I.T.A.P Thought and structure in graphic art and illustration.

Principles

• Over coming mindsets
• Restating problems

Over coming mindsets

This is basically routine, where if you are used to working in a particular medium then you will continue to do so for a very long while, and even though your work may be magnificent you are not keeping your mind fresh and opening your self up to new ideas. These ideas could very well change the way you work forever and give you even greater success in this world as a designer. There are manny ways in keeping your mind fresh but i will name but a few that i use, the most important one is defiantly the environment that you work in, if you work in an environment that has no pictures or creative things in it you will not be able to find that inspiration you are looking for. This is a picture of my work space for example,
it might not be the biggest but it has everything i need plus the things i collect and pieces of either my work or artists i find interesting i stick on my wall. Another way of course is by looking at other artists work that have been in the same situation and find out how they overcome it by looking at their blogs.


Restating problems

As an artist you'l find yourself stuck at certain times, this could be because your not giving yourself enough options, enough room to play around as it were. They say whoever THEY are that any artist should have up to 50-70 different ideas about the design there working on, now personally i rarely have 20 so dont worry about having too manny ideas just try expanding the one you already have, or you could of course if your really stuck adapt another artists work to fit the criteria of your design such as, "Yuko shimizu's" work she took the idea of the great wave of kanagawa by "Hokusai" and just adapted it to make it her own.

However if you feel that this is plagiarism then you could just doodle like i do and this i feel helps me really get into what my subconscious mind is doing and allow my childish side to play.
 Take the notes that i was going in this lecture today, my notes are always like this and they might not look clear but to me they are but its the doodles that i did when i wasn't really paying attention that matters and i could easily turn into a pretty decent design if i kept working onto them.

This lecture has pretty much been on keeping your mind fresh and my one piece of advice i could offer is to always be creative maybe invest in a sketchbook that you just carry around with you and doodle in.