annetropy

Illustrator of dream-time animals - she/her - twitter: @annetropy

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So where’s everyone headed next?

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The Elephant in the Room

Work is ridiculous, so this is going super slowly. But the semester is almost over and hopefully I will have more time to finish this up over the holiday. I’m trying a new process in which I draw out the shapes before doing the color. I really like breaking up the shape and color process, but it’s slower and it’s new so it’s slower still.

But I know it’ll get faster and overall I think it’ll end up with better illustrations in the end.

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It always starts with eyes.

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I moved the generator online, so now it’s even easier to play with it: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/617407

Next up: being able to save as vector graphics so they are suitable for printing at any size.

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I was tweaking my system and added two subsystems: one with a preference towards clustering the flowers together, and one with a preference towards having the visual weight spread across the canvas.

Then I gave one of those subsystems the ability to create a flower if the weight wasn’t balanced, and I ended up with a bit of an arms race in my generator that led to this. 

I’ve uploaded the system if you want to play with it. I’ve tuned it a bit more so sometimes you get stuff like this and sometimes you get something more minimal. I find it fun to just watch them grow.

https://annetropy.itch.io/flower-power

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I’m not sure who was more surprised when my flower generator made this- myself or this double-monocled bear.

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It’s #procjam, so I’m working on a mid-century art style flower generator in Processing. I’ve been super inspired by the work of @lifeasillustrated and so I’m working on creating more stylized output for my generation work.

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Horsing Around - Sunset and Unicorn editions.

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Mid Century Modern raindrops

I made a quick starter program for some students, and then started tweaking it for fun and in trying to do something else, I ended up with a mid century modern raindrop generator.

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I figured out how to export animated gifs from processing and basically I’m sorry for the next year of posts.

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Mid Century Modern raindrops

I made a quick starter program for some students, and then started tweaking it for fun and in trying to do something else, I ended up with a mid century modern raindrop generator.

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Horsing around, ready for her background.

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Playing around in Processing again, this time growing cities. It’s been done before, and I’m sure it’s been done better, but I’m having a lot of fun regardless! 

The first photo is after a few seconds, and the second photo is a couple minutes later.

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Not sure why these photos look so bad on tumblr. But I think this is my favorite one that’s been generated so far.

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Playing around in Processing again, this time growing cities. It’s been done before, and I’m sure it’s been done better, but I’m having a lot of fun regardless! 

The first photo is after a few seconds, and the second photo is a couple minutes later.

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I was going to do inktober, but I ended up doing this instead. I’ll probably be tweaking colors on this one for ages, but at least the shapes are pretty much done on the face.

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I changed up the colors. Much happier now, and I can get to work on the body.

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Finally dipping my toe into Processing. I really should have explored it ages ago, it’s so much fun! This may turn into Gentober.

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I was going to do inktober, but I ended up doing this instead. I’ll probably be tweaking colors on this one for ages, but at least the shapes are pretty much done on the face.

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I always start with the eye(s) because they’re my favorite part. It’s interesting to me how different animal eyes can be.