Cartoonist and artist Julie Doucet on what it feels like to look back at her expansive body of work, and the limits of making personal work.

Looking for some inspiration? Struggling with the same problem for days? Try these quick, easy and free exercises proven to boost creativity!

Extended play albums are all the rage as of late. Indeed, more and more often these days, artists and bands are finding the notion of releasing ten or more tracks at the same time all but passé, opting instead to parse out their material in four- to six-song doses. Nobody knows this more than the members of Australia's Planetshakers, whose last eight efforts have been put out in the EP format.

Why you need to stop basing your self-confidence on how much and what you accomplish. Starting today.

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."

A 2019 New Year's Eve letter for TCI about drawing and videogames, by artist Jeffrey Alan Scudder.

Content creators are motivated by passion but when the issue of making money gets involved, it leads to their inevitable burnout.

Of all the no-win goals available to humans, perfection ranks as the most frustrating, soul-sucking, and impossible.

Benjamin Franklin knew he was smart — smarter than most of his peers — but he was also intelligent enough to understand that he couldn’t be right about everything. That’s why he said that whenever he was about to make an argument, he would open with something along the lines of, “I could be wrong, but…” Saying this put people at ease and helped them to take disagreements less personally. But it also helped him to psychologically prime himself to be open to new ideas.

Unreal Engine 4 recreations are nothing new, however the Star Wars Mos Eisley spaceport project—which comes courtesy of a group of Obsidian developers—is pretty impressive. Headed by Jason Lewis, a total of 17 devs of varying rank are using the project to learn more about the engine, but of course being self-confessed “super Star Wars nerds” makes the undertaking that bit easier. Speaking to 80.lv, Lewis says he first started out with the desire to craft a three dimensional Millennium Falcon, however things quickly spiralled as the project grew in scope.

A guide to finding the right day job, protecting your time, and building creative habits by Jeffrey Silverstein. Illustrated by Sunny Eckerle.

The sum total of a great creative feat is quantifiable, but the immense effort it requires is done invisibly behind the scenes, sometimes for decades.

How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively).

We think creativity is a uniquely mysterious force. But with Google's Magenta producing musical symphonies, some fear AI threatens to make the imagination redundant. Is human creativity no more than mechanics? Will AI transform and enrich the human experience? Can robots be creative? Or is there something strange about creative thought that separates humans and machines?

With so many people in the world, the odds of you coming up with an idea, name, topic or concept that nobody else has touched on before are pretty slim.

When you’re just starting out, it can be hard to know where to begin with a creative undertaking, how to sustain it over time, and how to develop it into something you’re proud of. But as you learn the ropes and become more comfortable with your voice, tools, time, and vision, a creative process may emerge that makes it easier to start, sustain, and finish things. So how does one develop their own unique creative process over time? The interviews and guides below all offer practical wisdom on how to structure your work and practice in ways that can keep things flowing in positive and productive directions.

People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?

Unlike some other prominent artists working with more seamless urban camouflage in strange or offbeat settings, this work in NYC by Trina Merry allows for curves and distortions, and operates with ...

Creativity is very messy. According to one prominent theory, the creative process involves four stages: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. This is all well in good in theory.

Research suggests that peak creativity happens when we’re pleasantly absent-minded. Or, as psychologist Allen Braun writes, “We think what we see is a relaxation of ‘executive functions’ to allow more natural de-focused attention and uncensored processes to occur that might be the hallmark of creativity.”

If you think a few glowing stars on your ceiling are impressive, just get a look at these insane bedroom murals from Hungarian-born, Vienna-based artist Bogi Fa

The literary great Marcel Proust wore ear-stoppers because he was unable to filter out irrelevant noise—and lined his bedroom with cork to attenuate sound.

A new study is the first to directly implicate the cerebellum in the creative process. As for the brain’s higher-level executive-control centers? Not so much.

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Draw a stickman and then guide him through a fantastic world where you have complete creative freedom.

A German crew has transformed the village of Palmitas into a vibrant rainbow, connecting the community of more than 200 homes through an array of colorful hues.

These are 45 amazing creativity resources that can stir up your creative instinct. If you need inspiration and motivation to take your product or business to the next-level, you will find these resources, ideas, projects, designs, videos, predictions and innovations useful.

The idea that particular individuals drive history has long been discredited. Yet it persists in the tech industry, obscuring some of the fundamental factors in innovation.

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Trawl is an exploration game, but not in the traditional sense of the word. Like Woolf, it would seem creators Nate Gallardo and Danny Gallagher have cast themselves to the bottom of the ocean, brokeb tradition, and returned with a new genre for their art form. Unlike other exploration games, you do not walk around a pre-rendered and beautiful world or solve puzzles—in fact the closest thing to a puzzle in Trawl is the bewildering enigma of creation.

Now there's a hobby. Very impressive. :-)

New research out of Northwestern University suggests that—for some people—a bombardment of sound can actually be a good thing.

Why we don’t like what we struggle to categorize. By Tom Vanderbilt.

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer shares notes and extracts from early drafts as he breaks down how he adapted Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life.”

In the last century, originality has killed one once-flourishing art form after another, by replacing variation within shared artistic conventions to rebellion. The impact of German Romantics on the artist. By Michael Lind.