Swipe to Art: 100+ abstract pieces drawn on a smartphone
Sept 9, 2014 1:41:23 GMT -5
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Post by Pacmanite on Sept 9, 2014 1:41:23 GMT -5
Long time no see, NTWF!
I just wanted to share with you this digital abstract art project I've been putting together: Swipe to Art!
It's about appreciating accidental beauty. To fill time while traveling on the train, I would mindlessly scribble on my smartphone using a very basic free painter program. It had a "kids mode" built into it, where the program would choose a random colour and random brush thickness each time I made a stroke. And if I shook or tilted the phone, the whole image would be wiped clean and replaced with a randomly generated background colour.
But not long after I started doing that, I kept noticing that sometimes really nice looking compositions would happen. So I screenshotted and collected the best.
Now I've got over a hundred of these colourful abstract pictures, and I'm posting them on their own lil' gallery website: swipetoart.wordpress.com/
I'll be uploading them a few at a time (I think I'm at 22 now?), since it takes me a minute or so to think of a caption for each one.
I hope you enjoy looking at these as much as I enjoyed making them!
I just wanted to share with you this digital abstract art project I've been putting together: Swipe to Art!
It's about appreciating accidental beauty. To fill time while traveling on the train, I would mindlessly scribble on my smartphone using a very basic free painter program. It had a "kids mode" built into it, where the program would choose a random colour and random brush thickness each time I made a stroke. And if I shook or tilted the phone, the whole image would be wiped clean and replaced with a randomly generated background colour.
But not long after I started doing that, I kept noticing that sometimes really nice looking compositions would happen. So I screenshotted and collected the best.
Now I've got over a hundred of these colourful abstract pictures, and I'm posting them on their own lil' gallery website: swipetoart.wordpress.com/
I'll be uploading them a few at a time (I think I'm at 22 now?), since it takes me a minute or so to think of a caption for each one.
I hope you enjoy looking at these as much as I enjoyed making them!
