affinity designer Art Using Shape Tools

[William Overington]

 

 

 

 

 

 

William

 

[William Overington]

Readers are invited to post their own designs, using one or more of the Shape Tools.

William

 

[Alfred]

[William Overington]

Wow, that is magnificent, thank you.

Seven nodes in each symbol.

I note how for each symbol the point that is aligned vertically points toward the horizontal axis of the whole picture.

William

 

[Alfred]

[Alfred]

[Alfred]

[VectorVonDoom]

I don’t know the rules lol, very quick finger paint in my ipad. Too late in the day to think or draw!

[William Overington]

8 hours ago, VectorVonDoom said:

I don’t know the rules lol, very quick finger paint in my ipad. Too late in the day to think or draw!

Thank you for a great picture.

There ar no rules as such.

If smeone asked for guidance I would say to produce art using one or more of the Shape Tools and probably nothimg else, though if someone wants to include a photograph or a freehand drawing, well fine, I'm not tryimg to retrict anyone's creative ideas.

There are really two aspects to this thread.

One is that although some people can draw well, others of us cannot. I often use numerical placement and mathematical construction rather than freehand.

The other aspect is that Affinity Designer provides quite a lot of Shape Tools ans some such as the Rectangle Tool, and the Ellipse Tool, particularly uses as if a Circle Tool are probably used a lot, and some perhaps very rarely.

So part of the fun with this thread is to try to work out which Shape Tools someone has used in producing the art, and another part is in one's own art trying to use some of the more rarely used Shape Tools, to give them their fifteen minutes of fame.

In doing so maybe some readers will be inspired to produce art by looking a a particular Shape Tool and wonder how it can be applied to produce somethimg original, perhaps something not anticipated for how the Shape Tool could be applied when it was included in the software.

In the picture of the plants growing in a pot, the use of the Heart Shape and the Crescent Shape to produce the leaves is very clever.

William

 

[William Overington]

@VectorVonDoom

Also the way that you have used shapes to produce the highlight and the shadow on the plant pot is not only clever but also but also gives an insight into how to achieve those effects.

William.

 

[VectorVonDoom]

I'm awake so did a less rubbish version. Just used the shapes fly-out panel except for the background. The circles are clouds with their setting turned all the way up.