The 4 Stages of the Automatic Drawings Process - Ideas
How do great automatic artist come up with thoughts while drawing? What are the key steps they take in their process of creation which allow them to bring those ideas 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 at the point of the paper may help your flow. Actually, automatic drawing is a sort of enhanced or accelerated doodling where unexpected and unpredictably shaped images can be made to be visible and then used as the basis for the more elaborate visual games.
Araki Koman is a freelance illustrator living in the UK. When she was a young child drawing, she did it automatically until her teenage years, and then stopped for about a decade. She enrolled in an art and design program when she quit her digital marketing job. From then on, Araki has allowed intuition to steer her career as well as her creative thinking process.
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Automatic drawing examples: Earthy colour palette Raw lines and organic forms
Soft raw lines and organic designs, textures, and sand-like colours are merged together in Araki Koman's automatic drawings. She currently works on a black ink Raw Feminine series she started in the year 2020. See the following automatic drawing examples:
Araki regarding her auto-drawing process:
For the record, everything I do is automated. If I'm working on a project and a request, I know the exact location it needs to be. I understand what the client is looking for. I have faith in the process, and I know it will eventually produce the result each of us would like. Sometimes I have a reference but I quickly give that reference up and I just allow the process to lead to the end product. (...) If I look at my previous drawings I don't know how to do them again and I'm not sure that I am the one drawing the drawings. Yes, it's my hands drawing, it's me drawing however I'm extremely spiritual and I feel like it's a higher consciousness that is doing the drawing through me.
Four stages of drawing automatically by Araki Koman.
Stage 1: Preparation
"Usually, I start with a reference image that I love. I sketch an element, and eventually the drawing isn't me doing the rest of the drawing, but the hands are doing the shapes. It's like solving a puzzle. it's happening all on its themselves, and I'm simply watching."
Stage 2: Creation
"I enjoy listening to a music or podcast while drawing, to keep my mind focused on something else. I must completely remove myself from the process and focus on something else such as the music I'm listening to, or the conversation of the podcasts. It's just me allowing my hands to handle everything on their own."
Stage 3. Editing
"All editing is done by itself. If I'm editing, I am continuing this process without actually being entirely present. At times, I need to stop what I'm doing, step away from the task, to another place, and come back to look at the outcome. Do you think it's the best result? Are I satisfied with the result, or should I add some other thing that hasn't come at first? The majority of the time the process is very easy as I'm totally disconnected from the world around me. The majority of my time is spent letting go, 10% of research and 10% of editing towards the end."
Stage 4: Verification
"When I see my automatic drawings of the past, I never know what to do next but I'm not sure if I'm the one doing the drawings. It's not my hands drawing, it's me drawing, but I'm very spiritual, and I believe that it is a higher power acting through me. It's possible that I have an initial talent that led me to draw a lot as a child. I was very drawn to drawing, so I know it's in a way my mission to do that for the moment within this particular realm and embrace the task as my own."
Take a look at some of her automated drawings on the Instagram space.
Are you an artist? Record the creation process
An excellent way to earn some extra money on your work is to share with people the process of the art you create. Simply turn on your camera and capture the process of creating your artwork. You can make a short video of your work and offer your course as an online one on a video platform to provide your viewers with exclusive BTS content.
A short video course is an excellent way to involve your audience as you create your work and earning money for that. The creators typically determine the cost of video short courses that range from $10-$50. However, how much you'll earn depends on how you price your online course and its worth to others. If you've put all your effort in creating your video and promote it through social mediaplatforms, you could earn a earnings stream from each of your artworks by sharing how you created the video.
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