The easiest way to access your iPad file is firstly to click on the Save a Copy button on the Document tab at the top of the screen. This is largely to ensure you don’t accidentally save over or delete any of your original files and also enables you to go back and make further edits to your originals too. I like to split my layers up as much as possible when working in the Pixel Persona as it lets me divide up my illustration much more and gives me plenty of flexibility later on in the design too.īy default Affinity Designer will separate your files within the app and the files you save externally or As a Copy.

Now the fun really starts! For my design I wanted to have the jaguar sitting in the middle of a busy jungle design so I started to roughly mock-up where some of the key elements might go on a new layer. I chose to use the Natural Pencil 2B brush option as I find it has a really fluid feel when I want to roughly sketch out my ideas. I did this by selecting the Pixel Persona on the top of the screen, choosing the Brush Tool on the left hand side and then I selected an appropriate brush preset from the Brushes Studio to the right of the document window. This really saved time and helped me work out my composition and placement before I’d spent too long on the design. To start off I wanted to roughly mock-up how the image was going to look before I arrived at work.

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