Shit! (pardon my French)

 

In this short blog article I show a cartoon that I drew a very long time ago in CorelDRAW, years later edited in Affinity Designer and recently, added more detail in Canva, that has bought Affinity. In the latter program I had to restart working from a bitmap (which I manually traced in CorelDRAW), since I no longer have that program, but I must admit, this is relatively easy in Canva, that combines Vector, Pixel and Layout (which is a full function DTP module) in a single Studio environment (....), that saves and opens these files in a single format (which is significantly useful). I nicked the original file from somewhere on the web, but over time added many details it did not contain. Painstakingly tinkering often characterises many aspects of my artwork, that forces me to use a lot of functions and tricks, that 'normal' people probably rarely apply.

Canva's combination of vector and pixel modules actually help a lot to continue to work on pixel based legacy files and CorelDRAW files that I can't open, since I no longer have the program; I recommend Canva to artists that share a similar problem that I have more often than I used to encounter in the past. Canva, by the way is free of charge, which perhaps is the beginning of the death knell for the absolutely ridiculously priced Adobe suit (with the exception of AI modules, that I think many artists never use). By the way, the spider web is empty, because its owner was eaten by the snake, before he began to devour the pig, which prohibited the serpent from answering the phone.  Anyway, below you see the image I referred to. And I apologise for the title of this cartoon. Oh and click on the image to see a larger version in Google's lightbox. Enjoy and maybe see you in the next blog entry to come, that is if I continue to live to write one.

Emojis

 

Here are a few emojis drawn by me in Affinity Designer, so they are all 100% vector. I did not want to make flat images without gradient colours and tried to mimic human facial expressions, of course exaggerating them somewhat. Exaggeration - imagining the extreme aspect of things - often helps to see the possible consequence of seemingly innocent thoughts, developments and policies. The one at the top is a T-shirt design, the rest below it are just plain emojis. In the captions below each emoji are links to alternative versions of the emojis shown here; you might want to take a peek.... 😄

T-shirt design and a
version for evil people

Deceit
for 'experts'

Wink
for other opinions

Devious
for out-of-the-box-thinkers

Grin
have nothing to hide?

LOL
for mainstreamers

Mental
for the annoyed

Erm....
for those who see

Rasta monkey cartoon

 

A short blog entry this time. I drew a vector rasta monkey cartoon in Affinity Designer, that I intend to use as a T-shirt design. Below the rendered image you see the vector wireframe view of it, which is quite simple and  hints at the fact that giving strokes and curves different properties and effects, is what really defines the appearance of an image. It also implies that these properties and effects can quickly be changed at a later stage. Click on the images to see larger versions of them in Google's Lightbox.

Vector wire frame view