An honest reflection on personal creative process please:
In general…
Where do you start?
I start by reading as much as I can on a subject and trying to develop some kind of general landscape in my brain. I write a lot, sometimes over and over again.
How do you decide if your ideas are good enough?
When it’s time to move on, or when the deadline is almost up. Or, when I get a gut feeling. (Sometimes I also ask people but usually the look at me like I have two heads).
How would you define the stages of your creative process?
1) Research 2) ideation 3) struggling with whether or not an idea I feel would work is appropriate in context of the audience I am working for, or my personal boundaries / what I want to expose about myself (which I generally don’t have a great sense of / respect for anyway) 4) making, drawing, writing 5) self criticism about whether or not this is actually working, probably should have spent less time on stages 2 / 4. 6) assembling the parts into a finished piece.
When you think about working how do you feel?
Excited, anxious.
How do you feel emotionally when you work?
Angry, frustrated, tense, bored, stalled, excited, happy, manic, serendipitous, lucky, smart.
What do you feel when you finish?
Tired, satisfied, nitpicky.
What is your happiest work related experience/memory?
When I dropped out of Humber College, I went home to work on my graphic design skills, and explore other ways of using design. I started an alternative sexuality social group, and volunteered at a LGBT Resource Centre at the university. After 6 months, I had people I did not know coming up on the street to shake my hand and tell me what great work I was doing. The design was shit, but it was amazing to know people recognized and appreciated my work as something the community needed. (Some people did recognize the work as having been done by someone who knew something about design, and were envious of it, it was still shit design-wise, but it was also nice that people were recognizing graphic design knowledge).
How much do you care what other people think about your work?
A lot. Although sometimes I think I care more that people are thinking about my work rather than what they’re thinking about it, although it depends on how generally anxious I am feeling. When I am anxious I want to hear only good things, but I also get mad when I am only praised. Sometimes I get scared and start thinking I’m dreaming. Sometimes I don’t think I want people to think about me or my work at all.
Anyone in particular?
Not really. People the work matters to / is supposed to have an effect on. People who know something about the field / industry. Definitely not my mom.
What do you want to get out of work?
I would like for work to make me feel I am doing something somewhat useful and not damaging, but I would also like to be able to support myself and be able to eat and pay my bills without totally freaking out about it.
What do you want to get out of life?
I want to make work that speaks to people, that sits in their brains. I also want to have a myriad of experiences and eat a reasonable amount of nice foods and light beers. I want to read as much as possible.
Do you judge yourself through your work? Do you judge others that way?
Yes. I judge based on whether or not I am improving, and how much work I am putting out. I try not to judge others that way as well, but I do.
How do you rate your abilities?
Relatively high, but very far from perfect.
What values/criteria are you using for assessing?
How much I have improved, how much of myself I put into my work, the high standards I (try) to have for what my work is saying, and how it is saying it. My drive to be original without being gimmicky, and my attempts at accepting when that isn’t possible.
In general…
Where do you start?
I start by reading as much as I can on a subject and trying to develop some kind of general landscape in my brain. I write a lot, sometimes over and over again.
How do you decide if your ideas are good enough?
When it’s time to move on, or when the deadline is almost up. Or, when I get a gut feeling. (Sometimes I also ask people but usually the look at me like I have two heads).
How would you define the stages of your creative process?
1) Research 2) ideation 3) struggling with whether or not an idea I feel would work is appropriate in context of the audience I am working for, or my personal boundaries / what I want to expose about myself (which I generally don’t have a great sense of / respect for anyway) 4) making, drawing, writing 5) self criticism about whether or not this is actually working, probably should have spent less time on stages 2 / 4. 6) assembling the parts into a finished piece.
When you think about working how do you feel?
Excited, anxious.
How do you feel emotionally when you work?
Angry, frustrated, tense, bored, stalled, excited, happy, manic, serendipitous, lucky, smart.
What do you feel when you finish?
Tired, satisfied, nitpicky.
What is your happiest work related experience/memory?
When I dropped out of Humber College, I went home to work on my graphic design skills, and explore other ways of using design. I started an alternative sexuality social group, and volunteered at a LGBT Resource Centre at the university. After 6 months, I had people I did not know coming up on the street to shake my hand and tell me what great work I was doing. The design was shit, but it was amazing to know people recognized and appreciated my work as something the community needed. (Some people did recognize the work as having been done by someone who knew something about design, and were envious of it, it was still shit design-wise, but it was also nice that people were recognizing graphic design knowledge).
How much do you care what other people think about your work?
A lot. Although sometimes I think I care more that people are thinking about my work rather than what they’re thinking about it, although it depends on how generally anxious I am feeling. When I am anxious I want to hear only good things, but I also get mad when I am only praised. Sometimes I get scared and start thinking I’m dreaming. Sometimes I don’t think I want people to think about me or my work at all.
Anyone in particular?
Not really. People the work matters to / is supposed to have an effect on. People who know something about the field / industry. Definitely not my mom.
What do you want to get out of work?
I would like for work to make me feel I am doing something somewhat useful and not damaging, but I would also like to be able to support myself and be able to eat and pay my bills without totally freaking out about it.
What do you want to get out of life?
I want to make work that speaks to people, that sits in their brains. I also want to have a myriad of experiences and eat a reasonable amount of nice foods and light beers. I want to read as much as possible.
Do you judge yourself through your work? Do you judge others that way?
Yes. I judge based on whether or not I am improving, and how much work I am putting out. I try not to judge others that way as well, but I do.
How do you rate your abilities?
Relatively high, but very far from perfect.
What values/criteria are you using for assessing?
How much I have improved, how much of myself I put into my work, the high standards I (try) to have for what my work is saying, and how it is saying it. My drive to be original without being gimmicky, and my attempts at accepting when that isn’t possible.
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