More Artistic Fun -- This Time With Gears

Happy Holidays To All !!!

As I mentioned before, I've been keeping my eye out for new accent patterns and items to scatter and fade throughout my artistic compositions.

This past weekend had me viewing movies and television shows that featured Steam Punk; a genre that I find totally fascinating.

Gears make great metaphors and symbols for society, industrialism, time, etc.

A gear is basically a circle with teeth; pointed, squared, nubbed or rounded. I like to fancy them up with spokes.

I start with a circle and draw radians out from the center. You need an even number of radians in order to connect them into teeth.


circle with center

 

 

 

 

 

Then add radians

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Square teeth are made by drawing straight lines across the tops of every other set of radians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pointed teeth are made by drawing straight lines from the tip of the radians down to the midway points between its neighbor radians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is square toothed gear I created and flavored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am attracted to the nuances that an inside spoke structure can add.

The above is but the most basic of spoke structures. Multiple angles, curves and armatures will end up being more interesting; as well as adding contrasting and corresponding decorative details on their surfaces.

I unchained my muses for a few minutes on this first simple design and it led to this artistic study.

 

 

 

Shared For Your Enjoyment

Best Wishes To All



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Bill's Spirit is a Digital Artist and Writer currently living in Central Ohio.

Works are available for viewing at:

http://billsspirit.gather.com and http://www.unusurreal.com