AffinityJules

I haven’t been on the forum for a while… These are a couple of recent works. They are from a novel that grew from the ten years I lived and worked on First Nations reserves in the north of Manitoba and Ontario. The floral mandala is from beading in the Swampy Cree culture. The texture in the lettering is a photo of tanned moose hide. The figure is a character from the novel… a shape-shifting shaman called Agak (Raven in Ojibway). The picture without type is an imagined representation of the Wendigo from Cree, Saulteaux, and Ojibway cultures.  Hope all here have survived Covid and are faring well… 

A fairly quick one. The best reference was still rather blurry but I quite like the outcome.

Monster Meadow I
Explored the new toolkits
1500 x 500mm 300dpi AD
Vector
 

I look at your pictures and find myself - as usual - speechles. Then I look at the wire frame and my dumbfoundedness is taken to another level.
Are you sure you're not an alien artist from another planet? 😉

I look at your pictures and find myself - as usual - speechles. Then I look at the wire frame and my dumbfoundedness is taken to another level.
Are you sure you're not an alien artist from another planet? 😉

I fancied drawing a camera and decided on this one. The lens reflections were a bit boring on the reference so I used ones from a different photo where I didn't like the camera body. But between the two it looks OK.

Hey guys I'm a Graphic Designer and Synthwave music producer. I make my own album artworks and I want to share with you my last cover design process in Affinity Photo.
Thanks Serif team for the amazing software.
Cheers!
 

A Stand of Trees
Experiment with new Vector Tree Toolkit
All Vector 1500 x 600mm 300dpi
Created partly from New Tree Toolkit containing 6 vector tree assembled elements and textures as part of the Untamed Project
 
 
 

1. Layers tab/choose rasterise from the drop down list.
Or
2. Right click mouse/select rasterise.

That's because you're using an image file.
Rasterise the layer to turn it into a pixel layer then all will be fine.

A (recolour) tribute to the amazing Liz Fraser. 1930-2018.
 

Hi,
I have been designing new 'Nature' brushes in Affinity Photo so that I can create nature scenes, micro worlds and greeting card designs. Its only a 'rough'; needs a bit of work...
I have been using Affinity Photo for a while now - ever since Adobe decided that they were going to force their users to 'RENT' their software and that they are no longer interested in lowly individual designers, they are only interested in large corporate accounts.
So I switched to Affinity Photo/Designer. And I am SO GLAD that I did. They are awesome!
I also have been using CorelDraw and Corel Painter for many years (longer than I used Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign). I started using CorelDraw with version 5, and Painter when it was owned by Fractal Design, also version 5. I can remember opening CorelDraw when I first purchased it and just staring at all the tools and the blank page. Previously I had only used Word. I tried to type something. Nothing. So I closed it. I kept opening it up and just looking in awe at the tools, then finally I read some of the manual, checked out the Help files and figured it out. This started my interest in digital design. Later, I became a Graphic Designer and worked for nearly 20 years at Deutsche Bank doing cover design, Powerpoint template design, redrawing logos and maps, animation and so much more. There is a whole hidden industry of design, 'Presentation Design' and 'Presentation Specialist' jobs and you can get into this market if you use Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Its a great place to start your design career. Not only London, but all over the globe - Sydney, Australia, New York, Paris, Frankfurt... anywhere large corporations have a 'Presentations' department. Check out the job opportunities by typing 'Presentations Design' in Google. Create a portfolio. And if your portfolio is good, they will train you.
I usually use Painter to create my greetings cards and have hundreds of Painter brushes - gold, jewels, silver, glass, diamonds, pearls, satins and silk brushes, and, of course, hundreds of 'Nature' brushes. This is the first one I have done using Affinity Photo. It has taken me a long time to create all the brushes of stones, rocks, rock faces, trees, lichen, toadstools, twisted branches, moss, ferns and to adjust the brush settings just to begin painting with them.
Hope you like it...
Del

Hope you like it...

A pixelated face pointing a gun is quite a disconcerting image.

Background removal can be a blessing once in a while, but most of the time it makes you work very hard, wasting your time to get not so good result. Invest some time to learn the Pen Tool to select and mask your subject. It does not take long to master and you will not go back to anything else.

This started out as a peaceful scene in the long grass, but then my imagination interfered and took over.
And thanks to Salvador for the soft watch idea.

I knew that I wanted a pentangle included in this picture, so apart from all other pictures sourced at unsplash, the pentangle is mine/mine/mine. I was determined not to go trawling through the internet looking for an easy life in choosing other people's graphics - free or otherwise. So, by using shapes - and my tired brain, I was able to manufacture the pentangle to how I wanted it to look. After many crashes when using the Perspective tool (my computer hates it and always freezes and crashes when it's used) I emerged from my deficient computer's sulky, inadequate gloom, and had myself a customised graphic.
Time to invest in an actual faster computer I think.
 

I can't leave it alone!
Another story based picture.

It certainly has dynamism.
Excellent painting.

Ref: Thomas-Moran - Castle North Berwick Scotland

I knew that I wanted a pentangle included in this picture, so apart from all other pictures sourced at unsplash, the pentangle is mine/mine/mine. I was determined not to go trawling through the internet looking for an easy life in choosing other people's graphics - free or otherwise. So, by using shapes - and my tired brain, I was able to manufacture the pentangle to how I wanted it to look. After many crashes when using the Perspective tool (my computer hates it and always freezes and crashes when it's used) I emerged from my deficient computer's sulky, inadequate gloom, and had myself a customised graphic.
Time to invest in an actual faster computer I think.
 

I can't leave it alone!
Another story based picture.