One Maze - Many designs - experiment #16

This is a continuation of my maze design experiments. Read about it in post #1, One Maze - Many designs, and so on with a new post every Friday.

The original maze:

Simple Maze

I used Inkscape this week to play with walls, mostly expanding or reducing them to create a wall effect. Lets see what it looks like:

  • The first maze I expanded the walls with grey layers multiple times to create a mini wall effect.

  • The second maze I kept going from the first example above, basically even more of that

  • The third maze I did the reverse - a reduced the size of each layer slightly but stayed using only black walls.

  • The fourth maze I mixed, making the outer walls expanding each layer while the inner walls minimzed.

  • The fifth maze has a simple grey shadow. Nothing much.

I really like how the first half of these look. Because they all expand from a central point, they all look as if the center is lower than the outside walls. Not sure how I will use this, but it was fun to play with !

Free Comic Book Day Maze Booklet available for download !!

It is that time of year again, time to celebrate Free Comic Book Day ! Every Monday I make new maze art for the site, and every Tuesday I make a new comic book maze cover. These mazes are what I used for the free booklet below.

I pulled together a cover quickly that is maze-free but I hope you will enjoy the mazes in the booklet. And if you like what you see, come back each Tuesday to see the newest creation ! I am in year 3 of the project.

free comic book day maze book

Download info: Pages: 11 including cover; Mazes: 10; File Size: 3,267 KB

 

That is not the only free comic book I have available, but the full annual books are available for your email. Sign-up for emails when I launch a book on Amazon, or sign-up for when I launch a new free book on the site (I have over 35 books in English and over 20 in Spanish). Mazequerade Volume and Volume 2. Or, you can see the individual mazes by year: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3.

Last year I made some Star Wars mazes to celebrate May 4th. Here is that blog post:

Star Wars Mazes - Grogu, Darth Vader, Boba Fett and more

And I was able to repurpose my Grogu maze from that post to make a comic strip for my Wednesday comic strip collection. They all deal with mazes and labyrinths. I use AI to generate an image then add/subtract to it. They aren’t perfect, but they get the idea across.

Mando and Grogu comic strip

Happy Free Comic Book Day !

Doyoumaze Comic Strip #17 - Horse Race

I used Google Gemini to make this comic strip based on my comic idea with a few changes. (I am too busy making mazes to make all of the illustrations needed). Come back each Wednesday for a new comic strip. All comic strips will be housed in this archive.

Doyoumaze Comic Strip #17 - Horse Race

Doyoumaze Comic Strip #17 - Horse Race

Enjoy the Kentucky Derby this week ! I made a comic style horse maze you can download in the comic maze section. I also made a maze of the famous Blucifer, blue mustang sculpture in Denver.

Maze Comic Book Cover #122 - Roll with It

Issue #122 in my comic book cover collection features the maze of a Pangolin and is titled Roll with It. I like making geometric backgrounds for the comics and i thought it fit here with the scales of the pangolin. I also used the scales as the pathways, simply connecting them to create the maze, similar to my dragon and lizard mazes earlier in the year.

My comic book cover mazes are archived by year:

Comic Book Cover Mazes - Year 1 (Issues #1 - 53)

Comic Book Cover Mazes - Year 2 (Issues# 54 -105)

Comic Book Cover Mazes - Year 3 (Issues #106 - )