So after yesterdays debacle, I thought I'd go for something easy. Picard, looking swishy with drawingbotv3's Streamline Superformula PFM, plotted with a rOtring 0.5 isograph on white 300gsm card. It *was* going great until I ran out of ink... Started at 9am, manually stopped at 6pm... so, not a lot of time wasted or anything!

I swear, that pen's capacity is somehow huge when I test it, and gets magically smaller every time I run a plot with it!

I do kind of like the effect though, it looks like something is swirling over him, but I think it could be done better. I need to break the image into two so I can plot one half, refill the pen, then do the other half. Of maybe figure out a bigger ink capacity for the pen.

B5 size. Pentel Energel pen.

God-damn, this was annoying! So, I started this plot this morning, it's now 9pm at night and it's just finished. First try, one of my 0.5mm technical pen nibs broke, like snapped off completely. Second try, about halfway through my pen lifting servo died and started dragging the pen. Third try... Pen ran out of ink halfway through. Eventually I simply ran out of things to go wrong and managed to plot it!

Four damn times I have plotted this today! Four! And now it's actually plotted.... I don't really like it. I swear, I am like an inch away from swearing off plotting forever!

Anyways, it's a maze, start top left, end bottom right, and be careful, I'm pretty sure it's cursed!

Today is my birthday, and a friend of mine surprised me with a little piece of generative art, ready for my pen plotter.

61 curves, one for each year.

None is a perfect circle: they all share the same underlying structure, but each introduces subtle variations, like the growth rings of a tree.

Time accumulating, never quite repeating itself.

And there's a small discontinuity running through the composition. A reminder, perhaps, that it's always possible to change direction.

A rather unexpected birthday gift. 😊

As I mentioned in previous posts I fell backwards down 2 metres of concrete steps on June 2 and gave myself a medium concussion. Not recommended at aged 61 I was cleaning up my plotting area and found these 4 that I made. No idea when or how the hell I made them. I do know the telephone one was the night before I got injured. The other 3 I must have done while in the “ wtf is going on phase “ I don’t remember June correctly at all. I apologize if I said or commented anything around the June 2- August 15 ish. This has been absolutely terrible. Thanks for the well,wishes btw.

Hi guys,

I'm struggling with getting shapes to be recognised properly in DBV3, some shapes are recognised and hatch filled, whilst others aren't. I've checked the SVG in illustrator and everything seems to be identical between the working shapes and non-working shapes - and I don't seem to have any line breaks, all shapes are the same colour for fill and stroke is set to none.

Is there anything I'm missing, or do I just learn inkscape instead, i'm using a klipper based plotter so my options are a bit limited for software compared to an axidraw or GRBL based plotter.

Thanks so much for any help, awesome community, I'd love it if you aren't all so secretive about how you're generating your lines though 😂

omg, it actually worked! I love truchet tiled images, I really like the way they flow, but the lines are always so short, they look like a plate of jumbled spaghetti. So, I added some truchet tiles to my maze generator, and it works! It generates a super long flow that kinda looks like one bunch of spaghetti draped over a whole bowl of it.

This is going to be such a fun project to play with! I'm super excited by these early successes, now on to the hard part of designing 45 truchet tiles so I can do a decent one!

B5 sized plot, using Ecoline Red ink, and 1mm Staedtler Marsmatic stylographic pen. This is a one continuous line plot - the varying shades come from the same line overlapping itself.

Incidentally - this image is processed through Foxglove

Created in a stiff mounted (no springs) custom tuned bambu a1 mini.

Took 7 hours to print on a bambu a1 mini fully converted to custom gcode operations with a stiff mounted pen

I just steam-lined my process and am so excited! I created a website to design these and a cli (calibrated to my plotter) to plot them. So I just design it on the site with the tools I've created, copy the shareable url into a cli command it and my machine plots it 😂 . I'm still tweaking things but I'm super happy with it.

