https://blog.zoyander.cc/categories/drawtober/ en Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:18:54 +0000 https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/31/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:18:54 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/31/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 31: Pumpkin head</p> <p>L1: f(x,y) = ((((y * 22) - (y - 19)) - (-(13 * x))) &amp; ((-(-y)) + (~(x % 20)))) % 5<br> L2: Turmeric paint<br> L3: My brain MRI in 2022<br> L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober31.png" width="600" height="600" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/30/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:12:20 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/30/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 30: Pumpkin Head</p> <p>L1: Mary Shelley (1851) Frankenstein<br> L2: f(x,y) = ((((x &amp; x) | (y &amp; y)) + (~(x ^ y))) % (-((22 / x) - (x &amp; y)))) % 2<br> L3: Orange gradient<br> L4: Bisbee, J. (1837) <a href="https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/neurography/">Neurographie</a><br> L5: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober30.png" alt="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.'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/29/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:48:56 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/29/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 29: Pumpkin Head</p> <p>L1: High Eye (ash-k.itch.io)<br> L2: Jacob, Nicolas-Henri (1867-1871) <a href="https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/frontal-section-encephalon/">Frontal cross-section of the encephalon</a><br> L3: Orange radial gradient<br> L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober29.png" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/28/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:53:41 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/28/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 28: Pumpkin Head</p> <p>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) <a href="https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/neurography/">Systematized anatomy</a> L4: Orange-yellow gradient L5: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober28.png" alt="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.'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/27/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:42:22 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/27/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 27: Pumpkin Head</p> <p>L1: Ink print from bubble wrap<br> L2: f(x,y) = (((-(-y)) % ((x / 16) | (x * y))) % (((x &amp; y) - (y + y)) | ((x / 12) + (-y)))) % 13<br> L3 &amp; 4: Sivartha, Dr. Alesha (1898) <a href="https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/brain-body/"><em>The Book of Life</em></a><br> L5: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober27.png" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/26/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:38:49 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/26/drawtober-day-pumpkin-head-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 26: Pumpkin head</p> <p>L1: f(x,y) = (((x &amp; y) * (x % x)) + ((x &amp; y) &amp; (~y))) - (((22 + x) &amp; (y * x)) | ((x ^ y) ^ (-x)))<br> L2 &amp; L3: Jacob, Nicolas-Henri (1867-1871) <a href="https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sagittal-section-encephalon/">&lsquo;Sagittal cross-section of the encephalon&rsquo;</a><br> L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober26.png" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/25/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:31:28 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/25/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 25: Fungus collector</p> <p>L1: Ink print from bubble wrap L2: bitartbot f(x,y) = (((~(-x)) * (~(11 - y))) / (~((-x) ^ (~y)))) % 4 L3: Lewis, M. F. (1860). <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/171551">Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighbourhood</a> L4: Image created in <a href="https://mermaidindustries.itch.io">Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</a></p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober25.png" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/24/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:43:15 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/24/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 24: Fungus collector</p> <p>L1: Ink print from tissue L2: bitartbot f(x,y) = (((~(14 + y)) ^ ((y * y) &amp; (22 | y))) / (-(~(y % x)))) % 13 L3: Lewis, M. F. (1860). <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/171551">Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighbourhoods</a> L4: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober24.png" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/23/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:15:52 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/23/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 23: Fungus Collector</p> <p>L1: Kelly Oliver quoted in Hil Malatino (2022) Side Affects<br> L2: Ink print from parsnip carved with zigzag pattern<br> L3: Lewis, M. F. (1860). <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/171551">Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighbourhoods</a><br> L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober23.png" alt="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'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/22/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:41:26 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/22/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 22: Fungus collector</p> <p>L1: High Eye (ash-k.itch.io) L2: Lewis, M. F. (1860). <a href="www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/171551">Fungi collected in Shropshire and other neighbourhoods.</a> L3: f(x,y) = (-((~x) + (17 - x))) - (((x | 9) + (y &amp; y)) * ((-y) | (~x))) L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober22.png" alt="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'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/21/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:42:17 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/21/drawtober-day-fungus-collector-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 21: Fungus Collector</p> <p>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 &amp; x) / (-x))) ^ ((-(-y)) / (-(7 &amp; y)))) % 7 L4: Great Artist</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober21.png" width="600" height="600" alt="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'."