Category: collage
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Optical Art in minutes
I have a book published by the Hayward Gallery for a retrospetive exhibition of Bridget Riley in 1971. The book cost £2 from a charity shop and was well worth it. It contains plates of a lot of her Op Art from the early 1960s. I thought it would be fun to try to reproduce…
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Backgrounds in minutes
I’ve been making lots of Animal illustrations recently and noticed that I spend a lot of time on the animals themselves and yet manage to enhance the final image considerably by throwing together some background components in literally a few minutes. My approach is to make sure that the background components are less detailed than…
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Holy eyeballs: digital collage using vectors, part 4
This is Part 4 of a series of short articles. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 if you are new here. In this article I want to introduce two new patters and a technique used in the Chameleon image introduced in Part 3 by focussing on the eyeball. New patterns The first new…
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C is for Chameleon: digital collage using vectors part 3
This is part 3 of a series of articles about creating digital collages with Affinity Designer software. If this is new to you, start with Part 1. The new aspect I wanted to talk about in this part is the idea of layering fills and patterns to make more complex effects like this which is…
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R is for Robin, S is for Swan: Digital collage using vectors part 2
Assuming you have readt Part 1 of the Digital Collage article series, there are two improvements to my approach described in this article: Use of a source photo to to guide the shapes used as clipping masks to contain the colours and the patterns. The photo was also used to sample the basic colours for…
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C is for Cat: Digital collage using vectors part 1
I’ve been exploring making digital collages, inpsired by the like of Clare Youngs on Pinterest and Instagram. They use actual ink, paint and paper which they cut out to make collages. I wanted to see whether I could approximate the same using just vectors and Affinity Designer and without getting my hands dirty. My first…
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Uhura and the free Nichelle campaign
Wanting to improve my vector skills j decided to make an image of lieutenant Uhura from the original Star Trek series. Most of it is flat vector fills. On the hair and boots I went for a cheap shine effect by adding Gaussian blur. I discovers a new trick. Once you have the fills and…