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.
Pretty sure this "Studio and Life" project should just become; Daniel's Gardening Blog.
As some point it'll converge when flowers get turned into watery ink and I stick them into fountain pens in the drawing machines.
But until then, sometimes it'll be the studio, and a lot of time it'll be flower progress. Until I inevitably split them out anyway swearing I should have done it soon.
I swear the pink "pops" a lot more than this. I'm doing a photo 365 project, were you take a post one photo a day for the whole year. It's worse than it sounds. For some reason I decided to make it even more terrible by limiting myself to using...
I got the rest of the asemic writing plotted to send off to the Patreon supporters. The postcards are (mainly) done in Pilot iroshizuku ama-rio ink, and the A5 plots are using Troublemaker's Simoun ink mixed with Van Dieman's Night - Shooting Star. Because the Patreon postcards and artworks are...
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.
Working on some wintery Yule envelopes to send Christmas/Holiday/Yule/New Year cards off in. Nice to get the envelope to match the theme.
This is the most I've made in one sitting, was fun to just sit down and do one thing.
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 taken to writing in the greenhouse in the morning, and decided to sew a couple of notebooks while I was in there.
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....
