Tower of the Pumpkin – Illustration in Affinity Designer

This was my entry for the banner competitors on towers and turrets of the Affinity Designer – hands-on Facebook group. As I’m an administrator within the group and decide the entries, it didn’t run within the competitors – but it surely was nice enjoyable to work on.

I additionally wanted to show some extent to myself as I simply had a irritating appointment with the hand therapist. Photos from 3 years in the past confirmed some main adjustments – none for the higher. It’s particularly irritating as there’s little extra I can do however train, hold utilizing my arms, and monitor the progressive decline of muscle mass in my arms.
So, slightly than sit again and really feel sorry for myself [I did that for a little while and got bored with it quickly], I sat down and labored on a difficult illustration. It was quite a lot of enjoyable!

As far as the method goes – I used tapered strokes for the vines, expanded them, and put them into a bunch to be used with the Shape Builder. Creating the intertwined parts in components. It simply will get complicated when you might have greater than 2 strains. I then joined them again along with Boolean Add to create the shapes for the clipping masks. The preliminary strains grew to become the bottom for the shading and a replica makes use of a vector brush for the road patterns. More strains with tapered strokes make the highlights – utilizing Overlay and Add because the mix mode. Additional shapes change the color of the inexperienced with Vivid Light and Colour because the mix mode.