1) Imagine: Sometimes an image comes to me while I’m trying to think of a visual way to represent an idea. Sometimes it just comes, like the sun one 🙂 When an image comes to me, I jot it down in pen in my notebook:
2) Prototype: I usually let the image sit for a few weeks or even months. I might sketch it out in pen several times, before I redo it in colored pencil…
3) Finish: Again, the image sits for awhile, days, weeks or months…before I resketch the image in black ink, and use the pastels for bright color:
And here is the final product!
4) Capture: I find some decent light, and just take a picture of the sketch with a digital camera (my Canon 870is takes great quality pictures). I then do some basic editing/cropping with Adobe Photoshop Elements, upload here or into a presentation, and voila!
One I’m cultivating now: a “PebbleStorm Tree” image
‘Cultivating’, get it? Ha, sometimes I crack myself up 🙂
In the Vipassana meditation retreat I just attended, this image came to me, outlining four different types of happiness (fleeting, enduring, lifetime, universal/mindset). Most people spend all their time focused on happiness at the leaves/fleeting (get a promotion/bonus) and branches/enduring (job/career/salary) stages, without applying themselves to determine their trunk (lifetime work purpose) or retrain their roots (mindset/awareness/attitude).
PebbleStorm’s strength is helping people with their “trunk” (building a business around a life purpose), which in turn creates healthier branches and leaves (more money, better career), and an easier connection to ways to enhance fundamental awareness/happiness at the mind level.
I’m only in the prototyping stage now, and don’t know when the final sketch will crystallize…
UPDATE Dec 23/08…here’s the tree I sketched while at a cafe in Buenos Aires (text and labels to follow…)
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