Loss of Imagination.

Something I'm interested in, is the loss of imagination..

some questions I've come up with:


how do we lose it?

can we lose it?

if you don't use it, will you loose it? (excuse my rhyme)

do we lose it as we get older?

why is it not as strong as it is when we are a child?

does our upbringing determine how well we can use our imagination?

can we get our imagination back?

Quote

Albert Einstein said, 

"Imagination ... is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

But in reality, without knowledge, imagination can not be developed.

something to be considered in Illustration, the ability to draw something convincing, being a character or creature comes from acquired knowledge, studying other artists, learning anatomy, colour theory etc..

Imagination Wiki Attack!

Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming images and sensations when they are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental faculty through which people make sense of the world,^[1][2][3] and it also plays a key role in the learning process.^[1][4] A basic training for imagination is listening to storytelling (narrative),^[1][5] in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to "evoke worlds."^[6] It is a whole cycle of image formation or any sensation which may described as "hidden" as it takes place without anyone else's knowledge.The research has suggested that about 60% people are imaginative.A person may imagine according to his mood,it may be good or bad depending on the situation.Some people imagine in state of tension or gloominess in order to calm themselves. It is accepted as the innate ability and process of inventing partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world.^{[citation needed]} The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind, percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the "mind's eye."

Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies. Most famous inventions or entertainment products were developed from the inspiration of someone's imagination.

Children often use narratives or pretend play in order to exercise their imagination. When children develop fantasy they play at two levels: first, they use role playing to act out what they have developed with their imagination, and at the second level they play again with their make-believe situation by acting as if what they have developed is an actual reality that already exists in narrative myth.^[7]

Imagination.

So originally i wanted to look at character design and what makes a good character, but i didn't really know how to push past that. I have a little knowledge of what goes into making a good character and i felt it was more something i'd study on the side of this project as opposed to making it my project. So anyway i've been thinking the last couple of days as to what it takes to create a character in the first place, and imagination came to mind. Thats what it takes to make these characters, the ability to imagine. To conjure these images in your head, these places, these people, these creatures etc.. and put them down on paper. you need a good imagination.

So i want to look into this a bit, this...Imagination.