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Trying to draw my own mind

darthrhonin

darthrhonin

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after some months of meditation applied in many ways, I'm finally managing drawing what I think is my mind (or at least my emotions)..posting here because in the Art section there isn't a "drawings and pictures" section and also because it's connected with my own spirituality :P I would like to hear any opinions about those 3 drawings I made after my last 3 meditation sessions :)
http://i.imagefra.me/5adj0a5n (Called it Evolution)
http://i.imagefra.me/bdfj0a5q (Called it Sun over Goa)
http://i.imagefra.me/491j0a5v (Called it Walking in the Sun)
(really hope it's the right section..)
 
I love colored pencil. Those are beautiful all in their own way. I'd say this topic is suggestive and interesting enough to warrant its own spot in this forum, plus a little eye candy never hurts. The idea of drawing your own mind is very intriguing. You could argue that all art is an attempt to draw one's own mind.
 
First of all thanks for the opinion :)
That's quite true, all art is an attempt to draw one's own mind in a way, meaning that is an attempt to draw one's perceptions as they appear to his mind, in this case i'm trying to draw my mind status..i mean my thinkings but over all my mind schemes and suggestions...like dreams but during the day :) quite difficult to explain..i'll post more drawings when i'll do them :)
 
Another similar idea I've been thinking about is how art really takes place entirely within the mind. Like a song or a painting that a person thinks about well after they first see or hear it. That thought process that a person goes through is the art itself, the medium is just a form of communication between the artist and the viewer. There's a difference between graphics and art, and what you've done is unquestionably artistic because it's causing all sorts of trains of thought within my own mind.
 
Totally agree about this definition of art, I mean yes the medium is still a form of art but the real art is the thinking that generate in a person's mind :) And i'm really happy to see that my drawings cause tought processes in the mind of another person, is like communicating in a different form from words ;)
 
CoffeeDrinker said:
That thought process that a person goes through is the art itself, the medium is just a form of communication between the artist and the viewer.
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I would argue that the artist is just a medium him/herself through which something greater is acting. Every time i've made something, art, music, poetry, writing etc.. i've never really felt like "I" created it, I felt I openned a channel for something to speak through me and usually the idea comes formed whole and complete. For instance a quote came to me complete, I had to rush to write it down before it faded from my mind: "Physical reality is both the classroom and the playground, where one can ascend his understanding of and also be at one with, his own creation."

OP: I love your drawings. The colour is beautiful. It reminds me of what I see in my minds eye sometimes :)
 
Well there's the beginning of the process in the artist's mind, then the formation of it via painting or whatever, then the reception of it by the viewer, then the continuation of the original idea by both viewer and artist. That entire process is what I'd consider the artwork, and while it wouldn't be there without the artist, the art wouldn't exist without the viewer as well. The artist does do some creation, IMO, don't kid yourself, but he doesn't create the entirety of the artwork because once he opens it up the work gets interpreted in numerous ways by every individual viewer over time. It's like giving birth, parents create human embryos, but they don't create people, the people create themselves.

More on topic, I'd say that trying to draw the mind is really anyone's interpretation of anything they are doing because the mind encapsulates all of our experiences. Every single thing we perceive is filtered through our minds, a painting of its entirety would be almost impossible to imagine on a normal size canvas, maybe a giant mural somewhere, but even that wouldn't be enough IMO.
 
thanks to all folks : )
surely representing the Mind graphically is not like representing a tree or a man, 'cause mind is totally abstract and so you HAVE to use metaphores and artificial shapes...that's the point, the artist can try to be the medium wich converts abstract immaterial concept into a metaphoric material coloured and shaped artwork..it's like being a catalyzer of your mind, hard to explain but when i draw i become quite unconscious of the surrounding and i feel like i'm in the middle of a tunnel in wich my mind pass trough me and become suddendly visible and material
 
I make my living as a portraiture artist
if anyone is interested, this is my port.
http://oswalddent.daportfolio.com/

