Make your own awesome abstract art!

Want to know how to make your own abstract art, like the one that I made? It's really fun and cool, and you can add your own shapes, like stars or diamonds!

Step One

The first line is importing the turtle and the random package. The second line is basically saying that the name of the turtle is "a". You can name the turtle whatever you want, though. The third line is optional. It's saying that the shape of the turtle is a turtle, not the default arrow or a square or a circle. I acidentally imported random again for the fourth line, so you don't have to include it. The last two lines set the speed of the turtle and hide the turtle.

Step Two

This step can be changed to your liking. The first line lists a bunch of different colors in a list. You can choose your own colors, such as purple, orange, red, and pink instead. Then there are two variables called x and y, which will be used later to find random coordinates on the screen for the turtle to draw the shapes. The variable "s" stands for "size", and that is choosing a random size for the shapes. Then I created another turtle named "pig", but "pig" controls the screen. The next line can also be changed. "pig" will choose a random color from that list to make the screen that color.

Step Three

Finally, we get to start drawing! The first line starts the for loop, setting it to draw the circles 50 times. "a.pu()" is short for "pen up". Then the turtle goes to the random coordinates and sets new random coordinates and sizes, puts the pen down, and starts drawing the circle. When this is done, then it will fill in the circle. This repeats 50 times.

Now run your code! If all went well, you should have 50 circles on your screen with different colors, and when you run it again, you will get random backgrounds. The circles should also be in random positions!

Step Four

Now you have to make the squares! First, start the for loop, and set a random position, size, and color. Then add another for loop inside the other one, and make that for loop draw a square. At the end, the optional step is to ask if the user wants anything written in the center. You can alwyas change the color of this or just not ask the user at all, but it's all up to you!

You're done!

If all went well, then you should have something like the picture above!

What next?

Like I said mulitple times above, take this simple program to the next level! Expirement! Learn! Discover! Here are some examples to get you started:

  • Maybe add more colors to the list of colors, or change them!
  • Or you can make more or less of circles and squares!
  • Do you want to expirement by trying to make other shapes? Such as stars, or even hearts?

    • There is so much that you can do!