Evoking Emotion With Your Artwork

Evoking Emotion Through Your Artwork

 

"The Rage" done with pen and colored through Photoshop. Can you guess what I was feeling while drawing this one?

Have you ever looked an artwork, whether photography, a painting, or illustration, and felt a strong emotion while looking at it? Any kind of emotion whether it is anger, sadness, or maybe even a feeling of happiness. Some artists do very well at getting their point across or showing a strong emotion through their art.

 

 

From the paintings of Jackson Pollock, to the controversial artpiece, "Piss Christ" by Andres Serrano, many artists have given the audience something they have never seen before. Part of the creativity of creating a new piece of artwork, is to think about what is an effective way to grab the attention of the audience.

 

Give the audience something they have never seen before. Jackson Pollock's paintings were effective because he used a technique that was new at the time called the "drip" method. The art created was often huge and allowed for the viewer to be engulfed in dreamylike images 

 

 

Content is another way to grab attention. The creation "Piss Christ" by Andres Serrano, to this day still causes a lot of political controversy.

 

My greatest illustration came about when I was feeling a strong emotion at that given moment. Captivate the audience by getting them to feel what you are feeling, whether it be by symbolism or creating something that happens to be the extreme. The trick is to give them something to think about while looking at your artpiece.