FraGar

I bought a X-Tools F1 laser cuter/marker and I made å pattern that I am going to try to etch in to a knife.
Made masking in Designer and positioned where I wanted it to be.
I will post pictures of how it looks after I have lasered it.
 

“Coffee Time”
 
I’m really not very good with hand drawing (stick figures only!) so I really like the concept of vector drawing in which I can make changes after the fact and tweak to my hearts content. 
 
To learn how to use Affinity Designer (I have played with some vector stuff before in Inkscape but nothing much at all), I decided to make something look as real as I could that wouldn’t need too much raw drawing skill and I came up with “Coffee Time” : 100% created from scratch vector drawing (no brushes or pixel layers except for the use of the fx “Layer effects"). I did use a photo for reference but I didn’t do any tracing or anything. I’m really, really happy how it turned out. I tried out all sorts of things and learned a lot but it was a lot of fun :)
 
As this is a "Learn and Share” forum, I thought I’d share exactly what I did (see the other other attached pictures). It’s not perfect and I’m a beginner, but hopefully others might be able to learn something, too
 
Enjoy! :)
 
My Process:
 
01 Create 2 sets of circle shapes to represent the top and bottom of the cup. Squish the top and the bottom with the move tool. The top circle has a smaller one on top to remove later to make a lip for the cup. I deliberately used bright colours to make the shapes easy to distinguish from each other.


 

02 Join the circles with the corners of a rectangle shape to form the side of the cup.

 
03 Shape the rectangle with the node tool. Add  a handle. Clone the top circle and move it down to make the surface of the coffee.
 
04 Create a set of “shading shapes” to put on top of the side of the cup. These will then be given a gradient colour and transparency to give the illusion of a bumpy surface.
 
05 Create some circles and overlay some shading shapes . I used the the smart duplicate function to repeatedly rotate duplicates of the shading shape easily. 
 
06 Squish the saucer with the move tool and move into place under the saucer
 
07 Change the colours to something closer to the final version and play with gradients and transparencies. I also blurred it to make it blend more naturally. Once I got something that looked good, I made a style of it and then applied it to the others and then hand tweaked each one.
 
08 Do the same to the saucer. Also added some detail (reflection of the inside of the cup and blurred it) to the coffee.
 
09 Add a background with a gradient. I used the noise slider to give it some texture. I also added some steam with just a hand drawn shape.
 
10 Add a shadow. I just duplicated the cup and saucer, blacked them out and then put them in place underneath everything and used the shear tool to project it out. I also added some fine detail on the edge of the side of the cup to add to the bumpiness illusion. Made the lip a nice shiny gold with a slightly tweaked version of the built in “metal” style. Added some self shadowing to the saucer and further deformed the circle shape it to give a more 3D look to it.
 
11 Added reflections and spectral highlights to the cup and saucer. Now it looks nice and shiny.
 
For the final version, I also added some bubbles to the coffee (lots of circle shapes) and the text, converted to curves and then given a steam like style (actually the same one I used for the shading shapes!) and then each character rotated and scaled to make it look like steam from the coffee.

Updated brushes, 18pc color changeable.
For Affinity Designer. 


FraGar Greek Patterns New Colors 18 PC.afbrushes

Updated brushes, 18pc color changeable.
For Affinity Designer. 


FraGar Greek Patterns New Colors 18 PC.afbrushes

Updated brushes, 18pc color changeable.
For Affinity Designer. 


FraGar Greek Patterns New Colors 18 PC.afbrushes

Added some plain + vintage Badge Assets.
Some plain + vintage Badge Assets

Here are two of my Badge (Label) Assets sets, these assets are plain (silhouettes) + vintage (grouped) vector curve(s) based badges/labels. The two sets do contain various forms of these. NOTE that the assets for the below shown vintage badge set don't include any preapplied text, it's below just shown this with text way in order to give you an idea how they could look with some used/applied text on them!
 


 
The corresponding assets files:
Badge_Assets.afassets  
- Have fun with these free to reuse badges!

Jepp, it was like you thought. I messed up. So when I realigned it it was perfect. Thanks

Please 'like' this post to add your vote for .BMP support in Affinity -
 
Yes! I would love Affinity to add support for the .BMP format

I bought a X-Tools F1 laser cuter/marker and I made å pattern that I am going to try to etch in to a knife.
Made masking in Designer and positioned where I wanted it to be.
I will post pictures of how it looks after I have lasered it.
 

I bought a X-Tools F1 laser cuter/marker and I made å pattern that I am going to try to etch in to a knife.
Made masking in Designer and positioned where I wanted it to be.
I will post pictures of how it looks after I have lasered it.
 

