8.16.2008

Make Art Online

There's nothing more fun or rewarding than exploring your creative side. With online art applications, you don't have to worry about buying any art materials, such as paper, pencils, paints and brushes. Instead, you can go to the following web pages and create `till your heart's content, as i did, and then just move on with no mess to clean up.


On this popular site visitors can produce abstract paintings in a style that reflects the work of artist Jackson Pollock. This stays on the screen—every stroke or splat remains there as you work around or over it, and a click of the mouse changes the color of the "paint."














Another site offers similar color and paint effects, but the each stroke, each line, sways and swirls and then quickly dissipates, so quickly that a screen shot isn't even possible.

At Bomomo, you can make art with a persistence on the page that's similar to the works created at the Pollock site, but instead of paintings you generate a kind of abstract sketch, as seen below. No doubt, my immense talent is becoming obvious.















Another fun site for art is Screaming duck. Here users can create images with moving parts: whatever is drawn in blue or green moves, perfect for rendering images of water or grass. I guess you could make clouds move too, by coloring in most of the sky blue but leaving spaces that would represent clouds, which would appear to move as the blue sky around them actually did, but that seems like a lot of effort. Instead, I drew an underwater scene, as you can see.












The fish don't move, but the water and the sea grass does.













Boy that's wonderful. If you weren't inspired to create something of your own before, I bet you sure are now. By all means, go to one of these sites and try it yourself.

Or just stay here. Another site that generates a kind of art is Dreamlines. It isn't the user that creates it exactly, though, but you influence it and it generates some pretty cool images.

You just type in a word or phrase, or your "dream," and the application uses lines and colors to illustrate this "dream" of yours. First, I entered the topic of a real dream i have on a recurring basis: Being stuck in a ridiculously long line at Walgreen's. Actually I have that experience in real life on a recurring basis also.
































And in a few seconds my "dream" was loaded and off it went, taking shape and then constantly changing; it emerged as a series of images that flowed in and out of one another.









































That isn't really how it looks in my actual dream when i have it, but it's pretty cool nonetheless. The image continues to evolve endlessly, or at least i never reached any end with it. Eventually some sort of subliminal message is included in the background--i don't know what it says but i had an incredible urge to eat at Dave's House of Pizza after i got done here--and then eventually that is drawn over and the imagery continues...


























































and is truly mesmerizing...