The Creative Process

                According to Goldsworthy, the creative process consists of three simple words; thinking, looking, and doing. These are the basics of design.

                To get started, you should think about the problem. You have to know what you are doing before you do it. Ask yourself what you want to achieve. How do you want to style it, what medium, size and color? Then, you think about how to go about this, and solve it. Think about how your idea should be represented and how to communicate it to the people looking at it. After, you think about your audience. Think about how you want to address them, what content, and function.

                Next, there is looking. This is an important part to any artist. We use looking to observe things around us such as nature or human artifacts. We look at our surroundings to learn and possibly help us with our own designs. There is history and culture, visual training and retraining. We see art and design through television, film, internet, and print images. These can influence us to see relationship and examine the works of art and what they address.

                Finally, there is doing. It starts with visual experimentation and revising yourself. Usually, it is thinking with materials. The process is trial and error.  The idea takes form in a sketch, or in final materials. When you are doing and re doing, you take the idea into a life of its own. You are the creator, and you give the design its shape. In, the end, it shows your experiences, and your work is rewarding. Your design will tell a story.