I bought a X-Tools F1 laser cuter/marker and I made å pattern that I am going to try to etch in to a knife.
Made masking in Designer and positioned where I wanted it to be.
I will post pictures of how it looks after I have lasered it.
 

Hi all,
I just posted a video on my channel about a method for making seamless patterns in Affinity Designer (desktop). I have found this to be one of the easiest techniques:
Pros
Works on any canvas size No math or calculation Easy to modify as you experiment with the composition Cons
No live preview method. You need to manually test the graphic as a fill pattern Let me know what you think!
 

I'm having an Ale, Beer and Cider festival in my garden with a few friends in a couple of weeks, so I've made this fake beer label (that I've stuck to an actual beer bottle after removing the original label). Designer entirely in Affinity designer... see if they can spot my label  (they don't speak German lol) 

Bindweed
500 x 750 mm | 300dpi Affinity Designer

Part of the 'Untamed Project' and a mix of Raster and Vector drawing

Raster Outlines with Vector Backgrounds
 
Coloured Version with Texture Overlay using the new 2.1 Asset to Fill Feature

Tinted Version using Hue Overlay and without dot texture 

You can dock it, but you have to take it on the outside of the Main Window to do this.
Same on the right hand side, you have to take it on the right side of the window.
 

 

Seamless Pattern Overlays
Extracted, Modified and extended a set of Pattern Overlay Assets. (Part of the Comic Book Toolkit)

Built to make use of the new AD 2.0 feature of being able to drag images | Vectors from the Asset Panel and onto the Fill Swatch (Good for grunge artwork and vintage effects!)
 
Assets Content
1. Set of Positive Dot patterns (scalable using Fill Tool)
2. Set of Negative Dot Patterns (scalable using the Fill Tool)
 
Use
1. Select your vector object
2. Drag Asset to Fill Swatch on context bar
3. Adjust with Fill Tool

Or you could just use the vectors
 If need to change colour -drag out and recolour objects | Create new sub-category and add as required..

can be added to swatches (no need for Styles)
Or
Use adjustments to recolour and effects with Transparency and Layer Settings
Samples as below:
Positive


Negative


Seamless Dot Pattern Overlays.zip

No Problem they are fun to play around with. Will be much more powerful when combined with vector Flood Fill in 2.1

DC Comics 1982 Colour Toolkit
Wanted to take this a bit further with an additional bitmap fill Palette based upon old DC Comic colours
1. Sourced the colours of the 1982 DC Comic Colour Palette (Limited as different print process!) and created a simple kit to play around with the new 2.1 Assets > bitmap fill options.
2. Added a limited number of dot fills as a separate Palette and some coloured assets to play around with the results:



Process
1. Edited some of the original seamless assets by creating a 2 phase pattern consisting of a solid rectangle containing a dot pattern. The Dots were set to erase (So you can revert using select same etc.!). Set white dots to 'erase'
2. Applied DC Colours to some vectors; then stored as assets. 
3. Used the assets to create a 'Dot' Fill in the Colour Palette
4. Scaled and rotated with the fill tool

Included the original AD 2.1 File to experiment with
Assets
Zip File contains:
a. Assets
b. Colour Palettes
c. Editing files (Colour swatches + Vector Dots + test block)

To create a separate palette from the visible swatches just ALT + CLICK with the Colour Picker tool (I)... or make your own combinations
 
DOT TOOL.zip
 

Monster Meadow II
Added a new version of the Meadow

Some Affinity Designer v.1.10.5 based Easter Stuff vector assets. - Note: the assets are compound of unlocked, grouped vectors, thus when moving, resizing etc. inside docs, make sure to always select the outer group layer.


 

The assets file:

easter-stuff.afassets You will find a bunch of other Affinity related things under some of my other resources contributions, see therefor:
Retrospective of resources contributions
Have a nice and peaceful Easter time!

I needed a list of my capabilities and services I can offer while I reside outside of the U.S. Delivered as a PDF file (redacted version). I will probably add some samples of my work in similar fashion

Stand of Trees II
New version of 'A Stand of Trees' (version I)
Bit large this one!
Original Size 2000 x 1000 mm 300dpi
All vector Affinity 2.04

Toolkits
Planetary Toolkit (Untamed) W.I.P
Trees (Untamed)
Meadow (A Stand of Trees)W.I.P

Here are some brushes with Greek patterns.
It's for Affinity Designer.
Hope someone have use for it 🙂

FraGar Greek Patterns.afbrushes