Entopic Graphomania

This exercise is based on a Surrealist game of 'Automatic Drawing'

~Simply grab a sheet of paper—it can be a page from an old paperback book, newspaper, magazine, or anything with markings—and place dots on specific words or letters. You choose what set of marks, words, or letters you want. Then connect the dots with curved, zigzag or straight lines to create a pattern. These exercises reveal hidden patterns in negative space, show you how choices can make a difference and will help you engage in randomness to take your work a few steps further.

~If you like, you can use tracing paper on top of the book page/magazine etc.. so that you are not marking on the actual page. This will allow you to use anything around you and will give you a totally different and more clean looking piece when you are done.

~As a more challenging variant, you can start with a blank page and find imperfections or stray marks to use rather than something printed on the page.

Assignment Details: 

Today we are making 2 pieces, please change up what you did somehow on your 2nd piece (ie. change drawing surface, drawing tool, use a ruler, change your line type/weight, etc...). 

You should spend a good 10 minutes on this exercise, so that is a total of at least 20 minutes of focus on this activity. Take a photo of each of your pieces and turn them into the assignment on Google Classroom (2 photos). You may do more if you wish :)