Author: calder

Creativity — Selecting & thumbnailing

Most of our ideas are terrible.
This means that you want to be able to generate as many ideas as possible. Remember that only about 10% of your ideas are going to be worth looking at. So if you want to have to best chance of generating something good, you should come up with as many ideas as possible.
And then you go back and select the best ones.
When narrow down your ideas, keep the following things in mind:
Intentionally choose the more unusual ideas. Avoid the easy ideas that are common.
Choose the most detailed ideas. These will tend to be more unique as well.
Keep your mind open so that you don’t do the same thing that has been done before.
Combine things in unusual ways. You might like “fish” and “handbags”, but someone carrying a fish-shaped handbag is neat!
Target the top 10%.
Put a box around the ideas that strike you the most. And then combine the ideas that could work together in the same artwork with a bold, dashed line.

Creativity — Selecting & thumbnailing

Add your own ideas in the rectangle above

In these rectangles, draw four different compositions of what your idea could look like. Remember to crop and be non-central.