Rhombulus – Geometry Meets Personality
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This is one of my oldest digital portraits, drawn directly on document, in 1992 from two rhombuses and polygonal shapes, by applying a standardized workflow for transforming geometric drawings into organic, curve drawn images, by smoothing the nodes of the image, to soften the corners and turn the straight lines into curves.
The nose and the eye-circles are standard shapes from the editor. The eyes are in fact the same eye in two slightly different versions, but this kind of contextual abomination is not my worst; I often use the same shape both for upper jaws and lower jaws in my creatures, and sometimes the same shape for head and tail. An this is due to a local principle I apply for more authenticity and presence in my works: if there is a shape or element in a work that can be used more than once, as a functional element, without becoming a meaningless repetition, but rather by adding more values to the work, I will use it. I actively look for such elements while working on a piece.
I have drawn quite a few cartoonish images this way, but this doodle dude makes me still laugh with his name. This image has been used as a column logo in one of my non-commercial publications.
