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  • #drawtober2026 Day 31: Pumpkin head

    L1: f(x,y) = ((((y * 22) - (y - 19)) - (-(13 * x))) & ((-(-y)) + (~(x % 20)))) % 5
    L2: Turmeric paint
    L3: My brain MRI in 2022
    L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    MRI scan of the brain with added colours, against a glitch art background that resembles a desert landscape with a sky that one might say looks like TV tuned to a dead channel, but more colourful. A brain lesion is visible in the centre top. Digital noise provides texture, particularly in the uppermost part of the sky where it looks a bit like mountains, and in the lower part where it looks like dust.
    → 10:18 PM, Oct 31

  • #drawtober2026 Day 30: Pumpkin Head

    L1: Mary Shelley (1851) Frankenstein
    L2: f(x,y) = ((((x & x) | (y & y)) + (~(x ^ y))) % (-((22 / x) - (x & y)))) % 2
    L3: Orange gradient
    L4: Bisbee, J. (1837) Neurographie
    L5: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    Cutaway view of the head and torso, showing the brain and spinal cord, amid a background of orange fractal triangles. White and green pixels gather in a panel to the left. To the right, the text 'I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain.'
    → 4:12 PM, Oct 30

  • #drawtober2026 Day 29: Pumpkin Head

    L1: High Eye (ash-k.itch.io)
    L2: Jacob, Nicolas-Henri (1867-1871) Frontal cross-section of the encephalon
    L3: Orange radial gradient
    L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    Drawing of a human head from the front, cut away to expose the brain, in orange, yellow and green on a black background. Interference from the image below causes vertical bands to appear, and something seems to glow within the brain. A radiating pattern of orange and purple surrounds on all sides.
    → 5:48 PM, Oct 29

  • #drawtober2026 Day 28: Pumpkin Head

    L1: Violet M. Firth (1922) Machinery of the Mind L2: f(x,y) = -((~(x ^ y)) ^ ((-x) + (14 + x))) L3: Illustration by J Bisbee in JB Sarlandière (1937) Systematized anatomy L4: Orange-yellow gradient L5: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    Illustration of a brain amid a large amount of interference from glitch art in red, orange, yellow, and a sickly green that imposes digital patterns from the top right and bottom left. A structure in the centre of the brain almost looks like a person seen from behind. On the right is the indistinct text 'The truth of our percepts is determined by the closeness with which our thought model corresponds to its original. An exact copy is a true concept, an imperfect copy an inaccurate concept.'
    → 5:53 PM, Oct 28

  • #drawtober2026 Day 27: Pumpkin Head

    L1: Ink print from bubble wrap
    L2: f(x,y) = (((-(-y)) % ((x / 16) | (x * y))) % (((x & y) - (y + y)) | ((x / 12) + (-y)))) % 13
    L3 & 4: Sivartha, Dr. Alesha (1898) The Book of Life
    L5: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    19th Century illustration of the brain covered in words denoting functions of the body and mind such as 'Arms, Devotion, Bosom, Walking, Hope, Legs, Stability' etc. colour-washed in red, orange, and yellow against a background of marks and glitches in pink, purple, and blue.
    → 2:42 PM, Oct 27

  • #drawtober2026 Day 26: Pumpkin head

    L1: f(x,y) = (((x & y) * (x % x)) + ((x & y) & (~y))) - (((22 + x) & (y * x)) | ((x ^ y) ^ (-x)))
    L2 & L3: Jacob, Nicolas-Henri (1867-1871) ‘Sagittal cross-section of the encephalon’
    L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    Cutaway anatomical drawing of the head of a white man, showing the brain, rendered in black and orange against a purple and orange glitch art background that gives the appearance of vertical bands and glowing masses of energy concentrated around the neck and hippocampus.
    → 8:38 PM, Oct 26

  • #drawtober2026 Day 25: Fungus collector

    L1: Ink print from bubble wrap L2: bitartbot f(x,y) = (((~(-x)) * (~(11 - y))) / (~((-x) ^ (~y)))) % 4 L3: Lewis, M. F. (1860). Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighbourhood L4: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    Pink, green and yellow masses evoking mold growth crawl across an off-white page, with outline drawings of leaves framing the word Fungi, made barely legible by the encroaching growth.
    → 8:31 PM, Oct 25

  • #drawtober2026 Day 24: Fungus collector

    L1: Ink print from tissue L2: bitartbot f(x,y) = (((~(14 + y)) ^ ((y * y) & (22 | y))) / (-(~(y % x)))) % 13 L3: Lewis, M. F. (1860). Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighbourhoods L4: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    A red toadstool mushroom against a primarily green and black glitch art background, with accents that give the impression it is bleeding red and glowing blue from the stem.
    → 4:43 PM, Oct 24

