I have skills to draw and I doodle sometimes, but I don't have an idea what to draw. When I see some beautiful drawings or cartoons, I wonder how they came up with those ideas. When ever I wanted to draw my mind goes blank, but when I talk to friends on the phone, i was able to doodle heads. How do I improve my creative side?
reddit.comHow do you get the creative ideas or concepts of what to draw?
Some of my favorite artists make “to-draw” lists. David Shrigley will make a huge list of fifty things to draw a week in advance. Having the list means he doesn’t have to waste studio time worrying about what to make. “The simple thing I’ve learned over the years is just to have a starting point and once you have a starting point the work seems to... See more
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon
Idea Sketching (Also Called Doodling) All about getting the stuff in your head out on the paper where you can see, evaluate, and share it.
Christina Wodtke • Pencil Me In
Monica Lee-Henell, an artist friend of mine, has some great advice on how to use Pinterest. She creates a bunch of boards themed around things she’s drawn to, like landscapes, or portraits, or the color yellow. Then she pins like a crazy person in each of the categories! You might go into this thinking “a portrait is a portrait,” but once you’ve
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