Adrian G Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Hello, I've been experimenting with a new look for my 2D landscape designs, and have been wanted a more creative water colour aesthetic. Attached is my design. However, my drawing often gets bogged down by the images I've applied to the plants and surfaces, and I later get messages my computer is running out of memory. These symbols I've created for plants and furniture make each move a slow and lagy process. I've uploaded these images to my resource image palette and have chosen water colour swatches that have many of them so I don't have to upload too many images. However, stretching each image to fit unique shapes is an annoying process. 1) Does anyone know where I can buy or access swatches that have a unique water colour texture I can apply to my 2D surfaces? 2) Is there a way of uploading images to the resource browser so that they don't slow down the rendering of my drawing as I am working on it. Any ideas would be very much appreciated. Thank you 🙂 Gibson_PresentationPlan_01_02_22.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Hmmh, the problem will be that these will be separate Image Textures and may need a reasonable image resolution to look good. This will always need more memory than some delivered 2D Vector Graphics. But they look gorgeous ! Did you save each as single PNGs and optimized Pixel resolution to a minimal but reasonable amount already ? Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 On 4/20/2022 at 4:16 PM, Adrian G said: 1) Does anyone know where I can buy or access swatches that have a unique water colour texture I can apply to my 2D surfaces? An option could be to have a look at the Affinity store, there are several asset packs/add-ons for water colour artwork. You could use those to create tiles in e.g. Affinity Photo. A nice set could be https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/store/product/daub-watercolours-and-washes-brush-pack/ Then there are programs like ArtRage and Clip Studio Paint that may be useful to create your swatches. Krita (freeware paint program similar to ArtRage, Painter etc.) has a texture template, combined with its watercolour brushes it might be useful as well to try. Quote Link to comment
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