Laura Valojärvi
The Cycle of Creative Resources
The creative process and creative well-being from the perspective of picturebook illustrators
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Research studies acknowledge the complex nature of creative
personalities and show empirical evidence for an association between
creativity and mood disorders. Yet, there has been surprisingly little
discussion of creative professionals who have lost their work motivation
and creative spark. A critical discussion of this phenomenon is often
reduced instead to conversations focusing on some variation of the idea
that the unifying characteristic of creative people is that they all
love what they do. This perspective does not reflect the reality of the
working lives of creative professionals and ignores those creative
individuals who have lost their passion for their creative work. In the
studies presented in this thesis, I focus on addressing this gap and
attempt to provide a more in-depth understanding of the creative
process.
This thesis examines creative
well-being and the complexity of the creative process from the
perspective of picturebook illustrators.
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