Experimental editing

After finishing the large drawing shown in the previous post, I decided to see what would happen if I made bits into digital squares resembling 'zentangle' size doodles. I chopped up some of the scans to achieve this. Not only was it a challenge to find suitable bits that could be separated from the rest, it was also exploring the unknown! Not all the details could be cut out the same size because some needed the matching or contrasting patterns around them. I loved doing some of the patterns and disliked others (but had started so had to go on!). The grey shading might have been a mistake. I think coloured pencils or watercolour (not possible on this Bristol drawing paper) are probably more effective. But it's all over now. The only way I can get a copy of the unshaded drawing would be to print it out on several sheets of paper and glue it together. On some of the extracts you can almost see a string, while on others I have obviously improvised and ignored the string! These little extracts are all edited to be the same size! I could have made a dozen or so more, but I want to move on now! I noticed that the outer edges of the drawing are almost all "stringless". I started drawing in the centre (see previous post), which probably explains why the centre part is patterned in greater detail. I think the centre needs more light (in the big picture which proceeds the extracts). I have turned and twisted some of the small bits to get the best angle.