smerwin draws things

too late to be awake.

nooo don't die little tumblr.

here's a thing i did for Matthew Reidsma's High Maintenance Machine a while back:

^ this is a true story.

I made this years ago (like, end-of-2007 years ago!) as a project for a figure drawing class. The assignment had pretty flexible guidelines.

The part my teachers liked was exploring the possibilities of merging analog and digital workflows, etc. All the drawings are done in Illustrator, but printed on translucent paper and assembled on masonite circles with a bunch of layering goodness.

The fun part was learning just enough terrible beginner's bash and applescript to pipe enormous text files through the speech synthesizers on those powermacs, all randomly speaking louder and softer. (The mp3 up top there is how this sounded). No one liked being in the studio late at night if I'd left it on.

I ended up displaying a condensed version in the student show that year. I was really bad about documenting it (these are the only two pictures I could find) and what parts I didn't return to the IT department at school are still in a box in my parents' basement (my poor, endlessly-accommodating parents).