Emotional drawing. Express your feelings through
the movement of brush/pen.
the movement of brush/pen.
“The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two….
….however, is not my fault. The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.”
-Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
….however, is not my fault. The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.”
-Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In order to express your emotions you only need tools, not ‘hows’ and ‘whys’
Get any media you like to work with or you just simply have and let it flow through you.
I never know how my emotional painting will end up. All I know is that there is an emotion inside me and I would like to see it. So I let it flow.
I, personally, draw on iPad only cause it’s handier for me.
Now, when I got myself a working space, I can work with physical media: watercolour, liners, pencils, etc.
There are no rules in what you are going to use. And certainly there are
hundreds of methods how you can do it.
Today I will introduce you to my favourite one: emotional drawing of music.
First of all choose your music.
I recommend something instrumental for a starter. It’s simpler. Less instruments, no words. But again, it’s totally up to you.
For this week exercise I chose Can’t help Falling in Love by Haley Reinhart.
Next I listen to the music for the first time just to get the hang of the emotion in the composition. Then I’m thinking of the colours. In what colour this song sounds to me? This song is purpurly pinkish. For me.
To do this I go to Pinterest and search ‘purple colour palette’ and choose the one I like the most.
Now to the fun part. The key to balanced abstract painting is a variety; to have big smudges and thin lines, continuous and interrupted hatch.
So it’s about mixing really. Big and small, thin and thick, just like in real life.
I start with the background, I put big and translucent smudges first, then move my hand in the music rhythm to draw thin bold lines.
With Procreate I can add fun strokes as well, but you can do the patterns by hand as well.
So below is my interpretation of Can’t help Falling in Love. You can use the same song, or choose different.
Important thing is to let your emotion out.
How do I know that the painting is good? When I feel freer after the drawing session.
Remember, you are doing this to let the emotion out and not store it in your body. There are no right or wrong. It’s simply what you feel. And this is always right. Always.
I, personally, draw on iPad only cause it’s handier for me.
Now, when I got myself a working space, I can work with physical media: watercolour, liners, pencils, etc.
There are no rules in what you are going to use. And certainly there are
hundreds of methods how you can do it.
Today I will introduce you to my favourite one: emotional drawing of music.
First of all choose your music.
I recommend something instrumental for a starter. It’s simpler. Less instruments, no words. But again, it’s totally up to you.
For this week exercise I chose Can’t help Falling in Love by Haley Reinhart.
Next I listen to the music for the first time just to get the hang of the emotion in the composition. Then I’m thinking of the colours. In what colour this song sounds to me? This song is purpurly pinkish. For me.
To do this I go to Pinterest and search ‘purple colour palette’ and choose the one I like the most.
Now to the fun part. The key to balanced abstract painting is a variety; to have big smudges and thin lines, continuous and interrupted hatch.
So it’s about mixing really. Big and small, thin and thick, just like in real life.
I start with the background, I put big and translucent smudges first, then move my hand in the music rhythm to draw thin bold lines.
With Procreate I can add fun strokes as well, but you can do the patterns by hand as well.
So below is my interpretation of Can’t help Falling in Love. You can use the same song, or choose different.
Important thing is to let your emotion out.
How do I know that the painting is good? When I feel freer after the drawing session.
Remember, you are doing this to let the emotion out and not store it in your body. There are no right or wrong. It’s simply what you feel. And this is always right. Always.
…take my hand, take my whole life too
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