I suppose it probably seems like a lot, but to me, well, I have a system for it. Or rather, I suppose I turn it into a bit of a game. For me, inspiration tends to come from…a certain element of surprise or randomness in my idea process–I can come up with ideas alright without it, but with it, it tends to give me better results.
At the moment, I save up a large number of pictures from tumblr and elsewhere, and then divide them up randomly into small groups of about five. From those five, I start looking at them for similarities and interesting narratives between pictures. That’s where my recent double picture cations have come from at least. I usually do them in sets of five or six–about an hour’s work. The vignettes at the end of the week just take the kernel of the caption and expand it.
I suppose that sounds like a lot of work, but it really isn’t. I don’t get many ideas from real life though. If anything, most of my cations tend to have something to do with whatever commission/long story I’m working on at the moment.
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