Just to point out a resourcing selection of works (paintings, woodblocks 🤩 , photography) on the mutual influences between Japan and Europe in early 20th. "Les Mondes flottants", until 2014-09-22 in Deauville, France.
a simple way to test a calligraphy pen to draw broad lines: enumeration of hexagrams made of 6 2-partitions, used as an old Chinese divination system (I Ching).
Jules Bourgoin, De l'Orient à la mathématique de l'ornement. A collection of essay on Bourgoin's work toward teaching drawing for art and craft through practical rules. Fascinating, even though i'll need 2-3 lives to test half of the ideas here.
Tried to design characters using 45° lines and grids. not great, with uniform distributions for line number and position. Research time.
Found LingDong work https://github.com/LingDong-/rrpl. Now standing on the shoulders of giants. Such awesome work, speechless.
related - an experiment to reproduce the disposition of leaves (phyllotaxy) or seeds. from F. Hallé, Éloge de la plante, 1999 - a nice book explaining why Plantae rules!
Thanks! Loved this show, each variety was a starting point to new series, and only two were successfully explored and released. I really enjoy these branched experiments.
Last episode, my recipe for imaginative landscapes
1. generate a lot of simplified views from real locations
2. cluster this library into composition elements
3. recombine elements into plausible landscapes
🤍 @adamberninger for advices and cheering along the way! https://art.casadebaig.net/posts/process/ridge/
