Designing easily Adjustable Eyes in Affinity Designer using Symbols
Affinity Designer Video Tutorial
This video is a request from the comments on my YouTube channel. There are already two short videos on creating eyes in Affinity Designer. This tutorial is more comprehensive and elaborate – with comments and narration – though. In the process, I use symbols to make the eyes. The design relies heavily on basic shapes, tapered lines, and a lot of Gaussian Blur for softness.
The idea is to create a setup that is flexible and easy to adjust. Fewer nodes and more shapes mean quicker and easier editing. I chose an exaggerated cartoon look similar to Pixar movies for the tutorial. The same approach can be applied to realistic eyes as well.
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