  • #drawtober2026 Day 23: Fungus Collector

    L1: Kelly Oliver quoted in Hil Malatino (2022) Side Affects
    L2: Ink print from parsnip carved with zigzag pattern
    L3: Lewis, M. F. (1860). Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighbourhoods
    L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    In neon purple, cyan, and yellow, the chaotic shape of a giant polypore mushroom intersects with a band of fractal triangles, inverting the colours where they overlap. On the right is the text 'our experience is meaningful for us only if we can imagine that it is meaningful for others'
    → 2:15 PM, Oct 23

  • #drawtober2026 Day 22: Fungus collector

    L1: High Eye (ash-k.itch.io) L2: Lewis, M. F. (1860). Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighbourhoods. L3: f(x,y) = (-((~x) + (17 - x))) - (((x | 9) + (y & y)) * ((-y) | (~x))) L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    Illustration of two mushrooms, one upright and one upside down to show the gills. Rendered in bright red, yellow, cyan and blue, with black shadows and an occasional green glow. The image is broken into four quadrants, each coloured slightly differently. Rough marks around the outside of the image also glow in many colours. Label reads '1881 6th Oct Shawbury Heath, Russula Rosacea'
    → 2:41 PM, Oct 22

  • #drawtober2026 Day 21: Fungus Collector

    L1: Ink print of zigzags carved into parsnip L2: Lewis, M. F. (1860) Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighbourhoods L3: f(x,y) = ((((x % 11) ^ (y / x)) / ((x & x) / (-x))) ^ ((-(-y)) / (-(7 & y)))) % 7 L4: Great Artist

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    The form of a mushroom with many finger-like parts reaching upwards set in red and black, against a background of pixels that appear as though bubbling up from a dark mass below. Multicoloured lights seem to glow within the mushroom. It is labelled 'Clavaria [redacted] Fastigiale'.
    → 2:42 PM, Oct 21

  • #drawtober2026 Day 20: Stitched Together

    L1: bitartbot f(x,y) = ((~(~(9 + y))) ^ (((8 * y) + (-y)) | ((y % x) ^ (23 / x)))) % 13 L2: Embroidered needlecase, 1843, England. V&A Collections L3: Ink print of zigzags carved into parsnip L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    Black embroidery from a needlecase against a red, black, and white glitch art background overlaid with noise and horizontal lines, and highlighted by rough triangle shapes across the top and bottom. The embroidery is half of a message, the other half present on the other side of the needlecase. This half reads 'Sacred to the [Indistinct] Partridge this Life May', followed by a symbol of a crown, framed in a zigzag pattern.

    → 4:48 PM, Oct 20

  • #drawtober2026 Day 19: Stitched together

    L1: Text from Helen R. Hull (1917) Blight L2: f(x,y) = ((((y * 12) | (20 / x)) * (~(y & 8))) * (((-x) * (x / y)) % ((x ^ x) ^ (13 * y)))) % 9 L3: Satin bag embroidered with trees and animals, 19th Century, V&A Collections L4: Great Artist

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    Embroidered bare tree with branches like creeping hands, and a squirrel-like indistinct creature, rendered in neon pink, purple, and teal. Blood red flecks light up the background. Pixel glitches give the impression of rays of light. On the left, the text 'A shaft of sunlight struck through the arches of the firs, touched his fair hair, slipped along the column of his neck.'
    → 7:00 PM, Oct 19

  • #drawtober2026 Day 18: Stitched Together

    L1: Text from Helen R. Hull (1926) The Playboy
    L2: Curtain border, 18th-19th century, V&A Collection
    L3: Ink printing from crumpled tissue paper
    L4: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    Needlework rendered in neon dances across a deep purple background that evokes nightlife. Text on the right reads 'humming softly through his blood, beating in his heart, in a vague chaos of tenderness.'
    → 3:41 PM, Oct 18

  • #drawtober2026 Day 17: Stitched together

    L1: Georgiana Houghton (1882) Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings L2: Great Artist L3: Machine embroidered textile, 1923. V&A Collections
    L4: bitartbot f(x,y) = ((((7 ^ y) ^ (20 % x)) - (~(-x))) % (~((x | x) & (8 | y)))) % 3

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    A ghostly figure is seen amid the interference between two geometric patterns: one stitched with an early embroidery machine, the other generated from an equation. Colour washes of pink/red above and blue/black below saturate the image.
    → 9:49 PM, Oct 17

  • #drawtober2026 Day 16: Stitched together

    L1: Lewis F Day (1900) Art in Needlework L2: bitartbot f(x,y) = ((-((y | x) / (2 - y))) / (((y * y) & (-x)) ^ ((~x) % (y % y)))) % 3 L3: Embroidered valance, 1700s, Greek. V&A Collections L4: Turmeric print of bubble wrap L5: Great Artist

