The Three Ways to Be Creative

Steve Houston says there are three ways to be creative. You can make a Jell-O skyscraper, but 86.8% of that is garbage and 98.6% isn't very good either. The third way is the oil and water: combining common knowledge with new ideas.

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Thinking of creative ideas is actually not that hard, but executing them, bring them to fruition, and solving real problems is much harder and requires creative skill. We’ll define what it means to be creative and some ways you can stimulate and improve your own creative abilities. A listener asks how he can increase his passion for art and Stan shows off some drawings he bought from Steven Bauman.

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Marshall’s Dad - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Marshalls-Dad-S1E21.jpg

Steve Anderson’s photo of Marshall - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Marshalls-portrait-S1E21.jpg

Stan’s Stephen Bauman drawings - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Stephen-Bauman-Art-S1E21.jpg

Sterling Clinton Hundley’s Ideation Course - https://courses.svslearn.com/courses/IDEADEVELOPMENT

Steven Sondheim - Finishing the Hat - https://amzn.to/2P6Sbtz

Steven Sondheim - Look, I Made a Hat - https://amzn.to/2MAjFX1

Steve Anderson photography - https://www.steveandersonphotography.com

Brad Holland - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Brad-Holland-Art-S1E21.jpg

Michelangelo - The Creation of Adam - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/The-Creation-of-Adam-S1E21.jpg

Step by Step Graphics magazine - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/Graphics-Magazine-S1E21.jpg