Becoming More Creative - Draftsmen S1E21

Thinking of creative ideas is actually not that hard, but executing them, bring them to fruition, and solving real problems is much harder and requires creative skill. We’ll define what it means to be creative and some ways you can stimulate and improve your own creative abilities. A listener asks how he can increase his passion for art and Stan shows off some drawings he bought from Stephen Bauman.
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Stan Prokopenko and Marshall Vandruff are art instructors. If you love the arts, particularly the craft of drawing and painting and image-making… and you want to level up your skills or even make a living with your skills, we are here to answer your questions. We’re here to offer you advice, refer you to our resources, share your love of the craft and maybe inspire you! Learn to Draw - www.proko.com Marshall Vandruff. Subscribe to the podcast at bit.ly/DraftsmenPod
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[@ProkoTV]

What’s your Jello Skyscraper idea? Mine is Scuba Diving Bedbugs (Steve Huston talks about 3 ways of being creative. One of those ways is to combine random things together. Jello + Skyscraper = Jello Skyscraper)

[@RobertF-]

Spider Bunnies

[@KiX-K4T13]

Crystal Spray Sounds? Shards of Baubles? Cat Grappling Banana? Packaged Sound Compliments? Oscillating Hair Trimmer? Rage Inducing Syringe? The Wheel Anchor? I mean, I've got a million of them! I'll take yeer $$$moaniez$$$, nao!

[@dennisbusch_de]

Edible paint, drinkable if mixed with water as well. Solves the starving artist problem.

[@RobertF-]

@@dennisbusch_de Mmmm, Ultramarine Blueberry Smoothies

[@Thevariantspace]

Dildo blender

[@sweatybabypowderhands843]

*Non-awkward moment* Proko: THIS IS SO AWKWARD

[@Chessbox09]

Thought it was just me lol

[@Gryz34]

I like how Marshall can plug several interesting books in each episode

[@EverythingsBeenDone]

Agreed!

[@juliabaphomet5439]

Stan asked about things that have been improved by their limitations: Suckless software is improved, to the point of being incredibly high quality, by the strict adherence to self-imposed limitations. Time constricted game jams and word constricted short stories often show tight and enthusiastic execution of experimental ideas, that often go on to influence more complete games and longer form prose. Mangaka often (not always. don't @ me.) have better grasp on value and line weight than western inkers because they cannot lean on a colorist. They have to sell the entire image in B&W. In another episode Marshall talked about artists like Franklin Booth and Berni Wrightson who grew up with lithograph illustrations and did their best to replicate them with pen and ink, creating an amazing genre of pen and ink work. The very concept of thumbnailing. You impose a limitation so you can rapidly test out compositions. The ultimate limitation: Time. You can't study everything, what you practice will be your style.

[@ProkoTV]

Great examples! Thank you

[@sezmonsta3229]

Please never end this podcast 🙏

[@tanyesil]

Bad news

[@ozwellespencer955]

@@tanyesil bummer :\

[@Kayjoir]

The enemy of creativity is the fear of failure.

[@boblob3509]

the enemy of my enemy is my enemy

[@anthonyfinlaw5058]

Hes just sitting here on my shoulder how do i get him off. I can literally feel the fear as a weight.

[@leosabat4636]

@@anthonyfinlaw5058 at least yours is over your shouder my is grabbing me by the nuts

[@chloe3053]

these two are great together. Love this podcast.

[@Looneymooncartoons]

I used to have that obsession the caller was talking about. I developed it by tying my self-worth into my art and never feeling good enough as I was. I was highly motivated and worked my ass off. It got me into a successful career as an animator but it also caused me to burn out multiple times, destroy relationships and mask an ambient level of depression that I should have been dealing with by constantly working. I eventually realized that if I wanted to have a happy life I would have to temper my obsession. It wasn't easy. I had to do some therapy and a lot of soul searching. I still work a lot and have plenty of passion for art, but I feel ok with not working and enjoying my life and time with people I care about. If you want to be obsessed or are obsessed, you can accomplish a lot with that, but staying that way for too long comes at a heavy price.

