The four Stages of the Automatic Drawings Process - Ideas
How do great automatic drawing artists come up with concepts while they're drawing? And what are the steps during their process of creativity which allow their ideas to be brought into existence? Disconnecting from the constant flow of ideas and distractions is a crucial aspect of the automatic drawing technique:
Try to be in a relaxed mindset, draw with no thought, and stay clear of controlling the drawing with your mind. The pencil should be in the same place on paper will help your flow. In fact, automatic drawing is an art form of accelerated or intensified doodling in which a variety of unexpected and improbable images may be visible and then used as the basis for the additional visual game.
Araki Koman is an illustrator who freelances in the UK. When she was a young child, she used to draw automatically until her teenage years, and after that, she stopped drawing for around an entire decade. She enrolled in a graphic design course when she quit her position as a digital marketer. Since then, Araki has allowed intuition to guide her work and creativity process.
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Automatic drawing examples: Earthy color palette natural lines, rough lines, and organic forms
The soft lines of raw lines, organic shapes, matte texture and sand-like colors are brought into Araki Koman's automated drawings. Araki Koman is currently working on the black ink Raw Feminine series she started in 2020. Take a look at some of her automatic drawing examples:
Araki regarding her auto-drawing method:
For the record, everything I do is completely automatic. When I have a project or a task, I know the exact location it needs to go. I understand what the client is looking for. I always trust the process, and I know it will eventually produce the final result that each of us would are happy with. Sometimes , I'll am able to reference something, but then I give that reference away and let the process take me to the product. (...) As I review my drawings from the past I am unable to draw them again, but I don't feel like I'm actually making these drawings. It's not my hands drawing but it's my hand doing it , but I'm very spiritual, and feel that it's a higher consciousness working through me.
The four phases of the automatic drawing process by Araki Koman:
Stage 1: Preparedness
"Usually I begin by drawing the reference image I enjoy. I sketch an element, and at some point, it is not me doing the rest of the drawing any more, the hands are doing the shapes. It's like solving a puzzle. things are happening on their own, and I am just witnessing it."
Stage 2 Stage 2: Creation
"I enjoy listening to a podcast or listening to music when drawing. It helps focus my attention on another thing. I must completely remove myself from the process to focus on something different such as the music I'm listening to or the dialog on the podcasts. I'm letting my hands to handle everything on their own."
Stage 3: Editing
"All editing also happens by itself. If I'm editing I'm continuing to work on the editing process, but not completely there. Sometimes, I must stop what I'm doing and then take a break from the work, go to another place, and come back to look at the final product. Is it the final outcome? Do I feel satisfied Or should I consider adding another thing that didn't appear at first? Most of the time, it is quite effortless, I am completely disconnected from everything that is happening within me. It's about letting 80% go and 10% of doing research, and 10% of editing towards the end."
Stage 4: Verification
"When I see my automated sketches from my past, I'm not sure what I can do to recreate them but I'm in no way feeling like I'm actually doing them. It's not my hands drawing, but it's my drawing, but I'm extremely spiritual and think it's a higher-level consciousness working through me. It's possible that I have the ability to draw from an early age, which led me to draw a lot when I was a kid. I was very drawn to drawing and I'm sure it's in a way my duty to draw for the moment in this specific realm, and accept this as my current job."
Take a look at some of her auto-drawings through the Instagram space.
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