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OK so this is just an advertisement for Phase and I get it, they want to drum up some interest about their tool. It's great that they feel like Phase has something to bring to the design world. But reading through that article/advert, my mind kept drifting back to Figma and Affinity Designer. What does Phase offer over those two tools?
Affinity Designer is a worthy Illustrator replacement. Affinity also released Affinity Publisher, desktop publishing software like Indesign, which is currently free while in beta.
If you’re just using it for design, I recommend affinity designer. It’s about $50 for desktop license and it’s comparable to Adobe illustrator minus the subscription. Affinity Designer
For anyone catching this that uses Adobe for web/print - check out the Affinity Suite by Serif (Designer, Photo, Publisher). They're full-featured programs that have a lot to offer, and they're cheap with no subscription...you buy it, use it, and get updates. /r/Affinity
Since you have a Mac, I'd recommend Affinity Designer. Seriously cheap for what it is, because they want to make a name for themselves.
If you want to play around with something browser based then maybe try Gravit.
Agent Ransack, a free and effective search tool that I get a ton of mileage out of.
I've started using Affinity Designer for vector art, since Inkscape seems to constantly get slower and more broken, and I've never liked Illustrator much. It's commercial but low priced and has a nice UI.
I see the majority of the people in this thread commenting on Sketch. I have not used that before, but I use Affinity Designer and really enjoy it. It recently came out for Windows.
Affinity Designer is another option as well. It has some more features/capabilities than Inkscape, but is still much cheaper than Illustrator ($55, no subscription).
I suggest starting with Inkscape, and as you get more experienced you may decide you want one of the alternatives.
Illustrator is great, but if you’re looking for a cheaper alternative, Affinity Designer is pretty decent to. And rather than paying for a subscription, it is a one-time $50 purchase.
In Silicon Valley I can say that for Product Design, the norm for people's workflow is actually not Adobe Programs, but more lightweight programs like Sketch. Additionally, Adobe doesn't have competitive interaction programs so things like Principal have been used a lot. For Prototyping, I don't believe there's an Adobe equivalent; so InVision, Framer, Form and Origami are the main ones that people choose.
The few places that still use Adobe Programs are mainly big companies. I know at my place we want to switch over to Sketch but the program right now isn't reliable enough to handle our kind of assets. Also, we collaborate with a lot of teams, so it's not a a situation where we can just flip a switch.
One thing that does make me immensely happy is that these competitors have lit a fire under Adobe and are forcing them to improve rapidly. Adobe XD is a direct response towards people using Sketch and I've seen some cool new features in Illustrator which were grabbed from Affinity Designer
I'm glad you like it! For mood boarding I use Milanote, for design and editing Affinity Designer, my friend draws with pencil and paper and works in Photoshop.
not the original commenter, but i'm a user of affinity software and i love it! it's a $50 flat fee for unlimited installs and free updates, and it handles PSD files so you can easily bring over any photoshop files you want with vector layers and get the results you're looking for. get a free trial and see how you like it!
It's on sale for $14 too right now. Is gonna be $20 later on. Picked up a copy myself this week, but haven't had the time to scope it out just yet. Looks amazing.
iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/affinity-designer/id1274090551?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Info site with some sweet preview images: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/ipad/
It absolutely can and you might be surprised at how capable the iPad pros are. I use one for the majority of my illustration work. One of the last big campaigns for Stranger Things season 2 was done on an iPad using Procreate.
Serif just released this full featured version of Affinity Designer for iPad and it is a super powerful vector app that outputs in EPS and PDF formats, both of which will open in Illustrator.
Affinity Designer, a vector drawing program, is looking to create a full featured version for iOS… soon~ish.
I feel like this would be such an awesome thing for doing Design/illustration on the iPad. I use the desktop version for my professional work (web design and illustration) currently. This will probably be a real game changer for me.
Look into Sketch It's agreat alternative to Illustrator. If you need someone with Vector and Raster abilities look into Affinity Designer
They remove settings from year to year if they find that people aren't using them much. For example, the "Edit Output Settings..." has been removed from the Save for Web window menu. A couple of alternatives are Sketch and Affinity Designer.
