Drawing with a mobile phone!

An interesting site I found from the Drawing Network forum, which explore GPS (mobile phones to you and me) to map movement over a geographical terrain and plot this as a line. Some highly unusal and unexpected line drawings can be found at the following URL: www.gpsdrawing.com

Sunil

Digital Experiment_3

Final digital experiment with the theme of faces and the persons interest. Sue and holes. The digital drawing or rather process was one of using Photoshop filters to reduce the face to dots (Seurat & post impressionism). Endless possibilities! However, the mechanisation of the process makes it predictable and so in time rather dull. Yet it's worth exploring for it's own sake. Perhaps another process is needed to give it a human (unpredictable) qualities? Therefore, I used Sue's Blog image to make the holes. (Select an area, edit Define pattern, Edit Fill using the pattern).
Sunil

Digital Experiment_2

This experiment is based on the New York Skyscrapers (recently visit).
I wanted to create this using the simplest of means using Flash. I found a digital image of a sky using Google.com. and put it into the lowest layer and keyframed it's movement from left to right with slight change in opacity. On top of this I created some stright and diagonal lines. It did not look convincing. So I added thinner lines to fool the eye into believing it might be the windows of a skyscraper. Still did not look convincing. Lastly light grey areas were drawn and keyframed their opacity to suggest an illusion of change of transparency. Hope to show the final simple animation for next weeks presentation.

Sunil

Digital Experiment_1

This is similar to my earlier experiemnt in attempting to draw with a mouse - this time Jin's face. There is also an animation similar to Opie's which I hope to show during the presentation next week. What do you think Jin?
Sunil

Julian Opie

I was reminded that I am looking at Digital Drawing in a broader cultural context. Hence searching through my past research into contemporary portraits, I revisited Julian Opie:

http://www.julianopie.com/

There are some fascinating experiments using digital technology with a fine art approach. By keeping the content of his “simple” (observing and representing the human figure and it’s movement) Opie has made what appears to be new (at least in a art context). However, such tools and experiments have been around for some time, albeit in R&D labs. Nowadays these tools are widely available and Animation has seen boom time in both creativity and production in recent years.

Perhaps I will attempt at making something similar to grapple the new technology. Any suggestion?

Sunil