Recently, I've been experimenting on how dreams are formed and drawing. Raw doodling is a form of this, done without thought, but I tried a different way that hints at "surrealist automatism." However, surrealist automatism can become too controlled in itself at times. I needed to make sure that wouldn't happen and that the imagery would be random and form the same way a dream would. The only way I could do this was with random shading, which would then be built up until shapes took form. It meant that the artwork itself took alot longer to do, but the results are quite good.
(HB pencil on 85mm x 50mm card) A magical ancient talisman that allows the bearer to instantly transport themselves to anywhere in the world.
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(HB pencil on 74mm x 106mm paper) A dreamscape (automatic drawing) image. A weird one showing a somewhat annoyed elf hiding amongst the trees and shrubs. The face itself was one of the first things to take form and I liked the way the dream construct became the texture of the tree branches.
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(HB pencil on 147mm x 96mm card) An image used on my 2019 Christmas cards of a character taken from the story included within them (the story has the same title as above). You can read it here: https://www.skavart.co.uk/2019/12/merry-christmas-2019-bollocks-to.html
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(fineliner pen on a 125mm x 75mm notecard) There was a time when manga and animé were cool, but now it's everywhere and a shadow of its former self, with the stigma of hentai attached to it.
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Hermit (@Hermit)
Recently, I've been experimenting on how dreams are formed and drawing. Raw doodling is a form of this, done without thought, but I tried a different way that hints at "surrealist automatism." However, surrealist automatism can become too controlled in itself at times. I needed to make sure that wouldn't happen and that the imagery would be random and form the same way a dream would. The only way I could do this was with random shading, which would then be built up until shapes took form. It meant that the artwork itself took alot longer to do, but the results are quite good.