Spirit Symbolism Project

Humans have been drawing stick figures on rocks and in caves around the world for over 70,000 years or more. The drawings below are my personal interpretations of people, spirits, religious practices, etc. The drawings were produced using a combination of hand-drawn symbols, P5 programs, digital drawing applications, and sometimes, an AI drawing engine.

Hand-drawn symbolic people in a healing circle
Spirit Men In Healing Circle #1 - Original Artwork
Healing circles have been used in almost every culture around the world for thousands of years. This is my interpretation of them. Original hand-drawn, paper-based artwork vectorized using InkScape and manipulated using Affinity Photo/Designer. The background line images were generated using p5.js and imported into Affinity Photo/Designer.
Hand-drawn symbolic people in a healing circle
Spirit Men In Healing Circle #2 - Original Artwork
Original hand-drawn, paper-based artwork vectorized using InkScape and manipulated using Affinity Photo/Designer. The background line images were generated using p5.js and imported into Affinity Photo/Designer.
Hand-drawn symbolic spirit
Spirit Man #1 - Original Artwork
One of my many interpretations of the spirit. Original hand-drawn, paper-based artwork vectorized using InkScape and manipulated using Affinity Photo/Designer.
Hand-drawn abstract tree of life
Tree Of Life #1 - Original Artwork
One of my many interpretations of the tree of life. Original hand-drawn, paper-based artwork vectorized using InkScape and colorized using Affinity Designer. Variations involved adding various colorations and color blends to the background as well as various line textures that were generated using a P5 program that I wrote.
Hand-drawn abstract tree of life
Tree Of Life - Original Variation with AI Variation
Another variation of the Tree Of Life original art. In the digitial artwork, I changed the color scheme, replaced the P5 black linear lines with a different version of P5 red alpha blended linear lines, and then added an strong AI watercolor wash.
Hand-drawn abstract tree of life
Tree Of Life - Original Variation with AI Variation
Another AI variation of one of the variations of the Tree Of Life original art. In the digital artwork, I changed the color scheme, replace the P5 generated black linear lines with P5 generated white alpha blended randomly drawn scribbled lines, and then increased the strength of the AI watercolor wash.
Hand-drawn abstract symbol of a person's life
Spiritology #1 - Original Artwork
Hand-drawn felt pen drawing on paper. The background was generated from a P5 program that I wrote. The image was scanned, scaled, colorized and composited in Afinity Photo.
Hand-drawn abstract symbol of a person's life with AI watercolor effect
Spiritology #1-AI Variation
An AI enhanced version based on Spiritology #1 to add a watercolor effect.
Hand-drawn abstract symbolic faces in a circle
Spirit Faces #3 - Original Artwork
Original hand-drawn, paper-based artwork vectorized using InkScape and manipulated using Affinity Photo/Designer. The background line images were generated using p5.js.
Hand-drawn abstract symbolic faces in a circle with AI watercolor effect
Spirit Faces #3 - AI Variation
Original artwork produced using Spirit Faces #3 as a guide.