kurtbliss

Completed (for the time being). This is what the painting would look like when framed. Current size over 1 meter tall, but infinitely scalable because it's all vector.

 

This is a 100% vector image heavily depending on the very powerful Duplicate function, which I will explain in this thread.

 
Below you see the three sections of the horn indicated:

 
First the contours of each of the sections were drawn. After that and on top of that the first rib nearest to the skull was drawn, giving it a custom Swatch (which I saved), and a 3D fx that I gave the Scale with Object property. Then Duplicate the rib using Control + J, resize, rotate and position it until it no longer follows the underlying contour. Resize and rotate (and skew if necessary) and Duplicate again until it no longer follows the contour lines. Do this until the entire contour area is filled with ribs. Note: Every time a new rib is duplicated, move it below the previous one using the Back One icon below the menu bar. Penultimate function of creating the horn is uncheck the contour lines in the Layers panel to hide them. Finally mirror and position to the opposite side.
Btw, the skull consists of a Duplicated layer that has a custom Fill in a different direction relative (180 degrees vs 45 degrees) to the original one. Its transparency was set to the Colour Burn filter with an 80% opacity. Both skull objects were given a double 3D fx lighting - 45 degrees and 270 degrees light source.
Last action is to group all objects and apply a 3D fx of 45 degrees (top right) was applied to them to make lighting seem consistent.
 
 

Hi, I've been using the forum for a while now and recently have commented on a few peoples work so thought it only fair I should have something to show for myself. So this is my first attempt using Designer. It's very incomplete. There are more characters being worked on (I've switched their visibility off) and a lot of things haven't been finished like the house, tree, grass and the cloud splash where the rainbow fish is meant to be entering the cloud. Pretty much most things are unfinished  but it's taking time as my Mac is struggling to cope with the scale of the image now. It's for a children's book I'm working on. It's entirely done with vector, no brushes, no pixels. And also completely done using a mouse as trying to draw anything with my Wacom tablet results in the line taking about a minute to catch up with what I've drawn. Also It's only a portion of the image, the original extends both up and down. As it's so large I've added some sections of the image as well. Apologies for the essay. 

 

Texture Brush Fur 
Updated 03 02 2022
Adjusted the Brush dynamics so that they perform better
Zip file contains 30 brushes (1 pack x 30)
PDF sample file added

 
TB 4 FUR Set 4-37-39.pdf
 
TB4 Fur Brushes - 0A V2.afbrushes

Hey guys......so I was working on my new course...and got the the lesson on making brushes.....sooooo I had to amek some brushes. 
 
I made a set of fog/ smoke brushes in raster and a set of silky smooth stroke brushes for your vector applications. 
 
I have learned so much from the people on the site....I wanted to give back, so here ya go . I am working on new blog post and some new art using them....so I will keep you in the loop 
 
Feedback on them is always appreciated, I love making these sorts of tools 
 
Jeremy , www.7thseasonstudios.com
Stroke brushes -7th season studios .afbrushes
Smoke and fog brushes -7th season studios.afbrushes

Greetings everyone!

Here I decided to design a bluish-white themed skull mascot logo in Affinity Designer. This is one of my relatively old works, I've improved now. 

Project Assets and sample brushes
Added a small assets Library containing the vector objects used and a small sample set of inkBrush (vector Brushes) created for the inktober 2018 project
Brushes created in 1.65 AD not 1.7 (beta)
Sample sheet as below:

Assets - Create_Vector_Brushes.zip
Create - Vector -Brushes.zip

Added a set of 30 Texture Paint Brushes to the Project Set... Samples as below.
 

Camouflage - Paint.zip

Project Brush Camouflage Set 11
Added new Brush set based on the vectors of Camouflage I
30 New Raster Brushes
 First sample Set combining 4 brush sets [Leaves , Texture, Bark Grunge and Canopy]

Samples as below and 30 brushes in .zip file 
Enjoy!

Camouflage - Mixed Sample Set.zip

Project Brush Assets Grunge Set 09
Built using 1.65 Brush Engine
30 New Raster Brushes
PDF sample as attached
Zip file
Enjoy!
 

Project Brush - Grunge.zip
 
PROJECT BRUSH - Grunge_01.pdf

If you are on Windows, and have no need for a prepress PDF toolset, then I recommend PDF-Xchange Editor. Great annotation/commenting/revewing tools, form creation, OCR, Scanning, and full PDF editing. The GUI is miles ahead of Acrobat (that horrible form properties dialog in Acrobat...). It also supports (as far as I have tested) all Acrobat Javascript. It even loads and displays 3d models embedded in a page.
I found it to be an excellent Acrobat replacement. Only its prepress tools are missing, unfortunately.

I highly recommend that Serif develop a fourth addition to the Affinity triumvirate: a PDF file creator, editor and OCR-capable program to supplant those currently being foisted on users - most expensively - by Adobe and others.   Apropos of this recommendation, the Acrobat "UserVoice" topic "Full Tools, Menu customization" has by now been ongoing for somewhere approaching two years, and if Adobe has ever responded to or otherwise addressed the significant issues that continue to plague professional users, I do not recall having seen it.   For reference, here follows a quite typical posting on this subject, wherein a professional user states that they would abandon - or already have abandoned - Acrobat Pro in favor of a competing program, such as Bluebeam Revu.  Surely I am not the only user who would like to see just the complete PDF-handling capabilities of the expensive Revu xTreme incorporated within a stand-alone program costing significantly less than $549.   I would happily abandon both Acrobat Pro and ABBYY Finereader in favor of such a program within the Affinity group, and harbor a strong suspicion that many other users would so so as well.   ---------------------------------   Adobe <no-reply@acrobat.uservoice.com>   acrobat.uservoice.com New comment on 'Full Tools, Menu customisation'
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DC Pro has unfortunately been developed into a sluggish, bloated and complicated piece of pdf editing software. It needs to be re-imagined from the bottom up. PDFs aren't going away ... but Adobe customers are. If Affinity can develop the next greatest pdf editing tool - I won't let the door hit me on the way out. Just waiting to get the next big cost savings for my company by abandoning Adobe products altogether.
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Here you are Angelize, this is the link to download AP 1.7.2.434. For me the install failed, so I had to uninstall the latest beta and then install this version.

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

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Fixes
Fixed certain CMYK JPEG opening at 72 DPI Fixed Drag and Drop of a file twice causing the file to remain locked Added TGA export support Restored TIFF 'fff' support Fixed crashes when attempting to load truncated files Allow .icm profiles, as well as *.icc Fixed failure to connect to Unsplash on Windows 7 and 8.1 Fixed Resize Document Improved performance of adjusting sliders in Develop Persona Prevent macros from recording Tone Mapping or Develop Cancelling the Crop Tool remembers the initial "drag to crop" state Fixed crash with Clone Brush (current layer and below) Added Remove White Matte and Remove Black Matte to the Filters menu Fixed Image not clipping correctly when Reveal is enabled Fixed Lightroom data being stripped from Capture One XMP output Fixed saving a Jpeg replacing the Subject field EXIF Property with the Title Enabled import of ICC profiles when there is no document 1.7.2.424 release notes