One frustrating thing about the procedural drawing tool I’m using is that it doesn’t let you store an image as multiple independent layers. As a reaction to this, I’m trying to work with some of the transformation tools in GIMP to give a sense of three dimensional perspective.
Original sketch below. You can see [...]
Category Archives: Art
lo what life emerges
May 3, 2012 – 1:40 am
“the music scene”
March 21, 2012 – 4:34 am
for Rolando Peñate
The full-size image is quite large, so this is a thumbnail. Click to enlarge.
Bring Back Classic Rock
February 4, 2012 – 8:46 pm
Sketch N Draw procedural drawing, imported into GIMP for gradient background and a drawn intermediate layer with Wacom tablet. Not thrilled about the muddiness in the bottom half, but its hard to do controlled application of brushes in Sketch N Draw since it doesn’t have layering.
Incidentally, I notice that most of these pictures look [...]
Heads Heads Tails Heads Tails Tails
January 31, 2012 – 9:20 pm
Experimenting with the ideas discussed here.
In class we are discussing the possibility of ‘information’ as a point of reduction across multiple domains. I’m the reductionist visigoth in the room.
This sort of art tries to prove something by breaking something.
Drawing is expressive in a way that complicates the ‘informational’ story. A product of a [...]
Procedural drawings
January 28, 2012 – 12:26 am
(This is a thumbail. Click for full size.)
I recently got a tablet. Drawing seemed like a natural thing to do with it, so I searched the Android app store for a drawing tool and found Sketch n Draw. So I’ve discovered procedural drawing, which is apparently a thing.
The world needs a wikipedia [...]
