User:Willemhampson

Hello

Name: Willem Hampson

Email: willemhampson@hotmail.co.uk

Digital Craft

The moment I knew What I wanted to do

I think it has always been an ambition of mine to work in the arts but I do not remember a specific moment, my interest in making illustration my profession is a result of a culmination of inspirations, for example books such as the 'Tintin' series that entertained me as a child and continue to inspire me now.

What do you make?

I'm still trying to figure out a consistent way of working for myself. I start the majority of my work by drawing in pen or pencil but where it goes after that can vary.

What is your topic of interest?

One of my current topic of interest is publishing and how various forms of printing could advance my work, I haven't done very much of either however I find having your own work turned into some kind of physical edition highly rewarding.

What is your medium?

My answer to this is similar to the question of "what do you make?" in that I haven't settled on one specific medium, I like to work in pencil, pen, paint and ink. Softwares are becoming more important to my work, mainly Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator (depending on the brief or project).

Circuit Board

We connected a touch sensitive circuit board to LED lights and a speaker in small groups.

Video link here -> [1]

Personal Project

I enjoy accidental and unintentional textures/marks that are made in my work. I would like to make some kind of machine that could make such marks for me. Something that reacts fairly unpredictably to the actions of the user.

Project experimentation and development

I decided a vibrating motor would be essential to my machine and started by getting hold of one of those. I thought it would be interesting to experiment with using the touch sensor to activate it. I simply replaced the speaker (shown in the 'circuit board' video link earlier) with the vibrating motor. This achieved a small amount of success and although the motor responded, it would not have been enough to result in the movement of other components. Instead I tried to make a circuit using a switch instead of a touch sensor. This had a much better result so I decided to test it and attached a pen to the vibrating motor.

I began experimenting by attaching a variety of pens to to the motor and seeing what kind of marks I could get on paper. Watch video experimentation link -> [2]

As shown in the video, I tried to attach 4 mark making items at once to a ruler to imitate my final machine. Perhaps there was too much weight in this as the motor was not powerful enough to create interesting movement.

To try and resolve this I assumed an extra motor might give the extra power that I needed. Unfortunately this did not work and only one of the motors vibrated. I may look into the appropriate circuit to make both of them work.

Despite that, the rest of the experiment was fairly interesting. Here is the result.

Mimicking Machines

Assignment 1

I Draw. You Draw. It Draws

The first assignment involved drawing our favourite machine with instructions for someone else to imitate this drawing. I used a grid format with an x and a y axis as I thought the instructions for this would translate easily and someone would be able to follow it. The machine I drew was a guitar amplifier.

We also took our own vector drawings and had them digitally drawn on a machine usually used for cutting shapes with a blade. The blade was simply replaced with a ballpoint pen.

Assignment 2

3D letters

I started by sketching a letters in pencil, when I was settled on a design I scanned it and used Adobe Illustrator to trace over it. This vector file was then taken into sketchup where I made it a 3D digital file.