Colston pgs. 22-23, 62-74

Creating textures
  water: use smudgy marks and areas of tone in soft pencil or charcoal, then repeat the exercise using defined liniar marks, or combine the two to describe the natural textural differences between foliage and water-- water I definately need to get better at and with this tip hopefully I can.
Reading pages 22-23, i found that in order to immitate nature, I must immitate nature's symmetry. since "symmetry is nature's fundamental principle of organization".
I LOOOOVVEEE pages 62-74, it gives you easy ways to immitate patters on paper, by just transfering it or drawing over it, never thought of doing that, but now I am definately gonna try.