There’s nothing better to get a new creative project started than by making your own inspirational mood board. Creating your own mood board of idea’s and inspiration will help you to build a collection of concept base ideas to build a new art piece from whether a series of illustrations, photographs or painting. It’s not all that hard to do and once you get started creating a mood board can actually be a really enjoyable part of project building, although if you’ve not made one before here are afew easy tips to help you get started on making your own.
What do I put in a mood board?
A mood board can contain anything from doodles, words, photographs, textures , colour swatches, fabrics and much more based around a chosen theme for your project. So for example a theme maybe “ocean” to which you’d include images of its inhabitants , sea blue colour tones and meaningful words tied to the theme etc.
What do I need to make one ?
Its really down to personal preference but you can make a mood board easily in anything from the pages in your sketchbook, sticking them to a piece of artboard or a cork board with pins. There’s really no right or wrong way because your mood board is personal, there to give you idea’s and pull together concepts for your project that will help it grow.
Putting a mood board together.
- To begin putting your creative mood board together collect a series of images and inspirational materials linked to your chosen theme.
- On an a3 blank sketchbook page ( or any page size of your preference but bigger is less limiting to your mood board ideas) begin to add your mood board research to your page.
- Stick bits down with patterned washi tape or masking tape to make it more visual and allow you to change things around.
- Make it personal and have fun.
- Keep your creative mood board in sight throughout your project to stay visually inspired and consistant to your project theme to prevent getting creatively lost along the way.
Image by illustrator Katt Frank you can find out more about their work here .