“What is Creative Mondays?
Monday’s are always a drag. The start of a new week, you have to go back to that routine of going to bed early/get up early. If (like me) you have to commute then you prepare for that long journey into work and that long journey back for the first time after a nice two day break.
So to kick off those lousy Mondays, I’m going to get my creative mind flowing in a positive way. Creative Mondays. A chance for me to show off something unfinished or finished that I’ve been working on throughout the previous week.”
Often when designing there are moments of stress. A project’s not turning out right, the ideas aren’t flowing or even the client relationship is falling apart. Over the last week I’ve been pretty busy and usually throughout this time I’ll sit in front of the computer and stop any projects I’m working on. I’ll literally start up a blank page and make up something as I go. It’s a great release and gives you the opportunity to be less constrained by your tools.
It seems that when I do this I develop a sort of pattern. I’ll look for textures. Wood grains seem to be one of those that I love to play around with. Searching the web, you can find plenty of free stock photographs and purely for experimentation purposes I’ll try and put them together.
So if you’re finding yourself caught up in a ton of work, take a break from it for a while. Open a sketch book, play around with some colours, take some photographs because eventually you’ll find what you are looking for.