Inspiration?

Sleep.

Im serous, i have a book next to my bed and when i dream i get these ideas and i write them down.

Also i take my camera everywhere i go. If i like the look of something i'll take a picture.

 

I'll keep it simple for you guys, but the main inspiration for me is really to just keep close to top end designers work and research and base the research pages i don on what it is im looking at, such as Why Not associates, TRBDESIGN, a french group of guys who are truely amazing, if you have £40 spare i advice you purchase the monthly issue of design&designer as that is purely design and no article! Magazines such as Digit, ComputerArts etc help also just to know whats hot and "whats not" lmao, along with keeping ahead and on par with the current trends.

You will never keep current in terms of graphic design fashions making sigs and avatars, which is why i never take people who only do that seriously as a graphic designer, using photoshop just for that isnt inspiring in the slightest. I'll have to show you gusy some mor eo fmy recent work, college really expands real design skills weekly, well my college does anyway

 

What inspired me most is other members. My first forum I've joined was back 3 and a half years ago, Megaman Network Ace. (which I later became Gmod of ;]) By then, I was looking for decent hacks on Invision, and saw people with sick things in the bottom of their posts (signatures). Starting from there, I realized, maybe I should use paint. I started taking Paint and making affiliates, graphs, etc. I then realized the art of brushing, which was a year after. I downloaded Paint Shop Pro. I made some decent things with it, at that time. If I compared to it now, I say that was crap. But then later on I went on PS, which started helping me with the brushes, smudging, etc. After that, went on to GIMP.

 

great mag, focuses on a group or a designer each issue just full of ideas for you to use, not steal! n00bs say that, all designers use ideas and interpret in your own way, thats how people overcome each own barrier you set yourselves. and that in the end is what "inspiration" means in design imo.

 

Anything inspires me. Whether it be a forum skin, the look of a computer, or possibly the feel of the hardwood floor.

And unlike most people, I feel I can be inspired by anything. Tags usually inspire me, and sometimes the attitude of a member on a forum. That's usually why when I make a tag for someone, I make the tag resemble their style.

And usually, I don't even have inspiration. I just make stuff. lol

 

"hardwood floor"

I thought i was the only one...lol! Though i do quite like how carrots inspire me also lmao!

 

lol XD

Yeah. It's usually the small textures on the floor that inspire me... or the smoothness. Which inspires me to make a smooth looking tag, you know?

Maybe not, oh well.

 

I getcha' DW. A carrot though? Uh.....the only thing I do with it is eat it. I'm sure I don't come up with any idea while it's full of saliva as I'm chewing it so hah.

I'd say colors would make me try out a sig. Like if I saw a blue chair, I'll slowly come up with a render like that in my head. The rest is done on the Computer lawlz.

 

any anime that I'm watching...

 

the carrot was sarcasm btw.

i stated my inspiration but really its endless, anything, the best inspiration is something you never think to look for, it just "clicks" in your head and you get an idea.

 

Btw, anything that has to do with spikey hair, inspires me.