It's the eyes that give you away.

Enamel on paper (A4). #penplotter #machinepainting

All day long... #penplotter #art #machinepainting

Packing this edition up and sending to the UK, would you buy this album if this was the cover? Really happy with how they came out, each print has some nice subtle differences. Now to pick one to keep.

Pilot G2 gel pens on 12-3/8" square Arches paper

Did some Monday evening plotting: very minor changes to the wave equation rendering code to experiment with a much denser set of lines than I've done before

I had hoped for a less moody in-progress photo but the spotlight I have set up is better for eyes than the camera

Just finished plotting this photo interpretation. A4 with 17 layers. A mix of ECS Drawing and Streamlines Flow Field. Black is with a ~.25mm gel pen and the colours with ~.3mm Staedtler fineliner on Bristol board.

Today's installment of "Same File, Same Pens, Same Paper, but .."

Building up these tones with 8 different pen inks means the slightest shift of .01" can impact the final result. I personally usually like how it gives each print individual qualities.

Coding+plotting as a photographic printing process

Experimental animation of a sequence from Muybridge's "The Human Figure in Motion" from penplotter drawings. #penplotter #art

No. 8 #penplotter #art
BIC ballpoint pen on office paper.
From Muybridge's "The Human Figure in Motion".

Back from a whirlwind of a weekend. Thank you to all that stopped by my #PenPlotter exhibit table at #VCFEast this year. Was great to meet so many folks in person. And a huge thank you to all that purchased plots and floppies at consignment.

I gave away lots of postcards this year. If you got a plot or postcard, reply with a picture!

Playing with https://github.com/micycle1/PGS inside #OPENRNDR

I feel a bit guilty that this is just 4 lines of code But I still like those shapes a lot and want to send them to the #penplotter

Raw data from OpenStreetMap takes on an obsessive hand-drawn look that I really like. #penplotter

Having a few weird issues trying to get this US Cutter Plotter to work reliably, and it turns out one of the issues is bad HPGL output from Inkscape. This handy dandy protocol analyzer let me sniff the serial traffic and confirm that the latest Inkscape was actually outputting incorrect HPGL
A rectangle correctly plotted from Inkscape 1.3 in Windows:
IN; PU; SP1, PU12255,2318; PD16319,2318,16319,794,12255,794,12255,2318; PU0,0; SPO; IN;

The same file from 1.4 on the Mac:
IN; PU; SP1; PU10,10; PD10,4084,15,4083,19,4079,20,4074,1544,4074,1543,4069,1539,4065,1534,4064,1534,0,15

Weird, right? Well at least I can stop second guessing myself. Bug report filed, and maybe I'll try it form Linux next.

The other thing to look out for on these cutters: They don't respond to any of the Output Instruction commands - so you can't see the status, limits, or anything else. It is also pretty basic in the commands that it executes. It'll do lines, and that's about it.

I'm very much looking forward to the Pen-plotting workshop in two weeks in Utrecht, and super curious to see what participants come up with :)

https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/calendar/pen-plotting-workshop

@creativecoding

In motion.

Machine painting, enamel on Fabriano A4 240g paper.
#penplotter #machinepainting

Did some plotting using https://labs.jawharkodadi.com/serpentine/ #plotterart #penplotter

Getting things ready for my #PenPlotter exhibit at #VCFEast2025 this weekend. Spent the day plotting this poster on the Roland DPX 2000. I added some color splashes to it this year.

If you come to the show, you’ll see this plotter in action plus a few others.

April '25 print set.

If interested, sign up on my Patreon (link in bio), be 'active' on 4/1, and you'll get your print. Cancel right after, I don't mind, happy to have you. $5, $10, or $20 tier gets you the S, M, or L print. Larger prints will ship folded.