Valentine’s day is approaching in a few months. We all want something to look forward to but sometimes we get worked up on what to do. creators need to have an outlet of what to do on such an eventful day.
Ideas to do
Find somewhere to take pictures/draw
This is a basic project to do but photography and drawing can be used for taking a new perspective on Valentine’s day. Instead of taking a typical photos or photo shoots and standard illustrations, picking a theme can make it interesting.
Use Valentine’s day to create
Creating is an obvious project to do for the celebrated day of love. Love is the central theme of Valentine’s day, however as an artist you can spin it. Making sub themes that go along with love can develop intriguing projects.
As Valentine’s day is centered around love, a range of themes can be explored:
With this being a primal instinct of being a human being this can be used with the broad theme of love. If you observe the movie 10 Things I Hate About You the main character for the most part survives on her own self love. Now with keeping that mind you can create your own projects that shows how people survive on self love or feeding off the admiration of other people.
Elements of bravery in your art, photography or cinematography can be utilized in projects. In art you can make use of interpretive elements such as animals, nature for a concept. In photography and cinematography you can make use of story ideas. These can be through capturing activism, street photography etc.
Now war can take many forms you can use. It can be either self conflict, interrelationship conflicts, cultural wars etc. Creating an art piece or photography that showcases perhaps a person’s own personal struggles can showcase Valentine’s Day. Whether it is a crazed lover or unrequited love, you can still incorporate it into the theme of Valentine’s day.
This is a more gruesome theme to do. With the theme of death, as a creative focus on how to make it relatable. Looking at Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, death is one of the themes. Both lovers taking their own lives in order to be with one another. You can adjust this into your cinematography such as animation, short film, photography and art and show how far love can drive people to death.
Finish any incomplete projects
Sometimes having an innovative mind, means that you are left with many incomplete projects. Instead of making a whole new project, utilize Valentines day to finish some of your work.
Completing your unfinished work makes room for you have room to come up with new ideas. You can add if you feel necessary, something related to the valentine’s day theme.
Hone your skills on art software
Now if you’re a person who enjoys using software using it during Valentine’s Day. Even though this may seem rather tiresome to do, software can be a fun activity to do.
Using Adobe software such as Animate, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro etc you can use them to finish some projects.
If you’re into creating cinematography (videos) you can work on creating something centered around Valentines Day. For instance you can create a short animation video that plays on the theme of Valentine’s Day.
Go to events which showcase other artists work
Going to exhibitions, events and art galleries is not necessarily a project. However attending ones that will be on around the time of Valentine’s Day can be an intriguing experience.
You can make it a slight project by soaking in different creations. Taking in and observing how different artists make their products. You can get to acknowledge the differ tn style they bring to their products. You can experiment with an artists style (not copy) to incorporate into your own style.
Travel somewhere
This may seem cliche, travelling can really be an interesting project. Travelling assist you in soaking in different places that make your creative mind flow.
Make plans ahead of time to travel somewhere for Valentine’s day. Whilst vacationing, you can take the time to soak in elements of valentine’s day that restaurants, or the place you go have.
Conclusion
Valentine’s Day is a celebratory day where globally people show case their love for each other. As an artist you can take the opportunity to have your creative mind flow. Plan ahead and make use of creating the best projects you can this coming February 14.
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