Week 4 Creative Exercise

 For this week's creativity exercise, I was tasked with creating a drawing that explores time-based metaphors using visual metaphors. The real purpose of this activity was to challenge the way I think about storytelling through imagery. It pushed me to take something invisible like time and give it shape, emotion, and meaning.

I created a set of drawings using the idea of a time machine. One of the key images featured an hourglass with different scenes in each half, the top showing a person facing a sunset over hills resembling the past, and the bottom showing another person sitting in a futuristic city (the future). As sand trickled from one to the other, it symbolized how time continuously flows, pulling us forward while still being shaped by what came before. 

I learned that visual metaphors are powerful for expressing complex ideas and emotions. This exercise helped me shift from just drawing what looks good, to drawing what means something. I’ll use metaphors more intentionally in future projects to add depth and communicate ideas clearly, especially in illustrations, posters, and any creative storytelling work.