Week 10 + 11 of being creative

🚪mural, 👭🖊️co-writing, 🤹‍♀️🥟 playdoh

The door mural is finally here

It broke my arms because I had to draw all of these within 4 hours. It still needs another layer of lines to make it look decent and not like a kid’s drawing. Even though I don’t look at it and be like “oh wow I’m so talented 😎✨,” I’ve decided that I’ll like this mural. Because if I don’t, I’ll be miserable staring at it every day 🙃. Besides, the cat (where the lines are polished) looks pretty okay. And maybe I’ll add another layer of acrylic coloring in the middle as well.

but I give myself the credit for actually pursuing this project and materializing it. The process was 40% exciting and 60% uncomfortable, but I’m pushing through.

Actually wrote a post

Last weekend, I co-wrote the first blog with my friend, Svitlana! Kudos to you for all the brain food and making it so fun to write.

It’s rather a creative writing piece, where we went tangentially around designing our social circle, something we both actively thought about as we got plucked off our normal social circle after graduation.

You can read it here

Play-Doh

My friend, Mateus, is a Play-Doh master. He’s created hell-hole creatures that would come straight out of Stranger Things with simple kid toys. Look, how could I not rave about him?

So when he’s coming over this week, we had a play-doh and chit-chat time. I’ve never actually seen his creative process up close before, despite having lived with him for 4 months. He’s much more patient with his work - willing to attend to the littlest details and destroy the whole product if it’s not quite the vibe. He also gave me more guidance on how to find my visual sense. The more I draw and try to design, the more I realize I have zero idea how to use colors and shapes according to the medium. His baseline is: consume → develop a taste → have a library of ideas you can build from.

So here’s my elementary play-doh work

Doing something with your hands while talking is calming. It gives me space to retreat and slowly ease into a deeper conversation. Highly recommend!!

Takeaways

• I actually spent the majority of week 11 not creating at all. Week 10 was also minimal creative work, with the bulk of the mural already designed. Fluctuating between being highly motivated and falling back to inertia during the creative process is something I’m trying to understand. Will probably write about this later.

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This is the week #10+11 update of my daily creative challenge, as outlined in the Re-manifesto of this blog. I’m inspired by MỞ - Mơ và Hỏi’s course, Writing On The Net 2 (#wotn2), and all my friends who write and create consistently!