[@risingcode3909]

literally me rn

[@moosefishman180]

38:10 Every time artists do things like "I'm going to use a limited colour pallette" "I'm going to stop using a grid to get the proportions perfect" "I'm going to deviate from the reference here to create something more unique" "I'm going to push these proportions" "I'm going to alter the lighting here to be more dyanimic" Aren't these examples of us creating problems for ourselves, to make ourselves more creative and improve our work? Perhaps I'm just not understanding what they meant by creating problems, but that's what I thought Marshall was getting at. Great show as always

[@chrisminniti]

Marshall is awesome. He's so calm and doesn't sweat the flow of the show. He brings a real organic and genuine nature. It's the perfect balance to Stan's goofiness.

[@mkAYY825]

marshall , dropping knowledge bombs the whole way through this... actually need to take notes from this video.

[@ilgnir]

Stan: Apple could not exist before the internet. 😂

[@sebastianwittenkamp2738]

I love this podcast because I am learning to draw. Stan and Marshall are just great together. I also love this podcast because I am a programmer and there are so many parallels between the two fields. So much of what is discussed around learning, teaching, execution...it’s gold for any person who does creative work for a living.

[@phoebeglobe483]

I totally agree on both counts.. creativity and technical ability .Creativity cannot be taught, it is an innate thing some people have. In me it is like a well inside me that i dip into and use unconsciously. If I'm not actively doing creative things for some reason and its been a while, the well overflows willy nilly into whatever i am doing or i start writing poetry in my head while I'm asleep. It must out. On the other hand if I've over used it , i start scraping the bottom of the well and eventually run out. And then i just have to wait till it fills up again and there's no 2 ways about that either. Yes it can be coached if you have it and helped along. If you don't have it, you can't get water from a stone . As for technical ability a lot of art institutions nowadays feel that creativity trumps technical knowledge and haven't been teaching it. Total foolishness of course. That's like asking an English speaker to write poetry in French when they know 5 words of the language! A relative of mine dropped out of her University Bachelor of Arts for this reason. thanks PROKO!!! and the DRAUGHTSMEN!! you fill a very vital need indeed!

[@sipos_barni]

Trent Reznor (creator of Nine Inch Nails) is using limitations to improve his creativity to make music. Like "i could use every instrument that i just need, but i`ll use only this, and this for my upcoming album" ... and results is always amazing.. if you are not familiar with NIN you should check out.

[@hanskrill5625]

Thank you for constantly providing content that feels enriching and contributory (that a word?). I totally agree with Marshall's hammering on skill and knowledge almost as a prerequisite to being creative. Not only does it provide another dimension to get creative with, it also serves to make the jump from idea to product that much easier. And as it becomes easier, more of the idea will find its way into the product and not get lost along the way, because that's what struggling with fundamentals will do to any idea.

[@FlockyFlock17]

Marshall's note to himself from 2005 is spot on! It can be used in many different ways, not only with creativity, but life in general. Bravo, sir!

[@loelli_]

ahh ! I knew Vance Kovacs as a kid and remember going to his family's home (my parents were friends with his parents) and he showed me and my sister some video game that involved using creativity and art to solve problems and get to the finished line. This was the 90s.. I thought it was SO COOL and stuck in my head forever like a core memory lol. I know he's since done incredibly well as an artist, but it got me so excited when you mentioned him!

[@dr.tastyandtheheadslapstas492]

