LiamQuinn Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 What Are Joyful Junctions? I'm working on developing a collection of illustrative, colourful artworks, based on visually memorable junctions in and around Scotland. I started with Glasgow, my home town, but have now expanded out to other interesting areas with varying complexity. I'll post some examples of my favourites here, but if you like, you can see the whole collection on my Behance Gallery. Improvements I'd Like to Make / Affinity Designer Questions It's my first time using a real graphic design software suite beyond Powerpoint, but it's a testament to the developers that Affinity is so easy to get used to. That being said, I was wondering if there's a way to have a curve follow the same curvature as another. For example, when I have one road running parallel to another for some section, and want to maintain a uniform distance between the curves for the duration of that section. If this tool exists in the program, please do let me know! MEB, Ash Eldritch, Callum and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Cool idea and execution. I don't think such an "offset" tool exists yet but in the meantime one way is to create a stroke extra wide then duplicate that stroke directly on top of the first stroke and use it to create a thinner stroke in the lighter colour above the extra thick stroke in exactly the same shape or curvature. The light thin stroke then becomes the uniform distance between what now appears to be two adjacent strokes, I hope that makes sense... MEB and LiamQuinn 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...
LiamQuinn Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 Hadn't thought of doing it that way, that's great! In the absence of a true offset tool, I'll give that a shot, thank you retrograde 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 You're welcome. Love to see how it works out for you. 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...
Kasper-V Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Love 'em, Liam! As an ex-Midlander, I'd like to see your treatment of Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham (with the canal, if you like). LiamQuinn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamQuinn Posted November 8, 2017 Author Share Posted November 8, 2017 Thanks Kasper, I've actually had that suggested a couple of times already so it's certainly on the list Currently converting my works into CMYK format though to put together a Scotland calendar, but will then be going back to making new ones! Kasper-V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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