[Clear view]

Die Wäller sind überall...

[Male worker]

Male worker at rest.

The body itself coming from "Magic Poser", IMHO an ideal complement to AP.

[Locomotive (yes, another one!)]

Great work !

As everybody's loving steam locos, here's another one from my collection, a  British 2-8-0 Stanier 8F confiscated by the War Department ("W.D.") for the Desert War.

Cheers ! 

 

 

[Wonder Woman 1984]

OMG, awesome work, Marc ! 

[Cloth shading]

Dipping my toes into the muddy water of cloth shading, with lot of dodging, burning and smudging...

Imagine a male in casual clothes and bright sunlight, lifting his arms for some unknown reason.

 

 

[9256 miles from Melbourne...]

Australian "digger" wearing the "slouch hat" leans against the wall of a typical Libyan roadhouse, giving his feet a well deserved break. The wall has been decorated with an advertisement for Griffith's tea made by an obviously most talented Autralian sapper. Also leaning on the wall is the superb British .303in. Bren machine gun. Pretty far away from home...

The graphics is a wild mixture of coloured photo (digger's head), ArtPose body, Bren gun scale model image and own drawings.    

 

 

 

[Fire in the Desert]

Italian Autoblinda AB41, burned out in the Libyan desert, 1942.

Original XARA drawing heavily post-processed with the wonderful AP 1.  

 

[Bristol Beaufort]

Great drawing of the Beaufort !

IMO, it would be even more amazing if you would emphasize the highlights to give the model more depth.

Switch to AP and dodge the hell out of it using some texture brushes.

Or, move to Tone Mapping and see what you get.

Just my 2c...  

[80 years ago in the desert...]

...one of Rommel's artillery tractors in Egypt.

Again original vector drawing made in XARA Xtreme 5.1, heavily post-processed with the wonderful AP

Front flag, Frontwheel cover and rear canvas all done in Liquify Persona and "dodge"d and "burn"ed later...

Look here for a similar drawing.

 

 

[Oh Lord, won't you buy me a ....]

MERCEDES-BENZ ! 

This time a 4.5-ton 4x4 MB L4500 Heavy Truck.

Part of Rommel's D.A.K. when chasing the 8th Army east on their "Gazala Gallop" right to El Alamein, but no step further !

Libya, Egypt, exactly (!) 80 years ago... (another needless war !) 

Original truck drawing with XARA Xtreme 5.1, heavily post-processed with AP

Though I love AD, it can't compete (yet) with the Xtreme 5.1 when it comes to fast vector drawing, just my 2c... 

 

[LNER Mallard locomotive]

Great work, Marc !!

I like the reflections on the body, but would recommend to omit or blur the lower background as it distracts too much from the loco itself.

And I would emphasize the shadow over the suspension as well.

[Some recent paintings done in Affinity Photo]

Amazing work, Adriano, would really love to see a tutorial on the whole process.

[German WW2 Gun]

Thanks for your kind words (and the thumbs-up btw), Mark, much appreciated.

Blender has obviously evolved from a more hobbyist tool to a serious 3D environment.

I'm currently trying to get my 64-year-old head around the 2.9x version,

but I'm somewhat afraid of struggling again with those countless shortkeys,

the retopo, uvmapping and texturing...

[Evening Mood in the Desert]

Right, first drawing is orthographic, liked it somehow.

[Evening Mood in the Desert]

Famous El Alamein Station, Egypt, Western Desert, mid-1942

3D created in Moi3D and 3D Coat, post-processed in Affinity Photo 

Hommage to my favourite painter Edward Hopper...

Arrival of the British LMS 2-8-0 Stanier 8F Steam Loco

 

[German WW2 Gun]

Working with MoI3D is straightforward when it comes to hardsurface modelling.

I never got my head around poly modelling, so I'm restricted to what I can achieve with NURBS.

Pros : No mess with boolean ops, fillets (well, almost) or sweeping.

Cons : No organic shapes.

Moi3D delivers nice meshes and a rudimentary uvmap.

Here's a screenshot of my current  WIP, a Cruiser A9 Tank Turret :

 

I uvmap, texture paint (!) and render smaller projects in 3DCoat, but just render larger ones in Marmoset Toolbag.

And do the after effects on the rendered pngs in Affinity Photo as with the "Ack-Ack" posted here.

Don't know BLENDER though, so I can't judge it compared to MoI and 3DCoat. 

[German WW2 Gun]

German 88mm Flak 18 AA/AT Gun "Bärbel" of WW2.

Pretty successful against British and Australian Armour in the Desert Campaign.

Moi3D Model rendered in Mamoset Toolbag and heavily weathered in Affinity Photo.  

 

[Aicraft Instrument Panel]

WOW, GrubbyFingers, a real masterpiece ! Unbelievable !

Did you consider using "3D" or "Bevel" effects for the outstanding surfaces to get more depth and sharpness ?

Just my 2c...

[Caterpillar D-7]

Officially "Tractor, Heavy, M1", U.S. Artillery Tractor of WW2.

Originally a 20-year old "Jasc. PSP" vector graphics, imported as png into AP and heavily weathered therein.

A welcome occasion to test and polish my skills and, most of all, reveal my deficiencies. 

Here's the layer structure and my brush collection :

[Not quite Halloween, but a beast anyway]

Russian WW2 B-4 203mm Howitzer, heavily weathered in AP

[Vector-only portrait]

Vector-only portrait with extensive use of Layer Effects like Inner/Outer Shadow, Gaussian Blur and 3D.

 

Oliver

http://www.o5m6.de

[Grant Medium Tank of WW2]

On 9/18/2019 at 9:54 AM, VectorWhiz said:

I came from CorelDRAW and AI and have some of the problems mentioned by you, but AD also has some features that are absent in these programs and AD's functionality suits me better, while I am sure more functionality will be added over time, making it more competitive than it already is now.

I agree, VectorWhiz, I hope they won't be carried away by other projects like XARA was...

[Grant Medium Tank of WW2]

British "General Grant" Medium Tank in Desert camouflage of 1942.

My first large project in Affinity Designer as I usually draw in Xara Designer.

AD is phantastic, but still lacks some of XD's features like blend, mesh etc.

Oliver, www.o5m6.de