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DelN

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  1. Have been working on a few images over the last few days using the 'Nature' and 'Atmosphere' brushes that I created for Affinity Photo again, which you can download for free, also a step-by-step instruction in MS Word on how I created my brushes, with screengrabs, for you to follow, also images of each brush stroke/brush name... 🙂 I have been fascinated with the photobashing technique for many years (although I wasn't aware until recently that it had a name). I used a similar technique when I worked as a graphic designer in London for 20 years. Check out the work of one of my favourite concept artists, Ryan Church, concept artist, illustrator and designer in the film industry. http://ryanchurch.com/ Others are Shaddy Safadi, Feng Zhu, Noah Bradley, Tyler Edlin, James Paick, Jordan Grimmer, Darek Zabrocki, Gilles Beloeil, Neil Blevins, Tuomas Korpi, Jorge Jacinto and so many others. Also check out https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists and learn about artists/illustrators of the past: Kay Nielsen, Arthur Rackham, Beatrix Potter, Gustave Doré, Walter Crane, Adrienne Segur, Aubrey Beardsley and so many others... Check out too 'Becoming a Concept Artist for a Hollywood Film' https://www.clipstudio.net/how-to-draw/archives/155681 A good concept artist working in the film industry or the gaming industry can easily make USD400k pa, so hone your Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer skills, gather your best work into an online portfolio and focus on your future in design/illustration. They are fabulous tools for any illustrator/designer - and they are affordable too! You could become a concept artist working in the film industry or doing book design cover illustration, advertising, cartoons, comics and graphic novels illustration, children's book illustration, or work as a concept artist/illustrator in the gaming industry. Or you could be the next Walt Disney... Work in an industry you will enjoy...
  2. Hi, It has taken a while to create these Atmosphere, Dust & Smoke brushes. There are a few mad brushes thrown in, such as the Pink Glitter Motes, but I think they look great and had atmosphere when used in a wood or forest environment. I use them all the time.. You can change the look of the brush dabs/strokes in the Layers panel. Hope you like them. I'd love to see the stuff you create using them. I enjoy seeing other people's creative work. DelN's Free Brushes Pt3_Atmosphere Dust & Smoke Brushes.afbrushes DelN's Free Brushes Pt4_Atmosphere Dust & Smoke Brushes.afbrushes
  3. Yes. I am still working on some of them. And I have to finish the images of the brush strokes and brush names. But yes, I'll upload them either later today or tomorrow...
  4. I have been working on some free 'Atmosphere, Smoke & Fog' brushes over the last two days. Thought I would upload them here so you guys can download them. I may have to split them again cos the file size is large. I keep the images large so that, like me, if you work in 300dpi for print, the brush strokes won't pixelate. If you work in a lower resolution, you can simply reduce the size of the brush. This is an image I created using the 'Atmosphere, Smoke & Fog' brushes along with the 'Nature' brushes.
  5. Yes, I read some Lovecraft in my youth, but not as much as you, it seems. I will have to revisit his writings. I found him fascinating and disturbing when I was a teenager. And, yes, I will of course post some more brushes, but at the moment I haven't named them, which I will need to do, and select the better brushes (there are so many and I don't want to make the file size too large this time). I am still working on some 'Grass' brushes from images I took a few days ago. I got quite carried away with it yesterday because although my selection of the individual blades of grass wasn't so good (as it was only a 'tester' brush), the brush I made was actually better for it, which got me thinking about other image brushes I created and how I could create similar version of them with less effort. Also, by selecting one or two of the seamless images I created in Painter, and using them as textures in Affinity Photo, the brushes became ethereal, ghostly, and if I spaced the brush dabs correctly, when I painted with them, the actual brush strokes I thought resembled a kind of organic mist and fog, especially if I painted the brush strokes on different layers. Once I have named the new 'Mist and Fog' brushes and gathered them together, exported them as a brush category and have created and named the individual brush example strokes, I will be posting them in the Affinity forum. I'll also post the 'tester' forest image I created to see what they look like in a scene. Overall, I am really happy with them but there are far too many of them and too many variations, also the 'Grass' brushes that I created from the photos I took came out so good that I kept playing with those instead. At some point I will upload these too. I have already started creating the example 'Mist and Fog' file with brush dab and strokes and the brush names but I have some older brushes to add to it. Well, we're back on track now. Affinity Photo is really amazing, eh? I'll locate and gather some more 'Mist and Fog' brushes and finish the example file and post them up in a few days...
