Kevin Martin

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The project is finally done. For the past 13 weeks I’ve been working on a gaming magazine while at SAE. The magazine deals with gaming but unlike other magazines where they talk about news and reviews TossUp talks about in-depth gaming information such as what works, what dose not, fail within games, game mechanics and more. The project was made with a  mix of affinity designer, affinity photo and indesign.
 
(This project was made for a uni assessment and is not a real magazine.)
 
If you would like to view the magazine online click here: https://adobe.ly/2Ex6EaF
 
Below are mockups of the magazine.
 

 
 
What do you think of the magazine?
 
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Hey everyone. I've just launched a blog that I'm using to chronicle the development of my graphic novel, Somerton Man. 
 
While I'll be showing some final finished art down the road, the purpose of the blog is to document the creation workflow process. I have a suite of tools I use, that include Photo on both Mac and iPad, and Designer. I also use Concepts, Notes, Scrivener, Sketchup, MakeHuman, Skelly.... well, there's a list. But at the centre are the Affinity suite.
 
I'm inviting anyone interested to drop by and monitor the progress. I've got lots of good things to say about Designer, and a few criticisms, so I'm also open to ways of doing things more efficiently. There's also an FB page - working on getting that to update when the blog does.
 
My project is about using Designer as the central hub for bringing the project together. As such, this is only partly about virtuoso technique, but it's definitely about workflow and thinking out the stages of the book. If that's of interest, I'd love to hear your ideas.
 
Dan, Somerton Man Graphic Novel writer, artist.
 

I love to add stories with my designs..  The daughter of Crystal Frost and Night Wing... Wish i had more time to get into debt and detail. However that is the mind of a storyteller work they pop out of your head and you got to type it out.. 
 
Crystal Frost and Night Wing had a little bundle of joy, a newborn baby girl, they named her Star Shine, they chosen this name, because she was born in the clouds under a starry sky late at night. .. When she was born, she had a birth mark of a star on her right cheek, and she also was born with a cutie mark.. This has never happened in the history of Equestrian.  than again, never was 3 bloods mixed into one.. Dragon, Pony, Bat... 
Crystal afraid what her father might do, gave their daughter to Night Wing to care for and raise on his own, Night Wing Pleads with Crystal to come with him and they could  raise their daughter together.. Tearful  and fearful  of what her father would do to him, to their child, and afraid to the Danger and Destruction he will  put upon Equestria 
''I can't, i have to stay here in the outlands, it is the only way Equestria will be safe... ''  she holds their newborn baby girl, eyes full of water as tears fall on their newborn child, she sobs... Night Wing wraps his wing around her trying to give her comfort..''If you will not come with me and Star Shine we will  stay here with you'' .. Crystal Worried ''NO!  you do not understand , my father does not know about you, and if he sees you around, you will... he will..''. so full of emotion she did not even have the heart to finish the sentence... "Please this is not about you, or me ,'' Feeling that  her father would do harm to their daughter,'' It is about Star Shine, doing what is best for her,''  
Seeing Crystal so full of hurt,, trying to stay as strong for the  both of them, doing the best at keeping control of his emotions  agrees to care for their daughter, alone... "we can always come to visit.'' Crystal Choked up ''Please it's not safe here, you and Star Shine will be in danger.''
Thinking back to an episode, of her young childhood, pony poachers were venturing  in outlands. Looking for some rare creatures, to capture and sell over seas to a wealthy Camel Prince.  Crystal got snagged in one of the poachers traps,  Skyler noticing his daughter gone AGAIN,  went out  looking for his daughter, he sees a camp, with ponies, cages scattered the camp site, he hears the cries coming from his daughter, quickly he swoops down, the Poachers tried to capture the dragon beast, however they ended up being burned alive, Crystal watched in horror as her father destroyed the camp and took the poachers out with flames..
She stays as long as she could with their newborn in her hoofs,  Night Wing staying by her side, Wishing she could  stay with the love of her life and their daughter. Noticing the moon lowering in the night sky, she gets up hands Star Shine to her father, With her  hoof she reaches for her blue ribbon. Unties it from her mane, '' Here, please give it to our daughter,, so that she will remember me,'' he takes the ribbon from her hoof.
She turns and flies back to the ground in the outlands, Tears fills his eyes as he watches Crystal fades into the night sky, and  disappears into the deep treed forest.. 
 

I started her this morning to the end 
Lines
Widen lines
Expand 
Deleting  overlapping  lines
Then color fun.
A name and a Storyline done.. 
Do you think have what it takes to be a story teller and a Cartoon designer ?
 

I've been working on this for a few months and is the most complicated drawing I've done so far. I had thought about doing it before but knew it would be a ton of work, in reality it was about 10 tons, seemed never ending.
 
I decided to just do the front half to better show off the engine but I could re-use much of it if I ever wanted to do the whole car. As before it's just the pen tool, gradients, blurs and blend modes, so anyone could do it.
 
Hope you like.
 
As usual click to open, then click to display full size (although the actual output's a lot, lot larger).
 



