#Automatic drawing

[disease]

"INVENTION OF THE LABYRINTH" ANDRÉ MASSON // 1942 [ink on colored paper | 23 1/8 x 18 1/4"]

[mnemotechnicstoo]

Untitled

A4 paper collage with biro

[104jihae]

"Chaotic Headspace" Digital, 2025

I decided to title this "Chaotic Headspace" because the whole process of this drawing was a chaotic mess. I didn't plan or sketch or make a layout for this. I just started drawing what "felt right" to me at the moment. I guess I called it a headspace simply because the faces/heads look like they are floating in space, and headspace means one's mental state, and it was chaotic to draw, so it represents a chaotic state of mind. Is it kind of a play on words? Not sure. Honestly, if it doesn't make sense, that's fine. I like the title.

This was a struggle to draw and actually finish. It started out as a pencil sketch of the face on the top right, and then I added the other faces after turning the pencil sketch into digital line art. I had trouble with figuring out what color palette/scheme to use for this, but it eventually came to me. I started out with this green, yellow, and red palette, but then I added blue and purple to the mix near the end.

It was difficult to focus on this. That's why it took a ridiculous amount of time to finish. I just decided today to "lock-in" and finish it, once and for all. I put on my earphones and went straight into it. I was sick and tired of looking at it and pondering on what to do with it. But, I don't know what happened today. My creative side of my brain just woke up and went with the flow.

It was almost automatic. The flow of the lines I drew were just drawn with intuition. I didn't think or plan to add all of those lines on the edges. It just came to me.

It was fun in the end. I am happy with this one.. I'm just glad and surprised I finished it today.

Now to start another one.

[alicewisbeystudio]

‘Walk’ 2024

Hand tufted rug

Secondhand and reclaimed yarn on hessian

Im so happy with this piece and it’s currently on exhibit in an art gallery!

http://alicewisbeystudio.etsy.com

[two-bit-socrates]

Gonna create my own genre of art called 'Unwanted Art' in which I take poor quality photos of what I'm working on that Aye Eye scrappy doos don't want in their stolen environment hazards.

An attempt at automatic drawing - no active thoughts you just go. Takes practice.

I don't know how to describe the image for screen readers - it's an abstract expression of lines overlapping that evolved into an eye breaking down and through a house and a diamond eyed face lurks with a smile of malnourished teeth in the bottom left corner as it's been exorcized from it's trap.

I didn't make it for you.

[alephskoteinos]

I'm gathering notes on the practice of chaos magick with the aim of linking them to the practice of art (and music) in relation with my personal paradigm so that I can really get back into some things, and I'm transcribing some notes from Jan Fries' Visual Magick into my journal, and I see Fries say this:

If you try to learn 'automatic' drawing, you are creating a gate through which the deep may reveal itself.

I'm liking the framing of automatic drawing and the pursuit of learning it as "creating a gate through which the deep may reveal itself", because it connects to something I was expressing last year, after reading Revolutionary Demonology.

I must create in ways that bring demons and the demonic into the world, and in turn I must make myself demonic, so that I may propel towards the absolute and become divine.

I hope I'm not wrong in thinking I've stumbled on a way to bring demons into the world through artistic practice. 😈

[contentsofamind]

The first completed page to my sketchbook/scrapbook

[darymura5]

Just a collage based on last year's painting

[chamaland]

GROUNDED

Macha Mélanie - 2024

[fever--den]

eyes on stalks

[disease]

"AUTOMATIC DRAWING" ANDRÉ MASSON | PARIS, 1924 [ink on paper | 9 1/4 x 8 1/8"]

André Masson began automatic drawings with no preconceived subject or composition in mind. Like a medium channeling a spirit, he let his pen travel rapidly across the paper without conscious control. He soon found hints of images—fragmented bodies and objects—emerging from the abstract, lacelike web of pen marks. At times Masson elaborated on these with conscious changes or additions, but he left the traces of the rapidly drawn ink mostly intact.

[mnemotechnicstoo]

Automatic poem

A4 collage on digital collage and digital drawing

[alicewisbeystudio]

http://alicewisbeystudio.etsy.com

Some more Jean Arp inspired abstract paintings

[paizleyrayz]

Detail from the giant commission. This is about 10-15cm tall, and the whole thing is about 30 x 50 inches

[ylespar]

"The curious expression of character given by handwriting is due to the automatic or unconscious nature that it acquires by habit. So Automatic drawing, one of the simplest of psychic phenomena, is a means of characteristic expression and, if used with courage and honesty, of recording subconscious activities in the mind. The mental mechanisms used are those common in dreams, which create quick perception of relations in the unexpected, as wit, and psycho-neurotic symptoms. Hence it appears that single or non-consciousness is an essential condition and as in all inspiration the product of involution not invention."

— Austin Osman Spare, Automatic Drawing

[danielflemingart]

The Sky at Night.

10x20"

Acrylic and enamel on canvas.