The concept
This site is drawn the way I draw on paper: pen lines first, paint right behind them, until the picture comes alive. Here is each layer on its own, then all of it together.
00Colours
Night paper, bone ink and one red pen. Nothing else.
01In numbers
Everything on the site is drawn from these, counted from the files themselves.
paintings
traced pen strokes
points in one morph
font sizes
02Density
Every picture is read for its edges, and the strongest ones become pen lines. Drag to choose how many.
03Lines
First the pen alone: the picture as red line work. The timeline below runs with it.
waiting to be seenpen · 1.2 s
04Paint
Then the brush alone: colour laid along the same contours.
waiting to be seenbrush · 1.8 s
05Lines + paint
Both at once, a beat apart. The lines soak in and the picture is left.
waiting to be seenpen → brush → soak → photo · 2.7 s
06The clock
The engine's real timings, phase by phase, slowed 1.8× so the pen is visible.
edges, nearest the focus first
colour dabs along the contours
the pen lines fade into the paint
the picture itself settles in
07Together
The lines never stop: they let go of one painting and flow into the next. Press next.
08Kitty
Every sketchbook of mine has a cat in it. Tap it.