An excellent video by Wayne Schmidt comparing Spirograph and Wild Gears side-by-side. Conclusion: Spirograph is fun, but it’s a toy. Wild Gears is more expensive, and somewhat more difficult to use, but it’s a more serious drawing tool. Shop Wild … Continue reading →
Further to Jay Heyl’s post on storing smaller Wild Gears, he writes: I was thinking some more about storage for the larger gears and rings and had a brainstorm. Here is the result. I considered making something similar but this … Continue reading →
UPDATE: Since this post, Aaron Bleackley, the creator of Wild Gears, has bought his own laser cutter to produce the gears. It cuts more finely than the cutter at Ponoko, where he used to have the gears made, i.e. the … Continue reading →
Spongepainting watercolour paper before drawing designs with Wild Gears to produce interesting multimedia artpieces. Leveling up.
Continue reading →Suze from Australia sent a picture of her setup for drawing with Wild Gears, in which she uses a heavy-duty magnetic whiteboard and rare earth magnets. Unlike Spirograph pieces, which have a rim supporting the toothed edges, Wild Gears are … Continue reading →
I thought this coloring page was too finely detailed. I’d taken a number of medium-sized Wild Gears patterns, scanned them at high resolution, cleaned them up in Photohsop and shrunk them. Then I arranged them on a page in a … Continue reading →
I keep trying new combinations of Wild Gears to make “wheel-within-a-wheel” designs. Here is a lacey, loopy one, shown on video and also available as a colouring page.
Continue reading →How to condense 2 1/2 hours of coloring into a video that’s short enough for people to watch. And … glitter.
Continue reading →I made some colouring pages with full-page Wild Gears patterns. I drew the designs in black ink, scanned them, cleaned them up in Photoshop and printed them off. Then the fun began. I have to say I was surprised at … Continue reading →
Got spiro-skills? Use them to make unique, hand-drawn greeting cards with your Spirograph or Wild Gears.
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