A simple drawing machine can be made using elastic bands wound up and felt pens to quickly and visibly mark a surface. Students are asked to take their homemade drawing machines to class to have them create a drawing and explore the types of marks they are capable of making. Examples of drawing machines are provided for inspiration but the goal is for students to quickly construct a new drawing device in class that can record marks without needing many components.

1. Competition: Drawing Machine.
Make a drawing machine.
These should be simple drawing machines, not complicated ones.
Simple elastic bands, wound up, felt pens (because they mark a quick
visible mark)…
http://picdeer.org/b6fc_artanddesign
https://www.instructables.com/id/DoodleBot360/
https://sketchinnovation.wordpress.com/tag/drawing-machine/

2. Drawing Machine.
Take your drawing machines and get them to make
a drawing in class.
Make a new quick drawing machine in class.
What kinds of marks is your machine capable of
making?
What could you use to make a drawing machine.
Not so much a machine as a device that will record
mark making for you.