The RVJ is an indispensable tool for all visual creatives. It stands for reflective, visual journal.
The RVJ is for developing your visual thinking and is for engaging with the creative process. It is used as a 'safe' place to develop ideas, collecting, organising and developing visual material.
We use it to process our thoughts and ideas to give us a better understanding of them. Going from thoughts to visual material helps us see our thought process with our eyes.
Principle 1: Drawing
Working by hand in your RVJ is essential, it helps you engage a physical connection between hand and eye and your creative side of the brain. This is different to thinking with words or on a computer.
When we draw we are thinking, putting our ideas down on paper for us to see. For example Leonardo Divinci did not put his ideas down in words he illustrated his ideas and this way of generating ideas helped his creative brain work.
It is easier to develop ideas when using drawings rather than words because you dont have to think about how to develop them you can see the development happening as you draw.
Anyone can draw to make ideas there is no barrier in 'exploratory mark making'. Also drawing does not have to be just using pens and paper it can be with other materials such as fabric.
Principle 2: Creative Brain
The two halves of your brain are seperate and carry out two different jobs, the right side is playful and experimental and the left side is organising and editing.
These are some more examples of Henry Moore's ideas. I like that you can see the development in these drawings.
Like in these sketches when using he creative process we are unconciusly switching from one side of our brains to the other. Using the playful creative side with the analysing and editing side. As one side is generating ideas the other side is thinking of how to develop them.
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