Think of ll projects as play and experiments

Name: Think of ll projects as play and experiments
Uploaded: 2024-02-16T00:15:01+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: Ryan Maloney describes the "valley of despair" creators hit when starting projects, fearing their ideas are bad or unoriginal. He uses a simple trick…

16 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Ryan Maloney describes the "valley of despair" creators hit when starting projects, fearing their ideas are bad or unoriginal. He uses a simple trick: during sketch sessions in Procreate, he works in blue to signal his brain the work is low-stakes and disposable, turning the process into playful experimentation instead of serious commitment.

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You take one step into the creative process and you fall down in the valley of despair and you think to yourself, wow, this is either a really bad idea, an idea that I don't want to commit to, or it's something somebody else has already done and they are so deeply committed to it that I could never compete with that. I'll spend these— this is like an hour-long workshop session where I'm just throwing ideas on the Procreate canvas. Whenever I work in this blue color, my brain knows it can abandon this at any time it wants to. There's nothing serious about this. This is just fun and play and exploring.