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Vector Process - folding Scissors

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Vectors are a huge pain requiring you to plan and think carefully before committing. Fortunately, with the arrival of gorgeous software like Procreate and Affinity Designer on the iPad you can make some serious strides forward that were much more of a pain just five years ago.

Here is very short walkthrough to give you a taste of how I make nice vector art.

Roughs

Mainly I use a biro and a sketchbook unless it’s something more complicated requiring me to balance a lot of elements. In this case I am using some reference images of a really bizarre pair of folding scissors I saw in a lesson this week (thanks KB!).

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Procreate neat inking

If the image doesn’t look good at the bitmap stage it will NEVER look good in vectors - the key is to be as organised as possible before touching those mathemagical curves. I remember seeing vector tutorial magazines in the late nineties and thinking that the vector software must the best thing ever - but it was the organisation and design skill of the artist I was marvelling at!

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Affinity designer Vectors

To save boring you I made a 5 minute process video that skims through the stages.

I hope that this is useful. If you have any questions, comments or feedback please get in touch.

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The Big Picture published

Since creating the Big Picture mural I wanted to have something that was more portable and shareable. I had the idea of making a gatefold leaflet with some explanatory notes on the reverse like so:

My original design notes.

My original design notes.

10 Publishing have now printed this leaflet. This purpose of this is to have something handy that gives a sense of the overarching Bible storyline.

If you have used it and found it useful please leave a positive review on the site.

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A quick glance into my sketchnote/scribing process

I thought it would be worth sharing an example of how I produce sketchnotes/scribe material.

I thought it would be fun to share my scribing process. Thanks to the guys at Scriberia I took a look at this excellent Ted Talk by Shawn Achor:

They recommended a two hour timescale so I watched the video through and made these notes in my sketchbook:

Then I picked up Procreate on my iPad and organised my initial thoughts into something more accessible. Here is a timelapse of the process:

For me the process is often more interesting than the finished result. I hope you find it useful having a look at the image develop. Procreate is very useful for capturing this kind of thing.

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“I like what I am seeing - could it be useful for my organisation?”

Consider some of the following possibilities as ways that scribing might benefit you:

  • live events - processing spontaneous and unexpected material 

  • repurposing existing content for greater usefulness

  • summarising key ideas in distinctive ways

  • grasping and making underlying connections explicit

  • aiding the retention of key messages when it most counts

For more information have a look at my dedicated scribing page.

Get in touch if you have any questions.

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