Cool designs with felt pens
Here are some designs I’ve made with my Super Spirograph and various felt tip pens as I’ve described here.
As you can see, there are lots more colors available these days, compared to the old days when the set came with four ballpoint pens in red, green, blue and black. The pens would sometimes tear the paper as you drew a repetitive design with the pressure necessary to make a line. You don’t have to press so hard with felt pens, so the results are much nicer.
Modern felt pens come in various shades of the same color, such as light, medium and dark blue, which can add subtlety to your designs.
I find the gel pens, such as the metallic copper in these designs, more difficult as they dry slower, so they smudge more easily. Going slowly helps.
A dozen spirograph designs from SpirographicArt.com
I am wondering how the bar is supposed to be used. It seems as if it can be used to make arcs, but I am wondering if it can do more.
It can go around inside a ring, though it’s awkward compared to the smooth movements of the round wheels. Take a look at the Basic Pattern Guide in the instruction booklet (pages 5 and 6 of the new Deluxe set). I’ll do some more experiments and put them in a post. The ones I’ve done so far are kind of rough.
I have just produced an introductory video about the bar. See this link: https://spirographicart.com/2016/06/05/intro-bar-wheel/
Dude, this is totally for preschoolers
1 I can’t belive you idoits actually like it!
Try it sometime!
Actually, most kids under 8 can’t do anything with it, and even for adults it takes time to master.
For Your Information Aryan Saple, Heather Is Right It’s Very Difficult I Bet If U Try It You’ll See Its Hard, I Do This Everyday I’ve Been Practicing For 3 Years!! I Haven’t Mastered It Yet But I’m Trying Hard, So Yeah Just Try It You’ll See What We’re Talking About.
@Aryan Saple I gave up on Spirograph at the relatively young age of 10 years because I couldn’t do anything with it then. Fast-forward some 50 years and I got curious if I could do better now. Nobody knows what happened to my family’s old set so I bought a few new ones. Yes, I can do more with it now, but I have nowhere near mastered it. It looks simple, but is very much not as simple as it looks.