Drawing from the Heart: Using Art as a Vehicle to Share Your Story
Art can be described as the universal language without borders, and sometimes even time zones. However, when personal emotion flows into it from the artist's heart, it can become so much more than that - a powerful tool for storytelling. Drawing by emotion helps artists tell the deepest feelings, experiences, and memories through forms that touch people at the bottom of their souls. It opens up an opportunity for self-expression, helping them tell a story which no words could dare tell.
Why Emotion Matters in Art
The emotions a work of art carries convey a depth of authenticity to the piece. A drawing made in actual feeling can provoke responses in observers, even by those who don't know the artist. The emotion may be joy, or sorrow, or anger, or love; the common human experience is spoken through emotional art. Artists become more relatable, interesting, and impactful whenever they draw from their own storehouse of emotions.
On the other hand, though art that has no emotions may be technically correct, it often lacks that soul that makes the piece bind to the individuals who look at it. For an artist who is creating a specific piece of art for self-expression, there really must be that willingness to delve deep and not be afraid to pour those raw emotions on to the piece of paper or canvas.
Techniques for Infusing Emotion into Your Drawings
Colors and Tones: Color can be so emotionally charged. Bright, saturated colors can represent happiness or energy, while dull or faded can represent sadness or even a form of introspection. Experimenting with tone can often say much in a small drawing.
Line Work: It can be tight and smooth, jagged and dramatic, or it can depict a lot of emotion. Sharp lines, erratic lines may sometimes express anger and confusion, soft lines, curvilinear lines can depict rest or serenity.
Subject Matter: That is, that which you say with your objects, people, or scenes may speak directly to your emotional state. Portraits, for example, are one of the areas whereby you can let loose more personal feelings about a relationship, abstract forms give you much more room to express interior emotions.
Symbolism: Apply it to add dimensions of meaning in your drawings. Personal symbols such as objects or shapes that symbolize certain memories or feelings can help you link your story in a subtle yet powerful way.
Adding Personal Stories to Art
Your personal story is the most unique thing about you. Arts give you the freedom to present it in your own way. Consider some significant moments in your own life: whether those times were filled with happiness or sadness, loss or triumph. Translate these emotions into your drawing. One of the powers of art is that it doesn't have to be taken literally. You can make abstract conceptualizations of your emotions, conjuring up color and shape and texture to equate what words cannot.
If you don't feel like facing some emotion or memory because of drawing, then you are reminded that art is a safe space for vulnerability. You can be very abstract or direct, and there isn't really a right or wrong way of telling your story.
Conclusion
All creativity is a drawing of emotion, it's a relation and communication with your own feelings and with others' feelings. Whether the artist has years of experience behind him or she just starts to create something beautiful, it's only by giving up and letting your emotions lead your brush that you can really make something authentic, meaningful, and beautiful. What's beautiful about art: is its ability to say what cannot be said by words, and in this, there's an endless way of telling your own personal story.
Drawing from the Heart: Using Art as a Vehicle to Share Your Story
