Light drawing is pretty cutting-edge. Check out this piece from the Web Urbanist—10 Light Graffiti Artists and Photographers: from Light Writing to Extreme Exposures. Some of the artists insert a few streams, while others saturate the image completely, creating something poignant and electrifying.

The cool thing is that you don’t need a lot of knowledge to make your own. According to the website Light Doodles:

“Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace of a narrow moving source of light using long exposure photography, long being defined as seconds or minutes. The moving light source will then appear in the finished picture as more then what actually exists and is truly a representation of time as well as space and movement.”

The tutorial covers everything you need to know, including the ideal equipment, light drawing tools, what you should draw.