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Ash Eldritch

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  1. Me too, Rodrigo, the concept process is interesting but rarely seen. This is part of a children's book I've written. So It's one page, of approximately thirty illustrated pages, I'm currently working on. I'm not on any Social networks. This forum is about the nearest I dare venture into social media. 😅
  2. Thank you Trent. Very Much appreciated. Not sure if anyone is interested but I thought I might show part of the vector image overlaid on the original concept sketch. Shows how things get invariably moved around once I get a better idea of how things are looking.
  3. To me, Walt, it's the same concern. The individual using an AI app, that has sourced its material without asking permission, is just as bad as the AI corporation. The one is stealing, the other is handling stolen goods. Just my opinion.
  4. Like it. 🤣 Funnily enough I just posted something on the forums but was really torn, whether to or not, for this very reason. It does worry me that anything posted on this site becomes part of a repository for people who can't be bothered to put the effort in and have no qualms about stealing someone else's work.
  5. Thanks, Rodrigo, much appreciated. Agreed, it's awkward when someone wants you to work with tools you're not comfortable with. Saps the creative flow. Thankfully, for me, Affinity has all my bases covered.
  6. In a recent discussion, within the forum, about Affinity Designer vs Illustrator, I was asked what I’m able to achieve using AD that I wasn’t able to do using AI. This has nothing to do with what each app is capable of it’s purely the way I’ve gelled with AD. I personally always found AI frustrating and usually ended up exporting my line work to AP and finishing off illustrations in that. I’ve never been a fan of using raster art with its many restrictions. So when I discovered AD and found I was able to do all my illustrating in the one app I was overjoyed. So anyway, now that I’ve bored everyone silly, here’s an example of my AD work with an additional enlarged section. Please excuse the watermarks and lack of the entire image. This is still a work in progress, one page, of about 30, from a book I’m doing. So I don’t want to give everything away and I’m somewhat concerned about all this AI art indexing, or theft as I prefer to call it. This is 100% vector. No brushes or raster elements used.
  7. I wasn't singling you out, quite the opposite. I was merely making the point that you can't make a blanket statement that AD is Inferior to AI because to people like myself it's not. There are a multitude of drawing styles that don't require the use of brushes. To you it may be inferior due to your requirements. My requirements make it superior. So unless you're the arbiter of all things vector I'll stand by original comment. For the tutorials I probably should have added the caveat "Unless they're official" tutorials. As for bugs, I can't really think of a program I've used that hasn't had bugs. I'm not exactly enamoured with them either but I obviously take a different approach to you. I'd rather help get rid of them so I can get on with my work in the way I want rather than having to find workarounds or switch applications. @GarryP All that aside, In my very early days I remember using the Letraset sheets to create amendments to negatives. Predominantly, I think, because the film sheets and process used to create complete negatives was so expensive.
  8. @bnd.lettering Brushes are not something I use so, again, your needs. lol I've tried brushes a few times over the years, in various vector apps, but never taken to them. I don't think they add anything to "my" illustrations, in fact I've always thought they add a certain look that I don't want. To each their own. It's finding the medium and tools that work best for you as an individual. It's why I never follow tutorials, I don't want someone else's style or bad habits. I'm sure I've got enough of my own. And therein lies the key to why I'm able to produce a quality of work in AD that I was never able to achieve in AI. It's nothing to do with what the apps can or can't do it's more the way they do it and how the tools work. I just could never gel with AI. So much so I'd get frustrated and end up exporting basic AI Linework to Photoshop and finish it off there. That annoyed me as I never really liked the look and restrictions of raster art. Now I'm able to do my illustrations 100% vector and I'm exceedingly happy with the results. As for bugs... I use Mac OS so I'm used to bugs. At least with AD it's easy to report them and most of the ones I've encountered and reported are now fixed.
  9. @bnd.lettering I think what you mean is AD still has a long way to go, if it wants to compete with Adobe Illustrator, for your needs. Because for my needs I find AD far superior to AI as I've (no pun intended) found an affinity with it that has allowed me to produce work on a level way way above anything I was ever able to do with AI. That aside, nice work. I've always had a thing for Typography but it's not something I've ever been good at, so I'd rather admire from afar. lol
  10. Very Nice. I fondly remember the days I had with desktop customisation on Mac OS'. And it was so easy and with so much you could change. But these days I find the Mac OS too closed off, fragile and buggy to mess around with, which is a shame.
  11. Just to say the highlighting of the correct selected item is still an issue in the latest update/s.
  12. @lepr @GarryP @NotMyFault I apologise if you think my post was potentially offensive. Unlike yourselves I mistakenly took the OP’s statement he wants to make a tutorial on this in the future, and his footnote "Author of the Youtube channel Enea Creative Design, for design tutorials.", to imply he wanted to make a tutorial. I love Designer. I came from Illustrator and found Designer better suits the way I work and allows me to be far more creative than Illustrator ever did. However had I come to Designer and followed one of the many available convoluted tutorials, professing to impart knowledge, who's to say I wouldn't have mistakenly taken Designer to be overly complicated and left it well alone. I'd hate to think a future prospective creator would be put off using Designer after following misguided tutorials. And I certainly see demo users, on here, sharing their work stating they're following various Youtube tutorials. Either way it's not something I'm ever going to change and this gripe wasn't aimed at anyone in particular, just my grouchy opinion of the tutorial culture.
  13. If that's the case, Garry, it wouldn't be a "Tutorial". A tutorial, by definition, is a "How to" not a "You might want to try".
  14. Everyone does indeed deserve their chance to practice and totally should. It's the point where they decide they're qualified to show others how best to do it that baffles me with some of them. And believe me, I certainly don't use Youtube for expert knowledge... except that which comes directly from Serif. But it's being subscribed and viewing Serif's video's that then makes Youtube's algorithm think I want an abundance of tutorials. Personally I don't watch any other creators videos as I have worked out my own style and way of doing things with Designer. And I certainly wouldn't deem myself in a position of tutoring others.
  15. I think this thread highlights something that's always baffled me. The amount of people who want to create tutorials without knowing how to use the app to its full potential themselves. They're very willing to misdirect others and send them down a convoluted rabbit hole, portraying the app as overly complicated. A 7 minute tutorial to do something that should take less than a minute proves the point. Not having a go at anyone or intending to be rude. I'm just grouchy because I spent ages again, this morning, wading through copious amounts of tutorials, in Youtube's suggested videos, by people who'd do better spending their time doing some learning themselves.
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