Going to try a more detailed one in A3 next!

I had this idea recently, and today I spent the time to make it a reality. This is the second attempt, the first one didnt take into account the pen thickness properly, so it came out muddy with overlapping colours. The original photo is not mine (this is Bjork at Woodstock), but I plan to do this with my own photos also.

I am using a cheap plotter from Aliexpress. It's humble, and they provided two spare servos in the package but I'm already on my last one.

Can anybody recommend a good quality servo to replace with? I assume they are consumables but am hoping to get a bit more life out of them that what I've eperienced so far.

Image is my last spare.

edit: thanks for all of your input. much appreciated. will continue to regard them as consumables and stock up

Trust the process. Every single plot and every line of code is a step closer to the dream ,Encouraging oneself 💪🏻

So, I've been trying to make a timelapse of my plotter and I think I've gotten it mostly figured out. It turns out, it's pretty simple. I wrote a perl script to add a line after each element in the svg, and wedged my cameras intervalometer in the right position to be pressed.

There's another video showing how it was done here: Plotter Test 2 - YouTube

Unfortunately, my intervalometer needs quite a firm button push to activate, so it isnt fully reliable yet, I think I need to get a new one with a softer button press. Still, it shows the principle works, and with a little refinement, it should be a workable process!

This is a "wind-blown" version of an earlier project of mine (see the original in comments).

The L-system rule is the same, but each segment follows a curved path rather than a straight one.

I think this one has a much more natural flow, without losing its mathematical roots.

Which version do you prefer?

Coded in Processing.
Plotted in about 6 hours with Pentel Energel 0.4 - 0.7 on 300x400 220 gsm Fabriano F4

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was trying to think of things to make for spooky 🎃 filipino 🇵🇭 month and went down a rabbit hole of tiles and masks. this is supposed to be a jasmine flower, national flower of PH. making these opened up a whole slew of new ideas 😄

no algorithm or generation, just shapes, lines, and hatches by me

plotted using micron pens on 9x12in cold pressed 185lb paper

Vintage Phone. In part to today’s Inktober prompt of “Relic”.

Putting together the pieces needed to play DOOM on the drawing machine, because of course. Here's a (badly shot) timelapse of E1M1 including all 3 secrets, lol. Going to be exploring this more this month.

Getting into spooky season. Brush pen layered with rollerball.

Inktober is here! Today is piece number 1, "Inktober Begins". I had an hour spare, so I knocked out a quick plot. The text is a really cool font called "Red October", that I rendered using the "png-linetrace-contour" method I posted the other day, it looks really interesting up close. The circle patterns are just for fun, left made with paragraphic, right using inkscapes shape-builder tool to allow me to isolate shapes for individual shading.

Now all I have to do is come up with a new idea, design it, and plot it for tomorrow! ... Inktober is upon us! :D

Just sharing a photo of my room's decor.✌️🙏

Graphite pencil plot, 9x12in, ​0.7mm HB lead, 2.8 lines/mm, raster, 6 hours 20 min. This pencil plotter design can achieve both raster and vector designs. I am planning to explore some plots with both of those techniques next.

So here's an interesting technique... I used paragraphic to make a truchet tile pattern (second picture), and was having trouble using inkscapes shape-builder tool to break it into individual component shapes for colouring. I dropped it into DrawvingBotv3 to see if it's ECS PFM could trace the edges and create individual shapes for me, and it came out kind of... weird, but in a way that I like.

This looks really interesting to me, it has the precision of a truchet tile image, but with the random hand-drawn squiggle feel to it.

The first image is the DrawingBotv3 image, the second one is the origonal.

Rattlesnake, done using DC Supershow Green ink in a Staedtler Marsmatic 0.45mm technical pen on B5 sized paper. I encountered some kind of resistance in the paper on one side, hence the faded look, but I think the contrast actually works.