About this episode
This week we roll headfirst into the interestin' world of aphantasia.It all started with conversations inside Find Your Creative Voice and The Picture Book Course - when Good Shippers were telling us, “I can’t see ANYTHING in my head.” Which sent us down a rabbit hole of aphantasia, imagination. And does everyone experience it the same way?Nope.In this episode, we chat about:What aphantasia isThe “apple test” 🍎Emotional memory vs visual memoryWhy some creatives need reference and others work 100% from imaginationWhether Google has made our “mind palace” lazyNot being able to picture things can be a creative advantage. We promise.Smells, textures, music and sensory imaginationSynesthesia (colours for days of the week?)Why your wobbly memory-bike drawing might be better than a perfect diagramHow imagination changes from childhood to adulthoodBlind drawing experiments we neeeeed to try at Art ClubTimestamps for our timestamp fans00:00 – Elephantasia? Aphantasia? However you say it…02:00 – The apple spectrum and vivid vs blank imagery03:00 – Reading fiction without mental pictures05:00 – Emotional memory and creepy seaside steps07:00 – Mental collage vs drawing from scratch10:00 – Drawing bikes from memory11:00 – Why aphantasia might make you a better designer14:00 – Idioms, haystacks and giant bears16:00 – Smells, lemons and sensory imagination17:30 – Synesthesia and coloured weekdays20:00 – Wolves, dreams and Google as reference23:00 – Teenage bedrooms and peak memory moments25:00 – Is creativity in your head or your hands?28:00 – Blind Art Club challenge incoming 👀What about you?Can you see the shiny apple? Or is it more of a murky apple-shaped idea?We’d genuinely love to know. Come over to Instagram and tell us how your brain works. We're nosy.Come and say hello! ✏️ @thegoodshipillustration🌏 www.thegoodshipillustration.comp.s. We love answering your illustration questions. Click here to submit your question for The Good Ship Illustration Podcast 🎙
