EDIT - Just found this and thought it was a brilliant idea, really creative. There is a lot of water drop photography but this is my favourite by far:

Go here to see all three: [link]

I've been thinking about my DeviantArt account, what I use it for and what features I don't use or misuse. Originally I created my account while in high school as a way of motivating me to be creative and a place to display my 'work' which was usually the consolidation of several tutorials with my own personal touch - nothing really new or even creative.

Considering this is a creative website, I've been thinking my journal should aim to be somewhat nourishing to the creative intellect. So now to figure out what would be interesting and stimulating. A journal is usually something that is more for yourself than others, I'd like to be able to look back on it and find interesting and useful things in both it and the comments.

Lets try this:
Promoting work of people that post on your journal is absolutely fine, and a great way to discover work. I'd like to try something different, and hopefully I'll get some participation. I'll find three pieces of work that I really like, and look at some of the elements that make them a successful image. To make it more interesting for me, it will be works outside of graphic design. The virtue of creative disciplines is that they all work off similar principles. So I'll do this below, then if anyone who reads this can contribute even just one I will add it to the journal. You can do this even by venturing to a different category on DeviantArt and looking at the most popular works.

by yuumei
Using the gap in the curtain to lead the eye directly to the pianist is excellent. I love the negative space in the top half of the image. The lines of the piano again direct the eye back to the pianist so there is a lot of good use of direction happening.

larger version here: [link]
I really love woodblock prints and Ando Hiroshige's Bridge at Awate Source is one of my favourites. I really like the fact that from top to bottom the image becomes more complex, from a blank background to a busy foreground. You can also draw a triangle between the points of interest - the man on the boat and the men on the bridge caught in the downpour. I remember reading once that a technique the artists use to give figures in the image more sence of movement was to place figures in poses that they couldn't possible hold for long periods of time, this way the mind assumes the movement of the figure which gives that feeling of life in the work.

by ELENADUDINA
Again with the triagle, I really like the way you can cut up this illustration with lines. You can draw a trangle from each of the birds eyes that intersect with the woman's eyes also, creating a really nice intermate moment between her and the birds. One thing that does bother me in this image is the lighting doesn't really make sence but it almost doesn't matter since the composition is nice.

What are some things that people find useful to remember when being creative? I always find it helpful to remember that when we create something on paper/photographing it etc, we are just recording light. I find this stops me from assuming I can see certain things in the scene (for example knowing how an object looks, so drawing it partly from memoy), and pay closer attention to what is actually happening, and how light is moving around the scene.

Can anyone share some inspiring or creative sites, videos, articles or anything else?
Come on, lets get 2 people replying here. Thats the goal!