Spark your Creativity and Imagination with random Animals and Creatures

1. Introduction: We're gonna spark our creativity and imagination through random words and we're going to use and the most for this and creatures, I would make simple list rabbits, a horse, fly, an ant. And there you go. Some random words from these words, we're going to spark our creativity. Now we're not going to just draw a rabbit, your horse, and fly and an end. No, we're going to use some critics to like dragon or a unicorn and so on and so on. Now, we're not just going to draw them, we're going to do creative things with these words. Well, the best thing I can do is just show you some of the projects I've worked on through this class. And here are my projects. And that is what this class is about, sparking your imagination and creativity through some random words. And I'm gonna just gonna take you along with that. I'm just going to show you how the process works, what the methods are, and what the end results of that. And probably you agree with me, There's some pretty cool things here. Really fun things, really cool things, things that are really creative and totally imaginary. And as you can see, the class works very well for me. So it's going to work for you too. So I would say move on to the next lesson where we're going to spark some creativity together. 2. Materials you can use: I'm going to just take you through the materials and you can do this traditionally of paper and on and work digitally. That is fine too. Let's start with the digital device. If you use a digital device, laptop computer or iPad or tablet, whatever you use, then pick a soft pastel brush or a contact brush, oil pastel or crayon that is a big thicker and has some structure in it and choose a reddish color and a dam would be something like sanguine is called, and we put that to the white papers. You see a bit a bit like the reddish brown color. Yeah. And that is for digitally. And the format is up to you, a four square. That's fine. That doesn't really matter. If you do not work digitally but on a paper, then take a sketch book paper that has a bit of texture. You can also take a mixed media kind of paper. And what I'm going to use is a contains stick like this container, Perry, and the color is sanguine, so brownish, red, as I said already. What you could also use instead of that is a soft pastel, perhaps with the same color or gray is cut to black at work too, but I wouldn't go. Black is a caret or even a reddish color like that. A crayon would work too. Or graphite blocks that would work too. Yeah, that's the materials for this lesson. And then you may also need an eraser and your brush. That's it. Okay, and we're gonna just as a bit of a challenge perhaps. And if you want to use your pencil or ink pen instead, okay, you can do, but I would rather challenge you to go for these materials because we're not going to make a very detailed, great, beautiful drawing. Work on, more work on ideas. Spark your creativity in slightly different way. All right, that's it for this video, and I'll see you in the next video where we're going to start. 3. Getting Started with creating The Lists: Well, welcome to this video where we're going to talk, thinking about, thinking about what am I saying? Well, we're going to talk about thinking outside the box sparks your creativity by thinking outside of the box. I'm, I mentioned materials in the previous one, what I would use, but we're going to use a pen tool, by the way, and paper. First thing you have to do is now, this might sound strange. Switch off your Internet to look up things for this lesson because we're sparking your creativity of what happens with a lot of us. If we think of something, if we want to start a project, a lot of us, first of all, go to Google and Google it. Yeah. They're going to look at images. They're going to look at pictures to get inspired. When you want to spark your creativity, that kind of works. But the way better ways to spark your creativity is dead brain of yours. Put some energy in it, let it start thinking and you come up with some brilliant ideas yourself. Way more satisfying in the end, way more gratifying to. All right, so you switch off your Internet later on. You can switch it on again if you need to. But for now switched off. You're going to do the thinking pen and paper. What we're going to think outside of the box, we're going to do a few things and let me write them down. I'm going to make you don't have to make those columns right away. But this is just to have what we're going to do first. We're going to spark creativity. And this might for some be a challenge. That is why later on you can switch on the internet to look for some reference to help you. We're gonna do animals. We're gonna do animals here. We're going to do some animals. We're going to do creatures. And we're going to do some, let's say something we totally think of herself Probably, let's call this fantasy, okay? All right, What we're gonna do in this first one, we're going to combine to, to free