James Paterson was born in London in 1980. His work can be seen on two sites. Griff of ultramicroscopic sent me the link to presstube.com this morning. I then later discovered halfempty.com and the incredible insertsilence.com. I contacted James and hope to find out more about his work process. So far, all I know is from the description of his work on youworkforthem.com I hope they will all forgive me for quoting James here, it is all with good intentions:
"These drawing were done with the help of a piece of software I wrote. The software is a simple arrangement engine that creates static compositions using animation as its source material. I explore the compositions and make selections of anything I find that interests me. Then I make pen drawings based on those selections."
-James Paterson
I like this work. Six individual drawings were available for sale on "youworkforthem", for the fair price of $99. Which ones do you like most? (Available or not.) My favorites are #5 and #9, mainly because of their variety of density within the piece. I am obviously interested in various forms of density in drawings.
I really hope that James keeps on course. I like his animations as well. I am looking forward to seeing more of his work online and offline.
You are probably familiar with Robert Crumb the underground comic artist. There is a book called Crumb Family Comic that contains illustrations from other family members (an amazingly talented, but tortured family). One of his brothers uses a technique similar to some of your density drawings. It conveys an amazing sense of both density and volume. In particular I remember seeing an illustration of a tree made from these "density rings" (for lack of a better term), it was fascinating.
I have googled every possible lead but am unable to find a scan of the illustrations. you may have to venture out into meat space, and find a good bookstore. Plenty of those in NY, I assume!