Brainstorming; Differences Make it Wonderful

A brainstorm activity sure essential for our daily lives not only as an art student, but also as a real artist. For first or second time it might be a little hard to come with something interesting because ideas. This week on our Creative Thinking class, we're working in team. But first, our lecturer, Ms.Tan, asked us to pick individually one out of 10 topics to be brainstormed with. So that time, I personally picked out "Ways to teleport home". At first I have a little difficulties of gathering unique and creative ideas. The first and second ideas usually would be the common ideas in mind, for this case, like using teleport machines or something that is really actually common and comes first in mind. But after a few writings and thinking, the ideas will getting wilder and wilder, like jumping into a warp portal, use a magical book that will send us to anywhere we write on it, have a super powerful magnet attached at home and on ourself so it would stick instantly, and other ideas that is getting crazier and unrealistic.

One of my brainstorming page note on my cellphone at that time
(excuse for my bad handwriting as I wrote this hurriedly).

So after the times up, we have to discuss our ideas with our group members. At first my team members was really quiet and didn't dare to talk anything. But finally, one by one each of us spoke out our ideas. Because of the time factor and also my member's majority choice at our first brainstorming session, we decided to go for the topic of "Ways to kill a crab".

Our brainstorm title written on a mahjong paper.

We finally comes with a decision of making our own drawing with our own ideas under our main title. So we work together all together in our paper with sketches first and some research to draw and present each of our ideas. We rushes to draw as good as possible to make it look more presentable when the time was ticking. We sketched with pencil first, then with marker, add some colour, and put finishing touches to beautify. At the end we ask our fellow members to identify the drawings to know whether the drawing is presentable or need more improvement in order to make people who sees understand our ideas clearly just by looking the pictures (because we decided to not write the ideas in words at all). And finally it's done! Even though it's not perfect, but we are having so much fun and many things to learn, whether from each of our fellow members or even from other teams.

Our final result

Even though it's not fully coloured, but it's interesting to see how the ideas from my other 4 team members with different styles of drawing, different ideas, different colours, different approaches under just one main topic in the same paper. This activity opened my eyes more that creative ideas has no boundaries, whether it's realistic or not, whether it's makes sense or not. My idea is for example.

My idea is to tell the female crab that the male crab cheated on her
so she would kill him alive because of the heartbreak.

One topic, different ideas.

It's fun to work with members with different backgrounds, different countries, different styles, different culture. We can learn their way of thinking just seeing how they work, how they interact with us, how they present their own ideas. Getting to know them better is actually something that I look forward with, especially to see interesting ideas that shows their interesting personality. I think this kind of brainstorming is actually very useful and very important to be done everyday in daily basis in order to sharpen our ideas. Overall, this little project is fun, very useful, and I love to do it more often. Alone or group, I think it would make our way of thinking to be more creative each day. 

Of course, as an art student, I want to make differences in my environment. 

Sure, everyone has their own lights that shines within them. And I love and I eager to learn more from seeing those lights.