Silver Design 1

    Completed 4/23/2017.  Started out as a doodle that I refined here.  Most of my abstracts start as a random sketch on a piece of scratch paper with no particular plan.  Then I see something appealing and I draw it again more refined.  The odd thing about that scroll in the center is that a lot of people come up with it independently from all over the world.  I never gave it much thought until one day I saw something that looked a lot like my own pattern in an ancient jewelry artifact.  Genetic memory perhaps?
    I did the center pieces from scratch, but I used my personal premade stock image to copy and paste for the round beads:
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...and the rings on the outer edges I did only once and then copied and pasted them on to some of the beads.  Then later as I saw that there could be more of a pattern, I just copied and pasted the modified beads where they needed to be.  It is one of the nicer things about digital art, that copy and paste thing.  If I was drawing this by hand, I would have a harder time keeping all the details consistent.  Also, one of the odd things about abstracts by hand, they are more simple than what I normally draw, but for some reason I find they take a lot more effort and energy.  I would think that the more complex drawings of animals, still lifes and animals would take more energy, but they don't.  It's just weird.