CartoonMike

What's so impressive to me, is that how the life of the original sketch was carried over to the final work. Really great work in all respects. 

What's so impressive to me, is that how the life of the original sketch was carried over to the final work. Really great work in all respects. 

as a beginner, - I have gone in the deep end  - new to mac, new to any drawing tablet (wacom - christmas present ), new to any design / drawing  package concept. The learning curve is a little daunting - however I have managed to get to the end of the tutorial with the results looking a bit like yours 
Thank you, for the comprehensive explanations and advice, it really was a great tutorial - the best I have found without making it too laborious - and I am looking forward to following part 2 - although as you have fired my imagination, I cannot promise I will not have a go and try to go further .

You could move the bird that's by the "e" in Sometimes and move it between the 't' and 's' in its after adding a bit of space between those two letters. Bingo, you have the apostrophe and still have the bird above the text. 
 
Grammar can be creative. :D
 
Nice pix, btw. Really like the overall shape and the textures of the ground triangle.

Things are never as clear as they may seem to be from the outside... Why were we playing with our iPads? Well, one of the reasons is that when you play with the iPad version which is CPU-starved, you find bottlenecks very easily and I have now been able to improve the performance of certain layer effects in all versions (i.e. the desktop machine benefits from this) and have set myself some other targets to look at or do differently to speed up all versions of Affinity. There have been precisely zero extra features added to the desktop version and not one unnecessary line of code has changed. The iOS version is a separate target and builds using the shared back-end as-is without modification, so there are no harmful side-effects to stability or bloat.
 
I'd personally like an iPad version - but that's because I can imagine where I'd use it, and also because I've actually been able to use it and I can see that it's actually quite a lot of fun! That said, we wouldn't let it have any negative effects on the desktop version - there's no need and no point :)
 
Want to know what your UI design will look like on an iPad? Well, there's no need to export it or 'mirror' it onto the iPad's screen - just load the file/handoff straight to it and then tap a button to hide the editor UI! Make tweaks to your design on the device itself - it's really liberating! :)

When symbols do arrive, I know they will be worth the wait. Yes, indeedy! 

It's nowhere near ready for public beta. When it is, it will be managed through this forum and the existing Affinity mailing list, so you'll know about it (if you stick around here).

You could move the bird that's by the "e" in Sometimes and move it between the 't' and 's' in its after adding a bit of space between those two letters. Bingo, you have the apostrophe and still have the bird above the text. 
 
Grammar can be creative. :D
 
Nice pix, btw. Really like the overall shape and the textures of the ground triangle.

You could move the bird that's by the "e" in Sometimes and move it between the 't' and 's' in its after adding a bit of space between those two letters. Bingo, you have the apostrophe and still have the bird above the text. 
 
Grammar can be creative. :D
 
Nice pix, btw. Really like the overall shape and the textures of the ground triangle.

And would it be possible to export an AD color palette as an ASE file. Manga Studio can import them and it could be good to have an quick way to share color palettes between apps.

Here is  the custom smoke brush I promised in my Custom Smoke Brush Video.
Free to use as you like. If you create one of your own I would like for you to post it to this thread and share with the rest of the community. Let fill the room with smoke ;)
 
 
Don't know how to make your own? Well watch my free Video Tutorial 
 
 
 
 
Thanks cheers and use responsibly :P 
Smoke brush 3 demo.afbrushes.zip

And that's why freedom of speech (also known as the unrestrained ability to say what you like on the Internet) should be only given to those with the intelligence to use it wisely.
 
The Mac App Store is a real haven for people who want to make totally unqualified and inaccurate statements (along with one star reviews for utterly ridiculous reasons) since we developers have no opportunity to write a response to correct or question what has been said in the user reviews.

I have been using Affinity Designer for a week and am self taught on Inkscape. I love it! 

Using the system wide cmd-tilde, as used by most Mac applications, would be a nice addition.

Here's the eejits Poster I have been working on (on and off). Gonna send off for some proofs and see how they turn out. Using the Pen tool with the Cintiq has been a godsend. I can flip the stylus over to erase the ends of lines where they cross (okay it applies a mask to the object). Brilliant feature, that has helped me no end with this poster and all the creatures crammed together.....!
 
