Craig Deeley Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 It's the organic look that can be achieved with a tool like AD - even if the look is a little out of fashion - that really is the most fun. Ink and watercolor-like effects - vector brushes. I am including the .afdesign file for digging around in. shroom2.afdesign Rick G, MartinB78, Alfred and 5 others 8 Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Wow! I love that. It's going into my inspiration file! Thanks for sharing. Quote ♥ WIN 10 AD & AP ♥ Lenovo Legion Y520 15.6" Laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlunR Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 This is lovely. Not many illustrators can use a pure graphics package and achieve such an organic (pun intended) and subtle style. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Cheers Craig, I will take a look. 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...
gdenby Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Lovely indeed. Inspiring. Thanks for including the file. Simple lines, but a wonderful use of the vector textures. 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...
Alfred Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 22 minutes ago, gdenby said: Lovely indeed. Inspiring. Thanks for including the file. Simple lines, but a wonderful use of the vector textures. What he said! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Hey Craig which set of brushes does this use? Are they in the file? One of the little things I'd like to see eventually in Designer is when you select a brush it's displayed or highlighted in the brush panel. Craig Deeley and Alfred 2 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...
Alfred Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 34 minutes ago, retrograde said: One of the little things I'd like to see eventually in Designer is when you select a brush it's displayed or highlighted in the brush panel. Preferably not too "eventually"! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Deeley Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 retrograde and Alfred, You have touched on the number one missing aspect of AD's Brushes tool set. I have mentioned it before in other posts. At the very least being able to identify a stroke(brush) in the Brushes various control menus would make AD 1000 percent more effective as an art tool. Having a tap and switch functionality like the ancient Expression3 application would be ideal. I dream of the day. For art made with freehand brush strokes - and especially sequential or illustration art where many images share a common look (and tool sets including brushes) the ability to quickly identify and move between brushes is a must. All the more so when brush collections can have hundreds and hundreds of brushes. This one missing aspect of AD is the biggest hope I have for feature improvements for the application. The brushes used in the file on this thread should all be available (if at the moment impossible to identify) in the various brush sets I have shared on the forum. Miguel (MEB) has collected them all here: http://www.miguelboto.com/affinity/resources/ under Brushes. A_B_C and Alfred 2 Quote My Portfolio site: http://www.i-toons.com My art related blog: http://greenlightcd.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Cheers Craig and Alfred. I have brought it up before as well. I wonder why this important and critical workflow aspect hasn't been implemented. A highlight or some kind of indication of the current brush being used I would think shouldn't be too tricky and would genuinely make a real difference to most users. It must be a priority thing...and with a small team, hard to get to. Patience obi wan. 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...
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