A plotted sketch of Ali from a photo posed remotely over Zoom. It’s made of two lines – one red and one black – with 3000 corners. In all, around 703 metres of ink, and an overnight plot.

For further examples of this technique, see Chest 1 and Torso 1.

 

Materials: Bic Biros on paper
Equipment used: Pen plotter; Raspberry Pi single board computer; Inkscape to control plotter; LibreOffice Calc to organise data
Size: to fit on A3