Art Ideas for Inspiration: Illustrating Emotions

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"Something a little more abstract is actually trying to put down on paper in a visual form, a feeling, an emotion. And it's been determined that it's usually easier to start with a, not a bad emotion but one of the hard emotions, like fear, where you know, you can think of things that go bump in the night, monsters under your bed. And maybe it's monsters under your bed or maybe it's you know, I tend to try to go a little bit more abstract so when I, when somebody says fear to me, I'm going to see something very big, very dark. So I'm just using ink here on plain old craft paper. I want big because I don't want to be really limited by the sizes of paper. Fear is a, you know the basic emotions are big, whether it's joy or anger or sadness, they're big emotions and they need a big piece of paper. And fear is sort of like to me, it's sort of has a direction and you're sort of the bullseye. So that might be a start of my image, for fear, would be something very aggressive, very black, and, and kind of scary. I mean there'll be, well fear is scary, but you know like jagged kinds of echoes from this, sort of echoing out from there. This is all very subjective of course, I mean my vision of gear and your vision of fear aren't the same, but it is a way to get in touch just with, even just your body language. You know, just act as if the brush is an extension of your hand and what your arm would do if it fears. It comes inwards, it clutches, and so you try to echo that in what you, the mark you make on the paper. And again it's you know, you do a series of these and you start to get to know a little bit more about yourself and a little bit more about the expressive nature of making marks."