William Overington

I was looking through some images that I had produced using Affinity Designer and I found this one. It was on pagev 23 of Share your work. I cannot remember exactly what it was about, so it is interesting for me to look at and consider almost as if new to me. William

And then one can adjust the coordinates of each of the end points numerically using the Node Tool in conjunction with the Transform panel, using whichever of the available choice of measurement units one chooses.

Perhaps best we continue this in the following thread in your forum https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=968

A possible explanation is that it is a similar situation to the following. I read, sometime, somewhere, that words such as, for example, travelled, end in -led in American English yet in -lled in British English, with the exception in British English that the word paralleled has only a single letter l near the end, not a double letter l, because it already has a double letter l earlier within it.

Oh, I did not know that. I will thank Ali as well.

No need to apologise. If you need to know, it is not a dumb question. I like the Pen Tool. When I use it I tend to guess where to put the points then I use the Node Tool and the Transform Panel to position the points with numerical accuracy. The Pen Tool can be used to produce a connected sequence of lines. After drawing the first line, simply click somewhere else on the canvas. An so on, as many times as one chooes to do that. Indeed, it is necessary to click off the canvas, possibly onto another tool, to ensure that it does not add another straight line if one does not want that to happen. If one wants a closed curve, which one can then fill with colour if one so chooses, there is a button on the Toolbar that allows one to close the curve.

Well, um ... possibly! 😃 I had in my mind the meaning that I wanted to convey and I wondered how to do it in an abstract yet hinting manner.

It is a rhombus, as all four sides are of equal length. I started with a rectangle produced using the rectangle tool. In the original artwork, which is 420 mm by 300 mm and 6 mm wide bleed areas, I made the width of the rectangle 300 pixels and the height of the rectangle 260 pixels (260 being an integer approximation to 300 times (root 3 over 2), then I applied a 30 degree shear. The shear keeps the overall vertical height yet lengthens the vertical lines of the original rectangle while not altering the lengths of the horizontal lines The 420 mm by 300 mm and 6 mm wide bleed areas is so that the artwork could be used at three different print sizes, A3 (420 mm by 297 mm), cloche (400 mm by 300 mm), A5 (210 mm by 148 mm). The 6 mm bleed areas in the artwork are so that upon producing an A5 size version for printing that the A5 version has 3 mm wide bleed areas filled with colour.

Making that shape was interesting. Any idea of how I did it?

He was born within a few days of the Saint Day of the Saint related to the local church and his first name is after the Saint.

Here is a second clue

No No I wondered if the meaning would seem obvious to anyone. Here is a clue, hidden unless requested

Well, it is in the sea, part of the sea.