affinity photo Evening Mist - Concept Art in Affinity Photo

[DelN]

Hi,

Another attempt at Matte Painting/Concept Art/Photobashing, which I am fascinated by. I love looking at other artists/graphic designers work. It's so inspiring...

This one is 'Evening Mist'. I did the compositing in Affinity Photo. Looks a bit 'Dracula' to me, if I'm honest. Well, the original does. For some reason, when I put it into the forum, the pinks & purple sky  has become far, far pinker. Scarily so. Very Barbie, unfortunately. Might have to tone it down and paste it back in...

I took some photos of stone pillars with lichen, which I masked out and used in the composition of this image. I created some textures in Corel Painter and used them in the distant mountains, over which I painted a little light and shadow to make it look less 2D (not sure I succeeded Ha-ha!). I used my Free 'Nature' brushes for Affinity Photo (which you can download here on the Affinity Forum;
12 brush sets) to paint in some plants, mist, rocks and moss on the stone pillars. And the large fern was created in the free Plant Factory (https://www.bentley.com/software/e-on-software-free-downloads/). You can download this fantastic plant generator software and all the plants in the plant catalog (also the terrain generator software Vue from the above link. Its great for creating plants, then rendering them and using them in your work because you can render the image and also the image with the object already masked out for you. I think I used a few renders of grasses I created in Plant Factory too.

I can sit for hours using Affinity Photo, listening to reggae, dancehall, afrobeat, rock steady, ska and Studio 1 and creating textures and fills, and masking out objects for my next series of images. 

Currently, I am gathering together objects (masked out and saved as .pngs), backgrounds, textures and overlays, to use in a set of images that I plan to create on the opulence of 'Byzantium'. Creating gold trees, gold leaves, gold ferns and other plants. I've been creating the gold brushes, jewel brushes and silver brushes in Affinity Photo. It all takes a lot of time to gather the images, mask them out, create the brushes and set the spacing, size and other settings like the use of Texture as an overlay, and Sub Brushes, which are great in Affinity Photo, but its worth it. And you are learning Affinity Photo while working, and creating stuff for your portfolio. 

I uploaded a Word document step-by-step tutorial on how to create a Butterfly brush in Affinity Photo a while back. I uploaded it to the Affinity Forum. If you want to follow it, you can create your own Affinity Photo brushes. Its on the same link as the download page for my free 'Nature' brushes.

If you are interested and can't find it, let me know. I will post the link here...

I don't use Photoshop anymore. Why pay £21.90 a month to RENT Adobe Photoshop, when you can buy and OWN Affinity Photo for £67.99? Affinity Photo is blinding!

If you download Vue or Plant Factory, don't forget to download all the associated files, which include all the trees, plants, palms and grasses for Plant Factory and stuff for Vue like atmospheres, birds and animals (sharks, dogs, turtles etc), architecture, characters. If you are interested in Matte Painting/Concept Art/Photobashing, you'll be able to learn Vue and Plant Factory and have a free library of 3D objects to bring into the Affinity Photo artwork that you create.

Check out the video by Vladimir Chopin (GeekatPlay), who has created many fabulous tutorials on both Vue and Plant Factory that you can watch for free on YouTube to get you started. He's great! I used to watch his videos years ago when E-On owned the software. 

Have fun creating!

Del

 

[henryanthony]

LOL! Vampire Barbie! I like that. And, good job. At some point, I need to get into Plant Factory. 

[DelN]

Thanks henryanthony,

I think you'll be hooked when you start playing with Plant Factory. When you start experimenting with the different species of plants you can create (like alien plants and money trees), or the many trees, shrubs and ferns that come with the software and the different varieties like young plants, old plants, trees with leaves or bare branches, twisted gnarled trunks and roots, playing with animating the plant in the wind, growing them from a seedling to a tree or fully grown shrub, growing new leaves in the spring and the leaves turning brown and yellow in the Autumn, then losing them in the winter...

And Vue is just as addictive cos you can paint with vegetation onto a terrain, lower clouds and mist, create mountains, create rocks, animate the growth of plants on a terrain over time as you see in the movies (cos it is used by the film industry), create little islands of lush vegetation, planets, bring in oceans, import 3D objects and plants from Plant Factory, and bring them into your Affinity Photo artwork. It's just another tool at your disposal, but one that can make your portfolio look really impressive...

Del

[henryanthony]

Thanks Del! Now if I can just create a duplicate of me, I will have time for this new software. 

Funny thing is, I have been playing around with pink and other pastel colors and have been using the Barbie movie as a reference. When I saw the image you created I thought to myself, "Barbie" and then read you had mentioned this further down in your post. It made me laugh!

[DelN]

Ah, time. Yes, that's always been a problem for me...

I've not seen the Barbie movie. Not had the time. Ha-ha!