Creative Challenge: Travel Methods

This month’s creative challenge is all about travel methods! Use these everyday means of travel to expand your creativity throughout this month. Check out the challenge list below, and if you’re having trouble with creative ideas, keep reading. I have lots of ideas to share.

Handlettering these words is fun if that’s what you always do. But consider adding another element to your challenge. Of course, it’s up to you, but you could always use this challenge to expand into another form of creativity. Use this month’s challenge highlighting travel methods to try something new. Who knows? You might learn to traverse another creative method.

For instance, if you always use modern calligraphy to participate in a challenge, maybe you will try your hand at urban doodling this month. If you use watercolor, use this creative challenge to study travel methods with watercolor mixed with ink. I’m not promising that everything will be perfect. But these challenges make it easy to try a new style or enhance your skills without feeling like you’ve wasted anything – after all, you were just taking on the challenge.

Travel Methods Challenge List

How to Participate:

Not sure how to participate in a challenge? No worries. These are not hard or fast rules – the travel methods creative challenge is meant to inspire you and remove the art block we sometimes feel when creating.

1. If you’re on Instagram – find me & follow me @ChocolateMusingsCreates
2. Download the creative challenge prompts list (right-click on the image to save it and print it for reference). Or do a screenshot on your phone to save the prompts.
3. Every day letter, draw, paint or create something to do with the daily prompt.
4. You can use your regular style or add a bit of flair and try a new doodle or style!
5. Snap a picture and post your creation to Instagram – tag me @ChocolateMusingsCreates and use the hashtag #FindYourCreativeMuse – I’ll choose a few of my favorites and share them!
   • I’m also on Facebook so that you can post and tag my page. Find me at facebook.com/ChocolateMusings.
6. Follow the hashtag and like and comment on others’ creations as well. I LOVE the community that these lettering challenges create.
7. Choose a few travel methods from the challenge, or do them all! It’s meant to challenge you and expand your creativity.
8. Most importantly, have fun!

Bonus Means of Travel Not Highlighted in the Challenge

Here are a few bonus travel methods that didn’t quite fit into the challenge (there are only 31 days!) But that doesn’t mean you can’t use these words in a challenge of your own. What other travel methods did I miss for this challenge? And which one is your favorite, either to eat or to create?

Why a Creative Challenge?

This quote from Leonardo Da Vinci defines the reason why I love to do creative challenges. You can sit for hours staring at a blank page begging for inspiration to come, yet it doesn’t. But give yourself a prompt, and possibilities for creating seem to blossom unexpectedly.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

– Leonardo da Vinci

I will sometimes add additional limitations during a monthly challenge. Such as drawing everything in a circle or only using two colors of ink. You’d think that these limitations would stifle my creativity. But to my surprise, I find that my ability to create expands when I have certain restraints.

So even if you are struggling to find a creative style for a challenge, try adding some constraints to your art.

• Paint only in a circle but allow one piece of your art to break out of the frame – like the tip of a mountain or a single palm tree.
• Use a new font style and master it.
• Have you ever tried flourishing? Maybe it’s time to try.
• Use two types of fonts and mix and match them for a quote.
• Doodle the image that creeps into your head when you read the prompt.
• Create a comic strip with the prompt as the theme.

That’s what these challenges are all about! Expanding your creative vocabulary and discovering something new.

What to Do & Ideas for Creating

Here are some ideas to get you started with this challenge creating using the travel methods prompts.

Create cards to send to a friend, or create a collection of these words and hang them in a frame. Use the challenge word as a start for your art or lettering. You can always use art as an overlay for your other creations. Try to create as many as you like, or spend a few days experimenting with a particular word.

Create monograms with the various funny words drawn out in modern calligraphy, or try your hand at watercolor lettering.

What I Love About Creative Challenges

What I love about creative challenges – even if you happen on this challenge after it’s posted and finished on Instagram, there’s nothing keeping you from using these prompts to create later on.

Using a combination of daily and style prompts is one of my favorite ways to experiment and try new styles. A few years ago, when I was starting to handletter, prompts like this got me to try flourishing when I never would before.

Happy creating, and remember to have fun!

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