Hirandam Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 I am in desperate need to know what type of pixel brush was used to create these smooth creamy tones on the face. 😭 I've tried everything and can't seem to find anything that creates a similar effect. The only brushes I've seen be able to do this seamlessly is in Krita.Is this a pixel brush that comes with Affinity, or would it need to be bought? If it comes with Affinity, what might it be under AND how might you use it to get this effect If it needs to be bought - where?! Its beautiful and I love this style so much! 😭 Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated - thankyousomuch! Also a suggestion to a tutorial in the same style would be so absolutely amazing! If possible. If anyone knows. 👁️ 👄 👁️ The images I am referencing to are from the samples available on Affinity Designer 2. It is Robert Herzig's work titled, "Shihatsu Densha". debraspicher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 2 hours ago, Hirandam said: what type of pixel brush was used to create these smooth creamy tones on the face. Sure it's Pixel brushes? The smoothness might be gradients or blur fx, the texture looks like noise to me. Hirandam 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 It doesn't just look like that, it's an effect layer with noise. There are brushes available, for example from Frankentoon, True Grid, DAUB or Ian Barnard, but all these brushes are not suitable for full-area, over the whole drawing area, overlay. firstdefence and Hirandam 2 Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debraspicher Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 They are on Artstation if you want to find and ask the artist. This piece is up there but I didn't see any commentary about brushes anywhere. I don't see this in my Samples as an option. My samples are far fewer in quantity so wondering if maybe they came with one of your brush sets? The one time the new brush history feature might've justified itself lol... Of course there's no icon for it in the Layers panel. Hirandam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirandam Posted February 3, 2023 Author Share Posted February 3, 2023 @debraspicher Yes! I was actually was thinking of going that route, but I didn't want to bother him unnecessarily as I figured it was just my being new to the program. But now I might do that - thanks so much! @thomaso @Komatös Yes, I figured there was definitely noise added (maybe an overlay?) and I also saw there were some vector shapes that were used to create certain shadows too, but I was also inspecting the layers and saw there looked to be some brush work done too. Also thank you so much for the brushes suggestions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 I know this thread seems to be about Designer but you can get a similar, though probably not as nice, effect in Photo by simply using the Live Add Noise Filter. See attached image where I’m using the non-live Add Noise Filter so it’s easier to see the difference – noisy version on the left. (You might need to open the image properly to see the noise properly.) By doing this you can work with simpler gradient-filled vectors and easily switch the noise on/off as you go. Adding one of the Live Blur Filters below the noise filter may give a pleasing effect in some cases. Hirandam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirandam Posted February 3, 2023 Author Share Posted February 3, 2023 @GarryP OH MY GOD Gary, that's so gorgeous! And I had no idea about the Add Noise filter effect in Photo. I literally just got Photo yesterday, so this will be immensely helpful. Thank you so much for your suggestion!!🙏🏽 🙇🏽♀️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 You’re welcome. I hope you get some good use from Photo, it’s certainly got a lot of really great functions. Note: The original image wasn’t by me, I got it off Pixabay, if I remember correctly. Hirandam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirandam Posted February 3, 2023 Author Share Posted February 3, 2023 @GarryP 🤗 Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 2 hours ago, debraspicher said: I don't see this in my Samples as an option. My samples are far fewer in quantity It's in the Designer 2 Samples for me. As you mentioned having fewer samples, you might be looking in Photo 2. debraspicher 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...
thomaso Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Hirandam said: but I was also inspecting the layers and saw there looked to be some brush work done too. A layer of type "(Pixel)" is not unambiguos concerning its initial creation: Once a layer, a bunch of layers, a group and filters get rasterized their initial creation process gets 'hidden'. Hirandam and walt.farrell 2 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirandam Posted February 3, 2023 Author Share Posted February 3, 2023 @thomaso thank you very much for that explanation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debraspicher Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 It's brushwork. Disabling the texture layer and then playing around with the actual Pixel layers, it's definitely visible. To me it looks like a simple round or maybe variation of it. I personally like painting in ovals at a 45ish-deg tilt for creating quick brushwork and that's initially what I thought it looked like. Hirandam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirandam Posted February 3, 2023 Author Share Posted February 3, 2023 @debraspicher You're the real one for this! This is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!! 🙇🏽♀️🙇🏽♀️🙏🏽 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debraspicher Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 1 minute ago, Hirandam said: @debraspicher You're the real one for this! This is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!! 🙇🏽♀️🙇🏽♀️🙏🏽 I would still ask the artist to be sure lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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