Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
Lesson 10 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
Lesson 10 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Lesson Info
10. Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
Lessons
Class Introduction
07:25 2Overview of Brooke’s Journey
20:13 3Your Timeline is Nonlinear
05:37 4Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
03:26 5What Factors Dictate Growth
08:24 6Organic Growth vs. Forced Growth
05:18 7Niche Branding
04:57 8Brooke’s Artistic Evolution and Timeline
24:27How Can You Get Ahead if You Feel Behind?
10:02 10Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
05:54 11Idea Fluency
10:33 12How to Represent an Idea
07:01 13How to Innovate an Idea
07:07 14Creating a Dialogue With Your Art
05:48 15Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
03:43 16Transforming a Single Image Into a Series
03:12 17How to Tell a Story in a Series
03:28 18How to Create Costumes From Fabric
07:20 19Brooke’s Most Useful Costumes
02:19 20Using Paint and Clay as Texture in an Image
02:56 21Create Physical Elements in an Image
10:22 22Shooting for a Fine Art Series
05:45 23Conceptualization: Flowery Fish Bowl in the Desert
04:08 24Wardrobe and Texture
04:54 25Posing for the Story
05:32 26Choosing an Image
01:23 27Conceptualization: Rainy Plexiglass
11:34 28Posing for the Story
04:17 29Creating Backlight
02:37 30Photo Shoot #1 - Creating a Simple Composite
17:51 31Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite
06:31 32Photo Shoot #3 - Creating a Storytelling Composite
07:40 33Shooting the Background Images
06:14 34Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Working With Backgrounds
24:35 35Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Retouching the Subject
04:20 36Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Color Grading
02:45 37Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Floor Replacement Texture
15:24 38Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
03:21 39Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Cropping and Editing Backgrounds
05:25 40Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Selective Adjustments
03:55 41Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Adding Texture + Fine Tuning
03:21 42Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
06:58 43Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Expanding Rooms
02:17 44Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Color
02:47 45Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
04:04 46Editing Composite Shoot #2- Masking Into Backgrounds
10:45 47Editing Composite Shoot #2- Creating Rooms in Photoshop
06:11 48Editing Composite Shoot #2- Compositing Hair
05:07 49Editing Composite Shoot #2- Global Adjustments
04:49 50Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
05:00 51Editing Composite Shoot #3- Advanced Compositing
08:46 52Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup
03:34 53Materials for Alternative Processes
06:20 54Oil Painting on Prints
05:41 55Encaustic Wax on Prints
03:09 56Failure vs. Sell Out
05:14 57Create Art You Love and Bring an Audience To You
03:35 58Branding Yourself Into a Story
05:40 59The Artistic Narrative
05:26 60Get People to Care About Your Story
03:36 61Get People to Buy Your Story
11:36 62Getting Galleries and Publishers to Take Notice
03:41 63Pricing For Commissions
06:43 64Original Prints vs. Limited Edition Prints vs. Open Edition Prints
02:11 65Class Outro
01:00 66Live Premiere
16:14 67Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 1
04:41 68Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 2
07:12 69Live Premiere: Q&A
16:10 70Live Premiere: Photo Critique
47:33Lesson Info
Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
during this segment, we're going to talk about conceptualization because conceptualization is one of the most difficult and yet necessary parts of creating any fighting our image or a Siri's. And you may argue with me and say that you don't need to conceptualize an image if you're just shooting for beauty or because you just like something and you're doing something on a whim. But I would argue that everything has concept. It's just a matter of if you see it and you're aware of it or not. So try to come at this from the standpoint of not everything has toe have really high brow concept. But if you're more aware of why you are compelled to do something like taking a certain picture than you will be more aware of how to connect that to an audience. So conceptualization is super important, and another word that we can use is ideation, which has the word idea in it. And I love that because ideation is just the forming of concepts or ideas and conceptualization ideation. They bring up these...
