A Sketch a day 06

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#Sketch a day 06 – LETTER F
 Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assistance about what we do not see.

We all put our faith in something. The chair we sit on. The car we drive in. The pilot who flies the plane we are travelling in. It could be anything. But what really anchors our soul? What really is safe and secure? What do we put our faith in?

A sketch a day 05

#sketchaday, Typography

#Sketch a day 05 – LETTER E
Elegant – To be graceful and stylish in appearance or manner

I wanted to look at some different typographic styles and so today’s letter is a calligraphy/script style design, which is very elegant in appearance. The challenge however is – can I create more letters using this style without downloading a font?

Letter-ELetter E

A sketch a day 03

#sketchaday, Personal projects

#Sketch a day 03 – LETTER C
‘My Shengshou 4×4 rubik cube came today!’ – Luke

Day three is inspired by friends of mine Guy and Luke. They are Father and son and love the Rubik’s cube big time. They carry it around with them, do it on the bus, do it walking down the street. If you bump into them, I guarantee they will have a rubik cube in their hands.

Letter-CLetter C

A Sketch a day keeps the ‘creative block’ away!

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It’s been done before! I’m no genius in coming up with a ‘sketch a day!’ However just like on a previous post on keeping creative, I thought this would be a great and simple way to draw quick ideas to keep in the creative flow.

I’ve been inspired by my friend Jeremie Claeys who I had the pleasure of working with. Jeremie is a fantastic illustrator and he has been doing a personal project called #100weirdfaces. I’m no illustrator, however I have decided to do something similar called, ‘a sketch a day’.

The first theme will be the alphabet and so for the next 26 days I will draw a letter that represents something I have read, heard or seen – then take them from sketch and convert them into vector files.

Keeping Creative!

#creativechallenges

Over the last months I have started to swim three times a week on the basis that I need to get fitter. When I started I could only do 20 lengths and that nearly killed me. Time and time again I wanted to give up, but two months later I am now swimming 50-60 lengths. I’m losing weight, feeling better in myself and just feel healthier. For far too long I have sat around wanting to get fitter, wanting to lose weight, but unfortunately waiting around does not do anything (except help you put on weight). My motivational phrase for the last few months to myself has been, “this belly ain’t going anywhere sitting on my butt”.

I have come to the conclusion, that as a graphic designer, it is no different. I need to exercise those creative muscles. For all those who are creatives, in whatever field you may find yourself in (if you are in a field you may be lost), there will be plenty of times when your creativity cannot be found. Times when your creative tank is empty and just trying to come up with new and fresh ideas creates so much stress that you just want to give up. There are days when you wonder why you do what you do, but then come to the realisation that actually you wouldn’t want to do anything else in the world.

However I can get frustrated when the ideas aren’t flowing and nothing seems to work. That being said, being creative and staying creative requires movement. Sitting at my computer looking aimlessly at the screen, hoping some creativity will pop from the sky and everything will fall in place, is not how it will most likely happen. Sometimes that does happen and those times are great, but for us as creatives we need to exercise – we need to sketch, look, take photos, challenge ourselves, learn from others, but most importantly we need to keep moving forward.

Creative-workshop

So I have set myself a design challenge using the ‘Creative Worshop’ book by David Sherwin. I won’t be doing all 80 and I can’t promise I will do one challenge a day or even one a week, but I am going to work through a few of these design challenges to sharpen my mind, my ideas and my creativity. Each challenge has a time limit which leads me to the toughest part of this challenge – vulnerability! I will upload each challenge to my blog when I have completed it to show the world.

So watch this space – Let the challenge begin. #creativechallenges