How in Affinity Designer would a person best approach trying to produce effects like those in a linked picture please?

[William Overington]

I saw the following web page

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/a-beautiful-paean-to-doing-things-at-your-own-pace/ar-AA1loCzT

I like the picture.

How in Affinity Designer would a person best approach trying to produce effects like those in that picture please?

In particular the leaves of the tree in the left foreground, yet also the clouds.

William

 

[thomaso]

What effects ? – I don't notice effects (in terms of AD) in this water coloured pen illustration.

For the pen strokes I would use a brush with size and opacity pressure variance, for the colourized areas watercolour brushes with varying settings. It's up to you to draw with vector or with pixel brushes: if you prefer editability of single brush stroke shapes then use vector brushes, if you want to keep the layers panel simple use pixel brushes. Additionally it is recommended to use Layer-layers and/or Group-layers to organize the layer hierarchy and keep various parts of the illustration separated (e.g. person, tree, village, mountain, sky … respectively stroke vs. colour).

Alternatively you could combine analogue + digital drawing: Real pencil or pen on paper for the strokes, then scanned + used as a layer in a colourizing AD document.

You might find quite a few video tutorials online that demonstrate such workflows.

[Alfred]

27 minutes ago, thomaso said:

respectively stroke vs. colour

Which kind of „beziehungsweise (bzw.)“ do you mean here?

https://www.wortbedeutung.info/bzw./

[Return]

5 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Which kind of „beziehungsweise (bzw.)“ do you mean here?

https://www.wortbedeutung.info/bzw./

Better answer OP's question that it is an analogue image and one has to create this on paper by a certain amount of practice instead of yet another semantics question. 

[Alfred]

Just now, Return said:

Better answer OP's question that it is an analogue image and one has to create this on paper by a certain amount of practice instead of yet another semantics question. 

Good point. My apologies!

[William Overington]

2 hours ago, thomaso said:

What effects ? – I don't notice effects (in terms of AD) in this water coloured pen illustration.

The clumps of leaves. Does one use the same green colour but with various levels of opacity?

William

 

[thomaso]

2 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Does one use the same green colour but with various levels of opacity?

Just as 'one' -> you like it for your digital "best approach trying to". – Compare analogue watercolour illustration: the colour opacity may partially vary but doesn't have to. You can achieve more opacity either with a less transparent ink/colour or with multiple strokes of same opacity. In your digital version you additionally have the option for a layer blend mode other than 'normal'.

If the colour opacity exceeds a certain value throughout most of a drawing, it may look like gouache, acrylic or oil paint rather than watercolour. Try first to decide on a certain look, then think of an according technique by analyzing its appearance – not vice versa.