The Complete Collection for Affinity

First, I would like to review Retro Supply Co, not as a business, but as a community. This isn't just another company vying for your attention and your wallet. They care, and that is obvious with their customer service. This is a labor of love and it shines through in each product they put out.

I am new to digital art and am learning how to expand my craft each day. The products are so EASY to use that the only thing I have to focus on is my art.

The products that Retro Supply Co create are downright INCREDIBLE. From the vast amount of brushes that imitate analog art, to the paper backgrounds that make me think of simpler times, not a single product is lacking quality. These are the only products you need.

With Retro Supply Co and a passion for art, you don't have an excuse. Not to mention that they are just SO FUN to play with.

Incredible.

Dejo mi comentario en español, por si hay usuarios de habla hispana. Recomiendo muchísimo estos pinceles, texturas, colores y acciones, me facilita muchísimo el trabajo como ilustrador y deja más profesional cada ilustración que hago.

If you're a huge fan of realistic textures, rough pens and markers, and mixed media as a whole, I can't recommend these resources enough. As much as I do love working with physical traditional media for illustrations or collages, it not only can get super expensive + take up space, but it also can be much harder to properly experiment with for beginners. Considering just how many reusable digital resources are offered as part of this collection, the savings really do add up for everything being so easy to utilize and learn.

The Complete Collection truly offers so much versatility when it comes to messing around with so many different tools, textures and effects for whatever project you're working on. It's especially a great resource if you want to do a digital mockup version first before working on a physical piece, as it perfectly captures some of those scuffs and little details that tie everything together. For my own use, I really enjoy getting to animate the paper illustrations, making it look a bit like it's all stop motion (some of the materials in the piece I attached are sourced from other online resources or were from Retro Supply's "Office Supplies" resource pack).

My one suggestion would be for a pdf guide that showcases the various resource pack thumbnails featured on a single page or two laid out all together, organized by different type of product (brushes, paper textures, actions, etc), versus having to refer to the webpage to figure out what's included…

This collection did not disappoint. It contains so many good brushes, actions, smart psds, surfaces, etc that I will be exploring it for a long time to come. I was happy to find that "get everything" really did mean everything for photoshop, including some of the actions not listed specifically in the description like the Blacksmith and Photobaker ones. Everything really is here, except the few stand alone things like mockups and the office supplies packs that are mentioned as exceptions. I should have bought this years ago! Love the risograph and ink champ stuff in particular.

The brushes are fun and very useful, it's a little overwhelming getting them all settled into clip studio paint but when you have everything settled it just works like a gem

I use this both on pc and on my iPad and it's phenomenal, lovely brushes

Think the only thing I would like is some more tutorials like for the gouache, it has a ton of brushes but really it's more like lighter tones of the brush and it confused me at first, having a small tutorial about what the brushes are used for would add clarity