animals. And I'm writing it down there. And I'll explain you later on what we're gonna do with the creatures. We're going to use a real animal. And we're going to combine that with a fantasy animal. Let's put it that way. All right? And for fantasy, what we're gonna do, we're going to mix up all kinds of real things, not real things and just whatever whatever rights they go. That's not whatever. Whatever. Yeah. Okay, We'll get to that one. We're going to spark our creativity. That's the whole idea. We're going to think outside of the box now. Normally if I will draw paint an animal, yeah, Something like this, I will get a reference photo and just painted what we're gonna do now, we're going to just think of a number of animals. And we're going to combine it into a new animal that just simply doesn't exist. So what you do here, you just start writing down a number of animals. So you don't write down bird and insect, no specific animals. So what I'm going to write down a specific animals is a Sahlman. Yeah. And I'm just thinking of this life too, so I'm just thinking of some Sahlman, a horse. Now you could write down a dark, but you would need to specify the dark a little bit. So let's say German Shepherd. Alright, that is, that could be the dark. And let's see, I want to do, Let's do a painter. And I'm going to throw in some insects to scorpion. Score PM. All right. What else would I need? Dragon fly would be cool. Dragon fly. About fly. Let's put an end to now, does a list, okay? And we could go on and on with this and we're going to stick on, stick for this video's stick to this list. What we're going to do, we're going to combine animals and I'm just going to pick an animal. I'm going to combine it and then show you what to do with that. Now, let's take this one, the scorpion and the dragon fly in this le, let's combine these two into an animal, so two to three animals. So the first thing you do is you start out with your list. And once you have a list, then we're going to do something, of course, create, spark our creativity, but think outside the box with the list. All right, That will be all ready for the next video. For now, your assignment is to make a list with animals, all kinds of animals. And then move to the next video. 4. Sketching your Ideas: Okay, welcome to the next video. Now you have a list of animals and hopefully not the same list as I do because we want to spark creativity TO YOU think of different animals. We're going to combine these animals now. Now, if you need to, you could look up references for this. If you're good enough and don't even do that. And we're going to work quite rough. That's why I have this context. So it's not going to be the most accurate. It's just to spark some ideas. And I got a blank piece of paper. Then the very obvious one, let's say I draw a painter and now this is not going to be a set accurate signs, but just fun and quick ideas. Let's say I have my pantry here is heirs. There are his ears and his snout. Now I set don't expect accurate animals and hearing his spore, something like that. And I'm going to draw his body. And let's do his second pole right there. And let's see, we need that's it. Alright, That would be my simple painter. And let's go for him. Climbing a tree. There you go, It's getting off the tree. All right. He needs his tail, of course. Now that would be my Panzer. Yeah. And as you can see, now, it's not the most brilliant one. Panthers have spots. There you go. That's it. Yeah, simple like that. Not accurate science, but it needs to be a bit believable. And later on in the projects, yes, you can make a beautiful thing of it, but for now, but I gotta combine this with a dragon fly. Now the easiest way would do, and the least creative way really is give this thing dragonfly wings. Now. All right, I combined my Panther with dragonfly. But to be honest, that is not the most creative thing there is. Alright, Okay, well, this is my pen to fly now. Okay, that would be the first step. Now, what we can do next is roughly the same thing here. What I'm gonna do is next, a bit more creative is wood. To change his head into that typical dragonfly hat. The ego. And that would be my dragonfly hat is same body basically. So he has still has that. He still has that second poll there. And he has this part here. All right, now this would be a total different outlook and I would get some dragonfly wings like that. That would be the second idea. And then he needs his thing too. And I'm doing this rather quickly, a set. Then I would combine already more elements. So I would get the dragon fly ahead and combine that with that and you get a whole different creature right away. All right, Now, the third stage I will do this is already, if I work this out, would look totally different. Really. The third stage I would do is then I'm going to combine because I can do free words, scorpion, a painter, and a dragon fly. Right now that would be something interesting to take. A big issued for. Turn the sheet see, because I'm working on this way already. I