Creative Modeling
Modeling objects and concepts often requires some combination of dimensional thinking, abstracting, analogizing, and manipulative or body skill.
Make Creative Smoothies
Experiment with blending ideas and elements and find inspiration in Nia dancing, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and Thomas Edison's inventions.
Dimensional Thinking
Moving from 2-D to 3-D or vice versa, mapping, and transforming information.
Charles Darwin and Creative Thinking
To change the way you think and become a more productive thinker, you need to learn how to think like a genius.
Mistakes
Mistakes are a new take on creativity that you might ordinarily miss...
"Every morning, take a few moments to sketch and write about the strange places you visit in your nightly sojourns into the Land of Nod. Give your dreams titles, and date each one." — Molly Anderson-Childers,The Dream as Muse: Inspiration at the Stroke of Midnight!
I'll admit, I'm a little chicken to say this after *cluck* all of the April Fool's Day jokes I've played on you, *cluck* but you have to believe me this time because I'm absolutely not crying fowl *cluck*.
I'm peckingly pleased to announce the launch of my very first Creative Slush product, a 34-page printable cartoony "lessons" e-book now available for download from the CreativeSlush.com Web site. You Can Draw Cartoony Things! A Printable Creative Playbook is available in both a personal version and teacher's edition, and all the details about this creativity-inspiring tool are at the above link.
Now, to celebrate the launch of this eggstra-special teaching product, I'm making both versions available for half-price as a "going-back-to-school" promotion through the end of August. To download your copy or print a sample lesson, go to CreativeSlush.com.
Chris Dunmire
Creative Director and Publisher
P.S. Too chicken to draw cartoony things? Read this to find out what good things cartoony doodling can do for you!
Monthly Columns & Featured Series
Art of the Song Creativity Corner Life As Material By Eileen Kalinowski
“You’re the writer. You can do whatever you want with your material. It’s yours to play with, to fictionalize, to cut up into pieces; the sky’s the limit.”
Creative Solutions & Inspirations from the Modern Day Muses Previously on Marge... (Marge Reloaded) By Jill Badonsky
In last month’s column, Marge Part One, you were encouraged to make a start with a creative call you have or continue an “in progress” endeavor in real time. How did you do?
Inner Voices of Creativity I Can Do It Myself... Or Can I? By Anne Marie Bennett
For as long as I can remember, this “independent self” inner voice of mine has been in control of my life. Somewhere along the way, I learned that asking for help was dangerous.
26 Ways to Nurture Your Creative Life (an A to Z List) Doodle ‘n’ Draw Cartoony Things By Chris Dunmire
A confession, a thank you, and how Ray Bradbury's book, The Illustrated Man changed the course of my creative life.
An Endless Flow of Ideas: The Four Brainstorming Guidelines By Jurgen Wolff
Inspiration is wonderful, when it happens. The problem is that it is notoriously unreliable. (Excerpted from Chapter 4 of Your Writing Coach: From Concept to Character, from Pitch to Publication.)
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