I read this book a while back. The American Bison as a symbol/metaphor was one of the books main themes. The animal was powerful, abundant, and dumb as a rock. There are some interesting bits about Buffalo Nickels in the book. Buffalo nickels were a part of my childhood. I remember studying the powerful beast [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Art'
Drawing Bison
February 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Art, Code, Digital Process, Drawing
Tags:as3·flash·Generative·Wildlife
Ghastly Vapor Flourish
March 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Art, Code, Concept, Digital Process
Again tooling around w/ Trapcode for someone on the print team. Might make it into a comp for Ghost of Versaillles.
Tags:After Effects·Art·Generative
Updated Nest
October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Art, Code, Digital Process, Drawing
I took the nest a bit further. I sketched out some twig shapes, scanned them in, and traced them into vectors. Also added some color variation. I might play with pulling color information from an image w/ getPixel and maybe write it out to a massive PNG and get it printed.
I’ve got some other projects [...]
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Simple Nest
August 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Art, Code, Concept, Digital Process, Drawing
I’m learning to draw with code. A lot of what I’ve seen out there in the interwebs is based on mathematical theories named after dudes from the sixties and seventies. I’m inspired by all that, but I’m also interested in recreating systems in nature through generative art. Here is a simple nest I drew with [...]
Tags:actionscript·as3·Generative
Pink Box
August 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Art, Code, Concept, Digital Process, Drawing
Behold, my very first generative comp. The image of a neon hot pink, scribbled, slightly-rotated square popped into my head one day. Maybe I’ve been listening to too much Justice. Made w/ Actionscript 3 and the Bezier curve fitting function built into Tweener.
Tags:as3·Bezier·flash·Generative·Tweener
Drowning in Curves
July 25th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Art, Code, Digital Process, Drawing
In the same masochistic way I let a ping-pong sorting algorithim rule my life, I’ve been obsessing on how to draw elegant fluid curves in AS3 via Flash’s drawing API. This mostly started from being inspired by Erik Natzke’s work.
Tags:as3·Bezier·Curves·Drawing API·flash·generate·Tweener
Animal Friends
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Art, Digital Process, Drawing
I was playing around with the topography generation I mentioned in my last post and made a few animal friends.
I think the owl is my favorite.
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Generating Topo Map Lines
May 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Art, Digital Process, Drawing
The last few days I’ve immersed myself in Math. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to generate lines that mimic topography with the ActionScript 3 Drawing API. I studied the math that goes into bezier cubic and quadratic curves, and investigated a little bit in Sin waves. All I ended up with was [...]
Tags:as3·generate·Illustrator·Live Trace·Math·Topography
Masterpiece
May 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Art, Comments on Process, Concept, Digital Process
A co-worker and I were recently drooling over some of Jonathan Harris’s more recent work. It made me realize that the projects I talk about here (and occasionally engage in) are very disconnected and hobby-ish. They do NOT form one cohesive body of work. They are more about the journey of trying different things almost [...]
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Drawrings
May 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Analog Process, Art, Drawing
I’ve been doodling a bit, so I thought I’d post some sketches. These were made with Micron pens in a small watercolor book.
These sketches along with this Etsy artist, has given me some inspiration to tackle some acrylic paintings on wood panels. So… stay tuned for that.
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