Doodle Hunting: Get into the Creative Flow and Tap into Subconscious Ideas

1. Intro: Hi, My name's Porsche and I'm an illustrator and graphic designer, and I'm fascinated by the creative process. It's so interesting that sometimes ideas flow so readily and other times we can get completely stuck were staring at the blank page. We're pulling out her hair, trying to come up with that original idea and for me in my life, I found that it can help to have some exercises to sort of get me into the creative flow. And one of the exercises that I've developed is called doodle hunting. And this is what I'd like to share with you today. And I think dual hunting is very helpful because it starts out just using your hands. You really don't have to think you don't have to come up with anything new. You just kind of draw mindlessly. And then from there you go into more of a creative problem solving mindset and putting sort of disparate ideas together. And that's kind of the hallmark of creativity is bringing together unrelated ideas. So I really hope that this exercise could be of use to you, and I can't wait to share it 2. Class Project: for the class project to upload and share. You have a number of options. You can show us your doodle exercises, or you can cut out some of your favorite doodles and collect them and take a photograph or scan them or you're welcome. Teoh, take your favorite doodles and make them into a more finished composition. Whatever you dio, I'd love to see it. 3. Materials: so we're keeping it very simple. In terms of materials, all you need is some blank paper. I'm using printer paper, a pencil, a black pen and if you like, colored pen. But that's optional. 4. Demo The Process: to start the doodle hunting exercise. Just take a piece of paper and a pencil and start drawing a continuous line. I like to make lots of different shapes, and my main objective is just to make shapes that feel good and to fill up the entire piece of paper. - Once my sheet has enough going on or what I also think of as an F density, I get out my black marker and I just start looking for interesting connections. Shapes that for me. A lot of times I'm drawn to animals, so shapes that look like animals. It could be abstract shapes, um, flowers, basically, just whatever you sort of see where I would say discover in this. Be patient with yourself and take a much time as you need. I sped up all these videos, but sometimes I just sort of sat and stared at the sheet of paper and kind of waited for something to emerge. That sort of part of getting into this flow state where you are seeing things where really there's nothing, Um, but your mind is making connections and making things happen when you reach a point where you're not seeing anything just turned the paper around. But way , way, way, sometimes just for fun. I enjoy adding a little bit of color, so feel free to experiment with that too way. Here's another example where I'm making sharper angles with my lines. I really encourage you to make any shapes that are interesting to you. Way, way, way. 5. Demo Florals: Here's an example where I focused on finding florals. It's definitely not necessary to pick a topic. Sometimes, though, if you're finding that you're getting stuck, it can be helpful to sort of decide on one thing toe look for and it could be a simple is abstract shapes as I'm going to go over in the next video. Another time it could be helpful. To pick a certain topic is when maybe you're bored with how you draw something. So for me, I kind of became bored with how is drawing animals. They felt very generic and not very interesting, and I found that the doodle hunting exercise really helped me develop animals that had much more personality. Enjoy the rest of the demo way, way, way. 6. Demo Astract Shapes: Here's an example finding abstract shapes, but I couldn't resist putting in a couple animals, - but way, way. 7. What Now: doodle hunting can be a great way just to get you into a creative mindset and a creative flow for tackling other projects. But you might also be wondering now that I have all these crazy doodles. What should I do with them? So I like to use my doodles and a number of ways. One is I just like to identify my favorites and cut them out. Um, and you could take the cutouts and glue them into a notebook or keep them in an envelope for easy access. Sometimes I like to group my doodles so that I can reference them and then create a composition. So in this example, I grouped all my bird imagery together and then created a drawing from that. Another thing that I have done with mine is to animate them just because I think it's fun and sort of a silly little thing. And this is an example of kind of a bull with a pompadour emerged. And then I thought it was just a funny character. So I decided toe animate him, flipping his pompadour. So, really, the sky's the limit. You can just use this as a warm of exercise or you can actually take the doodles and build on them and make another use that as like a launching pad for another creative project. If this is something that you're interested in, maybe learning how to take your doodles to the next level, please let me know, because I am considering teaching an entire class on taking your doodles to the next level . 8. Thank You: thank you so much for taking the doodle hunting class. I really hope that it was helpful and I would love to hear your feedback. If there's anything you think I can do to improve the class, definitely like to know. And if there's anything else that you would like to learn for me, please also let me know. Thank you.