Redraw your dream

[ArchDesign]

I had a dream last night, in which I walked endlessly on a dark lobby. There was a scared feeling.

When I woke up, I tried to redraw that dream, but the more I wanted to do, the more confusing my dream was :( so my drawing doesn't express the feeling as in my dream. Bad experience >'<

Have you ever tried to redraw your dreams too???

[Portus]

What you mean by "redraw", was it already drawn in your dreams? ;P

Yeah I draw my most interesting dreams all the time, I don't know if it's a good exercise or not but it's interesting to look at the final illustration and try to read it. Sometimes I do little comics from my dreams too.

[Raoul Duke]

I tried to draw what happened in a really sweet mushroom trip I had once. I think Android Jones (http://androidjones.net/art/?album=1&gallery=2) would be the only one able to do it right. I think he's the only artist that has a grip on what psychedelic is. Recreating things of that nature is damn near impossible. It's like drawing a hidden still life.

I do have to say I taught myself to render in a dream once. I was watching myself draw in a way I knew I could, but hadn't realized. The gist of the dream was "quit trying to understand it and do it." I also had to let go of the kind of artist I wanted to be and embrace the kind of artist I am.

[QueenGwenevere]

One of these days I'd like to do finished comics of some of my dreams. So many of them are perfectly suited to comics... We've got screwball action, villains, monsters, dinosaurs, spaceships, the works. Good stuff.

I do write them all down, and I've done a few drawings and unfinished comics based on some dreams, and a couple of paintings (mostly old stuff now.) I've got records going back to the early 1990's, I really should dig into them again, it's like a massive untapped goldmine.

[Black Spot]

I live my dreams, it's hard to draw when I'm so involved.

[Slash]

Last night i dreamed that the rum was gone. I woke up and said "why is the rum gone?"


I could draw that traumatizing dream, but i totally ripped it from a movie anyways..

[Noa K]

i've tried that a few times, sometimes it works, sometimes not. depends on how many ellements are there and how narrative the dream is... i usually try to capture one specific image rather than the whole dream at once... I have written a few scripts based on my dreams as well, and it worked much better for me...

yetsterday I had an entire dream of non-existing monty python sketches regarding somking vs. government issued snuff-tobacco, and disney. woke up laughing.
dreams are the mind's screen saver.

[karma militia]

I've never tried to draw anything directly from a dream, but i should try, it might be interesting (and a good way to kickstart the old imagination in the morning).

However, I have drawn things in my dreams. Most of it is well beyond my ability and waking imagination. Or at least it seems like it is, could be a trick of the mind caused by the ultimate subjectivity of dreams. I should have tried to redraw one while the memory of the image was still fresh.

Oh well... next time.

[Jacob Kobryn]

I'm often inspired by things in my dreams, although sometimes it is rather indirect. I've never drawn a specific scene from a dream before, though. There is a woman I heard of who conjures galleries in her lucid dreams and stares at a single painting until the moment she wakes and then she creates the paintings as close to her dream paintings as possible... Giger's works are also inspired by his dreams (nightmares.)

[s.ketch]

I hate having art dreams because I can never re-create what I do in them. In my dreams I will watch myself draw or paint really cool things, I can see every detail. I can feel myself doing it in my mind. Thinking about the shapes, feeling the pencil in my hand, etc. But as soon as I try to do it irl, I can't. It feels very impotent because it's like I know it's so easy I can do it in my sleep.

But dreams are always hard to remember once you wake up. Always keep a pad of paper and a pencil beside the bed so you can write or bang out some rough sketches in the first few minutes of waking. Pretty much after ten to fifteen minutes have passed your dream is pretty much gone. If you try to force memorize it you'll just taint the memory by filling the gaps with your conscious mind.

I don't know if anyone here has tried salvia before, but that stuff will make you dream while conscious. At least it feels like a dream. But like DMT, it's something you only want to do a few times. After your second or third good trip you just don't have the urge to do it again.

[George Abraham]

Spent the whole night last night rendering edges and lost edges and stuff, riding a feeling I got from some training video or something.

Spending time making something produce the right overall effect and feeling.

[Auslander]

I had a dream last night, in which I walked endlessly on a dark lobby. There was a scared feeling.

Yeah, it's called "being dead". It's what chases us from one life into the next.

