HeatherLouise

WOW! This is AMAZING! Many many many years ago I considered scientific illustration as a profession. Your work is inspirational!!!!!!!!

Recently I copied several drawings of  Mucha. For I only learned industrial design sketch, this is a try of another kind of art.
Also because of the Novel coronavirus pneumonia, I have stayed at home for nearly 2 months. This is a chance to focus on drawing.

Scientific illustration: Entomology. (Papilio machaon).  I have used 3 brushes, vectors & bitmaps. I also experimented how nicely the expand stroke feature works (antennas). Made them in a swoosh, I even heard it hhhh Project bigger here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/91320519/EntomologicalScientific-Illustration  

I second the kudos for the pre-flight panel. 

I use the Boolean operations a lot! I already found them much more intuitive than other programs. love these updates. 

I love this version! Preflight and new document panel with templates, smart Master pages... Fantastic! I will try IDML import later, but I see this was big work. Many thanks for 1.8 version! Great works!

HeatherLouise, there is a switch on the node toolbar that will reverse the direction, but the start/stop node stays the same.    But if you use the node tool, select the node you want to start and stop the path, then click on the Break Curve and then the Close Curve the start/end point will be moved.

Erdmänchen sind doch immer wieder lustig anzusehen

Here another picture

Photos for the presentation optimized with AP. Eye-catching with light and shadow and some Dodge and Burn

XUAN CANH TY - Mouse lunar new year

 
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KHAY MUT - Dried candied fruits
 

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Mut Bi

 
 
Mut Sen

 
Mut Dua
 

Hot Dua

 
 
Theo Leo

 
 
Cuc Chuot
 
 

BANH TET
 

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MAM NGU QUA - Five fruits set on ancestors altar

 
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COCONUT

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MANGO

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PAPAIN

 
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FIG

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CUSTARD APPLE

 

HOA MAI - HOA DAO
Viet Nam TET holidays are coming soon. I'm glad to share with you my drawing the Apricot Blossom and the Peach Blossom in Affinity Designer for the traditional lunar new year CANH TY.
The Peach Blossom - HOA DAO

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The Ochna integerrima - HOA MAI

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CHEER!!

Good morning from Florida, USA!
My name is Heather. I was a professional designer for over a decade before I left that job, in 2010, to be a full time mom. I worked as an in-house designer mostly producing direct mail advertising, catalogues, and large scale pieces for trade shows and conferences. Now that my daughter is in middle school I have a lot more time on my hands. Back over the summer, I decided to get back into design work and I’m learning to run my own business.
Over Thanksgiving, I took a deep breath, jumped in, and traded in my 13 yo MAC with Illustrator and Photoshop CS3 and Quark 9 for a brand new PC and all 3 Affinity programs. I also bought Designer for my iPad.
I’ve never been a fan of Illustrator. (Perhaps…somewhere deep down…I still resent Adobe for acquiring Macromedia and doing away with Freehand. )
I’ve spent the last few weeks watching tutorials and playing catch-up to 10 years of technology advancements. I’ve been very impressed with the Extreme ease of transitioning my MAC Adobe files to Affinity on my PC. So far, I’ve spent most of my time in Designer and a little time with Publisher. I’m finding Designer tools to be much more intuitive and responsive. I look forward to learning more.

The Logitec Crayon Stylus should fit your needs and is not so expensive as the apple pencil  !

Good morning from Florida, USA!
My name is Heather. I was a professional designer for over a decade before I left that job, in 2010, to be a full time mom. I worked as an in-house designer mostly producing direct mail advertising, catalogues, and large scale pieces for trade shows and conferences. Now that my daughter is in middle school I have a lot more time on my hands. Back over the summer, I decided to get back into design work and I’m learning to run my own business.
Over Thanksgiving, I took a deep breath, jumped in, and traded in my 13 yo MAC with Illustrator and Photoshop CS3 and Quark 9 for a brand new PC and all 3 Affinity programs. I also bought Designer for my iPad.
I’ve never been a fan of Illustrator. (Perhaps…somewhere deep down…I still resent Adobe for acquiring Macromedia and doing away with Freehand. )
I’ve spent the last few weeks watching tutorials and playing catch-up to 10 years of technology advancements. I’ve been very impressed with the Extreme ease of transitioning my MAC Adobe files to Affinity on my PC. So far, I’ve spent most of my time in Designer and a little time with Publisher. I’m finding Designer tools to be much more intuitive and responsive. I look forward to learning more.

This Affinity Spotlight article has PDFs and souce files for the latest Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo Desktop keyboard shortcuts. 
https://affinityspotlight.com/article/downloadable-affinity-keyboard-shortcut-cheat-sheets/
 
It is part of the Learning category that compliment the video tutorials  

Found another way to make Christmas stars, well sort of, the truth is actually I wanted to try out AD isometric drawing stuff, but then discovered ... 


 

Cool, made my 1st Cutout lettered word "Cool"

I am glad for Affinity team support, as they choose my work to be displayed on their Instagram - AFFINITY INSTAGRAM
 

Love this software, never used it until a few months ago, it's so intuitive!  Created this vector this week, hope you like.