Keys to Drawing with Imagination – Combining

Water
Combining
Keys to Drawing with Imagination
Ink on Paper
29.7cm x 21cm (11.7" x 8.3") 

The instruction for Exercise 7 of Keys to Drawing with Imagination by Bert Dodson is to combine two previous doodles.

The previous section concerned letter-forms, but didn’t have an exercise. I took the opportunity to mess around with some balloon letters and to combine them with the fish motif – which is a recurring theme in my doodles for these exercises.

Keys to Drawing with Imagination – Multiplying

Too Cool (for the School)
Multiplying
Keys to Drawing with Imagination
Ink on Paper
29.7cm x 21cm (11.7" x 8.3") 

The sixth exercise from Keys to Drawing with Imagination by Bert Dodson involves Multiplying a previous doodle.

The first assignment is to arrange multiple copies of a doodle in a radial or otherwise symmetrical pattern

The second assignment is a mirror image drawing. Draw a doodle and then duplicate it upside down, beneath and touching the first drawing.

Alasses
Multiplying
Keys to Drawing with Imagination
Ink on Paper
14.9cm x 10.5cm (5.9" x 4.2")

My response to the first assignment is based on the skull from the Building Blocks exercise.

The drawing at the top of the post is a variation on the second exercise. I drew a few mirror image doodles, but the results didn’t thrill me. The picture at the top is a modification of a Silhouetting  exercise – I’ve used a more symmetrical pattern and less variety in the fish motif.

I'm thinking of using a pattern like this as the basis for a linocut print.