When I am struggling to come up with creative ideas or putting off researching new projects I am very easily distracted and will do anything in order not to have to start working again, from making countless cups of tea, to checking up on all my friends on facebook, phoning every family member for a catch up, rearranging my entire bedroom or attempting a recipe that I know it out of my league. However I have thought that during some of the popular procrastination hobbies inspiration can be found.
I have on several occasions found ideas for shapes from simply looking around my room or walking home. Something ever so remote can catch the eye and spark an idea. Looking through photographs on facebook or on my wall have given me compositional ideas or of angles to take on a poster for instance.
These are some examples I have found of when procrastination has turned to inspiration:
Would you ever think that drawing moustaches on models in magazines could lead to a political campaign?
Whilst the first may be vandalism, the second was the actual campaign and may be derived from scribbling on magazines.
Or that doodling on a scrap page could result in some great textile designs and could be hung on walls everywhere or the forever changing google homepage logo.
Listening to music and their lyrics can have a huge influence. If certain lyrics stand out to you or are of significance to you, you may have inspiration to illustrate them which can go on to be used in a project. I find that this is a great way to portray a certain emotion that you are trying to get across in some work by listening to music with the same feelings behind it to help you get in the mood that you are trying to demonstrate.
You can find ideas in the funniest places so never close your creative mind you never know what you will find.
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