such a detailed explanation of the pen and node tools, not even in their own book. I can't thank enough. I have learnt more in the last hour than I did in months of searching and experimenting.

It`s always hope! Thanks to ArtisWright.

I have been designing for over two decades. This is the ONLY tutorial that has ever made sense of the pen tool for me. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your channel. Your videos have made me a better designer. 💜

The best tutorial on Affinity Designer pen tool so far. Thank you, and keep them coming.

NO OTHER PEN AND NODE TOOL VIDEO COMES CLOSE TO THIS ONE

Brilliant, clear and easy to follow tutorial! I learned everything important I needed to get started on my first project. Thank You!! Best Educational video I have found on this.

Absolutely Brilliant Tutorial! The best pen tool video I've seen.

wish the best in the world for you . your tutorials are perfeccccccccccccccttttttttttt

So much of what I've been looking to learn is here. Thank you!

Unbelievably thorough!!! Every nook and cranny covered. That must have been some serious work Aron.

This is the best tutorial I've ever seen on you tube. For this kind of professional teaching you normally pay a lot of money. Absolutely great! Thank you so much

This is, by far, the best tutorial I have ever come across for using the Pen and Node tools. I went from, "Eh, this looks... okay" to, "Now that's what I envisioned in my head!" after watching it. Thanks a ton for this!

The best tutorial for the pen and node tools! Nothing else comes close. Thanks!

So many tricks and details I would have never discovered they exist and how to use them by myself. Great job by explaining them step by step. Thanks a lot!!!

And just like that, my life is made better!! You have transformed my designing and confidence levels!! Well done to you, Sir.

Best pen, stroke, node tutorial available. Thanks!

Highly informative! If you think you have mastered the pen tool, you haven't watched this video yet - it shows everything about it. Great work, thank you very much!

I can't say enough how I have enjoyed your teaching style and this lesson on the pen and node tool. It is filled with so much information. I have learned so much in the last hour. I am very happy that I found your channel.

Absolutely the most understandable and simply presented tutorial I've ever watched. Affinity should hire you immediately! Many many thanks indeed.

Brutha, Brutha, Brutha!!!! Very detailed. Simplistic. Easy to follow. You explained all the features that you used like "actions" and "snaps" and how to use them.... That was an AMAZING tutorial! I thank U! My knowledge thanks U!! My thank U, I thanks U!!!

I have just found this site - it is clearly the best I have seen. I am new to Affinity Designer 2. I now feel I have some hope of learning the program. Thank you for the clear concise manner in which you present the videos. There is NO doubt you are a TOP instructor, and to give your time so freely on the "net" is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

Just switched from Windows to mac and also from Adobe to Affinity. I feel like this channel and tutorial was just made for me to make the switchover easy. Thank you for this great content.

I agree with all the other comments. I'm new to designer and have to say yours are the best and easiest to follow by a long way. Thankyou

Another great, in-depth tutorial!

As many of us already said: this is a great in-depth tutorial. I will def come back to it to get the routine needed. Would appreciate a short version of it for the iPad: all those small icons there are hard to figure out. Thank you for this one!

This unlocked so much for me I have struggled so much learning Affinity Designer Thanks.

Excellent tutorial! I have a good grasp of Affinity Photo but only use the pen & node tool for selections. Lately my grand daughter has asked me to trace her drawings and so I needed to up my skill with these tools. Your teaching style matches my learning style - thank you!!!

Excellent lot to take in but we'll get there soon x

I love your celebration brush set :)

This is amazing! Thanks for taking the time to really go step by step through these tools and showing what they do! Now just got to try and remember all the options and key combinations

Thank you so much for the video ❤ and for correctly painting second fin 😅🐟

Much appreciation for ArtistWright masterful tutorials that always enhance my designing experience. Precise production, video & instruction excels at directing attention for optimum operation & workflow with Affinity Designer's elegant, essential pen/node tools.

Heyy, Thanks for your hard work! I'm sure all the people here appreciate your teaching :)

One of the most helpful AD tutorials I've ever come across. Everything works except for the handle manipulation described at 16:38 I'm using the latest version, so it's possible that this is a functionality they decided to remove, although I can't imagine why since it looks like a useful time saver.

Your tutorial is very helpful and clear, thank You! I was used to older simpler tools and had not used them for years. Affinity is used differently but more powerful and this video helped a lot.

Flat out one of the best ever demos. Well done! And thanks so much for your attention to detail. Bravo!

Just what I've been looking for. Superb tutorial, excellent clearly spoken English with every step shown and highlighted in detail without showmanship or entertainment gloss. I'm an old Adobe user (as in the days of BW CRT monitors) now retired and can no longer justify Adobe subscription after giving them buckets of dosh over the years. Looking forward to learning more about Affinity with your help. I have followed you on Twitter.

17:43 FINALLY!! I know how to make a sharp angle on a smooth line. Thank you, thumbs up !

Excellent tutorial 👍 I'm sure I'll keep coming back to this for all those great shortcuts

This is an absolutely amazing tutorial! Thank you for your time and effort! I really liked that you traced the shark at the end so that we can see those tools in action and how to work with them and fix mistakes.

