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Activity 1 uses two very simple and cheap pieces of material,
a newspaper and an ordinary ball-point pen.
I'm going to do this activity in a slightly thicker pen
so that it shows up on the camera.
The activity begins with drawing some simple boxes
and the nice thing about using a newspaper
is that you've got the lines already given for you in the lines of text
and in the columns.
Some I'm just practising drawing some relatively small boxes,
about 3cm by 3cm.
The largest ones could be 6cm by 6cm and they can be rectangular,
they don't have to be square.
I'm going to use these to demonstrate and develop a bit of control.
So the first thing you do with these
is to filled them in with some controlled cross hatching.
This is not a scribble motion, this is a more controlled motion
where you're controlling the movement in your fingers.
I've done that cross hatching at 45 degrees.
I'm doing this one vertically.
Quite fast, I'm not caring too much about going over the lines.
This one I'm going to change directions and do it this way.
What this is doing for me is just demonstrating some control
of the fingers and the wrist.
Having done that I'm going to use those squares and boxes.
And I want to pick one letter from anywhere on that page
and I'm going to pick that letter there, the 't' from 'tactics'.
I'm going to draw that letter in using my box as a guideline.
So it's got a curved edge there, it comes down and across,
comes down, there's a loop on the end of that
and it comes around.
And I can fill that in either by cross hatching
or with this broad pen I can block that in quite quickly
to begin to shape in that letter.
What this activity's doing is it's making me look at shapes of letters
and that's helpful when we come to designing
because that close observation of small details
is absolutely essential to designing.
And if you can do that and fill several boxes
then that's Activity 1 completed.