retrograde Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Hi all, just some doodling here trying out painting inside of shapes in Designer. Started playing with Paolo's blender brushes he so graciously created. When using them in conjunction with the smudge tool you get some really nice mixing abilities. In the call out shape for instance I painted a mixture of the 2 main colours then applied some "blending" using one of Paolo's spatter blend brushes. It just spatters using the underlying colour and doesn't put any new colour down. Changing the size of the brush changes the size of the texture it paints. For the eyeball, (I didn't start out to do an eye it just ended up that way) I used a mix of painting and blending especially in the white of the eye with the blood vessels and texturing... then in the iris I painted inside the circle shape laying in the colour in the general areas and using Paolo's blenders to really gave it a nice complex feel. I usually add a .01 gaussian blur to take the hard edge off the shapes. it tends to soften the paint work a bit but it's a reasonable trade off. On the donut-pie shape I was just playing with a nice painterly play of light and shadow. The blenders are great for adding that "painterly" feel with tons of control. Again by reducing the blender brush size the blend effect gets smaller and more precise. This is all in Designer, which for me is probably where I will spend most of my time. The fact that I can get these type of results in a "vector" app is incredible. The hardest part of all of this is knowing when to stop! :D Hanzz 1 Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted February 8, 2015 Author Share Posted February 8, 2015 Hi folks, sorry but I just realized/remembered that Paolo lent me his blender brush prototypes to try out, so they aren't yet available for general use. (DOH!) I'm so excited about Designer I've lost my mind... :D But when they are, you'll be able to tackle what I discuss in the paragraph above. Shouldn't be long before they are out for everyone to try. :( :) Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafdancing Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Nice Retrograde! Paolo's blender brushes would be a great asset, for sure. Will they be in Affinity Photo too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Nice Retrograde! Paolo's blender brushes would be a great asset, for sure. Will they be in Affinity Photo too? Hi, thanks, yes I believe that's the plan. :) Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 nice demos! Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, macOS Sequoia 15.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 18.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leafdancing Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 That's great! Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 All great work: nice glass eye Retrograde, King Paulo I does it again! Well done you to you both. 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...
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