ethan

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purple ink-and-pencil drawing of flowing, bridging, and dripping forms

2021 flow landscape #drawing

black ink drawing made by a pen plotter. stacked zigzagging lines contract and expand along the vertical axis

another stacked zigzags #penplotter #drawing

a purple ink pen plotter drawing. three blocks of dense folding triangles are tilted forward and back

stacked zigzags #penplotter #drawing

abstract pen drawing of a geometric structures in the overall shape of a triangle

ink sketchbook drawing of regular repeating zigzag forms with key correspondences identified

sketches for the prior posted #drawing
the hatched pattern in the bottom right corner of the first sketch became the diagram on the following pages.

purple ink line drawing of cascading zigzag forms

purple ink line drawing of cascading zigzag forms

2025 recent #penplotter #drawing fragments

blue ink drawing of intersecting bands of flowing energy

2021 collision #drawing

pen sketchbook drawing of an art deco building

2023 building #drawing
San Francisco - Telegraph Ave & 19th St

geometric pencil drawing on gridded sketchbook paper

tomb #drawing
2024

ink line drawing of forms dripping, twisting, and melting, with a zigzag line motif throughout

2020 fire flow #drawing

This series feels like additive sculpting to me… in placing each line the overall shape is discovered rather than imposed.

The “flow” tag on my website shows more work in this mode.

ink drawing of geometric patterns and looping forms

2023 emergent #sketchbook patterns–starting with a small condition (a line, a shape, a hatch) and repeating or reworking it across the page to find the final image

a sketchbook pencil drawing of zigzagging faceted geometrical forms

margin doodles 2021

a pen plotter drawing in blue ink. a diamond grid defines the edges of groups of swirling lines.

close-up detail of the same pen plotter drawing.

close-up detail of the same pen plotter drawing. an empty diamond shape in the center of the composition marks where the pen ran out of ink.

2022 wintry #drawing

a sketchbook pencil drawing of square columns with round holes at their tops. stars and geometric flashes extend from some columns.

cannon bouquet #sketchbook drawing

sketchbook drawings of geometrical forms in blue ink

axonometric sketchbook #drawings riffing on pits and pyramids

a pen plotter drawing made of layers of zigzagging parallel lines within a hexagonal grid. colors are pink, light green, and purple.

#penplotter postcard #drawing for #ptpx

a pen plotter drawing made of layers of zigzagging parallel lines. colors are orange, blue, pink, and purple.

Another #ptpx postcard drawing; same code, different line positions and colors. Most of these are made of three color layers; this one is (I think) four... tough to tell when so many gradations are created by the overlap.

a pen plotter drawing made of layers of zigzagging parallel lines. colors are green, blue, and purple.

I'm glad for the yearly #ptpx postcard exchange which gave me an excuse to keep trucking on #drawing code I haven't touched since this time last year.

a sketchbook drawing of faceted 8-sided cone shapes

cone #drawing

a sketchbook drawing of zigzag architectural forms in pencil and blue ink

#geometry drawing

a sketchbook pencil drawing of a stairstep form

stagger #drawing

a sketchbook drawing in blue ink of zigzag architectural forms

stepwise #drawing

a sketchbook drawing of rotationally-symmetrical geometrical constructions

octagon #drawing

yes! beautiful work.

an ink grid-paper sketchbook drawing of various square-and-diamond based geometrical constructions

sketchbook drawing of rotated and folded geometric shapes

sketchbook #geometry drawing

a sketchbook drawing of an art deco building in San Francisco

San Francisco #architecture #drawing, 2023

an ink sketchbook drawing of three columns of zigzagging triangular peaks

sketchbook #drawing

detail of a pen plotter drawing made of zigzagging parallel lines. the pen stopped mid-plot and bled a pool of ink onto the paper. colors are purple, orange, pink, and blue.

pen plotter #drawing detail

detail of a white ink pen plotter drawing on black paper. lines depict triangular-pyramidal forms on a regular grid.

spikefield pen plotter #drawing detail