Circle Project

The subject of my drawing is an octopus made of circles. First, I sketched the outline of the octopus and then drew over it with pen. I didn't want to color it with colored pencil because I thought that would make it look messy, and since I didn't do it on canvas, I couldn't paint it. I wanted to do an octopus because I don't normally do sea animals and I just thought that this particular animal would look cool with the design I was doing on the inside. I tried to use line to make the octopus look more squishy and flowy, like octopus' are :') I used value by making some of the circles have thicker lines and others have thin lines.

Originally, I was going to make a cat out of magazine clippings that were hole punched into little circles. But then I realized I wouldn't have enough time for that, so I wanted to do a squid made of circles. Then I couldn't get the tentacles of the squid right, so I changed to an octopus.

Drawing texture and pattern from circles was something new for me, but I was inspired by this piece of digital art :

If I could change something about this drawing, I would use even more pens with thicker or thinner line widths, because since its black and white, there isn't much value.