Character project - creative writing (and image)

So for our 2D character project, we are to do a bit of creative writing based on a character. I went out, drew several people in the streets and eventually found one person who I thought was rather interesting. Like what I was told, I let my writing take control, so here it is:

"His constant swaying of his body, his inhaling of his cigarette one after one and his continuous coughing were what directed my eyes onto this solitary old man. I did not particularly want to look at him at first, but his movements that repeated in a cycle almost forced me to stand there and study him. He was a bespectacled middle-aged man of small statue, with dark hair and a bushy moustache. While he sat alone on the bench, he looked as though he was very uncomfortable, yet he kept on smoking, coughing and swaying his body back and forth. It made me wonder.

Was he trying to quit smoking, but failed yet again this time? The agonizing expression on his face and his unusual fast inhaling seemed as though the smokey hands of the cigarette had gripped him firmly, refusing him to give it up. I wondered how it all began.

Or maybe he had just heard some bad news and had to take a cigarette to keep calm, and the constant swaying was a relaxing motion for him. I do wonder.

Whatever it was, I soon came to realize that he looked a bit like Randy Marsh from South Park!"

But with glasses:

Week 20 - Creativity Part 2

This is a follow-up of one of my earlier posts here about what creativity is.

We discussed creativity in depth during one of our lectures, and I have learned that creativity can have many different meanings. The first things that spring to my mind when someone talks about creativity are new ideas and making them unique. But other ways to describe creativity, what it is and what comes out of it are decisions, problem solving, experimenting (trial and error), thinking and simulating.

From the video that I watched today during the lecture, it seems that children are the most creative ones and they are actually forced out of it because of our education system, rather than grow into it. I’ve never thought of it before, but when I was recently told that humans are born creative, I can’t help but agree with this. Children have such fascinating and creative imaginations. I remember reading a book once (can’t remember which one), where the narrator was going through a period of rough times but his child was able to make the situation seem a lot less bleak by fantasizing in his own little world and making use of it. If memory serves, one of the quotes in the book that described this was, “That’s the great thing about children. Put them in any situation and they will find a way to make the atmosphere a much better place.” or something along those lines.
















After learning from the video we watched in class today, it’s sad thinking that children are not given a chance to expand and develop their creativity. Instead they’re made to do “key subjects” most of the time to replace the imaginative parts of their minds, which may not come in useful later in their lives and careers ever.

Christmas Week - Creativity

What is creativity? Creativity is the property of putting original ideas into a medium. It is part of our everyday lives, sometimes used without realizing, other times it is specifically needed to complete a task. It is stimulated to produce ideas from our various interaction with our surroundings, to help us adapt in our ever changing world. We depend on our own creativity to generate and produce novel or a wider variety of ideas to affect our current situation, which may be causing us to feel uneasy or unsatisfied. We use creativity to make changes, improvements, solve problems and so on.





















Beautiful pencil art by Jennifer Maestre!!

I think that artistically, inspiration, experimenting and interaction with those around us are good boosts for creativity. Experimenting is a great way to exercise our creativity. It’s not good just throwing out your first ideas down onto paper and calling it the “final design” because it appears cool, but to tweak it with various methods and styles, share it with other people to get opinions and feedback, and basically to show the development work of your creative process.

Staying in the comfort zone is not a bad thing, but I would not stay there for too long. Like the frog in the well, it really limits your imagination. Go over your borderline every so often, discover and try out new things, you’ll never know what awesome things you can come up with if you just give these new things a try.

One of my favourite artists on DeviantART used to come up with some fantastic tattoo name designs everyday. He says he does it to exercise his creativity. He used to take requests from other uses on the e website and turns their names into beauty tattoo designs. I probably did not explain it very well, but if you click http://wen-m.deviantart.com/art/tattoos-No-7-47408419 you will see what I mean (I hope).

In conclusion, creativity is an important aspect of the human race. It allows us to view the world in a different perspective, to invent ways of improving. When I was younger I used to tease my dad about having a lack of imagination because he works as a scientist, however he turned to me and said, “You need creativity and a good imagination to do my work!”

My organic character, Spronion...

My organic character is extremely surreal...