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Figura - Generative Series Summary

December 31, 2021

In December 2020, I started to work on a web-based app for generative art, called "Figura". Since then, it helped me to create around 100 artworks, drawn with AxiDraw A3 pen plotter.

This experience has not only been amazing. It taught me many useful technical skills, and let me go in the direction where I fully control every part of the creative process.

Being able to think like an engineer and do things like an artist has always been extremely attractive to me. And having physical results of my digital actions made it even more exciting.

To this day, I find buying AxiDraw the best purchase of the current pandemic. I can make my code "touchable", I can play with the logic, but I'm also able to test traditional mediums like pens, fineliners, brushes, and papers. Not only pixels, but also milimeters matter!

"Figura" is like a running start at the beginning of a journey. Or like a trampoline. The artistic level of each piece varies, the series is - in my opinion - a bit patchy. There are compositions that I like, there are drawings that I love, there are also works that I'd like to improve, as well as those that I'm not happy with. It's a journal of exploration, a document of visiting new territories, or, technically speaking, a changelog of features and bugfixes.

From curves to grids, back and forth. That would be the best summary of it. There are 99 artworks drawn right now and number 100 is on its turbulent way.

Below you will find a gallery of the Figures I've created so far. Not all of them, as I haven't had enough time to take a photo of each piece yet. But I will be updating the list in the next days! Apologies for my frame aligning skills, too.

I hope you'll enjoy these prints as much as I did while creating them. Have a great 2022!

Figura 1, Gniazda w gwiazdach
Figura 1, Nests in the stars
Figura 2
Figura 2
Figura 3
Figura 3
Figura 4, Klezmer
Figura 4, Klezmer
Figura 5
Figura 5
Figura 6
Figura 6
Figura 7, Moiré!
Figura 7, Moiré!
Figura 8, Paw
Figura 8, Peacock
Figura 9
Figura 9
Figura 10
Figura 10
Figura 11
Figura 11
Figura 12
Figura 12
Figura 13
Figura 13
Figura 14
Figura 14
Figura 15
Figura 15
Figura 16
Figura 16
Figura 17, Meduza
Figura 17, Medusa
Figura 18
Figura 18
Figura 19
Figura 19
Figura 20
Figura 20
Figura 21
Figura 21
Oczy w lustrze
Figura 22, Oczy w lustrze
Figura 23
Figura 23
Figura 24
Figura 24
Figura 25
Figura 25
Figura 26, Kwiat
Figura 26, Kwiat
Figura 27, Muszla
Figura 27, Muszla
Figura 28
Figura 28
Figura 29, Konstelacja
Figura 29, Konstelacja
Figura 30, Rozeta
Figura 30, Rozeta
Figura 31, Koral
Figura 31, Coral
Figura 32, Tlen
Figura 32, Oxygen
Figura 33
Figura 33
Figura 34, Klon
Figura 34, Maple
Figura 35
Figura 35
Figura 36
Figura 36
Figura 37
Figura 37
Figura 38
Figura 38
Figura 39
Figura 39
Figura 40
Figura 40
Figura 41, Rondo
Figura 41, Rondo
Figura 42, Wiosna
Figura 42, Spring
Figura 43
Figura 43
Figura 45
Figura 45
Figura 46, Chmury
Figura 46, Clouds
Figura 47
Figura 47
Figura 48
Figura 48
Figura 49, Spotkanie
Figura 49, The Meeting
Figura 50
Figura 50
Figura 80
Figura 80
Figura 81
Figura 81
Figura 82
Figura 82
Figura 83
Figura 83
Figura 84
Figura 84
Figura 87
Figura 87
Figura 91
Figura 91
Figura 92
Figura 92
Figura 93
Figura 93
Figura 94
Figura 94
Figura 95
Figura 95
Figura 96
Figura 96
Figura 97
Figura 97
Figura 98
Figura 98
Figura 99
Figura 99