It’s a pretty nifty drawing/design tool that a lot of folks are leaving photoshop and illustrator for because it has a more affordable price point. There’s a single fee rather than ongoing monthly/annual subscriptions. They have a desktop and an iPad app version
There are free alternatives like Krita or Sketchbook.
But if you will ever go for a paid software I would strongly recommend that you check out Affinity (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/). I have all of their software and it is amazing. They are the strongest competitor to Adobe stuff at fraction of the price (pay once, keep forever). Around black friday they will probably have a sale (probably 50% off).
Affinity Designer (and to a lesser extent the other Affinity apps, Photo and Publisher) is what I primarily use to make character sheets. Basically all the tools of Adobe at a fraction of the cost. And it's on sale right now: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
10/10 can recommend. I even used it to make my own redesign of the Cyberpunk Red character sheet.
I agree it's probably not the best of the Adobe suite for your needs and that Illustrator is going to be your best bet.
Might I suggest you investigate the 30 day trials of the Affinity tools as well? A hell of a lot cheaper than Illustrator or Photoshop and does probably most of what you need (although Illustrator has the text warp tool which you might fall in love with and which Affinity Designer lacks).
No. That's the simple answer. Any other answer would get me banned from the forum. And rightly so.
You might check out Affinity Designer. It's a one time payment. The way it should be. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
It's a great program. They are always making improvements. Check out some instructional youtube videos if you're curious about it.
I don't know if it has .dxf output.
I haven't tried drawing any, but the Transit Map Blog did have a post from someone who had used Affinity Designer to draw their fantasy map.
I guess that information might be useful for this thread.
What your looking for is Affinity Designer! In Affinity they call it Artboards but its practically the same thing. Here is how it looks like, this is a schools identity cards redesign. I had to use a lot of ”Artboards” if you will, in order to design Multiple possibilities of the design. In there site if you scroll down you can see that they do have this, here is how that section looks like. Feel free to ask me any more questions that you have!
This is cool! I think there's lots of fun branding potential here. If you're planning on putting this in your portfolio, I think this is something you could absolutely push to a full branding build-out. I think you could have a lot of fun with this aesthetic.
- As others have said, try shrinking this down when working on it and make sure it ready at a small size.
- When you go back to the drawing board, try it without the arc. There's some weirdness with the mark and wordmark arcs, they all seem to be aligned to slightly different curves.
- The playing card look it great, but make sure you don't abstract things too much. The 1s in the corners don't feel like they entirely match all that well.
- Lastly, if you haven't already, look into Affinity Designer. It's a very solid and affordable Illustrator solution. You can even open Illustrator files with it!
To be blunt - the graphics could be created in Illustrator over an afternoon, and the entire animation could be produced in After Effects over another afternoon. Looks like most of the actual motion is driven by expression- which is basically a tiny snippet of code that makes repetitive movement much easier to do.
But since you're working with FCP, I'd suggest looking at Apple's motion graphics software, Motion. It's $50USD from the App Store. You'll also need software to build those graphics. There's Affinity Designer, which should only be another $50 or so and can do vector illustration. There's also Mischief, which is even cheaper, and is like a stripped down Photoshop/doodling program. I've never used these other software titles on a work project, so I can't comment on how well they work - or don't work - together.
You should be able to prep all your images in one of the latter apps and bring those finished pieces into Motion for animation.
You're probably aware ~~Illustrator~~ Photoshop has a rather robust set of vector tools these days, but if you/anyone is looking for an Illustrator-like program that's a fraction of the cost, start here.
What do you mean? If you're buying sketch to do vector drawing, why do you need an alternative?
Anyways, another alternative would be Affinity Designer.
If you're on Mac, I would recommend Affinity Designer. It's much friendlier to noobies, I could never quite grasp Illustrator but I picked up Affinity Designer in no time at all.
If you're on Windows, Illustrator is probably your best option.
I probably wouldn't recommend Sketch for drawing comics. Sketch is more geared towards UI design. I've heard great things about Affinity Designer and would be a good low cost alternative to Adobe Illustrator. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
Mac user here I use Affinity Photo https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/
Affinity Designer https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
and Sketch https://www.sketchapp.com/
All 3 are a one time payment, and fairly reasonable in price.
I don't miss adobe.
