Every creative process commences with the search for inspiration. To follow up on my previous post on inspiration, let us talk about this process of research. Inspiration can be derived from daily life around us, nature’s beauty or from other interconnected artistic mediums. What we are going to focus on here is research from the oodles of inspiring content on the interwebs. The process of brainstorming is the initial step of researching. When we begin our quest for inspiration, we need not have a specific path, but a general direction. Pablo Picasso is reputed to have quoted “You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.“

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