Inspiration Comes in Many Forms

Submitted by Erin King on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 5:20pm
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Inspiration comes in many forms.

Sometimes you get in a rut. You feel uninspired or stuck or like maybe you’ve “lost it.” Maybe you’re a little rusty and don’t trust your skills anymore.

Maybe all you need is a little inspiration. I recently got to scribe at a session for Monster.com with Nathaniel Bellows. My partner in scribing crime has a style that is wildly different from mine. He’s all swirls, and perfectly drawn characters and animals that appear on the board out of nowhere. I’m all lines and words and simple illustrations. We scribed a panel together and in the process of creating something cohesive, I found myself mimicking and borrowing and blatantly stealing bits and pieces of his work.

I felt a rush of inspiration as I headed in to scribe a branding workshop solo. I had a collaborator in my brain as I picked up the pens. I felt myself move from mimicking to making it my own. This is when the act of scribing is at its best. You can feel all your past and present cohorts coming through you and you head into “the zone” and let it all happen.

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collaborating

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 6:15pm.

I love when I'm able to work with someone else, and you + the other makes your end result something you could never have imagined alone! 

the power of not 'knowing'

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 1:41pm.

Back in the day, we were always keen to say that every participant already 'knew' the answer they were seeking.  Yet, the 'secret sauce' to the process was always that no one really knew the final path that would be laid.  We just tapped into 'Inspiration' as our collective response to not 'knowing'.  For me, inspiration  has always lived in the spaces between those concepts we hold/use often and those we don't have at all and might only imagine.

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