Yes, Botsy draws on glass!
This video demonstrates how to transfer lettering onto a window using Botsy.
It also shows the real drawing speed, so you can see exactly how fast and smoothly Botsy works in a live setting.
For best results, use glass or window markers specifically designed for non-porous surfaces like glass.
Botsy outlines your artwork with precise contours, making it easy to hand-paint over the lines if desired. This method is ideal for creating large-scale window lettering, signage, or decorative art, saving time and ensuring clean, professional-quality results.
This video shows how to draw a logo directly onto an office wall using Botsy.
Thanks to Botsy’s tool-free installation, you can easily set up or remove the drawing machine without damaging the wall—no nails, no cracked plaster, and no mess. The system uses removable hangers attached to the wall with popular 3M Command Strips, making installation quick and clean. Once the artwork is complete, the hangers can be taken down without leaving any marks.
Botsy is also ideal for drawing any font or text. With access to hundreds of font families and styles from popular font libraries, you can create custom lettering and branding in virtually any design. It’s perfect for logos, slogans, and wall quotes in offices, studios, or retail spaces.
Case Study: Company Office Logo & Large Lettering
The website for the Botsy mural drawing robot is www.botsy.com.
Absolutely! Botsy is a fun and efficient way to create professional chalkboard art, whether you’re just starting out or looking to offer it as a service. Many coffee shops, barbers, restaurants, and wedding planners already use chalkboards—or need someone to design them. With Botsy, you can offer higher-quality, custom designs that stand out. It’s a great way to generate income from your home or studio, without having to work on-site or rush through projects. Just prep, draw, hand-color, and deliver.
Botsy User Tip for Beginners
A Botsy user explains:
When I started, I realized that clear communication, smart observation, and helpful suggestions can set you apart from the competition. It’s not just about drawing—it’s about helping small businesses grab attention, stay fresh, and sell more.
Here’s what’s worked well for me:
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Observe the space. Notice traffic flow, lighting, and where a chalkboard can catch the eye. Suggest placements that make the most impact.
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Talk to the business owner. Find out their messaging priorities—menus, quotes, hours, promos, or simply branding.
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Bring ideas to the table. Propose visual improvements like adding a seasonal section, featuring bestsellers.
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Use a hybrid approach:
Offer a combo of permanent and washable markers. Draw the core graphics, branding, and layout with permanent markers, and leave areas (like prices or specials) in washable marker. This way, the client can update info themselves—without erasing your entire design or calling you.
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Tap into the replacement board niche. If a shop already uses a chalkboard stand, offer to create a new board at home and deliver it. Just swap it in for the old one—quick and mess-free.
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Offer discounted updates. If you already designed a layout, offer a lower price to tweak it for a new sale or season. Clients appreciate fast, affordable refreshes.
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Keep it simple via email. Send sketches, approve digitally, deliver when ready. Many clients love how fast and hands-off the process is.
- Pro Tip: Larger chains may require corporate approval, but small business owners are often excited to collaborate with creative professionals like you.
Botsy lets you focus on creativity while it handles the precision. The result? Professional work, done faster—and happy repeat clients.
The Botsy robotic tool offers many advantages:
- Design on your computer first — Perfect your artwork digitally before bringing it to life on the wall.
- Access ready-made designs — Use thousands of downloadable chalk art files and illustrations from popular design sites.
- Draw any text, any way — Choose from a wide variety of fonts, styles, and languages. Botsy draws your text with precision—and you can hand-color it later for a custom finish.
- Multilingual, multi-style — Botsy handles diverse languages and scripts with ease, making it a great tool for any audience.
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Beginner-friendly — Even if you’re new to chalkboard art, Botsy helps you produce clean, impressive results. Your creativity is what makes the difference.
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Minimal setup space — Since Botsy mounts to the wall, you can draw large artwork in even the smallest studio or home workspace.
Here are some examples of what you can create with the drawing robot and your own hand-coloring.
Visit the Botsy chalkboard drawing robot website at www.botsy.com.
The faux stained glass is essentially fake stained glass that tends to be much more affordable.
The wall drawing robot is an excellent tool for sketching out your initial project on a wall. Botsy has a large drawing area, allowing you to create a realistic image. The image that will be displayed in your window frame. Furthermore, many faux stained glass designs have precise geometry and perfect symmetry. The drawing robot will outline everything for you with great precision.
Botsy can be a good tool for art classes and preparing materials for kids.
Step 1.
Choose a pattern that appeals to you. There are loads of free patterns available on the internet.
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Outline the whole artwork on whiteboard or on a wall to check design flaws and overall appearance in real size. To experiment, use Crayola washable markers that can be easily washed out.
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Apply painter’s tape to a hard plastic sheet and transfer the artwork to it.
Step 4.
Apply the liquid lead over the faux stained glass outline.
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Color with acrylic paints, using your skills and creativity.
Botsy’s Pen Holder can accommodate drawing tools with a diameter ranging from 0.35″ to 0.86″ (9mm to 22mm). You can use Sharpies, whiteboard markers, chalk markers, industrial-grade Sharpies, glass pens, and washable markers. Botsy works with various pens, pencils, and markers. Popular sets are available at retail stores, specialty hobby shops, and online marketplaces.
Choose your drawing tool based on the surface you’re working on—such as paper, painted drywall, plywood, or concrete walls. For uneven surfaces, use a marker with a sturdy tip to maintain its shape and avoid “mush
You can certainly use the liquid chalk markers.
Our drawing robots do not require proprietary markers. You can use your favorite store-bought chalk markers, the same ones you use for sketching.
In the video, you can see the final stage of outlining the Espresso chalkboard. Botsy draws at a typical speed.
