Developing ideational fluency can come in useful as an artist as it helps you to expand your mindset from producing one idea into several different ideas. Commonly achieved through brainstorming you can take one main subject and write down everything and anything that comes into your mind when thinking about it. This then develops into mind mapping, where you take the ideas you thought of during the brainstorm and organize them so they work together with each other creating new and initiative ideas that you might of never thought of or thought possible before completing the process.
While brainstorms usually consist of noting down words, mind maps involve more visual examples of working. Images and illustrations help to show the developing thought processes and show in wider detail the creative thought processes occurring around one idea and how the artist has come across them.
Below is an example of the difference between a brainstorm and a mind map. By looking at both ways of extracting ideas and noting them down to be developed both processes work well together as one expands the thought process while the other a more creative process. This results in greater and more creative ideas that are unique to the individual artists.
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| Brainstorm. |
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