They were inspired by classic picture-drawing automatons ... An ordinary ballpoint pen is held in a spring-loaded carrier, which provides just enough pen-to-paper pressure to reliably draw ...

It’s a simple robot that drags a pen around to draw on paper ... The robot does a good job of plotting out a drawing on a small scale, with [Tim] using it to outline his name on paper.

Try to notice the different textures of your skin, hair and ... so why not try pen and ink or perhaps using blackand white instead of colour? Why not try drawing someone else?