How to collect the inspiration of works collection? How can inspiration be used in works? The creation of works collection is a process of constantly looking for inspiration, and many students know that the method of collecting inspiration can be summed up in four words - "look more and think more", but this is the same as "eat less and move more". It sounds simple and difficult to do, and the specific way to do it is "how to look" and "how to think"? Not everyone knows. How to find inspiration for works collection? And how to apply it to the creation of works?

After clarifying the premise, in order to help you master the ability to turn inspiration into good project works, we can divide the process into three parts: finding inspiration, thinking about inspiration, and using inspiration.

　　 How to find the inspiration of works collection?

The online world provides us with a variety of online resources, and every art student should have his own treasure collection. But as we said above, many students only collect these resources by saving pictures instead of thinking. Of course, they can't be converted into inspiration.

How can we find inspiration from these materials? In fact, when we browse, aesthetics has been thinking for us. When aesthetics filters out the pictures that we want to collect, we can conversely observe the reason why these pictures move us? Whether it is a novel way of expression, theme or color matching, these points are the directions in which we can diverge our thinking.

This way is not limited to online. Everyone's thinking is triggered in different situations. For example, when watching a movie, the marketing ads seen in the subway Every idea that causes us to think "Eh, this is good" is fleeting, and we may not remember it in a few minutes. But if we further think about what causes our attention when these ideas appear, it can help us deepen our impression and facilitate subsequent recording. In addition, It can also help us to summarize the inspiration elements we need most from many accidents.

Everyone has different feelings about the same movie, book and scene, so everyone gets different inspiration, which is why we often look at the inspiration source of excellent cases, which may be a movie that everyone has seen, and the little things that everyone has happened, but these students have experienced different resonance with these things, So the key is not "find" but "feel".

　　 What does inspiration think?

The ability of association is the most important part of inspiration. Two seemingly unrelated things combine to produce the most ingenious inspiration. Of course, how to select such a combination requires us to have a lot of accumulation in the first step of finding materials. If finding materials depends on students' own aesthetic and subjective thinking;

Then the critical thinking ability of this step can be mastered through systematic practice. As one of the "art foundations" required by overseas art colleges, critical thinking has always been the focus of natural light teaching. In the course setting, a large number of courses with the theme of "creativity", "design thinking", "material experiment", "interdisciplinary", etc. are integrated to help students find inspiration in brainstorming, build artistic aesthetic ability Critical thinking awareness.

In addition, I also suggest that students can draw more mindmaps in the process of divergence, which will help us establish a clear logic of thinking and sort out the primary and secondary relationship between each material. This is also because I also found that many students have many good ideas and materials in the teaching process, but do not know how to connect them, or the connection between each creative element is not reasonable.

In this case, mind mapping is very necessary. Students can not only find the theme quickly in the process of sorting, but also avoid students' thinking too rigidly about the details, and start from the main line to associate and diverge. The whole process is also a powerful collection of works.

　　 How to use inspiration?

The excellence of a work depends to a great extent on how we use this inspiration. I don't know if you find that a successful designer and excellent creator will not be exhausted, but will become more and more productive with the accumulation of their working hours. This also proves that inspiration is not a talent that we imagine can not be met, on the contrary, inspiration and other professional skills can be mastered through training.

In the early stage of collection of inspiration, students have found the theme, but how to further develop this theme? How to be unique? My suggestion is to practice, find the direction and continue to deepen in the process of hands-on production.

Many students Portfolio training When the project production cycle is tight, they are more afraid of hands and feet. They are afraid that the topic selection is not good enough and the research is not perfect enough. They put themselves into the thinking limit and dare not practice. At this time, I usually encourage students to jump out of their inherent thinking rather than just walk around, and use practice to test the accuracy of the project. The promotion process of the project is also the best opportunity to collect inspiration.

Taking product design as an example, we usually collect the inspiration of the collection of works to collect the problems to be solved, but what colleges and universities want to see most is our ability to solve problems. In order to achieve the goal of solving problems, we need to make bold attempts for different audiences, and inspiration is also generated in constant attempts, The inspiration that has been verified in practice is the most instructive.

　　 Conclusion:

Inspiration is a flash in daily life. Being good at finding and collecting inspiration from works is a skill that every student should learn. Today's sharing is generally three points - being good at recording, timely sorting, absorption and transformation.

How to collect the inspiration of works collection? Inspiration is the resonance felt from the details of daily life. Students can prepare a Sketchbook in daily life. They can record things that resonate at any time. The way of recording can be written, painted or even collaged. In the process of our recording, it has also been processed by our thinking and transformed into our own material.

We can also make good use of mobile phones. Taking photos and recording are good ways to record in time; In addition, timely sorting is also very important. First, it is convenient for us to look it up again, and second, we can harvest more full emotions in repeated feelings;

How to collect the inspiration of works collection? How can inspiration be used in works? The most important step in collecting inspiration is to learn to summarize and transform it into your own creativity, which is what we call the difference between learning and borrowing. The best creativity must come from the second innovation of your own ideas.

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