THREE WAYS TO BOOST YOUR CREATIVITY
THREE WAYS TO BOOST YOUR CREATIVITY
There are some days when you have two left craft feet. You can’t just get your hands or your brain moving at all, no matter how strongly you want to create something.
It could be boredom, or it could be a crafters block. And you might have run out of ideas or even clay or paint.
Sometimes everything’s in place, and you have chocolate cookies too (as fuel for your creative juices).
But nothing works out, and nothing is happening. The inspiration to create something new has left you, and you have settled into thick brain fog.
Then what do you do? You need a little shaking up!
There are many ways to shake things up. To change rather than to take a rest.
And change is as good as a rest. And anyway, sometimes you don’t want to rest.
Sometimes you just have the urge to make, create, but it’s not going right for you.
Or as Gene Kelly crooned in ‘Singing In The Rain,’ “Gotta dance.”
So does your embroidery feel ordinary? Or is your painting not going well? Or are you sculpting only clay lumps and not having any inspiration?
Then get your creative hands out of a routine and surprise them with a change.
Weave with a newspaper or paint with mud and sand instead of regular paints.
Do something new.
My advice to you is to change your craft altogether.
If you are into painting figures, you may join a sculptor friend and sculpt a figure instead of painting it.
That’s all very well, but if you can’t rebuild your craft or teleport yourself into a parallel one, then what do you do?
Here are some of my tips and advice on what you can do.
For example:
- The lines are fine. Escape into shape.
Take a simple craft project you have completed recently, and make a full-size working drawing of it.
Now draw it again twice. Once make objects half as large and twice as large as the original. Make one with half the size and one twice the size. So it will be better if you choose a medium-size craft project.
Then look at the drawings. Do they suggest different construction techniques or different materials? Pick one of them to make any new changes that are required or approach it in a new way. And notice how flexible your original design can be.
No matter what scale you’re working on. You will discover that there are eternal and fixed truths in the laws of geometry.
- Another way is to have several projects on the go at once.
If you are a blacksmith and you already know the origin of the expression having several irons in the fire, if one project does not interest you or goes cold on you, you can simply turn around and start another project.
It will help to shake off the cobwebs in your brain.
Suppose you are making a small doll think of making a stuffed animal.
- Even a material change can be very refreshing.
If suppose you are working on wood, then start working on cardboard.
It is an interesting challenge to change the materials to change the size to change the way you construct a thing.
If you’re thinking of making a painting of a house, then you can make a similar-looking house out of cardboard.
Doing these exercises will revive your creativity. So these are some of the ways how you can be inspired into your creativity by change.
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