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Apply Meditation to Art

Automatic Drawing Technique, developed by Jean Henri Gaston Giraud, aka Moebius. Helps artists free their mind and create without boundaries. A part of my weekly routine to clear my mind with some subconscious drawing.

“Drawing is a form of personal communication, but that doesn’t mean that the artist shuts themselves in a bubble; it is communication with those close to us, with ourselves, but also with strangers. Drawing is a means of communicating with the extended family that we do not know, with the public, with the world.
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— Moebius

I tried to create a vintage DoodleArt ink drawing from the 1970s and paint it in digital watercolours.
In 1972, Glenn Anderson hit on the idea of coloring a black and white line drawing called "Ecology”. Packaging a poster and vibrant felt pens together in the highly recognizable tube. The Anderson family produced the DoodleArt kits in Vancouver, Canada.

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One useful exercise that can ease your mind and improve your shape design is automatic drawing. The idea is to put pen to paper and just enjoy the process of subconscious mark making. Subscribe to Proko: http://bit.ly/SubProko Professional artist Tim Gula shows you how to apply meditation to art with an exercise called automatic drawing and explains the benefits of including it in your routine.