LEGO my creativity!!

[tdotbabs]

Today I went to the Lego store with my friends and I have finally come to grips with something I've suspected about myself for a very long time:

I SUCK at Lego building. Seriously. I can draw and imagine, and when pushed in the right way, I can write. But sit me down in front of a pile of Legos, and my mind goes blank. I have NO idea what to make with them, or how to go about it and all I see are a pile of little multicoloured blocks. :\

For someone as creative as I am, this is pretty frustrating.

Comments

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

It's perfectly fine to treat them as a mosaic plane.

But, it's like most things, the more you noodle about, the more ideas you have. Sometimes it helps to play with only a handful or two handfuls of bricks.

I suspect a tad of overwhelm and performance anxiety since the stores are so plentiful and also loud.

I've posted some things about LEGO.

[tdotbabs]

Well, that and my friend is a master Lego builder. :P I can't even figure out what to do with two blocks! XD

I did take a look at your Lego posts. I didn't know you built too! That kind of stuff do you make?

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I am not a master builder. Right now is gardening season, so I've not played much with the LEGO recently. I tried composing a microscale Ecto-1 several years ago (that's where instead of a minifig people are represented by a onesie cylinder and a round one plate.

There are pdfs for a number of the older sets, in case you'd like a little guidance/confidence. Also look at real buildings, especially ones made of actual bricks. Knowing the various bonds is akin to knowing different hashings.

[zeeth_kyrah]

I loved Legos. My sister and I used to play with a couple of plates, a large moon plate from the old Lunar Lander sets, and a smaller green plate from a house-building set. We'd just put bricks around the edges and inside to represent the walls of buildings or space ships, and use the plates as doll sets for our toys' storylines. :)