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Where do your ideas come from?

“Plunking yourself down in front of a pad of paper and scraping the inside of your brain is probably not the most effective way of generating ideas.”

So says Jillian Tamaki on her sketchblog, where she reproduces a handout produced for a talk she gave on concept generation at Parsons in NYC. As she says herself “everyone works differently” but it’s an interesting to see her process and maybe get a few tips along the way.

Via Drawn.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 20th, 2008 at 10:10 am and is filed under Illustration, Resources, Step-by-steps, Tutorial. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Where do your ideas come from?”

  1. steve doogan
    October 20th, 2008 11:45
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    Great post. Jillian Tamaki is one of my favourite illustrators. Almost everything she does is worth poring over, never a dull line. A real one-woman art school!

  2. scalder
    October 21st, 2008 22:41
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    I concur wholeheartedly, doog.

    Here’s somebody whose work is pressing my buttons at the mo;

    http://www.scottbakal.com/