would go with the head of that dragon fly in or let me draw that. See really a lot bigger. All right, there we go. That's a lot bigger. And that's my first step. And now I'm going to draw that Panzer body and draw that first poll. And I was here. That looks more like a pool right away. Because now we're working a bit bigger and second pool behind there. Alright, and then we'll be here. Pretty much his leg. And I would still get that same. Let's say this goes a bit further. Still in that arch shape like that. And his backpack. Now you can see this looks way better, but it looks like a panda with rho hat. That would be that. So here we have the Panther and now instead of his tail, which I drew, I would draw a scorpions tail. And to make it even more obvious, I would go the other way. And there you go. Now, we've combined the two. All right. I will want to have his head definitely a bit stronger. That looks better right away. Now you get some, whatever alien creature like C is totally different. So this way, you can spark your creativity by just using existing animals, combining them in totally new ones. And then you could take this as a project and work a little bit on it. And what you could do if this also, as you could create a whole environment basically around this creature. So I'm adding some trees now. Bit of shadow, or you could keep on going, you get the idea. All right? So you've got something totally different this way. So that is one way to spark your creativity using animals, okay, that will be the first one. So you combine, like I've done, you pick two free animals, you combine them and you create something totally new and you keep it rough. Yeah. Later on in project will of course take that a step further than this. But for now, we'll leave it like this. All right, so that would be the more creative way. And we could add if we wanted to round here, even doings forgot those him. All right, Let's give them a bit of a different perspective. Do. And there you go. A little bit smaller when. Alright, now we have a very interesting creature and let's cut that part there too. Now at some spots to it. All right, good. Now, now we're done. And now we've really combined. We've given him the dragonfly hat, scorpion tail, just his regular posts so that it stays upon painter. And that's basically it, right? And that will be it. Yeah, Very roughly. We're not gonna do very accurate drawing that for the project, okay? And that is a way to spark your creativity and start thinking outside the box. Because this doesn't exist. And honestly, I'm happy it doesn't exist. I don't want to get this creature see this in the woods somewhere would be shocking. Okay, that will be first way. Just real animals combine a few animals and get some interesting new animals, okay? Right. That's it for you. Same way, yeah, get your list, you have your list, and then do the free animals and then create a new creature with another Korea. Now it is a creature, it is an animal creature. Him, have fun. Yeah, do that and let your imagination go wild on 204 of something. You might use references or just go as I go. Just draw something. Yeah. All right. Enjoy it, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 5. Combining Animals with Fantasy: All right, Welcome to the next lesson, where we're going to do something slightly different. We're going to create, we've done this from real animals. And of all is, well, you've created some rough sketches to. So let me get the paper again and let's look on the paper. The second one will be creatures, a real animal combined with a fantasy animal. Now, we all can think of fantasy animals. Fantasy animal would be a unicorn. And I'm just going to write a couple of them. A unicorn of fiercely a dragon. We can't get around that, a Phoenix. And you could go on and on and on, mythology and fairy tales. They are all kinds of creatures that don't exist. Well, I'm just cut a few of them and then we need some real animals. So unicorn and horse, we're not going to combine those two. So let's do a and from the NASW list, you could do them with a spider. You get some cool creatures. What about the seahorse would make something interesting? You could use shark. Now we're getting cool creatures, of course, n go on and on. You could also do lovely creatures. Do a rabbit, a rabbit with a unicorn, what we call a uni rabbits. Okay? All kinds of animals and fantasy creatures combine them. And gap, that is our list for this. And we're moving on right into the drawing. See what am I going to pick? Yeah, I'm going to pick a dragon, of course. Now you can pick a dragon anymore. Now, getting a few one-to-two, I'm going to pick these two. It should be quite something interesting. Do a dragon with seahorse, although a rabbit and a unicorn. Yeah, These two or would be cool too. Alright. Okay, with these, we have just 22 is enough for this. I'm going to create a sea dragon, dragon horse. I've got a konnte, I've got some paper. I'm going to move my paper like this because this is going to take some paper. I'm