This is a page from my sketchbook. I had started with some figure drawings. I tried to use looser sketch marks and I think this was effective in illustrating more natural gestures. I like these sketches a lot because this was a point when I started feeling a lot more confident with drawing the human body. After this, I tried doing an automatic drawing: where you draw and make marks without a direction or goal of what you want the drawing to be. I started with lots of loose curved lines and thought that it was shaping out to be a rose. So I consciously added a rough stem with some thorns and leaves. I enjoy automatic drawing as a form of meditation.