November 2008 Archives

All pieces are black ink on silk screen on Bleedproof paper

Circles

Portrait of no one. Or Warren, if I have to pick someone.

Diagonal Down

Paths

Spiral

From: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LogarithmicSpiral.html

The logarithmic spiral can be constructed from equally spaced rays by starting at a point along one ray, and drawing the perpendicular to a neighboring ray. As the number of rays approached infinity, the sequence of segments approaches the smooth logarithmic spiral (Hilton et al. 1997, pp. 2-3).

I can't help but try to find some sort of geometrical reasoning behind the type of pen and ink shading I find beautiful and how to apply this type of shading to complex objects.

See Also: 2008/1/6-log_boobs.html

My findings is that after some preliminary ideas, there is no formula - nothing I can use while in the clutches of some sort of spontaneous line, that it's simply that unknown thing that drives anyone towards those things we can only feel, but cannot truly identify.

The math I attempt to find is above my knowledge anyways. I don't understand math that way.

Screenprint.

Screenprint, scanned with shaky hands.

And with that, I have destroyed the JPEG lossy compression scheme.

Crow Quill Pen and Ink

Crow Quill Pen and Ink in the Sketchbook

Portraits of Justin Simoni by Alex Skazat