going to start with the dragon head over here. And the easiest thing would be starting with his mouth. All right? Okay, there's no strong it is head. Alright. Trichomes have good chief. Right? There you go. Okay. Well, that would be his mouth for sure. Let's see. Then he needs his eyebrow. And again, we're not going to do an exact science. And he needs his horn that goes there. And then under there. Let's do his ear. Okay. And then we would have pretty much his neck going there and that will be the dragon model. Only one thing he needs is a bit of an eyebrow. Day he go nostril. Alright. Perhaps his head is squished a little bit too much. But let's go with this for now. And then he needs, of course, a seahorse body. Let's see sea horse. A curve like that. I'll start with this size. Con, with his head slightly too big. I'm moving it down a little bit. And you get that cold up. That's seahorses have like that. All right. Um, let's see this cause and then go straight. And let's move that and join that under there. You see it? Yeah. Alright. And his middle part. Alright. And then they have this part right there. Okay, Now, that is very quickly, uh, let's see. They have these things now to make it Hope, sorry, probably you can see alright. And his belly. And then from back, shade this a little bit. All right, good. Okay. How about debt? That is a sea dragon, seahorse, dragon, dragon horse, not dragon horse wouldn't be the right thing, I guess. Okay, so add a little bit of shading. Okay, That will be it for this. So we added a creature. Really fun, really quick. All right. There would be swimming in the sea. Again, I don't think I want to come across this seahorse. Seahorse is cute, but this, Let's just wrapped up tail a little bit. And let's add some. Plants to it. So to make it more believable, pay, you go See. All right. And he's holding on to that one. All right, Good. And that's the nice thing about the contact. Was just a little bit of a background. Careful not to mess up the rest. All right, Good. There you go. That will be at my dragon C. So creatures, a real animal, combined it with a fantasy animal. Great for thinking outside of the box and creating something new. Probably, that's probably plenty of creatures and animals people haven't combined. So you could have lots of fun with that. Great for your creativity. Okay, good. Then, yeah, we really need to do that. One. Can't escape the extra, and that was deep rabbit and the unicorn and we make a what is it? A uni rabbits? Yeah, that sounds good. Are you ready corn? You tell me you need rabid rabbit. Kwan. That sounds interesting, doesn't it? All rights. Rabbits? I can do it like this probably. Um, what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna just draw, ravage us. They don't with the most, let's say let's say his nose would be around there is little nose. And his head would be brown there. And let's give the little guy some here. Now. Let's sit and give him a rabbit. I. Okay. And now we need two. This would be his head, basically. Alright, now, that said, we need that unicorn thing on his head. There you go. We got a uni rabbit. Not perfect yet. We need some floppy ears now let's do straight ears. Diego, 1 second. Rabbit ear. All right, good. Let the rabbit, a rabbit stay, go. See. That will be a uni, rabbits or a rabbit colon. Okay. Skinned him a little bit more of his body. Terrorists, the rabbit guy needs some pause there. And let's give em or two-tail. That's it. Let's get here. Alright, well that's the little extra, I would say. Let's give the guy some whiskers. Little mouth. That would be the rabbit arrives. Good, but something like that. Okay. We've done that one too. Okay. I'm just kind of a cute guy, isn't it? Okay. Thats is a uni rabbits, whatever you wanna call it. Or a rabbit corn union rep. Good, That's it. That's the combination of unicorn and a rabbit. Just 50 typical i yr could call that for a given him a horse body or whatever him does. It has a lot of things you could do our gifted guys some wings, then he gets a pay gases unicorn rabbit for fun. Okay, that's it. You get the idea. Spark your creativity by thinking outside the box, by creating animals that don't exist, right? That's it for this lesson. Time to move on to the next one, nano. You're gonna do this too. Of course. You're going to get the list and you're just going to scribble, sketch some of the animals, make a list of non-existing animals, pig gases, unicorns, dragons, all these kinds of things with existing animals or insects, and create a new one you don't really need to do animal, combine it with a fantasy animal. But if you want to go further outside of the box, go ahead and do so, okay, F1. And then once you have your fun with this, I'll see you in the next lesson. 