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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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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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SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO

When using this pack, we recommend selecting the Paint

IMPORTANT!
Most of Splat Inker brushes for Affinity Apps, relies on the
Wet Edges feature to get their liquid ink character.
Brush Tool manually, instead of using a keyboard shortcut
(Fig.1), and then select the brush you want to use from the
Brushes Panel (Fig.2).

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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SPLAT! BRUSHES
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: contact@frankentoon.com

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