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I'm relatively new to illustration and Affinity and this is my first image upload (1500x2000 px jpg image). I used Designer v2 to create this illustration of my custom-built classical guitar and thought it came out fairly well, given my very limited experience and familiarity with the program. I still have a tremendous amount to learn about illustration and Designer, but I'm having fun doing it. I'm a long-time photographer and photo editor, but illustration is a whole new ballgame, as I am discovering. As a photographer, I paid attention to lighting, highlights, shadows, reflections, etc, but those elements were already pre-existing in a photo and I could easily enhance them, as desired. In illustration, I have to create these elements myself, which I have found forces me to pay much more attention to highlights, shadows and reflections. It makes me appreciate how important these elements are to form, depth and realism. It's quite an education, and will no doubt make me a better photographer and photo editor too. I'm very open to any suggestions and constructive criticisms. I want to get better at illustration. So, if you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks. Lou

Hello. This is my first serious artwork in Affinity Designer. It was made 100% vector, based on a real image.

Thor’s Axe. This is my Swedish made Hagstrom Viking. It’s a vector drawing done with affinity designer on my Mac. If it wasn’t for the shutdown I’d never have done it. This is the kind of stuff I've been killing time with. Bet you didn’t know that Thor had more than a hammer.

Good day! I'm fairly new to the whole photography thing let along photo editing. I'm absolutely in love with Affinity and its ease of use and user interface. Anyways, here's a few random shots that I've done and edited with AP. Comments and critique welcome!

I'm getting too grips with vectors at last. Casting round for inspiration, I decided to gently caricature some musical friends of mine, The Crew: a bunch of shanty-singing cut-throats, but nice folks for all that. Barry was the first one I did -- you can probably tell! -- and I found myself getting into more detail as I moved from one to the next. Now for a rest while I look for the next subject. I'm obliged to Frankentoon's Viking for the inspiration: http://www.frankentoon.com/single-post/2016/08/08/The-Brave-Viking-Character-Design

100% vector

my fist try on AD on windows, realy love the app. having some trouble to get the chrome right. any suggestions? gitaar.svg

Tribut für Jimi. http://b-bertuleit.de/jimi/