6. Let your Imagination run Wild: All right, we're at the third one, fantasy, whatever now this is not totally whatever here. So let's get rid of whatever what we're gonna do here with fantasy. We're going to create something fantasy now that can be true fantasy, really something that doesn't exist yet, or that can be an animal, but we're giving the animal different traits. Let me put that first. So that is a fantasy animal here. Or a real animal. Or we're going to combine, like we've done here, some animals and things, but make something fantasy of it. And what you could do is you could pick, for example, an occupation or some character traits or some physical elements. Combine, impose hands, things like that. Some attributes you could add to it. For this one, we really got to think outside the box so you make a list and say, let me make you could, so you could make an Occupy. I want to have a carpenter, but the carpenter needs to be an animal, so I'm gonna take, uh, rabbits. And he needs to be a tough guy. For example here, tough. Combine these into, so that's what you're gonna do. Make a list with. That's going to be total fantasy. You can either pick a real animal, create a fantasy animal, an existing, or create a new one. And just give him like here, an occupation, rabbit and a corrected trade. He's tough. Combine that I could go on. Something must be cute. Fuzzy, must be huge. Small, should be jumping, flying. There must be a doctor. And so on and so on and so on. Yeah, it could be angry. Not there. We've got it. Okay. Yeah. And then when you have made a list with all kinds of occupations and character traits, some physical animals, fiscal harm, physical elements. You can add some attributes to it, like he must have a backpack. Yeah, and so on and so on here. And what we're gonna do then we're going to go and create an animal with debt. Let me see. My animal is going to be small. I wanted to jump, not fly. I like them to be fuzzy and kind of q2. Let's try that. Yeah, let's give that a try. We've done some interesting animals, so let's go for that. Yeah, so these are my traits. Cute, fuzzy, small, and jumping. Okay. Phobia challenge. Yes, and that's what this was all about, creativity. Creativity. There's my uni rabbit or my Rubicon. Next page writes, with these four things, I got to create. An animal, an creature, and human, whatever it's going to be. Should I turn the page again or keep it like this? Keep it like this for now. Let's see where we gather. All right, Let's think. I gotta think now too. And that's the nice thing about a challenge like this. I got to think and think about, okay, what am I going to do? What am I gonna make? Cute small. That doesn't mean small. That I'm going to start with the smaller. That doesn't mean I'm going to just took very tiny small little thing now I want to draw a big thing of course, because I want that to get all the attention. But I gotta think about how am I going to get cross that it is small, but we'll get to that. So let's start with the character traits. What do we say? Jumping, yeah, Jumping pool. Let me think jumping. And when you think of jumping, I'm going to think of something like a kangaroo. And let me start with the kangaroo. Now I'm not going to draw kangaroo, Don't worry. I'm going to draw some kind of error, which is a kangaroo feet. All right, So Dadi can get champion. He needs kind of large feed for him to be jumping. So that's the, that's the first trade around the staffing needs, of course, to feed. Otherwise, There's not going to be much jumping going on. All right. Let's go there. Okay. These are his gigantic feet. I need something fuzzy. I'm going to just draw a ball like that. Alright, my inmost can be the weirdest animal ever. There you go. Okay. Now, I need some eyes. Cute. So large eyes. Cuz little nose. Smile. As if he attributes. Now, I need to make him definitely more fuzzy. Alright, now, with these feet, I'm sure he can jump wherever he wants to go. All right. And there's my fuzzy. I'm from thinking outside of the bugs, but it's got to be somehow believable. Okay, there you go. Keep in. Fuzzy. Good. Now if this thing is gonna jump, I'm pretty sure he's going to lose his balance right away. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to make sure he's not going to loose. Keep it fuzzy his balanced by giving him a tail. Alright, fuzzy whatever. On his day IGA. Okay, there's a stair and there's my fuzzy whatever animal now you cannot say to me right away, Benjamin, that is nice. All right. And he's got two different feet. You're right about that. But that is not small. Now, true? This is not small. How I'm gonna get this small. