Today was a tough one, the studio was cold, I felt slow and tired, and I had a lot of work to do. But, Kitty helped by writing all the addresses on the envelopes, and putting a message on the cards inside for me.
The process too a while, an mainly involved me sitting next at the desk swapping cards and envelopes in and out when I was told to.
Didn't take any photos today apart from this one, so here we ar.
I'm still trying to get the hang of writing here daily, it doesn't really show up on the site, although I can always change that later I suppose. Anyway, I had an interesting time today getting brushes to work with the ArtFrame, for the Patreon post that's going to go out on Thursday.
Trying to fit everything in is tricky, and in an ideal world I'd be shooting video from this project and making something fun to go up on YouTube, but I've tied myself to making the tutorial videos and I need to get the next one out ASAP, the sooner they're all done the better, or at least when I get into the swing more and start making one after another I can now and then drop my own type of thing in.
This wasn't supposed to be that kind of ramble though. In the meantime here's one of the results of playing with the brushes and algorithms.
This morning I cut the A3 sheets of brush stroke designs into postcards, and then stamped the back of them with my new numbering system. Next up I need to get Kitty to write on the back of them and then I can get them into the post.
It's fair to say I'm pretty fucking excited about the work I got done today. I've been playing with putting brushes into the drawing machine and then controlling the z-height to get nice sweeps. I've been using these Pentel brush pens which are good and all, before you can use them you have to kinda "activate" them by removing a bit of plastic that allows the ink to get to the brush.
But, I have all these fancy shimmer and sheen inks that I just can't get through quickly enough. Turns out with a bit of finagling I could put a small amount of ink into the feed to the brush. It can get nicely through about four of these plots before the ink gets a little "scratchy".
I've absolutely loving how the colours blend together, it's delicious!
And then wrote about it a bit. But I'm pretty pleased with the whole set up, in that it actually cuts!! After that it's just like using it like a pen, write the SVG or GCODE and good to go.
There's a couple of extra steps, I have to get it to "draw" the same path a few times, getting deeper each time so it can cut through various thicknesses of paper/card. And I have to leave little "bridges" or gaps in the cut so the whole shape isn't truly cut out, you have to go and snap off those little bits. Fairly standard but it makes all the difference to getting better simple shapes cut out.
I still need to wrap that logic up into code, where to place the "bridges", but that's a problem for another time.
...are spent sewing notebooks in the greenhouse at the bottom of the garden.
My thumb is perfectly okay.
Today’s cat is feeling a little bothered by everything.
I guess the one aspect of doodling a daily-ish cat, is someday you don’t doodle one. Today is the first day and I’m sure there’ll be many more.
I spent the last couple of days cat-sitting a real cat who tended to keep me awake, so I’m too tired for any doodling.
Tried to make a slightly fatter cat, only slightly succeeded.
This cat has feelings
Still can’t draw paws!
This one is a bit more grumpy, like me 😀
I drew a cat!
