What is Design?
Design is something that you create, designing as in what you think in your head, whether it’s a thought or an idea, even an imagination type of thought. You plan on what you want to create, could be planning a drawing, clothing, sculpting, etc. Design is planning and thinking what you want to create in your head to your hands. Trying to see a point on how you will design your work in clay, paper, or anything in your head first and then working on it to give it a try. To see if your design idea will work or not, if not, it is alright, you already did it and you know what to do now. Design to think, view, see, create, experience, and try again, that’s how I see it.
I design a lot of things in my head first and I make a sketch of it on paper to get the idea out more, I could change it, add something more, take something out, plan out my design. That’s how I use design in my art and when it comes to sketches, designing it out on paper helps to keep the idea, without forgetting it with something else or leaving my sketch book to do another task. It is very helpful to design a small sketch on my sketch book so that I can come back to it later during the day or the next day as well. It helps for the mind to rest as well to come up with more different designs for characters or anything that I loved to do with the show I love to watch. I make my own characters and draw other characters as well that I am very proud of my own characters that came to life finally.
In the beginning, it wasn’t so easy to come up with your own character, you must plan and design different forms a lot to get to the right one you like and personally as well. It took a couple of months to just make my first character, but the design at first wasn’t my favorite. But it was okay, since after more designs and planning over time, I finally was able to stick with the one I have right now, it could possibly change again but it is all about designing and planning. In the end, you’ll love the progress you made over the time until today’s time.