Q/A and other stuff

This latest class of concept development was quite enjoyable. We had brought 10 images that changed the meanings of a word or phrase we chose. It was entertaining to see what we could come up with and I found it to be a very fun and beneficial project. We were also assigned questions that had to be answered here.

Have you experienced your own or other people's fear-based reactions to your creative education and career choices?  

Oh yes but only when I was younger around the time of early high school and late elementary school which is  of course a strange time to worry about a future career. Although most of t hat worry came from the odd friend and never from family  some of my elementary school faculty thought it was odd.a waste to sign up for a high school that had specialized media and art programs when I could just go to another cheap ass school instead. Other then that I on't think I've truly been worried about my future, as I intend to design video games, I can fall back on regular design work, and if that somehow fails I can easily fall back on IT work, really never had these fears or had them expressed to me.

How have you successfully overcome these reactions?

Well I think I prematurely answered this question in my previous answer. Although like I said before outside of some odd comment from when I was quite young I never truly had these fears of working with my creativity nor did I really have it expressed to me. So there wasn't much to overcome

What is your concept of your creative process?

I do mostly basic creation. I first get an understanding of what I need to make or design and then I just kind of go with the flow. I've never been one for planned layouts or specific routes, I often only follow guidelines when they're related to a school project of some sort. Although I imagine when working for someone else I will also have to follow some form of guidelines  But my creative process simply does with me drawing or on the computer and playing with concepts. My creative process also tends to be oone of borrowing, as in I borrow elements from previous works or things I've seen throughout my life, a life of inspiration one might say.

How do you approach creating, making?

I don't do anything special I simply turn music on, if I feel like it, and set about brainstorming.  I of course thing about what I'm trying to create and head down a certain direction in hopes of finding an idea and refining it. More often then not I'll sketch a large amount of rough ideas only to find one idea I truly like more then the rest, and at that point I go ahead and set about refining and improving it. My creation doesn't always take place in a sketchbook either as I often have ideas swirling in my head when on my computer, and with digital media there's a lot more fine creations in terms of brainstorming as I find work on the computer far harder to replicate then work made by hand.