World Famous Comics: Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go
Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go
By: Shaun Mcniff Publisher: Shambhala Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Shambhala Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 210 Publication Date: March 31, 1998 Release Date: March 31, 1998
the best book on the creative process This is the best book I've ever read on the creative process. I have owned it now for 3 years, and refer back to it regularly. I wish there were more books like this. I bought most of the ones recommended with this book, but none of them come close to this one. I look forward to another book by the same author.
Excellent advice for aspiring artists and others as well. This is a well written, easy to read book on creativity. I found it very useful in pursuing my photography hobby. I took off a star because like so many books the author seemed to run out of things to say about 2/3 of the way through and filled the remainder with repetition and unrelated " stuff".
A great book I loved this book. Lots of food for thought, and lots of directions for exploring. I read it slowly over a period of a couple of months, and plan to pick it up and read a chapter here and there when I'm stuck.
Save your money! Have you ever gotten so sick of the meals you are used to cooking that you will try any recipe? You might then be so hungry that you'll eat it anyway, no matter how bad it tastes. Well, I got stuck reading this book.
Sometimes you need any kind of creative push you can get, and this book is so bad, I would be willing to do anything besides read it. Check this out--"I cannot augur the creative spirit's labyrinthine ways." There is just no excuse for that sentence. And there are 210 pages full of them. McNiff also mentions D.H. Lawrence twice in the first two chapters when any reasonable person would have to be forced to mention Lawrence twice during their entire writing career. Unless he is talking about his children, or making a truly canned reference to mythology, McNiff can only discuss standard junior college material, which of course, would be any commonly known artist from the beginning of the 20th century.
Now, let me take the opportunity to complain about visual arts getting kidnapped by academia. Art does not exist as an educational tool. It can be studied, but that is a separate activity. Art exists because people like to make things, and sometimes our eyes get hungry. Put your charge card away this time, don't buy this stilted little book.
Good luck on your art!
Let yourself go This is one of the books I read before I published my own book on art creativity - Creative Painting For The Young Artist. A good point of the book is that it deals with painters block. Not many art books do. This is important for me because I had always thought that I could not paint till the age of 24 years. This book with the book Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain are especially good for right brain learners who have to enter the process of painting through emotion and getting the larger picture before paying attention to details. That is you can't begin painting by sitting in a class and beging to draw a shoe. This has brought a sense of failure to many would be artists. This is more than a book on creativity but also a book about the psychology of the artist as the book also deals with painters block, dealing with criticism, the purpose of being a painter, states of consciousness and childhood origins of the artist.
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