 
 
 

Hi,
just as I like this software and need to share some stuff, here are 2 or 3 pictures using stacking (panorama, and stacks) some effects have been applied with Nik Collection (HDR effects) 

Finished this to a satisfactory level. Painted on a budget HP laptop that cost me £350. A3 processor and 8GB RAM. Hat's off to the developers.
Link to WIP: 
 

It's nothing clever and the polygon fad might have passed but it was fun to do.  Most use a very low polygon count and just something like a face but I like to make it more complicated for myself, not necessarily better though. I had already done a version but wasn't happy with it so this is my new attempt.
 
A tip is to duplicate the layer(s) and perhaps add a tiny bit of blur to the background copy. That fills in the minute gaps between the shapes and the output's much nicer.
 
Click on it then click "full size" and it's not so blurry.
 

 

8I just wrote a story today, about how Crystal Frost learned to fly. and i just finished her illustration with the baby bird... hope you like the image and enjoy the read.. some day i hope to be a professional artist and a story teller... o doodle on I pad using sketch club, when it comes to the rest all done on Affinity Design I learned a lot on cool new ways experiment... so easy and my work flow sonic speed.. 

 
 
Crystals dragon Father refuses to teach his daughter to fly, he needs her to stay out of  sight to be safe. Not teaching her to fly keeps her grounded and gives him less to worry about...

While her fathers is away catching their dinner Crystal wanders off into the woods.

The warmth of the sun shining bright, the beautiful new smell of the clean forest, after a lovely small light shower, Crystal walks into the thick forest,, she hears chirping sound coming from a very tall tree, Curious on what it is, she tries to climb the tree, after many falls and a few bruises,  being stubborn refusing to give up. She finally reaches the branch. 

The chirping sound chattery grew loud, coming from a nest. On a think branch on the tree Baby birds. Five baby birds.

Overjoyed and happy to see the creatures. She lays down on the branch to watch the baby birds, being very still and quite hoping not to scare them off.. 

Flap flap flap, the baby birds in excitement  quickly flocked to the bigger bird, the bird open its beak to feed her baby birds, crystals expression quickly changed from a happy smile, to a gross look. Yuck... How can they eat that stuff... However the baby birds seem to like it.. 
She was relieved she was not a baby bird...

The big bird flies off, while the baby birds continue to chatter and chirp.. Worried that the baby birds might fall and get hurt, she stays behind to keep an eye on the baby birds..

Growl, feeling hungry,  she looks around for some food. up above her head she sees a big shiny red apple. She slowly and quietly stand up on her hine hoofs trying not to make a sound, grabs at the apple with her mouth, quickly yet quietly goes back to laying down on the branch..

.Munch, munch munch, crunch, eating her snack. she  looks back at the nest, one two three four...! Where is the fifth baby bird, looking quickly past the nest she finds the missing baby bird on the edge of the branch, tiny wings spread out, chipping happily, bobbing up and down,

Freaking out and not thinking she quickly spings into action to catch the baby bird, only to find herself falling from the tree, afraid she closes her eyes, however  suddenly her wings spread open and she find her self flying in the breeze, and coming to a Crash landing in a  blueberry bush.
Covered in small leaves, broken bush branches, and squished blueberries. She quickly scrambles up, looks in the sky for the baby bird.  Tweet Tweet Tweet that sound familiar.. She quickly turns to see the baby bird perched on the broken bush, eating blue berries with her beak.. still hungry, She joins in eating the blueberries...

Muzzle covered in blue, full and content, she watches the baby bird,

The baby bird lifts his little wings flaps and flies.. Crystal realizing her wings can do the same thing, desides to spend the rest of the day following the baby bird, imitating  the birds wing movements , and in the ends learns to fly 

Excited about what she just learned, she quickly rushes home. the bird perched on a branch watches as she fades off into the deep forest.
just getting back , with his catch in a old cloth,  crystal cries look what i can do.. she spreads out her wings, flaps them and takes to the sky, does a loop, glides, and lands on her rock..

feeling happy and proud at what she achieved.

Seeing his daughter fly for the first time,  he frowns, fearful and angary, he lashed out in anger,   scolds her for wandering off and tells his Daughter never EVER to fly ever again..
tearful  feeling  she did something very wrong she promises never to fly again.

Recent works，It is done in AD and AF.

This is my first work in Affinity Designer.
Didn't expected to enjoy this software this much after only few days of using it.
I call this one "Red Moon"
I hope you'll like it.

Recent works，It is done in AD and AF.

Recent works，It is done in AD and AF.

I rebuilt the box from Affinity's Website from Scratch into a new design. hope you like it.

I rebuilt this invitation from a card I found in the internet. Everything done in Affinity Designer. Ok, I extended the duration of the party a bit, but then again...  

Recent works，It is done in AD and AF.

Recent works，It is done in AD and AF.

This is my second Art Nouveau piece (and probably my last as I'm ready to move on to something else). I based my version on a Henri Privat-Livemore poster from around 1896 or so.
 
As I mentioned in my previous piece, I normally don't use the "effects" in Designer because I normally work only in pure vectors but the effects worked so well with shading on the skin in my last piece that I decided to recreate this piece as well adding my own little touches along the way. I chose this poster because I liked the composition and it had a lot of shading on the skin tones and I wanted to see what I could do with it using Designer's effects. I was very happy with the results. I hope that you enjoy.
 
Thanks for letting me share my picture.
Hokusai

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