concept artists= obviously destined to become polymaths

[Katfayheirti]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=imaginary-worlds-are-early-sign-of-2009-08-07


I saw this article on my IGoogle page this morning and found it very amusing.

I spent most of my childhood drawing silly imaginary maps and populating them with imaginary cities and imaginary creatures, only I didn't ever grow out of it and decided that I wanted to become a concept artist. Thanks Scientific American! Now I can feel really good about myself knowing that this "world play" is a sign of true genius. :D I thought some of you might also appreciate this ego boost.

[VulgarDragon]

I'm still making imaginary maps and worlds.

[Psychotime]

Huh. Ok.

[Puck]

Blessed are the Dungeon Masters, for they shall inherit the earth.

[XanaChama]

Been there, done that. But thank you for the new information. It reminds me how much I like to build worlds/cultures in my head.

[s.ketch]

I am glad that there is an entire industry dedicated to creating other worlds to interact with. A lot of people would be bummed out without it.

[Moai]

*Pats diversely creative self on the back*

[JailHouseRock2]

Congrats fellow genius's! :yayca:

[NanoBlack]

And my dearest mother was just worried when I sat there creating imaginary people in imaginary worlds in an imaginary solar system part of an imaginary galaxy. Woot.

[Cthogua]

Haha, that's awesome. I'm glad to hear other people did this as well. I thought I was a weirdo. My dad used to bring home reams of the old dot-matrix printer paper, and I would get 4 or 5 sheets and just start drawing a coast line, with little fjords, and rivers, and then fill in with colored pencils where the mountains and trees where. I always loved imaging whole civilizations populating those places with languages, and funky buildings. Anyway, cool to hear that's actually a "thing"

[Ryuartyi]

People who created imaginary worlds are geniuses now? That's cool. I remember creating worlds for comics since I was at least six, sure they influenced a lot by the cartoons I watched but that's not the point.

Creating worlds is fun; I'm really having a blast creating the world for my comic. I'm glad to hear that there were more people into this when they were little too.

Congratulations fellow geniuses. Now if I can only be Dr. Ryuartyi; that would be cool.

[Psychotime]

Blessed are the Dungeon Masters, for they shall inherit the earth.

Geez, you NEED to be a genius to be able to juggle all those rules.