ZENANL Posted November 20, 2021 Posted November 20, 2021 Hi all, I was wondering if someone could help me how to make a certain shape. I dont know what it is called. So i just call it the "old school mirror shape" I know i could probrably copy it from somewhere but i want to learn how to make it myself. Any help would be certainly appreciated! And thank you all in advance. See attached file. Quote
NotMyFault Posted November 20, 2021 Posted November 20, 2021 Hi and welcome to the forum. just use the pen tool to draw the shape. https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_pen.html There are great tutorial videos available: https://affinity.serif.com/de/tutorials/designer/desktop/video/301801169/ https://affinity.serif.com/de/tutorials/designer/desktop/video/301804112/ If you want to replicate the golden fill pattern, you have several options: use a fill color and noise, possibly more than one noise layer for dark and light pixels. Use a image of that pattern, and clip the shape to that image. you can learn all that techniques in the tutorial videos. Have fun and don’t forget to share your work with us 😉 PS: i assume you are using Affinity Designer. The same is possible with Affinity Photo. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
ZENANL Posted November 20, 2021 Author Posted November 20, 2021 Hi NotMyFault, thank you for the fast reply. I will give it a try! NotMyFault 1 Quote
GarryP Posted November 20, 2021 Posted November 20, 2021 One other possibility, if you are not comfortable using the Pen Tool, is to build the shape from simpler shapes. In my attached video I have used the Heart Tool, Ellipse Tool, Geometry Add, Node Tool and Corner Tool. My example was created very crudely and you will need to experiment to get things looking as you want but you can probably see how to use the existing shapes to draw some complex shapes quite quickly. 2021-11-20 09-09-42.mp4 ZENANL 1 Quote
firstdefence Posted November 20, 2021 Posted November 20, 2021 An alternative way would be... How to make a mirror shape.mp4 Wosven, ZENANL and Lisbon 2 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions
ZENANL Posted November 20, 2021 Author Posted November 20, 2021 All, thank you for all of your help its nice to see and know mutiple ways of doing something. its highly appreciated! Quote
Wosven Posted November 20, 2021 Posted November 20, 2021 You can also play with characters and parts of them: firstdefence, GarryP, v_kyr and 1 other 4 Quote
ZENANL Posted December 22, 2021 Author Posted December 22, 2021 Hi Guys thank you all for all of your help. Took a little while to respond cause of health issues but it worked and i could do what i needed to do. Thank you and this ia good forum with nice people. Quote
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