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  • Five Days of Pure Data – Randomise Text

    In the years that I’ve been creating things in Pure Data I have amassed quite a collection of unfinished and messy patches. Over the next few days I’ll be releasing a few of these patches and techniques that I implement when programming in Pure Data. Randomise Text In the early 2010s I had quite…

  • Text on multiple lines in Pure Data

    For my set for From Digbeth With Hammers at BOYD 8 I was required to display their logo on screen. This sounds like it should be a relatively easy task, but their logo consisting of four lines of text presented some interest problems. In Pure Data there’s three objects you can use to display…

  • Inkscape tutorial: text manipulation

    I’ve been messing around with Inkscape a lot recently and have found a few cool tricks. This all originally started as an attempt to recreate an effect I saw on the Inkscape website but quickly evolved into something different. Here’s an example of the output I achieved. What’s interesting about this is that it’s…

  • Vacant – Illustration Friday

    This is my submission for the Illustration Friday topic, Vacant I interpreted vacant to mean blank and with that came the image of a blank piece of paper. A blank paper is very daunting to many artists and it’s no different with me. However if I start at a paper and think long enough…

  • Trash

    56|400 Under some very handy advice from some wise people I’ve gone back and given all of my pieces names. Seems only right that I should name them, afterall I wouldn’t name my child ‘Untitled’! Only three more of these to go, then you’ll see some work that’s more akin to graffiti.

  • Untitled 5

    Completed this one recently 51|400 I’m liking the way this style is going, but I want to incorporate people and other objects into it, rather than just abstract objects and text. It’s proving challenging to make the two work together, but it’ll happen with more practice 😉