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Date: 2022-07-17 09:27 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing; it's an interesting technique.
To approach scribbling as an art activity:
* It's excellent for flow, thus for loosening yourself before other types of art. In this regard it works much like gesture sketches.
* Like any other type of art, it can be broken down into individual strokes: small circles/spirals, longer ovals/spirals, very large arcs, back-and-forth straight or nearly straight lines, etc. So a way to improve the results is to practice the individual line types until fairly satisfied with them, then combine them to make pictures of things.
* Like many other types of sketching, scribbling can move very fast. This makes it great for capturing things that change quickly, like poses of animals or plants in nature.
* Think about things that resemble scribbling, like water moving or clouds or a pile of rubber bands. Scribbling is better at rendering some subjects than others, though it can be used for almost anything.