I decided to do the automatic drawing with my roommate. The experience itself was fun and entertaining. We were kind of laughing the whole time creating it because we were unsure as to what was going to happen. Halfway through our drawing we decided to switch the color to green to make the art look more interesting. We started the drawing with a blue/purple colored pencil placed in the middle of the paper which is where the drawing is the most concentrated. After we were done with the drawing I noticed that we got more confident when using the green pencil as the strokes are a lot darker than the blue/purple color we used. The drawing looks like a bunch of squiggles which you could consider abstract as the drawing did not take on any form.
This activity was difficult for me to start because I was unsure on how I should shape the map. I knew of the different buildings and where they were but was unsure on how to make their placement clear on a piece of paper. I knew I wouldn’t do that great on this activity, because my sense of direction is very off, but I’m impressed with how many buildings I actually remembered. My map still makes our campus look very small, because even though I thought I remembered a lot of buildings I left out like half of the campus. I have a big question mark on my map because I couldn’t remember any of the buildings that came after the hall of science.
Brielle Sunseri 