Codename Capri

Made a template for a cd label.
Just wondered if someone else can use it. So grab this and save you some minutes  ^_^
Simply place your images under the template layer but don't forget to disable the template when exporting!
 
Including:
Document with 300dpi 120mm x 120mm circle edge 22mm hole Black passepartout  
Carpe diem!
 
 
CD_Label_120mm-22mm.afdesign

Made a template for a cd label.
Just wondered if someone else can use it. So grab this and save you some minutes  ^_^
Simply place your images under the template layer but don't forget to disable the template when exporting!
 
Including:
Document with 300dpi 120mm x 120mm circle edge 22mm hole Black passepartout  
Carpe diem!
 
 
CD_Label_120mm-22mm.afdesign

Made a template for a cd label.
Just wondered if someone else can use it. So grab this and save you some minutes  ^_^
Simply place your images under the template layer but don't forget to disable the template when exporting!
 
Including:
Document with 300dpi 120mm x 120mm circle edge 22mm hole Black passepartout  
Carpe diem!
 
 
CD_Label_120mm-22mm.afdesign

Made a template for a cd label.
Just wondered if someone else can use it. So grab this and save you some minutes  ^_^
Simply place your images under the template layer but don't forget to disable the template when exporting!
 
Including:
Document with 300dpi 120mm x 120mm circle edge 22mm hole Black passepartout  
Carpe diem!
 
 
CD_Label_120mm-22mm.afdesign

“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.

Hello everyone,
 
This is my first real image made in AD.
The classic optical illusion thingy :)
 
Cheers

So, I created this owl as part of one of recent class lectures update on compound shapes. I had a "hoot" while creating him in AD!
 

Have a good time with your beloved ones!

Have a good time with your beloved ones!

Have a good time with your beloved ones!

This is my fist post... not sure how to make the images smaller. hope it works out.
 
Any way, this is my first experience with Affinity Designer.
I'd like to share with you!
 
 
Jake Zhang
website: jakeanime.com
instagram: instagram.com/jakeweirdpower

and remember this: that too many decorations, will give you tinsilitis :D

A true classic! Nice illustration @Codename Capri.
Merry Christmas  :)

well done

That sounds good and can't wait for the "perspective transformations".
Thank you…!

Have a good time with your beloved ones!

supervolting,
 
I agree with you, Inkscape is a very powerful vector program but the original poster needs something user-friendly and easy to use, that isn't Inkscape. Inkscape's user-interface is horrible. Sure it is powerful but just not  user-friendly at all. Affinity Design has, in my opinion, a relatively easy learning curve. I think it is more intuitive in many areas than Illustrator. While Inkscape is free, I would gladly pay for a program that had a better user-interface (and it is well worth it). Affinity Designer is powerful and yet it won't break the bank so there is no reason not to use it to learn more about drawing and using vectors.

Cheers!!
 
As promised, here's another critter created solely in Affinity Designer.  Had to put in a colour background as the white clouds werena showing up. Hope you guys like it! 

Nice work on the eyes with the reflections. 
Seems you already know your way around Affinity!
Looking forward for more :)

Nice Intro for the course. And the sound of your voice isn't annoying at all!
Good luck with it.

Hi folks,
 
this is my first tiny project in a vector environment, especially in AD.
Please feel free to comment and criticize!
 
Thanks  :)
 
 

Hi folks,
 
this is my first tiny project in a vector environment, especially in AD.
Please feel free to comment and criticize!
 
Thanks  :)
 
 

Good morning everyone!  It is Tuesday and I have another video tutorial for you!  Since so many of you asked for it I decided I needed to show you how to do it yourself. Today, I will be sharing with you my technique for creating your very own smoke brush.  Also I have a big announcement that I am super excited about. Make sure you watch the video all the way until the end! I have thought about doing this for along time and I hope these videos help!
 
I would love to see how you use the information I give you in your own work! Please post your work in this thread so I can see how my videos have helped you!
 
Thank you all for your really inspiring comments, works and Ideas!  Those of you who have taken the time to reached out to me I like to say thankyou, I really appreciate your kind words and support it proves to me that it worth it!
 
Click here  to view the course 
 


Smoke brush 3 demo.afbrushes.zip

Thank you. That makes me feel to learn and train even more ^__^ 

Hi folks,
 
this is my first tiny project in a vector environment, especially in AD.
Please feel free to comment and criticize!
 
Thanks  :)