Join illustrator Tracey Capone as she shows you how to use the Pen, Pencil and Shape tools in Affinity Designer for iPad to create beautifully textured, colorful birds and bird house illustration. What you learn in this class can be used to create any textured vector shape using Designer. Best of all? Everything you need is already in the app!

Welcome everyone! In this class, I will show you how to harness the power of the Pen, Pencil and Rectangle (Shape) Tools to create beautiful, colorful, textural birds, bird houses, and an assortment of complementary botanicals using Affinity Designer. Best of all? Everything you need to create them are already either in Affinity Designer or easily accessible from Affinity Designer and I will show you exactly how to put everything together.

This will be the first in a series of bird classes with subsequent classes teaching you how I create individual bird species like a Kingfisher, Titmouse, Spotted Towhee and more! What you will learn in this first class of the series will provide you with the building blocks for going on to create many more species of birds (or ANY textured vector object) in Affinity Designer for iPad.

What you will learn in this class:

• How to use Affinity Designer's stock studio to pull amazing, free use texture images and reference photos right from the app for use in your illustrations.


• How to analyze a reference photo of a bird to determine which shapes you will need to pull together to create it's body in Designer.


• How to build up the base of a bird and bird house using a combination of shapes in the Rectangle tool as well as Designer's Boolean Operations.


• How to harness the power of the Pen and Pencil tools to create odd shapes, and add fun line art to your birds and bird houses.


• How to add depth and dimension using texture and shadow on your birds and bird houses.


• How to add complementary botanical, wood and other elements to complete your bird illustrations.