DEVELOPMENT
OF CREATIVE THOUGHT AND STRUCTURE IN ILLUSTRATION AND GRAPHIC ART (RELAXING
YOUR HABITUAL THINKING PATTERNS)
Creativity was the main subject during second ITAP lecture.
We have been given five principles which have a strong influence on our
creativity. These principles help us to
become creative, remain creative and also cultivate/maintain creativity.
The definition of creativity:
- the state or quality of being creative.
- the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts.
- the process by which one utilizes creative ability
Overcoming mindsets
Overcoming mindsets is a thinking strategy which helps free
up our mind from routine and habitual practice. It changes our approach from
conventional and leads to unpredictable results. This strategy facilitates us to
leave our comfort zone and break the rules of ordinary thinking. It’s a method
which challenges traditional patterns of thinking.
It’s a three- step process:
1.Break the rules and study their characteristics.
Learning to break the rules demands awareness of current attitudes,
thinking and methods through observations.
2.Challenge the rules and ask questions (what if? Why not?)
Recognizing experiences from your past that have shaped your
thinking will enable you to reshape them over time to devise a new attitude to
creative thinking.
3.Be playful and avoid assumptions.
The creative thinking process should be fun. It should allow
free thinking from all participants without challenge and assumption as to the
validity of the idea. Brainstorming is a technique commonly used to enable
ideas generation without challenge, allowing the idea to be fully explore
before being dismissed.
To summarize ‘’Think outside the box”.
Managing a Creative Environment
Creativity is not only the a individual process of thinking.
It’s influenced by the environment you work in and its surroundings . A
creative place can broaden your ideas and way of thinking. The variety of
things you collect will reflect diversity in your work and projects. Surround
yourself with books, magazines, posters, illustrations, fabrics, patterns,
photos or any external visuals which inspire you and consequently that will enable a creative
process of internal thinking. Visualizing an artist’s room we can often see a professional
studio whereas it is usually a personal
work space where the artist feels the most comfortable. Some practitioners
prefer to work with the desk when the others feel more creative on the floor.
I
am in the process of creating my own work place. I do collect books, magazines
and posters. I am inspired by galleries, exhibitions and museums.
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