Get used to it. There's pretty much nothing else, really...

[karma militia]

Yeah, it's called "being dead". It's what chases us from one life into the next.

Get used to it. There's pretty much nothing else, really...

...

wat?

[crossmirage]

I had a dream in which I died and wandered around the roofs of tall buildings as a lonely ghost. :(

I don't think I'll draw that one, but I'm working on a drawing of a large white robot I saw in my dreams. Its "head" took up 50% of its body.

[Auslander]

...

wat?

Whoops.

[tobbA]

I dreamt me and my family had moved to the moon. It was pretty cool. But you couldn't go outside the house without a space suit. So I came up with the brilliant idea that you could build a big wall around the whole moon city so the air would stay in there. Then we went driving in our car, and went down some kind of tight spiraling road, except my mom was steering so sloppily so we were about to fall off the edge all the time...

[Auslander]

I dreamt me and my family had moved to the moon. It was pretty cool. But you couldn't go outside the house without a space suit. So I came up with the brilliant idea that you could build a big wall around the whole moon city so the air would stay in there. Then we went driving in our car, and went down some kind of tight spiraling road, except my mom was steering so sloppily so we were about to fall off the edge all the time...

Don't know about Sweden, but Mother's Day in America is this weekend...

In any case, send her a card and let her know how much you love her.

[karma militia]

Turns out "wat" is a double entendre... in a way.

In one way it means "WTF is this shit?", and in another it means a "Buddhist sacred precinct with monks' quarters, the temple proper, an edifice housing a large image of Buddha, and a structure for lessons."... those lessons being about reincarnation.

I like finding obscure coincidences and patterns... it's kind of like what it means to dream :p

[Auslander]

Turns out "wat" is a double entendre... in a way.

In one way it means "WTF is this shit?", and in another it means a "Buddhist sacred precinct with monks' quarters, the temple proper, an edifice housing a large image of Buddha, and a structure for lessons."... those lessons being about reincarnation.

I like finding obscure coincidences and patterns... it's kind of like what it means to dream :p

Oh, okay. 'Cause what I meant was...you're going to be dead someday. Seriously, irrevocably, irretrievably and incredibly dead.

And then you'll get to find out for once and plenty if all that business 'bout reincarnation is true or not.

Me, I can hardly wait.

[karma militia]

Me, I can hardly wait.

I'm in no hurry. No need to rush the inevitable.

I think you need to step back and realise how incredible everything is. The mathematical chance of either of us existing is so infinitesimally small... 'experience' should be respected, not taken for granted.

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[SavageGoldfish]

I've rarely had dreams in which I'm actually drawing something, but I have certainly had plenty dreams that I woke up from and drew the creatures/environments. Got pages and pages of dream doodles that I want to turn into full-blown art or conceptual designs. Even had one dream recently that gave me a full beginning-to-end story that I'm going to turn into a script.

[AsaB]

My dreams tend to be very clear, long and easy for me to remember. It's probably because about 10 years ago, I was super interested in lucid dreaming so I kept a dream diary for months. Only once managed to get the lucid, but no matter, I'm sure the reason I can so easily recall my dreams today is because of the months I invested into practicing the recalling-process.

So now it happens very naturally, it's definitely an exception if I wake up and remember absolutely nothing. Obviously it depends how much I remember, especially if I'm in a rush, but usually the details come later to me on their own as I'm going on about my day. It happens a lot that I see something in real life that reminds me of my dream and then suddenly a flow of memories come to me.

But oddly enough, I don't think I've ever tried drawing all this. Maybe I should try writing them down again so I can have all the details on paper. It's just very time-consuming, though. It usually takes me about 20minutes on average to write down one night's dream in Word, especially if I want all the tiny details. But interesting, I'll keep it this in mind.

Just a few nights ago I had this huge long dream, roughly involved an impending apocalypse, everyone turning into zombies, a huge skeleton-T-rex, aliens and something more. Maybe too much Hollywood for me!

[Amarok]

I don't have a lot of dreams about art persay, but I do tend to have a lot of really vivid and wild dreams with things that I like to try to draw/paint later. Unfortunately, I'm not a good enough artist for things to come out the way they were in my mind, so it always seems like I'm doing an injustice to it. Some day!