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Christmas drawing for one of the grandchildren: It is drawn from a photo of the first landrover that was rebuilt in in the "Land Rover Reborn" project, so yes, it is meant to be a bit battered and beaten up, this is before the restoration. The restored picture will take some time.

Saturday afternoon animation/'interactivation' exercise: Finding new ways for being Responsive, like a Folding Christmas card! 😎 All graphics created in Affinity Designer. Love this software! Merry Christmas! 🎄 😉 foldable-christmas-card-1920x1080-60fps.mp4

Hello, I am on Windows 10 Home. All three applications have been installed to C:\Program Files\Affinity\ and were then moved to S:\Program Files\Affinity\ After that, C:\Program Files\Affinity\ has been deleted and replaced with a SYMLINK to S:\Program Files\Affinity\. Yesterday I updated Designer to the latest version. The installer first detected the installed program, deleted it, then deleted the SYMLINK and created a folder Affinity in C:\Program Files\. I then did the move again and relinked the folder, this time using a JUNCTION. Today I installed Photo and Publisher, the same thing happened, the JUNCTION got replaced with a physical folder Affinity in C:\Program Files\, though, the Application was found in S:\Program Files\Affinity before update, since it has been deleted from that folder. The report is true for all three applications, Photo, Designer and Publisher. Thanks and greets, Andreas

Hi, This post is a mixture of share your work and lesson learned. To get some practice with vector art, i start with photos of real world situations, and try to trace the curves manually. My goal is to stay 100% vector, and reach a high degree of accuracy even for small details (e.g. badges and symbols), but using as much simple shapes as possible (e.g. stars and ellipses for curves). After working several hours after business work for the last weeks the result is a mixture of nice / promising, and stuck in too much effort. Below you find the current state, missing lots of the under-carriage and fine details like tubes, nuts, color gradients. Lessons learned: Real photos always have a perspective distortion. This leads to some complexities: every wheel of the train differs, and ellipses don't accurately match a wheel viewed from perspective. So everey wheel needs to be adjusted individually, and every shapes needs fine tuning after conversion into curve. It might be easier to render this in 3D vs. trying to achieve this level of accuracy with Designer (lacking tools for perspective correction for pure vector documents). Some objects needs to be partitioned to correctly render the Z-axis / 3D Designer gets slower over time, after 2-3 hours you need to restart. Especially blur filters (or Layer FX) are taxing to the performance and lead to Designer become less responsive, even on my PC which is quite beefy. Now I'm curious how you rate my work, and what you recommend to improve the workflow (or artistic direction accuracy vs. abstraction vs. realism vs. imagination). This is 100% fun work, no intention to go commercial. Photo used as basis: own work. RBB is an active small steam train public transport with fixed schedule, used by tourists and commuters on the island Rügen in north-east Germany.

Hello, my friends! 😊 This is a preview of how I made this Rocket in Affinity Designer! Come check out the complete tutorial by accessing the link https://www.vectorizeclub.com 🚀 and learn how to make a Rocket using geometric shapes! Bye 🤘 Reels Live 07.mp4

Ran into another issue brushing up on my AD skills. In this YouTube video from 2018, the default styles pallet isn't the same as now. Does anyone else remember them or know how to get them back? I'd like to use the metal effect.

Tried the new registration in affinity designer, but it failed.

Hello guys! 😍 I want to show a little of my work with this cute little pig! 🐷 In this Tutorial I use shading techniques using Affinity Designer which is a very easy way to build good color reproduction! Did you like the tip? 🤓 🚀 Come see more by visiting the link https://www.vectorizeclub.com! enjoy 🤗 Reels Live 06.mp4

New vector work – Dia de Los Muertos I: La Calavera Catrina Today the famous “Day of the Dead” festival begins in Mexico. Definitely NOT to be confused with Halloween, the Day of the Dead is a three-day riotous explosion of colour and joy, where people all across Mexico honour and remember their loved ones and keep their memories alive. This spectacular festival is something I’ve been fascinated with for years, and seeing it first-hand one day is definitely on the bucket list! I’ve created two pieces to celebrate this festival, and my first one “La Calavera Catrina” (The Elegant Skull) is based on the traditional female costume for the Day of the Dead. La Catrina is known as the “Grand Dame” of the afterlife. She wears marigolds in her hair - believed to lure the dead back to the world of the living for the duration of the festival through their powerful scent and vibrant colour - and a collection of skulls representing the souls of the departed. She also wears the Sacred Heart crown, to represent the fact that the festival takes place across All Saints Day and All Souls Day – two minor holidays in the Catholic calendar, the quetzal feathers represent her native Mexican heritage, and the roses are an obvious nod to Frida Kahlo. I’ve also added some detail shots, the outline, and the original concept sketch. Hope you like them! I’ll be posting my second piece, La Danza Azteca, separately, so if you like what you see - keep a look out!

My second piece to celebrate the Mexican “Dia de Los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) festival is called “La Danza Azteca”, and is intended to reflect the Aztec origins of the festival, and the troops of dancers known as “Concheros” who dance in public spaces throughout Mexico to honour the traditions and rituals of their pre-hispanic culture. My Conchero wears a headdress depicting Tlaloc, the Aztec god of rain, water, and fertility, and a necklace bearing the image of Mictlantecuhtli, the God of the Dead and ruler of Mictlan, the Aztec underworld. As usual, I’ve included some detail shots and the original concept sketch, if you’re interested. If you like what you see, please also check out my earlier Day of the Dead post “La Calavera Catrina”.

