Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Harley and Ivy Kissing (Harlivy)

I created my own vector version of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy kissing by tracing over a panel originally drawn by Shae Beagle & Roberto Poggi from Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: Legion of Bats! #2.   I made some alterations to the girls, added some new effects, and labeled this recreation "Harlivy." I've included a side-by-side image for easier comparison.

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Sunday, December 3, 2023

Travis Kelce Catching a Football

This one was interesting to create something different on my version of Travis Kelce catching a football.  Took a few photo images, did some rough tracing with vectors to create the main body, and then started using Affinity Designer's knife tool to cut out the detail shape areas, and then recolored things trying to use limited colors.  I only used a couple gradient fills trying to keep most of the coloring plain and simple solid colors.  When you discard my two gradients I think this is less than 12 colors.   This vector image can scale to just about any size and not distort so that is cool.

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Saturday, December 2, 2023

Affinity Designer 2.3.0 Spiral Tool

This month's enhancement to Affinity Designer 2.3.0 added a new Spiral Tool, which you can see I used in my previous post.. Check out Spiral Tool Video Feature Walk-Thru.

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The Last Acorn - Animated Movie Starring Selena Gomez, Antonio Banderas and John Leguizamo

Here is my pre-production copy of the movie poster for The Last Acorn which is an upcoming animated movie starring Selena Gomez, Antonio Banderas, and John Leguizamo.  I brought four separate Bing Image Creator (DALL-E 3) prompt creations of mine into a single combined layout. 

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Friday, December 1, 2023

Green Lantern power battery with logo text work

I tested out the new Affinity 2.3.0 release today (cool new spiral tool available, but not used on this image), and with it, I finally had a chance to utilize IamRensi lights, lens flare, and particle brushes. Started with Designer font for the Green Lantern logo, converted it to curves, stacked and edited nodes for a 3D look, along with more warp group tweaks, then converted it into a second warp group to get the perspective laid down, Then took my work back to Affinity Photo, added a gradient for the lens flare coloring on the text, plus lots of various live filters on different layers, while compositing it into the 3d battery image I found online. 

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Thursday, November 30, 2023

Dua Lipa Polaroid photos

Just some simple layer work, featuring Dua Lipa, while playing with Affinity Photo template-type design setup on my end.  Created multiple editing layers so that I can inject new photographs onto the Polaroid layout for future experiments.  

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Liliatha, our youngest redheaded witch is levitating in her living room.

 I started with a Bing Image Creator (DALL-E 3) prompt "a picture of a red-headed woman 30 years old bouncing on a pogo stick" then brought that into Affinity and started working on some minor tweaks, edits, and tried to weed out some of the artificial look.   I'm titling this "Liliatha, our youngest redheaded witch is levitating in her living room." 

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Sunday, November 26, 2023

Batgirl in a Dark Alley (Bruce Timm)

I pulled a Bruce Timm created Batgirl image and placed her into a full background of a dark alley with graffiti. 

Batman Wants to Put You In a Coma

Eduardo Barreto had a nice panel in DC Comics' Batman - Gotham by Gaslight, which I pulled out, isolated, and then did a few edits and added fresh dialogue "Why don't I help you slip into something more comfortable... like a coma."

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