:)
 
George

Another little gem for certain applications where you have to set a gradient angle - and something I found from writing PSD import/export - the angle you specify for your gradient in PShop is not the actual angle that you get.  Try creating a vector rectangle, rotate it to 30 degrees with the free transform, then create another object with a linear gradient at 30 degrees - you will see that the angles are not the same at all.
 

 
So - would you rather have an app that pretends to give you a gradient at an angle, or an app that lets you place your gradient precisely in the context of your document???

You mean actually make the plans affordable for us lowly freelancers and digital artists? What next, dogs and cats living together? Total Chaos!! :P

really nice designs, very solid and good silhouettes. 

@KipV, I don't think (or want to believe) that there's payola going on. But it does seem a bit surprising that all the Adobe news I hear is all about how CC is wonderful and exceeding expectations. It's like Adobe has their own "Reality Distortion Field"... then if the Big A is buying lots of ads and a sponsor for promoted articles, that kind of indicates that the websites do know which side of their canvas is being painted on, so to speak.

Thought I'd share a character or two from a commissioned interactive story I'm working on this month.
Illustrations are created in AD, however I have to complete the slides in Illustrator as I NEED artboards and bleed.

Here's an idea that's been floating around in ye olde brain pan for a while:
 
I've been wanting to do a live stream on Google+ for a while. However, trying to get info on how to use anything Google (other than search) is like breaking a 256-bit encrytion code. Or understanding why Lost fizzled out so badly.
 
So here's my next-to-best answer to that issue:
 
For the next week submit your Affinity Designer Questions here and give me another week to work them out and I'll post a video answering them on Vimeo (or YouTube, if y'all want that). 
 
Guidelines are simple:
 
Focused questions: ask "how to change the color of a shape" instead of "How do I draw a face." "Work-around" questions are okay, for instance, "I do XXX in Illustrator, how do I do it in Affinity Designer?" would be fine. Again, the more specific the question, the more likely it will be answered. One question per post, please. See a question that you'd like answered, just like the post. Please don't repeat the question in an other posting. Keep all questions relevant to Affinity Designer, no religious or political questions, please. Keep your hands inside the ride at all times. Put your tray tables in the upright locked position. Cameras record all activity for your protection. Questions will be "closed" Next Sunday (Jan 11th) and I'll pick the 8 questions that have the most likes and then by the 18th, have a video answering them (as best as I can) up and ready to be viewed. In the case of a tie, I'll pick the ones I find most interesting/useful.  This is a tutorial, not a competition. So, please, no wagering. :D
 
Depending on how this goes (responses, the time it takes to do this, yadda, yadda, yadda) it could be a regular thing. 
 
So put on yer thinking caps and get those neurons going. Ask away...
 
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Update: ...and it's closed. Lots of views, likes and no questions. Well, it was just an idea. 
 
Moving on...working on other AD stuff. :)

@Peter, I've used Illustrator since v.3 (yeh, I know, that dates me.) and if AI 3.x were compared to AD v1, AD would "win" no question. Sure there's things like text on a curve, the magic draw everything button and such that AD doesn't have ... yet. But one thing that gets overlooks is the different (ahem) user interface paradigm of usability between the two apps. Simply put, Illustrator is a swiss army knife and Affinity Designer is a Sonic Screwdriver. I used to think that the pen tool in Illustrator was pure elegance. Now it's old and tarnished compared with the node tool in Affinity Designer. 
(this is me ranting:)
And "Killer Feature" -- there isn't just one, it's the whole friggin' app. From how clipping/masks can be done oh-so-easily by just dragging & dropping a layer, to having pressure sensitive strokes. Saying Affinity Designer has no "killer feature" is nitpickery at its worse. This is like saying that the bark on this one tree is bad and not noticing the forest one is within. 
 
Funny how the 'reviewer' failed to complement Affinity Designer on its Gradient tool or the fact that strokes can have gradients too. But "oh noes" there's no symbols! The horror! That's like saying that Apollo 10 was a failure because it didn't have a lunar landing. It was vital, because it allowed NASA to work out some bugs and procedures that made Apollo 11 a success. Alas, such metaphoric musings are lost on the literal-must-have-it-all-NOW minded. 
 
