Category: Hyperrealistic
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Analysis of soap bubble images
The more I learn, the more I realise success is about getting the analysis right. What I mean is, the wrong approach will fail because it rapidly becomes too hard to do, whereas the right approach can succeed only through structure and a disciplined deployment of the right tools. As a beginner, one does not…
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Credible neon lights
We were recently set a challenge in a Facebook group to make designs looking like neon lights. This article documents how I went about it using Affinity Designer (v1). Set a background I wanted the lights to be mounted on a brick wall, so I chose a stock image of bricks: But I wanted the…
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Self portraits
My first digital self portraits using vectors was copied from a photo. I struggled with the hair and in particular the beard. With the glasses I went off on one and ended up making them hyper-realistic as an experiment. These were glasses from a few years ago. See my other post about hyper-realistic drawing of…
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Photorealism: glasses in the sun
A friend took a photo of my glasses lying on the window sill in bright sunlight. the combination shadows and other light effects that I cannot explain made an intriguing image. After six months of playing with Affinity Designer, I wondered whether I was up to the task of reproducing a passable copy of the…