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/20/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:48:46 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/20/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 20: Stitched Together</p> <p>L1: bitartbot f(x,y) = ((~(~(9 + y))) ^ (((8 * y) + (-y)) | ((y % x) ^ (23 / x)))) % 13 L2: Embroidered needlecase, 1843, England. V&amp;A Collections L3: Ink print of zigzags carved into parsnip L4: Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <p><img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/cad7513549.png" alt=" 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."></p> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/19/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/19/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 19: Stitched together</p> <p>L1: Text from Helen R. Hull (1917) Blight L2: f(x,y) = ((((y * 12) | (20 / x)) * (~(y &amp; 8))) * (((-x) * (x / y)) % ((x ^ x) ^ (13 * y)))) % 9 L3: Satin bag embroidered with trees and animals, 19th Century, V&amp;A Collections L4: Great Artist</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober19.png" alt="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.'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/18/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:41:50 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/18/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 18: Stitched Together</p> <p>L1: Text from Helen R. Hull (1926) The Playboy<br> L2: Curtain border, 18th-19th century, V&amp;A Collection<br> L3: Ink printing from crumpled tissue paper<br> L4: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober18.png" width="600" height="600" alt="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.'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/17/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:49:37 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/17/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 17: Stitched together</p> <p>L1: Georgiana Houghton (1882) Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings L2: Great Artist L3: Machine embroidered textile, 1923. V&amp;A Collections<br> L4: bitartbot f(x,y) = ((((7 ^ y) ^ (20 % x)) - (~(-x))) % (~((x | x) &amp; (8 | y)))) % 3</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober17.png" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/16/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:13:18 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/16/drawtober-day-stitched-together-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 16: Stitched together</p> <p>L1: Lewis F Day (1900) Art in Needlework L2: bitartbot f(x,y) = ((-((y | x) / (2 - y))) / (((y * y) &amp; (-x)) ^ ((~x) % (y % y)))) % 3 L3: Embroidered valance, 1700s, Greek. V&amp;A Collections L4: Turmeric print of bubble wrap L5: Great Artist</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober16.png" alt="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.'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/15/l-fxy-x-y-x.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:44:15 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/15/l-fxy-x-y-x.html <p>L1: f(x,y) = (((x &amp; y) * (x % x)) + ((x &amp; y) &amp; (~y))) - (((22 + x) &amp; (y * x)) | ((x ^ y) ^ (-x))) L2: f(x,y) = (((~(5 | y)) ^ ((y % x) * (y * x))) &amp; (((19 / y) - (x ^ x)) % ((y ^ 14) - (x * 5)))) % 8 L3: Great Artist L4: Glazed bottle from Khurja, India c. 1880</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober15.png" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/14/drawtober-day-wicked-apothecary-l.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:49:59 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/14/drawtober-day-wicked-apothecary-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 14: Wicked Apothecary</p> <p>L1: Buncheong wine bottle with flared mouth and long neck, 1400 - 1500, V&amp;A Collection L2: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds L3: Annie, seated with her grief. Edmund Henry Garrett, 1893</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober14.png" width="600" height="600" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/13/drawtober-day-wicked-apothecary-digital.html Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:34:32 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/13/drawtober-day-wicked-apothecary-digital.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 13: Wicked Apothecary</p> <p>Digital collage composed using Inkscape</p> <p>L1: Green gradient L2: Moroccan glazed earthenware bottle ca 1870. From the V&amp;A Collections. L3 &amp; L5: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds L4: Photo of trees near my house</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober13.png" width="600" height="600" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/12/drawtober-day-wicked-apothecary-l.html Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:32:24 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/12/drawtober-day-wicked-apothecary-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 12: Wicked apothecary</p> <p>L1: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds L2: Bottle with incised foliated ornament. Italian, 1650-1700. V&amp;A Collections. L3: Pixel Space Background Generator (Deep-Fold) L4: Red - purple gradient L5: Turmeric print of bubble wrap</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober12.png" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/11/drawtober-day-wicked-apothecary-l.html Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:38:26 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/11/drawtober-day-wicked-apothecary-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 11: Wicked Apothecary</p> <p>L1: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds L2: Stoneware bottle, China, Liao dynasty (907-1125) from the V&amp;A Collections L3: Image created in Pixel Space Background Generator (Deep-Fold) L4: Purple gradient L5: Brushed turmeric</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober11.png" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/10/drawtober-day-shadow-prince-l.html Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:05:57 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/10/drawtober-day-shadow-prince-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 10: Shadow