Creativity mode ON

What is what inspires you to develop magical illustrations? How do you train your imagination? How can I get inspiration that does not take me to produce artwork that could be mainstream on Social Media? How can I get to connect my artwork with my soul?

These were the main questions I made myself before I decided to go for this practice. At the stop I find myself right now, I am working hard to find what connects with me the most. Sometimes it is hard, as I consume too much online artwork that I forget to respect the spare time my mind needs to find its way.

My first decisiion is to umplug myself more often.

The second step I take is: go out from my studio.

Just imagine for a second that with a pencil you can change your surroundings and build a completely different environment, isn't it wonderful?

That question took me to the ideation of this exercise: 1st draw any object is around you; 2nd from that object shape, figure out a character or a different prop design from your real-world or a magical world.

Being unplugged from social media, and connected with my surroundings, allowed my mind to creatively interact with it.

I had the tools I needed: a pencil, paper and an object. And I had a problem to solve: what is what my mind truly see on this object? Is it a bailarina? Is it a new car design?

First, I understand the shape of the object when I draw it. Second, I analyse what rules I can break to create a new character from it. Third, I enjoy the freedom the process offers me.

Here the sketches I did:

Doing this exercise just made me reconnect with small and what seems insignificant. On the TOP left, I drew a tree leave that did not have much complexity. But doing the effort to find something different from that shape trains the skills to work on simple shapes and not to overcomplicate the designs.

Just remember " less, sometimes it is more".

Here a short video from the process of some sketches.