Kasper-V Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 On a whim I found myself looking over some stuff I did in the sixties. After I finished 'Forgotten dreams' I thought it would be fun to remake some of the other doodly stuff. Many days later, here they are. The originals were made on A2 cartridge paper (some from a quarto notebook original doodle) and the Affinity versions are A3 (and over 500MB!) Former doodle, worked up into this ... If you're wondering, the chap in the tree is Patrick Troughton, second Doctory Who; in the boat are Prime Minister Harold Wilson and George Brown (and the head of General de Gaulle). The helicopter could be piloted by Prince Philip. This was intended to be the first of a series of illustrations to Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds, the Beatles' song. I had the last one sketched out -- newspaper taxis, Plasticine porters, a train in a station -- but never got past the pencil stage. I was very influenced by the fantastic colour patterns in soap bubbles in the sixties, and the swirly designs in the old pic were an attempt to capture them. It's much more fiddly to do in digital, and I tried something a bit different here. Needs more work, but it's a promising technique. For Christmas 1967 I got a record player! So I started buying LPs (albums, if you prefer). Then I decide I needed something to protect them when I was carrying them outside the house: two stiff sheets of cardboard, which I lined with cartridge paper and decorated. (I'm still looking for the other side.)The chap on the left is Bob Dylan, from a photo (that I can't locate); on the right is Stan Webb of Chicken Shack. And at the back, that popular bluesman ... Despite an appeal of social media, I couldn't find a copy of that pic, so I had to replace Bobby with another photo. I had no idea how few photos show him standing (bit with hos feet cut off) or sitting (but with his legs cut off). The original photo was in a Dylan songbook that's hiding in the attic somewhere. Renzatic, Smee Again, AffinityJules and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftemplate Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 If you save affinity with different file names, it may shrink bytes (which was effective in the past) First, open your 500MB. Kasper-V 1 Quote The more restricted you put on the program, the closer you program is to idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper-V Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 34 minutes ago, Aftemplate said: If you save affinity with different file names, it may shrink bytes (which was effective in the past) First, open your 500MB. I'm not too bothered about the file size, to be honest; but it slows some Affinity functions down quite a bit on my 8GB laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftemplate Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 7 minutes ago, Kasper-V said: I'm not too bothered about the file size, to be honest; but it slows some Affinity functions down quite a bit on my 8GB laptop. Yes, unless used for Internet transmission. (Smaller bytes are always good, faster save reads.) ) You can look forward to it here. Up to 10 times the performance leap. Quote The more restricted you put on the program, the closer you program is to idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper-V Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Aftemplate said: You can look forward to it here. Up to 10 times the performance leap. Great -- thanks! I'll have a good look at that. Aftemplate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityJules Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 These are all fun to look at and have a nice underlying style. Do I see Max Miller in the top picture? Kasper-V 1 Quote Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. These are not my own words but I sure like this quote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper-V Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 20 minutes ago, AffinityJules said: Do I see Max Miller in the top picture? Well spotted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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