Drawing Out An Inspiration!!! It's Not What You Think!

Drawing out an inspiration does not mean that you sketch something; it means that you draw(extract) out a color story, or a motif, or a pattern, or any other design element from a picture, or an object, or a monument, or may be anything that feels attractive to you; which can be used in your illustrations or designs.

I'll show as many examples as I can on this post to make it familiar to you on how can inspiration can be drawn out typically from anything that is suited to be used as a design element.

In the pictures shown above, the first one is a picture of the nature which is actually clicked by a friend of mine; and the other one is a picture of my illustration, which is actually my first inspiration that I made almost a year ago. From this picture there are many elements that I have used in one design. Like you may have noticed that the color story is definitely drawn out from the picture itself. The other thing is the motif that is used on the lower part of the garment.

Now, in this one I have used a bird as in my inspiration to deign a dress for an air hostess. Here, I have only taken out the color story as in an air hostess' dress is from a formal category and adding on any motifs or some other design element would have created a mess to it. But my design has to be unique in some way or the other; so, I have played with the silhouette of the apparel.

Herein, I have used a butterfly as my inspiration to design a beach wear; where again I have used the color story as my inspiration. I used color story as in my design demanded that. But, if drawing out an inspiration for some other design maybe, we could even use the texture of the wings of the butterfly (the black & white one) as our design element. Or it's your creativity and mind, you may draw out something else as well; that's totally up to you what you can extract out from an inspiration but it should be attractive and appealing as well.

Now, this is one is the best work of mine till now. This is obviously a group work that we did for a collection named "Dastkaar" to be presented at an event called "Meraki 2019". For this collection we even got the award of "Innovative Designs". In this Hawa Mahal (a historical monument situated in the Pink City-Jaipur, India) was our inspiration and we had created 7 designs for the collection. But my main part was in this design only so I can't upload the other designs. But if anyone is willing to see then please tell me in the comment box I would post there.

So, drawing out an inspiration is not difficult at all, It's just that You need to explore a lot to give yourself an idea about what all can be drawn out from a particular inspiration and which one is best suited for your particular design.Even I have realized it over time.

Do comment about weather you like it or not, also you are free to ask me out any topic on which my next post should be on; that will be a great experience for me as well.

Thank You!!!