It’s hard enough to draw an object as you actually see it! Great artists have an amazing skill that I will never have but I still enjoy drawing. Probably because I don’t judge my pictures and nor should you! And, drawing from a different perspective can help ignite those creative synapses.
I was recently sitting in a restaurant trying to get some work down while enjoying a bowl of Pad Thai. I needed a mental break and shift in thinking. The first picture above is the view from my table that day. The second picture is my attempt to draw the chair on the right upside down. Ok, so I’m not an artist but drawing it upside down helped open up my creative juices. It only took a few minutes but I quickly started to recognize the patterns, relationship between the different parts of the chair and the shadows around the object. One of my 7 Building Blocks to Imaginative Thinking is CREATE. Here I am creating a new perspective with a blank piece of paper, my eyes and a pen. Any view will do. Draw your car, bed, table or even a friend upside down and feel the shift. CREATE is about journaling, drawing, doodling, building and more.
Try drawing the same object upside down, starting on the left, going outside in. You’ll notice something new each time. You can do this while waiting for the coffee to brew, your car to be cleaned, your class to start or while making dinner.
Hint to the problem-solvers out there: Think about your problem in the same way. Write it out. Attack it from the start of the sentence, from the end of the sentence, opposite direction, from the middle. You’ll look at the problem a bit differently each time coming up with multiple new ideas and solutions.
Dream big. Dream often. Eat kumquats!
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