Not sure which platform you're using, also note that I've not tried these (I've got Illustrator), but maybe worth a test to put the finishing touches on your sheet:
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If you're just starting out with graphic design or drawing like you said, I would recommend Autodesk Graphic. It seems to have a relatively easy learning curve compared to some others. Despite the easy learning curve, however, I've never felt constrained by the tools. I'm sure people who are more experienced in graphic design would disagree, but for my uses, it has sufficed. Two other apps that I've heard mentioned a lot for mobile design are Sketch 3 and Affinity Designer. I haven't used either but they're always being talked about as two of the best. The main reasons I chose to use Autodesk Graphic were the ease of use and the price($25 compared to $50 for Affinity Designer or $99 for Sketch 3). Good luck!
I completely agree with you and I'm pretty pissed off that this is the model that many companies seem to be going with.
If you want to break away from the adobe cash grab however there is a program called Affinity Designer that you may want to look in to if you have a Mac.
Personally I have not tried it myself although I have heard many people both on and off reddit say that it's pretty good. It's a one time payment of $45 USD and they claim to have full .ai support.
And then, after CS6, the company changed to a subscription-mode version of pricing. You couldn't just own your own software anymore. You had to pay and pay and pay.
For that exact reason, I still use CS6, but, still, after all this time, Affinity Designer is beginning to look pretty good. I hear it's more or less on par with the latest versions of Adobe Asshole.
I haven't actually used Illustrator (I object to the subscription model for software, especially if there's perfectly good alternatives), but I'd suggest not paying for it (and learning to work with a new interface) unless you can find a benefit first. I've used Inkscape for ages and have never felt particularly limited by it, though I understand there's some stuff like producing colour separations that are used for doing commercial work (and, of course, Illustrator integrates with other Adobe software better than Inkscape).
If you do want to change software, if may also be worth looking at Affinity Designer which has a one-time price (and will be having a Black Friday sale soon).
I don't know if there's any iPad apps that let you draw single vector lines. Most of the ones I use are raster based. Even the Adobe Illustrator iPad app doesn't do it.
You might try the iPad version of Affinity Designer, it's not free but it goes on sale sometimes. You'll want to look into the features though, I've only used the Desktop version and they're not the same. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/ipad/
I know it is not free, but I am sure they are giving either 30 day or 90 day free trial for Affinity Designer: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
It is worth a try!
Graphics like these can be made with programs, such as Inkscape (open source, free), Affinity Designer (paid) or Adobe Illustrator.
These are all general purpose vector graphics programs and not specifically tailored to the kind of graphics you want to create. You'll need to learn some design skills if you want to produce similar graphics with these programs.
I know of other programs that focus on drawing flowcharts and other types of diagrams. But they are utilitarian in nature and don't produce the shiny/polished results you're after.
The obvious answer is Adobe CC, but an entire years worth is $600. If you're really generous by all means go for that.
There's a relative newcomer: Affinity, which is gaining a lot of traction. It is much less expensive. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
I would think the best course of action would be to ask him what he wants to do, or what he needs and see if you're able to make that happen.
There's also Skillshare or other various online learning platforms that have classes. I don't know of any to recommend specifically, but there are a few to choose from.
No, I’m using Affinity Designer (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/) for all of the (vector) artwork after which I export it to PNG for subsequent use in pygame. Even the animations are done by exporting the character as slices and then doing cut out-based animation.
It looks like someone printed a design from another format to PDF.
If you can't get access to the original file (I'm assuming it's some sort of vector graphics format), you could load the PDF pages into a vector designer like Affinity Designer, it's a graphics design application that can load PDF's.
This will let you select the objects from the various pages and put them onto one, new, single page.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer
There's a free trial, and I'm guessing you can do what you need without paying for the app, but it's a handy tool to keep around for a very reasonable price (compared to Adobe and others), also works on Windows, Mac, iPad, and more.
I actually use Affinity's software quite a bit, between desktop & iPad with a Pen input. Affinity Designer is pretty amazing on the tablet:
The efficiency & optimizations they've done on done with the touch interface are just outstanding, I had no idea how amazing designing on a large mobile touchscreen could be!!
