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James Webb 3

Image from Nasa's James Webb telescope turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on A3 aquarel paper.

RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev

#madewithrstr

#PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

James Webb 2

Image from Nasa's James Webb telescope and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on A3 aquarel paper.

RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev

#madewithrstr

#PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

James Webb 2

Image from Nasa's James Webb telescope and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on A3 aquarel paper.

RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev

#madewithrstr

#PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

James Webb 1

Image from Nasa's James Webb telescope and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on A3 aquarel paper.

RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev

#madewithrstr

#PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

James Webb 1

Image from Nasa's James Webb telescope and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on A3 aquarel paper.

RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev

#madewithrstr

#PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

Broken Gradient 2

Image created in Affinity Photo and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on square aquarel paper.

RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev

#madewithrstr

#PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

Broken Gradient 1

Image created in Affinity Photo and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens on aquarel paper.

RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev

#madewithrstr

#PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

Remembering dear Roman Verostko, who died this month two years ago, aged 94. An highly influential figure, not just for algorithmic art in general, but also for younger me personally, after meeting him during a panel discussion at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and then corresponding for several years after...

Living as a monk and ordained priest in the 1950/60s, he absolutely cherished his limited computer time which he had first access to as student. The more he learned about automata, automatic drawing, algorithms, rule-based methods, natural processes etc. the more his belief in religion (vs. spirituality) and in an omniscient creator was fundamentally challenged, causing years of deep internal turmoil and eventually leading him to leave the monastery to lead a secular life dedicated to making art as means to finding/reconciling answers.

Even though both of our lives (and works) couldn't have been more different, we quickly found a kindred spirit and shared an awe of nature as primary source of inspiration. I'm sad we never met again in person, but his story and insights have stayed with me...

(Remembering him today as I'm sorting through older pieces of mine, and it was him who originally encouraged me to investigate more plotter-based art forms/techniques, an advice I only heeded over a decade later... 🫶)

RIP 🖤

#TextureTuesday #AlgorithmicArt #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #Axidraw #ThingUmbrella

Remembering dear Roman Verostko, who died this month two years ago, aged 94. An highly influential figure, not just for algorithmic art in general, but also for younger me personally, after meeting him during a panel discussion at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and then corresponding for several years after...

Living as a monk and ordained priest in the 1950/60s, he absolutely cherished his limited computer time which he had first access to as student. The more he learned about automata, automatic drawing, algorithms, rule-based methods, natural processes etc. the more his belief in religion (vs. spirituality) and in an omniscient creator was fundamentally challenged, causing years of deep internal turmoil and eventually leading him to leave the monastery to lead a secular life dedicated to making art as means to finding/reconciling answers.

Even though both of our lives (and works) couldn't have been more different, we quickly found a kindred spirit and shared an awe of nature as primary source of inspiration. I'm sad we never met again in person, but his story and insights have stayed with me...

(Remembering him today as I'm sorting through older pieces of mine, and it was him who originally encouraged me to investigate more plotter-based art forms/techniques, an advice I only heeded over a decade later... 🫶)

RIP 🖤

#TextureTuesday #AlgorithmicArt #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #Axidraw #ThingUmbrella

Both plots in detail

Slowing down for Crow's nest station & gloomy sunset skies over Brasa park.

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #kraaiennest #brasa

Crow's Nest

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #kraaiennest

Crow's Nest

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #kraaiennest

Another one bites the dust

More cards, I tell ya!
Now all I need is some business.

Speaking of which... Want some fancy business cards?
Hit me up!

🔉 Isis - The Other

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #businesscards #notamagritte

Do you know how many times I’ve thought about writing about the paper I’m writing on? #plotterart #axidraw

Do you know how many times I’ve thought about writing about the paper I’m writing on? #plotterart #axidraw

Cutting Cards

This one was always meant to be turned into business cards, though it took me a while to actually 'pull the lever'.

I like it a bit too much to cut it up.

But then I plotted something I liked even better...

