Embroidered Collage

This set of doodles is from Exercise 1 in Bert Dodson's Keys to Drawing with Imagination.  Four of the fill patterns are from the book and two I came up with on my own.  I really enjoyed this pattern making exercise and expect to have fun through the rest of Part 1: Doodling and Noodling, but before I can work on Part 2: Drawing a New Reality I may need to go back to his original book Keys to Drawing and spend more time practicing on this reality.

I've not been very good at deliberately following exercises in the past, but I'm going to give it a try as Bert's are laid out so well.  The whole book was very interesting to read through and I picked up some good bits even without actually doing the work.  A number of the creative exercises could be applied to collage, with only a little adaptation, if I hadn't wanted to improve my drawing skills anyway.