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Sunset

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  1. I'm pleased with this, not because it's perfect, but because I've achieved it. It's loosely based on a photograph I took at Formby Beach on 21st June this year, I'd always wanted to see the sun set on the longest day and it was well worth the trek. I've used rectangles with linear fills and conical fills for the background (one on top of the other) and a solid dark red rectangle for the foreground, then built up the picture with lots and lots of brushes. My next step might be to create some texture styles - but not tonight :)
  2. Yes, the brush is nicely used to give him a warm coat for winter and a very snazzy hat - I like it all very much, just thinking that the panda is a undecided :) Cheers :D
  3. Sunset

    Owl Eyes

    It's 100% genuine Affinity Design :) The only difficulty I found was that I could do the pencil work on the left sharper than I could do the pencil work on the right :)
  4. Perfection is a wonderful thing if you are in possession of a 36 hour day :) I like this guy and the background, I would like to be as proficient, too, (cue the 36 hour day). I've had a look at the download, I'm going to find that very helpful.
  5. Sunset is just my user name but I've been using it for so long it's stuck :) Thank you for noticing my avatar, I always make sure it has a suitable background :D :D and more of this style - yay!
  6. My kinda style, mixing it up, love the result :)
  7. The gradients on the leaves work really nicely, he has a good expression, too :)
  8. This was just an exercise in making a slightly 3D slightly transparent disc, discovering more about the FX, moving layers around (sometimes they become sublayers, I seem to have difficulty when reordering layers with the trackpad, but easier with the Intuos; I suspect it's as much a 'me and my Mac' thing as any other reason, at the moment), and lots of different ways of using the pencil and the brushes. But I do like to come up with a finished object, so here is Owl Eyes :)
  9. Nice (as in precise) work here, something I aspire too but I don't have the patience at the moment, so I appreciate your work all the more. You eliminate the detail and keep the identity. It will be nice to see what you do next :)
  10. Your first designs are fab, you have a nice style, I look forward to seeing what you do next :)
  11. I have enjoyed looking at your chart, and seeing how you work. Your designs for this project make me feel calm and contented :)
  12. I like the original dragon in its greens and yellows, the shading is nice as it gives it a nice gentle 3d effect, especially on his arms. I think you will refine your shadows and shading as you work and it's important that you keep your own style whilst learning all these new techniques. :)
  13. Enjoying the brushes and the 'inside target', loving the seamless way everything works in Affinity, the brushes, this 'flower' is not perfect, it's just learning and practice and trying things out, but I like the result and I like, even more, how easy it is to fine tune those brushes and the ease of using zillions of strokes and the program just thinks it's an amble in the sunshine to do it.
  14. Thanks Dave, I think you're on the right track :) and MEB, too, I left the Mac (it still doesn't feel quite like 'home' yet) and reverted to my Windows and large monitor where I just found the video you mentioned, and that helped a lot, too, in the general understanding. :) Thanks, guys. My Mac has an appointment at the apple shop in an hour's time, although the upgrade seems to have settled down a bit, it still has its moments :(
  15. Finally, after upgrading to Yosemite, my Mac seems to have settled down, but I wonder if Yosemite is the cause of this issue: I did have a page with two black cats on it. I only wanted to upload one black cat. Sensibly I made a copy of the page, with a completely different file name, before trying to export. I have tried every known way, over the weekend, of catching just one black cat and exporting it - file menu, personas, jpegs, pngs, marquees and every variation thereof, but it always exports the full page with both black cats. And, whilst I can revert to a previous copy of my black cats, the sensibly saved copy with the different file name appears to have disappeared - or maybe instead of exporting as a jpeg it converted to a jpeg? The strange thing is that I didn't have this problem with the betas and I'm wondering whether I'm just missing the obvious or whether Yosemite is still trying to scupper my efforts?
  16. Just an update, really, life rarely goes according to plan and I couldn't give the beta as much time as I wanted, But the break was good as, when I came back, Affinity Design suddenly felt like an old friend. Then along came Yosemite, I was one of the unlucky ones and this Mac has an appointment with Apple on Monday, it's hit and miss whether I can log in and I have to log in by using the first letter of my user name, enter, then my password. It works 50/50 and effectively that's meant a whole week when I'd cleared my 'desk' but couldn't log in to my Mac! But I've spent a couple of hours on here tonight and it just gets better and better, really getting to grips with the brushes and making mountain landscapes. I don't know how you managed to make the learning curve so easy (after a flirtation with Photoshop Essentials a while ago I never liked the idea of Adobe Illustrator), but I'm glad you did.
  17. Done it, I'd tried dragging it and wasn't getting anywhere but, knowing I was on the right track, I looked at the settings cog and it said "move to trash" - job done. So looking forward to this - and hubby is just finishing turning a spare room into a designing den for me as there just hasn't been enough room for a Mac in my "office". Can't wait to really get into this :) Congratulation are in order for the work you've all done and your well deserved successes on the launch :)
  18. My knowledge of my Mac is minimal (not helped by being busy at the moment). Try as I might, I can't fathom how to remove 1.0.18306 from my system before purchasing. Can you help, please?
  19. So that's why I couldn't (easily) get the effect I wanted on an earlier project! Thanks :)
  20. He is really neat - doesn't look pixelated to me, I like the shading. The balloon didn't bother me, I saw it as an accessory to the main picture and a feature of your particular style?
  21. Exported the drawing as a slice from the A4 preset page size, that was exported by default as a .png. Opened it as a new drawing and added a white rectangle on a new background layer then saved as a new document, to preserve the effects of transparency that I had added to the brush strokes. Not perfect, but I am getting to the particular style that I've wanted to use since long before home computers were dreamt of :) Girl Sleeping.afdesign
  22. Yes, it was the transparency that I had applied to some of the brushes, I am fighting my way round the Mac at the same time, which sometimes doesn't help :) Ash's answer in the other thread to use the Persona and Slice did exactly what I wanted - I shall now use my sketch in another Serif program :) Thankyou for your help :)
  23. That is interesting, it looked all wrong when I opened it in the Mac Viewer, but it is perfect when attached to an email.
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