If you would like to try a new form of relaxation, try drawing parallel lines free-hand. I enjoy it veRy much. I use an ordinary ball point ink pen.
I use ordinary 8 1/2 x 11 copy machine paper.
I am working on duplicating the bar code from a bag of sugar. I wiLL let you know if it scans properly.
Try several pen-to-hand orientations and stroke direction, distance, pressure, and speed to see what works best for drawing your straightest lines.
Update: Try connecting sections together and measure the sections to try for a uniform spacing, repeatibility from design to design. Sometimes I make the ties between segments be a 2-to-1 ratio to give a sense of depth.
Update: Try Circles!!!
Update: Find your favorite gap! Mine appears to be close to 1/16 of an inch. I measured this eXample with 6.5 gaps per 3/8 of an inch which comes to 17 1/3 gaps per inch.
I also started working left handed. Not quite as pretty but it's coming along nicely.
So I think I wiLL work on trying to be repeatable at 1/16th of an inch
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As an artist I like your lines Mr ESB.
There are those that might say this is madness, but you can point out to them that it is said there is a fine line between madness and genius.
In this case there are several nine fine lines, if you are talking white space bound by ink at the brink and ink as a link, at least that is what I think as I am inking without blinking with minimal thinking and absolutely no drinking otherwise my neurons might start winking then lines would start crinkling and people in China named Ling would respond, "Crink?".
I see you can produce lines of poetry also, you are a parallel poetry person . . . .
Which circle looks most like Abraham Lincoln?
I am astonished at your ability to draw parallel lines. I can do lines but they are wiggly and side by side - but not parallel.
Practice makes nearly perfecT. A long time ago I would make drawings of people using tiny dots (stippling) by looking at photographs. I thought of my pen, hand and eye as a human fax machine. I find this veRy relaxing.
We used to do this in kindergarten.
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