Jeremy Hazel – Affinity Designer: The Complete Guide to Affinity Designer (Download)
Adobe’s creative suite dominates the design world, but the monthly subscription cost puts professional tools out of reach for many creatives. Affinity Designer offers a powerful, one-time-purchase alternative that rivals industry standards. Whether you’re a freelance designer seeking budget-friendly software or a hobbyist ready to create professional-quality graphics, this comprehensive course teaches you everything from basic shapes to advanced illustration techniques.
About the Course and Instructors
Created by Jeremy Hazel, a professional graphic artist, alongside the Video School team, this course delivers 14 hours of in-depth training covering both Affinity Designer V1 and the updated V2. This dual-version approach ensures you’re equipped regardless of which version you’re using. Jeremy’s teaching focuses on real-world applications rather than abstract theory, with dedicated support when you need guidance.
The course is structured to take complete beginners from their first document to creating complex, professional designs ready for social media, print, or client work.
What You’ll Learn
Interface and Fundamentals: Understand the difference between raster and vector art, navigate Affinity Designer’s personas (Designer, Pixel, and Export), master the layers panel, and set up documents correctly for different outputs.
Working with Shapes: Create basic and advanced shapes using fills, gradients, and transparency. Learn alignment and distribution techniques, use symbols for efficiency, apply operations to combine shapes, and utilize the shape builder tool and quad-warping for creative transformations.
Vector Drawing Mastery: Master nodes—the foundation of all drawing tools. Use the pen tool, pencil tool, and vector brush tool to create illustrations. Work with open and closed shapes, apply artistic strokes, and leverage symmetry tools. The course includes a complete workflow project teaching you to reverse-engineer vector art and build complex illustrations from concept to export.
Color Theory and Application: Understand color visualization, create and manage palettes and swatches, generate gradient palettes, work with color chords, and extract color schemes from existing artwork.
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Pixel Persona for Digital Painting: Switch seamlessly between vector and raster work. Master pixel brushes, create custom texture brushes, use selection tools effectively (freehand lasso, selection brush), and complete a full digital painting project that demonstrates realistic rendering techniques.
Text and Typography: Work with both artistic text and text frames, create text on curves, adjust kerning, leading, and tracking, design chrome text effects, create stacked outline text, apply drop shadows, and use text as clipping masks to combine vector and pixel elements.
Photo Integration: Combine photos with vector elements, work with mask layers and adjustment layers to create polished compositions that blend photography with illustration.
Each section includes hands-on projects like emoji design, gradient street scenes, cell-shaded illustrations, neon effects, and complete illustration workflows that build your portfolio while reinforcing techniques.
Who Should Enroll
This course suits graphic designers seeking alternatives to Adobe’s subscription model, Affinity Photo users wanting to expand into vector design, budget-conscious freelancers, and hobbyists ready for professional-grade tools. The training assumes no prior experience and works equally well for V1 and V2 users.
