Here’s how to do it in a bit more detail. Keep doing this until you have the desired Spirograph effect. This time it should work.Įvery time you press Ctrl J a new shape will appear, rotated slightly further. So Ctrl Z once or twice to get back to the original shape only, then rotate it again, and press Ctrl J. However, this never works on the first try.

In the mean time, I’ll show you how to work around it.īasically, you pick a shape, give it a stroke and no fill, place it, rotate it, then press Ctrl J (or Command J on Mac) to duplicate the rotation. In the future, this is probably something Affinity will fix. Despite being very simple to do, there is a trick to it that sort of seems like an error. In this case, I added this as an Application Palette.5.1.1 Related Create A Spirograph Effect in Affinity DesignerĬreating a Spirograph effect in Affinity Designer is really quite simple and essentially utilizes two main things: the rotate tool and the duplicate command. Next, go to the Swatches Panel and choose to Create Palette From Document from the top-right small hamburger menu. As I wasn’t happy with the result, as the overall palette seemed too dull to my taste, I took the liberty to tweak these colors and make them more vibrant. Using Affinity’s Color Picker, I extracted the colors on the first row. You only need a small spot to focus your attention. I took a screenshot of the Google search and cropped out this particular part, which is the one that caught my attention. Instead, the idea is that you work out your color palette, but with some help to not start from scratch. Just look for something that you like.Īvoid the obvious ‘ Color Palettes‘ search because that would be too boring and predictable. In this case, I searched for: ‘ Home Decor Pastel Mint.’ Of course, you could search for ‘ Happy tomatoes dancing at dusk‘ if that’s what you feel, and it would be alright too. Just Google some terms that contain the feel or the color scheme you’d like to give to your illustration.

This is a helpful tip when you feel too lazy to come up with a simple color palette from scratch.

Affinity photo drawing