Sunday, June 20, 2010

Lesson 1: Defining Creativity

According to Dictionary.com, 'creativity' is an noun that have the meaning of:

1. the state or quality of being creative.

2. the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretions, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity inmodern industry, creativity in the performing arts.

3. the process by which one utilizes creative ability: Extensivereading stimulated his creativily.

We have learn that anyone can be creative and being creative is a hard work. I speciall
y like one of the point from 'Demystifying the Myth of Creativity', which is number 8. Only artists need to be creative. Actually we all need to be creative. A scientist need to be creative to invent new stuff. A businessman need to be creative to come up new business plan. Even a housewife need to be creative to make some new dishes for her family.

Here I would like to share the Avatar that I have create for my friend, Ngan Wei Yee.



























I have use her original smilling face to present that she is a gentle and nice person. Then I distort her facial features to cartoonize her. The black & white colors give more contrast to give more focus to the viewer.

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