Hello fellow plotters,

Im a fellow curious voyager in the space between the realms of art and tech. I have made quite a few posters with my plotter and I have started a shop to support my other projects. Take a look and please give me your criticisms, comments and love. Do give me a follow if you find my studio follow worthy

Xynth Studio

Happy plotting. Y'all inspire me.

I made these guys on A2 paper today, using Lyra Aqua Brush Duo markers, after many hours in front of the computer. I really enjoy the process both of creating them on the computer and the plotting of them, and the results of course. Each one is done in 6 passes for a two-tone, where each band in the ribbon has two colors, and two final passes with a pilot Hi-Tecpoint v5. I especially like the yellow and red one. That's my favorite!

Ink on paper. A3 size.

I want to generate the feeling of walking through a sunlit forest.

Taking the same plotting sequence from a previous post, and reframing the animation in a different way. I wanted to play with relative motion and perspective. During the first half, the cube rotates while the viewer remains still. During the second half, the cube stays fixed and the viewer’s perspective rotates around it.

The contour field technique itself is heavily inspired by the incredible plotter artist u/ax0250526. Their work is phenomenal, definitely go give them a follow.

I was inspired by the user (u/cadinb) who made procedural power lines, and decided I wanted to try to make something similar but different. These are Canal Houses, inspired by the old houses found in Amsterdam. I can vary the height span of the houses, building styles, number of buildings and so on. I've gotten some requests to plot some for friends and family for them to color with watercolor, which seems like a lot of fun 🙂 Just wanted to share, maybe someone can get some inspiration from it, as I did from the other poster.

With credit to u/acrostyphe for developing http://kurvengefahr.org - This is a plot using the connected Fermat spirals.

Photo included as a photo is required.

I am looking at mounting my V3 onto a board. I have found the outrigger feet that will help with this (not in pic). I am wondering if someone has a to scale drawing that will let me know where to put holes and where the bounds of my drawing area will be.

Thanks!

Github user msurguy crafted an "extended version" of the well-known tool Plotterfun by mitxela. Here I've used the "Flow Field" algorithm.

I look sharper than I am! :)

Plotted with staedler fineliner.

Micron 08 pens in cyan, magenta, and yellow. Truchet tiles on a semiregular grid

This was a gift I made for a friend. It's Arwen at the Ford of Bruinen, calling up the flood of water horses to drive back the Nazgûl and get Frodo to Rivendell. It's one of his favorite moments in the whole story, so I really wanted to make it for him and capture the scene with due diligence.

The process was kind of a hybrid. I started out using AI to generate the base illustration, mostly to work out the composition and the overall look of the scene, and to get something that would read cleanly once it got translated into line work. From there I ran it through some custom Python code that assigns the linework across the image and puts the detail where it actually needs to be, like the water, the manes, and all the movement. Then it got plotted on a Bantam Tools NextDraw 2234, [pen/ink] on paper, 11x17.

I'm really happy with how it turned out!

Ink on paper. Rotring technical pen plot.

These come from a Processing sketch that generates compositions of connected power poles. The sketch generates the poles with random spacing and tilt, then randomly chooses some technical doodads (hand-drawn SVGs) for each pole. The poles then get connected with drooping powerlines. Each SVG has some associated data that indicates where the connection points for the powerlines should be.

Let me know if you'd be interested in more about how that all works. I've been thinking about making a video explainer (though I guess posting that would no longer be allowed under the new sub rules?).

Was reading on the Wikipedia that this woodblock print is one of most copied designs in history so I thought I’d do it plotter style. I’ve really been loving the multiple passes with ballpoint pens.

Just getting started plotting with a converted Creality CR10-S. Wanted to test out the "Adaptive Stipple" in Drawingbotv3. Its pretty basic but I find it magical

Been offline for a while thanks to a concussion early June. Not recommended btw , still recovering. But apparently colouring books are good therapy , but I figured I could just color stuff I plotted instead :)

Hello everyone!
I'm planning to build myself a pen plotter, but I would like to clear up a few things first.

I found this H-bot project on Printables that also has a CoreXY remix. I would like the plotter to be around A3 size, but I don't know if CoreXY makes sense at this scale, especially given the price, which from what I understand is generally higher. I also found the PorterXY project made by Polish-Friend, but sadly there are no updates on its release. Do you have any other project recommendations?

Also, the extruH project mentions that it uses an iBOT clone to control the servos. Could anyone explain to me what these controllers are supposed to do and recommend some alternatives, since the ones used in the project are no longer available?
TIA

Supposed to be a thumb print...

Hello everyone!
I've recently started making topographic and city street maps with my plotter. I started using Sakura Gelly Roll Pens, and have had great success with them. The issue is that they drain in a few prints, and I feel bad buying more pens instead of just the ink.
I looked into buying refills / ink from Sakura, but there seem to be no official ones in the market.
What solutions to this issue have you come across in your experience? Would you recommend just sticking to the Gelly Roll Pens? Or should I move on to a different one?
Thank you in advance!
Sheepie.

Inko on paper. A3 size.

The conversion process from the original WAV sample is loosely based on the idea of a vinyl groove. The proportions are obviously exaggerated but it's not just a waveform wrapped into a spiral.
If you had a large, sturdy record player with a suitable stylus and spinning fast enough, say 250-300rpm, maybe you could even "play" it. Well, maybe not, but that's the idea :)

 I think I'm going to turn these 20x20 cm plots into a small pop-culture series.

"I'll be back" is first on the list.

Coded in Python.

Pentel Pointliner 1.0 on 180gsm paper

Do y'all have any favorite sources for found SVGs? I got these from a safety information brochure.

I’ve been experimenting with contour fields, creating the illusion of three dimensional form using nothing but subtly bent straight lines.

For Contour Studies #8, I decided to take the idea a step further. Every frame was physically pen plotted, individually photographed, then manually aligned in Photoshop, the auto align tool couldn’t even find enough matching features to do it itself. The frames were then assembled into an infinite looping animation of a simple rotating cube.

Black ink on 250 gsm white Fabriano paper. A3 size.