Anyways, transcribing information straight from your mind requires a great deal of muscle memory experience- telling your hand what to do is one of the hardest things an artist can achieve. We can imagine anything really, we can think of the most beautiful image ever- but the real trick is telling your hand
to draw/paint it properly. It's hard enough to just look at an image and try to capture it's presence, much less the ephemeral images that flicker in your
head.
Good luck!
 
hgwells said:
Anyways, transcribing information straight from your mind requires a great deal of muscle memory experience- telling your hand what to do is one of the hardest things an artist can achieve. We can imagine anything really, we can think of the most beautiful image ever- but the real trick is telling your hand
to draw/paint it properly. It's hard enough to just look at an image and try to capture it's presence, much less the ephemeral images that flicker in your
head.
Good luck!
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totally agree, often you know exactly what to draw (or produce in general) but your physical part simple cannot reproduce it because it's too abstract..
The same for the music, creating a music out of your mind is much more complicated than just imagine it and reproduce it..you must always find an half-way to do it, but this can also help to concretize your abstract part like recognize ideas wich weren't evident or so on... :)
 
This thread has motivated me to refind that pencil I kicked a few months ago after I quit school, I'll get back to you with some attempted drawings of my psyche.
Edit: Nevermind, I seem to hate my drawings. They frustrate me to no end. Does that mean I hate my mind? Well...
 
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Nozphexezora said:
This thread has motivated me to refind that pencil I kicked a few months ago after I quit school, I'll get back to you with some attempted drawings of my psyche.
Edit: Nevermind, I seem to hate my drawings. They frustrate me to no end. Does that mean I hate my mind? Well...
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if you're trying you are doing it wrong. Just draw close your eyes if you have to.
 
^I disagree, trying gets a bad rap ever since that stupid Yoda quote from Star Wars episode V.

Nozphexezora said:
This thread has motivated me to refind that pencil I kicked a few months ago after I quit school, I'll get back to you with some attempted drawings of my psyche.
Edit: Nevermind, I seem to hate my drawings. They frustrate me to no end. Does that mean I hate my mind? Well...
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Yeah it probably means something like that, that's a learning curve though, or an adjustment period. Try to pretend you are drunk and on loads of psychedelics and so everything you do is purely spontaneous and can be apologized for immediately, but then pretend to forget to apologize. Perhaps if you need training wheels some actual drugs and liquor might help, but always keep in mind your initial goals of breaking down the creative block that frustrates your attempts at expression.
 
i once ate 400+ ug LSD. i'm still sorting through my emotions, but during my cannabis meditations, i've unlocked and manipulated many colors, and i believe they're intimately connected to my emotion and logic.

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brown and black are our body/brain/world, the known and unknown aspects of it, respectively.

red is releasing aggressive conscious energy.
green is holding healing conscious energy.
yellow is focusing conscious energy.
blue is diffusing conscious energy.

pink is somehow related to unconditional love. maybe it's a balance of white and red "conscious light."

perhaps these colors split off from the white light somehow. i've been trying to figure out this white light...

something fascinating: letters have held colors for me since i was a kid. after taking LSD, some letters that had ambiguous or no color, i now notice their colors... (letters don't "literally" look colored, just in the third eye).

something else fascinating: watching media with the lens that the dialog all refers to one or a couple minds conversing with itself or themselves.
 
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Btw, i'm happy 'cause my post resulted in a very interesting discussion :)
Imho drawing isn't really thinking about what you are doing..i mean you have to feel only the fingers that are using the pencil..all the other parts of the body simple doesn't exist..only your mind and your hand ;D

howeaver, here i am with other 2 creations, made after two parties (and two 150ug doses with some mdma..eheh) :)
http://i.imagefra.me/b1bj0tkm Called Circle of Time and Consciousness
http://i.imagefra.me/c4ej0tkn Called Psycho Angel
 
qwemind.pngsorry for broken image link... here is what i've come up with so far.

^i think your artistic depictions are drawing the same thing i am trying to figure out. imo the difference between my exploration/art and yours is that your art visualizes it more multi-dimensionally (as much as a flat screen will allow).
 
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