Each drawing in this section starts with hours in Illustrator, followed by hours of plotting. Some are hand-finished with a mix of pen plotting and painting. Though drawn by a machine, it still requires a lot of babysitting—adjusting ink layers, speed, and pressure. Pens can skip lines, tear paper, or just not draw consistently.You never really know how the drawing will turn out or if it will even be usable in the end. I first used this technique for [de]formation designs, which would be nearly impossible to draw accurately by hand at such a small scale. Every plot is unique—similar, but never exactly the same.