CreationsOfKoon Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Hello everyone! First post in the forums, so here's a little introduction/explanation first: I've been looking for a good alternative to Illustrator (which I use in my daily job) for my freelance work and came across Affinity Designer. I lurked through the forums a bit, saw the introductory video about a hundred times and eventually when Illustrator abolished my last nerve and obliterated any pieces of patience I had left, I knew - Affinity Designer will be the software I use! I thought it would be a cool idea to try and record my first project with the program and share it with the community. It's nothing special, mostly shapes and gradients, but I had to start somewhere, so here goes: A video of the process: https://youtu.be/QlpYsvdkpEY The photo of the t-shirt guy is from unsplash.com. Thanks for having a look! Pmejna, NilsFinken, kufloyd and 2 others 5 Quote creationsofkoon.de Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted January 30, 2017 Staff Share Posted January 30, 2017 Hey CreationsOfKoon, it's great to have you onboard. Video's displaying your process are always welcome so thanks for including that. I had to do a double take on the t-shirt as well as I thought it was printed at first. Well done :) 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...
NilsFinken Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Great! Thanks for showing the process, too! Am I right that you work only with closed shapes in the project? Quote Lenovo laptop with Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM, Windows 10 Home. Former user of most Serif software from PagePlus 3.0 through PagePlus X9, now enjoying Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreationsOfKoon Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 Chris, thanks for the nice words! I overlaid the design on the photo and blurred the edges of the mask slightly to make it blend better. I think the pixel view made it a lot easier to trace the shirt, than if I had to do an approximation with only a vector line. One of the features I found really nice from the introductory video on the AD website. Nils, thanks for having a look at the project! Yeah, those are all closed shapes. For the middle and bottom part I used the polygon tools, that are already available, so they already produce closed shapes, but for the top part, where I used the pen tool, I made sure to close all shapes. It's something I have left from working with advertising agencies - non-closed curves means bad news. It applies mostly to plotters or laser-cutters, but it can cause issues if you export your art for other vector or 3D software such as Blender as well. Obviously not a 100% necessary thing to do, depending on what you do with your artwork, it's just a habit I have. situtul and Chris B 2 Quote creationsofkoon.de Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Nice blues, good tones too. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francisgreen Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Hi CreationsOfKoon, It's look very nice and really loved the color combination of this. Also, I would like to have this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Love the way you take new software and make it work for you! Great job. Now step back and consider whether the lighting is what you intended. :) Quote ♥ WIN 10 AD & AP ♥ Lenovo Legion Y520 15.6" Laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pmejna Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Hello - I like the design. It is like moth pattern motif (my interpretation :) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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