![]() ![]() If anyone would find it useful I will upload it here. I have created a step-by-step tutorial in MS Word of how I create an image brush. ![]() jpg images of textures to paint with textured brush dabs. The brush settings in Affinity Photo allow you to create amazing variants of the brushes you create, setting the spacing and placement of brush dabs, rotation, twisting brush strokes, nozzles, recolouring the brush dabs and strokes, and using other seamless. Some brushes I create from several images and create a 'nozzle' and set the brush stroke for this brush at 'random' so that it cycles through all the images I have saved in that brush. Then I import each individual image back into Affinity Photo and create a brush from it. I select the area of an image I think will make an interesting brush dab/stroke, then remove the background and save the individual object/section of an object and export it as a. Recently, I have been taking images of lichen on fallen branches. I made all the 'Nature' brushes from images - toadstools, leaves, moss, lichen, rocks, grass, branches, birds, butterflies, bits of broken tree bark. It takes a lot of time to create them, but I like the result, testing the brush strokes and dabs once I have made them and then creating a scene by painting and dabbing with them. It's made entirely from the brush strokes and brush dabs of the 'Nature' brushes I have been creating (for weeks and weeks). It has taken me a long time to create all the brushes of stones, rocks, rock faces, trees, lichen, toadstools, twisted branches, moss, ferns and to adjust the brush settings just to begin painting with them. This is the first one I have done using Affinity Photo. I usually use Painter to create my greetings cards and have hundreds of Painter brushes - gold, jewels, silver, glass, diamonds, pearls, satins and silk brushes, and, of course, hundreds of 'Nature' brushes. And if your portfolio is good, they will train you. Check out the job opportunities by typing 'Presentations Design' in Google. anywhere large corporations have a 'Presentations' department. Not only London, but all over the globe - Sydney, Australia, New York, Paris, Frankfurt. ![]() Its a great place to start your design career. There is a whole hidden industry of design, 'Presentation Design' and 'Presentation Specialist' jobs and you can get into this market if you use Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Later, I became a Graphic Designer and worked for nearly 20 years at Deutsche Bank doing cover design, Powerpoint template design, redrawing logos and maps, animation and so much more. This started my interest in digital design. I kept opening it up and just looking in awe at the tools, then finally I read some of the manual, checked out the Help files and figured it out. I can remember opening CorelDraw when I first purchased it and just staring at all the tools and the blank page. I started using CorelDraw with version 5, and Painter when it was owned by Fractal Design, also version 5. I also have been using CorelDraw and Corel Painter for many years (longer than I used Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign). So I switched to Affinity Photo/Designer. I have been using Affinity Photo for a while now - ever since Adobe decided that they were going to force their users to 'RENT' their software and that they are no longer interested in lowly individual designers, they are only interested in large corporate accounts. *Best when used with a drawing tablet (desktop) or Apple Pencil (iPad).I have been designing new 'Nature' brushes in Affinity Photo so that I can create nature scenes, micro worlds and greeting card designs. *Compatible with Affinity Photo and Designer for desktop and iPad. You know when your Copic is on it's last legs? Yeah, basically that.ĭonations are obviously welcome, but you can download these for free by typing $0 (or the amount that you wish to donate) in the "Name a fair price" box and click "I want this!". Traditional style technical pen for a more controlled linework aesthetic. While the tools themselves are quite basic, the main goal with these was more to create brushes that had a really nice natural feel when drawing with them.Īlways good to have around for those quick sketches and thumbnails.įirm, but flexible, this opaque brush is great for a variety of inking styles.Ī 'low inkflow' version of the Blippy Brush for some added character. The brushes were all made using the same base 'stamp' which started as an accidental ink blotch that showed up on a scanned document. A nifty-thrifty set of Affinity brushes for illustration and digital art. ![]()
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