hello again friends! i need a little help from you for my new project ::
what do you do when you're stuck and need that awesome idea to come running knocking on your door?
please answer in the comments form below. anything you'd like to share... the more obscure, the better :)
i look forward to hearing your little secrets.
thanks so much!
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I ALWAYS look at art books, pay closer attentions to adds in magazines and on TV AND people watch for sure!
get up from my desk and have a wonder, outside preferably. Let my mind explore as my feet do.
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i do what Kraggy does, mostly a run helps me clear my mind and come up with an idea. If all else fails, here is an idea Liam Lynch told me about (in his podcast): open up a magazine on a random page and - without looking- point to one thing on that page. This, my friend, will be the answer to your creative problem. it sounds weird, but it'll at least make you laugh and maybe give you an idea ? Good luck with it. :)
I look around in the usual places, art books, pinterest, blogs, websites, make myself feel thoroughly depressed then walk away for a while and come back a fresh! Looking at film or photography that isn't directly linked to illustration helps too and might springboard an idea or a colour palette. Sleeping or trying to get to sleep is usually when I get an idea too!
Stand in a nice hot shower and contemplate...yes honestly that's what I do!
I either watch something/read. Or do a really mundane task and allow my mind to wander.
I think this might help! Jonny Kelly made it for his final year film when he couldn't think of what to do... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wR_TWdVy0
I always like having a peruse through loadsa cool magazines or a wander around the v&a helps spark something sometimes! :o)
The jog/walk in a new place is always nice way to get your mind out of a rut, followed by working in a new place (a coffee shop you rarely go to for example). Switching up environments it key. Unlike other people, I find looking at books and blogs for inspiration actually limits my creativity when I am truly stuck,
i call my mom! we start brainstorming, and i
before i know it, it comes to me!
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if have no good ideas i stop working!... i try to think to other thinks... i cook, i go out to a library, markets, to a park, by bike, i like to see a friend... something like this... (piperitadesign)
I first make something really conventional and obvious - on purpose. Then I have gotten that out of me and then I try to do the opposite. It's easier for me to think outside the box when I know what's inside the box.
Another thing I might do is to change media or technique. If it should be something on paper I might work with clay. The final result could still be on paper, but first working in clay will give me totally different ideas. Continuing the example with clay; I could make something in paper that tries to mimic clay. Tis might be about the material only, but often - for me - comes ideas about content also when working like this.
Third strategy. Make it super hard for yourself when it comes to executing sketches: put your pen on a long stick and try to draw. Or get a huge paper stand broad legged over it and try to paint on it without kneeling down really - just make quick attacks bending. You can combine this with making some super conventional as your idea After you cut up your clumsy sketch in pieces an make something out of it...
if these things don't work at least I've had fun!
more from me:
going for a run also helps...
often when other strategies have already failed ... though actually they might not have failed totally as I think they help me when running and thinking about them ... I know what is not the answer.
Sometimes I flick through old sketchbooks and often get inspired from unfinished drawings or good ideas I didn't carry through at the time, projects I think I could do better now or things that I enjoyed doing and feel like doing again.
I need to sit on something that...moves, like a bus or a train but even better on those small cars in the amusement parks or on a horse or on a tricycle or on the London Eye... there is something about the rest of the world moving around me and me sitting still that makes my ideas pop up.
go for a run or just go out. have a slow walk. have a pretzel. smile at people. and when i come home, i usually get generating again.
I take a break and go swimming, or do something that relax my mind.
Clear the decks and prepare for when the idea comes round for tea.
Bake a cake, in case it is a good idea and you want it to stay a while :^D
I also look at magazines and blogs, get depressed because everyone in the universe is more talented than me. So then I watch some tv, call some friends, have a snack and read People magazine. Usually, by then, my muse has come back home from her little jaunt around town and something comes to me. I have to act like I don't need her, that I don't care that she left...that always tricks her. Good luck!
Go on an adventure. Pack a picnic and a sketchbook and go somewhere new :)
Read blogs, browse flickr, watch TV, write lists :)
Also journeys seem to do the trick.. get the train/bus somewhere, take a walk...
I go for a walk along the beach, pick up five random things and when I get home I place them on a sheet of clean white paper and see what happens....
A shower or a swim (if lucky) or the dishes. Seems water is what I need when ideas are scarce.
Good luck!
g xo
If all else fails, a break ought do it (if you spare the time).
Chocolate?
A snooze?
Hope something works.
thanks so much for your great response guys! x
go back to the basics!
and some chocolate ;)
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