JUST WANTED TO SAY I REALLY ENJOY PROKO AND APPRECIATE DRAFTSMEN.... MY BELIEFS ON CREATIVITY........WHEN PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE NOT CREATIVE...... MY RESPONSE IS.......... """"HUMAN BEINGS ARE A CREATIVE SPECIES......EVERONE IS CREATIVE......EVERYONE""" EVERY THOUGHT ONE HAS IS CREATED ....EVERY SENTENCE WE SPEAK IS CREATED.... THE OUTFIT ONE WEARS THEY CREATE.....WE CREATE NEW LIFE .....CREATING IS BEING CREATIVE..... WE EACH CREATE OUR OWN PERSONALITIES AND CHARACTER .....OUR THOUGHTS AND WORDS CREATE OUR REALITY......WE CREATE OR MOODS.....WE CREATE OUR HISTORY ...PEOPLE NEED TO REALIZE THAT WE NEED CREATIVE OUTLETS IN OUR LIVES TO BE FULFILLED COMPLETELY .....IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE WHAT MOST CONSIDER AN ART....I SAY EVERYTHING IS AN ART AND EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST....AND IF MORE PEOPLE WENT ABOUT THINGS WITH THAT OUTLOOK I BELIEVE LOTS OF PEOPLE WOULD PUT MORE EFFORT THE THINGS THEY DO WHICH IN TURN WOULD MAKE THEIR LIVES MORE HOW THEY ENVISION IT SHOULD BE......THE HAPPIEST YOU SEE PEOPLE IS WHEN THEY ARE EXPRESSING THEMSELVES THROUGH WHAT THEIR CREATIVE OUTLET IS.....SO MANY PEOPLE ARE CREATING SO OFTEN AND DONT KNOW IT....MANY PEOPLE USE THEIR CREATIVITY IN A HARMFUL OR TOXIC WAY....BY CREATING NEGATIVE SCENARIOS THAT HAVENT HAPPENED WHICH CREATES ANXIETY.....CREATING REGRETS THAT CREATE DEPRESSION .....CREATING LIES........WE NEED TO REALIZE THOUGH ....THOSE THAT RUN THIS WORLD DO NOT WANT PEOPLE USING POSITIVE CREATIVITY...OR EVEN KNOWING THAT THEY CAN CREATE ANYTHING BUT A MISERABLE MUNDANE LIFE.......CREATIVE LIFESTYLES MUST BE ENCOURAGED ....IT IS HOW TO CREATE A LIFE WORTH LOVING...CRERATIVE OUTLETS ASSIST IN ONE FINDING THEIR TRUE SELF .....ANYWAYS GENTLEMAN I WOULD LOVE TO GO ON BUT I HAVE TO CREATE A WAY TO GET TO A WORKING SHITTER BEFORE I CREATE A MESS IN MY GINCH.......KEEP ON CREATING MY FRIENDS.....CREATING IN A WAY THAT IMPROVES YOUR LIVES ....JUST YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ProkoTV]

Season 2 will begin on April 7 and on it’s own KZbin channel… Be sure to subscribe! kzbin.info/door/fvIqreCk628yB9mp3e_ABQ

[@gyo4946]

haven't finished the pod yet but can we aprecciatte marshall and stan's friendship istg they are the cutest

[@devilandthesunink]

Hi, I want to make note on voice mail. From my childhood I was realy into sports. Now it’ s freestyle mountain bike the most. Building dirt jumps by hand nad shovel with friends it creative and fun...but is physicaly hard. Riding is dangerous, so you have to focus of you may end up in hospital. After sesssion Im always physicaly tired, BUT in the best headspace I know for evening spent with drawing. So I love having other passion outside of making art. Cheers and thank Stan and Marshal for great podcast

[@serlymarton]

every single time its fun and interesting to hear your podcast, thank you!

[@PuppetMaster8707]

DANG IT PROKO!!!! I had a mouth full of tea and I spit it everywhere when I saw this thumbnail

[@thelastpencilstudio]

There are many forms of creativity. 1. Combinatorial - which really isn’t that creative in terms of generating an idea since it could eventually be arrived at through brute force means. However they are seen as creative because they are statistically unusual. 2. Iterative or exploratory creativity - which seek to add to or modify an existing idea or maybe in the case of an artist searching for a unique creative voice or style. Artists and scientists spend a significant amount of time in this space and can be seen making adjustments or ‘tweaking’ various tuning knobs depending on the parameters in the problem space. Each of these modes can also be accessed through deliberate or spontaneous practice. Following Exploratory creativity we have 3. transformational - which takes the exploration phase a bit further by possibly adding/removing parameters or adding/removing rules and make fundamental structural changes to the idea and beginning new phase of exploration. As for the value of these ideas well I believe that determining the value is a separate issue which is relative only to the context or problem being solved.

