The 4 Stages of the Automatic Drawings Process - Ideas
How do the best automatic drawing artists generate thoughts while drawing? And what are the steps in their creative process that enables their ideas to be brought into existence? The ability to disconnect from the continuous flow of thoughts and distractions is the most important aspect of the automatic drawing technique:
Try to be in a relaxed state of mind. Draw without thinking, and avoid controlling the drawing with your mind. The pencil should be in the same place on paper will assist in to flow. In fact, automatic drawing is a sort of speedy or intense doodling, in where unexpected and unpredictably shaped images can be made to appear and used to create the foundation for additional visual game.
Araki Koman is an illustrator who freelances in the UK. When she was a kid, she used to draw automatic up until her teenage years, and after that, she stopped drawing for around 10 years. Araki enrolled in an art and design program following her departure from her digital marketing job. From then on, Araki has allowed intuition to steer her career as well as her creativity process.
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Examples of automatic drawing: earthy colours natural lines, rough lines and organic forms
The soft lines of raw lines, organic designs, textures, and sand-like colours are merged with sand-like colours in Araki Koman's automated drawings. The artist is currently working on an ink black Raw Feminine series she started in the year 2020. See the following automatic drawing illustrations:
Araki regarding her auto-drawing procedure:
For the record the way I work is automatic. If I'm working on a project, a commission I'm aware of exactly where it's supposed to go. I understand what the client wants. I always trust the process, and I know ultimately, it will lead to the final result that we all like. Sometimes , I'll have a reference but I quickly give that reference to the process and allow the process to lead to the final product. (...) As I review my old drawings I am unable to do them again and I am not feeling like I'm actually drawing these drawings. It's not my hands drawing, but I'm drawing however I'm extremely spiritual and believe that the higher self is doing it through me.
The four stages of the automatic drawing process by Araki Koman:
1. The preparation
"Usually I begin with a reference image that I enjoy. I sketch an element, and in the end there is no longer me who is doing the drawing, but the hands are drawing the forms. It's like a puzzle, it's happening all on its on their own and I'm simply watching."
Stage 2: Creation
"I enjoy listening to a podcast or to music while drawing to focus my attention on something else. I must completely remove my attention from the drawing process and focus on something else such as the music I'm listening to or the dialogue on the podcasts. I am just allowing my hands to take over everything on their own."
Stage 3: Editing
"All editing is done in a natural way. If I'm editing it, I'm completing the editing process, but not completely there. Sometimes, I must stop what I'm doing, step away from the work, go to another place, and come back to look at the outcome. Do you think it's the best product? Am I happy with it Do I need to add another thing that didn't appear the first time? Most of the time it's quite easy and I'm completely detached from everything that is happening within me. It's about letting 80% go, 10% of researching, and 10% of editing towards the end."
Stage 4: Verification
"When I see my automated drawings from the past I don't know what to do next, and I am not sure if I'm the one doing these drawings. Yes, it's my hands making drawings, but I'm drawing, but I am highly spiritual, and I think it's a higher-level consciousness acting through me. It's possible that I have a talent initially that pushed me to draw quite a bit as a child. I was very drawn to drawing, so I know this is my duty to draw for the moment specifically in this area, and accept this as my current job."
Check out more of Araki's automated drawings through her Instagram space.
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