I've always wondered how other people express their feelings through art. Mine tends to have a cold empty feeling to it. What about yours?

I sort of have to think back for this one :T I don't think at the time I'm drawing something, "Oh, well I'm drawing this style, so it must mean that I feel ____!" Honestly, though, I would say that certain things do show through. When I'm really frustrated or in a bad position and just need to clear my head, I'll sit down for hours making really detailed patterned pieces. I never use color for these, as it's usually black pen and white paper. When people look at that artwork, everybody sees something different, and nobody can really tell what the point of it is. And that's the point - there is no point. It's just a way of me to silently vent. Drawing the little lines and circles that are rarely more than half a centimeter long... it's like writing, but in a language other people can't understand.

That's how I view most art, honestly. It's like an uncrackable diary spread out over papers of all sizes.

Expressing feelings in art for me is quite different from >>2's way. o3o

First of all, I do three types of "art": doodle/comics, realism drawn from references, and surreal. The first two have absolutley no feeling. I might be feeling something while working on them but I almost always don't give enough shit to show those feelings in the pieces. Or with realism, I try to convey the feeling that was already in the photograph(s) from which I am drawing.

Anywayz if any of my art ever have feeling, you would see it in my surreal crap. When I do surreal things I try to show them how I feel and/or think about something by making the viewer feel a certain way, a way that will help them understand the piece. One of my latest pieces is of a girl that is trying to pull the viewer through a mirror (the canvas itself), so I made her have a messed up face and hold her hands out. There are hands in the background. In my opinion it makes the viewer feel scared or something, as it gives off an oppressive creepystalkerish type of feeling, just like I wanted.

There are simple ways to make people feel certain things when it comes to art. Lines, corners, whatever are usually seen as edgy, sharp, intense and aggressive. Circles and curves make things seem soft and flowy. Minute detail/zoomed out views helps the viewer feel small. There are also colors, like red makes people anxious and blue is calming. You can use symbolism in your art, like guns, blood, darkness to make the viewer feel scared or whatever.

Hmm... Now that I think about it, each time I draw, "Love" is embedded on it. It's not the typical boyXgirl love feelings!

It's hard to explain my love..... Umm... I think it's... Like a mother's love towards her child. I create those pictures and I must care for it.

The only way that my feeling is shown through my art is through the colors. If I'm in an extremely good mood, I take out my highlighters and use that to color it. The drawings then are usually a simple design on notebook paper or graph paper.

If I'm in a really bad mood, then I use sharpies to color it. Usually it's just dark colors with a quote on it. I think there was only one depressing picture that I didn't use sharpies on.

If I'm in a normal mood, then I don't color it. These pictures are usually doodles, but they are my best ones.