Inspiration

Art and design is about creating. Sometimes we come up with our own ideas and sometimes we are inspired by others. Ninety-nine percent of the time, anything we dream up has already been done. It has been done either better or worse than our own attempts. Sometimes these inspirations come to us intentionally because we go looking for them. As creative beings we seek inspiration. We look to what other designers and artists are doing to inspire our own work. We look at other work fields, at the media, at fashion and any other fields to inspire us. That is the beauty of creativity. It transcends all avenues and can creep up in any part of our lives.

I'm writing this blog because I have been looking and researching different forms of art and seeing photographs, paintings and drawings that remind me of one piece of art I may have seen, or one that I created myself.

I first created a hand drawn image of this and used pencil crayons to colour in the different rings. It was a long process, but I enjoyed  the meticulous work of drawing each circle and colouring in each ring with the appropriate colour. The purpose was o create an image out of circles while giving the whole image a look of depth with the colours of the bubbles. I later moved on to creating the same image on the computer. The process was also challenging. One might think it was easier because the computer makes things faster, but truthfully, it took about the same amount of time to create the computerized version as the hand drawn version did.

To tie in my point about being inspired by others, whether we sought that inspiration or not, I found the following image.

This portrait instantly reminded me of the colourful bubble portrait that I had previously made. Looking at the far picture from far away, one might be unsure how the image was created. This portrait was created by Zac Freeman was created with random little objects like buttons and little objects ppearing to be stuck meaninglessly- but from a distance is recognizable as a face.

I was interested in the fact that my bubble portrait and this portrait reminded me of each other. They weren't created using the same method but they still resemble one another in the circular elements coming together to create a whole image. This just goes to show my earlier point about being inspired by others and how mostly everything we create has already been done before in some way.