The 4 Stages of the Automatic Drawings Process - Ideas
How do the best automatic artist come up with concepts while they're drawing? What are the key steps in their creative process which allow them to bring those ideas into existence? The ability to disconnect from the continuous flow of distractions and thoughts is the most important aspect of the automatic drawing technique:
Make sure you are in a relaxed state of mind. Draw in a relaxed manner, without thought, and keep away from conscious control over the image. Keep your pen at the point of the paper may aid in your flow. Automated drawing is a sort of speedy or intense doodling, in which a variety of unexpected and improbable images can be made to appear and used as the basis of more elaborate visual games.
Araki Koman is a freelance illustrator living in the UK. When she was a young child drawing, she did it in a computerized fashion until she reached her teenage years, and eventually stopped for about an entire decade. She took a graphic design course when she quit her digital marketing job. From then on, Araki has allowed intuition to steer her career as well as her the process of creative thinking.
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Examples of automatic drawing: earthy colour palette, raw lines and organic designs
Organic lines, soft raw lines designs, textures, and sand-like colours are merged with sand-like colours in Araki Koman's auto-drawings. The artist is currently working on an ink black Raw Feminine series she started in the year 2020. See some of her auto-drawing examples:
Araki regarding her auto-drawing method:
For the record the way I work is automatic. If I'm given a task or a task, I know the exact location it needs to be. I am aware of what my customer wants. I always trust the process and that ultimately, it will lead to the final result that we both are happy with. Sometimes , I'll have a reference but then I give that reference up and I just let the process take me to the final outcome. (...) If I look at my old drawings I never know how to draw them again, and I'm not sure like I'm actually drawing them. Sure, my hands are drawing but it's my hand doing it but I am very spiritual and believe that there is a higher power working through me.
The four stages of drawing automatically by Araki Koman.
Stage 1: Preparation
"Usually I begin by drawing an image of a reference that I enjoy. I sketch an element, and in the end there is no longer me who is doing the drawing any more, it is literally my hands drawing the forms. It's like solving a puzzle. the pieces are moving on their own, and I am simply watching."
Stage 2 The Creation
"I love listening to podcast or to music when drawing. It helps concentrate my mind on something else. I must completely remove myself from my drawing and concentrate on something else such as the music I'm listening to or the dialogue in the audio podcast. I'm letting my hands to take over everything by themselves."
Stage 3: Editing
"All editing also happens by itself. While I edit, I am continuing the process also without being fully present. Sometimes, I have to stop what I'm doing, step away from the project, and somewhere else, then revisit the final product. Is it the final product? Am I happy with it, or should I add some other thing that hasn't happen in the first place? Most of the time, it is quite effortless as I'm totally disconnected from the world around me. The majority of my time is spent letting go and 10% of doing research, and 10% editing in the final."
Stage 4: Verification
"When I see my automated sketches from my past, I'm not sure what I can do to recreate them And I'm not sure if I'm responsible for these drawings. Sure, my hands are making drawings, but I'm drawing, but I am highly spiritual, and I feel like it's higher consciousness working through my mind. It's possible that I have the ability to draw from an early age, which led me to draw quite a bit as a child. I was quite interested in drawing, so I know this is my goal to be able to do it for the moment within this particular realm and accept it as my job now."
Check out more of Araki's automatic drawings on the Instagram space.
If you are an artist, Create a short video about the process of creating
An excellent way to earn an extra income from your art is to show people the process of your artwork. Just turn your camera on and record how you make your artwork. It is possible to create a brief video as you create your art and sell the course online on a video platform to keep your customers entertained with special BTS material.
A short video course is a great way to engage people while creating your artwork and earn money for it. Creators usually set the price of short video courses between $10 and $50. But, the amount you earn depends on how you market your course online and the value to people. If you invest your time to creating the video and promoting it on social media, you can earn an extra earnings stream from each of your creations, through showing the process you used to create the video.
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