texture… the word came from listening to radiohead’s amnesiac yesterday. short guitar riffs, layered beats, everything about texture. woke up this morning and it went straight into the sketchbook. abstract shapes on the left, pure line exploration on the right. no figures this time, just the feel of it.

brute figures… this idea keeps pulling me back…

i love how this brush pen gives me constrained freedom… i have many notebooks full of this style. i love it for a few reasons; meditative process, the satisfaction gained from discovering the pen’s limits and capabilities…

first time with oil pastels… a beautiful set, gift from my wife. i always had this idea of blunt/brute characters, raw, big and bulky and suddenly caught by you while doing something not so interesting things, mundane activities and staring at you, the spectator…

i did some other sketches for the idea here and there, way back, like 5-6 years ago…

this idea keeps coming back and i like it… and having these, many of these on the walls excites me a lot…

my new tool, Parect… it’s an evolution of both Pare and Defect, merged into one single tool. I did some simplifications but also at the same time introduced complexity. I can say that Pare and Defect are now retired. they’re like the pens I used to like but now they are put in a drawer, to be forgotten. they are not dead… waiting to be discovered, to be useful again.

The second time I’m using my new tool: defect… This time grabbed a photo from Unsplash…

Another new series with a new tool: defect. With this new one now I have two tools — defect and pare. Both built for a specific purpose, specific output style, and just enough parameters to play.

I’m getting more familiar with p5.js each time I work with it, still not happy with the outcome though… I need more hours to get better at it. I did these when listening to Under Darkening Skies.

I did the sketch in the followed-up post with Pixelmator. Too many tools, too many options… more than I needed for the style I was going after. So for this one, I built my own tool. Very simple, very limited. Constraints as a feature.

More on the tool itself soon.

What a year it was, 2024… For sure a year to remember…

With all the things that happened, it was one of the most creatively productive years of my life… Completed ~10 various size sketchbooks… I can see it coming again… Sketches, music, guitar, writing, code, …

Flames bursting, energy is high, a bit chaotic but in a good way… Inspired by The End.

Glitch sketches inspired by Nordic Gothic. RGB channel separation, scan lines, floating debris… The visual equivalent of that distorted guitar tone and mood.

I love it when such a simple idea (not necessarily means simple execution) puts me in flow and makes me spend minutes and minutes on it… glitchycam.com

Some p5.js sketches I did while listening to Becoming X… It’s tough to say though, “I sketched”… I explained my vision, chose the colors, the shapes, the story, the style, etc. and Claude wrote the script… Don’t know exactly how to share these yet… “I directed” maybe? Like a director…