I love experimenting with pen/ink/paper, and have added another layer as part of the hobby. I’m exploring computational art, inspired by the ink drawings I do during ink reviews. Another fun offshoot of the hobby… and all that starting with a few drops of dye-coloured water on paper.
Inspiration for the drawing comes from the novel “The Kraken Project” by Douglas Preston. A light read, where the plot centers around Dorothy, an AI program that escapes to the internet. At a certain point, virus-bots are sent out hunting for Dorothy’s signature. The drawing captures the moment where the virus-bots zoom in for the kill, with Dorothy desperately hiding behind her firewall.
For this computational derivation, I first abstracted the original inkxperiment drawing, and then used a filter that overexposed the scene. Finally, I added a lens blur filter – keeping Dorothy in focus, but seriously blurring out the image of the killer-bots. I quite like the end-result, which emphasizes Dorothy’s despair when the hunter-seekers initiate their attack.
See also: ink review: TACCIA Ukiyo-e Syaraku natane
[Originally published on the Fountain Pen Network, on 29 October 2023]
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