Tag Archives: drawing

May 24, 2013

Life Under the Generator – Paint Doodles

The first thing I hear in the morning is the pervading hum of the massive ether generator above my house. I go up onto the roof and gaze up into the mass of wires, like the mad weaving of some colossal steel spider. The collector ring, the focal nodes, the arc needles: each piece fits together perfectly. There are a million parts going in all directions, each one exactly where it needs to be.

The sun sets and the sky darkens. Above me, the wires start to reveal their faint glow, which was overwhelmed in the light of the sun. There are twinkles and flashes of every color imaginable. I lie back and stare up at the man-made galaxy above with me with its celestial host of linear stars.

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May 11, 2013

Paint Doodles – Red Line Hiding

By David Stewart

Can you see the red path?

It’s hiding in plain sight

It takes unexpected twists and turns and gets lost in the surrounding noise

But it stays unbroken

(Try squinting; it helps)

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May 4, 2013

Paint Doodles – Multiple Worlds

By David Stewart

multiple universes, multiple worlds

so similar, so close

but never touching

Here’s what I draw when I’m not feeling inspired to write.

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April 29, 2013

Doodles in MS Paint

By David Stewart

So, what are your nerdy hobbies? One of mine is making designs with a pencil and straight-edge. I used to do it all the time in high school when I was bored. Another hobby of mine is using MS Paint. I admit that it’s no Photoshop (which I love, but can’t afford at the moment) and the lack of layers can be really crippling sometimes, but you can do a lot more with it than some people think. My friend Sharmishtha Basu is a good example of a great MS Paint artist. Anyway, today I decided to play around with designs in MS Paint. All of it is done by hand, just using the tools in the program.

Step 1

In this first step, I just measured regular distances and connected the lines, just as you’d do with a pencil and ruler.

Step 2

For this step, I just colored in the blocks. MS Paint doesn’t have a gradient tool, but you can adjust the color manually, so I colored one part and then successively made the color darker or lighter.