Tuesday, August 26, 2014

creativity for ones own path

As a creative - just because nobody knows or has ever heard of  you - that does not mean you dont artistically exist in time.

It is vitally important to design and create for oneself. Creating for others leaves you constantly in need of external validation and stroking. if we get negative comment, which mostly one does. We end up feeling demotivated. So designing and creating for others and changing adjusting our creative compass to suite a persons comment is setting ones creative compass on anothers frequency.  

Creative criticism from people who are not keyed in to our way of thinking is very dangerous. The end products can be an insipid representation of current trends and what other people feel, and what other people have experienced.

To be true to ones own creative path - is not to simply copy exactly past artistic masters, its not to fanatically learn all their techniques and ways of thinking. Its really to cut ones own swathe, not for money or for acclaim. For the pure satisfaction of creating something from your own heart , mind and hands.  Be very assured,  not everyone, if anyone is going to like what youve done.

Who cares really , we dont get long on this planet. Use every moment to imagine design, create, no matter how silly.  If youve enjoyed playing with the arc light of creative thought. and taken the effort to push out something never before seen. WOW - dont stop.  sketch 002 and sketch 003 beckon completion.

The item once finished is a design skeleton of your thought process, a dead thing really. its only alive whilst your working on the design. sculpting the idea renders it alive . Once its finished its a husk of a design idea really. Ready to be scilpted further by you or others who see value in the direction of your creative thoughts.