squiggle drawing

My Squiggle drawing was made with super simple materials, I personally like to use pencil so that's what I used for this piece, although I did incorporate some sharpie to add another squiggle. I also just used a regular eraser- not the pink erasers, those are the worst. The first thing I did when I was given the piece of paper with a squiggle on it, I immediately just looked at the page from all angles, turning it around, upside-down and just trying to figure what to do with the shape. After deciding what I would draw (which was a doodle), I started, but I was keeping aware of where my doodle was on the page, this is because I didn't want the drawing to be kept in one space and crowd it so much that I would not have been able to get the doodle out of the space. The piece started off just as a doodle that I would fill the whole page with, but I came up with an idea to switch it up and do another type of doodle. So it evolved from a regular doodle covering the whole page, to a different variation- or just a different style in general halfway through the page.

While I was drawing, I didn’t think too much about what elements I was incorporating because well, I was in the zone. But now looking back at the drawing, I realize some of the elements that I did incorporate into the piece. For example, the most obvious element for this drawing, would probably be Line. Yes, they do become shapes when you finally get to the end of the doodle, but for the most part you are just looking at lines in this piece; how I look at it, the doodle is simply just U’s made into an intestine looking doodle. Another element that is probably less obvious is Movement. When the regular doodle cuts off into an unusual doodle, you can see that whatever it is (I will leave it up to the viewer of my piece) it definitely has movement: at the ends of the little squiggles you can see little pieces flying off as though it were some type of Slime, or some gelatinous liquid moving through the air.

I’m not really sure I can be that proud of an artwork that was pretty much a brain dump, but if I had to choose, I think my proudest accomplishment in this piece is the fact that I changed it up halfway through. I feel as though if I had kept going with the regular doodle, I first of all would have gotten bored, but more importantly the piece would not look as good without the add-on of the irregular doodle. 

I think the part where I struggled the most was actually the half way through addition. I had trouble figuring out what to do for the new doodle, it took some time and thinking through but in the end I just let the pencil flow around until I figured it out.