Step away from the screen to get down and dirty!
I don’t have to explain how much we rely
on technology. You live in this era, you know.
The fact that you are
reading my blog shows that you are quite techno savvy.
Screens take the fun out of creativity.
Anyone can click buttons. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lot of fun.
Until a time comes when the amount of options the
internet provides confuses us and leave us with so much buttons to click that
we don’t know which ones to click and soon we are blinded with all the options
that we actually don’t know what to do or even where to start. Hello, mental
block.
Sometimes the only way to connect with the
inner artist is to step away from the screen .Find out what works, what doesn’t.
Figure it out, make it practical.
Actually doing something is a different kind of skill that got
lost while we were so busy typing, instagraming and tweeting what we had for
lunch.
For a previous project I needed to design
a range of fitness gear.
Then I needed to improve
this and realized I know nothing about actually making clothes.
Instead of designing the
T-shirts I did some research on how to make actual cool shirts.
I learned that cutting up old t-shirts is a
lot of fun, very rewarding and a way to change up your entire wardrobe without
breaking the bank.
I added some of my own designs but I have
to give YouTube major credit for teaching me how to master this skill.
I recommend you do something practical you
like. If you are into fashion do something like this? Dont aim to high, start
with the basics and then improve.
If you would like to get started and try
out these cool shirt reconstructing’s here are some easy step by step videos (Sorry
guys, this one is more for the girlies)
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