Decal by Zancan #99 - Pen-plotter drawing - edition 1 - 42 x 42 cm
Decal is a 100-edition long-form generative art series created by Zancan to celebrate the vibrant community of Web3 art collectors gathered around Deca. The project’s premise was to create a work in his visual language using the Deca logo (the five diagonal stripes) as a fixed compositional element.
The logo was reconstructed entirely with programming code and woven into the artist’s existing framework of generative vegetation. The result is a dense landscape that blurs the boundaries between perspective, abstraction and figuration, while relying exclusively on fixed-width strokes. This constraint also makes the artwork naturally suited to future pen-plotted physical editions.
This video documents the plotting of Decal #99. The two-colour palette was developed using specific inks that had been carefully tested beforehand. Long plotting sessions involving continuous line work can be demanding on a pen plotter, particularly when working with textured watercolour paper, custom inks and technical pens such as Rotring Isographs.
- 0'00"drawing the garden with green ink. Rotring Isograph 0.4 mm
- 0'24"the stripe pattern on the decal logo in green ink. Rotring Isograph 0.4 mm
- 0'30"switching to blue ink, same pen after clean up
- 1'35"starting the single-stroke pattern from the top-left corner
- 2'53"see how the single-stroke's role is to connect the various elements such as the hatch pattern of the Decal logo
- 4'40"The single-stroke still going on, never lifting up the pen carriage, in this dense area where many diverse graphical elements are connected together in an abstract gesture.
- 5'40"A final layer with a 0.2mm Staedtler Marsmatic for tiny details on the plants.
