The four Stages of the Automatic Drawings Process - Ideas
How do great automatic drawing artists generate ideas when they are creating? What are the key steps in their creative process that enables them to bring those ideas to life? Unplugging from the constant stream of distractions and thoughts is an essential part of the automatic drawing technique:
Put yourself in a receptive frame of mind, draw in a relaxed manner, without thought, and keep away from conscious control over the image. The pencil should be on the paper can aid in the flow. In fact, automatic drawing is an art form of accelerated or intensified doodling in where unexpected and unpredictably shaped pictures can be visible and then used to create the foundation for additional visual game.
Araki Koman is a freelance illustrator living in UK. As a child, she used to draw automatically until the age of 16, and then stopped for about 10 years. She enrolled in a graphic design course after leaving her job in digital marketing. Since then, Araki has allowed intuition to steer her career as well as her creativity process.
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Automatic drawing examples: Earthy colours Raw lines and organic forms
Organic lines, soft raw lines designs, textures, and sand-like colours are merged into Araki Koman's automatic drawings. The artist is currently working on a black ink Raw Feminine series she started in the year 2020. See some of her automatic drawing illustrations:
Araki about her automatic drawing process:
For the record, everything I do is completely automatic. If I'm working on a project and a request I am aware of where it is supposed to go. I understand what the client wants. I am always confident in the process and that it would eventually lead to the end result we all enjoy. There are times when I do am able to reference something, however I then give the reference to the process and let the process take me to the product. (...) As I review my previous drawings I am unable to recreate them but I don't feel as though I'm the person doing these drawings. Yes, it's my hands drawing but it's my hand doing it but I am very spiritual, and feel that it's a higher consciousness doing it through me.
Four stages of drawing automatically by Araki Koman.
First Stage: The preparation
"Usually I begin by drawing the reference image I enjoy. Then, I draw the element. eventually the drawing isn't me who is doing the drawing, but the hands are drawing the forms. It's like solving a puzzle. it's happening all on its themselves, and I'm just witnessing it."
Stage 2: Creation
"I like listening to a music or podcast while drawing, to keep my mind focused on something else. I have to completely detach myself from the process to focus on something different such as the music I'm listening to or the dialog in the audio podcast. I am just allowing my hands to take over everything on their own."
Stage 3. Editing
"All editing happens in a natural way. When I am editing, I am continuing this process without actually being completely there. At times, I need to close what I am doing and then take a break from the work, go do something else and then return to review the final product. Is it the final product? Am I happy with it Do I need to add some other thing that hasn't appear in the first place? A lot of times, it is quite effortless and I'm completely detached from everything that is happening in the world around me. The majority of my time is spent letting go and 10% of doing researching, and 10% editing towards the end."
Stage 4: Verification
"When I look at my auto sketches from my past, I don't know how to do them again, and I am in no way feeling like I'm the one doing them. Yes, it's my hands drawing, but it's my drawing, but I am highly spiritual, and I think it's a higher-level consciousness acting through my mind. Perhaps I was born with the ability to draw from an early age, which led me to draw a lot as a child. I was very interested in drawing, so I know it's in a way my goal to be able to do it in this particular moment, within this particular realm and I am embracing the task as my own."
Check out more of Araki's automatic drawings in Instagram. Instagram account.
Are you an artist? Create a short video about the process of creating
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Short video courses are a great way to engage people as you create your art and getting paid for that. Course creators generally determine the cost of video short courses that range from $10-$50. The amount you earn depends on how you rate your online course as well as its worth to others. If you've put all your effort in creating your video, and then promote it on social media, you can make an additional revenue stream on every one of your creations, by sharing the process you used to create it.