[Resources] Affinity Designer apparel hand-drawn mockups
Present your patterns in THE best way and breathe life into your creations!
Ultimately, mockups empower you to bridge the gap between concept and reality and they are THE perfect tool to both test your pattern (for scale and color) and to present your work to potential clients.
By showcasing your patterns on mockups, you provide clients and customers with a tangible preview of the final product, enabling them to better understand the design's potential impact and versatility.
Today I’m sharing with you a quick tutorial on how I like to utilize my hand-drawn vector mockups in Affinity Designer. The summer is almost over (and definitely over in Germany LOL), but let’s hold on to it a while longer and mockup one of your lovely repeat patterns onto a bathing suit design, shall we?
There is a FREE YouTube video tutorial for everybody, including a link to 1 bathing suit vector mockup.
My paid Substack tier will receive additional 2 mockups (a kimono blouse and a shirt dress) via a download button at the end of this article.
Everyone is super welcome to watch my free step-by-step tutorial and see how I tackle:
using the Fill tool in Affinity
saving all your patterns as color swatches in the Color Studio
dealing with the scale of my pattern
creating a simple color palette area in your presentation
The FREE tier: please see the description box of this YouTube video, where you will find your download link. Save this asset category into your storage and then IMPORT it via the Assets Studio. Please note, I have created all my assets in Affinity V2 and time will not allow me to create V1 resources anymore (iicckkk).
Extra mockups for the PAID Substack tier
I’m including 2 extra apparel mockups, which are a little bit more complex, but if you’re like me and you enjoy mocking up your designs on clothes, I’m sure you’ll love them! I’d also like to show you an example of a sales page which I sent out as part of my pitch to potential clients last month, where you’ll see how I used the mockups to present my art in the best possible way + to help the clients envision better how my patterns would fit their products. I made it available via Pinterest:
