Sarah Atlee Makes Pictures » tools http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress Drawings, paintings, collages, and notes on contemporary art. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:26:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Feeling Stumped? http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2010/01/feeling-stumped/ http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2010/01/feeling-stumped/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:14:00 +0000 fatladysings http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/?p=820 Here are some tools that can help spur your creativity. Don’t try to execute every idea all at once — pick a link at random and follow it.

The Brainstormer (Read a history of The Brainsormer here.)

The Psychic Sidekick

Directors Bureau Idea Generator

Michael Nobbs‘ 75 ways to Draw More and Draw Your Life

Doug Chayka’s sketchbooks

A methodology for creating new ideas (written by professional illustrator Nate Williams)

An extensive list of ideation tools

Keith Haring knew that anything worth drawing once was worth drawing a hundred times.

I like to go to movies and draw in the dark. And I love love love blind gesture drawing.

Join the BookMooch Journal Project (or just browse their blog or their Flickr pool) or 1001 Journals

Participate in the quarterly Worldwide Sketch Crawl Day.

Illustration Friday suggests a new topic once a week!

Following are some idea-generation links oriented toward writers, but they could just as easily apply to image-makers.

No one cares what you had for lunch.

Idea Generator Blog Writing Prompts

Googobs of Creative Writing Prompts

Now rock out with your socks out.

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