Live and..

Yesterday, I was blessed enough to chill for a while and catch a movie. I asked my mother to accompany me and watch Rise of the Guardians which by the way is a movie that you’ll regret not watching. Lately, I’m slacking off and I feel too uninspired to do any artwork and worse, my plates... And I realized that maybe the reason why I can’t create anything is because I stopped dreaming. We need our dreams for ourselves to marvel, to be inspired, to welcome creativity. When we welcome our creativity, we begin a colorful journey; a journey to places that only our minds can create. This is a chance to paint the world with colors that are alive, a chance to revive a sweet childhood memory and be able to share it with the world.

But this doesn't always happen; we have our doubts and fears. There are anxieties that we can’t get rid of. Clashing schemes and muddled thoughts: how do I start if my pencil isn't sharpened, if my pen is out of ink, and if my camera is out of film? Where will my first step lead me? Or do I even know why I want to take this journey in the first place?

Maybe a sack of creativity is what I need in this journey that I am willing to take a crack at. Creativity is my weapon. 

This semester, I am part of the organizing team of Ideas that Matter which is totally awesome. As an org team member, we are expected to produce magic in a wand’s flutter. Besides, it is part of being an advertising student, right?

So I was wandering in the streets of the World Wide Web last night and I found Kendra Cherry’s article entitled “How to Boost Your Creativity” and here are some of the tips she mentioned:

Commit Yourself to Developing Your Creativity

Realize that Creativity is Sometimes Its Own Reward

Be Willing to Take Risks

Make Time for Creativity

Overcome Negative Attitudes that Block Creativity

Fight Your Fear of Failure

For us to make it to the end of a colorful voyage, let us not limit ourselves to things, habits, and people that are just around us. Be curious to everything that life has to offer in order for ideas to flow in you and in no time, you’ll be as creative (or even more) as your favorite artist, art director, film maker, and writer!

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people”

– Leo Burnett

Make art, draw your friends, enhance your skills, draw people and things that inspire you, create, make more art, draw the New York City skyline, go to New York – the city of art, try something new, drink coffee, finish the artworks you've started, believe, create your own maps in your mind, show people your work, always dream, take time to sit in the park and sketch, write, enjoy, dance, be positive, be free, say yes, don’t say you can’t, and most importantly.. Don’t forget to live. 

By: Louise Samantha Claire Padua