Let me start by saying that I absolutely love this wonderful feature in Affinity apps: to be able to filter typefaces according to how I organize them in Font Book by collections. However, there's a little bug. Here's what I discovered. In Character panel, when "All Fonts" option is active (by default), every typeface in the list shows up with correct number of fonts in the family. Once any other collection from Font Book, available in that list, is selected, every typeface now shows with two times more fonts. Every weight is being duplicated in the list. So I have two Regular, two Italic, two Bold and etc. I believe there's something with (re)sorting/(re)appending items to lists/arrays and it's just a very small cosmetic issue. But anyway, it would be great to see this fixed, as the feature itself, it is really great and very helpful. Bug persists across all three apps. Versions 1.10.1 and 1.10.4 on macOS Catalina, Big Sur and Monterey.

After the update to 1.10.4 I cannot save any files to places like the Desktop or Documents on my iMac. (See attached error message) The only place I can save files is my Public Folder. I have tried using the export function as well, but it does not work anywhere but the Public Folder. I have also tried Affinity Designer with the same result. Tried restarting the computer with no change.

Hello everyone! 😄 We've come to the end of our Vectober event, with the Cow Design challenge that was held live yesterday! I would like to thank everyone who participated and supported our work. 🤗 Now that the Vectober Event is over the challenge tutorials are no longer available, but there are several other tutorials available for you to deepen your knowledge on the Vectorize Page! 😆 🟠 Come check it out by accessing the link https://www.vectorizeclub.com! To the next!

Hi, Does anyone know if there are plans for a 'Freeform Gradient Tool' in Affinity Photo or Designer? Thanks...

Hello There! 😆 It's already DAY thirty of the Vectober Event with the Mermaid Design challenge! Run, this Event will only be available until today! 😱 🔥 To join us, visit the link in the http://vectober.com! Cheers! 🧜

Hi! Guess that Affinity Designer may be the right choice for creating digital artwork? Will ARM 7 CPU, 16 GB memory, 512 GB SSD do the job? (PS panel) Input tool, which one do you recommend? Wacom? I do look forward to hearing from you, thanks in advance. Best regards, Diqu

Hello my friends! 😆 It's DAY 29 of Vectober with Cyclops Design! Run, there are only three days left for the Event! 🥶 Come have fun, learn and show all your talent in this challenge! 🔥 Interested? so come participate by accessing the link http://vectober.com enjoy 🤘

Just for fun, last years halloween image.

Hi guys! 😄 Don't miss this opportunity to learn a lot and deepen your knowledge! There are only four days left of the Vectober Event! 🥶 Today we have the Telescope Design Challenge! So, join us while there's still time ⏰ and show off your art by going to the link http://vectober.com! Thank you in advance to everyone who supports my work! 🤘

Hello guys! There are only FIVE days left of the Vectober Event! 😬 Come participate while there's still time, as the tutorials will be available until October 31st! Today we are on DAY 27 where the Parrot Design is created! 🦜 Did you like it? So join us by going to the link http://vectober.com! Enjoy! 😉

Hello my friends! ☺️ Countdown to end of Vectober Event! Come participate while there's still time! We are on the 26th with the Pearl Design! 🤘 Take on this challenge and show us your talent by accessing the link http://vectober.com! Join us! 🤗

As an avid fan of Formula 1 racing, I practically grew up listening to the great man's commentary alongside his hilarious Murray'isms "Unless I'm very much mistaken... and yes I am very much mistaken," "And now excuse me while I interrupt myself" "The first four cars are both on the same tyres" "Tambay's hopes, which were absolutely nil before, are absolutely zero now" "I imagine that the conditions in those cars today are totally unimaginable" "With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go". Including this TV commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93igduisgzY Over the intervening months since his passing earlier in the year, I've been off and on developing this drawing in AD as a personal tribute. EDIT: Please take note that the elaborate Rothman's badge either side of the front wing and back of the foreground figure, is free stock vectorized content. It's inclusion is simply due too the intricate calligraphy that I was unable to replicate accurately although all remaining elements of the drawing is my work.

Title: When The Rocks Hide Us #001 Media: Digital - Infinity Designer Dimension: 3000px x 3000px

Hello guys! 🤗 It's the 25th of Vectober and I challenge you to use all your creativity in today's challenge, which is to create a starfish design! Come join the event by accessing the link http://vectober.com and show us your art! Do not waste time! Challenge tutorials available until October 31st! 🐱‍🏍 Hope to see you there! 🤘

I was recently commissioned to create a set of illustrations to go on construction hoardings around the Euston Station (London) area. I picked Affinity Designer as my weapon of choice, and the results can be seen if you take a wander around the district. The one small production bummer was that the agency doing the artwork insisted on AI files so I have to convert them all before sending them out. Even despite that I would still have used Affinity for these as it's just a much nicer illustration tool than Adobe. I think these would have taken me twice as long in Illustrator, and given me a migraine along the way.