At last - a tutorial I can follow and understand!! Have been searching high and low for one, so thank you very much for taking the time produce this video :)

You, good sir, are a life saver! :) Your videos are the first ones I found that really helped me understand how to do stuff in this programm. Thank you for the detailed yet simple explanation!!

Fantastic tutorial! I appreciate the time you took to explain not only what you were doing, but why. Very helpful. Thank you!

Im actually glad you did talk for the first ten minutes because most people just do stuff an don't explain what or why something happened. Nice tutorial.

WOW, you made my start to tracing and vector-art with Affinity-Design so easy! Thank you, step by step, not to fast, just the way you can get along with... GREAT WORK! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Thanks for these Affinity Designer videos, Alex. I bought both Designer and Photo in the last year and know that your tutorials (on everything!) always give me useful insights that I otherwise might not have discovered on my own.

Nice ambient music, very well explained, right-paced, detailed, useful, explains the tools and their purpose, targets posible errors the user might make... Great tutorial!!!

I'm just starting out with this software and have no experience what so ever, your tutorial has made such a difference in understand things, I'm glad you spent the time talking at first and speed up just when needed, I'm sure it might be boring for some but being new this is what I needed to fully understand. Thank you so much, really much appreciated. I have subscribed so look forward in learning this great software.

Thank you Alessandro! This was exactly what I needed! Your thorough approach was much appreciated! We have the same tablet so this helped me believe I could do it! I've got the outline of my drawing done, and I'm off to search for your next video!

This video is perfectly paced and helpful. Thank you for taking the time to make this!

Installed the ipad Pro app and now desktop version as well. Good bye Illustrator...

12:49 now i know that we need to hold cmd + alt + click in order to get the curve right, not being crazy line. thanks bro

It is a great tool but it lacks some features that we need to make our work easier: • shape builder (works like boolean operation but more flexible) • multi-purpose tools (e.g. the Pencil Tool in Ai can also work as path Smooth Tool when ALT key is pressed) • UI scaling • Gradient Controls widget • Eye dropper tool to copy object or text attributes and apply it to other objects • Pasting in place • feature to search for specific commands to configure in the Settings and Keyboard shortcut • Easy to use alignment feature • and many more I wish the developers will add these features as I really love *Affinity Designer*

Thank you for creating this content! Went to art school but looking at using new tools such as digital drawing, meaning I need the very basics of the basics. This is the right speed for me to learn.

I just found your tutorial and thank you. It was amazing to learn everything. You are an excellent teacher and share everything which really helps the beginner when trying to learn.

Thanks so much for clarifying the little steps you take to make the process easier. Super helpful tutorial :D

Very good tutorial. You covered the thought process and options of the topic... not too many of these tutorials include this well covered subject. I liked and subscribed.

Thank you for this video very detailed. I loved the first ten minutes because it made everything come together and make sense. New subscriber.

great tutorial Allesandro!! well explained, and at the right pace.

Just what I needed! Thank you so much. This was super helpful.

Thank you for such a comprehensive tutorial, and for explaining things. I'm new to Affinity, but I've been using Photoshop for years, and have worked in MX Freehand a lot (haha, I know, that's like a lifetime ago). Your video illustrated Affinity's similarities and differences really well for tracing an object, and I'm definitely going to watch the rest of the series as well.

I don’t know too much about affinity and just got this app for my iPad. And I don’t know. I just feel your video is very helpful for me to understand this app and a good habit focusing on a working flow! All the tricks and tips are helpful without any ads or waste time talks! Thank you! I appreciate your video!

Great tutorial. Very sweet of you to share your knowledge ...

I downloaded this recently and couldn't figure out how to use it, so thanks for this! It's helping me learn how to use the tools and use the program!!

Thank you. I'm new to graphic design and this software program. I appreciate your explanations while you take us through your process. Please- more tutorials!

Thanks for the clear instruction! I applied this on my iPad Pro and for the first time using Affinity Designer, wahoo!

