Rebecca Payne
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read

Stay Inspired with These Fourteen Tricks to Boost Creativity

Fourteen Ways to Stay Inspired:

  1. Try the value scale exercise sketch in this post. Find the directions HERE.
  2. Get a new sketchbook
  3. Work on a different kind of artistic project than you usually do like knitting or collage
  4. Keep a list of drawings you would like to create.
  5. Draw outside.
  6. Change media from whatever you always use.
  7. Organize your studio/workspace.
  8. Do daily drawing exercises that do not require a certain outcome (Don’t wait for inspiration! Draw anyway).
  9. Read Keri Smith’s 100 ideas.
  10. Take a life drawing class.
  11. Visit museums and art galleries.
  12. Change the pace of your drawing; go slower or faster.
  13. Read Danny Gregory‘s book The Creative License.
  14. Watch the documentary The Mystery of Picasso.
  15. Read Keri Smith’s 100 ideas.

Are there any ways to stay inspired that you can add to my list? Please share in the comments!

Rebecca Payne

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makes sketches, drawings and sometimes paintings

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