Call and Response - Pairs I

In January, I was trying to find ways to differentiate drawing outcomes even further from my original drawing “plans” and decided to enter a new period of exploratory drawing with my machine. By extending error and hoping for variation, I took what I learned about line spacing and fidelity to plan a series of small drawings of hatches and grids.

The images that follow are a series of comparative drawings, which focus on testing consistency and predictable error (controlling the pressure of the pencil to maintain consistent variation of light and dark).

Displayed side-by-side, these drawings compare lines drawn in CAD and the path taken by the Tiny-Z. The left side drawings are the more faithful executions of drawings I made in CAD. On the other hand, in the drawings on the right side of each pair, the Tiny-Z did not lift its pencil in between strokes, mapping its movement rather than drawing an image. Viewed side-by-side, these drawings show the machine transforming the hatches and grids on the left into something very different. By not lifting the pencil, the machine turns a series of discrete lines into a continuous pattern- rendering the lines lively, nearly textile.

All drawings by author