Two types of markers are in use:
- Liquid wet-wipe markers for menu items and prices. These can be easily erased with a damp cloth or sponge.
- Permanent markers for the decorative elements.
The finished chalkboard is for a coffee shop.
The overhead signs with wet-wipe liquid markers.
First, the blackboards are mounted on the wall and outlined with white and green chalk markers. After outlining, the letters are hand-colored.
Case Study: Chalk Menu Boards for Palm City Nutrition
When using the wall drawing machine, the washable markers are great for checking draft artwork on a wall.
Experiment with upscale, detailed patterns and images, different layouts, and geometric viewpoints. The machine will draw exactly what you’ve drawn on the computer at the scale you want. The large-scale outline can show design flows and mistakes that are difficult to spot on a computer monitor. You can even sketch your design on the client’s wall to demonstrate it and get final approval.
Crayola Washable Markers, in our opinion, are the greatest. Outlines created using Crayola Ultra-Clean Washable Markers are easily cleaned.
Yes, Botsy can draw on stretched canvases!
We offer an Adapter Set designed specifically for stretched canvases up to 2 inches thick. This set adjusts the drawing tool 1 to 2 inches away from the wall, creating space for the canvas to fit between the pen and the wall.
What’s Included in the Botsy Adapter Set?
- Three hangers with longer dowels and a wider base for secure wall adhesion. The hangers can be used with three or four 3M Command Strips.
- One bottom bracket for added support.
The hangers are designed to work with 3M Command Strips for damage-free installation or can be permanently mounted using the hole at the top.
Currently, we do not supply hardware for mounting stretched canvases. Customers typically choose their own mounting solutions. If you need assistance, we’re happy to help with custom-made options.
This ensures Botsy works seamlessly with stretched canvases!
Yes, you can scale up a sketch using the drawing robot and a wood project.
These images show how to use Botsy over plywood to make a 3D window frame with traditional folk elements.
The drawing robot automatically outlines the sketch on the plywood in full size. In this case, there is no need for transfer paper.
This robot functions as a pen plotter, reducing labor costs associated with digital image transfer and increasing the consistency of the transfer process.
To begin, the entire window frame was blown up to full size on the wall. The full-size image greatly helps in detecting design flaws. The frame elements were then transferred to the plywood. The wood parts were then created using hand tools rather than a large CNC machine.
Botsy, according to a professional artist with an SFAI (San Francisco Art Institute) diploma, speeds up to 10 times the wall outlining process for complex vector art.
How did we figure this out?
Botsy traced this large 6-by-30-foot mural at the University of Florida. The experienced artist estimated that the same accurate outlining would take him 4-5 days. The drawing robot finished four mural sections in around 40-45 minutes each! That is why Botsy outperforms artists by a factor of 10 in image tracing.
Case Study: The Large Hand Painted Mural at The University of Florida
Murals and Wall Letters
- Make the process of transferring a mural faster and more accurate.
- Cut down on the time it takes to put a mural on the wall.
- Help make sure the mural is put on the wall in the right place.
- Help to cut down on mistakes and waste.
- Help cut down on the cost of labor for mural transferring.
- Help make the process of transferring murals more consistent.
- Help to simplify complicated processes and lower the chance that a person will make a mistake.
- Cut down on the amount of manual work and time needed to transfer murals.
- The drawing machine doesn’t require exclusive markers. You have a wide range of choices available to you on the market, including permanent markers, dry erase markers, washable markers, chalks, chalk markers, pencils, etc. In any case, pick the one you prefer to use for drawing.
- Try out upscale, intricate patterns and images, different layouts, and geometric points of view with washable markers.
- Organize a social event. Put an outline of a big image on the wall and ask people to help you color it.
- Utilize an enormous amount of fonts and typefaces in your design. The drawing machine will quickly and precisely enlarge and position them.
Chalkboard Art
Botys is a fun and easy way to generate money by creating art on a chalkboard. Many private stores, coffee shops, barber shops, wedding planners and restaurants already use or are lacking chalkboard art indoors and outdoors. Quite often, you may provide a higher quality or a better ideas for them. You can easily contact them and offer your services.
The ability to create artwork and produce chalkboards at home or in your studio is a significant advantage of this tool. There is no rush or pressure in general, and you are flexible with your personal time. You deliver your finished products to the company without taking up their time.
Technology and Science Museums
Robots that draw on the wall could be demonstrated to young children by Technology and Science Museums as an exciting and engaging way to inspire them in art. Robots can help bring creativity to life and make art creation more interactive. Furthermore, robots can introduce children to the concepts of coding and automation, allowing them to investigate the possibilities of robotics. The museum can help foster young children’s creativity, spark their imagination, and potentially even motivate them to pursue a career in technology by introducing robotics to them in an engaging way.
Schools with STEAM
Botsy, the drawing robot, is based on an Arduino microcontroller with CNC parts. Bringing robotics into the classroom is a great way to get students interested in learning. Students can learn more about coding, electronics, and engineering by making robotics and art projects with Arduino. By using a robotic tool to make artworks, students can work on their problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills. Also, it gives people a chance to think creatively and find out all the different things they can do with the drawing robot. In the end, learning robotics with Arduino can be a fun way to introduce STEAM ideas.
Universities and Colleges
that have an art department that includes a fabrication lab.
Students participate in a variety of classes that focus on the topic of digital fabrication (i.e., CNC, laser, and vinyl fabrication, as well as digital design and 3D printing). Botsy could be used as an additional tool in conjunction with the pen-and-paper paradigm. The wall drawing machine has multiple applications, including fabrication and the creation of items that can be used by students in the art department and elsewhere on campus.
The website for the Botsy drawing robot is www.botsy.com.