30 Ideas - Volume XII

*order of which received.
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satan666v
• Re-Imagine the dev. Icon of another deviant. Along the lines of taking the basic subject og the icon, and reworking it from there. Mine, for example, is a fire-toned face. So, flame and face. Make an icon with fire and a face.

• Select any poem, short story, etc and create artwork based on that writing. Interpretation to whatever degree. Writers can do the opposite. Choose a piece of art and create a story that expands on that one image.

• Pull one character from classic literature and insert him/her into a modern day setting. Ex: A bewildered Huck Finn in LA 2003. Hesse\'s Siddharta in a modern day Baptist revival.

• Create something in a style that you despise. Just trying something new. If you REALLY hate something, you\'ll work harder to create something you like. This is about expanding the bounds of creativity.

• Modernize a pantheon of gods- Loki the hacker. Thor the jock/drummer in a metal band. Aphrodite the lingerie model.

dreamroamer
• Make a point of writing a journal entry each day for a week. On the eighth day, extract sentences from the journal entries to compose a poem that one feels will capture the essence of the week, whether by summarising events, or reliving an roller-coaster ride. Alternatively, the poem can be illustrated, or have the phrases documented as a multimedia piece with sound clips of one reading the entries juxtaposed with illustrations or photographs of symbolic objects.

• A thirty-minute poem: write a paragraph in fifteen minutes on the first object that comes to mind on a count of three. Take the remaining fifteen minutes to replace every third word with another word or expression, while maintaining some coherence to the piece. One may begin a new line if and whenever necessary.

• Choose a street within an area or city and, commencing from one end, journey on foot to the other end; or, if not, for a minimum of ten blocks. Take photographs of stores, objects or people along the way. Assemble or manipulate the photographs into one composition.

• Go to a parking lot and take photographs of hubcaps. These can then be made into brushes, patterns, or arranged into a mosaic or quilt.

• Stand at any location and take a photograph in the direction of each of the four cardinal points. For the secondary points (such as NE, SW, etc.) use five sentences to describe what is at each direction, or feelings/associations upon looking in a particular direction.


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Cuttsy
• A flower in full bloom, perched near the end of one of its petals is a new born baby curled up and sleeping. Showing both the beauty and delecacy of both the baby and the flower.

redpanda
•Here’s a different way to look at making a portrait of someone. This will be a psychological portrait. First, take an photo of yourself, or draw your own portrait, preferibly a side or 3/4 view (though a front view will work, as well). Then take either photos or drawings of things that are important to you, things you think about often, or things you worry about. Arrange them around the top, sides, and back of your head in any graphics program after cutting out that portion of your head. Try making the objects look like they are coming from out of your head. If you include something that worries you try placing a dark cloud around it. You can also try this with other people but it works best for people you know the most about.

•Here’s a way to express your own element. It can be anything from air or storm to love to wood to gold or silver. Try using a vertical format for this, with proportions around 1:3. Then choose something to represent the element. For example storm may be little stylized clouds with small lightning bolts coming out of them, and love may be little hearts. Try to be original, though. For ice or snow I would use snow flakes but make them shaped like something else, maybe like a bird. Then illustrate the symbols you chose for the element as a motif in the picture.

•If you have ever misplaced something and were unable to find it for a long time afterwards (days, weeks, months...)? You have probably thought that you either lost it or someone else took it or moved it. Imagine a type of fantasy creature, one that camoflauges itself as something ordinary but steals and eats things when you aren’t looking. Draw a picture of a person in their house looking for something they lost. Draw everything in front of them looking normal but things behind them subtly peeking out and running off with things. For example, a lamp that forms eyes and a small coffee table that begins moving it’s legs and carring away objects. Try to draw those things behind the person doing this very subtly so it emphasises the idea that they’re sneaking. You may want to draw the person looking around a corner into another room so it’s obvious they’re looking for something but not noticing what’s happening behind them.

