MFDOOM CNC Lyrics project

I’ve been doing a personal project whereby I use my CNC machine to draw and carve some of my favorite music lyrics. This one was done for my love of MF DOOM’s (rip) genius, a year, almost to the day, before he died. The fact that he may have seen this when i shouted him out on this Instagram post, makes me flex my fandom muscles hard. He’s definitely one of the greatest of all time, requiring multiple listens of any of his work to be able to see how layered and well composed his rhyme schemes were. Add his imperfect beat production style in spirit of J Dilla (rip), and it’s a guarantee he’ll be remembered forever.

Process : This is my hand-style on paper, scanned (actually a photo on my phone), and brought into Inkscape (a free vector drawing app much like Adobe Illustrator) to be converted to vectors. Two sets of vectors were created, one for the black sharpie, and one for the red. I 3d printed a sharpie holder for my cnc machine.

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