I've only now come to realize that tessellation is pretty much the foundation of the creative vision I want to promote in my lifetime. And I hate tessellation. Balls. What I want to promote is seeing images within ordinary shapes or objects that you wouldn't ordinarily think to see anything interesting in.
I did a few quick sketches to see if there were any interesting designs I could get... Got lucky and the second one was a whale that formed the shape of a boat [although I really should've paid more attention to detail because it's difficult to see that they are boats/submarines. Perhaps if I had added some foamy spew to the top of the whale, the boat would've been more obvious. Maybe it would've had a smoke cloud, too.].
The purpose of this assignment is to draw something, put it into a pattern, and fill the negative spaces this pattern forms with some other image. See Escher's stuff for some amazingly detailed and intelligent examples.
At any rate, I hate tessellation because it calls for exactness and precision that would be so much easier on a computer. It calls for patience. Let me put it like this, after tracing the first row of whales, I wanted to die. lol
