Here are some keywords describing concepts:
● PAINTING
● WRITING
● SOUND
● DESIGNING
● MAKING
Choose one of these words and make a written list of the different
manifestations that the word can take.
I decided to go with the work MAKING from the list. My manifestations for this word looks like this:
MAKING a Mess
MAKING a Mistake
MAKING a Masterpiece
MAKING the Bed
MAKING my way downtown...
MAKING Dinner / Lunch / Breakfast
MAKING Friends
MAKING Music
MAKING Art
MAKING Space
MAKING Money
MAKING a Drink
MAKING the most of it
I picked out 4 from the above and turned them into sketches. Some of the ideas came quicker for certain words than others and so the 4 I chose had been down to the fact I could imagine them easy.
I then took one of these images and fine tuned the concept with finished lines.
Once again I find myself surprised at the exercise and how I found this to be more beneficial than expected. The concept of taking a theme, or prompt such as the word "Making" then creating manifestations of those words is a great way of getting unstuck. It's a great exercise to take forward in brainstorming ideas, which I would actually find to be more useful to happen after perhaps using a spider diagram to explore concepts. This for me is like part 2 of the process. Once you exhaust your words in a spider diagram and land on something of interest, to then work with this approach is also a really nice way to visualise ideas, at least how I find it.
I like the idea of making your own random word generator to create a prompt using this method. Something I think would be useful in the future.
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