Learn Affinity Designer on your iPad through hands-on projects, clear instruction and encouraging support.
Build confidence with vector tools, painterly texture, seamless repeat patterns and greeting-card design through a structured, step-by-step creative journey.
Enrolment opens September 24. Our first live class begins October 1, with weekly coaching, accountability and creative community throughout the program.
Press play and discover what becomes possible when Affinity Designer finally starts making sense.
From vector illustrations and painterly details to seamless patterns, product mockups and coordinated greeting-card collections.
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You already have the ideas. What you need is a clear, encouraging path through the software—one that helps you understand the tools while using them to make artwork that feels like your own.
Affinity Designer Foundations isn’t about memorizing every button. It’s about understanding the creative process well enough to bring your own ideas to life.
Each module builds naturally on the one before it, taking you from your first document and basic vector shapes to patterns, greeting cards and finished design collections.
By the end of the course, you won’t simply know where the tools are—you’ll know how to use them together to complete artwork, patterns and polished design collections.
You won’t be left alone to work through the course and wonder whether you’re doing things correctly. During the live round, I’ll guide you through the process, answer your questions and help you keep moving from one module to the next.
Join the waitlist to be among the first to receive the Fall schedule, enrolment details and opening announcement.
These artists began with different levels of experience, but each discovered that Affinity Designer became much more manageable with clear instruction, encouragement and practice.
This AD Foundations course is brilliant! It is completely changing how I work and even how I approach the designs to start with. I am so happy I signed up for it. By far the best program I have done!
It has been very thorough, well structured and well paced. You offered excellent suggestions for each level we might be approaching the class from—beginning or more familiar with other software. Thank you for your patience during the lives. You drew everyone out and kept everyone encouraged to keep on going.
I’m pleasantly surprised that learning Affinity Designer has been more manageable than I anticipated, especially considering I’ve never worked with vector-based software before. Delores breaks down each step to make the process feel achievable, and I’m motivated to keep going.
I am sad that it is over, but I have learned so much. I have taken many, many classes and this was the best by a long shot! It is evident that you put your heart and soul into this course.
This all just gets better and better the more I watch. So much is now becoming the “norm” when you speak that I don’t find it all scary anymore. I am really looking forward to creating so much.
The Foundations course is a great way to start. Delores shows “up close” how to navigate on your iPad and efficiently create beautiful shapes and repeat patterns. I use Affinity on both my Mac desktop and iPad.
You don’t need to arrive already confident. You only need a willingness to learn, create and take the next step.
I’m an artist, designer and lifelong teacher who believes creative software should help bring your ideas to life—not make you feel as though you aren’t capable of creating them.
I spent 30 years teaching art and graphics in the classroom, and I’ve worked across fine art, illustration, surface pattern design, greeting cards, and wholesale and retail product sales for more than four decades. I know both the excitement of discovering a new creative tool and the frustration of trying to understand where everything is and how it all fits together.
That is why I created Affinity Designer Foundations. I wanted to give artists the kind of patient, structured instruction I would want for myself: clear demonstrations, meaningful projects and enough explanation to help you understand not only what to do, but why you’re doing it.
You don’t have to learn every tool at once. I’ll help you build your skills one project, one question and one creative breakthrough at a time.
You’ll receive a complete learning experience designed to help you understand Affinity Designer, practise your new skills and keep creating long after the live sessions are over.
Follow a clear, progressive path from the essential tools to patterns, presentations and finished creative projects.
Apply what you learn as you create vector illustrations, painterly details, repeat patterns, greeting cards and more.
Bring your questions to the live sessions and receive practical guidance as you work through the course.
Can’t attend every session live? Replays let you catch up and revisit the demonstrations on your own schedule.
Learn alongside other artists, share your progress and discover that you’re not the only one figuring things out.
Return to the lessons and resources whenever you need a refresher or feel ready to deepen your skills.
Join the waitlist to be the first to hear when enrolment opens and receive all the details about the upcoming live round of Affinity Designer Foundations.
Joining the waitlist does not obligate you to enrol.Affinity is now completely free, giving you access to powerful professional vector, pixel and layout tools without a recurring software fee. You can download Affinity from the official website . Affinity Designer Foundations gives you the clear instruction, meaningful projects and supportive learning path to use those tools confidently.
Here are answers to some of the most common questions about Affinity Designer Foundations and the Fall live round.
You’ll have lifetime access to the recorded course materials and resources, so you can revisit the lessons, repeat projects and continue strengthening your skills at your own pace.
That’s completely okay. Affinity Designer Foundations begins with the essentials and gradually builds your skills through clear demonstrations and practical projects. No previous Affinity Designer or vector experience is required.
No. The course supports both the iPad and desktop versions of Affinity Designer. Delores primarily demonstrates on the iPad, but the same core tools, principles and creative workflows apply across devices.
During the Fall live round, you’ll receive live guidance, opportunities to ask questions and session replays. You’ll also learn alongside a supportive creative community where you can share your progress and connect with other artists.
You can still participate. Live-session replays will be available, allowing you to watch at a time that works for you and return to the explanations whenever you need them.
Many of the broader design principles can be applied in other programs, but the demonstrations and technical instruction are specifically designed for Affinity Designer. You’ll get the most value by following along in Affinity Designer.
Foundations is a complete, structured learning path rather than a single project class. Each of its seven modules builds on the one before it, helping you understand how the tools work together across illustrations, patterns and greeting-card projects.
Yes. You can use the techniques taught in the course to create and sell your own original artwork, patterns, greeting cards and other products. When using any third-party fonts, graphics or resources, always follow their individual licensing terms.
You’ll be among the first to receive the Fall schedule, enrollment details and notification when registration opens. Joining the waitlist does not obligate you to purchase the course.
Join the Fall Live Waitlist and be the first to know when enrollment opens for the next guided round of Affinity Designer Foundations.
No obligation—just first access to the Fall schedule and enrollment announcement.