Engaging in collaborative creative exercises can significantly enhance one's imaginative capabilities. By partnering with others, individuals can explore diverse perspectives, challenge their assumptions, and co-create ideas that might not emerge in isolation. Recently, a friend and I embarked on a collaborative endeavor to conceptualize a paladin character for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. He uses this character in his current campaign with friends but never really thought about how they looks- so this started when I offered to draw.
While the drawing remains a work in progress, I focused on elements that allowed for greater artistic freedom, such as the helmet, pose, and sword. These aspects enabled me to infuse personal interpretation while staying true to our shared vision.
Collaboration I have seen on the "creative exercise" sites a handful of time but haven't had a chance to try it out so much- which is why I was happy to sit down with someone and shoot ideas out in a brainstorm session. DnD has a lot of creative elements, after all the whole purpose of the game is to create characters and roleplay as them, imagining the world and scenarios they'll get into. As stated, my friend uses the Paladin play style, armor is very difficult to draw as there is many blocky shapes and intricate designs- I went with a more Bloodborne based armor, with lots of wing based details and almost eldritch horror style. Id like to finish this project and make it more polished once I have time!
A few sites you can check out with collaborative ideas:
- https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/design-thinking-exercises/
- https://www.ideou.com/pages/collaboration
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