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38. Taming scribble

I started out, using my iPad and Apple Pencil, and made a line. I moved all over the page with the same line rarely breaking it, but echoing it. Then I sat back and took a good look at it. It looked like a thumbprint or a linoleum block print. But I soon came to the conclusion I was really looking at an elephant. I made his eyes yellow to match the sun, but as it turned out, they distracted, so now he looks like an elephant again, rather than a demon elephant. I used my erasure to carve him and made an environment of white lines behind him to suggest an imaginary forest of white bamboo.