feelings of anxiety for people like it's this really, really difficult thing to Dio, but really all it means is that there is an idea behind what you're doing. So conceptualization is kind of fun because it doesn't have to be really complicated or in depth, but it can be. And that's where I'm happiest personally. Is creating really in depth, really just deep concepts? And when I say deep concept, I don't mean that there necessarily super smart concepts or anything like that. I just mean that they have multiple layers that I have been able to explore within myself. So I absolutely love identifying the meaning of art, the meaning of your art, the meaning of my art. I think it's really fun. And this is probably why I studied English literature in college because I love studying the meaning behind things. What is the meaning behind an object behind a color behind a location behind all of these visuals that we put into an image? How can you identify the meaning of your art? It's important to note that there are two types of conceptualization and two types of art. One is called lowbrow and one is called highbrow, and a lot of times we make that distinction by saying that highbrow art is like cultured art, intellectual art and then lowbrow being the opposite of that. And I bring this up because I want you to be aware of where you feel that you fall within this category. Are you more lowbrow? Are you more highbrow? And there is no shame in either one. You know, wherever you might fall are you, you know, do you create from a very intellectual place or maybe a more of an instinctual place? Those air both. Okay, so no matter where you are, just be where you are, and it's totally good. Then when we talk about conceptualization, we're talking about layers. And yes, I will continuously bring up the cosmic onion because it has to be said, That's what concept is its layers of meaning. So how layered is your art? If I were to ask you to look back at your images and thio, identify where you put meaning into the image meaning where you intentionally did something because you thought it would read a certain way. Do you think about subject color, location set? Do you think about lighting technique? Do you think about era of influence even, you know, like how you're creating the art and where that stems from, How layered is your art? And once you think about how layered your art is and you look back at your work and you can really identify where you put meaning into it and where maybe you skipped it and that's totally okay to then think about how do you make people feel with your art? And this is where we can create controversy within our art, which I think is a fascinating thing to do, particularly within a Siri's, is to ask yourself, How can I create a dialogue with my audience? How can what I'm doing? The meanings, the layers, three ideas that I'm putting into my work create controversy and controversy comes from Does your art make someone feel something? Does it make them think something? And does it make them act? And those air generally the three different levels that people interact with your art on first they look at something and you feel something immediately. You feel indifference, so you scroll past it, you feel excited. So you look at it, you feel disgusted. So you look at it. There are all these different emotions that are triggered when we see something that tell us, move on or stay put. And after you have that initial emotional reaction, you think about it. Why do I feel that way? What do I see that interests me in this? And finally, if your art reaches the deepest place in somebody, they act. They take action. They felt an emotion. They thought about why they feel connected to it or why they don't And then they taken action because of it. And that's how we create controversy in our art. That's how we create intent by having those three steps outlined for our viewers. Depth of meaning is what we really mean by concept by ideation is how many layers can you go to put more meaning into your work? How can the visual elements of what you're putting together not only tell a story but tell one story than a sub story and a sub story? And you keep going deeper and deeper because if you don't understand your art, then you can't expect anybody else to understand your art. And the more areas that you skip over when you're creating a concept like location, wardrobe, character lighting, color, all of those things when you skip over those and you think, Oh, well, I'm just here. So I'm just gonna shoot here or, Well, she's already wearing that thing. I'll just photograph that. Then you're missing an opportunity to connect your art to an audience or to somebody who's going to see it. So keep that in mind that those are all opportunities for meaning that sometimes we skip and sometimes we skip it because it's just more fun that way. Maybe you're a spontaneous shooter, or maybe it's something that can be really examined as to why it's getting left behind.
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Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
Brooke never fails to deliver. I found this course superb from start to finish. From exercising your creative 'muscle', demystifying taking self portraits, and showing that they don't have to be perfect before you begin editing, to walking you through her editing process and how to price your work. Brooke's enthusiastic personality and excitement about the work shines through it all. Definitely recommended!
Rebecca Potter
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Brooke for this amazing class. Inspired and so full of practical knowledge, this is the best class I've ever watched. You have given me the confidence to pursue what I've always been afraid to do. Watch this space!
Søren Nielsen
Thank for fantastic motivating an very inspiring. The story telling and selling module was very helpful - thanks from Denmark