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avo got a reaction from ronniemcbride in Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.5 - Beta 7) August 3, 2016

I want it in the appstore already! :lol: Gimme gimme gimme

avo reacted to KyleChicoine in Logo & Branding Project with Affinity Designer June 20, 2016

I wanted to share a project I completed using Affinity Designer. I worked with a client to redesign her interior design business logo. You can view the work in my portfolio by visiting this link.

Aundra Skinner Interiors

I know my client is happy with her new logo. I would love to hear what others think as well.

avo reacted to Brett Stebbins in Weapons and Armor Shops for JRPG June 17, 2016

Here is my latest concept art for Luminare Saga, my client's top-down game. The attached images show my steps in creating this. All work done with Affinity Photo. You can see more of these and some of my process on my Artstation profile.

avo reacted to paolo.limoncelli in How to create a dynamic marker (advanced) June 14, 2016

Hi folks!

In another topic a user was asking about how to create a maker that works with some dynamic features, in particular Tilt.
So I'm going to move that tutorial here in order to share it with anybody wants to create such a tool.

What is Tilt

Tilt is usually the angle between your pen and tablet surface (or its complementary).
The one that allows you this

To be more precise there are three angles dealing with pen/paper interaction, using Serif's notation:

All Wacom pens support Tilt (that Affinity splits correctly into Tilt and Angle )
Only Wacom Art Pen support Rotation (which is basically pen's barrel rotation, so the rotation of your brush shape).

If your pen tablet supports those AP or AD allow to bind them to the different Jitters available in Dynamics Tab.

How to make this brush

A chisel shaped marker is a very complex tool, so complex that in the past Wacom produced it as a true accessory for its Intuos 3 series, with double nib sensors.
I think it is no more compatible with modern tablets...

(source Amazon)

There are lots of implications in this dynamic, not only the shape variation, but also a distribution of pressure along the chisel.

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Edit: Some more info about this tool.
A Wacom representative during an Adobe Creative Day years ago told me that the reason why they placed two sensors was to detect pressure's delta.
Recently another one told me that this feature wasn't implemented, so the double tip was there only to "hold" the massive nib.
Few days ago a developer told me that there was something available in their drivers, but no software developer decided to use this function, sales were bad so Wacom moved to the Art Pen (single nib, axis rotation).
Where is the truth? :D

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Let's go back to our tutorial: we want to replicate this behaviour

The best approximation for such a tool is a Square brush with a Shape jitter that stretches its shape from square to thin rectangle, but this kind of brush is not yet fully functional in AP/AD.
I've decided to use a Round Brush binding Tilt to Size, all should result in a good variant, so:

1) Create a new round brush
2) Double click it to make the Brush Editor open
3) In General shrink its shape to 20% and set a low spacing value (2% is the best)
4) Go to Dynamics tab

Affinity apps track the full 180° Tilt angle in its ramp, but we don't need it and in order to have a correct response we have to shrink the range as shown.

So if our chisel shaped "marker" is perpendicular to our canvas it will be thin, then gradually (with a linear ramp) increase its size as we tilt it.

This is a basic dynamic marker that works with Tilt, Rotation (Wacom ArtPen needed) and has some colour dynamic too.
Here you can find it.

Happy sketching!

avo reacted to ScottBriscoe in New Class on Perspective Drawing using Affinity Designer June 8, 2016

Hi All -

I have just posted my class: “Get Better at Perspective Drawing: Beginning with the Basics - using Affinity Designer” on SkillShare.com.

If you’re someone who has ever struggled with creating accurate perspective, or found it difficult to portray a strong sense of depth within your artwork, or have ever been bothered by the distorted shapes that often occur using standard perspective methods - I believe the insights, skills, and techniques shared in this class will be very helpful to you.

This class doesn’t focus on the isometric perspective grid that’s already available in Affinity Designer. Instead, I take an in depth look at how draw in actual 3D perspective and explain how to translate real world measurements and distances into your drawings.

That said, I take full advantage of the wonderful tools and features available within Affinity Designer to create efficient workflows while drawing in perspective.

SkillShare provides me an option that allows the first 25 class enrollees to take the class for free using this link: http://skl.sh/22xKNoQ

*Update: Sorry, the link above expired last week. Here's a new link with another 25 FREE enrollments: http://skl.sh/1UHyOPr
*Update: Class link: http://skl.sh/1O2zp1G- The current offer is 3 months of Skillshare for 99 cents.

The class is a little over two hours long and provides a solid foundation for drawing better in perspective.

Thanks,
Scott

avo reacted to MEB in Is it possible to turn a logo from it's color to white June 8, 2016

Hi linmchugh,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
You didn't specify which program you are using.
If it's Affinity Photo go to menu Filters ▸ Colors ▸ Erase White Paper. This may not work for all colour images without protecting the subject with a selection first.
If it's Affinity Designer (there's no filters here) select the layer, click on the cog icon on the top right of the layers panel to open the Blend Options dialog, then on the on the Source Layers Ranges graph (on the left), drag the right endpoint to the bottom and the left endpoint to the right until the white starts disappearing just around the borders of the elements (they become semi transparent) - see screenshot (you can also use this method in Affinity Photo).

avo reacted to AshTeriyaki in Development Status - Where is Affinity 1.5 Beta? June 8, 2016

Haha, thats exactly what I do!

avo reacted to rui_mac in Development Status - Where is Affinity 1.5 Beta? June 8, 2016

100% Wacom also.
I just use mouse to play Minecraft with my son :D

avo got a reaction from Frankentoon Studio in Elvish-like Girl Portrait (AP) May 24, 2016

Really cool work! I personally seldom make digital painting, and i tried lots of software for this and finally realized that it can be done totally in Affinity Designer's Pixel Persona... Especially with those cool DAUB brushsets.

avo reacted to paolo.limoncelli in Enemy Mine May 24, 2016

I had a chance to see again this nice old sci-fi movie.
This is a concept inspired by.

Done in AP and AD

avo reacted to Frankentoon Studio in Elvish-like Girl Portrait (AP) May 24, 2016

To be honest, I've never tried Affinity Photo for digital painting. I usually work in PS or Manga Studio. But today I was testing some brush settings of Photo and came up with this quick portrait. I've always tried to emulate the traditional mediums when painting digital, so I tend to work my digital paintings with that natural a la prima feel... working in one layer and mixing pencils and 'gouache'.

Here's the result:

I think I'll use Photo for more digital painting. It runs pretty smooth and fluid. It is pretty fun to create brushes too, very fewer settings compared with other painting software, but at the same time those boundaries makes you create some nice brushes more quickly.

Hope you all dig it!

avo reacted to CartoonMike in Snake girl May 17, 2016

I like it and the homage to Pamela Coleman Smith (artist of that Tarot deck that Insecto mentioned). The one thing that bothers me is how the tail knots up. It just knocks me out of the picture and doesn't visually "follow" because of the flat illustrative style and especially with the abrupt color change. IMHO, that knot could just be removed and the curve of the tail between the beginning of the knot and the ending be continued. If one looks at pictures of snakes moving, they don't knot up. It seems that knotting only happened when two snakes encounter each other. And by continuing the curve, it echoes the curves of the background better and thus makes the illustration seem (to my eyes at least) more whole and harmonious without losing that engraving look that you have done so well.

avo reacted to Callum in Snake girl May 16, 2016

I thought a similar thing!

avo reacted to Frankentoon Studio in Snake girl May 16, 2016

It reminds me of some old tarot cards illustrations. My grandma used to have one of those decks at her house. I remember spending hours just looking at those scenes. Congrats man, super cool!