Simon Steele

I just want to say : I love you, guys !
Every day, I congratulate myself for leaving Illustrator. Mixing vectors, effects and color adjustment layers is really a must have. Having in the same app Illustrator and Photoshop is an incredible gain of time. And the result is really better !
 
Thanks.

Hi there,
 
I was wondering if it is possible to setup multiple artboards, and have some for print (CMYK and inches) and some for screen (RGB and pixels)
 
Thanks
 

I'm baaaa-aaack... :)
 
I'm getting stuff together for a June 1 debut date for my webcomic: Afterwards. I knew I wanted a true logo, not just some spiffed-up word in a display font. So I hand-drew the logo in Manga Studio, using some lettering/calligraphic brushes I picked up along the way and then imported it into Affinity Designer for that vector touching (which is surprisingly legal in most US states.) . Anyway... 
 
I had set up some goals for this logo:
 
It had to look hand drawn. I wanted that hand-crafted look to reflect the conditions of the story (more on that later...).  It had to be legible at small sizes and the counters ("holes" in the letters -- a, o, e, etc) had to be large enough not to bleed when printed or reduced. Clean design and strong movement. Meaning not many (if any at all) fiddly bits.  Be simple enough to be printed in black, white, or spot color without any gradients or such, but still be able to deal with them if needed.  (I believe that if a logo depends on being a specific color, it fails at being a good logo.) I think I did okay on those three conditions. One thing that I noticed is that from left to right, the design is a bit cramped and chaotic and gets more "orderly" as we go rightward. Which is a pretty good summary of the history of the world in this story. The story is a post-apocalyptic one, without Zombies, etc. In fact nobody, at the start of the story, knows exactly what really happened to end the world some 200 years earlier. And, yes, that's a plot point. ;)
 
So attached is the logo, let me know what y'all think of it. Good, Bad, indifferent. First one to type "TL:DR" will be among the initial group of people against the wall when the revolution comes.
 
Oh, forgot to mention, the grey block in the upper right is the original Manga Studio sketch I based this AD design on.

I would love it if you would create a Video Editing Software like premier (but better obviously) As a college student I have two choices pay the expensive price of £16 a month for Adobe's okay software or get it offline illegally and unsafe. I have already Purchased Affinity Photo, am about to Purchase Affinity Designer but would absolutely love it if there was a affinity video editor for my media. I know this might not be your kinda thing but it would be so great and I know so many people would rather use this than adobe. You're ahead of them, keep it up.

Hi all,
 
First time sharing some work done with Designer.  WSome album art with artist Melody Rose, not the direction we are going to go in..but i kinda dig it wanted to share and welcome feedback.
 
Cheers!
 

Hi all,
 
First time sharing some work done with Designer.  WSome album art with artist Melody Rose, not the direction we are going to go in..but i kinda dig it wanted to share and welcome feedback.
 
Cheers!
 

Hi all,
 
First time sharing some work done with Designer.  WSome album art with artist Melody Rose, not the direction we are going to go in..but i kinda dig it wanted to share and welcome feedback.
 
Cheers!