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INKS GUIDE 2.0

©2022, 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 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
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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 SPLAT!
INKS
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 HOW TO USE
SPLAT! BRUSHES
FOR AFFINITY DESIGNER / PHOTO

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: contact@frankentoon.com

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