[Cartoon style]

"While waiting for my code to compile"

 

I would go see some one about that....sounds painful!

[eejits]

He looks to be food for some of your other eejits?

[iPad graphics tablet]

Thanks Paolo and Jens

 

I was looking at the Cintiq 13D as you suggested, I will have to see if I can go test drive one :) 

I do a lot of sketch work and love pen & ink, but with a mouse I have never been able to translate my style perfectly into a digital platform.

[Rotate canvas]

May be a silly question - I brought in three images to edit and wanted to switch one to landscape. Is there a quick way to rotate the canvas including image without using the doc settings?

[iPad graphics tablet]

Ok I think I have casually requested this but haven't actually added it to the forum.

 

Im looking into a graphics tablet, however I started to look at tablet with a screen, then it sprung to mind that an iPad is way cheeper with (probably) and much better screen and way a better os.

 

Now I don't know if this is possible but could an iPad be used with the addition of an app? (bolt on sale for you chaps here) Live screen action would be fantastic or sketches be send to Affinity designer on completion?

[Christmas Card Series]

A little update on my card design.....The cracker got canned yesterday as he wasn't working for me, Ive built in a popper to cover the idea of the office Christmas/new year party.

[Dribbble accounts]

I have a dribble account no but invites left Im afraid...happy to link up though https://dribbble.com/davidwildish

[Christmas Card Series]

The next one maybe a little more disturbing......Xmas cracker with his guts pouring out ;)

[Retro Smoking Woman - WIP]

Nice work, did you use a pen for this?
I'm right on the edge of getting a graphics pen myself, art like this is selling it to me :)

[Christmas Card Series]

I'm working up a set of silly designs for my "corporate" Christmas cards. 

Just wanted some feedback on it....is it too gruesome for Christmas? would you find it offensive?

[skeuomorphism UI Design]

Very Nice :)

[Sleeping little Dragon]

First ever Vector? Good work, I especially appreciate your neat line work.

[The Hills Have Eyes]

Love the whimsey in this one!

Cheers did you see the original? (link) snarf snarf

[The Hills Have Eyes]

I actually posted this on Twitter earlier today, before realising it looked a tad phallic, was'nt that bad, but once I saw it, I could not unsee it ;) 

 

 

[Laurent Fignon]

Great Work....might have to play with this later

[New Logo Please!]

Well I like the icon :P its works well in flat styling (see Twitter) and fits well with current OSX styling

[Kraken - the oh so fluorescent one]

Looking great, I'm looking forward to seeing the finished piece.

[Alien Invasion]

A question, ¿how do you clone and display the windows of the buildings?... they looks perfectly situated (separation from each other)

 

 

I draw the first shape, drag and copy the second into place (utilising smart/snap too guides), then duplicate the shape (shift cmd d) along until I have made one tidy row.

Then group the first row, drag copy down and duplicate again (shift cmd d) until I have a neat grid.

 

With distort tools this is easier because you can create the grid on a nice easy flat angle then group and warp after....so it was a little more tricky here as I drew it all at skewed angles.

[Alien Invasion]

Thanks, Raskolnikov...possible inspired by Futurama/Simpsons, but Im not admitting anything ;)

[Introduce Yourself]

Hi! I'm Peter. I'm a publisher and I've been designing and setting books and book covers since the 1970s. I produce both print books and ebooks. The first decent vector drawing program I used was Freehand when it was still owned by Macromedia. I never liked Illustrator much. Affinity Designer is by far the best and most intuitive vector graphics program I've come across. If the photo-editing and DTP programs are as good, I might actually be able to escape the horrendous burden of an Adobe CC subscription. Mind you, I think toppling InDesign is a massive task.

 

 

It is a big task indeed, however aside Quark being so behind the times and feature barren, one of the huge things that made InDesign take off, was that it came included in creative Suite as standard - This created a trojan horse effect, thus cutting $1000+ out of each users costs.

 

Also what really did it for Indesign (if my memory is correct) is that it could open Quark docs - Now if Affinity Publisher could replicate that trick with .ind files...that would be one hell of a killer move.

[Alien Invasion]

Cheers Matt  :D

 

I'm very happy with the software, last few bits I had some fun with effects etc this piece is my usual style (minimal effects) made hugely easier with the transparent gradient.

[Baaaaa!]

haha, I did not expect that ;)

[Alien Invasion]

Sunday afternoon illustration...(well and a bit of saturday evening too)

 

 

[Background colour]

Using the rectangle tool on your left hand side, make a shape to fit your canvas, apply your colour using swatches pallet and then lock in place using the layers pallet to prevent accidental shifting.

[Project Cuba - Jacqueline]

cool, what a mesmerising quiff ;)