Scribbler, Scribbler Too, and Flame Paintings :)

(This picture was made using Scribbler. It was my first attempt with the program and I made it by drawing a few simple, random lines across the canvas and then beginning the "Scribbler", and the program was "scribbling", I constantly changed the color of the "paintbrush" and had the transparency and thickness of the lines set to "random" so it was constantly changing as my picture was being created. I think that overall, this program may be a little bit tricky to use if you have a very specific image in mind, that requires a lot of detail. This program randomizes the placement and webbing of multiple lines so I think it could be very challenging to create a precise drawing with it.

This picture was also made Scribbler; with my second attempt at the program, I tried to make a picture that actually represented a tangible object. In this case I tried making a flower, starting with a few simple lines shaped like flower petals. I had the transparency and thickness of the lines set to "random", as I did before  and constantly changed the color, altering between different "cool" colors.

This was the first image that I created on Scribbler Too. What I liked about this program is that it was a lot less random than Scribbler and I was better able to predict the outcome of my drawing. I really liked the "webbed" appearance of the brush a lot more than the "finger painting" look of the Scribbler brush. This drawing is obviously not of anything particular, but I liked how it demonstrates the basic function of the Scribbler Too program.

This image was my second attempt with Scribbler Too and this time I was able to change the thickness and intensity of the "webbing" to create a specific image. I really liked how this program automatically attempts to connect all lines drawn; this created some very interesting blending effects when I would switch in between colors. In my image, the grass, the sky, and the moon, are all two-toned, and the "webbing" helped mesh the two colors together. I thought it was really cool and personally think that with the right creativity and artistic abilities, one could make masterpieces using this software!

Here is my first image from Flame! I personally loved this program a lot more than Scribbler and Scribbler Too, because I am not an artist (at all) and this program literally creates the art for you! It was really fun working with a medium like this; I certainly never have before! I decided that you can use "painting with fire" to convey ANY emotion, not just anger! With the Flame program, you can adjust the color of the flame, the intensity, the thickness, and the blurriness of the "fire", which allows you to create virtually anything. If I had to pick an "emotion" that I was depicting I guess I would call this one excitement, simply because that's the feeling I get from this picture :)

This is my second drawing on Flame; this picture uses less "fire"-like brush strokes, rather, it uses brush strokes that look more like colored light. I thought that this program was really neat because it really isn't just "fire" that you can use as your medium, it's "light". I basically created streams of red and green light reflecting off of one another against the black canvas. It reminds me of a really intense "Northern Lights" scene :)