This is: "My inspiration board."
Actually, this is my inspiration folder. I don't have an inspiration board, but I do have a folder. This folder was born from a humble beginning. Waaaaay back when I was a teenager I used to keep all my magazines, as I grew up and stared moving houses I realised carting boxes of magazines around was a bad idea... So one day I sat down and sorted through them all. I tore out all of the pages I liked and threw out the rest (in the recycling of course). I continued this practice over the years, until eventually I had a box of pages...
When I started a little photography business a while back I went a bought this folder, hundreds of plastic sleeves and a few packets of tab stickers, and spent a good weekend sorting all my pages into categories. Some pictures ended up in a scrap book I keep (fashion, jewellery, hats, bags, art, etc), and the rest were relocated into this folder. There are pictures in there that are recent, and some that date back to Dolly magazines from the late 80's; what's interesting though is that many shoots are styled and photographed so well, that they haven't seemed to have dated at all.
It was a fantastic resource for photography at the time. The night before a shoot I would plough through my folder and mark interesting poses, or lighting techniques, or general moods, ready to be inspired for the shoot the next day.
I gave up the photography thing about a year ago, but I keep the folder now for inspiration for my illustrations. Sometimes it's great for finding a particular hand, or face at a certain angle, and other times it's a nice exercise to straight out copy the picture, and interpret it in your own style. It also comes in very handy when you need to flatten something because it weighs half a tonne!
10 comments:
Your illustrations are beautiful. I really like the second picture.
Have a great day!
Kyla
crikey! how organised are you... that folder is inspiration for me to pull all my other cuttings into a folder just like yours. thanks
and I love your drawings by the way
oh wow! you are so organised - very inspiring - my clippings are spilling out in cheap manila folders...i love your illustrations!!
This is such an incredible idea. I mean, I know it's not rocket science to collect like this, but you have inspired me to start organizing and collecting more images that inspire me when I have some spare time. A good summer project I think.
Thanks for sharing!
Wow, this is amazing! You are the ultra organizer. What a great idea to keep everything in a well labeled binder. And thanks for showing the illo's next to their inspirational magazine images. This is wonderful.
Your illustrations are amazing!
What a great idea - in fact, a very inspiring one! And your illustrations are fantastic. You are very talented!
This is just what I need to be doing. Brilliant Idea, it's easy to view but not all over- making a mess (or looking messy, like my bulletin board!)... I saw the photos on flickr first and had to rush over to see what you blogged about them :0)
jen
"the Canadian"
flossy- this is brilliance in action - i have done this with recipes over the years and have boxes of paper pulls (like yours) filled with clippings, but didn't put them into a book. what a brilliant idea.
Okay, you've motivated me to get myself more organized and develop something better than what I've got (magazines and papers and notes piled in no particular order). Very inspiring and a wonderful, doable idea.
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