Tom Spetter Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 I just wanted to say hello! I'm kind of new here. I'm a 30-year Adobe user and bought every Affinity product as soon as they came out. But I never really made the switch until Publisher came out with 1.8 and became usable to me. I love Designer and Publisher. They are now my go-to's. I just need a little more time to get comfortable with Photo. Anyhow, I thought I would share with you a couple of vector illustration that I built entirely in Designer. This is something I could never do as well in Adobe Illustrator. The Red Strat was built in 1.7, and the Les Paul I recently did in 1.8. 78deluxe, Dan C, AffinityJules and 15 others 17 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted August 6, 2020 Staff Share Posted August 6, 2020 Beautifully done!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renzatic Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Vectars! Nice! Kochab and Tom Spetter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Renzatic said: Vectars! Oh, very good! Did you pluck that one out of nowhere? MattP 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityJules Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 I'm curious as to why you never put the company logo on the head stocks? Or 'Gibson' on the truss rod cover plate. They're obviously a Fender Strat and a Gibson Les Paul. Would have been a nice finishing touch. 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...
StuartRc Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 Impressive drawings...! Quote Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.4 1.2344 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Spetter Posted August 6, 2020 Author Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 hour ago, AffinityJules said: I'm curious as to why you never put the company logo on the head stocks? Or 'Gibson' on the truss rod cover plate. They're obviously a Fender Strat and a Gibson Les Paul. Would have been a nice finishing touch. Hi Affinity Jules, They are going into a stock photo project, and it's not legal to use logos in that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityJules Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, Tom Spetter said: Hi Affinity Jules, They are going into a stock photo project, and it's not legal to use logos in that. Ah. . .understood. 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...
Renzatic Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Alfred said: Oh, very good! Did you pluck that one out of nowhere? It's just something I thought I'd do a quick riff on. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyg9 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 These are absolutely brilliant! Love the Red Strat (I've got one myself). Love the Les Paul as well and I like the fact you chose tobacco burst instead of the standard cherry sunburst. That said, how easy is it to change the burst coloring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyg9 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 I dreaded illustrator as I always felt it was like drawing with mittens on. I'm much more comfortable in Affinity Designer and I'm not sure if its just me but it feels much better than Illustrator and seems far more intuitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Spetter Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 7 hours ago, dannyg9 said: These are absolutely brilliant! Love the Red Strat (I've got one myself). Love the Les Paul as well and I like the fact you chose tobacco burst instead of the standard cherry sunburst. That said, how easy is it to change the burst coloring? The burst would be very easy to change colouring. The curved maple top of the guitar is split down the middle so I could get a matched bookend look. So each side is just one gradation with multiple colour points. Changing that colour would just be changing each gradation, and then to get the tobacco burst, I just drew a black blob around the outside of the guitar moved it into the guitar body shape to mask it, and then added the gaussian blur effect to the blob. dannyg9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konstantnnn Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 The highlights look to roundish for me — kinda makes it seem like the guitars are made out of jellow. 🎸 Good work. Quote Hackintosh running Big Sur 11.2.3, Coffe Lake i3 with UHD630 graphics MacBook (Early 2015) running macOS Mojave iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation) running iPadOS 13.5 Vista PC in the attic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Spetter Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 21 hours ago, konstantnnn said: The highlights look to roundish for me — kinda makes it seem like the guitars are made out of jellow. 🎸 Good work. If you are talking about the Les Paul, it does have an arched top. But I can see that now that you mention it. If I sampled some real maple texture I think it would help that. It would add some definition behind highlight, but I wanted to keep it all vector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio60 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Beautiful work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyg9 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 On 8/8/2020 at 1:50 AM, Tom Spetter said: The burst would be very easy to change colouring. The curved maple top of the guitar is split down the middle so I could get a matched bookend look. So each side is just one gradation with multiple colour points. Changing that colour would just be changing each gradation, and then to get the tobacco burst, I just drew a black blob around the outside of the guitar moved it into the guitar body shape to mask it, and then added the gaussian blur effect to the blob. Fantastic. I suppose to some with far more advanced skills in vector art than myself, that this may be fairly simple. To me it's genius and a learning moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78deluxe Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Wow, those are frantastic. I own a vintage tobacco burst Les Paul, and other than the zebra pickups (vs. silver) that actaully looks super close to the "real thing" Gold tophat knobs and all. Stat looks spot on as well. Way more impressive than I expcted (as a long time guitar player) when I saw the thread title. Well done! Tom Spetter and dannyg9 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper-V Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Great work, Tom! I've been intending to do something similar myself for ages -- now I can see how high you've set the bar, maybe I'll stir myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacboi Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 These drawings look very cool and can definitely appreciate the amount of precision gone into generating them, as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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