And if you do what is it?
In the last month I have been having lots of lovely 1:1 sessions with my art school students. We have been talking about their creative journey and how they want their creative work to develop.
One thing kept coming up…creative identity.
The students didn’t feel as though they had one, and if they did, they weren’t sure what it was.
It was damaging their confidence and overall motivation to make art.
Because they didn’t know what their driving force was, they didn’t know what to do next or where to take their artwork. They would make an artwork, and then felt stuck; what to do next? Where am I going with this? Essentially, this all comes down to, what is my creative identity, what is driving my creativity?
Does this question feel familiar to you?!
It can really help to talk to someone to try to discover your driving force, and often, finding it is made more difficult by having limiting beliefs (my next bog post will be writing on this topic).
In the last month of my 1:1s I helped my students to work through these thoughts and gain clarity.
I would ask them questions like:
- What would you want your audience to think/feel when they look at your artwork?
- Where do your creative ideas come from?
- What do you think are the strongest and weakest elements of your work?
We would have great discussions and come to a sense of conclusion about what their current identity was. Once we knew this, we could think of ways to develop and enhance their identity – to work to their strengths!
My students have found this process very useful, however I would like to help other artists who may be having the same struggle. I took this experience, as well as my many years of teaching art and being an artist myself to create a ‘creative identity quiz’!
If you feel unsure about your creative identity and would like to explore what your driving force is and realise your essential creative esssence, click the link below to do my quiz and get immediate feedback. You may also have had a pop-up while visiting this website to do the quiz already!