Marcelo Paiva

All illustrations

A woman in profile rests her hands on a flat surface as swirls and dots billow around her.

Draws this one again — same subject and the same people, a new palette and a new angle on it, described afresh. It replaces the drawing on this page for everyone, until somebody draws another. Costs the site about eight cents, and a few seconds.

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What happens when designers open pull requests?

Writing — read the piece

Persona profile
Product Designer — works in the repository now, opens pull requests against the same branch as the engineers, and is reviewed like them.
Meant to show
A designer with a temporary wrist injury, working keyboard-only until it heals.
Asked for
A woman with silver-streaked hair typing with one hand, her other arm in a grey sling, pausing before the last keystroke
Drawn with (analogous)
#6f9c42#4eb74f#9e5ab1

Why these three

Two neighbors reading as one family, and a third opposite them to argue with it.

  1. SeedSHA-256 of what-happens-when-designers-open-pull-requests, which is the same every time and different for every piece.
  2. Base hueThe first two bytes as a fraction of 65,535, times 360 = 88°.
  3. GeometryThe third byte modulo 4 picks analogous, which adds 0°, 35°, 190°.
  4. WobbleThree more bytes shift each by up to ±12° — +1.8°, −2.6°, +8.1° — so two pieces that draw the same geometry are still not the same shape on the wheel.
  5. Result#6f9c4290° at 58% saturation, 61% value#4eb74f121° at 57% saturation, 72% value#9e5ab1286° at 50% saturation, 70% value

Saturation never drops below 72% and value never below 78%, which is what keeps a hue reading as the color it was chosen to be rather than as a dark. More on how these are made.

A drawing

This is a museum label beside a picture. The drawing comes first, and everything about it comes after.

From top to bottom

  1. At the top, the site header: my name, which goes home, then links to Writing, Work, Signal, Tools and Resume, then Settings, where you choose the drawings, light or dark, and movement.
  2. A link back to all the illustrations.
  3. The drawing, large.
  4. Links to the previous and next drawing, and where this one falls among them. The left and right arrow keys go there too.
  5. The title of the piece the drawing belongs to, with a link to read it. On this page the heading comes after the drawing.
  6. What the drawing was meant to show, what was asked for, and its three colors.
  7. Why these three: how the colors were picked, with a color wheel and the steps.
  8. At the bottom, the footer: a note on how this site is built, links to Illustrations, Pens, Concepts and Accessibility, this Describe this page button, then GitHub, LinkedIn and email.

What you can do here

Read about how this drawing was made, or step through the others.