Below is a selection of development diaries for projects I'm working on. I try to keep these up to date; if I've been working on something then I tend to post an update at the end of the day. This is my alternative to posting on social media.
Most recent updates are at the top.
Back in the studio today. For the past few prints I've noticed there's been an alignment problem, and I thought it was the pink drum. If the alignment was off a bit up, down, left or right I could easily adjust for that, but in this case it's skewed, which...
Gotta stop the plants getting used to the luxury of the greenhouse, so they got turfed out this morning to spend the day outside. Apparently this is the 'hardening off' process. It's still too cold for them to stay out over night; there's always the chance of frost for a...
Doing a little more with the mark making brush work. One of them in two colours yellow-ish & purple, and then a second one making the brush lower down more for wider marks.
Been a while.
The plan was/is to make 32 of these FALLiNGWATER notebooks, and a stack of eight have been sitting next to me for months, with six done, two left to stitch up.
Grabbed the last two today and just did 'em!
Progress.
Made a small little zine about the dots and printed it on the Riso printer. Simple 8 page zine from cutting and folding a single sheet.
Part of the FALLiNGWATER project was making a soundtrack to go with it, which was published on Spotify. As I'm slowly moving away from online services I figured I should turn the soundtrack into a mixtape.
Just a bit of fun, but now I have an analog way to listen to the soundtrack.
Added another new tool to Kitty. This is a desktop conference mic/speaker. It has four mics pointing in the four directions and pretty good background noise cancelling. After trying out the dictaphone with Kitty (words great), I also wanted something that would be always listening and transcribing. So as I...
I've refined the pen holder design a little bit. I've decided to just go with TWSBI sized, which is fractionally too small for LAMY pens. But if I make it a little bigger the TWSBI wobbles around a bit and it just feels a bit off. I can of course...
And another jump in time 😅 Since starting the project I bought myself a printer, and having decided after all my pen plotting ink tests that I did indeed want to use the inks I figured it was time to focus on the design and try to move the whole...
Okay, back at it today, and a few more passes, and I kinda love it.
The colours really pop in the photos and it just looks like a wonderful thing to have going on in a drawing machine.
Another part of me is worried about all that dust near the machine though, so 🤷♂️
Hmmmmm, I should really upload and back-date all the handwriting photos I have so far, but as I'm starting these dev diaries now I guess I have to start somewhere. These photos were taken so I could add them to my newsletter, but I didn't use them in the end....