  6. Ha-ha! That's why it has a banknote kind of look. I'll have to check out the Cloud Tool... I didn't know that Piranesi began his architectural sketches from an accident. Really fascinating stuff... I read a great book recently called 'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke, which was quite disturbing, about a guy called Piranesi trapped In the nightmare realm of the artist. I really enjoyed it, and it made me revisit his artwork, which reminds me of a dream world. I've been writing my dreams down and take the locations I find myself in and use them in my writing and my pen & ink illustrations. Time in dreams differs greatly from reality. You can drift off to sleep for a few minutes on waking and the dream can be set over weeks and even months - even though you have only been asleep for a few minutes. I believe dreams are an untapped resource for inspiration and creativity... a bit like the Akashic records... Distance too. You can see across a lake and be looking at a tree in the distance, yet be seeing it close up at the same time, the leaf texture, the veins. Its surreal. And flying dreams... they are amazing! I've been creating smoky, misty brushes in Affinity Photo today. I think they have come out quite good, moody and atmospheric, creepy... believe it or not, made from images of a cliff face! Weird, eh?
  7. Yes, I had realised you applied your patterns to the face of the old man. And yes, it does remind me of Halftoner by Studio 2am, but also of the queen's face on a UK banknote. In the first one, my eye is pulled in to the old man's eye, whereas in the second one, my eye travels to study the left side of his face, at the detail there... Boris Vallejo. Yes, I had forgotten about him. Yes, his artwork is amazing, much like Frazetta. Another artist that inspires me is Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78). 'The Drawbridge' etching from the 'The Imaginary Prisons' series is amazing. I used to find his architectural drawings (nightmares, really) fascinating yet very disturbing. A bit like M.C. Escher illusion art pieces...
  8. Wow! Those faces are amazing... What you describe reminds me a little of the complexity of photography and painting Warhol had to go through to create his final 'portrait' art pieces in the 60s and 70s. They were far from the simple portrait paintings that people assumed them to be. Burne Hogarth's work reminds me a little of the sci-fi and fantasy book cover artist Frank Frazetta. I recommend checking his work out. it's exquisite! His 'Egyptian Queen' sold for $5.4 million! He did the Conan artwork and Tarzan. I bought many sci-fi and fantasy books purely for the cover alone... Ha-ha! And many of them were never as good as the cover either...😃
  9. Hi StuartRc, Thank you so much. I will download them and take a look. I love hearing about the creative process that creative people go through to get their finished product. Do you know of the plant creating software 'PlantFactory' by e-on software? It's truly amazing. Unfortunately, they went the way of Adobe and forced users to rent their software... Del
  10. I love the artwork of Gustave Doré. Arthur Rackham too... and I like Richard Corben's work. I love Giger. I had the book he reased when "Alien' came out with lots of his artwork in. Magical! Do you know the comic books featuring the character RanXerox. Fabulous artwork by Tanino Liberatore. Exciting, but gory.. He looked like Bruce Willis...🙂 'Barbarella' artist Jean-Claude Forrest too...
  11. Hey StuartRc, I love the work you've posted. Your attention to detail is incredible, and your colour palette is fascinating too. Just by your colour palette alone you have created a 'mood' in each of the worlds you have posted. I especially like the 'Mushroom Forest Biome'. You'll be up their with the great concept painters (if you're not already working in that industry already) - Shaddy Safadi, Noah Bradley, Ryan Church, Jordan Grimmer, Darek Zabrocki, Natasha Tan, Rico Cilliers and the others because I can see your dedication. It's something that has fascinated me for a long time, creating worlds from your imagination. You can get so immersed in the creative process that hours go by... Keep creating. Great work! Del
  12. Hi, I have split the free 'Nature' brushes into two, so the file size is not as large (although it is still quite big); it might make downloading the brushes easier. Some of the brushes are not 'Nature' brushes, but kind of surreal. Images of all the brushes including the brush names. I hope you like them. I might post more free Affinity Photo brushes if you guys like them... There's also a step-by-step Word doc on how I created the 'Butterflies' brush, also the 'Moss' brush... DelN DelN's Free Brushes Pt1.afbrushes DelN's Free Brushes Pt2.afbrushes How to Create a Butterfly Brush_Multiple Butterfly Images.docx
  13. Thanks, Dan C. Glad you like them... 😀 I thought that not everyone might be able to afford to buy brushes so I posted some free ones - ones I use myself, also I posted a step-by-step tutorial in MS Word (with screengrabs) on creating an image brush for anyone who wants to learn to create their own. When i started as a graphic designer I used to search for free stuff because I couldn't afford to buy Photoshop AND buy all the extras like KPT Power Tools and all the others. But now there is Affinity Designer... which is affordable - and brilliant! DelN
