Instructional Drawing: Inactive Time

My instructional drawing was playing primarily with time spent not drawing. My subjects were given this set of instructions

1. Acquire a Timer
2. Start Timer
3. Draw A Line
4. Draw A Line
5. Draw A Line
6. Draw A Line
7. Draw A Line
8. Stop Timer
9. 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.