Getting started is often the hardest part! In today’s lesson, I’m sharing some tricks to help you kick start your designs!

Before you start any visual exploration. You must first spend time thinking about the audience.
Who will be look at, reading, interacting with this design?
How will it be displayed for them to see/interact with?
Think about age, interests, demographics that could influence your design.

WORD MAPPING

A method of building ideas off of an initial word.
Helps create new paths of ideas!
Can be sloppy and full of spelling errors.

INSPIRATION

Pull inspiration from all around you! just don’t  duplicate or steal.
Look at Pinterest, Behance, or Dribble
Create Moodboard or Stylescape
Check out other art mediums
Don’t forget, you have tons of ideas of your own!
You can find some of my other favorite digital resources here (link to /resources)

SKETCHING

Quickly get imperfect creative ideas on paper.
Thumbnails A small sketch, typically done in a square, that allows for quick ideas. Try setting a goal to fill a certain number of boxes!

GOING DIGITAL

Try not to skip to this step! Make sure you have a rough road map before getting  to the computer

ELEMENTS + PRINCIPLES

Understanding the key design elements and principles will help with each design prep stage. Check out my past lesson on this: