Scarlett drew this back in September when the kids were playing a lot of Spelunky. It’s interesting to see which parts of the game imprinted on her mind.

Sometimes Scarlett asks me to draw with her. So I drew this scene:

I know there’s a fine line between a parent being impressed by their child and a parent bragging. Nonetheless, I thought this drawing Scarlett did was pretty good for a 3 year old.

[caption id=“attachment_7745” align=“alignleft” width=“404”] Self-Portrait[/caption]

More on this later. For now:

[caption id=“attachment_7722” align=“aligncenter” width=“533”] I’d gotten OK at drawing with a mouse[/caption]

My first attempt with the pen had me getting used to pressure controlling thickness:

[caption id=“attachment_7723” align=“aligncenter” width=“299”] Drawing with pen for the first time[/caption]

I got a little better the second time around:

[caption id=“attachment_7724” align=“aligncenter” width=“282”] Drawing with pen for the second time[/caption]

Here are some of the things Scarlett has asked me to draw. There are a few themes I think you may notice.

More math-based art, but I really like how this came out a LOT better than my experiment with Fibonacci. Check them out!

Tight Cornell Archemedean Spiral by DJOtaku, on Flickr A really tight Archemedean Spiral featuring my photos tagged with Cornell

Portrait Archemedean Spiral by DJOtaku, on Flickr An Archemedean Spiral based on my Portrait Photos

I think that nearly everyone who has ever learned about the Fibonacci Sequence is fascinated by how quickly it grows. I wanted to illustrate that, so I created this collage with some modifications to J im’s makeCollage.pl script. The rules were that each picture takes the place of a number on the Fibonacci Sequence and is displayed that many times. Of course, I skipped Fibonacci number 1, which is 0. No point in having a picture show up 0 times. So the first picture is shown once, as is the second. Then two times, then three, then…..