[@leosabat4636]

"you can guide and help , but cant be force". love it works for learning , the mind in general , and relasionships

[@lanigirognithemos]

I came up with a little idea called "the circle of creation." Basically it goes like "creation>inspiration>creativity>imagination>creation>inspiration>creativity>imagination>creation..." and so on infinitely. you need to imagine it in a circle form. Anyway, the idea is that creation came first like for example the big bang and then someone saw something like a tree (creation) and gets the idea to draw that tree in a different way (inspiration) and then he actively thinks about HOW to draw it (imagination) and then draws it on paper (creation). Then someone else sees this drawing and is inspired by it and so the circle continues.

[@flisboac]

Interesting concept.

[@akiraishin7141]

That cold open confused me to no end and I loved it

[@Positive_Pepper]

Great episode, thank you. I've been learning a lot about myself and my artwork and what it means to be an artist through your discussions.

[@gmeliberty]

Artists create their own limitations all the time. An example would be painting a portrait using a severely limited palette. I don't know if it is to consciously improve creativity. But I think that is a result.

[@HgoArt]

The best show on KZbin ☺

[@BionicRambutan]

This the first video of this channel that appears on my feed. WHERE WERE YOU!?!? I NEED MORE!!!

[@ProkoTV]

Welcome to the channel!

[@shadowtheory7500]

The blank page i Stan's notebook with "Creativity" written at the top is so unintentionally relatable. I love it.

[@tonydambe]

Marshall is cool. I love his confidence.

[@Mnkybyhndcrmp]

we're over here dying at "squirt it over there" lmaaoo

[@stefanb6539]

Yay, perfect timing. I spent my first two days of vacation mainly drawing, and am out of gas right now. Fill me up, please!

[@adienecuador]

Robert Sapolsky is one of my faves...He's brilliant! Thank you for introducing him here!

[@briancrofton5181]

first time listening, what a great podcast and wonderfully rich episode

[@flowerbloom5782]

Thank you! This helps alot. Especially helps when you defined what u thought creativity.

[@orkid_fatima_az_zahra]

this is byfar the best podcat from u guys!

[@drlazy1]

The big advantage of limitations is that they make the problem space smaller. This allows you to apply more focus to the main creative problem you are trying to solve, and prevents you getting stuck in the weeds of analysis paralysis that comes with trying to solve a problem that has infinite solutions. In a way, word association does something similar in that it gives you a vague compass direction to work with, suddenly you have gone from dealing with the whole pie to dealing with a slice. So something like jello skyscraper might morph into large building on a jelly like alien world, or something more related to whatever your end goal is.

[@sanilartist8757]

It is always fun listening to you guys. 👌

[@KUBE.archvis]

I create limitations for my self all the time in architectural design. The more limitations I have, the easier it is for me to solve problems. It gives me structure to be able to make decisions. Just staring at a blank page is intimidating. But as soon as you start placing limitations about what you want to create, it turns your blank page into a puzzle that needs to be solved.

[@edgarsketches]

I just did a little bit of idea mixing (the one about water, beds and bedbugs, and scooba diving) and by using 4 things: Street lantern, church bell, button and vines I came up with a street lantern, covered in christmas vines, that light up and ring a bell and play a light show when you press a button on the lantern post. It feels trippy to make up hings like this, but its very fun, haha!

[@Songfugel]

I learned to do this sort of thing as part of my "art" from playing games I loved. I played the games so many times, I started putting on limitations by myself, that would change every single play-thorough significantly to make it more enjoyable and to reconnect with that feel of wonder of exploration I enjoyed with the games originally. I realized later, that I was doing this with drawing as well. I often set limitations like, I can only use the smudge tool in this one, I can only use vectors and nothing else etc. I think it greatly boosted creativity and took the works into a whole different tangent and forced me to think in new ways to solve stuff I had always done in a certain way, just like in those games

[@2000roentgens]

this podcast is becoming too funny, i cant draw and listen to this because im laughing too much.

