You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
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You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.
You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.
As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.
I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.
It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.