The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

In staring at the photo-real drawing of the perfect bird, you marvel over the technical ability required to produce it. You also study the sloppy sketch just as long, picking out each one of its flaws ...

For all those who could never quite manage a straight line in Drawing 101, Saurabh Datta may have an answer. For his thesis at Copenhagen’s Institute of Interaction Design, Datta developed an odd ...

Inspired by the Martin Scorsese film Hugo, an obsessive Lego enthusiast built a programmable machine that writes messages and draws pictures. All you have to do is turn a crank. Andrew Carol, who ...

Makers Justin and his friend Brett have created a fantastic DIY joystick-controlled laser drawing machine powered by an Arduino development board. The framework has been constructed from laser-cut ...

Every morning at 6:30, Andrew Mowbray rides his bike from his home in Dorchester to the Boston Harborwalk, where his wind-drawing machine is on display through Sept. 27 between Old Harbor Park and the ...

As part of Doug Aitken's mobile art project "Station to Station," Olafur Eliasson created a kinetic drawing machine titled Connecting Cross Country With A Line. The device is powered by the movement ...