Showing posts with label logos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logos. Show all posts

July 8, 2020

Vectorwhiz portfolio booklet


I have created a new portfolio in pdf the you find here, that you can download to view offline. The file size is 28 MB, so slow connections may need some time to download the document. I have resampled the images to 144 DPI (original resolution is 300 DPI) so that download time is limited while the appearance of the images remains acceptable.



Front cover page



This 88 page booklet was created in Affinity Publisher and contains:

  • vector portraits
  • vector paintings
  • vector illustrations
  • vector logos
  • vector T-shirt designs
  • pixel portraits
  • pixel paintings
  • 3D illustrations
  • 3D vector technical drawings
  • creative text - poetry


In the footer of each page in the document you find links to the TOC (table of contents) for easy navigation and a link to my website. The vector images were created in Affinity Designer, the pixel images in Affinity Photo and the 3D images in a 3D program named Rhinoceros v5. The poetry texts I usually create in Libre Office.

Affinity Publisher had trouble with the file for reasons so far unknown, but fortunately I was able to churn out a pdf file before it did. Publisher officially still is in Beta stage at this point, so it makes sense that things are not stable yet. I have good hope though that the developers of Serif (the owner of the Affinity programs) will be able to correct the bugs in a time not too far from now (July 2020).

My website - should you want to pay a visit  [wink wink, nudge nudge] - was made in Mobirise, the latest version of which seems to be much more stable than previous ones. Out of frustration about older Mobirise versions I wrote some unkind words about it (with good cause at the time) a few years back, but the latest version has not given any trouble so far.





July 23, 2019

My Digital Art portfolio

Not too long ago I was forced to take a break, but lately I cautiously started to get some things done again. Currently I am busy creating a portfolio of my Digital Art that will contain portraits, paintings, creative writing, DTP, tech art, logo design, illustration and cartoons. As some of you may have figured out as a result of my more recent posts, I have been putting an increasing emphasis on vector art for a while, but haven't yet abandoned pixel art all together. Affinity Designer makes it possible to even make realistic portraits and paintings in vectors that are indistinguishable from pixel art, except when this type of art is re-scaled; vector images retain their quality and crispness regardless of how much they're enlarged or sized down as opposed to pixel art that is created for one specific resolution.







But I digress. So far I've finished the cover of my Digital Art portfolio and a good number of pages that contain examples of my work, but the booklet needs to be completed still. At this point I am selecting a number of my poems to be contained within the document - I've written so many.... In addition I remake them in vectors to maintain the crispness of the fonts; so this may take some time. I plan to issue versions for print and for the web (in pdf) and will make them available in this blog and on the blog page on my website. Bear with me while I work on completing these documents and stay tuned. Above you see a 3D rendering of the booklet and below the cover image that was drawn in 100% vectors in Affinity Designer. The booklet is created in Affinity Publisher, Serif's newly released DTP-program.






I have vectorized the poems after which there are no more jagged edges (unless you zoom in like crazy). The portfolio is still not completed, but you can see the stage so far (August 1 2019) here. Bear with me; this document may still need editing. This will be completed in the final version that is still to be issued.





January 1, 2019

T-shirt designs


Here are some T-shirt designs I made, some of which admittedly are rather mundane, but I believe such are the requirements of the market of the printing-on-demand business. I created these, using Affinity Designer - the best vector drawing program around. Click on the images to enter Google's lightbox in which you can conveniently scroll through the images with your mouse's scroll wheel and see them against a dark background.

The T-shirts and other products with the designs can be ordered on the SpreadShirt site; just click the link in the captions below the shirt images.




Visit the Top Teez store on SpreadShirt





Visit the Top Teez store on SpreadShirt






Visit the Top Teez store on SpreadShirt






Visit the Top Teez store on SpreadShirt








Visit the Top Teez store on SpreadShirt