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MORE WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE IN 2025
In part One we took you through our first 5 ways to improve your creative practice. So now we're back to give you the rest to complete this top 10. As artists, improving your creativity is crucial for both your personal growth and your audience engagement (in real life, not just digital) and the more ways you find to enhance your creativity not only enriches your practice but also deepens your impact on the world around you. So to keep developing on our artistic journeys here's the rest of our best advice on the ways to improve your creativity. Give these a go to be your most creative self in 2025.
We hope you enjoyed the first five, welcome to part two.
6 FAIL
Don't panic. But if you don't know already, this is going to be hard to hear. You will fail. Often.
As a creative person you are putting a little bit of yourself out into the world whenever you make something, and everything isn't always going to connect with people the way you hope. The thing is, that's completely ok. We can get very valuable knowledge from failing.
Firstly, never do you learn more than when you fail. Analysing things that go wrong can teach you the right way for you to do things going forward, or things you want to avoid. There is a whole lot of very successful humans out there who will tell you they didn't find success until after a grand couple of fails. And these fails helped to refine their skills, build resilience and push their limits.
Secondly by noting our failures we can better see our successes. There's nothing like making a piece of work nobody responds to, to make you see how great it is when something works. And by understanding what a fail means to us, we can really understand what success is.
Failure is a hugely powerful catalyst for creativity, it drives our personal growth and creative freedom once you embrace it.
7Â Â KNOW YOUR ELEVATOR PITCH
This might sound a little salesy, but this is not a horrific buzzword idea aimed at your social media 🤮.
All this is, is a great exercise in distilling your thoughts about your work in a concise and thoughtful way. Having your own clear "pitch" can improve your communication when meeting new people, helping you to articulate your ideas and make meaningful connections. If you can express yourself in a concise manner that helps people to understand you, you can engage in much more interesting dialogue with other creatives, rather than waffling on and on until the poor hostage backs away slowly and grabs the nearest drink. Ahem.
But also, more than anything this can be a great way for you to clarify for yourself your purpose, and where you are with your work. When you are clear on what you are doing and what it means to you, you can have room to open explore new ideas and see where your creativity can grow.
8Â Â ASK QUESTIONS
This is an age old answer of how to improve anything. Any good teacher of any subject, any guru, any expert or leader (barring maybe cult or dictatorship) will encourage questions. To do so encourages curiosity, the exploration of new ideas, challenges assumptions and promotes your critical thinking; all of which cultivate a mindset of innovation and creativity.
So ask other artists what work their making, what inspires them, how they use their clay, why they mix their paints that way, what that short film is about, what paper they use, really anything you are inquisitive about. If you don't understand something, find someone who does, maybe it's a friend maybe it's a stranger on the internet (I really cant stress enough about cult leaders, it's mad out there, be careful) and ask them questions to improve your skill set or knowledge. Embrace your curiosity and reflect on your own and others reasoning, allowing yourself to analyse information and redefine the parameters of your practice.
9Â Â LOOK AT A LOT OF ART - GET INSPIRED
Nothing exposes you to new ideas and perspectives and sparks your imagination like looking at what others create. Viewing the work of others can enrich your own creative expression by evoking new thoughts or feelings, inspiring you to create work for yourself.
Being cognitively flexible and allowing others viewpoints and connections or even cultures and histories to broaden your own understanding of the world, can not only make you a better creative but probably person as well.
We live in an incredibly interconnected world, and one of the ways that's great, is it means you have access to surround yourself with artwork you find interesting and find inspiration from all different places. And not just visual art, maybe it's songs maybe it's movies or nature that inspires you. Any way in which you can allow your mind to be open and invite inspiration fosters the perfect environment for your creativity to flourish.
10Â Â FOCUS ON YOUR CRAFT, BE OBSESSIVE
There's one way to make sure you are being the best artist you can be and to release all your creative potential, and that is to dig in deep and really focus on your craft.
Encouraging an obsessive attitude towards your work not only develops your skills in your chosen area but builds a deep understanding of your tools and mediums. Once you have this connection and a mastery of your techniques you unlock the freedom to explore.
A quote attributed to Picasso goes along the lines of: "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist". It's only when you have a sense of consistency and understanding of your practice that you can fully let go. This foundation, of being fully immersed in your craft is what allows you to produce more meaningful work, pushing the limits wherever your creativity takes you.
So that's us done for this round up! As always, we love to hear from you: Got any tips of your own? Giving any of ours a try? Let us know, and share you creative practice with us. To share your work with us and become part of the community, join us as a member of the collective here.
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