Jul 29 (edited) in Master Artist's Attitude
How to Create like a Master Immediately
Act like Boss Creative = Making Shit up + Abusing Art Rules + Stealing
Make Shit up = Trial and Error. Analyse what you have and imagine what could fit. Or do something random and see if it works or not. Let yourself be surprised by what’s possible from experimentation. Iterate. Refine what you have until it’s boss.
Abuse Art Rules = They’re professional tools that are here to 100x your artwork appeal. Without them applied it will look average.
Use Shape, Colour, Contrast, Pattern, Dimension, Flow, Light and Shadow to play on our natural instincts for beauty.
Steal = Observe what makes a design you love so good-looking and apply that to what you create. Every great artist does this! Don’t limit yourself to your own head.
examples
Chop all your plants so they follow a curved line that you found cool on a sports car.
Fix a colour clash zone with pink, teal, fresh green, orange and purple: take out all purple plants and it’ll become a saucy split complementary contrast.
Chop boring ball-like bushes into a dented dice shape.
Add straight triangular leaves into a zone of round leaves.
Create a perfectly contrasting background wall of plants for your garden strip
Chop off all left-facing branches of every plant in your garden
Stick some white or neon yellow plants into the darker zones
Cut some plants into tubes or other random shapes
Keep chiseling, simplifying, complexifying and keep coming back to it with fresh eyes, so it can become something truly amazing and worth looking at!
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How to Create like a Master Immediately
