Mood Boards are Fantastic Creative Tools
Mood boards are a wonderful way for artists to visualize their creative ideas. I’m taking some notes from “Treasure Found: An Art Journey.” This blog post will highlight the value of a mood board and how they could become a permanent fixture in your art process.
A Tale of Art Mood Board with Key Word Descriptions
What is a Mood Board?
Known for its collage of images, textures, texts, and colors, a mood board helps visualize a concept or style. A mood board can act as a point of reference throughout your art process, helping to clarify ideas and create cohesion for art projects with multiple pieces.
The Benefits of Using Mood Boards
Clarifies Your Creative Vision Mood boards can be a visual guide that help solidify and clarify your creative vision from the start, making your work efficient while reducing any misunderstandings, especially if you work with clients.
Organizes Inspiration You are compiling elements that organize your thoughts into one place, communicating connections and themes.
Assists the Creative Process Moodboards are your point of reference for your original concept. They support design choices, cohesion, and, as mentioned before, improve communication.
Putting Together Your Mood Board
Gather Inspiration Start by compiling images, textures, and colors that inspire you.
Look through magazines, books, online, your previous work, or photos of inspiration you gathered on the go.
Arrange Elements This is where you can experiment with how to best set up your mood boards or place elements on a page. You can decide if, for larger projects, you utilize multiple mood boards.
For instance, if you were working on a project that utilizes both illustration and lettering, you might have a main mood board for the aesthetic and a second for typography that would inspire the lettering portion.
You can also consider structuring your moodboard sequentially, dividing elements based on color schemes, texts, and type.
Is it Digital or Analog? Decide whether you would like to have a digital or physical mood board. Programs such as Pinterest, Adobe Spark, Adobe InDesign, and Affinity Publisher can create digital mood boards. You can create physical mood boards using printed images from magazines, postcards from your recent holiday, print and texture swatches, and various materials.
My Sweet Flower Mood Board - Inspired Print Designs in “Treasure Found: An Art Journey”
Mood boards are useful tools that help you focus your creative process, organize your thoughts, and make sense of your vision. See "Treasure Found: An Art Journey" for further activities and ideas related to the creative process.