Scribbles

[u/adventurecapitalist]

This started as a project to try and recreate the feeling of messy, hand drawn scribbled circles, and it gradually evolved into what you see here.

I made these with JavaScript. Once I was happy with the look of a single scribbled circle, I started experimenting with different arrangements, colors, overlapping shapes, and painted discs beneath the line work. Creating dense grids of hundreds of scribbled circles let me step back and use them almost like pixels to build larger compositions.

Each scribbled circle is generated from several imperfect contour passes. The radius shifts slightly as the line travels around the circle, while the center, wobble, spacing, line weight, and amount of missing pigment can vary from pass to pass. Because the contours never align perfectly, they build up into something that I hope feels more hand drawn.

I set a lot of variables to random ranges and generated a large batch of images. I'm happy with how everything turned out. I had a hard time picking but here are a few of my favorites :) I hope you like them.

[u/NewPlayer1Try]

I love these! Very original!
I love it when someone takes a simple idea (in your case a scribbled looking circle) and runs with it until something beautiful and original happens. I wonder where it takes you! I don’t think you have reached the end of this idea yet.

[u/adventurecapitalist → u/NewPlayer1Try]

Thanks! Most of my stuff that I post here starts out very small and focused and as I go along it keeps getting bigger and more interesting. When I try to start something grandiose it never seems to hit the way I hope. One of my college art professors John Bisbee spent around 40+ years only working with nails as a sculpture medium. He kept finding different ways to put them together. I don't think I'm that dedicated but I'm sure I'll continue tinkering with this or at least use parts of it in other projects.

[u/Ok_Nectarine_4445]

I feel I could see a lot of these as prints for a kind of nice opthomology office or something

[u/adventurecapitalist → u/Ok_Nectarine_4445]

Ha! Maybe a mid-level ophthalmology office ;) Appreciate the comment - made me laugh.

[u/sacheie]

These are fantastic

[u/adventurecapitalist → u/sacheie]

Thanks!

[u/sacheie → u/adventurecapitalist]

I especially like 7