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to give cross something that makes him or her him. And this one is standing. Let's see, I'll show you what I'm gonna do with it. There you go. I'm sure you're getting DID how I am turning this little guy into a small creature. And that is by adding this gigantic flower. Now z is irregular flower. Alright? Okay. Fishes standing on. I don't want this part. See if we can get rid of that. All right, Good. All that student this dust DID anyway. Okay. That's it. And now this little, fuzzy little thing has become small. Because I don't think we have gigantic, gigantic flowers. Not to speak so good, right? That's it. That's for the challenge. So I picked my attributes. Cute, fuzzy, small, jumping. Now with these feeds and this tail, this thing definitely can jump. It's skewed. It's fuzzy. And it is small because I put him on a flower. And that is creative thinking. That is the way we do this. Thinking outside of the box. We got to think of attributes that show something not usual, this thing. Now this is one of those creatures, yes, you can come across this, this looks friendly. That's most the whole idea. Okay? And that is the whole idea of thinking outside of the box, sparking your creativity by thinking outside the box. And the easiest way is to just get some animals, creatures and start thinking and putting them in different places you can change. Unlike we've done environments too, place an animal in an environment. He's totally doesn't belong, but make him fit somehow. Know. That is a challenge to you could do them on to their daughters, all kinds of ways. You could do this with the creative thinking outside of the book, we stock to animals, creatures, a little bit of fantasy. But you can take that along here and think of objects that don't even have the relation, don't belong together yet, interact somehow. And that is the third one. So we did three animals, creatures and our, we did some fantasy where we fought about some different aspects of them. Okay, well, that's it for this one. Then of course, Your turn. Make list and come up with something really creative. Combine words together that may not be working together or maybe could be working together and created. And the simplest way would be just taken animal, give him a certain human trait and human occupation. That is the easy way, but you can also go a step further and combine elements and create something that doesn't even exist. Well, I would say have fun with this, come up with some creative things, enjoy it. I'll see you in the project. 7. The Project - yours and mine: Well, I showed you quite some things in the lessons already. And these are my entry salts by the words I've chosen, by the words I made from the left-sided, like him. The animals, I will start with the two free animals and I drew some Penta, dragonflies scoping like animal. And that's what you see here. This is my end result. Now, while working on my end result, I chose to leave out the wings because they didn't work. So I created this a bit more. Here's the dragon fly part, the Panthers obviously here, the scorpion is here. But as body, I also did a bit more dragon fly like so that you get scorpion, scorpion dragonfly likes to get so that you get a whole different animal are chosen so different colors. And of course I chose to set them in a more science fiction settings so that it came out a lot better. And that is that first one. And I did that. Now, you can imagine, leave it there. You can imagine what you're gonna do. Well, I did four of them, yes. So the second one to decrease his idea to him as my sea dragons, the dragon horse, whatever this is. Here's my uni bit. Yes, we decide on unit bit. My daughter looked at it and said that's not a union rabbit or whatever you came up, that dad is a uni bit. So from now on disk goes through life as a unit bit. And what you're gonna do is pick one of these things you made. If it is all well, you have three lists. You have a list of animals and you did a sketch with that. You did that creatures list combined real animals and a fantasy animal. You have a sketch of that and you have some fantasy. And that could go all kinds of vdu, some occupation, character traits, attributes, whatever. What you're gonna do is pick one of them and create an artwork with them. Now you're welcome to do all of them, of course, and as I did, and you get free of them, I had four because one is a bonus. But pick one of them, pick a list, pick the design you like the most, and just create and make it to end result or so there's my fluffy jumping small 2D creature. And that's what I made from it. That's my end result. These are my end results as you can see, and it came out quite nicely, I think. All right, well now it's your turn to project. Pick one of them and create something very nice with them. And I'm looking forward to what you will create. And hopefully you get some great unique designs as I have. All right, well, enjoy it. I almost forgot something. This project video, we'll end with a demonstration of me doing one of these, which we're going to pick. I've got filming materials, all of them. I'm going to do that. Let's do this one. Yep. I'm going to end this project video with me just drawing this and just shading it. And I've done that by hand with markers. But like these were done digitally, this was done by hand to, you can choose whatever you like. Of course, you can work in whatever medium you want. You can work digitally. You can work by Penn saw buy paint, markers, whatever you come up with. Yeah, pastel. Pick it and create the words you want. So use whatever you like and enjoy the demonstration of me doing this little unit. All right. Hi. Hi.