Genuary 2021 Day 3: "Make Something Human"

 

Maybe I'll call this "84 Little Computer Friends"

I was kind of dreading this prompt, as humans are complex and difficult to draw. So, with thanks to Randall Munroe and Rich Burlew, I set out to draw a bunch of simple humans. I've got an idea for a picture I want to render someday of a hundred, a thousand superheroes, all just standing around. This is not that picture. Or maybe it is. Well, no. 

I used the Python drawSvg library to draw this image as a SVG,  and then I used the AxiDraw to draw the SVG from within InkScape. The pen-and-ink version lost the racial diversity in the original image, which might be a theme. If you want.

Each stick figure has their own proportions, based around an average stick figure that I drew on some graph paper.

Tools Used: AxiDraw Mini, InkScape, DrawSVG

Languages Used: Python3 (SVG?)

Development Time: ~90 minutes

What's Generative Here: each stick figure's proportions, pose, and skin tone are generated using a random number generator