Sunday, July 10, 2011

Any other "artists" have no sense of creativity or originality?

Creativity is something you can learn, so don't worry. Also, there are a lot of art jobs that involve doing what you are good at (copying, making work designed by others). Artists look for inspiration, so you need to live life, meet new people, look at/ listen to/ experience more art, and learn new things. Most creativity comes out of solving problems (making things work) and some artists like to to exercises to practice this. One that I think is fun is to write down a bunch of words, put them into a pile of concrete things (people, places, things, physical attributes) and abstract things (emotions, personality traits, invisible things) pick two from each pile, discard one you don't like, and make a work of art about the 3 remaining words. Another good practice is to come up with at least 30 ideas/sketches before deciding what your work of art will be about. that means 30 ideas based around 1 or 2 concepts. so, say you want to base ur work of art on a certain topic, like trees, and you think u want it to be about growth or maybe family, so stay focused on trees and growth or trees and family for every one of ur 30 drawings. really focus in on what you want and then do it as many different ways as you can... and then do 10 more. usually the last 10 are the most interesting.

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