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When I am looking for ideas - I find letting my imagination roam while doing menial tasks such as cleaning, yard work, or even driving helps a lot. The combinat
by crims0n 6y ago
When I am looking for ideas - I find letting my imagination roam while doing menial tasks such as cleaning, yard work, or even driving helps a lot. The combination of not needing to pay attention and no distractions seems to free my mind.
When I am ready to start exploring that idea - a cup of coffee, someplace quiet, no screens, a pencil, and some blank sheets of paper turned horizontally (landscape).
- cl42 6y agoDo you draw? Are you visual? I ask because I love using a pencil to brainstorm on a sheet of paper (or a marker; I hate pens). I tend to write broad ideas or mindmaps, though, and wonder if people sketch ideas instead.
- crims0n 6y agoI do not draw, I am terrible at art unfortunately. I use a pencil for that very reason, when I sketch out ideas I usually have to erase and make corrections because what is in my head and what my hand puts down are usually not the same, haha. I visually sketch out the ideas and use labels and arrows to further explain. Despite my terrible drawings, I still find "a picture is worth a thousand words".
- Broken_Hippo 6y agoI do sloppy sketches and I'm not too bad at art (literal decades of practice). I do sloppy sketches for visual idea, and then do written labels for those sloppy sketches. They have their place. I'll add that no one is really terrible at art, they just aren't practiced. Even those folks that have a predisposition towards art do not do well without practice and training muscle memory to do it. Most folks can get a general grasp on sketching and basic art concept if they want to.