Becoming Creative / An Artistic Guide to Creativity

Unlock Your Creative Potential: A Practical Guide to Enhanced Creativity

Creativity is a vital skill, no matter your field – from art and design to technology and business. Often misunderstood and under-taught, this course provides research-based strategies to cultivate creativity in your life. Each lesson introduces a core creative concept, followed by hands-on projects designed to spark innovation.

What You'll Learn:

• Meaning-Making: Discover how to find deeper meaning in everyday objects and experiences, fueling your creative process.
• Overcoming Creative Blocks: Identify and dismantle the thoughts and habits hindering your creativity, paving the way for new ideas.
• Divergent Thinking: Learn to harness divergent thinking to generate innovative solutions to challenges.
• Cultivating Creative Habits: Implement practical changes to your daily routine that actively promote creative thinking.
• A Versatile Creative Process: Master a flexible creative process applicable to almost any situation – boosting your innovation.

Course Activities:

This course blends artistic exploration with introspective reflection. You'll engage in two types of projects:

• Art Projects: Explore creative connections through collage, drawing, and visual expression.
• Guided Journal Projects: Use writing to break through creative blocks, clarify your thoughts, and design your creative future.

No Experience Needed:

You don't need prior art experience or specialized skills to participate. This course is designed for anyone eager to unlock their creative potential, regardless of their background.

Learn from an Expert:

Brent has built a successful career in both fine arts and business, leveraging his creative skills. He has extensive experience in traditional art forms like figure drawing and anatomical drawing, as well as experimental art like animation and video installation. Brent's work is exhibited in galleries and museums. He created the award-winning Art & Science of Drawing program, which has taught over 500,000 students in 180 countries how to draw.

Ready to Ignite Your Creativity?

This course is for anyone seeking to enhance creativity in their art, career, or personal life. If you're new to drawing, Brent recommends starting with his Art & Science of Drawing program: Basic Skills / Getting Started with Drawing or How to Draw: A Beginner's Guide from his Drawing Laboratory series.