[@juliapace2845]

You guys are great. Love the films, books and art you mention and the super topics you discuss. I always learn something. . If I had a dynamite creative idea, I"d work it out visually before I announced it. Yes, I'd hoard it. Sorry if that seems selfish but creative ideas are like gold. You can't just give it away randomly, you have to treasure it.

[@the_Googie]

I LIKED WHEN STAN COMPLIMENTED MARSHALL ITS WHOLESOME

[@maan7715]

Okay I had to stop watching to comment: Wow at Marshall's pop! That's amazing!

[@TylersTrying]

Awesome breakdown of what makes Daredevil so cool at :34

[@TheArtofKAS]

Super helpful episode guys. Thanks for all your work.

[@sf5823]

11:27, 20:04 😂😂😂 love the fact you put scatman John in there 😂😂😂 23:40, 32:10**, 38:50 😂😂 thank god for the creative problem solving in "The Holy Grail", it really makes it even funnier!

[@hnodchuip]

LMAO I love this series so much ahahah I enjoy what you guys talk about and also love your yt video thumbnail so much xDDD

[@emayan6620]

Glad you guys finally mentioned Brad Holland. What took so long? My favorite illustrator ever. It was an honor to meet him.

[@kikoeart3021]

Yeay, im so happy when you make a new one of these :D:D:D

[@AbimSan]

THANK YOU for this. As a game developer, everyone is so sure that they're game designers because they are so "creative" and can come up with game ideas. Everyone can come up with something! Actually making them work in a real environment is the real deal!

[@fenrysk]

re: traveling, it's funny because one of my old classmates from VCU was Ben Sack (and also a former student of Sterling Hundley), an artist that mostly draws abstract cityscapes, but after college, he went traveling the globe arranging rides on freight ships. re: ideation, one of the things I do is just do a lot of shape thumbnails for character/mech design. I've done Sterling's word list method in the past but doing shape/silhouette thumbnails is more fun for R&D. my focus on shape/silhouette design was something I learned from Kristen Perry (ex-ArenaNet, ex-Valve). During this inktober some of the drawings I've had to dig deep and refer back to multiple books and video references, and a lot of just sketching in the sketchbook to iterate on the pose, line quality, etc.

[@TheOneRioji]

Thank you for introducing me to the Scatman!!!

[@marystellahmutiki2897]

Just love that intro😁

[@sketch3460]

An artist I thought about while listening to your podcast today was Granville Redmond. Redmond was a great California impressionist but also was deaf and a silent film actor. A friend of Charlie Chaplin, he is remembered for both his tonalist paintings and his work in film.

[@DarioDeSiena]

Proko Thank you always for your videos! I always get very motivated about your words and work! just keep on going. And i hope someone can get inspired about my qork to enjoy 🍀✨❤️

[@automud]

Awesome episode guys. Nice work, btw, I want to know more about Marshall's diet.

[@andredias8830]

hey guys, about the limitation that Marshall said, there is a french movement called Oubapo, that is comic book philosofy/movement ideia, where you put some constraints, like less panels or symsbols for example or whatever constraint the comic writer wants, and wonderfull work is being produced with this oubapo ideia. Here in Brazil we have some comic book artist that follow this movement like Jao, you guys should take a look in his comic books, it's great.

[@laurenceV-D]

Yes, it's inspired by Oulipo, wich is the same thing but with litterature : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

[@lynellingram]

I just made a series on being creative and you guys just gave so many even better thoughts and ideas on it! I do believe that creativity is like a muscle that you can work out and keep or make stronger, or in reverse let it atrophy.

[@zenink2654]

Can we get a required viewing list, of some of Marshal's most loved old films?

