Projects — Prints 2.8 — Blog

New story: Unlocked. About fifteen pages long, fantasy.

Also, some new generative art. For these, the fundamental idea was to lay out horizontal bands, where each band was composed of rectangles of random widths, rotations, and color variations on a base hue for the band. I wrote some JavaScript to generative the patterns as SVGs and rendered them to 4500px-wide PNGs via headless Inkscape. I painted textures on them in Procreate on my iPad, mostly using MattyB’s canvas brushes. I upscaled them 2x via Real-ESRGAN on the command line, added noise in Affinity Photo (12% monochrome), and scaled them down to 7500px wide. Real-ESRGAN was a brand-new addition to my workflow but it turned out quite well, I think.

*Pattern 005*. Bricks overgrown by vegetation, loosely.

*Pattern 006*. A slightly stained glass kind of feel.

*Pattern 007*. Going for a less saturated look here.

*Pattern 008*. My favorite, even with the imperfections at the bottom.