Ramblings of a Failing Mind

I first learned what the “pen” tool was in Adobe Photoshop, I believe it was version 8… maybe 9. This was a good thing because it introduced me to what might be possible to create with such a tool. It’s also bad because I learned to love it in Photoshop instead of where it’s home is… in Illustrator.

Photoshop works with rasterized images and Illustrator works with vector images. What does this mean? Well, having spent a few months interning for a local design place I picked up a few things. A raster graphic or image is made up of pixels, much like the video images we watch on television. If you have ever taken a photo and tried to zoom in, you notice that it becomes blurry or pixelated. This is a result of working with a raster graphic. How does a vector image differ? Vector graphics work based off of math and geometry to create the visual results you see. Vector art uses geometric objects like curves and polygons to display an object. This is extremely important to create high definition work. Since vector imagery uses math the image will retain the same sharpness regardless of magnification level as it can recalculate to an infinite amount the angle, arc, swoop, etc of the pattern it was told to represent.

Why is all of that important? Because having learned how to use a vector based tool in a raster program (pen tool in photoshop), I’ve developed a love and unfortunately habits that need to be relearned in the proper home. With the creation of the image below, a copy of a graphic on a new t-shirt I purchased, I’m just beginning to create the groundwork for relearning how to use the tool properly. Here you’ll see a very basic yet amusing drawing that is my first attempt at the new process I’m working on. There’s 3 more images in this set that I’ll be uploading soon. Please leave feedback

I’ve had this website in one form or another and always get fired up and excited… only to fall flat on my face because I stop trying or caring.  With a flurry of new ideas and concepts to design and work on brings new energy and desire to see old things reborn.  Welcome to the rebirth of purplepulp in it’s new form of .net instead of .com and the cowboys have retired their feelings of quantum physics to now lie in green pastures staring at the puffy white clouds passing through a sharp blue sky in perfect contrast.

 I hope to bring to this site all concepts my addled mind concocts, be it in art, design, coding, or general pointless discussion about things only equally tainted minds such as mine may fully appreciate.  In total I hope to bring completely unfiltered creations to you.  If they stink then so be it.  If they bring forth a following in youthful exuberant procreation of your own interpretations then all the better, just don’t ask me for procreation protection.