🔉 Isis - The Beginning and The End

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #businesscards #notavermeer

Ceci n'est pas un Magritte

🖋️ Rotring Isograph .35
🦑 De Atramentis yellow & magenta, Octopus Fluids blue sloth

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #pasunmagritte

A postcard for a friend's kid

#penplotter #axidraw #openrndr #kotlin #flower #spring

A postcard for a friend's kid

#penplotter #axidraw #openrndr #kotlin #flower #spring

I pushed some improvements to orx-axidraw, the extension I wrote to plot directly from OPENRNDR programs. Now pausing and resuming works well, I can specify any paper size (not just presets), I can do multi-color plots and it groups by color and waits for pen changes, set heights and speeds per layer, and I had it send me "done" notifications to my phone.

The next feature I have in mind is going to be less easy 🙂

https://github.com/openrndr/orx/tree/master/orx-jvm/orx-axidraw

#penPlotter #axidraw #openrndr #creativeCoding

I pushed some improvements to orx-axidraw, the extension I wrote to plot directly from OPENRNDR programs. Now pausing and resuming works well, I can specify any paper size (not just presets), I can do multi-color plots and it groups by color and waits for pen changes, set heights and speeds per layer, and I had it send me "done" notifications to my phone.

The next feature I have in mind is going to be less easy 🙂

https://github.com/openrndr/orx/tree/master/orx-jvm/orx-axidraw

#penPlotter #axidraw #openrndr #creativeCoding

🔉 Rival Consoles - Theme

#axidraw #rotring #plotterart #svg #saxi #rstr

Got Pearls?

🖋️ Rotring Isograph .35
🦑 De Atramentis yellow & magenta, Octopus Fluids blue sloth

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #notavermeer

Not a Vermeer Again

🔉 Tame Impala - My old ways

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #notavermeer

Revisiting Vermeer

Because, of course.
I had to.

🔉 Tame Impala - Back into my old ways

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #notavermeer

Cutting business cards

Each end is it's own beginning.

1 face plot gone.
18 *bespoke* business cards in return.

🔉 Isis - The Beginning and The End

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #businesscards

Hey there

It's me! :)

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy

MC Magenta Cyan

More face plotting.

This time layers 2 and 3.
Or Magenta and Cyan.

🔉 Moderat - A New Error

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy

Plotting new business cards

Around October last year I started getting somewhere with RSTR.

I figured new business cards were due to celebrate. But what to put on them?

My face, of course! :)

here's layer 1 of 3 (yellow).

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy

A New Error...

A New Era?

Perhaps... It definitely feels like one.

🔉 Moderat - A New Error

#wip #axidraw

With January coming to an end, so is my Genuary playtime. I've had a lot of fun exploring but also excited to get back with full focus to my other stuff. One of the first things on my list will be to get the new RSTR version out into the world. Stay tuned!!

#genuary22 #genuary #genuary2026 #generativeart #axidraw #rotring #svg #deatramentis #rotring #cca

63 Broken Ladders

I mailed my postcards for this year's plotter postcard exchange. The design this year is "63 of 255 possible broken 8 rung ladders (in order) + 1 complete 8 rung ladder." I plotted the cards using an Axidraw SE/A3 with a Staedtler pigment liner for the black lines and a Sakura Pigma PN for the red.

https://hollandhopson.com/63-broken-ladders/

#Artwork #Axidraw #drawing #GenerativeArt #PlotterArt #ptpx #ptpx2025

63 Broken Ladders

I mailed my postcards for this year's plotter postcard exchange. The design this year is "63 of 255 possible broken 8 rung ladders (in order) + 1 complete 8 rung ladder." I plotted the cards using an Axidraw SE/A3 with a Staedtler pigment liner for the black lines and a Sakura Pigma PN for the red.

https://hollandhopson.com/63-broken-ladders/

#Artwork #Axidraw #drawing #GenerativeArt #PlotterArt #ptpx #ptpx2025

Plotting Mona

Mona plot in the making.
Audio from the exquisite MNMT#456 set by Efdemin

#plotterart #petplot #machinearts #bantamtools #axidraw #rstr #cmy #deatramentis #octopusfluids #rotring #mona #kooiker #efdemin #mnmt456

Welcome to the purple room

We are here to guide you.

