Josie Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 How would I create the avocado design? Also how would I create the coffee design with the swirl effect in the coffee? And lastly how would I create the pizza design? I know it’s a triangle and lots of ellipse circles, just don’t know how to do the crust or the top of the pizza. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 The avocado is just an egg shape with the sides squashed in at the top (and probably the top rounded out a little compared to a typical hen’s egg). We discussed an almost identical coffee cup in another thread: I don’t recall those lines near the top of the cup, but there was a swirl of cream in the coffee and two beans on the saucer. Use the Pen Tool to draw the green shapes and the crust of the pizza, and use ellipses for the pepperoni slices. 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...
walt.farrell Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 You asked about two of those yesterday: Alfred 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 I remember a similar swirl. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/154208-artwork-inspired-by-pantone-colour-of-the-year-2022/ William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Here we go. One white swirl as a .svg (scalable vector graphics) file. In Affinity Designer File Place Then you could use the transform panel to resize it, then make the height smaller so as to give the view as viewed from other than directly vertically. William swirl.svg Alfred 1 Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 @Josie Ah, I have just realized that this is an Affinity on iPad question. So using the file might be different from how one would use it on a desktop PC. I expect @Alfred will be able to advise on that if necessary. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josie Posted April 18, 2022 Author Share Posted April 18, 2022 How do I make the egg shape of the avocado? and how do I make the swirl that’s inside the coffee mug? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 For the avocado you could try using the Tear tool (that is tear as in teardrop shape not tear as in to rip paper) On a Windows PC, one uses Layer Convert to Curves Then use the node tool to select the top node and use the tool on the toolbar to convert the point at the tip of the tear to become smooth. I do not know how that is done on an IPad. If you are stuck then Alfred might possibly advise on the iPad part. Either use that as is, or make a copy and try adding several smooth points between the lower point on each side and the stalk end, and move some, but not the ones at each end of the several points towards the central axis. I drew the tear shape with the point at the top, so I moved the additional points horizontally. I had a go but I felt that my fairly quick try did not improve the original that I had kept. Someone taking longer and a better artist might get a better result with the second part. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 21 hours ago, walt.farrell said: You asked about two of those yesterday: Ah, but it was not the same questions. Those questions presupposed using the Pen Tool. There are no replies so far. So questions not presupposing using the Pen tool have been asked in this thread. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 26 minutes ago, William Overington said: So questions not presupposing using the Pen tool have been asked in this thread. It would have been better to stay in the original thread, since the question was about creating the same objects. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 For the pizza crust I did a quick test in Affinity Designer on a laptop computer. I used File Place and pasted a copy of the image of a pizza gathered from your question and I scaled it larger. I tried to have it on a lower layer but I could not seem to get that right. However, i used the Pen Tool, and put points over the black line that draws the edge of the crust. I went along a bit over half way along the top so as to go beyond that dent. I used twenty clicks. I drew in green so as it was clear where the new line was over the original black line. I then used the node tool, did CTRL A to select all of the nodes and then made each point smooth by clicking onthe Convert to smooth button on the toolbar. I then widened the line. It was still green, but I was just testing the concept. I think that you will need about 70 points to go all around the crust. If you make a complete loop then you can have a fill colour and a line colour. Then do each of the short lines separately, with just a few points each. Also do the white highlight lines separately. I hope this helps. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 13 minutes ago, William Overington said: I think that you will need about 70 points to go all around the crust. It’s only a pizza crust, not a detailed map of the coastline! A dozen nodes should suffice. Quote Then do each of the short lines separately, with just a few points each. Two nodes each, or possibly three if you want a kink somewhere in the middle. bananayoshimoto 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...
bananayoshimoto Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 6 hours ago, William Overington said: I think that you will need about 70 points to go all around the crust. If you make a complete loop then you can have a fill colour and a line colour. You don’t want to spare any node Mr Overington! (That swirl has so many nodes because you probably made it with the pencil tool and exported it without applying “expand stroke” — SVG tends to apply nodes like that for non-expanded vector curves upon export, edit — as you know). Quote StudioLink 256gb 11’ M1 iPad Pro iPadOS 17 Public Beta 1 iPad Magic Keyboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 4 minutes ago, iuli said: (That swirl has so many nodes because you probably made it with the pencil tool and exported it without applying “expand stroke” — SVG tends to apply nodes like that for non-expanded vector curves upon export, edit — as you know). No, it wasn’t drawn with the Pencil Tool. As noted in the linked thread, it was exported from Serif PagePlus where it was created as a QuickShape (similar to the Shape Tool shapes in the Affinity apps). bananayoshimoto 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...
William Overington Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 On 4/18/2022 at 3:58 PM, Alfred said: It’s only a pizza crust, not a detailed map of the coastline! A dozen nodes should suffice. A practical demonstration would be good. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 1 hour ago, William Overington said: A practical demonstration would be good. William Have at it, William! William Overington 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...
Josie Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 How is this? avocado.afdesign William Overington 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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