Inspi­ra­tions come in all places, some of mine seems to come from dreams…

A few days ago, I told myself that I need to reject the idea that I can’t draw.  So I started to look at tuto­ri­als how to draw and learn how to “think”.  One of the meth­ods is to think each objects in line and shapes how that object is made up instead of let the brain telling me what that object is.  Using that method, I tried vec­tor­iz­ing an image.  I feel that helps me to learn how to put the shapes together as much as draw­ing – and the prod­uct was my USB icons.   The result was quite good, and that was a very good exer­cise apparently…

Because I had an inspir­ing moment when I was watch­ing TV.  A very flashy, col­or­ful com­mer­cial came up.  I don’t remem­ber what com­mer­cial it was, but I started to look closely at a sin­gle object and fol­lowed it across the screen, quickly break the object down with line, shapes, and ana­lyzed how I could achieve it as a draw­ing.  That was an inter­est­ing and inspir­ing moment, because I felt excited as I was ana­lyz­ing the image on the TV screen.  That night, I had a vivid dream of a lay­out – next morn­ing, I was able to recall the lay­out, col­ors, and drew it out on a piece of paper.  I guess I looked at and fed my brain enough design ele­ments that entire day, and think­ing in lines and shapes that a “dream” lay­out appeared.

Who would’ve thought dreams can be an inspi­ra­tional source, eh?  Have you have a inspi­ra­tional dream?  Do tell.