[@Poohzhunny]

As per usual, your thumbnail game is on point 🤣

[@spyxx]

Hey, Proko..awesome chat thanks for that! :)

[@homuhomu4678]

I've been waiting for this

[@KiX-K4T13]

I've been waiting... ...for you. 🙂

[@pinkcloud3126]

I loved this podcast as much as the others, but for me it really stands out how few women are talked about. In this episode I didn't hear one female name out of all of the examples. I'm not your activist feminist, but I'm a woman and I like to relate to other women in the creative/illustrative business.

[@jaylhasinsomnia2091]

Loish

[@pinkcloud3126]

@@jaylhasinsomnia2091 yeah, that's 1. Just 1.

[@michaelokorodudu2315]

Hey I totally understand but if you wouldn’t mind sharing them so the Proko community could know and see and hey hopefully the guys make an episode on the influential women in art. Learning never stops and I guess even with these guys they could be taught to enlighten us on a world broader than the microscope men proximed of just Male art history masters

[@timowthie]

I would love a conversation between steve houston en marchal vandruff.

[@bichnguyen9319]

I also recommend Lynda Barry's "Making Comics" book in addition to the Gabriel Rico book Marshall mentioned. I think they go very well together hand-in-hand! 😊

[@brettinabox5607]

I lead a community of artists in return for giving me motivation and accountability to create, but we we get a lot of inexperienced artists. Giving critiques is sometimes a challenge when you don't know how they will react to what is said, but I would love to hear your thoughts on separating good art from bad art and the art of giving constructive criticism.

[@nomeda6000]

Is your community an online one?

[@brettinabox5607]

@@nomeda6000 Yes it is.

[@nomeda6000]

@@brettinabox5607 That's nice!

[@swodox9237]

There's an episode on this already if I remember correctly

[@sanakris22]

Have you tried the technique of the shizzt sandwich? You say something good say the critique and then end on a good note. So you get a little of both without hopefully offending people.

[@laurenceV-D]

Very interesting, althought sometimes difficult for me to understand as I'm french. Learning skills and techniques is important but not enough. There are lots of very well made paintings that are not original at all, especially in the nineteenth century. And today, I find there are a lot of people making similar things, and not so many innovations in art. But we have already seen so much things during the twentieth century and before, that everything seems to have already be done. Children sometimes become less creative when they learn art at school, because they use rules instead of letting their imagination runs. They learn the same technics at the same time as their comrades. That's why creativity should be taught and encouraged, even if it's difficult to teach it. For myself, I'm trying to get better in drawing, with lot of observation drawing, and it makes me less creative, but I hope it's just a period. I find creativity is not only problem solving, it's also dreaming and then make your dream comes true.

[@aleskaresquivel4700]

Creativity is a skill but it's also an ability. Using that skill will increase that ability.

[@jessicajustinetabah400]

Marshall is so grandpa i can’t. Much love from indonesia

[@justsiga]

Marshall is a Mood

[@anthonypc1]

well, now I'm inspired. and that's enough media consumption for me today

[@Gkowi]

Marshall looking like a snack in that thumbnail

[@dariusreed1943]

He be looking like a whole meal

[@DouglasNekochan]

the thumbnails are the best! (Laughs a lot)

[@rissune]

I think instead of using the word original to describe creativity, which has the connotation of uniqueness and tends to discourage people preemptively from an idea just because "it's been done before", a more accurate word would be novelty. It's not necessarily some new idea or new combination that's required to be considered creative, it's the novel application/approach to solving a problem. When something is lauded as genius or innovative, it's usually something that's subversive and has a fresh quality to it that, in context, seems unique. But zoom out or look at influences and suddenly the pattern becomes clearer and almost inevitable. Viewing it like that makes the idea of creativity less daunting and some mystical thing that a select few artists were born with and turns it into something quantifiable and more importantly, learnable. It's a skill that is inherently intuitive and abstract but it's something that can be refined over time. It's just harder to learn because learning, say art fundamentals, usually has a concrete structure and this is one that's completely organic. I've been friends with a fair share of artists and the ones that always seemed to be the most creative had a huge visual library to delve into and multiple interests to cross wires and create something fresh. It definitely takes a certain type of person in order to do that (ones who are curious and exploratory and almost mad scientist-y in the way they're experimental) and those types of people have inclinations that are conducive to an easier creative process. But it's not something barred from anyone different, just needs a bit more work and coming to an understanding that it may take longer to get ahold of. It takes a lot to learn creativity and I'm still figuring it out, but it's a very organic process and made easier by surrounding yourself with a variety artists who have differing interests. An environment like that will inevitably branch you out, maybe at a slower pace than if you were a naturally curious person, but it's not an impossible thing. Plus, being in a small circle where you can teach each other about the things you enjoy and listen to people gush about the things they love is incredibly fun!!