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/workbook/
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There's a hard copy book for designer on their website. Apart from that there's not too much except the video tutorials on YT
Wow. I can’t thank you enough for going into such detail, I’ll forward all this info to her.
Have you ever heard of this software? https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/ I found it because I was trying to find a software that can do vector graphics.
I don't have firsthand experience since I use the paid creative cloud, but usually plugins don't do any sort of checking for their host application. While I definitely don't condone cracking applications I don't see why they wouldn't work as long as the cracked versions are within the supported range of silhouette connect.
I would definitely recommend, if you're planning on using your cutter in any kind of professional (or hobby) environment where you're selling your creations, to get some sort of paid application. Having paid support can mean the difference between having a problem and still being able to hit a deadline vs being up a creek without any recourse. Affinity Designer is much lower cost than Illustrator and you can export the assets and import them into silhouette studio without too much fanfare.
Good Luck!
Heyy so although I have not tested it, I've been watching some tutorials for logo development. As I've seen on the comments you have Adobe Illustrator, but that can get expensive. One video I saw (this one) talks about some software. It mentions Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer (54,99€ for Windows and Mac, 21,99€ for iPad) and Inkscape (Free and Open-source)
if you're on a budget maybe you can use the free one until you can invest on a better one? I've seen the other comments the suggestion to share an Adobe account, so of course go for it if you can, but I'll give these different options, maybe they can help :)
I think it's also a classic example of FOSS marketing / presentment.
Compare https://inkscape.org/ vs https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
If a person who doesn't care that much about FOSS, and just wants the best product I can get for cheap, to help me become a great digital artist, I am going to be MUCH more likely to choose Affinity Designer over Inkscape. For something like art, it's really all about the results... and the results shown on the Affinity website are significantly more impressive. How do I know that I'll be able to produce incredible art using Inkscape, if I don't see examples of other people creating incredible art with it?
I can go to https://inkscape.org/gallery/ to see what other people have done with the software. But there's a lot of amateurish or proof of concept results mixed in there, and the website design isn't doing a lot to help with showing off the impressive ones...
This has been a great resource:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/workbook/
You'll get the ins and outs of the program and some cool projects, it doesn't hold your hand but between the book and video tutorials you should be set!
paint.net is nice for the price but a good vector program will get you farther / faster.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/#buy
for 24 bucks its a vector program comparable to adobe illustrator. Has native tga support as well so you can do everything in one program. Not sure when it will go off sale.
First, I would like to thank r/graphic_design, r/Mars, and r/vexillology for their feedback on earlier iterations of the flag design.
→ SVG file under Creative Commons CC0 Universal Public Domain Dedication on Wikimedia.
→ Video of the flag flying in the wind.
The orange-red color represents the rock and dust while paying respect to the nickname Red Planet. The dark blue-green area symbolizes space exploration (a rocket), building habitat, and Olympus Mons – one of the largest mountains-volcanoes in our Solar System. The white color stands for ice. The circle portrays the planet (with ice) as well as the view of the horizon.
When designing the flag, I followed best practices of flag design and additional self-imposed guidelines. My guide notes were as follows:
Keep it simple
Use meaningful symbolism
Use around 3 colors
No lettering or seals
Be distinct or related
Maintain contrast
Readable tiny and huge
Works well in greyscale
Symmetrical – same view from front and back
A kid can sketch it from memory
Be cognizant of existing flags, especially Japan and Greenland
Full orange/red background may be problematic in the Martian environment
Technical:
HEX: FF6A4C (orange-red), 00435C (blue-green)
Pantone (closest match from Coated book): Warm Red C, 302 C
Software used: Affinity Designer
First, I would like to thank r/graphic_design, r/Mars, and r/vexillology for their feedback on earlier iterations of the flag design.
→ SVG file under Creative Commons CC0 Universal Public Domain Dedication on Wikimedia.
→ Video of the flag flying in the wind.
The orange-red color represents the rock and dust while paying respect to the nickname Red Planet. The dark blue-green area symbolizes space exploration (a rocket), building habitat, and Olympus Mons – one of the largest mountains-volcanoes in our Solar System. The white color stands for ice. The circle portrays the planet (with ice) as well as the view of the horizon.