I want to thank you for answering some essential questions when tracing like using the option key and joining curves ....keep it going your tutorials are very much appreciated as you explain the why, and how to do things from a beginners perspective...

Thank you Alessandro, this class is wonderful, you have saved me from going crazy and trying to be perfect with the pen tool, all the close up and walking me step by step is what I needed, I have a SkillShare account and there are no teachers to guide us on this technique, you should really think about teaching there also. You are an excellent teacher and your channel is amazing, keep up the great work and thank you so much!

Wow...i learned more than I expected. I did not properly understand joining and using the pen tool versus the node tool versus the pencil tool. I am very excited you have taught these techniques clearly as it reduces my learning curve a LOT. Thanks for inspiring us and not treating us like dummies. You assume we have little knowledge of certain features (we're here aren't we? ;-) ) and you expertly provide the base of knowledge we need. I imagine you in a classroom...generous, clear and thorough. But here you are...the youtube classroom! thank you!

Big thumbs up! I just started with Affinity Designer (or any vector software) and found this video very helpful to get into a workflow. Watched your tutorials on the tools before and really like your style of Information. Thank you very much for your effort! Subscribed the other day - and now, let's see how the turnip man evolves ;)

Been doing what I call outlining for many years, but new to Affinity and enjoyed your presentation. Nice to see other persons technique.

subscribed, love your tutorials

Really great style of doing such tutorials! Thank you!

Hello, I enjoyed this video. Can you tell me what video capture software you use? Also where to find good royalty free music? Thank you.

Thanks so much for these videos! They are so helpful :)

This was wildly helpful. Thank you!

Hi, great video! Do you know how to create internal offsets that are not shadows? Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.

I also want to say!! Nice ambient music, very well explained, right-paced, detailed, useful, explains the tools and their purpose, targets possible errors the user might make... Great tutorial!!!

this is the best tutorial video I've found for this software. Thank you so much!!

You are a great teacher, thank you for this great explanation!

Thank you sir for your video. I use this software at work every day. Your video helps me a lot.

Thank you! I'm grateful I found your videos. The long explanations is very helpful

Alessandro, your tutorials are precise and very well explained. I usually have a problem with accents (I am from New Jersey in the US) but you speak English very well. I am new to Affinity Designer and believe me, your help is very much appreciated as is the insight to the techniques you use. Good work!

Alessandro - my new hero. Thanks!

how can I avoid showing the distance (or measurement) I see every time when I click for a new point (with te pen tool)? I don't see this in your tutorial, but I have it. Maybe I clicked something in the menu I should n't have done. Can you help me? Am I clear? And thank you for these very very good tutorials! I'll follow them till the last one.

This was really helpful! Thanks!

Great job explaining everything in detail!

I got designer today and had no idea how to use it, this video helped a lot. Thanks.

terrific thanks very helpful!

Terrific. this is just what I needed to understand the process.

Outstanding tutorial! Thank you.

Thanks for the video! Super clear explanation.

Wonderful tutorial using Affinity Designer. Thank you for sharing your way to trace. I would like to see more on adding details and coloring.

I know this is a little old but I had question. I am just getting into trying out some digital art. If you do have a Wacom Intuos, would you use the pen/tablet the whole time? Or just for the pencil tool?

Thank you for this really educational and high quality tutorial.

You are incredible at explaining! Great video! :)

Great tutorial. Just like learning to play guitar, it's best for a beginner to go slow and develop technique. Once you have the basic technique it's feels right to go quickly. As this is a tutorial for beginners it's most appropriate to do it at this speed. I really enjoy your comments as you draw, I'm not at all bored or wishing you'd go faster. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for this amazing tutorial! As practice I am using my daughter's drawings and I have seen to come to an issue. My daughter's drawing has a panda with a headband on it and to trace the headband so I can use a different color, I went over the same tracing line as the head. Is there any way to use the same line but have it on a different layer? I hope I am explaining this right.