Great video, learned a lot, thank you! 👏😊👍

Big time thanks for this tutorial. Was stuck on how to convert a sharp on a single side of a smooth node. Did a face palm around time stamp 16:05. Thanks again!

Wow, several answers to several questions I've had...GREAT VIDEO ! Thanks, new sub !!!

This is an absolute gold mine. I agree!

Well you have gained a subscriber my friend for this valuable information. Thank you

Excellent tutorial, thank you. I dived straight into Affinity and just worked it out as I went along so it's great to see some of the finer points here that I would never have noticed on my own. Really helpful.

This is really really amazing.. probably the most useful tutorial for me on here. I learn a lot just few minutes in especially on shortcut keys that I never tried before. And it's really easy to understand and follow along.. Thank you so so so much for this I'm not even halfway the video yet. Thanks again!

A very clear and helpful tutorial. Thank you.

Absolutely brilliant...

Great tutorial! I've been able to learn so much in just 3 days, can't wait to apply this for my schoolworks. Thanks ArtistWright!

Thanks so much for this great tutorial! I’m new to Affinity Designer, so this is so helpful!

Brilliant! Thank you!

Love this tutorial! Best one I've seen. Thank you so much!

This is very helpful and informative. Thank you.

Best explanatory video I've seen

Very nice tutorial. Thank you!

Thank you for uploading this amazing video, clear instructions and taking into account beginner mistakes. Look forward to more videos

Thanks for the help with the pen tool. I am currently doing a vector trace of DB Super Goku and I've been battling with curved and sharp nodes

Thanks so much for this video. It is very helpful.

Oh!! excellent tutorial, i was looking for a way to alter the strokes like you can do it on illustrator and that pressure options was all that i was looking for. Totally useful.

But... Your tuts are fantastic. Thanks a lot.

Really helpful! So crystal clear explained... thank you so much!

Great tutorial! Thank you!

This was amazing. Good job m8!

I'm just starting to try to work with affinity designer, and found your tutorial informative and pitched at the right level for me as a beginner. i loved being able to find the same image and then follow your steps bit-by-bit until i understood what i was doing wrong. I found the MAC commands somewhat confusing and typically would expect a reference to the windows alternative at some point but having just read your description fully, you do describe them there, so my bad entirely. thanks so much for this.

You are a great tutor and thanks for patiently putting this together with such finesse and agree with all the comments below. I was looking at the mine of information on your website and it is fabulous. One major issue that is of benefit to the beginner i.e ME IS THAT you dont keep switching between MAC and Window commands and keep to Mac albeit you have put a useful table of alternative window commands up so that makes a huge difference as believe me I have some lessons where that happens all the time and it creates a fog and note the same comment was made below by SW where your style is nice and clear. I have wasted so much time replaying videos where the tutor/demonstrator even makes a mistake by having to correct ie starts of with Mac and constantly gives tries to give both windows and command and then inadvertently flips them themselves which means wondering why it is not working only to find it is not the "student" fault but this issue.

This was so awesome. I will be practicing. Thank you

Amazing tutorial thanks

Great tutorial Thank you

What an EPIC video, it solved and answered so many questions I had. Great pace and perfectly explained. 👍 ☕ Thanks so much for posting this tutorial, it's awesome.

Thanks!

Nice tutorial, I need this

Great tutorial.

What a fantastic walk through! Thanks so much man! :D

Great Tutorial. Well explained : )

Job well done . Thanks

It is the pen tool in conjunction with the node tool that help to make Affinity Designer a top-notch vector design application.

Well done. A really excellent tutorial.

thanks 😊 awesome tutorial

Thank you so much for the detailed information about the pen.... it makes more sense now... :-) It sure most help me a lot in the future. So thanks again!

Thanks for this awesome tutorial.

Just brilliant. !

this is an excellent video, thank you ;-)

Excellent tutorial. Thank you.

Fantastic, great teaching style and content thank you. Subbed.

really very interesting! I'm curious to see how it works on iPad now.

Absolutely brill. Keep up the good work🙂

great tuts!

Thank you so much.

Great video

Thank you

As a new user, I ran into an interesting issue around linked and embedded. Unknowingly, I double-clicked on a base PDF and began sorting the jumble of curves into base map features like North arrow, scale, etc., not realizing these layers were only captured in the embedded file, so I could not retain their position and scale when I tried to move them into other layers in the design map. A tutorial on how to navigate layers and copy and paste around embedded and linked files would be a helpful topic. The support material is basic, and your strategic approach would be tremendous. Thank you!!

Great job. I may get another monitor just so I can watch and listen and follow along live. Or it might be cheaper to get designer for my iPad and run it on that, if they are similar. In the meantime I've grabbed a screenshot of the shark, so I can practice useing that underneith, ghosted.

Thank you SO much for your tutorial 👍

Thanks a lot !

THANK YOU

Great tutorial! Thank you so much!!!

To anyone reading this. I’m just learning, so you use the escape to start a new line. What do I use on a tablet? Thank you, great vid.