Sunday 29 July 2018

Keys to Drawing with Imagination – Doodling Algorithms


Atomium
Doodling Algorithms
Keys to Drawing with Imagination
Ink on Paper
21cm x 29.7cm (8.3" x 11.7")

In Keys to Drawing with Imagination, Bert Dodson introduces the idea of Doodling Algorithms – take a simple rule or motif and repeat it multiple times with slight variations to fill a page.

Bert presents different types of doodle: geometrical patterns, waves, tangles and shape clusters. The second exercise in the book is to pick one of the categories (I chose tangle) and draw a series of doodles using the algorithm.

Pipework
Doodling Algorithms
Keys to Drawing with Imagination
Ink on Paper
21cm x 29.7cm (8.3" x 11.7")

Most of my tangles came out looking like puzzles – Find your way through the maze. How many loops? Which shot was fired first?

Who Shot First?
Doodling Algorithms
Keys to Drawing with Imagination
Ink on Paper
21cm x 29.7cm (8.3" x 11.7")

The Atomium doodle is based on a doodle I used to draw during maths lessons - to aid my concentration, obviously.

Paper Loop?
Doodling Algorithms
Keys to Drawing with Imagination
Ink on Paper
21cm x 29.7cm (8.3" x 11.7")

I'm enjoying working through Bert’s book. Currently, I don’t have much time for drawing and painting, but it is pretty easy to find time for a bit of doodling and it is helping to improve my hand control and sense for composition/design.

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