MattLanham

Photo and Designer are the closest thing I've seen to PS and AI, followed close (in PS case, at least in certain areas) by PSP. In vectors,  I certainly liked too Xara and Corel Draw (even Inkscape). For my pro uses, definitely Photo and Designer are really good. I recon I combine Affinity with other ones, and plan to do it even more, with other apps.  I thought long ago I'd go for the "one ring to bring them all" concept, in software, but more and more am getting to use multiple UIs in a same project. Done always so, but seems it is quite practical with the present situation. Probably as in my profile as a game artist (is one of them, I don't speak from that perspective only, as indeed late years I am more of an illustrator, graphic designer and image editor) any pro needs to use more and more different software applications combined, and increasingly complex workflows (ZB, PBR stuff, shaders, high end rendering, compositing, etc), that my brain is adapting to the apps combos concept even more  than it always did. So, is not so terrible when I need a specific feature which is not in a specific application. Thankfully, there are very good low cost and mid cost tools being exceptional in particular matters where I see a lack in a main tool . My main raster tool is lately Clip Studio Paint, but I have used tons of applications, very heavily in all my professional life, and before as a hobbyist. I agree with those thinking Affinity line can do well, despite the issues, as it is often possible to find a work around, or use several tools combined.
I wouldn't agree tho in that PS or AI are crap. They are extremely good, but they have become ( * very * ) badly optimized in performance (well specially PS, not particularly AI, but yep also After Effects and some other from the CC ), and there's no solid reason for this, as even a PS CS 5.5 was extremely faster for the same tasks. The brush engine of CC 2018 is actually really good, and finally adds line smoothing (curious timing, it was recent the addition in A. Photo)   so, I would neither agree about PS and Adobe in general not improving lately. It ALWAYS improves, but certainly not in performance, while CSP rocks largely in performance, and in my tests, A. Photo is quite lighter than current PS, and that means a lot to me. What definitely  leaves CC out for me is the subscription system, and not only for the money. I'm ready to fight any obstacle instead of going CC (done so with way poorer open source tools, when not just pre alphas, and done full commercial projects with those, so....).  The hardware issues can be solved by purchasing the best possible hardware, but I am afraid not of the given point and situation in time (same fear with possible subscription fees increases...), but about the dynamic of things. If  its gonna go this route, always requiring the best machine in the market for what before was doable fast with a low end one, a 5 years old machine, then the trick will do for some months after you purchase a new brand machine, you will need to update way too soon your hardware, months later, so is yet another cost added, and not a small one, not very cost effective for any business or personal/freelance usage.  The sensible route is Affinity (it would be some of the alternatives per app if Affinity had not been created: I like some of the other ones, too...  I just prefer Affinity's take (and completeness) at it, and the Serif's company style, in general. IMO, not providing at least a purchase option in CC "might" have not been a globally popular solution. At least for a large percentage. The bad performance in hardware of latest CC versions can end up finishing that job....

I know this because when someone is crying that Affinity Photo is not even close to Photoshop, it's clear that they don't even know the software. To me it's like they jumped into a trial version for 30 minutes, didn't find their favorite tool in the right place and felt like the software is too far from Photoshop. I'm using this as an example because I've seen many posts on the froums from people asking how to do this and how to do that, while all of it is laying right in front of them just with different names. So they got used to Photoshop so much that they don't even understand that two differently named tools are doing the same job. They don't want to find a way around their workflow that they've been doing for years in the same software, so it leads them to saying that Photo or Designer is too far from Adobe's products.
By the way, the thing about the pen tool was just an exaggerated example to push the point.

Here is a map for a paragliding take-off

Love those really soft tones mixed with the really strong tattoo work.

Trying to learn and get used to this.. I’m not really an artist, but more like a crafts man.. but love to draw acanthus scrolls :-) 
 
Some months ago I was drawing some scrollwork for a skull project in Procreate, and today I was learning a little more about masking.. so I combined these in affinity photo on the iPad Pro :-) 
hope it’s not too bad!
 

texture sketch 
to be continued...
 
 
 
and some details during the sketching ,
it's beautiful .
 
 

First time posting here! I've been using AD for almost a year, and it's now my go-to for pretty much all of my graphic work. 
Here's a piece I recently whipped up that's part of a sci-fi series I'm working on. Obviously, it's inspired by old propaganda posters. That, and a heavy dose of Ray Bradbury.