About
This page contains original images created while learning drawing and colourization tools. The objective is the creation of tennis-specific visuals for use in a blog, website, or other forms of communication.
This page also shows portfolio pieces, fitness certificates/routine, and a tennis video.
Fearful Server
Comic book image adapted from a Tennis Canada example.
Frankentoon Mystery Box Visuals
Two visuals created from Frankentoon Studios free Mystery Box gifts. The first is from a lesson in adding textures to objects. Crab photograph courtesy of Pexels. The second is a composition using free botanical brushes.
Crab in Seaweed (top) and Leafy Scene (bottom)
Raster Painting
Exercises in colouring. The following use the Pixel Persona in Affinity Designer. Pixel persona allows the use of raster tools along with vector tools in the same document. The raster tools take the form of paint brushes and stamps. Inked drawings supplied by Frankentoon Studio.
Messy Sketches
Visuals created from Frankentoon Studio lessons in adding textures using layer clipping masks.
Jungle Scene
Visual created from a Frankentoon Studio lesson in creating, storing and assembling abstract digital assets, such as trees and vegetation.
Tennis Mountain
Icon used in blogs and web pages to depict that learning tennis for some is a mountain to climb.
Warrior Princess
Visual created from a Frankentoon Studio lesson Advanced Illustration 1. Inking was done using the pen tool from a Frankentoon-supplied pencil sketch. Colourization was done from supplied colour swatches and gradient colour swatches.
Isometric House
Fun house project created from a Frankentoon Studio lesson on Isometric Illustration.
Boy on Ball Sketch
Exercise in inking using a Wacom tablet on a scanned photograph of Theo Sanchez Miller sitting on a soccer ball.
Brothers on a Bus
“Pencil sketch” of Luca and Theo travelling on a bus in Madrid. Sketch created from a photo using Affinity Photo effects (top) then mounted on an NX2 Graphics Urban Mockup frame (bottom).
Theo Head Shot
“Pencil sketch” of Theo’s head, capturing the excitement of a school sack race in Madrid. Sketch created from a photo using Affinity Photo effects.
Vector Painting
Created from a lesson on painting with Vector brushes – El Malo – for Engraving, Hatching, Stippling, and Liners. Modelled after the Frankentoon Studio character El Luchador.
Tournament Posters
The following 8 1/2″ x 11″ poster was designed in Affinity Designer, using Affinity Photo to crop the photograph of a junior playing on the grey clay courts of Cambridge Tennis Club.
The following is a later, 8 /12 x 11 poster for two Rookie Tour tournaments, showing transparency and a textured background. This was designed in Affinity Designer incorporating the pixel persona for the background (a raster paintbrush stamp).
Signage
For signage on a shipping container acquired to be used as a storage shed, the tennis club name was stencilled using cutouts on adhesive vinyl sheets. Stencils were stuck on the containter then painted acryllic white. The figures below the name were enlarged tracing stencils from Rapid Resizer that were etched in pen then painted white.
Logo Design
Logo showing city of Cambridge logo inscribed into a tennis ball. Designed for Tennis Cambridge, which is an organization representing the 4 tennis clubs in Cambridge, Ontario.
Logo of the TennisCambridge organization.
Fitness
The following sections show fitness certificates and a video of the boxercise fitness program.
Certification
Fitness Program Video
The following video (about 20 minutes) shows the main elements of boxercise fitness program. Warmups, stretches, and cool downs are not shown for the sake of brevity. Video created from camera footage exported to Movavi Video Suite.
Tennis Fitness in Action
The following video (1.5 minutes) shows a long rally with Luke Mao in June, 2023. Video created from camera footage exported to Movavi Video Suite.
Photography
Family portrait converted from camera raw format in Affinity Photo with Frankentoon “unsplash” special effect applied.
Brothers on a Bus Unsplashed
Luca and Theo travelling on a Madrid bus. Unsplash effect (top) and Shadows Overlay (bottom) applied to photograph in Affinity Photo.
Theo with Yoyo
Theo spinning a giant yoyo with 2 sticks. Unsplash effect applied to photograph in Affinity Photo.