If there is interest I'll work on making updates so people can calibrate the cli to their machines, save that info the site and be able to plot their own designs.

drawplot.com

Feedback and feature requests are welcome. I will be working on the site in my free time.

I went back to plot some editions from my first NFT on fxhash. I didn't know how to perform line occlusion back then so I used a half-tone effect to create layers. I can't believe how much has changed in the world of generative art in 4 short years.

Well, I actually made two. One that has a small 5 tile set and uses rotation which I used for the first tro truchet-style images, and a more complete 15 tile generator which I used for the last two images. So now I can do truchet style mazes and also more decorative ones!

I'm very proud of my pipes, I really like it, I think it's my favourite! :)

Inktober is so much fun, I'm trying out all sorts of new ideas!

Some months are a lesson on how creativity ebbs and flows. In the midst of transitioning to new software and workflow, I had hit a wall this month. The work I was producing felt flat and uninspired. To combat that I went digging through the archives, pulling files from years ago. It helped me realize that there were many avenues I left unexplored and they remain there waiting to be discovered.

The first print was from a file from my very first Patreon set, over 6 years ago. It was one of the first times I let go of precision to let the media lean into its unpredictability. The shape in the second print I've played around with for years, I go back to it because it has always invoked a feeling of comfort and safety within me. The third print was from when I was really into dots, I love working with them and the halftones they produce but this print made me remember how incredibly long they take to plot. The last print was a quick exercise inspired by wood type printing about creating solids and layering.

Studio assistant in last pic, because nobody works alone.

12x12 in. white 120lb paper

unipin 0.1 & 0.5, stabilo 88, paper mate flare m, pilot v razor point

this piece explores order, disorder, & overlays

Watercolor
Liner Brush – N° 02
Fineliner 0.5 mm
Watercolor Paper 210 × 297 mm

Hi PlotterPeople, hope I'm posting this in the right location.

I'm a relative newcomer to the plotting community. I've borrowed an A4 Axidraw v3 for about six weeks and last week I got my hands on the A3 version also.

I am experiencing some unevenness in the A3 plots that I wasn't seeing in the a4 version - on the same files. So I have sort of ruled out file/software side of things.

I have also tried various speed settings from 20%-50% and acceleration settings. With minimal to no effect overall. It seems to happen more often in the smaller shapes/tighter curves than the larger ones, but not always. And with no obvious difference as to where on the sheet it is.

I'm have very little experience with mechanical stuff, so I'm a bit afraid of tightening the wrong things / not knowing what I'm doing in general.

Are any of you experienced enough to easily diagnose what is going on here from the pictures?

Bought a siser juliet vinyl cutter not long ago and couldn't help but get curious when I saw it came with a "marker holder". Upon looking into it and finding out that it was designed specifically for their first party markers. I took issue with that and instead got to work designing my own pen holder so that I could use my personal pen of preference.

After 6 revisions and a wee bit of ironing out kinks, I reached a satisfactory outcome and decided to send it with an old blender piece I'd made. The blender piece is attached and, in its own right, is a fanwork of a fanwork, but I think it made for a very cool first proper attempt at making something look nice.

I'm using fedora linux 44 and all of the designing happened in inkscape (with the axidraw extension courtesy of u/igotanewmac ), which was then exported as an svg to be opened in inkcut to make the plt file for my siser juliet. If anyone has any recommendations to streamline this process I'm all ears as finding software to do all this on linux has been a struggle.

So, my big plan for Inktober was literally inks. I can't find grey inks for technical pens, so I figured I'd mix some of my own!

It's not going well.

it's 9pm at night, and I'm about to start mixing another 10 ratios, because it would appear that liquidraw black ink is so black that even at 10% ink 90% water, it's only showing like, 50%-60% grey.

Also, my hands, desk, and several pieces of paper, are now stained with permanent archival black ink... so there's that! oh, and I can't reliably photograph the results yet, because the Iphone appears to make the 20% black blacker than everything else...

I swear, this project is going to drive me mad!