Serif has put together a nice helping of over 60 video tutorials to help new users get started with Affinity Designer for iPad. What are your thoughts on the release? Do you plan on buying it?

I'd never heard of Affinity Designer before this post. Checked it out, looks very capable for $50. Another thing you might consider is simply buying an older version of Illustrator.

Affinity Designer 2 provides substantial support for its users, including a YouTube channel full of inspirational tutorials created by product experts and pro users.

The companion app to Affinity Photo, Designer is a vector illustration app that can operate as an outright Adobe Illustrator replacement for many graphic artists.

Similarly, while I can monkey around in Illustrator and Affinity Designer, my skills are weak. As with Photoshop, I seldom even launch Affinity Photo, and whenever I need image manipulation features, ...