Shaun T. Dy's Adventures in Casual Digital Art

TBH learning how to make mesh art is easier said than done. I watched this video and started working on these.  As for the mesh background, I used this as a guide to learn how to make the mesh gradient. Now, here are the outcome of mixing two concepts together.   This is my first mesh art. I must admit this is quite messy compared to this... This is the second one where I formed the mesh mountain. So far, this is what I call my more "refined mesh art". 

Here's some of my art for today on Ninoy Aquino Day. Enjoy the vector-inspired art I made using Affinity by Canva. 

  I thought about whether or not I should go back to drawing Bevel-Emboss art any time soon. However, I felt that Bevel-Emboss 

  I decided to mix some random art together, create this and that, and boom. Here's my rather strange idea of growing some grapes near a mango tree, and some flower pots stacked up. Kind of a silly idea actually! 

  Here's my first attempt to create a row of flowers in isometric art. I confess it's not easy to make these, especially since I'm not known for spatial awareness. I had a row of roses and jasmine flowers for this rather simple art. 

I decided to learn how to use the Shape Builder tool to create more of these. Enjoy my grape art!  Here is my basic grape vine art using the shape builder tool.  I decided to implement the same grape vines in isometric art. Pretty much, I'm not proud of my work. Here's my latest grape art. This is my own attempt to create a grape orchard art. 

I decided to revisit some old fruit tree art. So yeah, you can see these are just my simple art evolution. Just enjoy them!  This was obviously created with a beginner set in mind.  I've been a bigger fan of mangoes over apples so I created this. Well, I decided to imagine an apple plantation as well. 

Here's an attempt of mine to draw an apple orchard. I'm just imagining this as any random cold climate country where apples grow.   

Here's an artwork I made sometime in early 2025 -- all before I went for Affinity by Canva after realizing I was using "stagnated software". So yeah, Affinity doesn't have the animated GIF feature. So I used EZGIF online website to create this.   

Right now, I decided to draw the solar system with Affinity using Vector studio. This would be a bit of a challenge since I had to learn how to do more gradients and  use the shape builder tool. Enjoy my modest work!  Below is the animation that made me do a lot of trial and error. Honestly, it took four hours to make the GIF below.  So yeah, the animation is rather choppy if you ask me. Making an animation has not been easy TBH. If only Affinity could add the animation feature sooner or later.

  This is my latest attempt at an art of ancient Egypt. As you can see, I still prefer to put outlines to give it the "MS Paint" touch while saying, "This would be much harder in MS Paint." It took me an hour and some minutes to accomplish this, as I had to experiment this and that. 

  Last time, I used masking when I made my first atom art . However, I decided to try using the shape builder compared to masking (in Affinity Photo back then) to see how the shape builder works. However, in the end, I tend to save most of my work in PNG format, so it's always going to get rasterized anyway. 

I decided to use these pieces of art for Affinity by Canva to create these rose arts. Now, time to look at the variations that I did for the past few days.    Here is a pot of roses using vector style.  This is yet another rose mandala which I might use in any future heart. An ideal heart frame for Valentine's Day.