When designing the flag, I followed best practices of flag design and additional self-imposed guidelines. My guide notes were as follows:
Keep it simple
Use meaningful symbolism
Use around 3 colors
No lettering or seals
Be distinct or related
Maintain contrast
Readable tiny and huge
Works well in greyscale
Symmetrical – same view from front and back
A kid can sketch it from memory
Be cognizant of existing flags, especially Japan and Greenland
Full orange/red background may be problematic in the Martian environment
Technical:
HEX: FF6A4C (orange-red), 00435C (blue-green)
Pantone (closest match from Coated book): Warm Red C, 302 C
Software used: Affinity Designer
First, I would like to thank r/graphic_design, r/Mars, and r/vexillology for their feedback on earlier iterations of the flag design.
→ SVG file under Creative Commons CC0 Universal Public Domain Dedication on Wikimedia.
→ Video of the flag flying in the wind.
The orange-red color represents the rock and dust while paying respect to the nickname Red Planet. The dark blue-green area symbolizes space exploration (a rocket), building habitat, and Olympus Mons – one of the largest mountains-volcanoes in our Solar System. The white color stands for ice. The circle portrays the planet (with ice) as well as the view of the horizon.
When designing the flag, I followed best practices of flag design and additional self-imposed guidelines. My guide notes were as follows:
Keep it simple
Use meaningful symbolism
Use around 3 colors
No lettering or seals
Be distinct or related
Maintain contrast
Readable tiny and huge
Works well in greyscale
Symmetrical – same view from front and back
A kid can sketch it from memory
Be cognizant of existing flags, especially Japan and Greenland
Full orange/red background may be problematic in the Martian environment
Technical:
HEX: FF6A4C (orange-red), 00435C (blue-green)
Pantone (closest match from Coated book): Warm Red C, 302 C
Software used: Affinity Designer
Affinity Designer—it's an Illustrator alternative that's honestly probably way more powerful than I need, and I only half know how to use, but it's been a fun learning experience to fiddle with.
i mean, it's pretty clear in the terms...
Annual plan, paid monthly — US$20.99/mo
Annual plan, prepaid — US$239.88/yr.
Monthly plan — US$31.49/mo
https://www.adobe.com/plans-fragments/modals/individual/illustrator/master.html
or just skip all that and get Affinity.
You've got a few choices for logo design and I've broken down some of the more common ones into the different "levels" I often see:
Free - Hobby/Freelance
InkScape
Inexpensive - Small Business/Freelance/Hobby
Affinity Designer
Expensive - Industry Standard
Adobe Illustrator
In free, as far as I know it is basically Inkscape or nothing. If you have like $50 you could get Affinity Designer, I dunno if he license is cross-platform or you'd have to spend another $50 for both a Mac and Windows copy.
Your logo is creative and a great start. However, it looks hand drawn. Not a bad thing, but I’m concerned about the file format you’re using.
Are you familiar with creating vector art or the .svg (software vector graphics) image format?
Vector art is a way to create an image that can be resized as large or as small as you want without ever getting blurry or pixelated. It’s how every professional logo is created and a common deliverable to clients along with .png (portable network graphics) files in various sizes. Remember that SVG files are used for infinite resizing and PNG files are static images (no resizing without distortion) that can have transparent backgrounds, allowing logos to be placed on any background very easily.
If you want to get started in logo design, I’d recommend you pick up Affinity Designer for $50. It’s way cheaper than Adobe Illustrator and is fully featured. You’d be able to recreate this logo with vectors and you’d learn a lot doing it. Just download the trial and watch a few tutorial videos. In college I made $250-500 for every small business logo I did, so think of it as an investment if you buy it!
If you ever have questions, feel free to message me directly.
Logos and illustrations intended to be scaled big and small should probably be done in a vector-based editor like Illustrator, Affinity Designer, or Inkscape. Krita has some vector functionality, but nothing close to what those programs have. I'd have to recommend Affinity Designer for that kind of work, if you'd rather not use Illustrator.
On the Affinity demos and other people who have actually used it, it seems to be pretty fast. I don't know which hardware that had but specs and features are here:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/full-feature-list/
- Mac Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Mini
- Intel 64-bit Core 2 Duo or better (from 2007)
- 2GB RAM minimum
- 1.27GB of available hard drive space; more during installation
- 1280x768 display size or better
- Supports regular, retina, and expanded gamut DCI-P3 displays
Of course the more than the recommended is better, right!
