Category: 01-DrawingMachine

An overly-complex circle-ish drawing machine.

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A bouncy, almost perfect double-circle drawing tool.

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Close-up

Entire Drawing

The substrate has the right to its own body.

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This machine consists of a spinning motor and a few utensils mounted on said motor. I was originally trying to have the machine shoot paint from the tips, but I couldn’t get this to work and substituted markers. Only one of the markers actually fired ink so the effect is less exciting than I had hoped, but this could probably do some neat things.

 

A humble machine that needs much human assistance.

 

 

I made a machine that spins in a circle. I added hot glue to one wheel to make it track more than just one circle. I also added a head to it.

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I attached a candle to the end of a motor and suspended it. You can kind of see the history of the marks based on how much ash is in the wax.

I made a harmonograph that draws with a spinny china marker.

The harmonograph was originally a pantograph, but it seemed a lot more interesting at the time to play around with harmonic motion.

Original Harmonograph:

 

Large mutli-color circles. Picture of cardboard coming soon.

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