Some Particles

This series is from the one hand a mixture of direct drawings mostly in Illustrator then edited in Photoshop (the first few images), the usage of filter and layer effects in Photoshop (in the middle of the collection) and generative drawings (like the last three pieces) with the aid of Illustrator scripting and Processing. From the other hand the set represents the time I widened the circle of the used generative applications with some obscure ones too: webGobbler—a Python application that collects and filters images from the web running in command line mode on Mac—, Oxydizer—a “fractal synthesizer”—and DrawBot—a Python-based graphical scripting language—feature here as the ones I applied in “Junk Bat”, “Spacewheel” and “Big Mist’ry”, respectively. Other remarkable, but already known tools were the unfortunately discontinued Scriptographer for Illustrator, native Illustrator scripting techniques with JSX, and of course the always welcomed Context Free Design Grammar programming. One of the newly introducing applications here is Vectoraster, which is—as the name suggests—a vector-based rasterization tool (used in “Peacock”). “And I am the Sun \#2” shows the effect of a brilliant Illustrator script written by John Wundes, while the last one is a filtered photo of pencil’s shavings.