Francky Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Hello Affinity fans Today I drawn flamingos, interesting long-legged birds. I have made not use of textures, patterns, pixel layers or brushes, I just wanted a very simple illustration, just shapes, pen and gradients. Give a look at the illustration, drawn in Affinity Designer and tell me what do you think, leave your feed backs, write positive and negative The full project here on behance Wosven, GarryP, Mithferion and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper-V Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 It looks very like a piece of marquetry, with the simple shapes and -- especially -- the colours. Nice composition too. Sorry Francky -- I can't think of anything negative to say about it! Francky and peter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I agree with Kasper-V. The colours, composition and level of detail are great. It's also very nice that you have taken the time to make all of the birds different, rather than just making copies. The only thing I would add is that it might be better if the clouds tapered to a point at the bottom of one side to make it look like they are being pushed along by the wind, rather than just being static. I think that would add a little more "movement" to the image. As an extra added detail, you could try and find out whether flamingos would - or would not - fly into the wind as that could tell you which side of the clouds to taper (tapering the side into the wind). All-in-all though, nice work. Francky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I agree with @Kasper-V that it looks like a piece of marquetry and I can’t find anything negative to say about it. I don’t agree with @GarryP (sorry, Garry!) about adding movement by tapering the clouds; for me, those lovely flamingos give the image all the movement it needs. Cedge, SrPx and Francky 3 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...
GarryP Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 No worries @Alfred I've just done a very quick and crude mock-up for myself (see attached) and I'm not convinced that it would add much either now but maybe that's just my lack of illustration skills. @Francky will be able to do something much better than me but if they don't look right it could spoil the whole thing so it could be best to keep it as is. Francky and Alfred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francky Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 8 hours ago, GarryP said: I agree with Kasper-V. The colours, composition and level of detail are great. It's also very nice that you have taken the time to make all of the birds different, rather than just making copies. The only thing I would add is that it might be better if the clouds tapered to a point at the bottom of one side to make it look like they are being pushed along by the wind, rather than just being static. I think that would add a little more "movement" to the image. As an extra added detail, you could try and find out whether flamingos would - or would not - fly into the wind as that could tell you which side of the clouds to taper (tapering the side into the wind). All-in-all though, nice work. Wow GarryP thank You for the very nice suggestions! I will use your idea in next illustrations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francky Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 20 hours ago, Kasper-V said: It looks very like a piece of marquetry, with the simple shapes and -- especially -- the colours. Nice composition too. Sorry Francky -- I can't think of anything negative to say about it! Thank You Kaspev-V Your feed backs are very very important, which are telling me the direction for next works, what to do better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francky Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 8 hours ago, Alfred said: I agree with @Kasper-V that it looks like a piece of marquetry and I can’t find anything negative to say about it. I don’t agree with @GarryP (sorry, Garry!) about adding movement by tapering the clouds; for me, those lovely flamingos give the image all the movement it needs. Thank You for your feed back Alfred However gusto apart, moving clouds or static ones, all your feed backs are teaching how do better illustrations Thank You !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francky Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 5 hours ago, GarryP said: No worries @Alfred I've just done a very quick and crude mock-up for myself (see attached) and I'm not convinced that it would add much either now but maybe that's just my lack of illustration skills. @Francky will be able to do something much better than me but if they don't look right it could spoil the whole thing so it could be best to keep it as is. Thank You for the demo, I get your idea now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 You're welcome. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 That would really depend on whether you're making them or wanting them. In other words, do you want suggestions on how to make quality wallpapers or do you want suggestions on where to get them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liumingming Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 very good I like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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