Instructional Drawing: Inactive Time
My instructional drawing was playing primarily with time spent not drawing. My subjects were given this set of instructions
- Acquire a Timer
- Start Timer
- Draw A Line
- Draw A Line
- Draw A Line
- Draw A Line
- Draw A Line
- Stop Timer
- Write Time Shown on Timer on Paper
While they performed these instructions, I timed the sum total of how long their pencil was in contact with the paper. I used their time and mine to calculate the total time spent not drawing, which I inserted into their drawings below their own times.
I was quite surprised by how much variance there was in timing, and how differently people approached the issue of being told to simply draw a line 5 times. Some consider the lines as individuals, and these take longer than those who simply take them as a set to be swiftly finished.