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    Embroidery of plants with birds and animals in between, in black and neon green. Pixel clouds, a pale blue sky, and scorched ground. Barely visible, in the sky is written 'the piquancy about natural or other forms thus reduced to angularity argues, of course, no affectation of quaintness.'
    → 8:13 PM, Oct 16

  • L1: f(x,y) = (((x & y) * (x % x)) + ((x & y) & (~y))) - (((22 + x) & (y * x)) | ((x ^ y) ^ (-x))) L2: f(x,y) = (((~(5 | y)) ^ ((y % x) * (y * x))) & (((19 / y) - (x ^ x)) % ((y ^ 14) - (x * 5)))) % 8 L3: Great Artist L4: Glazed bottle from Khurja, India c. 1880

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    A pinkish white bottle with floral design against a glitch image that resembles a city at dusk. A pale blue gradient washes over most of the image, with a remainder showing pink and yellow in the top left. White 8-bit interference creeps in from the left.
    → 4:44 PM, Oct 15

  • #drawtober2026 Day 14: Wicked Apothecary

    L1: Buncheong wine bottle with flared mouth and long neck, 1400 - 1500, V&A Collection L2: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds L3: Annie, seated with her grief. Edmund Henry Garrett, 1893

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    A cyan image showing a dark, flared bottle and the ghost-like figure of a Victorian-era woman in work clothes slumped sadly over a small table. A cloudy haze of green and blue pervades everything, and a deep dark line cuts through the centre horizontally.
    → 7:49 PM, Oct 14

  • #drawtober2026 Day 13: Wicked Apothecary

    Digital collage composed using Inkscape

    L1: Green gradient L2: Moroccan glazed earthenware bottle ca 1870. From the V&A Collections. L3 & L5: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds L4: Photo of trees near my house

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    A bottle with irregular red spots and blue details, with long cylindrical mouth and two arms. Purple and red trees in the background. Everything is subtly overlaid with glitching vertical bands, leaving the appearance of blue and red smears over the bottle.
    → 6:34 PM, Oct 13

  • #drawtober2026 Day 12: Wicked apothecary

    L1: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds L2: Bottle with incised foliated ornament. Italian, 1650-1700. V&A Collections. L3: Pixel Space Background Generator (Deep-Fold) L4: Red - purple gradient L5: Turmeric print of bubble wrap

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    Against a pixel space background, a red bottle with fine leaf patterns, highlights in yellow and shadows in green and blue. Layers are offset to give the impression of chromatic aberration.
    → 2:32 PM, Oct 12

  • #drawtober2026 Day 11: Wicked Apothecary

    L1: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds L2: Stoneware bottle, China, Liao dynasty (907-1125) from the V&A Collections L3: Image created in Pixel Space Background Generator (Deep-Fold) L4: Purple gradient L5: Brushed turmeric

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    Against a dark blue space background is shown an egg-shaped purple bottle with cyan and gold highlights and a glitch pixel art texture, offset as though misprinted.
    → 4:38 PM, Oct 11

  • #drawtober2026 Day 10: Shadow Prince

    L1: W.E.B. DuBois (1920) DARKWATER L2: Antoine Jacquard, watch cases. Paris 1610-1615 L3: f(x,y) = ((~(~(9 + y))) ^ (((8 * y) + (-y)) | ((y % x) ^ (23 / x)))) % 13 L4: Photo outside Natural History Museum c. 2012 L5: Great Artist L6: Yellow gradient

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    A faceless figure lays on neon green grass outside a large Victorian building with ornate windows rendered in dark red and purple. Intense shadows are cast by an unseen structure. An illustration of a rat and other ornaments climb the right side of the frame. Red, green, and blue pixel noise intersects the image across the horizontal center and vertically on either side, with single-pixel lines crossing diagonally from the top right. In the centre, the text 'I peer back through the shadow of my years, seeing not too clearly, but through the thickening veil of wish and after-thought'
    → 10:05 PM, Oct 10

  • #drawtober2026 Day 9: Shadow Prince

    L1: bitartbot f(x,y) = ((((x / y) % (x & y)) - (-(-y))) - (((22 / y) * (y - x)) ^ (~(~y)))) % 10 L2: Gustave Doré illustration in Milton’s Paradise Lost c. 1880 L3: Ink print of bubble wrap L4: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    A winged, anthropomorphic creature sits on a bank of yellowed grass, staring at something below the frame with an intense gaze. It appears that the sky is deep red, and the creature rendered in glitching bands of purple, cyan, green, and blue. Splotches of white erase the colours to reveal the original black and white woodblock detailing of wing and grass to the left.
    → 8:11 PM, Oct 9

