Fear and the Creative Process

Have you experienced your own or other people's fear-based reactions to your creative education and career choices?

How have you successfully overcome these reactions?

What is your concept of your creative process?

How do you approach creating, making?

 

Fear and the Creative Process

            Yes, I have experienced my own fear in my education and career life. Since I was a child, I have loved to draw and paint specially the cartoon characters. After graduated from the high school, I decided to major animation or graphic design in the college. However, people around me gave the fear that I couldn’t find a job, and there would be no money in those carriers. They suggested me to study nursing or accounting, but I didn’t like those majors. On the other hand, I was worried about my future; I didn’t want to be unemployed after all of those hard times learning animation or graphic design. After passing those hard days, finally, I decided to go and talk to those people who are designers or studying graphic design. I also talked to my concealers, teachers and family members. Then I decided to study a carrier that I love because I can improve myself, and I can be a successful person in that carrier than others. My family also helped me to make this decision. I prefer to make less money, but have the carrier that I can have fun with it.

            When I designing, drawing or painting I something like to be in a relax and peaceful place where no one can interrupt or distract me. I like to take as much time that I need to make my projects look perfect. I sometimes listen to classic music while I drawing or painting, but most of the time I like that my mind be focused on my projects. My creative process works like this. First, I read the instructions of my projects few times to understand what they need. Then, I started thinking and making many different ideas and sketching them on the piece of paper. I usually think about my projects at night while I go to bed because I don’t get distract by anything. After making some ideas, I show them to my friend who are also studying graphic design and my family to let them look at them and tell me what they thing. When I choose my final idea, I put it on the computer and started to develop it. Not every time my final design looks like my sketches that I made at first because sometimes the position, color and concept of my elements don’t work when I put them together and I have to make a big changes to make a successful design. Also, sometimes I get totally different ideas while playing with my design elements on the computer. Therefore, my sketches are just starting point.