  14. Been playing around with some of my 'Nature' brushes, and created a 'fantasy' forest... Del
  15. Hi, I have posted some free 'Nature' brushes for Affinity Photo. I also attached a Word file with step-by-step instructions on how I created my image brushes, also how to install them. The link to the post (also to the MS Word file, the Affinity Photo brushes file to download and the example brush strokes/brush names files) is below. Just click on it and it will take you there... I hope you like them. If you use any of them, I'd love to see the work you create. Enjoy!😃 DelN
  16. Hi, As mentioned above, I am attaching the 'step-by-step' guide on how I created my 'Nature' image brushes in Affinity Photo. Its a MS Word document and explains how to create a 'Butterfly' brush in Affinity Photo using multiple images. The process is the same for any image(s) whether butterfly, rock, stones, tree, shrub, moss, lichen. At the end of the tutorial I explain another process to create a 'moss' image brush which uses simple selections that you export individually. There may be other and easier ways to do this, but this is the way I have done it because it is a method I use to create them in Corel Painter. I am not so experienced in Affinity Photo, so I don't yet know where one saves seamless textures that you create to re-use; in Corel Painter, you save them in the 'Patterns' Library. The 'step-by-step' tutorial explains... 1. How to Create a Brush Category 2. How to Remove the Background from an Image 3. How to Save the Butterfly as a .PNG (Transparent Background) Image 4. How to Create a ‘Butterfly’ Brush (Multiple Butterfly Images) 5. How to Duplicate a Brush 6. How to Rename a Brush 7. How to Create a ‘Moss’ Brush using Multiple PNGs ...which are the steps you must take to create your first image brush. You can create an image brush just by selecting a single layer, but you need to convert it to a Pixel layer first. I wanted to explain how to create one by selecting it and extracting it from its background. More complicated, but once you have done it once, you can use the same process to create any image brush. I would advise you to experiment and test out all the different brush settings. To load the brush category in Affinity Photo Save the DelN's Free Brushes.afbrushes file Locate the location where you saved the file Open Affinity Photo Double-click the DelN's Free Brushes.afbrushes file. An 'Import Brushes' message will be displayed 'Brushes Imported Successfully' Click OK Click 'Brushes' tab Locate new DelN's Free Brushes Start using the brushes Please let me know if you found this tutorial useful. I attach the image Moss 01.jpg so you can use the same image. It is an image of moss from Pixaby.com https://pixabay.com/photos/the-green-moss-background-green-the-5357422/ I nabbed the butterfly images from the internet. I also attach several images of the brush strokes and their brush names in my DelN's Free Brushes.afbrushes. Also, if you create anything using the brushes I would love to see it... Enjoy! How to Create a Butterfly Brush_Multiple Butterfly Images.docx DelN's Free Brushes.afbrushes
  17. I haven't used a background image. It's made entirely from the brush strokes and brush dabs of the 'Nature' brushes I have been creating (for weeks and weeks). It takes a lot of time to create them, but I like the result, testing the brush strokes and dabs once I have made them and then creating a scene by painting and dabbing with them. I made all the 'Nature' brushes from images - toadstools, leaves, moss, lichen, rocks, grass, branches, birds, butterflies, bits of broken tree bark. Recently, I have been taking images of lichen on fallen branches. I select the area of an image I think will make an interesting brush dab/stroke, then remove the background and save the individual object/section of an object and export it as a .png (transparent background). Then I import each individual image back into Affinity Photo and create a brush from it. Some brushes I create from several images and create a 'nozzle' and set the brush stroke for this brush at 'random' so that it cycles through all the images I have saved in that brush. I hope this makes sense. The brush settings in Affinity Photo allow you to create amazing variants of the brushes you create, setting the spacing and placement of brush dabs, rotation, twisting brush strokes, nozzles, recolouring the brush dabs and strokes, and using other seamless .jpg images of textures to paint with textured brush dabs. I have created a step-by-step tutorial in MS Word of how I create an image brush. If anyone would find it useful I will upload it here. Let me know. I'll upload a few of the 'Nature' brushes too if anyone would like to try them...
  18. 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...
  19. Hi, I purchased a redemption code for a friend's daughter and we downloaded Affinity Photo on her laptop and I installed it for her. However, she is unable to access her account inside Affinity Photo (Help/My Account). She can log into her account on Affinity online, but cannot access it within Affinity Photo (as I can on my own version of Affinity Photo on my own laptop) and cannot therefore view her assets to download. Can you help solve this problem? Thank you.
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