Shaun T. Dy's Adventures in Casual Digital Art

I decided to give Mandala patterns another spin today. I hope you enjoy my "cloth" artwork.   

I may have dropped MS Paint, but as said, some people might want to have the "MS Paint style" despite being happy with Affinity's more forgiving canvas. Some people may want to do MS Paint-style art with vector shapes and the like.  My first experiment (with outlines as thin as five pixels) creates the MS Paint effect. I may have done this on purpose to show kids, "Hey kids, you can do MS Paint style work without the unforgiving canvas!"  On the other hand, I thought of this using the two-pixel outline. It has a more dignified pattern. This thinner one has a more illustrator vibe. 

Here's my recent attempt to correct yesterday's artwork . So yeah, I'm learning new stuff, as I felt yesterday's artwork was too wonky. So far, I've always felt like MS Paint has been better only for "fast jobs". But projects like these? I'd choose Affinity because I have more freedom and better editing power, even when it's not perfect.   

To be honest, this is blatantly not a masterpiece. I was looking at some "how to draw with MS Paint" tutorials on YouTube and decided to use Affinity to "contest them". Now, here's the use of drawing using curves, duplicates, and the like. Here's my art, and honestly, I feel like it's "juvenile" since I'm just a casual artist.   

  This is an art where I had to learn the art of masking. Yes, it's not outstanding, but it's a learning experience I had with Affinity Photo, all before Affinity by Canva came out. 

These are some of my older artworks revisited. I did these before Canva purchased Affinity and created the freenium program that combined Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher, and Affinity Designer as Affinity . 

I dug out some of my older art, and this is what I found. By mastering how to insert texture within a selected shape/curve and some bevel/emboss tricks, I was able to come up with these goblet arts. 

I tend to do art to relax myself. It also through doing this that I discovered that one may need to adjust the settings to handle multiple curves. However, I only use vector graphics to draw with a more "accurate" isometric art. But as you can see, the artwork is anything but a masterpiece and just another casual piece of digital art.