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BRUSHES GUIDE 2.0
©2021, Frankentoon Studio MADE FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER AND AFFINITY PHOTO
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INSTALLATION
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INSTALLATION
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
INSTALLING VECTOR BRUSHES (MAC, WIN)
Note: Vector brushes only work in Affinity Designer. Wait for the confirmation popup and click OK.
First, open the Brushes Panel, View>Studio>Brushes. From
that panel, select Import Brushes...
Once imported, repeat step one and when the browser
windows pops up again, select the file Frankentoon - Splat
Borders.afbrushes.
That’s it! You’ve succesfully installed Splat FX and Splat
Borders vector packs.
From the browser window locate the file Frankentoon - Splat
FX.afbrushes.
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INSTALLATION
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
INSTALLING RASTER BRUSHES (MAC, WIN)
Note: to use raster brushes in Affinity Designer, you
need to switch to Pixel Persona.
First, open the Brushes Panel, View>Studio>Brushes. From
that panel, select Import Brushes...
Wait a few seconds while the brushes load into your library
and you’re done!
From the browser window locate the file Frankentoon - Splat
Inks.afbrushes.
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INSTALLATION
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
When using this pack, we recommend selecting the Paint
Brush Tool manually, instead of using a keyboard shortcut
IMPORTANT! (Fig.1), and then select the brush you want to use from the
Brushes Panel (Fig.2).
Most of Splat Inker brushes for Affinity Apps, relies on the
Wet Edges feature to get their liquid ink character.
Currently, there’s a minor issue with Designer and Photo for
desktop, that may prevent this feature from being activated
when switching tools using shortcuts. 1
FTOON - PMA Brush Pen Tilted
Wet Edges ON
Wet Edges OFF
As you can see in the example above, brushes behavior can
Not every brush from this pack uses this function. You can
drastically change when having this option activated or
see a complete Brush Guide HERE, where we have marked
deactivated.
the ones that use Wet Edges. Just for your reference.
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USING THE
PACKS
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
SPLAT FX BRUSHES
Splat FX brushes have been designed to speed up your
workflow taking advantage of Designer’s raster-based vector
brushes’ flexibility to sculpt and design your strokes and
special effects more easily.
INKING BRUSHES
Splat FX offers a small but super useful inking brushes. This
set of five brushes has been made out actual Pigma and
Sakura liners and brush pens.
This inking set was designed to be used with the Pen Tool
FTOON - SK Brush Pen that combined with Designer’s Pressure feature, will help you
sculpt and fine-tune your strokes to the minimum detail.
FTOON - N15 Pressure
FTOON - N15 Tilted
FTOON - Pigma BB 60°
FTOON - Pigma BB 60° FAST
Create beautiful organic strokes using the Pressure curve.
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
HATCH DESIGNER BRUSHES
With Hatch Designer brushes you’ll be able to really dig
deep into details by combining stroke width and brush
pressure, to create delightful hatching profiles in
seconds.
FTOON - Hatch Designer 1
FTOON - Hatch Designer 2
Play with stroke Width to thicken your hatching pattern. Use
Pressure to control each hatch length.
FTOON - Hatch Designer 3
FTOON - Hatch Designer 4
PRO TIP:
Setting your stroke’s cap to
Butt Cap, will give you extra
control over each brush’s
taper or start and ending
‘tails’.
We always set these type of
brushes like this.
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
MULTI-LINE BRUSHES
Shading, creating hair, textures... Whatever comes to your
mind! Splat FX’s Multi-Line brushes gonna be the Swiss-
army knife that will save you precious hours of line-by-line
drawing.
FTOON - Horizontal Hatching 1
FTOON - Horizontal Hatching 2
FTOON - Bold Hair Strands
FTOON - Thin Hair Strands FTOON - Bold Hair Strands in action.
Versatility at its finest! Width + Pressure combo, it’s a big win when using this set of brushes. Check how far you can go
designing your strokes using these brushes only. Experiment yourself using these two settings.
Horizontal Hatching 1 Horizontal Hatching 2 Bold Hair Strands Thin Hair Strands
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
FLEXIBLE HALFTONE BRUSHES PRO TIPS:
These flexible halftone brushes have been designed to
create quick and malleable toning shaders.
FTOON - Fine V Halftone 90°
Normal Reversed
FTOON - V Halftone 45° To change any brush direction, select the stroke you’re
working with and click on the option Reverse Curves.
NOTE: For precise tone-mapping and halftone brushes, look Move Tool (Black arrow)
for our raster brushes, Splat Inking also included in Splat!
for Affinity. Move Tool (White arrow)
When changing the length of a stroke, avoid doing it using the
Move Tool, this will stretch the brush’s pattern. Use the Node
Tool Instead.
To have more control over the
ends of your stroke, set its
nodes to Smooth.
You can create some cool glossy effects, quick hi-tech grids,
smooth shadings, amongst other stuff in that fashion.
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
BLOBBY KRACKLES SPEED LINES
Made famous by the one and only Jack Kirby during the ’60s, Add a SWOOSH! to your scenes in no time. A brush would
this ‘krackle’ technique to create other-wordy backgrounds belong to the multi-liner brushes, but cool enough to be in its
and textures has never gone out of style. own category.
FTOON - Krackles A FTOON - Speed Background A
FTOON - Krackles B
This brush is perfect for creating speedy backgrounds.
Works great on car chasing scenes, flying objects and to add
a sense of motion on anything.
Create spacey scenery in minutes! Just lay around a few
curves, apply Krakles A and B, duplicate them and, thats it!
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
EXPLOSIONS
Make things go BOOM! With this fun little brush, that will
create a serious chaos everywhere you bring it on.
