The four Stages of the Automatic Drawings Process - Ideas
How do the best automatic artist come up with thoughts while drawing? What steps do they take 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 distractions and thoughts is an essential part of drawing automatically:
Make sure you are in a relaxed state of mind. Draw without thinking, and avoid having control of the image. Keep your pen in the same place on paper will help your flow. Actually, automatic drawing can be described as accelerated or intensified doodling in where unexpected and unpredictably shaped pictures can be visible and then used as the basis for the additional visual game.
Araki Koman is a freelance illustrator living in the UK. When she was a young child and drawing was her passion, she would do it in a computerized fashion until she reached her teens, but after that, she stopped drawing for around a decade. She enrolled in a graphic design course when she quit her position as a digital marketer. Then, Araki has allowed intuition to guide her work and creative thinking process.
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Automatic drawing examples: Earthy color palette Raw lines, and organic forms
Soft raw lines and organic designs, textures, and sand-like colours are merged together in Araki Koman's auto-drawings. She currently works on a black ink Raw Feminine series she started in 2020. Check out some of her automatic drawing examples:
Araki about her automatic drawing process:
To be honest, everything I do is completely automatic. When I have a project, a commission I am aware of exactly where it's supposed to go. I understand what the customer wants. I always trust the process and know that ultimately, it will lead to the end result we all like. Sometimes I am able to reference something, but I quickly give that reference away and allow the process to lead to the final outcome. (...) If I look at my previous drawings I don't know how to do them again and I'm not sure like I'm actually making them. 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.
The four stages of the automated drawing process by Araki Koman.
Stage 1: Preparedness
"Usually, I start with an image of a reference that I like. Then, I draw the element. 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. the pieces are moving on their on their own and I'm simply watching."
Stage 2: Creation
"I like listening to a podcast or listening to music when drawing. It helps concentrate my mind on something else. It is necessary to remove my attention from the drawing process and focus on something else like the music I am listening to, or the conversation in the audio podcast. I'm letting my hands to take over all the work."
Stage 3: Editing
"All editing happens in a natural way. If I'm editing it, I'm completing this process without actually being completely there. At times, I need to close what I am doing by taking a break from my work, go do something else and then return to review the outcome. Is it the final outcome? Are I satisfied with the result, or should I add another thing that didn't appear in the first place? The majority of the time the process is very easy and I'm completely detached from the world within me. It's 80% of letting go and 10% of doing research, and 10% editing in the final."
Stage 4: Verification
"When I look at my auto drawings from the past I don't know how to do them again but I'm in no way feeling like I'm the one doing the drawings. Sure, my hands are making drawings, but I'm drawing, but I am highly spiritual, and I think it's a higher-level consciousness working through my mind. I guess I had an initial talent that led me to draw a lot in my early years. I was very interested in drawing, and so I am aware that it's my goal to be able to do it in this particular moment, in this specific realm, and accept this as my current job."
Take a look at some of her automated drawings through her Instagram space.
If you are an artist, Make a video of the creation process
One of the best ways to earn an extra income from your work is to share with viewers the process behind your art creation. Turn on the camera and take a video of how you create your artwork. You can make a short video while making your artwork and then sell it as an online course via a video platform. This will provide your viewers with special BTS information.
A video-based short course is a great way to engage your viewers as you create your art and getting paid for it. Course creators generally set the price of video short courses between $10 and $50. However, how much you'll get depends on how you market your online course as well as its worth to others. If you've put all your effort into creating the video and promoting it on social networks, you'll be able to earn a passive income on each of your artworks through showing how you created the video.