Creativity can be a way of expressing your personality through you work. If you are confident and extraverted then this can be reflected in your work. My artwork tends to be pretty safe and due to my reserved nature. My friend Caz who is a drama student has a very bubbly, confident personality. Give her a blank sheet of paper and she'll fill every inch of it with fantastic expressive doodles of stars, butterflies, flowers and words she likes. Her drawings may not be as informed as a true artists but they demonstrate how your own personality can affect you work.
Does your creativity reflect your personality or can your personality be affected by how creative you are? The latter has been something I've come to believe over the last couple of years. A friend from Leicester University commented on how how friendly students from DMU are compared to students at her uni. The reason that was suggested was that DMU courses tend to be on the more creative side - art and design, media, drama etc., and art students are generally more laid back and open minded. I first noticed this a couple of years ago when I was studying at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. In my first week there I was struck immediately by how friendly everyone was. Bournemouth University is located just accross the road from the Arts Institute and I used to go there at lunchtimes to buy food from their shop. I always found the students there slightly different in the way they socialize and talk to eachother, and I felt a little intimidated by them at times. I'm not trying to suggest that more creative people are nicer than less creative people, but there definitely is a difference in their personality.
If creativity is something that comes naturally how easily can it be taught?
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This is great info to know.
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