Kathrin

Ah the last one impresses me, reminds me on schooltimes - he needs a teethdoctor ;-)
A really cool pose and very well done :-)
 
Lets have alook on the whole eejits family :rolleyes:  

Yes, I love them, are there more creatures for us? I miss my earphones :-)

Ah the last one impresses me, reminds me on schooltimes - he needs a teethdoctor ;-)
A really cool pose and very well done :-)
 
Lets have alook on the whole eejits family :rolleyes:  

Yes, I love them, are there more creatures for us? I miss my earphones :-)

Good Morning :-)
 
I want to share my latest work for a cover of a cooking book.
 
For this I used AD and a little bit of Photoshop (there I have some eCover templates that I dont want to miss ;-)
 
What do you think?
 
Have a nice day!
 
Kathrin
 
 

In this video I show you how I would design a website using Affinity Designer. I explain importance of using the rapid-prototyping technique called wire-framing and use the 960 grid system to layout the structure of a site before diving in to the last design stage of a project.   If you would like  to view the entire layout click this link.   click the link to view the video here http://youtu.be/vp2Aq_imf00
 

Hi dalacv,
I am a student in your course. Please dont stop working on it. I like it. So easy to follow steps, so nice examples.
If I am through, you get an honest review and a hug. Please dont stop! move foreward. Take the reviews as a chance to improve your course :-)
Its a kind of challenge. So dont stop :-)
 
All the best!
 
Kathrin

Hi dalacv,
I am a student in your course. Please dont stop working on it. I like it. So easy to follow steps, so nice examples.
If I am through, you get an honest review and a hug. Please dont stop! move foreward. Take the reviews as a chance to improve your course :-)
Its a kind of challenge. So dont stop :-)
 
All the best!
 
Kathrin

I like this topic too, so nice done and explained! Thanks a lot!

hello, I tested affinity designer, a true wonder with a bright future without a doubt.

Monster.afdesign

Thanks a lot Kathrin!

Sure! Using Layers or Curves (better) you can vary the contrast and so depth.
The only "baked" parameter is light source position.
 
Anyway, I think I've found a model that gives strokes a bit more material look that works for overlapping strokes too.
 

Not perfect but doesn't need any post production.
Will post an article about this as soon as I can.

This discussion is really interesting...
I want to share my approach for raster apps with dabs based engines as Affinity Designer.
 
Oil is a pretty common media that can be emulated quite easily.
When you paint on analog medias there are two levels of textures: the first one is the surface you draw on, the second one is the resultant shape that intersects this surface (in the real world we are talking about 3d surfaces: the shape of your brush and the canvas with its peaks and valleys).
 
Also we should have to consider aspects such as the dilution of the pigment, bristle distribution and relative capillarity (which delivers a pattern itself) etc... But it becomes really hard to manage all these parameters, and the physical model tends to be really complex. On the other side this level of complexity doesn't really give results that justify such an effort (IMHO). 
 
Anyway we can achieve outstanding results only combining few parameters and using the multiple nozzles available in AD.
In the following table for the strokes I've used the nozzle shared in this thread, in the fourth stroke I've added the packed bristles showed in this tutorial.

As you can notice the Flow parameter is the one that manage the pigment quantity we leave on the canvas.
We can use the pressure to manage this distribution within the single stroke. 
In the second column there is a sort of representation of a perpendicular section of our surface that shows how the pigment fills the valleys (which are the darkest areas in the greyscale texture).
 
The coarse look brings an interesting texture, but is reached only using the multiple nozzle approach.
 
At the end the impasto... Personally I don't like this effect so much, it has a sort of late '90 look... :P
The very first releases of ZBrush, DeepPaint and Painter 6 gave a clever solution.
Today Painter seems to feel ashamed of this feature, Zbrush is a 3D sculpting tool and DeepPaint disappeared.
 
The technique suggested by Ronnie is the correct one, but doesn't work so good for overlapping strokes.
The apps mentioned before employed a sort of zbuffer channel to manage the impasto interaction.
 
A workaround could be the USM filter in Photoshop with a large radius  (I'm certain AffinityPhoto will have its respective too) which delivers a subtle effect but affects all strokes.

Finished, on to the next project.

Here is the brushes set.
 
 
The first is the brush of the above pasteldrawing, the others are a try for  painting brushes. Hope you like them.
 
 
EDIT: The brushes did not show color as suppposed, because I used only black & white with pressure. Now the brushes show the correct color.
(the slide hue jitter is set to "0")

Ok I confess, I'm a big fan. I wanted to make a star trek image so I made it so.

I'm glad to know that my simple tutorials can help people that need all the help and information to start working with Affinity.
A quote:
"I just got the program today and I love it but its a bit intimidating at first. Your tutorials are great and helping me out thanks!"
Green Gig

I accept suggestions and tips for my movies. I thank you all in advance.
:D
 
http://youtu.be/3rIkGcfp_ko
 
 
http://youtu.be/U2qHP2wfV8A

Retrograde! I so agree! Everyday I open this app is another day I am not opening an adobe product lol

I am a keyboard junkie too :-) My best Shortcut is Press Alt and move two fingers on the Touchpad up and down to zoom :-) (this I use more often then the cmd +/- )
 
My favorite tipp using AD is creating new shapes by combining differnt shapes to a  cool new one.

Oh Pete, very nice :-) Good work and so clean shadows, I like it very much.
 
Welcome to AD Forum :-)

lots of riders have a mascot/name and number style for using on stickers and marketing material.
It helps to create a memorable identity.

Glad you like it :)

Thanks for the positive comments! Cheers.

Hi Ronnie, I love this sweet birds - so flaushy :-) Thanks for sharing your work with us!

So do I! For some things the Mesh Tool is irreplaceable. MattP is working on it. But it still may take a while... All the team is busy preparing the betas of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, both coming soon.