Working on the front cover for my album's CD case - which ended up being my magazine advertisement - was a lot of fun, as I discovered a program called Harmony, created by 'Mr Doob'. The program works by connecting the lines which one draws with smaller lines; this is called a neighbouring lines concept: the program takes simple vector-based imputs (the drawing), and creates its own drawing on top, using a series of numbers (I think at random) which determine how the lines will pan out.
The program has different features;
'Simple' is a basic 'pencil' tool, and doesn't make any connections (much like the pencil tool on the Windows program 'Paint'). I used this to create the basic shape of my figures, as using any other tool made it impossible to draw two lines next to each other without them being connected automatically by the program.
'Sketchy' lets the user draw lines, and connects those which are next to each other (as the drawing is being made) with straight lines. The connecting lines are very dark when the drawn lines are close to each other, but become thinner and eventually stop connecting as the lines which are being drawn grow apart.
I have created a series of doodles with this tool to demonstrate how this looks (because the above description is confusing):
'Chrome' seems to be same variation of the neighbouring lines concept as the 'sketchy' tool: the connecting lines look the same, but this tool creates the lines with different hues of whichever colour the user chooses to draw in.
The tool was used in my previous attempts at creating my ancillary texts; however, in my final product I decided to use only greys, black and white, as it follows more closely the conventions of my music video.
Here is a quick drawing made with this tool:
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