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For this Witch Hat Monday I drew Coco in a Starry Night Dress! It's a continuation of the Starry Night Hat I painted a while back :)

Time lapse below, the full hours long art videos, PSD file and HD image will be DMed on Patreon the 5th of each month :)

you can play with just the ascii graphics for free

My new and absolutely normal i swear obsession is hand routed, or otherwise free-form, circuit board layouts.

Firstly, and quite simply, most of these writers were imagining the use of future computers, and had no idea how the technology would develop.

Secondly, computer usage is somewhat intangible, (especially so for previous, less tech-literate generations of readers) so writers needed something tangible to describe besides the clicking and typing.

So a file becomes a room, a database becomes a building, password protection becomes a locked door, hacking becomes burglary, different websites become the various neon-hued districts of a city. The most powerful entities have skyscrapers while the average joe lives in the slums.

The common 'data city' was probably so popular because cyberpunk emerged when gigantic cities and corporate skyscrapers symbolised power and was where you would find these computer networks being described. They were very urban, and not yet found so ubiquitously in the home and school as they are now.

It was not long before this idea became outdated. Today, users barely notice the UI and its structure, often have no avatar besides perhaps a username (which is often just a real-life name), and would never imagine traversing a landscape in order to move from one For You page to another. The data city became a poetic idea from an older time.