At some point I felt like I had BURNING, HELL in its death throes, And I myself had become weak from the years long battle. But for the first time I was thinking that the book might one day be finished. So I took some time off and began working on a cover. This was a terrible idea.
I have no skill in any of the crafts of artwork. I can't draw or paint. So I wrote a bunch of Java code using the Processing.org library, which makes graphics manipulation more accessible to programmers. And I began a years long battle to create a single image that was worthy of my novel. I know it sounds silly, but it took so long to get the words right. And I wanted the image to be complementary.
The result is a drawing program that I called Giotto. I can plug in bits of code and use them to draw images on the screen. With the exception of the text and the bird shape, the pictures below are created entirely with geometry. Circles and lines. It may be an artistic cop-out. But I'm also very proud of my little creations. All of the artwork on this site, including the page backgrounds, were created using Giotto. Almost none of it was anything I intended to create. The images are the result of gobs of time and effort, and the beautiful accidents of mathematics. I suppose that's how God works too.
I have no skill in any of the crafts of artwork. I can't draw or paint. So I wrote a bunch of Java code using the Processing.org library, which makes graphics manipulation more accessible to programmers. And I began a years long battle to create a single image that was worthy of my novel. I know it sounds silly, but it took so long to get the words right. And I wanted the image to be complementary.
The result is a drawing program that I called Giotto. I can plug in bits of code and use them to draw images on the screen. With the exception of the text and the bird shape, the pictures below are created entirely with geometry. Circles and lines. It may be an artistic cop-out. But I'm also very proud of my little creations. All of the artwork on this site, including the page backgrounds, were created using Giotto. Almost none of it was anything I intended to create. The images are the result of gobs of time and effort, and the beautiful accidents of mathematics. I suppose that's how God works too.
I spent some time trying to build textures as a background for the cover.
And I tried various landscapes too, as a way to create something concrete.
I did create versions that served as a cover.
As well as some things that were too strange and wonderful to serve any master.
The current cover, which should look a bit familiar.
