Exploring Creativity
Exploring Creativity 10.11-14.11
This entire week was dedicated to our elective courses. In the exploring creativity course we were supposed to write our essays. Last week we had a lecture by Erik Lerdahl. Having read parts of his book it was really quite interesting to hear him speak about his subject as well.
Anyway I had a hard time deciding what to write about. I did however thoroughly enjoy experimenting with the happy accident method a couple of weeks back (I highly recommend reading this post first if you don’t have a clue what happy accidents might be), so I thought about doing something with that. Erik from the same studio course as myself also wanted to do some accidents and so we decided to work together. We met with Einar on tuesday and presented our (few) ideas. Einar, being easy-going as usual, of course let us work with the happy accidents method, even though it meant that our essay probably would end up with a little less words and more pictures.
So Erik and I went out and got lots of stuff, different kinds of paper, markers, ink, sponges, etc. and then we started drawing abstract/random sketches. We also had the Scott Robertson tutorial running in the background on my laptop. The inspiring voice of Scott and his endless fascination, descriptions and ramblings about spaceships and jetpacks was of course indispensable. Some pictures from our process below. (Never mind the first picture here where it looks like I’m smoking a bong or something…)
We also tried out the technique that the guy over at the “Daily monster” uses, blowing random ink spatter across the paper, finding a potential monster, and then drawing him (or her) a little bit more detailed. It was all really good fun and we enjoyed this sometimes messy, but entertaining technique. Check out some of our monsters below:
Of course we soon had to reluctantly break ourselves away from all the sketching and go digital. We scanned in our sketches, and continued experimenting with the happy accidents method in photoshop. We enjoyed the process, and some of the results didn’t turn out too bad either. A few of them even looked kinda cool at the end of the week. Some of my photoshop compositions from this week are posted below. All of them are really quite early stage stuff, and it would be cool to revisit a couple of them later to really sketch them out digitally and create some concept art or whatever.
