Craig Deeley Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 A children's book style image using textured strokes in Affinity Designer Bri-Toon, Paul Bravery, Alfred and 13 others 16 Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com
retrograde Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 Nice effects, very natural in feel. Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/
David Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 Lovely piece, really well made too Quote DART | Twitter | Dribbble
eejits Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 Wow, is this really all vectors? Amazing stuff. George Quote eejits: curious creatures with curious ideas - www.eejits-online.co.uk SUPPORT eejits on PATREON. Early access to comics and more! www.patreon.com/eejits Get eejits COMiCS and occasional NEWS direct to your inbox https://eejits.substack.com
Staff MEB Posted January 14, 2016 Staff Posted January 14, 2016 Fantastic work. It really does look natural :) Looking forward for more! Thanks for sharing. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Craig Deeley Posted January 14, 2016 Author Posted January 14, 2016 Thanks all! The image is all Textured Intensity brushes... So vector skeleton and bitmap on top... To be literal. I will share the brushes for this in the forums resources. I love the natural media like look coupled with vector editability. I am just beginning to get the hang of AD. What it can do and what it can't - yet! I look forward to AD coming to full maturity soon! Craig Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com
retrograde Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 Hi cdeeley, I look forward to checking out those brushes cheers! Btw, is the title of your post supposed to be "french fries"? Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/
Craig Deeley Posted January 15, 2016 Author Posted January 15, 2016 HAHAHAHA! Yes! French Fries! Not surprisingly - this week has been a small Hell of Typos week for me! Auto spell check doesn't always help! Thanks I am attaching the AD file here. Hopefully this is permissible. Pulling open the actual working file does wonders for demystifying how a thing was built. This is all brush strokes - including the big patches of water around the whale that look like fills. What I would like to confirm. Are the strokes packaged into the working file when saved? That is - if you don't have the brushes - will the art in the file work and look correct when opened in AD on a machine that doesn't have the brushes? In the old Expression3 application an art file would contain the brush/strokes it was created with. This was one simple way to pass brush/strokes along. The file contained the strokes themselves. whaleywhale.afdesign.zip Wosven, Alfred, MartinB78 and 1 other 4 Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com
retrograde Posted January 15, 2016 Posted January 15, 2016 Whoa, that is intense. So many strokes. Wow! Thanks for the share, it's always interesting to see how others work. Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/
Staff MEB Posted January 15, 2016 Staff Posted January 15, 2016 Hi Craig, Thank you for sharing the file. The outline view was a surprise! Quite dynamic. Seems you're using a Wacom to create your drawings? Also enjoyed your website a lot. Your characters/style(s) are very expressive. The Character design section is a must. Looking forward for more! Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
A_B_C Posted January 15, 2016 Posted January 15, 2016 Oh, that was the reason why I couldn’t find “fence fries” in my dictionary … my second best guess was that I missed a wonderful wordplay … :D Anyways, you created a truly lovely piece, Craig … my compliments! And what an impressive web site … :) Cheers, Alex Quote
David Posted January 15, 2016 Posted January 15, 2016 Really interesting to see how you work, thanks for sharing - Digital brush work is something I'm trying to get better at now. Again really beautiful work, and fantastic portfolio. Quote DART | Twitter | Dribbble
Craig Deeley Posted January 15, 2016 Author Posted January 15, 2016 Thanks all! I am drawing with a Wacom tablet. Thick/thin and opacity is being applied thru pressure on the stylus to tablet rather than post drawing adjusting. I like to work fast - freehand drawing - as much as possible. The truly great aspect about the vector brushes is the ability to edit after the fact... After laying down a stroke - being able to straighten a line or adjust a curve - and still retain the spirit and quality of that freehand stroke. Best of both worlds. The editable vector stroke and the bitmap textured line! ---- One aspect of drawing with a tablet/responsiveness I am a little frustrated with (I should post it as a feature request or a bug) While drawing a freehand stroke and applying different degrees of pressure along the stroke - If I lighten up on the pressure at the end of the stroke - the whole stroke will "lighten up" - meaning the width (and opacity) of the whole line will contract - apparently based on the last part of the line where I lessened the pressure. I am expecting all parts of the line to respond to the actual pressure applied to them... But that last decrease in pressure seems to dictate a decrease for the whole stroke. Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com
A_B_C Posted January 16, 2016 Posted January 16, 2016 Do you mean the behavior shown below? This “jump” in stroke thickness, when the pen is lifted? I believe this is due to pressure profile smoothing, and yes, there should be different smoothing options … as far as I remember, this has been discussed in the past, but it would certainly do no harm to bring it to the attention of the developers again … :) Smoothing.mov Quote
Craig Deeley Posted January 18, 2016 Author Posted January 18, 2016 ABC, Yes. The action in the Smoothing QT movie looks a lot like what I am experiencing. I will look around in the forum for more about this. The closest to a solution I have found is to set my brushes Controller to Brush Defaults. I had been using Automatic. And in the brush Properties - setting the Pressure Profile to a more customized curve - however - the results are not always predictable. Thanks! A_B_C 1 Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com
peter Posted January 18, 2016 Posted January 18, 2016 Hi Craig Welcome to the forums This is great. Have you thought about having this as a bath book? As this would be a great pre-bedtime story telling tool. I've just seen your portfolio, it's great. Such differing styles...you'll have a ball with AD. Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111
digital_wampa Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 nice style where's the fries? :D Isin't it great that u can go from vector line art to pixel painting within one app. Quote
Craig Deeley Posted September 26, 2017 Author Posted September 26, 2017 The fries are in the skies! Cloud fries! (Or - I should admit it - my clouds looked like french fries more than clouds) I am a big fan of the raster(pixel) content built right onto the vector core. The ability to re-edit the vectors and still have the bitmap look has been a great idea where-ever it has been implemented. Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com
Staff MEB Posted September 26, 2017 Staff Posted September 26, 2017 Hi Craig, Glad to see you around again Welcome back! Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Bri-Toon Posted September 26, 2017 Posted September 26, 2017 I read the title to the topic, and I just had to take a dive in. This sounds very cute. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day!
Alfred Posted September 26, 2017 Posted September 26, 2017 2 hours ago, MEB said: Hi Craig, Glad to see you around again Welcome back! What he said! And thanks for waking up this thread which I missed the first time around. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Craig Deeley Posted September 26, 2017 Author Posted September 26, 2017 Lost in working with (curses) Adobe products. Work. Work. Work... But I keep trying to make Affinity Designer a go to tool for making my own stuff and expanding the options I have for making fun art. Miguel, I hope to be more active here again. Alfred and all: You all responding reminds me to get my butt in gear - thanks for looking!!! Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com
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