first graphic design assignment

I'm taking intro to graphic design, and my second class is tonight. Our assignment was to come up with 24 4"x4" tiles, bound accordion-style, each one with a heart. Black and white. No patterns, shading, nothing--just hearts.

here's the whole shebang (background: the picturesque East river).

Here are some of the individual tiles:




To wrap the whole thing up, I bought some black ribbon and finally got to use my sewing machine's handy button-hole sewing foot.

For this project I only used markers. I could have made the heart images with a computer but I don't have Illustrator (nor do I know how to use it). Cutting up the tiles was another thing I did by hand, I tried to be as exact as I could but I would need more sophisticated tools than my scissors and T-square to come up with a more professional package. I really like some of the tiles, some I think are well-executed but I'm not really drawn (haha) to them. I also need to work on my finishing. I tried to minimize smudges but it turns out that the ink from one of my markers is soluble in rubber cement so there was some bleedthrough! I won't show it though. I hope white-out will be discreet enough.