Organic-Tribal Kaleidoscope Art
I've been doodling organic tribal designs for years now, using the
activity to occupy my brain when I need to keep engaged through any long
period of focus. Although it seems antithetical to paying attention, I
am actually much more able to concentrate when my visual brain is
active. Doodling provides exactly that stimulus while I'm in
meetings, listening to lectures, or brainstorming.
Recently, I've become really happy with the way the little drawings have been coming out, and I've started scanning them to clean them up on the computer.
The resulting art was a bit bland, and I wanted a way to join my doodles into a more cohesive design, incorporating symmetry and geometric patterns into the organic flow of the inked art.
Today I stumbled upon the wonderful kaleidoscope filter in PSP 7, and
these little drawings are the result. the resulting
patterns are very
neat and incorporate my doodles well - I may finally have something to
fill the boatload of frames that the previous tenant of our apartment
left behind.
Beware that if you click on the full image, (it goes thumbnail -> small image -> full image) you'll be waiting for a while as these are very high resolution images for printing.
