Chapter 9. Good Creative Habits

Whether you're a designer or an illustrator, you're expected to deliver creativity on a daily basis. It doesn't matter if you're in the mood to create or not. You rarely have the luxury of simply waiting until inspiration strikes to move forward on a design project.

So how do you stay on creative high alert, armed and ready to meet your impending daily design challenges? The answer is simple: establish good creative habits (FIGURE 9.1).

Good creative habits help to increase productivity, improve efficiency, raise quality, fuel creative passion, ignite inspiration, bring about new creative opportunities, cure cancer, solve homelessness, and establish ever-lasting peace on Earth. OK, well, maybe not those last three ...

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