The Four Stages of the Automatic Drawings Process - Ideas
How do the best automatic drawing artists come up with thoughts while drawing? And what are the steps they take in their process of creation that allow their ideas to be brought into existence? Unplugging from the constant stream of ideas and distractions is a crucial aspect of the automatic drawing technique:
Try to be in a relaxed mindset, draw in a relaxed manner, without thought, and keep away from conscious control over the image. The pencil should be in the same place on paper will aid in your flow. Actually, automatic drawing can be described as speedy or intense doodling, in where unexpected and unpredictably shaped pictures can be visible and then used as the basis for the more elaborate visual games.
Araki Koman is a professional illustrator living in the UK. As a child, she used to draw automatically until the age of 16, and after that, she stopped drawing for around 10 years. She took a graphic design course after leaving her job in digital marketing. From then on, Araki has allowed intuition to steer her career as well as her creativity process.
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Automated drawing examples: Organic color palette natural lines, rough lines, and organic shapes
Soft raw lines and organic designs, textures, and sand-like hues are fused with sand-like colours in Araki Koman's auto-drawings. The artist is currently working on the black ink Raw Feminine series she started in 2020. See the following automatic drawing examples:
Araki regarding her auto-drawing procedure:
To be honest, everything I do is automated. If I'm given a task, a commission, I know the exact location it needs to go. I know what the customer wants. I have faith in the process and know that it will eventually produce the end result we both like. There are times when I do have a reference but then I give that reference away and let the process take me to the final product. (...) As I review my drawings from the past I never know how to recreate them and I am not feeling that I am the one doing them. Yes, it's my hands drawing, it's me drawing it , but I'm very spiritual and I feel like there is a higher power that is doing the drawing through me.
The four phases of drawing automatically by Araki Koman.
First Stage: Preparedness
"Usually I begin by drawing an image of a reference that I love. I sketch an element, and in the end, it is not me that is drawing the remainder of the drawing anymore, it's my hands doing the shapes. It's like solving a puzzle. it's happening all on its themselves, and I'm just witnessing it."
Stage 2 The Creation
"I like listening to a podcast or to music when drawing. It helps keep my mind focused on something else. I must completely remove my attention from the drawing process and focus on something else like the music that I am listening to or the dialogue on the podcasts. I am just allowing my hands to do everything on their own."
Stage 3. Editing
"All editing happens naturally. When I am editing, I am continuing this process without actually being fully present. At times, I need to close what I am doing by taking a break from my task, do something else and then revisit the outcome. What is the end product? Am I happy with it Do I need to add another thing that didn't come in the first place? A lot of times the process is very easy, I am completely disconnected from the world in the world around me. It's 80% of letting go, 10% of researching, and 10% editing in the final."
Stage 4: Verification
"When I see my automated drawings from the past I never know what to do next And I'm in no way feeling like I'm actually doing them. Yes, it's my hands making drawings, but I'm drawing, however I'm highly spiritual, and I think it's a higher-level consciousness doing it through me. It's possible that I have an initial talent that led me to draw quite a bit when I was a kid. I was very interested in drawing, and so I am aware that this is my goal to be able to do it at this specific time, in this specific realm, and accept the task as my own."
Take a look at some of her automated drawings on her Instagram account.
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