Some days ago, I ran into a contest post that was using an image I thought I had seen before. It turns out I had not seen the image itself, but another one by the same artist: @romanie

I wrote a story for the contest but the drawing also motivated me to scribble too.

I toyed with the original illustration and came up with some original drawings. Also, I visited @romanie's blog and found an amazing universe created out of scribbles. She explains her method and rationale here.

I had spent a good part of my college years scribbling, but I never thought of sistematizing those drawings. In fact, I did not save any of those. Now, thanks to @romanie's idea, I am planning to go back to that relaxing artistic exercise and let the Blockchain preserve whatever crazy images come out of that.

Let's call this first exercise:

Whale Printing

Process

I made the scribble myself (with my left hand). I plan to ask people around me to offer their scribbles for the next ones.

The first thing that came to my mind was a face mask. It would have been easy to develop a cartoon out those lines. However, I let it flow.

The first few shapes and shadows started to depart from the face mask idea.

In a few seconds, I was diving deep into unconscious tracing.

When I tried to complete what might be the shape of the object coming through the gate, the whale popped up.

From this point on, the drawing became intentional and I tried to create some sense of harmony and balance in the composition.

Until I had to force myself to stop, otherwise I'd keep adding circles and waves.

I used a No2 pencil and a Pointer for the final inking

Thanks for stopping by. See you with the next scribble-based art.