[@theawesomist677]

The method I use for "creative problem solving" is to just brainstorm a bunch of ideas and write them down. I will write down every idea, no matter how dumb, because it gets the creative juices flowing. In other words, the bad ideas lead to the good ideas

[@andersdenkend]

Pixel artists use a variety of restrictions to come up with a very unique art style. Be it a reduced set of colors, a set of fixed colors, restrictions on resolution and even restrictions on how to use colors in 8 x 8 pixel tiles (C64, NES). Those restrictions created a wholly new art style imho.

[@MultiKwolf]

Ive BEEN WAITING FOR AN UPDATE ON THIS PODCAST..

[@pranshje2703]

Quick tips by Marshall 31:00 Brad Holland 23:41

[@adanrodriguez2124]

Diligence and Grit may have to do with creativity. I'm teaching myself how to draw, and challenges arrive all the time. Scott Roberston's book, "How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments From your Imagination" is the same way in my opinion. Its a large black bag with pieces of insight. It raises a lot of questions that force me into further exploration(google, skillshare, youtube). Take the Perspective chapter for Example. It's only 7 pages long!

[@tkayshireese]

computers definitely existed before the internet, but we get your point Stan!

[@leodogg468]

I be watching just for the intros

[@Lishtenbird]

I had so much fun making a "what to draw" generator with a couple dozen arrays and hundreds of entries in each, and then just clicking and clicking and clicking on it to see the absolutely hilarious heroes and situations it would come up with! ...and to this day, the script page itself is more popular than the things I actually draw for my website. Duh :(

[@canteregonda746]

"Sit on the toilet and come up with a list..." Do you do this Proko?

[@ProkoTV]

Doing it right now.

[@joschuaknuppe5849]

The toilet is a great place for all sorts of creative things

[@Bumbleskum]

On a note about giving yourself limitations, that's exactly what participating in a 48 hour film festival is. It's voluntarily giving yourself limitations where you didn't need to, which gives you room to exercise creativity and problem solving skills.

[@terrancevanliew1814]

Creativity is more easily tapped into when you limit your choices. If you know, for instance, that you are going to write a story about a dog who saves world. Your focus will be on making an interesting story rather than finding an interesting premise.

[@grieverjoe]

Marshall's dad looks like Gandalf. :D

[@kevinvasquez7881]

Marshall is a god

[@Castal08]

40:30 Song recommendation for Marshall: Slow Learner by Mark Knopfler.

[@felipedorosario4793]

Speaking of Cloth Hammers check out Jacques Carelman books he plays a lot with that kind of super useful ideas!

[@zack49]

Y'know, the psychological community, academia, defines creativity as the number of unique and viable solutions to a problem someone can generate. Fun facts

[@hamidrezash2758]

i"i walked with a zombie " is most poetic movie of whole history

[@TheLightFantasticArt]

@proko You do know that Apple already existed a full 15 years before there was a Worldwide web, right?

[@mdhebert]

Stephen Bauman orginals are about 4 or 5 grand . . . Way to go, Stan. :)

[@ProkoTV]

Woaa. Didn't know that! He must have given me a friend discount :)

[@ReyZar666]

as someone that think of him self as a creative person, my counter part is the fact that not only i struggle following steps, but also i cant be and expert on 1 fill and there is were non creative ppl appear