Pen-plotted prints
Sister site: Wrench2Rev
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Your photo, drawn with a real pen

RevLine turns a favorite photo — your car, your dog, the view from your trip — into a drawing made line by line by a wall-mounted pen plotter, then matted and framed.

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A framed pencil-sketch pen drawing of an Ariel Atom coming round a bend on a wooded road, a second Atom behind it, the trees fading out at the edges
A sample preview — pencil sketch in a 40 × 30 frame. The red square is shown up close below.
Close-up of the drawing: thousands of fine overlapping ink strokes building up the roll hoop and air intake behind the driver

Up close, it's all lines

That red square is about 4 inches across. From the other side of the room the drawing reads like a black-and-white photo; up close it's thousands of single strokes of a 0.45 mm pen, laid down one at a time.

  • 3,338 ftof ink line in this print
  • 146,741straight segments
  • ~13 hfor the plotter to draw it
The starting photo: a black Ariel Atom leading a blue one along a wooded road
The starting photo

Same photo, different lines

Pencil sketch versionClose-up of the pencil-sketch strokes
Pencil sketchScribbled strokes that pile up in the shadows. The background fades out around the car.
Pen and ink hatching versionClose-up of the crosshatching
Pen & ink hatchingFine crosshatched layers, like an engraving, in a soft oval.
Flowing lines versionClose-up of the flowing lines
Flowing linesLong strokes that follow the shapes, like grain in wood. Light and quick to draw.

Or no photo at all

Generative art, drawn from something true about someone: a date, a place, a voice, a car. No two come out the same.

A framed star map: a circle of stars and constellation lines in blue and black, with names, a town and a date underneath
The sky the night we metThe real stars over the town where you met, at the hour you met — and the Moon, if it was up.
A framed print of a sound wave drawn in fine black lines across the middle of the page
Say itA voice — “I do”, a laugh, an old voicemail — drawn as its sound wave.
A framed print of stacked red ridgelines like a mountain range, with a car name underneath
Exhaust noteYour car’s cold start, rev or flyby, drawn as its sound: every peak is a note from the engine.
A framed string-art star in red and blue, its points labelled with the digits of a date
Date starString art from a date. Every digit is one point, so you can read the date back.
A framed harmonograph: one continuous red and blue line looping into a flower-like shape
Two pendulumsTwo birthdays set two pendulums swinging. One continuous line, different for every couple.
A framed grid of small moon phases, one for each night of a year, with a baby’s name underneath
First year in moonsThe Moon every night of a baby’s first year, starting the night they were born.

Designs for couples, new babies, birthdays and milestones, and remembering someone — plus abstract patterns from a date that matters, string art from names and dates, and designs for car people: a road trip, a track day, an exhaust note.

How it'll work

  1. Upload a photoStrong light and a clear subject plot best — or skip the photo and pick a generative design.
  2. Pick a frameFrom 16 × 20 up to 30 × 40, each with a mat and a white reveal.
  3. Choose the linesPick the subject, fade the background, choose a line style and anything from simple to photographic detail — and see it before you send.
  4. Send the requestEach one is checked by hand, drawn with archival ink, then framed.