Creativity Blog Week 2

 

 

                Hello everyone! And welcome again to my blog. Today's blog post will be on my journey with creativity exercises and showing you how you can do them and what they teach. My research today was a interesting one to say the least. My research today was about the "Incomplete Figure Test"  Created by Ellis Paul Torrance in the sixties as way to create a more creatively inclined IQ test. This test was given to many volunteers and were ask to finish different figure sketches like the many below. And they were tasked to create different complete images out of them.

                                                   Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking ...                                                 


           While at first glance this may seem as a elementary level type of creativity test, as well as I thought as well. But when i learned more and saw more about how in depth these sketches could go I started to wonder myself how I could very well incorporate it into my daily life and how it can keep myself going. The start of this was first conducting the experiment myself. I asked my siblings to draw simple doodles out on different pieces of paper to see what we could all do and we task each other with different types of doodles. At first it was fun to see what little things would come out of it, but little by little we started to add more features and different focuses to out pictures, and different outlines to our pictures, and then shading, and then different angles, and different perspectives to it. And soon I started to realize while this may seem as such an elementary level of exercise by the time you know it you are so locked in focus that you start to look at all the different images you've created and you see they were nothing where you started from. And all from one little doodle?


        This exercise really got me thinking on not only the art design aspects of it, but more in the life aspects and more of the photography side of things as well. With life we may all start from little to nothing straight from a piece of paper and vision. And the more time you may put into this piece of paper you gain more pieces of paper and more visions. And those visions turn into a reality, from that piece of paper you start to gain different aspect of life, and from that we always look back into our past to see how did we all achieve what we have now? And we may laugh at ourselves now, but you have to realize the stuff you gain is all just from a vision and a "piece of paper" whatever that piece of paper may be to you, it all has the same affect. You started from scratch and built something off of nothing and that's the greatest thing you can create of it. And all with your vision and your imagination.

    The exercise really taught me a lot about life value, especially taking it on me as I am a visionary thinker. I love to express myself with thoughts that I come up with, and I always writing down or post things that I love to do and see for myself. But I always seek for a way to put my twist on everything I look at in life and how it can help people and myself for the future.

 

     


    

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