•In current pop-culture, articles lsuch as the idea on an “energy ball” are very common, yet often vague. What is the color of pure energy? Does it even have a color or is it pure white? Is it yellow for it’s brightness or red for it’s warmth? It has been found that radioactive materials from nuclear power plants will glow blue. The hottest stars are also blue-white. Blue is, in fact, the true color of fire. If blue really is the true color of these most extreme sources of energy then it would probably be the best color choice of pure energy. Try representing a real ball of energy in an abstract painting. To fully convey the idea of energy try using pure bright white in some places and diagonal strokes to give a sense of speed and movement.

•Many people around the world believe in animals as guiding spirits. They can be found in the Greek and Chinese zodiacs as well as many other places in all cultures. Choose an animal that you think represents yourself. Then ask people that know you what they think you would be but don’t them what you already chose. See if they think of the same thing you did. Draw yourself with the animal you finally decide on as a companion. In the future you may even want to draw more pictures of yourself with that animal or, especially for the furry/anthro artists, draw yourself as that animal. Don’t be exclusive when choosing, include everthing as a possibility (even mythical or made up animals) at first and then narrow it down. You may be surprised at what you decide on. If you are really torn between two or more you can either use multiple animals instead of just one or you might try puting different features of each one onto one animal.

eclipz04
• A picture (drawing or photo, or even prose if you\'ve the talent) much set up like a druggy or a typical addict. Laying out and sick, but instead of beer bottles laying around and pills or needles, have cartons of ice cream laying about.

• This is an idea for a photo which may become amazingly difficult to do. (perhaps a photo manip instead) Take a picture of someone, and catch it on fire, but get the fire to center itself perfectly within their hand, or in a place where it seems the person in the photo controls it. Make it obvious it\'s a photo.

• Women love shiny things, especially gems. Create a picture that idolizes and nearly worships shiney things. Perhaps have things like gems and poptabs (and any type of shiny thing) on a pedastol of some sort, shiny happily in the light.

Sardonic
• Go out to a deserted field and meditate and take in your surroundings. Then write a poem about what you experienced or thought about... after you leave take a photo of the field and use that photo to support your poem.


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savejanos
• Cartoon. Draw a whole bunch of penguins swimming underwater, with one wearing an aviator\'s cap and goggles looking determined. The other penguins are looking skeptical or unbelieving.

• Prose. Write about two people who fall in love while driving to work each morning. Neither of them never speak to each other or ever see each other aside from behind the wheel in different cars. Possibly a comedy.

• Painting/cartoon. Draw yourself hanging upside down from a ceiling. Would possibly do well as a DevID

mindbender
• The double feature. The artist will make one picture, showing things as they are in the light, a place where the cute fuzzy bunnies can come out to play. Then the next picture would be the same except it would be in the dark a place where the not so cute and fuzzy demons can come out to feast.

• The Continuum. This one takes too artists. One makes some sort of landscape or something of that sort, no totaly abstract images. The second artist makes a picture that matches up at least on one side of the first image, but then changes compleatly. The second image can even match up on all sides.

leodadominico
• Draw your recent dream, and interpretate it by placing in symbolic objects to tell its meanings.

aenim-a
• This idea is for a freehand peice on a rock near water: For this youll need a camera and a rock near the water.
Imagine that you\'re on a ephemeral river onlooking the most beatifull of Goddesses, and she wants you to draw her something on a rock. So you do, whatever you like... but take a photograph of the rock and the water seeing as how it is ephemeral you have to.

sanya
• Write about/draw a character from a mythology you know next to nothing about.. (ex. everyone knows who Aphrodite is.. why not try Vishnu or Abassi?)

citrus3d
• Photograph different types of undergarments, male and female, and use them in a photography compilation or a collage of sorts.

bourgogne
• For final Fantasy 10 fans--
Aeons come from a fayth who was once a person, The Aeon appearantly is a projection of their inner self (A litteral Eidolon). Either draw What the fayths of the Aeons would look like, or draw the Aeons that would be summoned from the main characters.


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Volume XIII will be release shortly. Enjoy.

-EOA