I’m a very music oriented person so I ended up having music to go along with most of the work.

I ended up really like the Journey drawing. I liked it so well, I want to put some color to it. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql_dEdMEjl4

Creativity Boost - image 1 - student project

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I admit I’m not crazy about the cloud watching. I think I’ve done that before but for me it skates the line of abstract and I’m not big on that. I ended up doing a second one because I wasn’t that particular about the first and I really wanted to see what would come out if I did another. I like the 2nd one better even though that smile still creeps me out a little. Lol

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My first thought about drawing ssssuper ssssslowly was a bit of mixed feelings. But then if that was the case, it was time to break out some of my “mediation” type music and more specifically the Traditional Chinese music I liked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjWPNa1Ml0&t=2391s

One thing that I had to be okay with was not wanting to fill up the entire paper just so it’s not “wasted”. I ended up loving what I came out with. I would definitely do this exercise again. I think this is really conductive to my style.

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Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un7choIyl_g

I admit that I might have began to overthink this project. To help the mood I picked an “Energetic” song that I liked. As I mentioned I’m not big on abstract so I tried to give myself some constraints. I used colors from the outfits in the MV. I ended up not liking the colored one but I really liked that gesture drawing. So then I kept replaying the MV while doing gesture drawings to capture the energy. The second page I would pause at certain scenes I liked but the first I just winged it while watching.

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Metamorphosis #1 and 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsXDR3uqy5E&t=632s

I really enjoyed these two. Between this and the journey sometimes I think I should get a word list and make random art based on those words. I find it quite fun!

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Crowd of creatures: I like jellyfish. I wanted something cute. Great time to practice drawing some cute jellyfish…’nough said.

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Color of Your Day: I switched to digital painting for this.

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I really liked what I came up with for Flatten it out but I’m not sure if it followed the criteria or not. It was hard to not draw lava lamps in perspective. Had some sitting on my desk so that was the first thing I thought to do.

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I really loved this Thread digital painting. I know I took it quite literal but after looking Pinterest I decided on this:

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I wasn’t crazy about cloud watching piece so I decided I would transform it. The more I got it to where it is now the more I liked it. I find it way better than the original piece! I see some kind of eye-type monster in it. So it gave me that idea at least:

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Structure: Well, all I heard was urban drawing in that so….

And listening to this song on repeat may have something to do with what got into the drawing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0QQ8jKvSpc

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Take 2: Combined drawings into an Jellyfish-Eye monster, creature, thing…. I love it!

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Texture: I knew some those photos I have sitting around might come in handy. This was based on a photo of a curtain. Not sure if I followed the “texture” part but I enjoyed working on digitally painting light and shadow with black and white. I like it!

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I’m really happy that I took this class! I felt I learned a lot! I also feel I got a few tricks to do when I’m not sure what to draw. This class also helped me get back into drawing without all the pressure! Thank you for creating this class!!

Jacqueline Townsend

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