I never knew I wanted shades for my engineer until now!
I don't care what this actually means in practice, I need shades for my engineer! How else will people know how cool they are!
Plot attached to be in accordance with the rules! All mine, except for the bottom right maze pattern which is from plotterfiles.
So, anyone got anything planned for Inktober? I have! I've hardly done any plotting in the past week and a half, so Inktober is a great chance to push back into it.
My plan is to get some inks and try mixing my own greyscale inks for technical pens. One of the things I most enjoy doing is the greyscale photograph plots, but greyscale pens are so expensive and I absolutely hammer through them on my plotter, they barely last! So, my bright idea is to get a bunch of black ink, and dilute it into shades of grey, so I can mix my own grey inks and use those instead of having to keep buying markers. I get paid at the end of the month, so I think a chunk of my hobby budget is going to be spent on a bunch of technical pen ink, and various mixing supplies.
Oh, and more photography! I really have to find a better way to photograph my plots!
u/eyes_are_real was right, it's a long exposure! Guess who figured out you can hot-glue LED's to pens? It's taking some time, since I can only really do it at night, but I think the effect is improving nicely. I have used a microswitch to trigger the led on pen-down. As the carriage drops, it presses the switch. My microswitch wasn't quite long enough though, which is why you see a usb card reader taped in there too, lol.
As always, if you have any questions, just ask :)
I quite like this image, I got it from pixabay as usual and inkscape'd it up into a plottable svg. I really enjoy the symbology of it. It's not subtle, but it is impactful. I think it looks great. :)
It's a very cool image, but not quite where I want it to be. The plotter had some kind of fit while plotting and drew a dotted line across the image! I think I need to replot this, but this will do for now :)
So there I was in poundland looking at the pens... Turns out, an idea brand "Handwriting Pen" has a really good 1mm nib on it, and throws down a really good dark black. The picture honestly doesn't do it justice. plotted on some A3 300gsm card.
I was just putting away todays plots and I realised I hadn't posted this one yet! Image is from pixabay, Edited in DrawingBotV3. Shore & Marsh 12 colour greyscale set, on 300gsm white card.
I think it came out really well. :)
Well, now I have a whole series of big-brother-esque images! Slight issue in the top right as I appear to have a "dip" on my whiteboard that drops the paper just under the pen height. It only shows using this technique, so I think I need to investigate a new bed. Image created with copilot, dropped into inkscape for tracing and cleanup, plotted with rOtring isograph 0.5mm black on 300gsm card.
These are going to look so good in their frames!
original PNG was created in copilot, and then imported into inkscape for tracing, filling, correcting etc. Finally plotted with rOtring isograph 0.5mm in black, on white 300gsm card.
Fresh off the plotter, the ink is literally still drying and it smells divine. I need to work harder on my tracing though, it's not quite as good as it could be.
It looks *great* next to my Big Brother image, I think I might try to do a series of these!
Plotted with a rOtring Isograph on 300gsm card. It looks amazing up close, almost printed! My image, made with inkscape :D
I was playing around in inkscape and came up with a cool abstract piece. Bic Fineliners on A4 copier paper.
Hey all, payday is at the end of the month and It's time for new toys! I'm seriously considering getting a nix mini 3 colourimeter, so I can scan my pens colour to get accurate colour representation in my software.
Anyone used/owned one and got any big warnings to tell me before I buy one? If you have one and love it, I'd love to hear that too :)
Plotted with a Shore & Marsh 12 colour grey set, on A3 300gsm card. I think it turned out pretty well!
Hey all, quick questions for those more experienced than me. I got some el-cheapo greyscale alchohol markers and I'm super happy with the results, but not with the longevity. I drew 3/4 A3 plots, and the pens seem to run out very quickly. I was expecting them to last longer, like 10 plots easily.
Each plot used around 18% coverage from each pen on an A3. After plotting, I noticed I had a lot of ink bleeding through to the back side of the sheet (A3 300GSM white card), and it seems like the paper is "sucking up" all the ink and emptying out the pens faster than I expected.
So, roughly how long do your alcohol markers last, and am I doing it wrong?
It's ok if this is normal, the pens are cheap enough to replace, I'm just not sure if I'm doing it right!
Plotted with a Shore & Marsh 12 colour greyscale pen set. Although the pen set is labelled "Shore & Marsh", I'm pretty sure it's Hobbycraft's own brand just re-labelled to look a bit more upmarket. Pretty basic alcohol markers.
Zebra. Plotted with an "idea" brand black biro from poundland, and 300gsm white card.
I'm not sure why the photograph looks red-ish at the bottom, the whole thing is plotted in black and looks great. I think I need to spend more time practicing my photography!
Shinjuku, Japan! Plotted with some "idea" brand fineliners I got from poundland, on white 300gsm card. It looks very yellow because it's evening and under house lighting. Turned out quite nice I think!