Creative Challenge 25

Greetings, friends,

I know I said that I wasn’t going to use the book entitled "Caffeine for the Creative Mind" any longer because I wanted to explore other sources for new creative challenges, but this book is just too good to resist.

That being said, I was looking online to find something fitting for our current class on Adobe Illustrator, but I didn't find anything that really resonated with me. Then I picked up "the book." I opened it to the first page, and I literally laughed out loud. The exercise was called "I Never Knew a Pencil Sharpener Could Be So Deep."

The interesting thing is that we had just been discussing in class earlier this week how we should approach drawing in Illustrator by looking at things in terms of shapes. This exercise literally asks you to find an image you see every day and sketch it out using only shapes. It challenges you to change your perspective on something you know well and see daily.

I decided to use a calculator I had on my desk, and I created the image in Adobe Illustrator. It was challenging, but I liked how it turned out. Great exercise!