Hello Steemians!

Today I want to talk about my first Adobe Illustrator illustration and a Bamboo Wacom Tablet.

When I did this drawing I used to live in Santiago of Chile, I was going through difficult time, I was feeling very angry, It looked like anything had solution at the time. To clear my mind I decided to draw something.

At that moment I was very surprised how well it made me drop problems away and just draw without worries, just being in present, the drawing and me.

After an while alone with my sketchbook I started feeling better, my mood changed a lot as so my disposition to search solutions.

I did a sketch of a self-portrait with angry expressions and this was the result. After a year, lot of changes, new country and basically a new life I decided to get back to it and finish it.

I scanned the drawing and with help of the tablet I drew it again on the computer. I wanted to try new supports as digital.

Benefits of art as way of self-expression

It’s demonstrated that drawing and painting help us to induce creativity, relax, express, etc. Even if we aren’t used to do art activities the benefits can still be highly recommended.

Through art we can know the mood in which any person is

Benefits of painting on the emotional state

• Encourages focusing, discarding spontaneous thoughts and concentration.

• Provides welfare during the activity and after finishing it.

• It reduces stress and anguish temporarily.

• It contributes to the self-knowledge by high states of concentration where the person defenses fall and he or she is more open to certain kind of contents about his or him self or the environment around them.

• Encourages creativity.

• It helps to raise awareness of the emotional states and given its high relaxing component it makes people stronger to confront and resolve them.

Benefits of Drawing

On the other hand the drawing it’s the artistic expression which open us to our inside world, It makes easier the expression of the encysted emotions, also help us understand our own fears and know ourselves better. Drawing works constantly with our creativity as we search different ways of expression instead of the words.

If we relate all those benefits that I already mentioned with the spiritual vision of art of Vasalli Kandinski we could get interesting results with art as a tool to self development.

When we do art, we have the necessity of expressing what we feel and make direct influence on human soul, the inescapable will of the expression of the objective is the force Kandinski called ‘Inner need’.

The inner need is born from three mystic causes and it’s constituted by three mystic needs:

When we make art we express what we own (personality element)
Naturally through art we express the characteristic of our time.
We are art servers and we must express what is proper of art in general.

This two postures make me think we could sometime make our own a way of communication through art to heal things and get lighter on the way to our self development.

Here is a picture of the sketch I made.