Why yes it is. I was never really happy with the original design and the post of last night got me thinking. So here it is, please tell me what you think of it.
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Hi again, Today we are gonna talk about regaining your inspiration. I’m taking this subject because I just came out of an creativity-less period and let me tell you nothing is as bad for a designer than losing there creativity. To take back what you lost, you must first know what you lost. This is not a how-to guide. There is no pill to take or a 10 step tutorial for it. We can however get some insights.
What is creativity? Creativity is the thing that separates you from the masses, It’s that little voice that Tell’s you: let’s try something new. This can be a lot of things; creating a poster, making a website, drawing a picture even rearranging you workspace. Most of all creativity is a risk, it’s something you start with but don’t know how it will end or that people gonna like it.
Now this can happen on a million way’s, the most common are dullness. Waking up at the same time everyday, walking the same road to work … generally doing the same things over and over again.This can happen before you know it and can be quite difficult to get out. An other way is getting to much stress or working to hard. Another creativity killer can be a forced look on things; your boss forces a view on you and you can’t walk out of the lines he has drawn.
First you need to find out what the problem is. If your problem is dullness than small things can save you, taking a different road for example. changing small things in your life can do miracles. If you have to much stress then you can just wait for it to blow over. If that is not the case you will need to adjust to the stress level and again time can be a friend here. The boss thing can be the most difficult of all. Or you realise that you can never be as creative as you though you could be, or try and talk with your bosses. If that doesn’t work for you, you better find another job. I think you will be happier doing something you like to do, than working that heavy job that earns a lot of cash.
The most important thing you need to do is want to regain you creativity. If you really want it back you will get it back.
So we are back again. Let’s start the new year with a tutorial shall we? Today we will talk about swirls, you know those popular lines that are often used in designs. We are gonna use illustrator for this one so lets get started.
The first thing we need to do is create a triangle with the pen tool, there are a couple of ways of doing that. The simplest (I think) is using the star tool and setting the points to 3.
When you have your triangle set up you need rotate it and stretch it till it looks like this :
Now the next thing you want to do is select the triangle and go to brushes and create a new brush.When prompted choose New art brush.
Now on the next screen set the direction up and give it a name
Now when you click next, you have created an illustrator brush that can very simply be used to create swirls. All you now have to do is draw some lines with the pen tool, make sure they have no fill and apply the brush to the line. Have fun with it.