allow freedom
James Victore
Lesson Info
19. allow freedom
Lessons
seen, heard, loved
08:35 2knowing your butt
06:07 3why we're here
05:55 4your work is a gift
04:45 5a song to sing
03:31 6love (the assignment)
07:42love (the crit)
28:49 8the ass divot
01:48 9like tarantino
04:30 10always the other (the assignment)
12:06 11the cliche
11:12 12always the other (the crit)
45:13 13Explodes in the Brain
30:32 14big nothing little nothing (the assignment)
01:54 15don't fall in love
04:35 16big nothing little nothing (the crit)
53:23 17ain't no rules
01:16 18yesterday, today, tomorrow
08:33 19allow freedom
01:41 20show & tell
22:29 21born (wildly) creative
01:48 22do the work
34:35 23show & tell (part 2)
16:04Lesson Info
allow freedom
I'm interested in the work that other artists do and other other artists have done historically, but I'm much more interested in their biographies and who they are and what drove them and what their purpose was. So I'm much more interested in reading about, about Van Gogh's uh uh diaries or uh uh Jean Louis David's diary or uh there's a book called Vasari the Lives of the Artists where I got to read about the lives of the Renaissance artists. That's interesting because I wanna know what drives people because that helps me understand what drives me, what makes me creative. And I've said a number of times what makes me creative. My gift, my gift is not that I'm more talented than you or anybody. Uh My gift is not that I'm smarter than anybody. My gift, my purpose, my um the thing that drives my work, the thing that makes my work special is that I allow myself a, a ton of freedom. I allow myself to go to places I allow myself to go to the wrongest answers. I allow myself to, to, to comple...
tely meander. I allow myself to ignore the brief completely. I allow myself to, uh, sit down at a big table with a piece of paper and a pencil. And I sit there and I think, and I doodle until I can make myself laugh. And when I get to that place, I think, ok, now I got something.
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Ratings and Reviews
Richard Lynch
I really enjoyed the frank style that the class was delivered. Jealous of the 4 students who were in person. I work as an Aerospace engineer and am trying to find a way to relearn to be creative. This class and the exercises made me think and I have noticed that I enjoy taking different perspectives during boring meetings and drawing doodles that make me smile. Unexpectedly, my coworkers have said my work has improved lately. I think because I have become more open to possibilities outside of the tried and true.
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