[-graphic reminder-]

Other posts about marks:
Making your Mark - essay about self-promotion
Marks have Meaning - art tutorial

All such Graphic Reminders are the playful fault of Nancy S.M. Waldman
© 2007 all rights reserved

[-art, digital art-]

Meet Flik R, our featured doodler

Flik R - who chooses to remain in his flickr persona - does fantastical drawings with gelpens and Uniball Signo rollerpens. But rather than be satisfied with that, he keeps going, taking his art farther by using his drawings as the raw material for digital art.

Flik draws the design in pencil first and then erases the drawing so he can still see the outline of each shape. He then colors them in with gel pens.

Using his graphics program, he uses the “negative” command to do an inverse of his drawing with rather spectacular results.

Experimenting with this led him to do some drawings with the negative in mind.

Flik then began selecting triangles from his drawings and using a tile function to make kaliedoscopic patterns!

This drawing and its inverse were used to make all these different patterns.

all images © 2005-2007 flik r all rights reserved

Thanks Flik R, for showing us a couple of ways in which hand-made art
can be altered with our computers to make wonderful new images.

See more: Flikr illustrates, The Dread

about the artist:
Flik R is 35 year old male from the United Kingdom. He entertains himself with various creative, technical or abstract projects as well as enjoying animals, computers, and long walks at night in the countryside. When asked what he thinks about while doodling he said,

He says of himself,

My ‘favourite’ picture is of the horse, something calming in that, something impressive in a horse also. The picture was just something a friend gave me the idea to draw one lacklustre day many years ago. A few hours later I had this picture, tiny and delicate, and it brings me comfort and calm just to look at it now, well a copy of it. The original lives in Sweden now. Favourite may be a strong word, it’s really just one I like a lot.

See more of Flik R’s drawings at flickr.com/photos/flikr/

Originally published in the April 2006 issue of The Practically Creative Quarterly, theme: alterations

[-graphic reminder-]

All such Graphic Reminders in The PCQ are the playful fault of Nancy S.M. Waldman © 05 - 07 all rights reserved

Originally published in the January 2006 issue of The Practically Creative Quarterly, theme: alterations