Creative DIY Craft Ideas

About Creative DIY Craft Ideas Android App

Creative ideas are the most valuable commodity there is to a creative artist, whatever form you create in. Ideas are the starting point for everything you create, the raw materials from which you build your beautiful creations.

When we feel short of good ideas, there's nothing for our creativity to work with, it feels redundant, all dressed up with nowhere to go.

In short, no ideas equals no creativity. Which equals a very unhappy artist.

Unfortunately the approach many of us take to gathering and nurturing ideas is a rather casual and haphazard one. Which means most of the time we end up trying to create without any real direction or focus, with no way of channelling the creative energy.

Let illustrate this with an example.

Say you're a painter. And you're out shopping in a new town with a fabulous art and craft store. So you go inside, have a good look around and see all kinds of wonderful and inspiring materials. You see a hundred different colour shades that send tingles up your spine and fill you with the excitement of a kid on Christmas morning.

There are huge canvases standing up that make you so energised you struggle not to grab the nearest tube of paint and start throwing it on the canvas there and then in the store. The whole store and the art supplies in it fill you with creative inspiration and energy.

So, as an artist dedicated to your creativity, surely you stock up with as much as you can afford, to take back home and give you hours of inspiration to create with in the coming days and weeks. Don't you?

Nope, you come home completely empty handed. Then the next day sit at home with your 2 or 3 remaining tired tubes of paint and single tatty canvas, wondering why you're not feeling inspired and can't create anything.

Sounds a bizarre approach to take for someone supposedly dedicating to creating, doesn't it? Yet this is EXACTLY the kind of approach most of us take when it comes to gathering creative ideas.

Ideas come to us all the time, in the strangest places. But do we carry a notebook or voice recorder, or camera with us and capture those ideas as soon as they come to us, so we have a ready supply for when we come to create? Um, no. Instead, when struck with moments of inspiration, we think "ooh that's a good idea, I'll remember that and work on it later."

"Later" comes and goes and the idea never shows again, it's forgotten and lost forever. Along about a million other good ideas you've had in your life and not captured and made use of.

Ideas are the raw supplies from which all of our wonderful creations come. Give yourself the opportunity to be as creative as you know you can be and starting capturing your ideas today. Get yourself a sketchbook or notebook or voice recorder or camera and carry it with you at all times. Whenever an idea comes (and you'll be amazed how often they do come once you start noticing them), capture it ready to develop at a later date.