I don’t set time aside to ideate per se. But I do go through a lot of sketches when working on an idea/ project. And when I don’t I play a lot on my file before sending it to print.
I am not particularly looking for ideas at the moment. But I look forward to give some for those looking.
I'm Betje and I've been making dairy comics for a very long time - every single day. I really want to get back into it and weirdly, find it quite hard. It's weird because I know I can do it and still I often feel like I have zero ideas.
I think the most important thing about this is mindset: are you drawing because you know it will improve your skills? Because you want to keep a record? For sharing online and building an audience? Or because you're curious about what will appear on the page if you do? For me, that last one has been the most helpful in the past. Anything else is bound to send me into an overthinking spiral. I try to just sit down and ask myself, as if I'm talking to a friend: how was yesterday? What stood out? Then just start drawing without thinking too hard. It's so much easier to make a boring drawing and find ways to improve it, then to come up with good or funny ideas while staring at a blank page.
I make cartoons and I spend an hour every day just ideating. I usually go to a "writer's hour" session of the London Writer's Salon (free) to help with concentration. I use a random word generator and use the words as a prompt to come up with ideas. I put my mind into "silly mode" and sketch and write quickly. It's mostly junk but even if I don't end up with a useful idea, I feel like it's good practice.
The other comments here are inspiring and motivating.
I live about 15 minutes from Disney World, and I often go there to people watch and ideate. I bring my backpack with my notebooks and eat a pretzel and its a great time :)
I’m Tara Kate. Currently transitioning into children’s illustration from natural history/scientific illustration. I get ideas from a lot of places, most recently poetry and spiritual literature. I’m working to make the leap into imaginative work, doing thumbnails and envisioning how to tell stories with my art.
I get heaps of ideas when I'm out walking, or doing the laundry, or sorting the recycling.
(This isn't illustration specific).
To capture all of them I recoding myself voice memos. I now use AI to transcribe them for me and format them into bullet points. I find once I start talking I get ideas, but sit down with a blank screen/page. 🫥
I’m Jezz, and I can get my ideas at random. Example watching something like a documentry, anime, movie etc. Or just being outside. And once I get them, I always write them down for later. Sometimes I do something with it, other not.
Hi, I'm Adam.
I'm starting to schedule ideating sessions for my various projects. It's great to start by choosing an idea rather than trying to look for one.
I don’t set time aside to ideate per se. But I do go through a lot of sketches when working on an idea/ project. And when I don’t I play a lot on my file before sending it to print.
I am not particularly looking for ideas at the moment. But I look forward to give some for those looking.
I'm Betje and I've been making dairy comics for a very long time - every single day. I really want to get back into it and weirdly, find it quite hard. It's weird because I know I can do it and still I often feel like I have zero ideas.
I think the most important thing about this is mindset: are you drawing because you know it will improve your skills? Because you want to keep a record? For sharing online and building an audience? Or because you're curious about what will appear on the page if you do? For me, that last one has been the most helpful in the past. Anything else is bound to send me into an overthinking spiral. I try to just sit down and ask myself, as if I'm talking to a friend: how was yesterday? What stood out? Then just start drawing without thinking too hard. It's so much easier to make a boring drawing and find ways to improve it, then to come up with good or funny ideas while staring at a blank page.
I make cartoons and I spend an hour every day just ideating. I usually go to a "writer's hour" session of the London Writer's Salon (free) to help with concentration. I use a random word generator and use the words as a prompt to come up with ideas. I put my mind into "silly mode" and sketch and write quickly. It's mostly junk but even if I don't end up with a useful idea, I feel like it's good practice.
The other comments here are inspiring and motivating.
I live about 15 minutes from Disney World, and I often go there to people watch and ideate. I bring my backpack with my notebooks and eat a pretzel and its a great time :)
I’m Tara Kate. Currently transitioning into children’s illustration from natural history/scientific illustration. I get ideas from a lot of places, most recently poetry and spiritual literature. I’m working to make the leap into imaginative work, doing thumbnails and envisioning how to tell stories with my art.
Hey, I'm Sophie.
I get heaps of ideas when I'm out walking, or doing the laundry, or sorting the recycling.
(This isn't illustration specific).
To capture all of them I recoding myself voice memos. I now use AI to transcribe them for me and format them into bullet points. I find once I start talking I get ideas, but sit down with a blank screen/page. 🫥
I’m Jezz, and I can get my ideas at random. Example watching something like a documentry, anime, movie etc. Or just being outside. And once I get them, I always write them down for later. Sometimes I do something with it, other not.
I use my sketchbook, I take online classes that give me assignments that generate ideas. I like the idea of thinking about 💡 ideas.