How She Creates: Ep 008 - "Inspiration"
Welcome to episode 008 of the How She Creates podcast. Today we are talking about inspiration. Inspiration's a really big topic out there on the internet and if you can see the show notes you'll see that we've put inspiration in inverted commas because we're here to dispel the traditional meaning of inspiration. We're here to talk about the only type of inspiration that matters and that is the inspiration that leads to making. In this episode we're gonna talk about translating inspiration from the world around you that is beautiful and authentically yours, and you can just see yourself in it. We're gonna give you practical tips for how to find this kind of genuine inspiration and then also translate it onto canvas or paper or whatever way you create.
Episode Takeaways and Artist Actions
- Sources of inspiration
[Tweet "Inspiration should always lead to making - @cayleegrey"]
- Translating inspiration from the world around you
- How to go from being inspired by something to making something without copying
- What true inspiration is
- Artist action: go on a inspiration hunt in the room you're in
- Tips for looking for inspiration
- Artist action: go on a themed inspiration hunt
- Meeting inspiration and creativity half way
- Artist action: keep an inspiration journal
- The difference between copying and inspiration
- Having your own style and creating unique art due to what we are inspired by
- Dismantling inspiration to build something completely new
- The most important part of an inspiration journal
- Artist action: have regular braindumps or start morning pages
- Morning pages
- Free writing vs. prompts
- How to use prompts to find inspiration
- How the random things make things interesting
- How to channel your inspiration
- How to prevent your art from being washed out and instead make it deep and meaningful
Resources
- Travel Like An Artist ecourse (use this link for the $5 off with the coupon code howshecreates as the password)
- Sabine's photo walks
- Keeping an idea notebook
- Level Up - The Creative's Guide to Getting It Done
- "What I've learned" blog series
- Lauren's inspiration board on Pinterest
- Colossal
- Get Messy Art Journal Community prompts
- Finding inspiration around your home
- How Lauren stays inspired
Hosts
Caylee Grey
Caylee is a fairy godmother slash Jedi master to artists. She believes in art and getting it done.
Lauren Hooper
Lauren is a crafter, adventurer and storyteller living in Seoul, South Korea with her husband. Lauren loves street food, taking photos and making things. Lauren believes that you can find adventure in your everyday life and that it should be captured and documented. Lauren is an art journaler, photographer, scrapbooker, laugh enthusiast, designer, artist and DIY dabbler. 
