Illustrator.... me?

As an illustrator, I love to draw, like most illustrators. But what makes an illustrator an individual. Personally I believe it's there drive for why they want to draw, you know, what makes them lose track of time as they're putting pencil to paper. For me, it's a quality of line, I love the fact that you have that control over a pen of a pencil, depending on the pressure on the pencil or the thickness of pen that you're using. But what is most fun is when you use a tool where you have hardly any control at all. It's like learning to draw all over again. Dipping string into ink and trying to create a coherent line. You know what you want to draw in your mind, but the string is going it's own way. Lines are made where they are not wanted and lines you want aren't created. But sometimes this works and it's the chance that you have taken to create it. Lets face it you wouldn't have created that line if you were using a pencil. The string will haven a uneven quality to it, it won't have the same consistent ink flow like a pen, the consistent thickness (or thin) like a finelines. It won't provide straight lines like a pen. But it may still work. Below are a few example that I have done to show this.....

This drawing above is meant to be a drawing of my nan, I used the edge of a cardboard packaging, it was bendable so I could create some curved lines but it was hard to try and apply and even amount of ink, so I just gave up and let it do it for me. Even though I had less control I was still able to make all the features of the face recognisable, you want to worry when you're drawing and it's incoherent!

This is a self portrait using the edge of an old card out of my purse, much like the edge of cardboard but it's much more stronger doesn't lose it's shape as quick and also it's harder to bend without snapping it. So this is the result of a drawing out of nothing but straight(ish) lines!