If you’re just tuning in, I’m going to be building a DrawBot.  Or, in the alternative, I intend to fail as spectacularly as I can.

However, it occurs to me that I need not be constrained by just my ideas of what a drawing robot should draw.  Admittedly, several of my anticipated print jobs are going to take a while since my daughter already has a stack of drawings she wants a drawing robot to replicate.  Here are the things I’m thinking about drawing:

• A life sized drawing of one of my daughter’s self-portraits
• A bunch of Leonardo Da Vinici sketches
• Wheat Field with Crows by Van Gogh
• A Time Lord Seal
• Something by Jackson Pollock12

So, if you had a drawing robot that could create sketches of arbitrary size, what would you draw?

1. I’m kidding [↩]
2. The reason I’m kidding is that a Polargraph tends to create a sketchy sort of design – so trying to replicate a Pollock painting would be an exercise in abstracting abstractness. [↩]