segts Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Affinity Designer Workbook is essential for every artists' stocking! Read my review of the book! I also made an illustration to try out what I learned from the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted December 19, 2016 Staff Share Posted December 19, 2016 Hey segts, welcome to the Affinity Forums :)Thanks for the review! I can tell you've made good use of the book with how you've brought your illustration to life. Great work! segts and DivSmart 2 Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segts Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Thanks Chris! The masking features in Affinity replaced any need for wanting the Appearance Palette like in Adobe Illustrator. The book was a quick was to ramp up and understand the full power of Designer and I haven't tried everything yet! Looking forward to a book for Affinity Photo!!! Great work, Affinity team! S:) Chris B and DivSmart 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Valuable review. AD is not just a clone of AI. Each tool has a specific way of working, and you showed how AD got the same job done. By your account, faster and easier. If you get around to it, I'd love to see a tute on how you did the face shadings. DivSmart 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segts Posted December 20, 2016 Author Share Posted December 20, 2016 Hi Gdenby! Thanks so much! I'm glad it was helpful. To make things easier to manage in Illustrator, I would add multiple gradient fills with the Appearance Palette so that I wouldn't have to use a lot of clipping masks. The technique that I used for the face in AD was something I developed when drawing in Synfig. Both Synfig and AD have similar approaches and make for richer blends of gradients and easily masked shapes. Here's a movie of me doing the Appearance Palette approach in Illustrator. I'll definitely think about making a video for AD. You can see the difference in the complexity of gradients you can build easily in AD as opposed to Illustrator. https://vimeo.com/67880405 Chris B 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivSmart Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Hi Gdenby! ...Here's a movie of me doing the Appearance Palette approach in Illustrator. I'll definitely think about making a video for AD. You can see the difference in the complexity of gradients you can build easily in AD as opposed to Illustrator. https://vimeo.com/67880405 Thanks sgts, I commented on your vimeo. Michael segts 1 Quote ------AD 1.7.1, AP 1.7.1;Hhave ADW, Serif PagePlus X8 and X9 on an old PCiMac Retina 5K, 27 inch, Late 2015, 3.2Ghz i5, 8GB 1867Mhz DDR3, AMD Radeon R9 M380 2GB; 1TB HDD, macOS Mojave 10.14.5 Wacom Intuos 5 Pro (wireless - without lagging). Visit my site: TechniSmart (when I ever find time to work on it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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