How and why did you begin to be creative?
To communicate and to express myself
Since I was a child I had a lively imagination: we did not have a TV set at home, I listened to the radio and created scenes and characters. Later, when I attended school, I learned to write and I was very good at it, so I could express complex ideas without any effort. I was always making up stories, but I did not use to write them down, until June 2010.
After I had my second child I started painting, making bracelets and earrings to make extra money at our local flea market plus the football games. I also started doing it more to relieve stress. Then one day I stumbled on etsy.com and I have been selling some of my stuff on there since August 2010.
An interest in web design, began while coding my own sites, which led to creation of my own graphics for the sites. I find graphic creation both enjoyable and rewarding. My interest in photography, manipulation, and restoration has developed over many years (for personal use). Self-taught by using web tutorials and resources as well as, great software for support.
Being creative is not something that you choose, it chooses you. My grandparents have a recording of me singing a song on pitch (not a simple child's song) at age 2. I've always loved music, and it was not a surprise when I became a professional musician. But my life long love of sewing, knitting, jewelry making (more for fun and personal reasons) became my business when I retired from music. I now design and create knitwear, handbags, and jewelry.
Long ago as a child. I was the youngest and only boy in the family and I had plenty of time to spend by myself to draw, write, sing and make up songs. Oddly enough, it seems to be part of my current life these days.
Short answer: Because I enjoyed it and someone would pay me to be.
Long answer: Everyone has strengths and mine was thinking a little differently or seeing a solution from a skewed perspective and able to visualize that for others. That ability to incorporate storytelling into design is what keeps me up at night.
I do not believe you start being creative at a certain time in life, on the contrary. I am convinced that every single one of us is born creative. Most of us just start to lose it once they grow older. The trick is to hold on to it as long as you can by stimulating your natural creativity every day.
I went to a wonderful little school that turned out art director who appreciate that ideas are the key to powerful communications.
Its not something you really choose. You're either a creative person or not. I have from a very young age had an overly active imagination and from imagination it promotes ideas and inspires you. Although, I will add once I started working in collaboration with other creative and like minded people it felt right
Not really a good question lumped together. How do you become creative? Well, you start out by screaming at your mother for her milk, for attention, etc. shortly after birth. You smile, you cry, you walk, you talk. Every moment is an act of creativity.
I was born creative. Started writing poetry as a child. Started painting as a teen
I've always been into art. ..Poetry, drawing, painting, and now hand crafting denim with an Arre Lee touch. {My dad was really good at drawing so maybe [maybe!] that's where I got that from.} I've always believed that the inner me was composed of sparkling red candy paint and fine haired paint brushes. My creativity is innate. & I enjoy what I do because it inspires me in other parts of my life. ..I'm not only passionate about designing, styling, and everything else mentioned. I think because I am able to release the colorful me through these things, ...I am able to flourish and still shine when and where things are dark.
I think I was creative from a young age. I am told that as an infant I would lie in my pram with my hands held over me making shapes and seemed to be amusing myself endlessly - this is what people tell me. Personally I don;t remember. I used to love playing games with junk and sweeping dust into lines to represent house spaces whilst playing with my friends. There were fields and trees near my house and lots of fantastic places for us kids to go play - we were very fortunate in that respect.
I was raised as a catholic which I think fostered in me a love for the symbolic and metaphorical.
My parents bought me books to help children with their drawing and I used to like these. I remember making a drawing of some babies when I was about 8 or 10 and the neighbors assumed they were pictures of their twin girls. I got tired after a while of making drawings that adults approved of because I somehow wanted to make my own art but at that stage was not sufficiently capable of articulating this. |
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