Prince</p> <p>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</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober10.png" alt="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'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/09/drawtober-day-shadow-prince-l.html Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:11:26 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/09/drawtober-day-shadow-prince-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 9: Shadow Prince</p> <p>L1: bitartbot f(x,y) = ((((x / y) % (x &amp; y)) - (-(-y))) - (((22 / y) * (y - x)) ^ (~(~y)))) % 10 L2: Gustave Doré illustration in Milton&rsquo;s Paradise Lost c. 1880 L3: Ink print of bubble wrap L4: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober9.png" width="600" height="600" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/08/drawtober-day-shadow-prince-l.html Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:56:26 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/08/drawtober-day-shadow-prince-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 8: Shadow Prince</p> <p>L1: W. E. B. DuBois (1920) DARKWATER<br> L2: bitartbot f(x,y) = (((~(-x)) * (~(11 - y))) / (~((-x) ^ (~y)))) % 4<br> L3: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds <br> L4: Vector from photograph of ROAR Garage Gallery October 2025<br> L5: HSL(349, 100, 14)</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/drawtober8.png" alt="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'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/07/drawtober-day-dark-prince-l.html Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:55:39 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/07/drawtober-day-dark-prince-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 7: Shadow Prince</p> <p>L1: &ldquo;Effects of an eccentric lathe chuck.&rdquo; from Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics, vol 2 1880 L2: Great Artist L3: Brass rubbing of 1504 inscription <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1054177/">collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O105&hellip;</a> L4: Granville Island winter solstice 2018</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/1000031908.png" alt="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"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/06/drawtober-day-dark-prince-l.html Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:13:43 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/06/drawtober-day-dark-prince-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 6: Shadow Prince</p> <p>L1: Aubrey Beardsley Catullus illustration, 1896 L2: Extract from Catullus translation on Wikipedia L3: f(x,y) = ((((~y) % (y &amp; y)) % ((x * y) % (x / y))) * (((24 | y) | (y / y)) % ((2 + y) &amp; (~x)))) % 10 L4: Great Artist L5: HighEye (ash-k)</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <p>&lt;img src=&ldquo;<a href="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/1000031871.png%22">https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/1000031871.png&quot;</a> alt=&ldquo;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 &ldquo;death&rdquo;, &ldquo;silent ash&rdquo;, &ldquo;taken you&rdquo; and &ldquo;from me&rdquo;.&quot;&gt;</p> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/05/drawtober-day-witchs-garden-l.html Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:39:29 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/05/drawtober-day-witchs-garden-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 day 5: Witch&rsquo;s garden</p> <p>L1: Kew Gardens herbarium preserved specimen K000914559 L2: Ink print from bubble wrap L3: Image created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds</p> <p>#drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/1000031837.png" width="600" height="600" alt="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 &quot;Panicum capillare L., Witch grass, North Arboretum in an abandoned... Palm House (zone 183)&quot;"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/04/drawtober-day-witchs-garden-l.html Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:28:32 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/04/drawtober-day-witchs-garden-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 4: Witch&rsquo;s Garden L1: Anna Tsing (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World L2: Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other&hellip; (1860–1902) L3: f(x,y) = (((-(-y)) % ((x / 16) | (x * y))) % (((x &amp; y) - (y + y)) | ((x / 12) + (-y)))) % 13 L4: Image created in Great Artist #drawtober</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/1000031800.png" width="600" height="600" alt="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. &quot;...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.&quot;"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/03/drawtober-day-witchs-garden-l.html Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:44:38 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/03/drawtober-day-witchs-garden-l.html <p>#drawtober2026 Day 3: Witch&rsquo;s Garden</p> <p>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</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/1000031757.png" width="600" height="600" alt="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."> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/02/drawtober-day-l-text-from.html Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:16:20 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/02/drawtober-day-l-text-from.html <p>#Drawtober2026 Day 2 L1: Text from The Crucible, Arthur Miller L2: Gardening Illustrated, 1879. <a href="https://archive.org/details/gardeningillustr2319unse/page/24/mode/2up">archive.org/details/g&hellip;</a> L3: Ink print of bubble wrap L4: bitartbot f(x,y) = (-(((24 ^ y) | (-x)) - ((-x) ^ (y ^ y)))) % 12 L5: Image created in Great Artist</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/fc63a67744.png" alt="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'"> https://blog.zoyander.cc/2026/10/01/layer-text-why-am-i.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:31:16 +0000 http://zoyander.micro.blog/2026/10/01/layer-text-why-am-i.html <p>Layer 1: Text &ldquo;why am I being hurt?&rdquo; Layer 2: 1854 botanical print of a great nettle <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72712/">collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O727&hellip;</a> Layer 3: Turmeric print of bubble wrap Layer 4: Glitch art created in Become a Great Artist in 10 Seconds Created in Inkscape</p> <p>#drawtober #drawtober2026 Day 1</p> <img src="https://blog.zoyander.cc/uploads/2026/95baefe88f.png" width="600" height="600" alt="Purple and green image combining glitch art and traditional printing, with text overlay &quot;why am I being hurt?&quot;">