Embroidered Collage

The expanding circles doodle that I used in Taking a Line for a Walk stuck in my brain so much that I decided to commit an entire moleskine to elaborating and varying the idea.  I've never tried to stick with a series that long and this is going to be a bit of a challenge for me.  The idea is mutating already and I have no idea what the last page in the sketchbook will look like.

I began with just one circle, as a sort of introduction, and then did a page with a basic set of interactions showing how I think about this doodling algorithm.

I tried a version with more origination points, then decided to see what would happen if one circle expanded by three lines at a time while all the others expanded with only the usual one.

That led me to the idea of having a larger gap between the expanding circle coming from one origination point.  I slid sideways a bit from there and started a page where the "circles" expand assymmetrically.

There are many more pages to come.  I find these soothing, like cross-stitching, and easy to pick up and put down when I only have a minute or two to be creative.