PierreLR

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

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.

I wanted to create some illustrations for others to colour, which apparently is a thing, so thought I'd start with a floral mandala but I need more practice!
 

Should do a bit more to the flesh but it will do for now.

Did a bit more to it afterwards.

Just because...

I found a photo of this cover, low res and couldn't work out how many colours they had used, so a little artistic license. But thought I'd re-do it and limited the colours to the obvious ones. Drawing all the lettering is always fun.

YouTube and YouTubers live from clicks and views - like almost all “social media”
This often lead to using click-baiting tittles, images, and provocative statements. Exaggerating, negativity, and other propaganda methods help to get more views. 
I initially enjoyed watching tutorials to learn photo editing , but after some time you find out that it’s far too much of the same, and often little actual information buried in emotionalized overblown none sense to stretch runtime and place more ads.
If a video is advertising “best method”, “secret sauce”, “magic trick”, “xyz failure”, “x mistakes to avoid”, “y essential techniques to” you know what is coming.
Never the less, there are some exceptions like DM1 and others who still prioritizing actual content over show.

Just another useless youtube video, nothing new there it's full of them. As everyone except this type knows, emulating natural media isn't the be all and end all to digital art neither is raster a prerequisite. Now if he had called it the best natural media apps then that would be different.

Great. It looks like you could pick it up and play with it.

1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900, the Mille Miglia winner that year with its sister car finishing in second place. My last vector one for this year. 
 

My favourite as a kid with its art deco looks and having the speed record of 126mph. Back then I didn't realise it was one of a quite a few class A4's. Designed by Nigel Gresley and built in 1938 by London & North Eastern Railway in Doncaster.
I'll likely shrink it down a bit so there's more sky above the funnel but have left it like that for now so it's easier to work on and see the details.
The outline's without the background otherwise it looks even more of a mess.

Nothing to say, it is what it is.

Mad Max Fury Road.

Nice!

The BMW 3.0 CSL Alexander Calder art car from 1975, well half of it. My idea of flat, gradients but no blurs.

Just messing around, 3 colours (plus the paper colour). I used the ipad for a change, still not a big fan of the mobile version. The 1989 Batmobile. Might do some more when I'm bored.

Sympetrum flaveolum commonly known as a yellow winged darter.
I started this ages ago and stopped a few times as I got bored with it due to it being so fiddly. I adjusted it a bit to get rid of some ugly flare. Too much effort for what it is but oh well.
The outlines looks like a black mess so I've just shown a section.

Ok, I bought the 16GB 1TB model and paid more but performance wise this is the same machine and will be just as quick for Affinity and very usable.

Plus it's £699 not £600, a pretty big difference. Yes, a mere £200 for the extra 8GB of RAM, the usual Apple ripoff. Even worse as RAM is part of the SOC so costs them nothing or close to. £200 for an extra 256GB extra storage is no better. Don't get me started on how insane +£800 is for 2TB! So more realistically £1100+ for many people. 
I far prefer macos over windows especially for graphic design with things like preview (plus Win10 is just so ugly but then big sur isn't exactly a looker) but the soldered in, glued down, non-expandable, non-serviceable, planned obsolescence way they've gone means this Macbook will likely be my last Apple machine. Either a huge repair bill or a very expensive throw away item if something goes wrong. For example SSD's do die, one of mine did, and that's a new logic board which is just stupid.

What you mean is it will be very usable unless it's not. Not everyone does the same thing complexity or resolution wise so what might be fine for one person might be totally inadequate for the next. That's the trouble when you try and talk for others!

I don't usually mind sharing, mine really are 100% vector, and as you did say please... 
There are some alternate backgrounds that are turned off. If you want the enlarged one at an angle then you need to do that yourself by turning on that background group and then enlarge & rotate the main image together with the shadow group below it.
Porsche_917K.afdesign

You don't see too many realistic people. If that was a poster I'm not sure it would occur to me it was a drawing. Thank you for the source file, it's always interesting to see the inner workings.

I fancied doing something shiny, not too easy but not too complicated either, 2 weeks max, so decided to see if I could get this done. Shame it turned out to be such a horrible movie. There was too much background on the photo I used so I cropped it to something a bit more interesting.
Who needs fancy pants gradient meshes when there’s the pen tool
Sorry about the equally horrible compression.

Thanks. They never look as good as they do at full resolution, this is about 7.5k pixels square reduced to about 2k for here. A tiny part at full res.

I wanted something more than a standard product shot which practically everyone seems to do. They are great for their intended purpose but I don’t find them an interesting subject and they are just too easy. So this was from my folder of things I might want to do sometime.
Subjects that on the face of it seem fairly simple aren’t necessarily less work, this took at least 4 times as long as the Porsche.
Back to the complicated/slow ones now.