creativity is rooted in desire. If you have no desires you will not have the desire to create the things you wish to see in this world. the thing is, many people simply learn to curb their desires and wishes because of reality and thus creativity dies.

>>7945427
Why put in the agonizing, vulnerable work of creating the thing you wish to see when a corporation can stream a simulated, 80% accurate version of it directly into your eyes? Passive consumption acts like a local anesthetic on the desire to create. Creativity requires friction.

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>>7945424
it just comes with mileage

>>7945424
How did you beat the captcha, clanker?

>>7945424
I think creativity is something of a muscle - if you're not thinking about the characters from a show or property you just engaged with, and imagining them in different situations and how they'd react, to me it kind of feels like you didn't REALLY engage with the property.
Likewise, do you not daydream?
Do you not visualise how your day might go, or how certain scenarios may play out?
I'm not saying your should force yourself to do these things, but I think creativity and this kind visual idleness are linked.

That said, as the person above posted, I think simply putting in the mileage and drawing will also actively help train your mind's eye, so no need to force yourself to have a daydreaming habit.
There's also a lot of methods out there to 'brainstorm', and practicing those methods will likely help your mind perform these acts naturally.

>>7945424
So how long have you waited for this "idea" to show up so you could give yourself permission to draw?
Did you consider just fucking drawing?

>>7945472
but like... what, though

>>7945473
Finding out is the fun part!

>>7945473
my process always begins with shapes and go from there. let a piece form naturally

>>7945427
This. For one to be creative is to take an existing concept and then come out with alternative methods of using them to solve problems that it wasn't meant to solve. If you don't want to learn, you will not be creative

i hope that you will one day find a character that you love so much that your only desire becomes the ability to depict them in as glorious a manner as they deserve

>>7945427
desire, interest and curiosity!

>>7945424
Creativity is good but it can also hold you captive specially if you work only if you feel creative.
If it comes note it down then process it later and keep working. When they come with things they do so because they have seen lot of things which expanded their mental library and thus they are able to use it and if you add creativity to it you are coming on top every time.

>>7945424
Don't you have any (day)dreams?

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>>7945424
>I find it incredible how people on /i/-oekaki can simply come up with a cool looking OC and background
95% of people on oekaki draws a random posed character on a white void what the flying fuck are you saying you turbo retard

>>7945427
LOL STFU faggot

>>7945554
welp, I mixed up a couple of those copy pasted ratings, like the anime girl with the dark purple alien that's random pose and actual bg
EVEN THEN you can see most of it it's random poses and void bgs

>>7945473
You just pet the dog.

>>7945555
Ur on the wrong board. your only desire is tranny cock and bnwo on /gif/

>>7945424
I think what you're describing just comes from imagination. Like when I'm bored or can't sleep, I close my eyes and just sorta let my imagination come up with little scenes, almost like movies or whatever. And it's not that I imagine every detail, just the broad strokes and when I draw it I further imagine what the gaps might look like.

https://youtu.be/nvKeu46jgwo?is=5Iq1DrDcn-odPbgs

John Cleese on creativity. A worthwhile watch, imho.

>>7945424
>drawabox
holy meme, do people really continue this shit past the 250 boxes? if you do you must really be boring.

>>7945424
This retard fell for the box meme, lmaaaaao

>>7945554
oh if the OP doesnt have a background then i guess nothing in the threads will either makes sense

creativity is your ability to imagine. visual imagination, semantic imagination, conceptual imagination, whatever form of imagination. Imagination is just our ability to create a model of the world inside our head.

>>7945424
Creativity is rooted in The Lord.

>>7945748
>Starts a thread with his own work
>Starts with a subpar pic, and post the good shit like, later in the thread!
Nobody ever works like that

>>7945424
Read lots of books and comics. Watch lots of movies. Look at animals. Listen to all sorts of music. Pick up magazines to flip through. Write down your dreams. Listen and take note of the lives of the people around you.

Combine all of that shit.

>>7945916
>consume human idea
>compile dozens of inspiration through your human brain
>reproduce that idea into reality with your human body, using skill that you trained from yourself or other human for hours, days, weeks, months, or even years
>somehow bald old man in the sky get all the credit for your works and effort

>>7945938
you're retarded. try actually opening some of these threads, that is literally how many of them work

>>7946004
What difference would it make if op actually posted his work?

>>7945424
It's the difference between ensouled and soulless people, basically.

>>7946247
what if I lost the soul along the way?

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>>7945748
>>7946004

>>7946335
I don't think it's something you can ever truly "lose". It's something your born with and people rarely if ever transition from one class to the other.

>>7946247
There’s no such thing as the soul. Go cry to your magical sky daddy, christard.

>>7945554
I just revisited /i/ it's been a long time, feel like I drowned in an ocean of sovl

>>7945424
I don't know how to answer that but I will say just know that creating something like a cool character design takes a lot of experimenting on the paper itself, not just coming up with a good idea. I feel this is something people get hung up on a lot, they can't think of a cool super complicated and vivid idea in their head and so they never try to draw anything, when sometimes the coolest aspects of a design are things you just put there on a whim or you thought of in the moment

your ideas don't have to be super detailed or well thought out or even much beyond "I want to draw a dude with a cool hat" if its as simple as that you can expand upon it later. like, the next steps would probably be "what kind of hat? why would he be wearing the hat?" etc. or you could not think of it any further and just simply come up with a dude with a cool hat for no reason

bam, creativity. you were creative just now, even if it might not be much. I like to design characters myself and I struggle to come up with good ideas but if I start out small and just get something on the damn paper, I can figure out where to go from there.