All language subtitles for 03. Creative block and self doubt.ENGlish

Alright, I said there wouldn't be any lessons before we get into the exercise,

but it wouldn't be one of my classes unless I gave you a bit of a primer to
start.

So I just wanted to explain why I made this class and how it can help you in the
real world.

So there are two things that all creative people struggle with, and the first is
coming up with

ideas, and the second is getting stuck in self-doubt and self-criticism. If you
follow me

on my podcast, Thoughts on Illustration, you'll know how much I've tended to get
stuck over the

years, especially with self-doubt. Where it comes to finding ideas, often what
happens is we get

stuck in one way of thinking. For example, sometimes I just get one image in my
head,

and I can't stop drawing that one thing over and over again. What I love about

the techniques in this class is that they're truly among the best ways I know

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how to get myself out of idea ruts and bulldoze over my self-doubt.

So before we begin, here's just a little rundown of how my responsive
composition technique works.

We'll go into more detail when we get to the actual exercises.

So first, we start by drawing shapes.

The more open and irregular the shapes, the better.

Next, we start to draw things based on a prompt or a theme inside the shapes.

We're letting the shapes kind of tell us what to draw,

rather than trying to draw something more on purpose or from our minds.

That's why I call it responsive composition,

because we're responding to these shapes on the page in a more improvisational
way.

And that's where the magic of this technique is. Our ideas need to come out fast
and loose,

just like improv is often full of embarrassing mistakes.

The sketches are just the starting point.

And then later on we can transform them into finished illustrations.

You know, maybe they'll even cause others to wonder,

how did they think of that?

The whole point here is to have fun and maybe even raise some eyebrows.

So that's really all you need to know for now.

We're going to get into everything else as we go through the exercises.

So get out your pencils and paper or your digital equivalents

and let's get into the exercises.