It's so sad that true enthusiasm about something good is looked at with such a jaundiced eye. Say something nice -- well obviously that person got moola for it. I'm participating in this forum, posted reviews of Affinity Designer and have spent hours working on tutorials about it -- and the only currency I've gotten is some good feels and getting to "know" the good peeps here. And you know what, that's enough. Actually more than enough. It's enriched my life more than it has used. Pretty nifty, thinking about it. That comment about "paid reviewers" says much more about that lost soul than it says about anything else. I'd bet he'd think that eggs must be broken from the small end only. ;)
 
(rant over. I feel better now)
 
What about that iPad teaser video, eh? Neat stuff. :D

And relax...with a certain bottle of ale B)
 
That was one hell of a write up and nearly as fast ad AD itself. So how can an all ears development team, a tight-knitted forum that is really supportive, a decent one off price, 1,000,000 zoom (I never get bored of saying that) or even spending far too much time in this addictive forum; not be described as a killer feature? You tell me. :blink:
 
Goliath has David.
Apple has Samsung.
Adobe has Affinity? Ooh the irony :lol:

@Peter, I've used Illustrator since v.3 (yeh, I know, that dates me.) and if AI 3.x were compared to AD v1, AD would "win" no question. Sure there's things like text on a curve, the magic draw everything button and such that AD doesn't have ... yet. But one thing that gets overlooks is the different (ahem) user interface paradigm of usability between the two apps. Simply put, Illustrator is a swiss army knife and Affinity Designer is a Sonic Screwdriver. I used to think that the pen tool in Illustrator was pure elegance. Now it's old and tarnished compared with the node tool in Affinity Designer. 
(this is me ranting:)
And "Killer Feature" -- there isn't just one, it's the whole friggin' app. From how clipping/masks can be done oh-so-easily by just dragging & dropping a layer, to having pressure sensitive strokes. Saying Affinity Designer has no "killer feature" is nitpickery at its worse. This is like saying that the bark on this one tree is bad and not noticing the forest one is within. 
 
Funny how the 'reviewer' failed to complement Affinity Designer on its Gradient tool or the fact that strokes can have gradients too. But "oh noes" there's no symbols! The horror! That's like saying that Apollo 10 was a failure because it didn't have a lunar landing. It was vital, because it allowed NASA to work out some bugs and procedures that made Apollo 11 a success. Alas, such metaphoric musings are lost on the literal-must-have-it-all-NOW minded. 
 
It's so sad that true enthusiasm about something good is looked at with such a jaundiced eye. Say something nice -- well obviously that person got moola for it. I'm participating in this forum, posted reviews of Affinity Designer and have spent hours working on tutorials about it -- and the only currency I've gotten is some good feels and getting to "know" the good peeps here. And you know what, that's enough. Actually more than enough. It's enriched my life more than it has used. Pretty nifty, thinking about it. That comment about "paid reviewers" says much more about that lost soul than it says about anything else. I'd bet he'd think that eggs must be broken from the small end only. ;)
 
(rant over. I feel better now)
 
What about that iPad teaser video, eh? Neat stuff. :D

One thing that occurred to me while reading this thread, is that there's a whole infrastructure/eco-system built around the Big-A's products. The various "tutorial-mills" won't be covering AD anytime soon, I'm sure."Authorized Instructor", indeed. Just another way to lock down the spread of knowledge of competition by paying off the teachers to ignore "the little guys." And then there's the plug-in makers, whose entire business model is based on the output of Just One Software Company. So I'm sure that there's a huge fanboy base and they don't take lightly any "intrusion" to their space. It must be scary/disheartening to have all that required knowledge and/or entire livelihood intruded on by some upstarts who want to do things differently and approach digital art from the view of the creative user. 
 
It doesn't matter (at least to me) that the reviewer may or may not be an employee of the Big-A or its hanger-ons or users who have invested a small fortune in plug-ins and learning. What matters is that by its mere existence, AD has struck a nerve and are reacting with inaccuracies, half-truths and sins of omission; as they do. For those of us who make use of AD (and like it), the best defense is to let the fanboys rant and not engage, but show off what we can do with AD. Fight immutable opinions with examples without tearing down other apps. They may want to wage war, but let us wage art. :)
 
If  AD v1 is enough to seemingly frighten them, I'm looking forward to see the reaction when AD begins to mature. 
 
Pass the popcorn. Entertainment like this doesn't come often.