FTOON - Explosion A
By adding simple variations to stroke width and pressure, you’ll be able to
come up with dozens of organic variations out of a single brush. One of the
most versatile in our arsenal!
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
PARTICLES
FTOON - Particles A
Last, but certainly not least! This little gem we have here, will
help you drawing rough edges, energy fields, distant
vegetation, grungy motion lines, rocky textures... You get the
idea!
Combine all these brushes together and create fantastic
Blockbuster effects! Splat FX pack it’s a great set of tools
that will help you design your scenes faster and smarter.
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
SUBTLE HAND-MADE BORDERS
Splat Borders is the perfect complement for Affinity Designer comic creators or cartoonists. This practical set of brushes will
help you make your vector panels look more organic and with an edgy hand-made character.
FTOON - Liner 01
FTOON - Liner 02
FTOON - 0.5 Ruled
FTOON - Liner 04
FTOON - Liner 05
FTOON - Liner 06
FTOON - Liner 07
FTOON - Liner 08
FTOON - SK Pigma Brush
FTOON - N15 Fast
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
SPLAT INKS
This set of beautiful precision raster inking tools have been designed to look ultra-crisp and sharp on high-resolution prints.
These brushes have been made emulating one-bit depth (like digital mangas) to ensure your linework looks perfect when
exported to compressed formats (like JPG).
SKETCHING TOOLS
FTOON - 2H Mechanical Pencil
FTOON - Soft Sketch Pencil HB
FTOON - Soft Sketch Pencil 4B
FTOON - Digital Kneaded Eraser
Despite it’s called ‘Splat Inks’, this pack includes a
lightweight set of pencils and erasers, to bear with you
throughout the entire creative process.
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
FINE LINERS, BRUSH PENS AND MARKERS
WET EDGES!
FTOON - STD Chisel Brushpen
FTOON - 0.2 Fine Liner
Tiny details Large details
WET EDGES!
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Water Based Regular
FTOON - 0.5 Gel Pen
Small details All-purpose
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Chisel Medium Marker
FTOON - Runny Fine Liner
Rough details Fill large areas
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
BRUSH PENS AND SPECIAL BRUSHES
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Dessin Animé
FTOON - V Hatch + Bleed
Rough small details Vertical Hatching
WET EDGES!
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Muscle Builder FT - D Hatching + Bleed
Contours definition Diagonal hatching
WET EDGES!
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Camel Hair N4 FTOON - Rake + Bleed
Rough edges Multi-line hatching
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
BRUSH PENS, FX AND HATCHING
WET EDGES! WET EDGES!
FTOON - Dry Tilted Brush Pen FTOON - Unlimited Power
Shading / texturing Special FX
WET EDGES! WET EDGES!
FTOON - PMA Brush Pen Tilted FTOON - Dimensional Portal
Hair shading / Folds rendering Special FX
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Auto Hatch Single
FTOON - Kirby's Galaxy
Special FX Contour auto-hatching
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Auto Hatch 15° FTOON - Splat Art Marker
Diagonal auto-hatching Hair and texturing
TRADITIONAL COLORING NEW!
WET EDGES!
Small set of markers aimed to create cover-quality
illustrations, with a hand-painted feel.
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Splat Acrylic Marker
Detailing
FTOON - Splat Marker A
WET EDGES!
Lay down flat colors
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Splat Water Brush M
Watercolor Finishes
FTOON - Splat Round Marker
Adding details
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
MANGA STYLE TONING
WET EDGES! WET EDGES!
FTOON - Halftone Gradient 90° FTOON - Dynamic Hatching B
Pressure-sensitive half-toning Pressure-sensitive hatching
WET EDGES! WET EDGES!
FTOON - Halftone Gradient 45° FTOON - Dynamic Hatching C
Pressure-sensitive half-toning Pressure-sensitive hatching
WET EDGES!
FTOON - Dynamic Hatching A
Pressure-sensitive hatching
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
FIXED TONES NEW!
Splat 2 includes 18 new manga screen tones. From 10% to 90% density in two angles, 90º and 45º; plus 4 diagonal patterns.
Combine them to create high-quality black and white pages.
FTOON - 10% | 90° FTOON - 20% | 90° FTOON - 30% | 90° FTOON - 40% | 90°
FTOON - 50% | 90° FTOON - 60% | 90° FTOON - 70% | 90° FTOON - 80% | 90°
FTOON - 90% | 90° FTOON - 10% | 45° FTOON - 20% | 45° FTOON - 30% | 45°
FTOON - 40% | 45° FTOON - 50% | 45° FTOON - 60% | 45° FTOON - 70% | 45°
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HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO
FIXED TONES NEW!
FTOON - 80% | 45° FTOON - 90% | 45° FTOON - Halftone Angle 70% FTOON - Halftone Angle 50%
FTOON - Halftone Angle 30% FTOON - Halftone Angle 10%
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LICENSE
SPLAT! COLOR PROCESS
FOR AFFINITY PHOTO
Splat Brushes for Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer - End User License
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 CC applies to the brush set kit as a product. However,
users are free to create personal and commercial products with this product without
attribution.
You MAY use Splat Brushes:
• For unlimited personal projects.
• For unlimited commercial projects for yourself or a client: As long as the parts of the
Splat Brushes for Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, modified or in original form,
aren't available in a distributable
form on its own.
• To create an End Product for a client.
You may NOT:
• Share or re-sell this brush kit in part or as a whole.
For other licensing queries or if you want to extend your rights to commercially exploit
these digital brushes please contact Enrique Figueroa at: [email protected]
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