Mona plot in the making.
Audio from the exquisite MNMT#456 set by Efdemin

#plotterart #petplot #machinearts #bantamtools #axidraw #rstr #cmy #deatramentis #octopusfluids #rotring #mona #kooiker #efdemin #mnmt456

If you happen to be needing a replacement pen-lift servo for your AxiDraw pen plotter, I found a good match (since EMSL doesn’t sell them anymore) https://vixenlabs.info/2025/12/17/axidraw-replacement-pen-lift-servo/ #axidraw #penplotter

If you happen to be needing a replacement pen-lift servo for your AxiDraw pen plotter, I found a good match (since EMSL doesn’t sell them anymore) https://vixenlabs.info/2025/12/17/axidraw-replacement-pen-lift-servo/ #axidraw #penplotter

RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/109291723727249986

Back in 2022, I announced I'd switch to using the #PenPlotter hashtag on Fedi for my art. (I also follow that hashtag which is a great way to have an instantly curated stream.)

If you're a pen plotter artist or enthusiast, I hope you'll join me in tagging your art with #PenPlotter The hope is to recreate the early days of #PlotterTwitter and discover more great plotter art 👋

FYI other tags that I've seen: #PlotterToot #PlotterVerse #PlotterArt #AxiDraw

RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/109291723727249986

Back in 2022, I announced I'd switch to using the #PenPlotter hashtag on Fedi for my art. (I also follow that hashtag which is a great way to have an instantly curated stream.)

If you're a pen plotter artist or enthusiast, I hope you'll join me in tagging your art with #PenPlotter The hope is to recreate the early days of #PlotterTwitter and discover more great plotter art 👋

FYI other tags that I've seen: #PlotterToot #PlotterVerse #PlotterArt #AxiDraw

#axidraw #penplotter #openrndr #kotlin

I'm doing some late Friday night chopstick plotting

#axidraw #penplotter #openrndr #kotlin #clay #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding

If you're in #Milano and into #art, I'm participating in Il Festival della Peste with a piece that turns your voice into a collaborative print with a #PenPlotter #axidraw #CreativeCoding #interactiveart #ifdp #FOSS #floss

for everybody with not enough tables for more than one #axidraw :) https://hackaday.com/2025/09/02/this-plotter-knows-no-boundaries/ #plotterart #plotting #generativeart

@tca 3D-printed adapters for plotters are an important achievement. I've designed adapters for current Axidraws and historic Mutoh scribers for Muji pens and fat Eddings and plotted with them within an hour.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5986908
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7098979

#axidraw #muji

Updated version and process video of my "silver" #AxiDraw plot for #PlotParty! :)

Music is "Sigrids Sang" by Henrik Wergeland, via @internetarchive

More details on YouTube: https://youtu.be/e-dkPSMDS24

Write-up coming soon. <3

Trying to do my first-ever #PlotParty ! Today's theme is SILVER, and my piece is partway there, but there's some new workflow stuff I'm figuring out.

So, here are a couple of my previous silver plots to start with :D

Learn more about PlotParty here: https://penplotterartwork.com/plotparty

// #AxiDraw #PenPlotter

Today’s work in the #penplotter. I really enjoy the way plotters lend themselves both to the sort of art you can hang on your wall, and to more “practical” decorations like postcards, and bookmarks, and this #notebook cover here.
Supplies: 147gsm white cardstock, extra fine Platinum preppy fountain pen, DeAtrementis Document black ink, Axidraw V3 pen plotter
#GenerativeArt #PlotterArt #plottertoot #CreativeCoding #axidraw #AlgorithmicArt

Plotter calibration: Artist's DIY method for making sure pens line up in his plotter
https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/comments/1i30uvj/technique_i_developed_to_get_really_tight/
#calibration #plotterart #plotter #axidraw #art #+

Also - Aaarrtt! @forgeandcraft #WimbledonArtFair #PenPlotter #AxiDraw #PlotterArt /cc @bantamtools

@bantamtools heads up for folks following #PenPlotter #PlotterArt #AxiDraw

The Plot Thickens

And with that, we've got all the plotting puns I can come up with out of the way.

#svg #axidraw #creativecoding #cca #plotterart #copic #rotring #diamine #rstr

https://cca.codes

𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙄𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝘼𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙀𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙤 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 1
Acrylic on paper, framed
22 x 29”
2024

#generativeart #plotterart #abstractart #creativecoding #p5js #axidraw #genartclub #mastoart #moire #worksonpaper