For this, we had to make our own rules to follow. The bases was to pick something from a book and connect it through lines. I had chosen to circle all of the ‘s’s in a paragraph from a newspaper article. After I had completed that, I connected them with lines, creating a a geometric pattern. I traced this pattern onto a piece of paper. My pen began to run out and I replaced it, giving my pattern a different ink work. I’m still trying to decide if the different ink boldness? Saturation? annoys me or not. If I were to do this again, I would connect the lines using a ruler to give a more clean and precise look, rather that the shaky lines. And maybe do the lines in different coloured pens therefore giving the unpredictability of the pen ink more control and purpose.
I found doing this exercise quite stress relieving as I was having first-day nerves, as everyone does, especially due to the fact that it was online.