Phillipp

sharing here the image that I did for my youtube live streaming, with awesome tips for beginners!
you can watch this process at the linked Tutorial Section Topic
thank you guys!

Hey, 
 
this is the first time I used an actual image as an example and tried to recreate it in isometric style. You can see the outcome in the video thumbnail. I also embedded the example for comparison.
It was quite challenging, especially the wooden planks. It's the first time I work with gradients and the wood look had me struggle for quite a while. The video shows my full process, including trial and error on the gradients.
I won't consider it "done" yet as there are definitely some things to improve, like the roof where I had no idea what to add as details. I thought about doing the same wooden plank gradients in an interesting pattern but I guess that would be too much.
Overall, it looks more like an asset from an old browsergame. It doesn't have this special isometric art style. I think it's because of the muted colors and too much detail. If I would redo it some day, I would try to use brighter colors (exploring more orang'ey for the wood) and have less small details.
 
What do you think? I would be happy for feedback and some tips.
 
 
Example:

Hey, 
 
this is the first time I used an actual image as an example and tried to recreate it in isometric style. You can see the outcome in the video thumbnail. I also embedded the example for comparison.
It was quite challenging, especially the wooden planks. It's the first time I work with gradients and the wood look had me struggle for quite a while. The video shows my full process, including trial and error on the gradients.
I won't consider it "done" yet as there are definitely some things to improve, like the roof where I had no idea what to add as details. I thought about doing the same wooden plank gradients in an interesting pattern but I guess that would be too much.
Overall, it looks more like an asset from an old browsergame. It doesn't have this special isometric art style. I think it's because of the muted colors and too much detail. If I would redo it some day, I would try to use brighter colors (exploring more orang'ey for the wood) and have less small details.
 
What do you think? I would be happy for feedback and some tips.
 
 
Example:

Hey, 
 
this is the first time I used an actual image as an example and tried to recreate it in isometric style. You can see the outcome in the video thumbnail. I also embedded the example for comparison.
It was quite challenging, especially the wooden planks. It's the first time I work with gradients and the wood look had me struggle for quite a while. The video shows my full process, including trial and error on the gradients.
I won't consider it "done" yet as there are definitely some things to improve, like the roof where I had no idea what to add as details. I thought about doing the same wooden plank gradients in an interesting pattern but I guess that would be too much.
Overall, it looks more like an asset from an old browsergame. It doesn't have this special isometric art style. I think it's because of the muted colors and too much detail. If I would redo it some day, I would try to use brighter colors (exploring more orang'ey for the wood) and have less small details.
 
What do you think? I would be happy for feedback and some tips.
 
 
Example:

Looks great to me!
i tried isometric a while back, couldn’t get it right. But I got some helpful hints from your video, I might try again

Thanks for sharing! 
 

Hey,
 
while I was looking for new practice projects, I found a little windmill which I recreated.
For me as a beginner, it was quite hard to deal with the colors, especially in the shade. 
 
For the speedart video itself, I prepared a color palette so I don't have to find the colors again.
 

One of the most beautiful car designs of modern times. 100% vector drawing. Work in progress. Used lots of custom gradients and transparencies. Also Gaussian blurring and 3D effects.
 

Stages 1 - 16
 

Stage 16 Dec 9 2019
 
 
 

Hello Philipp! Wonderful video. I commented on your YouTube video. I hope you see it. Great use of plains and artboards. Thank you for showing that to me. I am switching from Adobe to purely using Affinity and it is amazing how much Affinity can do. Great video!

I like it, when person A proposes person B, how he should spend his money in order to satisfy person A.

Since a few people have seen it already, I would like to ask for some feedback, especially about the video itself. 
I am planning to do more such videos (so feel free to subscribe, lol ) and obviously want to improve them as well.
 
How is the video speed? It's about 36 minutes of work and I made it 5x faster for this.
How is the music? I find it really hard to get free royalty free music that is long enough and fits the theme. Any recommendations?
Anything else that could be improved/added/etc?
 
I am very glad for any feedback!

Hey,
 
I just started out with vector design, especially isometric vector design. This is one of my practice projects. It was quite fun figuring out how to do it. I decided that it makes sense to use the "Symbols" feature in Affinity Designer so I can create each side in 2D.
 
 

Hey,
 
I just started out with vector design, especially isometric vector design. This is one of my practice projects. It was quite fun figuring out how to do it. I decided that it makes sense to use the "Symbols" feature in Affinity Designer so I can create each side in 2D.
 
 

I would also love to be able to rotate the canvas freely with some key modifier + pen movement.
Is this already on a roadmap somewhere and if not, what do we have to do in order for the Affinity team to evaluate this?

I have explained the tool idea (And provide examples) in this other topic:
A tool that makes the handles interact with the nodes, the handles change depending of the node movement
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Could be an upgrade to the current node tool, as a setting for the way the node tool manage the handles:
Example:



(Second Image is a zoom for the image above)
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Or be a completely new tool instead