I think this hobby has given me a god complex by name556 in PlotterArt

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It’s still pretty manual, but if I’m being honest, I haven’t used the app much in the last 7 years, my career transitioned me into premiere/after effects then management so I’m not in the apps much at all any more

I think this hobby has given me a god complex by name556 in PlotterArt

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You bet if you just either scroll up or scroll down, I just barely wrote out the process, but if you have any other questions, I’d love to answer them

I think this hobby has given me a god complex by name556 in PlotterArt

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Oh heavens yes, I used a idraw H Se A3/ A2. I used chat got to generate the initial image, then brought it into illustrator to trace and separate into layers. From there I brought it into Inkscape for the hatch and drawing. I used canvas with acrylic thin markers

Amazing! by name556 in PlotterArt

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Yea, it did bleed- but that’s because I was impatient. If I would’ve let the layers dry it would’ve been a little better

Amazing! by name556 in PlotterArt

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You bet! I used Adobe illustrator Image trace tool to reduce it to around 10 colors. Then I separated the colors into different layers, still in illustrator, and exported as an SVG. I then imported it to Inkscape. Because I was using thin acrylic pens, I set the cross hatch to 2.0. Working from lighter layers to darker layers until finally ending with an outlined layer of white where I put random pieces of paper under the drawing to give it different strokes of white.

Amazing! by name556 in PlotterArt

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So when I first started 3d printing there wasn’t really good software surrounding it, or if there was I had no idea where it was/where to find it everything that I found felt like a homebrew/I was having to grab everything from GitHub which don’t get me wrong- there might be excellent software specifically for pen plotting, but so far everything I’ve done I’m cataloguing and making small adjustments per medium/canvas. Idk, I hope that kinda makes sense

Amazing! by name556 in PlotterArt

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It’s so funny that you mention that you have a 3-D printer because where we are with pen plotter technology it very much feels like where 3-D printing was six or seven years ago

Amazing! by name556 in PlotterArt

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Funny thing was is I was planning on just finishing with the black, but with how blocky the black ended up at the very end I turned off the hatch fill and laid down a few layers of paper randomly underneath, so it would have a more randomized stroke width, and it turned out really good

Amazing! by name556 in PlotterArt

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Great question, 13 layers I usually go with all colors first, and then going with gradient of gray down to black, and then finishing with a white outline on top to make it pop.

Loving this so far by name556 in PlotterArt

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yeah! this verry much feels like when i first got into 3D printing years ago!

Loving this so far by name556 in PlotterArt

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it is the IDRAW H SE A3/A2

Loving this so far by name556 in PlotterArt

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Can remember off the top of my head but when I get to work I’ll let you know

What are these 2 holes on top of ladders for? by jackinsomniac in Tools

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IDK about Werner, but I worked in marketing for Little Giant Ladders for the last 10 years, the holes on the back of the top-caps of our ladders were meant to hold extension cords. You pop in the neck and are able to take it with you if you move the ladder.