The Creative Process: 3 steps to unlock your hidden potential

Great video 👏 I often Pretend I'm 5 or 10 years old quite often. Playtime, make believe, cartoons, adventure movies, golden age radio broadcasts, playing with all my collections of toys valuable or not, and filling my home and studio with whimsical and inspiring stuff has been a huge influence in my Art and Creative Journey. I am 57 and proud to have kept a child like wonder. No rules 🤗💫🐦🐛🚀 Getting Younger Every Day 🤟

Also, don't throw away the "losers." Keep track of them because you never know when a new idea melded with one of them makes it a gem. There's no real "losers," just idea that aren't ready yet.

They don't want you to be creative. They want obedient robots.

When I was employed as an editorial designer, I worked from home. Very often I would work for hours, then I’d take a break, do something mundane like laundry or clean the kitchen sink. That’s when the ideas would flow. True, you just have to let creavity purculate, don’t rush it. ❤ love your content. Thanks for sharing

Yeah, this should be taught in school

For decades, I was an outdoor painter until I realized I could take my work to the next level if I worked in my studio from outdoor sketches, photos, and worked out my ideas on smaller studies before moving to the much larger canvas. I now allow time for reflection and "creative incubation," as Moshe Bar calls it. I trust in the process of allowing my mind to study a large work in progress and never pick up a brush until I have a strong idea about what will move it forward to a successful completion. A 30"x36" canvas can now take me years, working on it off and on as I switch to other pieces. Ideas need to ripen until they're ready to be used and I agree, you can't rush it.

Thank you ❤…You make so much sense to my whole life😊. I’m retired,62 and finally I don’t feel guilty that I’m not spending my time working and cleaning something or taking care of my children. Looking forward to all your videos..

Hi! art teacher from the Netherlands. I teach kids age 12-18. We teach about the creative process. Cheers! love what you do ;) P.S. this is only one version of the creative process. I can recommend looking at the KOLB model to see multiple starting positions of the creative process, since everyone has a different preference in where they start.

These videos would also be great podcasts! I'd love to listen to this while drawing

This reminds me that when we were passing the last exams in school, on the math exam there were always tricky questions. You couldnt really solve those type of questions mathematically. Which was extremely annoying. The only way to solve for us was to know the answer beforehead, EXACTLY because they were based on creative thinking and we WERE NOT taught to solve them! Years after graduation i learned that those questions were put in tests specifically so less people could get 100 score. So unless you had connections or a tutor who knew about it, or you was a total megamind, you wasnt been able to score the whole 100 points.

I absolutely LOVED the slow cooker analogy. You are a gem, and I feel honored to be able to learn from you.

I'm glad to say I bought your book Danny. Just what I needed to kickstart me back into a creative life after years of wandering in the desert of inertia. Look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you x

This is encouraging, thank you.

Thank you so much for telling the process as in art school they always say creativity is your inner potential which makes me feel bad and also we were actually taught this in school like we had a whole chapter on creativity in Psychology, so glad to hear that !

I just wanted to say that you’ve done a lot for my creative process in the last couple hours. You taught me more than anyone ever taught me, and your main key is positive thinking. “Anything is art. You can draw anything! It’s okay if it’s bad, it’s art!”. A real glass half full kind of thing happening, and it helps so much. Thank you :))

Thank you Danny... thinking ability and making application to what is practical and useful is a key to good teaching. Im encouraged!

You are so very spot on..true. makes so much sense. .thank you.

I'm writing this on my hubbies computer (I'm PegEgg) and have watched many of your videos. What you are talking about is so true. I had a career in the Army, and am now retired and doing fun things - and one of those things is looking back at the things I learned in school and college and never used. I wish I had learned at least two more languages, but spent too much time on math I never use and accounting. I wish I'd learned all things about money management, care of the body and so many more things. This would be a class I would have liked when I was young. Thanks for sharing. Love PegEgg

Very similar to the process of 'brainstorming', which I WAS taught in school, but in an extracurricular course, not a regular class. I'd forgotten about that, though! Like the creative process you describe, it starts with an open mind and a willingness to consider all possibilities, no matter how unlikely, and to give both good and bad ideas equal consideration before eliminating any. Thanks, this is helpful!

I actually did teach the creative process when I taught Elementary school and our county built a creativity curriculum called Talents Unlimited. It was one if the thinks that transformed my classes and students. I teach it now to all of my adult students and I completely agree....it should be mandatory from the early ages. Ideation is so hard for adults to do later in life and problem solving more so.