The Four Stages of the Automatic Drawings Process - Ideas
How do great automatic drawing artists generate concepts while they're drawing? And what are the steps during their process of creativity which allow their ideas to be brought into existence? Unplugging from the constant stream of distractions and thoughts is an essential part of the automatic drawing technique:
Make sure you are in a relaxed frame of mind, draw without thinking, and avoid controlling the drawing with your mind. Keep your pen in the same place on paper will help your flow. Actually, automatic drawing is a sort of speedy or intense doodling, in which a variety of unexpected and improbable images may appear and used to create the foundation for additional visual game.
Araki Koman is a professional illustrator living in the UK. When she was a young child, she used to draw automatic up until her teens, but after that, she stopped drawing for around a decade. Araki enrolled in an art and design program when she quit her digital marketing job. Then, Araki has allowed intuition to lead her career and creative thinking process.
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Examples of automatic drawing: earthy color palette natural lines, rough lines, and organic shapes
Soft raw lines and organic designs, textures, and sand-like colors are brought with sand-like colours in Araki Koman's automated drawings. She currently works on an ink black Raw Feminine series she started in the year 2020. Take a look at some of her auto-drawing illustrations:
Araki about her automatic drawing method:
In truth the way I work is automated. If I'm given a task, a commission, I know exactly where it's supposed to be. I am aware of what my client wants. I always trust the process, and I know it would eventually lead to the result we both like. Sometimes I am able to reference something, however I then give the reference to the process and allow the process to lead to the final outcome. (...) As I review my old drawings I never know how to recreate them but I don't feel as though I'm the person making these drawings. Sure, my hands are drawing but it's my hand doing it , but I'm very spiritual, and feel that the higher self is that is doing the drawing through me.
The four phases of the automated drawing process by Araki Koman.
Stage 1: The preparation
"Usually I begin with an image of a reference that I enjoy. I draw an element and at some point, it is not me that is drawing the remainder of the drawing, but the hands are drawing the forms. It's like working on a puzzle. it's happening all on its on their own and I'm watching it."
Stage 2 The Creation
"I like listening to a music or podcast while drawing, to focus my attention on other things. It is necessary to remove myself from my drawing and focus on something else like the music I am listening to or the dialogue of the podcasts. It's just me allowing my hands to handle everything by themselves."
Stage 3. Editing
"All editing is done in a natural way. If I'm editing it, I'm completing this process without actually being completely there. Sometimes, I have to end my work, step away from the task, somewhere else, then come back to look at the final product. What is the end result? Do I feel satisfied Or should I consider adding another thing that didn't appear the first time? The majority of the time it's quite easy as I'm totally disconnected from everything that is happening around me. It's 80% of letting go and 10% of doing research and 10% editing towards the end."
Stage 4: Verification
"When I see my automatic drawings of the past, I never know what to do next, and I am not sure if I'm responsible for these drawings. It's not my hands drawing, but it's my drawing, but I am very spiritual, and I believe that it is a higher power acting through my mind. Perhaps I was born with an initial talent that led me to draw a lot when I was a kid. I was quite interested in drawing, so I know it's in a way my goal to be able to do it at this specific time, within this particular realm and embrace the task as my own."
Take a look at some of her automatic drawings through her Instagram space.
Do you consider yourself an artist? Make a video of the process of creating
A great way to make an extra income from your art is to show viewers the process behind your art creation. Just turn your camera on and capture the process of creating the art. You can make a short video while making your artwork and offer your course as an online one through a platform for video to feed your audience with some exclusive BTS content.
Short video courses are a great way to engage people in the process of creating your work and earning money to do it. Course creators generally decide the prices of video short courses from $10 to $50. However, how much you'll get depends on how you market your online course as well as its worth to others. If you put your heart to creating the video, and then promote it on social networks, you'll be able to make an additional earnings stream from each of your art pieces by sharing how you made it.
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