Sustained Investigation #7

Circuit Forest

8" x 8"

Digital procreate

The story behind this artwork is that it represents the beauty that technology can create. In many ways the layers of code and hardware that builds our world is beautiful. Technology is by no means all bad. In order to show this, I created a forest and natural scene made up of circuits. This connects to my life because since I got interested in programming, my opinions of the technological giants have changed in my mind, and this represents my more optimistic feelings about the future of it all.

I made this using my tablet with procreate.

I used line to create shape and color to create value. I wanted to work on creating natural texture mixed with geometric shapes. I also focused on creating a range of values, since I often forget to do that when drawing a scene intended to take place at night. I used a repetition of different shapes in the upwards lines made by the trees and reflections. Going forward, I might clean up some of the messier aspects of this drawing, but looking at it, I'm actually pretty content with it as a whole.