Serif is updating these Affinity apps every week or so. So if you don't see what you want, expect it soon.
For current list of specs and features, see https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/full-feature-list/
If you don't need the other Adobe apps or the CC (creative cloud) for assets like fonts, etc., then there's even (for now) one more reason to pay a one-time cost for Designer and that's to avoid the monthly subscription for Adobe.
Affinity apps have in-app instructions offline, and instruction books ($$).
Designer is intended for Illustrator.
Photo for Photoshop.
Publisher for In-Design.
You get the same file format no matter which of their apps on Mac, Windows, and iPad (OS).
I prefer reviews from people who give actual hands on reviews instead of saying what's best of everything. Jcristina on youtube is mainly in photography but he has decades of Adobe experience. He recently went all Affinity and says he'll go back to Adobe only if over time he cannot easily do his business with Affinity. He's all about the practical. He's grounded in photographer, getting his work printed, building computers, a history of using high end Mac equipment, etc. Not his agent and not promoting his business, but he's honest, spot on with the facts, and not sponsored by either Serif (Affinity apps) nor Adobe.
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I'm on iPad and looking forward to when their Publisher app comes in 2020. It's already out for Windows and Mac.
Whether it's Adobe or Serif's Affinity trio, you can use as few or more options that you want to learn. Personally, after hearing about iPadOS and Affinity Publisher coming up, I decided I better get started with some dedicated time to learning Designer!
There are other design programs, Adobe is not the end-all be-all. Affinity has some phenomenal stuff: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/ipad/
graphic designer here! i'm familiar with the adobe creative suite but it's stupidly expensive and i refuse to pay for a single-user subscription for every piece of software i wish to use. i've since migrated to using affinity software, more specifically, affinity designer. it is the best equivalent to adobe illustrator i've ever used, and you pay $50 for a single license with unlimited installs, so you can use the software on as many machines as you need. they also have their own equivalents of photoshop (photo) and indesign (publisher), although publisher is currently in free beta. both photo and designer have free trials available, so if you're interested in saving some money (and challenging the near-monopoly adobe has on software in the industry), i'd highly recommend giving them a look.
Sketchup pro seems quite expensive to start out. What kind of file-type would you need? Having a way of providing the right files in a cheap and relatively easy way would certainly lower the barrier of entry.
As a graphic designer I can use, and have access to Illustrator (it ain't cheap either). It's ideal for this kind of design work. But so far I'm still using a sharpie as I've yet to find a reliable way to print a design onto the aluminium. Screen printing seems the only real decent option for getting good results.
You could also try Affinity Designer (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/) It's also a vector based illustration software packet which is what you need for this kind of work. I heard very good things about it and it's gaining a lot of traction with designers, it costs a fraction of an Adobe Illustrator license as well.
I've been a designer/developer for 20 years. More on the development end for a while. It's actually the first "fairly" flat design I've done. I did still use subtle gradients all over the place.
Designed the logo, images and icons in Affinity Designer. Great alternative to Illustrator especially at the price ($50).
Your example should be easily achievable in Sketch.
I've found that Sketch struggles a bit when it comes to vectoring things, so it may not be a complete replacement for Illustrator. I find myself jumping back into Illustrator to make designs and then exporting them to use in my Sketch designs. That said, maybe give Affinity Designer a shot, it's really starting to flex some muscles as an Illustrator replacement.
Other Alternatives (Mac)
Pixelmator for raster graphics. Pixelmator has been rising in popularity quite steadily for the past few years.
Affinity Designer for vector graphics.
What's your timeline for this? Because if it's not immediate, a good thing to learn is how to design at a competent level.
While you didn't show the design, I'm assuming that you'd best be using Illustrator to make a vector file which you'd output to put onto the shirts.
There's tons of Youtube tutorials and websites which will teach you how to use it. Personally speaking, I'd say that if you want to do design good, it never hurts to learn industry standard. But if time is a constraint, in addition to Inkscape, give Affinity Designer and Sketch a try.