Documentation: a ramble

Some side work. Been meaning to begin any sort of streaming documentation outside of Instagram.. painful stuff over there. Draws a lot of patience. Working through the chores of good work is always a bit of a spiral. 

For today the best of it comes to a bag. 

It was a quick buy after having some Posca pens arrive to realize their home would likely be like... a toolbox half full of pen-related debris. The toolbox isn't gone yet.. and still holds a half set of simple drivers as well as some spare parts.. but for now.. pens. 

It turned into these layouts:

Second layout is silly, holding a pl0tb0t specific set of pilot G-2s removed from their sleeves to be held in a spring-loaded mount as pl0tb0t's current universal gripper isn't springloaded.. hopefully, iteration 2 comes soon enough? We're in planning and parting.. but that's issue (post, not problem) for another time! 

Nest_Egg

This was a bit of a journey. Far and away pl0tb0t's longest drawing. 4, 3 hour layers, nearing cmyk stippled imagery. Things missing from this build were balancing the color layers as well as there was no consideration for rosette configurations for smoothing color differences. 

Each layer has 6000, equally weighted points. There is a setting to control point weights as well but for this drawing all are equal. 

Results were mildly muddy and green was missed heavily, considering the source image. Also the speckles on the eggs didn't catch. On the upside, the nest had pieces of straw and grass shoe up texturally, and the eggs read.

final product

first layer

digital layer

Alpha layer - cyan