affinity – codeberean

Exploring Fractal

January 16, 2019
Design / Photo Editing

I find fractal confusing. For now it’s a trial and error thing for me, and slowly I’m getting a hang of it. Used the free version of Chaotica to generate the background image, and Affinity Designer to put the text on it.

Alchemy in Krita?

January 10, 2019
Drawing / Painting

The Shapes_Fill brush is a very strange tool at first sight! I have wondered why Krita even included it, but to my amazement this is an extremely helpful tool for brainstorming and quick thumbnailing. Check out Alchemy if you haven’t heard of it before. I haven’t used Alchemy before and this is my first attempt at it in Krita.

This experiment was carried out today. I had a lot of fun playing with this brush! What you see was done entirely with the Shapes_Fill brush alone.

EDIT: I went and tried it out on Affinity Designer, with “Frankentoon – SciFi Starter Pack” brush set. I wish Krita can do something like this, where the brush can stretch out the texture/brush tip as you draw it.

Now, the better reason to keep your job is that when you’re not working on your art—when you’re not thinking about it—your unconscious will be working on it. A great deal of A.E. Houseman’s poetry was composed when he was away form his desk. He habitually took a stroll for two or three hours a day. It was then, he remarked, that “sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza at once,” would spring into his mind.

— R.O. Blechman (Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator)