Hi! It has been a while but I certainly have been busy. Lately I'm often in the mood for drawing and I have a resolution to draw daily for at least 30 minutes. But something I often struggle with when I decide to draw is the big question: What on earth should I draw?? I'm not sure if anyone else gets plagued by this question but to me it happens often that I spend more time browsing something to draw than actually drawing. Since I am also fond of programming I decided to create a small tool to generate a random reference image to spark my imagination and finally I have the result!
https://randoref.com/
I called it RandoRef because it literally gives you random references... By using the PixaBay library more than a million random images can be shown and on top of that, all images are free to use. If you are feeling in a certain mood, the tool has also more specific search functions. You can filter for specific images, dominance of a certain color, vectors, landscape or portrait mode and so on.
On top of that, I added the option to display a grid over the image to help keep proportions right. If you have suggestions on features that might be useful or that you would like to use with this tool, let me know and I'll see what I can do! You can also find the code on Github if you want to look at it or help in that way.
I already had fun with it for sure! Below you can see some of my results. They are rather small and there exist more impressive drawings, but they are great practice. i'm not sure if there are still a lot of active #art communities on steem? I would wonder if this actually might help people. I can only think of one person I follow making art, @stef1?
The site is currently hosted on a free platform, but who knows what the future might bring for RandoRef 😃. That's it for the small update, Have a great day!
