Today I managed to trace over my fan-art painting of Lum Invader from Urusei Yatsura with Affinity Designer. I could just as well have used Clip Studio Paint or Illustrator, but I’m determined to use Affinity Designer. I feel that, hopefully, with lots of practice, I’ll be able to work faster and draw my characters more consistently. I’m a dreamer.
This my first vector drawing. I had many before before I could complete this simple drawing. I’ve been practicing using the vector pen tool with Illustrator and Affinity Design, and now with Clip Studio Paint EX. CSP’s bezier curves have some useful features that I haven’t seen in Illustrator of Affinity Design. Jeez! That statement doesn’t mean anything. I know almost nothing about those two programs, I may be insanely wrong.
When I’m learning something new, I really have to push myself to keep going. It’s all too easy for me to say, “Bezier curves are stupid and I’m so talented I don’t need”, and then quit. That’s the way I operated for most of my life. I got enthusiastic, tried and little, and gave up with things got tough. I’m glad I got over that kind of thinking. Even though it took me 50 years, it’s never to late get out of the ditch and get back on track.
When I first started using Clip Studio Paint years ago, I tried the bezier curves a bit, became baffled, and quit learning about them. Today I tried them again. My opinion is in the formative stage. I can see that bezier curves would be great for all of those things that should have precise curves. Time will tell if I have the patience to do the work to become comfortable with vectors.
Besides baking some peanut butter cookies and tempeh coated with cornmeal and spicy buffalo sauce, I attempted, once again, to get the Intuos tablet working on macOS … and failed again. To solve the problem I bought Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo for Windows. Problem solved, I hope.
Speaking of the unexpected, there’s always taxes. When I filed my taxes this year, I forgot to include some income. When I filed the amended tax form, I had to return all of the refund we got. That’s life.
I spent the day going our taxes, but I moved forward one inch anyway. Here’s the image of Momma Jay scolding Jimmy for disobeying her strict order not to go near the scary chimney. Squarespace makes it simple to get a post up quickly with minimum fuss. It’s worth the $$$.
