When you are drawing an elephant and your son tells you it's a UFO, you seriously have trouble with your drawing. Avantgarde experimentation aside, when you can't portray what you're envisioning properly, or your drawings come out like a three year old drew them, you might consider trying another hobby wherein you'd be more competent. But drawing confusing pieces of art which look prima facie juvenile has been adopted by some of the greatest artists of the past generations.
Automatic drawing was used by the surrealists like Andre Masson as a means to express their subconscious thoughts. They may look like childish scribbles on the surface but there is great method behind it. By allowing 'chance accidents' to take over the creation process and by freeing the hand to more or less travel as it will, it frees the artwork from a lot of conscious control. Thus the drawing would be in part, a creation of the subconscious, portraying something that would otherwise be repressed. People who were into spiritualism like psychics were also fond of automatic drawing, frequently claiming that they were under the control of spirits.
These drawings would feature art that appear disjointed, random or lacking any cohesive form. These were said to be creations of a rationality beyond rationality. However even artists such as Masson would argue that automatic drawing was not completely automatic as the artist had to exert certain conscious intervention to make the artwork. Acceptable on a visual level or even slightly comprehensible. Masson believed that his breed of automatic drawing combined processes of conscious and unconscious activity. Even artists such as Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Jean Arp at one point in time used automatic drawing to create works of art.
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