Recently I came across an artist, Sergej Stoppel, that opened a design studio centered around drawing algorithms and robotics. With the help of his pen plotter named Karel, Sergej converts portraits into different forms of dot and line art. While experimenting with his style he created line art portrait mosaics.

When creating one of his portraits, the image is divided into different tiles and based off of the algorithm he created, the tiles are assigned a style/pattern. Next Karel simply uses a pen or sharpie to draw these amazing mosaic illustrations. After five hours of drawing, Karel produces 25 different pieces that then put together to create the full mosaic image.

It is amazing how the different uses of lines can create the different shading and details of the portrait. “The result is chaotic, messy but yet recognizable and fascinating.”

Visit his Facebook page to learn more and his Etsy page to order your own custom portrait. He has very many styles, but of course I like the mosaic version best!

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