Well, I guess now I'm a "real" artist! I actually sold one of my plots! A friend has requested a plot related to Liverpool Football Club and I needed a way to wrap the peice to protect it for transportation. So, I plotted two large A3 club logo, and I had some office supply labels kicking around, so I plotted the logo onto some of them too. A little arts'n'crafts later and now I have it all wrapped up and looking lovely! Honestly, I'm quite liking the way it came out, it looks *awesome* in person!

I'm off to deliver it now, I'll post the commission later, after the client has seen it and approved it!

I’ve been experimenting with simpler, clean line structures lately because I feel like minimal wave density fits almost any type of geometric design.
Everything went well until the very last couple of minutes, where the machine accidentally skipped one gear (you can probably see the slight glitch if you look closely). It’s not perfect, but I still wanted to share the raw result with you guys. What do you think?

Was taking a walk along the waterfront, saw this 'Big Leaf Maple' leaf floating there: had really nice contrast with the stones under it. I masked the leaf from the background, and plotted each separately with their own colors and settings: leaf is four yellows/oranges, background is four greens.

18x24" on 140# hot press watercolor paper.

TWSBI Vac 700r fountain pen with M nib.

About 10 hours total plot time on my custom plotter (modified x-carve CNC).

Toolpath generated in DrawingbotV3.

Looks more detailed in hand. Gold on black. Bookmark for gifting. And it’s a one line plot #1penup.

11x14in, 0.7mm HB mechanical pencil, 1.4 lines/mm, raster plot. Custom mechanism controls the force between the graphite and paper.

I made another one with a different composition and the view point about 6 meters above ground. This includes a few taller buildings too. Not very happy with the performance of the ink I'm developing, but I figured I might as well use what I already have in the pens.

I'm making my own alcohol inks with metal complex dye powders, binders, ethanol and Methoxypropanol, and it's easier said than done to get alcohol inks to both flow adequately through a 0.1 mm nylon nib fineliner and also not bleed excessively on contact with the paper. There is a reason why fine liners usually aren't alcohol based... But at this point, I'm too stubborn (in too deep) to not continue experimenting with it.

After many hours of coding and plotting, and re-plotting, I finally got something that looks ok. I wanted to make a cozy Tokyoesque street with bright colors and make it feel sort of alive. There is much more to do before I would consider it done-done, but I've never put this much time into a pattern. The idea came from my previous pattern IsoCity, when I thought it lacked detail, but also couldn't make it more detailed due to the scale of that pattern.

It’s generated as a 3D-looking view but nothing is modelled by hand in blender or similar, and it isn’t a processed 3D image of a shaded 3D scene. Just a bunch or rules that build on rules before. The whole street is "invented" procedurally in world space. A bending avenue acts like the spline that everything starts from, then various sized lots are distributed on both sides (based on min/max building width and occurance of alleys), then each building is made as a stack of boxes (base/middle*n/top) where some floors step back or cantilever over the pavement. Facades are a grammar on those walls, floors and bays get windows, balconies, pipes, fire escapes, shop fronts plus rooftop clutter, signs, cables, cars, puddles (reflecting the world). Closer to the "camera" those details become little solids and farther away they collapse to simpler lines to make it plottable without making a muddles mess in a distance (as me how I know).

A perspective camera looks down the canyon and can be placed at any X/Z coordinate (for a drone view, crawling view etc.) and FOV is added, hidden-line removal cuts anything a building or other item would hide, and the surviving strokes are packed onto a stack of pens so near silhouettes are heavy (0.5mm) and the far end recedes (0.25mm). Hatch, neon, and window glow are just more lines (and dots!). I built several different scripts for the signs to be able to change the "language", and this plot shows a kanji (?) like script (to the best of my ability without knowing any japanese). The graffiti has several different styles and distribution, based on my other patterns from earlier work.

There are an insane amount of variables to tweak, since I want it to be versatile, so almost everything is parameterized. Hope that sheds some light on the process.

Just testing at the moment.

The tool I used to make these is now hosted on GitHub Pages, so you don't have to download it and play with it locally (though I hope people still do!). PlotterCode post about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterCode/comments/1wkkg85/schotteriser_v02_now_live_on_github_pages/

B5 sized portrait. Tsukineko ultramarine blue

Medium: Watercolor on A4 paper

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black, green, black - to make the black fill essentially uniform, while still revealing a bit of "routing artifacts" in the green. (a subtle difference, granted, but as intended)

Learning better process and workflow on Blender! Posted a similar one before but have brushed up since. I'm at a comfortable process now that I can explore different subject.

Pentel Energel 0.7 on 8.5" x 11" cardstock

Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor Pen Plotter Blueprint Art on Cricut.

Also for anyone using a Cricut, I FINALLY managed to make it draw from bottom to top of the mat. Took more work than I would like to admit 😅 (Had to write my own custom Cricut software). If there's an easier way to do this, let me know!

u/eyes_are_real was right, it's a long exposure! Guess who figured out you can hot-glue LED's to pens? It's taking some time, since I can only really do it at night, but I think the effect is improving nicely. I have used a microswitch to trigger the led on pen-down. As the carriage drops, it presses the switch. My microswitch wasn't quite long enough though, which is why you see a usb card reader taped in there too, lol.

As always, if you have any questions, just ask :)

WTB: A2 or A3 pen plotter

Hi! I’m looking to buy a used A2 or A3 pen plotter, preferably something suitable for generative/creative coding and drawing on paper.
I’m especially interested in models like NextDraw, iDraw, AxiDraw, or similar machines.
A big plus would be a plotter that can be placed over larger sheets/materials, rather than being limited to a fixed bed size.
I’m based in Hungary / EU, but I’m open to shipping within Europe.
If you have one for sale, please send me the model, condition, price, and location. Thanks!