Is it possible to edit/distort a photograph into a Graphic novel/Comic or Cartoon/vector line art. Is affinity possible for this type of technique? Is there multiple diffrent methods for achievig a vareity of graphic novel styled effects? Are you familiar with android/ios apps that cartoonize your photo some effects simlair to the rotoscoped look in scanner darkly, which in my opinion looks like a dirty version of the art on the cover of Gta San Andreas? Is it possible to acheive the look with the minute affinity sweet. Or do i have to go down to Adobe?

Very patient tutorial, good job. You deserve more likes.

Awesome video, thanks for the great information!

Excellent video I have learnt a lot keep it up :)

Thank you for a great video. Excellent tutorial :)

Looking forward to next lesson keep them coming .... thank you

I’m about to get affinity designer and have been trying to learn about it before I buy. This has helped so so much thanks man!

great video. Can you please post the the rest of this and more similar?

You're damn smart Mr. Castellani. If folks want a slower version, all they need is to run the KZfaq video at half or quarter speed.

Love your tutorial. Your explanations are great. I did find the music very distracting from your voice though.

I'm confused about the cutting and pasting. When I try to cut out the character from the background, I only end up cropped the character out, and I can't follow how to then place the character on a new layer.

Can you pen trace the whole character, or is it important to do with the mouse the main part of the character?

You are a excellent teacher. Thank you.

Thanks for video. Could u show how to do simple design stained glass pattern?

Love the pikachu!!

Thank you! I really leaned a lot!

Very nice video, thanks. Cheers from Finland .

Thank you 🙏🏽

Great tutorial. Can you explain the purpose of the glove you wear on your right hand and where you get them? Thanks!

Really great video. Your voice is soothing to listen too. I believe this was Bob Ross's greatest attribute.

Could this work to get line drawing of a photograph?

What about the Apple Pencil? Can we draw with it in the ipad affinity designer? Sorry if it is a stupid question, but i just got the app... totally clueless

Thank you Alessandro!

Hi, your video it's amazing, can I request some tutorial to you? I'm a new user Affinity Designer. Thanks :)

Thank you sir

Best tutorial I have ever seen!!! Hope you doing more stuff like that! Thank you very much

How do you free draw on Affinity without those curves and vectors ??? Like simulating that you are drawing a simple cartoon with a pencil/ Which tool do that?

Is there not a dedicated tracing application in Designer, such as CorelDraw has with Corel Trace?

This is really informative, thanks.

Hi Alex, very useful tutorial while I wait patiently for you to find time to do the print-ready business card tutorial ;)

subscribed!

How did you get rid of the lines around image. The ant lines when you traced

Hey Alessandro! My name is Geena I am a total new comer into this kind of art business or area, and I really love your tutorials, I saw 2 and 1?2 so far :D but I think they are very great!! Keep going like that. I you want to make it easier for those whom are completly new, try explain shortly and very simply and easily some of the graphic terms you use or technology?computer terms you use. I'm learing it kind of by own hand from the beginning and for people like me it will make it much easier and fun to follow up with your tutorials when you explain terms you use that are not that commonly used in comon day life as png, other programs you use or refer to, etc. And just to say I love your accent :D where are you from by the way? Well keep going and I wsh you the best! ML GTK

Do you have any tutorial about creating a cartoon character with no previous drawing? Like creating it from scratch directly in affinity? Thanks!

People can also slow down the speed of the video on the tool section on the video display area near the video quality settings.

How do I interrupt? I'm using affinty photo on my pc and I can't make heads or tails to trace a line with the pen tool. PS is more intuitive in this regard.

This tutorial is excellent but it needs subtitles for the people with hearing difficulties. Thank you!!

Are you saying at the beginning "In dieser Episode"? It sounds like German :D

Very good, but I was hoping for an image trace function like Adobe Illustrator... Just so I don't need to trace every element by hand...

Thank you! Mr. Castellani for this video, your presentation is most generous and gives me the understanding of the tools and your technic. I am Now a Fan of your youtube channel.

I'm on the surface pro and can't find the free hand selection tool. Is there a substitute on the surface or am I just not seeing it?

great video!!