For the past few days I’ve been drawing another Daily Planet “newspaper” tile design for my model featuring The Flash!

I actually draw these using Affinity Designer for iPad in color and then desaturate it for the B/W 2×2 tile, but this one came out so cute I’m toying with having a Daily Planet special edition with a full color exclusive. Or maybe I’ll use this color one on one of the 2×4 “TV News Monitors” in the bullpen.

I originally started drawing these using Procreate, a raster tool, because I thought it would be fun to try to do them on the iPad in the evenings, and it never occurred to me to see if there was a vector tool available until I was working on the Brainiac tile. Imagine my surprise to find that Affinity Designer, my go to tool for print work, had a tablet version.

I admit I was skeptical about doing a complex project on a tablet, but after a bit of learning how to do things using only touch gestures, I was completely sold, and the Apple pencil makes it feel similar to working on paper.

I created another decorative tile for the Daily Planet MOC I’m working on. A Daily Planet exclusive: Brainiac Attacks! to go with my previous designs that can be found here. It’s been a while since I posted one of these and that’s because I did the previous tiles as raster graphics (pixel drawings), and since I prefer to work with vectors because they can be scaled to any size without pixelation. And because I’m doing them on my iPad and then bringing them into my final editing on the computer, I was delighted to learn that my favorite tool for print work, Affinity Designer was available for the iPad. There’s been a pretty steep learning curve for me, but I’m thrilled with how well the software works on it.