About inspiration or who is the "Muse"?

A stereotype accepted in society is that an artist is such a romantic, who creates in obedience to a muse who comes and goes at any given time. But it is not. 😑

Most often for professional work, you have to approach the process constructively. Drawing up a work plan, meeting deadlines for each stage of work, looking for a lot of additional information, references, etc.🤯

Inspiration is a skill.

In order to develop inspiration in a certain type of work/topic, it takes alot of discipline, experience and knowledge. Over time you start becoming better at creating your own types of ideas which will make it easier to start creating.

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What do you need to develop inspiration?

First of all, establish a sincere dialogue with yourself and with the environment as well, evaluating how you perceive things around you, and ask to yourself about the things that matter the most for you.

Sometimes artists simply get inspire by current trending topics, as well as basic art history or cultural art. Global problems can also be another way to get more inspiration. Some artist even get ideas from everyday trifles, routines etc.

You are an artist, and as an artist you have to be able to transform the surroundings into reality with your own visual language, your own style, and creating your own statement, etc.

So, this is the basic thing you should to figure out.

The second factor is a technical skill. ✍️

And here we are already talking about planning, information gathering and sketching. Sketching, sketching, sketching.💪😤

You cannot work as efficiently as possible if you don`t plan your time for work, study, recreation, etc. Sketching is the process of searching for ideas through sketches, it is based on your vision of the topic, your task, on the search for information and analogies on the topic.

The versatility of sketching is obvious, it is used in many professions, such as an artist, animation, sculptoring, fashion designer, is widely used in the film industry, creating video game concepts, etc.

Inspiration is a skill. In order to develop inspiration in a certain type of work/topic, it takes alot of discipline, experience and knowledge. Over time you start becoming better at creating your own types of ideas which will make it easier to start creating.

It can be a sketch of color spots or masses, searching for a composition, or just sketching an idea with a couple of lines and writing some notes so that you don’t forget your idea, it doesn’t matter.

So, you need to sketch your ideas, use different graphic materials, know how they work and how to work with them. This is one of the most important components of the process of finding an idea. Using this systematically, it becomes a habit, and over time, when sketching enters your planning, you treat it as a skill. The ability to think and see, analyze the environment, it becomes your routine.

So who is this muse?

It is YOU.

It is work on yourself and your time, along with the ability to clearly set a task for yourself and the ability to analyze, process and express your vision for the task.

Inspiration is a skill that is available to everyone.

Thank you for your attention

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Kati Fadina