  • #drawtober2026 Day 8: Shadow Prince

    L1: W. E. B. DuBois (1920) DARKWATER
    L2: bitartbot f(x,y) = (((~(-x)) * (~(11 - y))) / (~((-x) ^ (~y)))) % 4
    L3: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds
    L4: Vector from photograph of ROAR Garage Gallery October 2025
    L5: HSL(349, 100, 14)

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    A bright pale blue light shines in a red darkness, emanating from a large doorway where someone in a parka stands alone before a painting. Indistinct text reads 'I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual and even illuminating ways'
    → 6:56 PM, Oct 8

  • #drawtober2026 Day 7: Shadow Prince

    L1: “Effects of an eccentric lathe chuck.” from Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics, vol 2 1880 L2: Great Artist L3: Brass rubbing of 1504 inscription collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O105… L4: Granville Island winter solstice 2018

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    Black and red composition of images including bare trees, figures stood on a hill assembling a ritual structure, church inscriptions and engineering diagrams. The colours become inverted across most of the image, and in one block the hue has shifted to a more cold palette
    → 5:55 PM, Oct 7

  • #drawtober2026 Day 6: Shadow Prince

    L1: Aubrey Beardsley Catullus illustration, 1896 L2: Extract from Catullus translation on Wikipedia L3: f(x,y) = ((((~y) % (y & y)) % ((x * y) % (x / y))) * (((24 | y) | (y / y)) % ((2 + y) & (~x)))) % 10 L4: Great Artist L5: HighEye (ash-k)

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    <img src=“https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/1000031871.png" alt=“Line drawing of a bare-chested figure in a low-slung dark toga outlined in black, who seems to gaze mournfully out of the frame while waving goodbye, on a background of blood red, lilac, pale grey, and cyan. Glitches radiate behind, and from an indistinct text extract can be seen the words “death”, “silent ash”, “taken you” and “from me”.">

    → 3:13 PM, Oct 6

  • #drawtober2026 day 5: Witch’s garden

    L1: Kew Gardens herbarium preserved specimen K000914559 L2: Ink print from bubble wrap L3: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds

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    A blue and green glitch art image overlaid with ink splotches and a preserved sample of witch grass. Text overlaid from the sample record says "Panicum capillare L., Witch grass, North Arboretum in an abandoned... Palm House (zone 183)"
    → 4:39 PM, Oct 5

  • #drawtober2026 Day 4: Witch’s Garden L1: Anna Tsing (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World L2: Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other… (1860–1902) L3: f(x,y) = (((-(-y)) % ((x / 16) | (x * y))) % (((x & y) - (y + y)) | ((x / 12) + (-y)))) % 13 L4: Image created in Great Artist #drawtober

    Two mushrooms lie at the bottom of this image, against a background of pastel pixel glitches. Text is overlaid in lilac, transforming into green when colliding with the mushrooms. "...we are not quite ourselves any more—or at least the selves we were, but rather ourselves in encounter with another. Encounters are, by their nature, indeterminate; we are unpredictably transformed."
    → 9:28 PM, Oct 4

  • #drawtober2026 Day 3: Witch’s Garden

    L1: Vector drawing of False Feywood plant in Greenhearth Necromancer L2: Glitch art created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds L3: Output from High-Eye (ash-k.itch.io) L4: Turmeric painting done in my kitchen #drawtober

    Red vector drawing of a sunflower-like plant with a large mouth and sharp teeth, with glitching text characters banding across the yellow background and subtle green shapes radiating outwards.
    → 9:44 PM, Oct 3

  • #Drawtober2026 Day 2 L1: Text from The Crucible, Arthur Miller L2: Gardening Illustrated, 1879. archive.org/details/g… L3: Ink print of bubble wrap L4: bitartbot f(x,y) = (-(((24 ^ y) | (-x)) - ((-x) ^ (y ^ y)))) % 12 L5: Image created in Great Artist

    A crowd of women in hats examine various vessels of plant matter, in line art rendered in iron red and copper blue. Various glitches appear in the background, including text from the other side of the page bleeding through, as well as glitch art from bitartbot and Become A Great Artist. Text in foreground reads 'A wild thing may say wild things, but not so wild I think'
    → 7:16 PM, Oct 2

  • Layer 1: Text “why am I being hurt?” Layer 2: 1854 botanical print of a great nettle collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O727… Layer 3: Turmeric print of bubble wrap Layer 4: Glitch art created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds Created in Inkscape

    #drawtober #drawtober2026 Day 1

    Purple and green image combining glitch art and traditional printing, with text overlay "why am I being hurt?"
    → 5:31 PM, Oct 1
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