Back to the drawing board

I find myself back at the creative drawing board looking for inspiration anywhere I can hope to find it. Unfortunately, my searching has left me empty handed and envious of the creativity I’ve seen elsewhere. I’ve become a consumer instead of a producer. The rut I’ve dug is very deep and has filled my head with questions. How can I take my passion for photography and video to new creative levels? How do I go beyond the rigid levels of safety I’ve begun to subject my work to? Where is the motivation to continue creating when there is much better work being created? These questions freeze me before I even begin a project.

Enter the iPad. It has many limitations, but it also opens creative avenues for expression that weren’t available to me before. It has the potential to spark my creativity like the iPhone did for my photography. This time it is a little different. While I have lost a bit of creative interest in the flooded photography market, I’ve become very intrigued by the possibilities I’m seeing for mixed mediums using the iPad drawing tools and photo apps. So far I’ve only begun to delve into the art software, but I’ve already mixed apps and loaded images to use as a base for the art I’m creating. I’m hoping this will bring back some of my creative interest in photography.

I plan to load some photos onto the iPad this weekend so that i can begin layering them with the drawing apps to create some interesting pieces.

The piece I’ve attached to this post is called: We All Are HOPE To Someone.
I used Qvik Sketch to start it, TypeDrawing to fill it in, Filterstorm to crop it, and Qvik Sketch to dirty it up some more.