The 4 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 enables them to bring those ideas into existence? The ability to disconnect from the continuous flow of thoughts and distractions is an essential part of drawing automatically:
Make sure you are in a relaxed frame of mind, 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 assist in the flow. Automated drawing can be described as speedy or intense doodling, in which unexpected and unpredictable pictures can appear and used to create the foundation for additional visual game.
Araki Koman is a freelance illustrator living within the UK. When she was a young child and drawing was her passion, she would do it automatically until her teens, but after that, she stopped drawing for around an entire decade. She enrolled in an art and design program after leaving her job in digital marketing. Then, Araki has allowed intuition to steer her career as well as her creative thinking process.
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Examples of automatic drawing: earthy colour palette natural lines, rough lines, and organic forms
Organic lines, soft raw lines designs, textures, and sand-like hues are fused into Araki Koman's auto-drawings. Araki Koman is currently working on the black ink Raw Feminine series she started in the year 2020. See the following automatic drawing examplesbelow:
Araki on her automated drawing procedure:
To be honest, everything I do is completely automatic. If I'm working on a project, a commission I am aware of exactly where it's supposed to be. I understand what the customer wants. I always trust the process, and I know it will eventually produce the result we both enjoy. Sometimes , I'll am able to reference something, but I quickly give that reference away and let the process take me to the product. (...) When I see my previous 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 however I'm extremely spiritual and I feel like there is a higher power that is doing the drawing through me.
Four stages of drawing automatically by Araki Koman.
1. Preparation
"Usually I begin by drawing an image of a reference that I love. I draw an element and eventually the drawing isn't me that is drawing the remainder of the drawing any more, the hands are creating the designs. It's like a puzzle, things are happening on their themselves, and I'm simply watching."
Stage 2: Creation
"I like listening to a podcast or listening to music while drawing, to keep my mind focused on another thing. It is necessary to remove my attention from the drawing process and concentrate on something else like the music that I am listening to, or the conversation in the audio podcast. I am just allowing my hands to take over all the work."
Stage 3: Editing
"All editing happens in a natural way. When I am editing it, I'm completing this process without actually being fully present. Sometimes, I must end my work by taking a break from my task, to another place, and revisit the outcome. What is the end outcome? Do I feel satisfied, or should I add some other thing that hasn't appear in the first place? The majority of the time it's quite easy and I'm completely detached from everything that is happening within me. The majority of my time is spent letting go and 10% of doing research, and 10% editing at the end."
Stage 4: Verification
"When I see my automated sketches from my past, I never know what to do next but I'm not feeling that I am actually doing these drawings. Yes, it's my hands drawing, it's me drawing, but I am very spiritual, and I feel like it's higher consciousness working through my mind. Perhaps I was born with a talent initially that pushed me to draw often in my early years. I was very interested in drawing and I'm sure this is my mission to do that in this particular moment, within this particular realm and embrace it as my job now."
Check out more of Araki's automatic drawings through her Instagram account.
Do you consider yourself an artist? Record the creation process
One of the best ways to earn some extra money on your work is to share with viewers the process behind your artwork. Turn on the camera and record how you make the art. You can make a short video as you create your art and then sell it as an online course through a platform for video to feed your audience with some special BTS content.
A video-based short course is an excellent way to involve people in the process of creating your work and earning money for it. Course creators generally decide the prices of video short courses between $10 and $50. But, the amount you make depends on the way you rate your online course as well as its worth to others. If you've put all your effort to creating the video and promote it through social media, you can earn a revenue stream on every one of your art pieces by showing people the process you used to create it.