Recently, I've actually been using my Pinterest. I've never been a big fan of it. It always felt hard to navigate and find original sources and you get five thousand notifications, which I hate. But it's gotten better and I've found a few uses for it. One of those uses is using it as a digital mood board.
I've seen a few different artists use it as such and it's a much better solution than what I had been doing (saving each picture to a folder on my computer). You can use it for inspiration, references, and a general atmosphere guide. I'll pin something because I like the style, colors, pose, face, or just so I can see how to draw something I'm not familiar with. It's actually a great resource and I wish I had started to use it sooner.
So I thought I would give you a peak at what mine currently looks like!
Day 2 of my Inktober prompts is Owl and I needed a good reference of a barn owl since I've never drawn one before. I ended up using the one on the top right and modified it to hold a branch and then used the double triangle shape since I've been in love with geometric designs lately.
I'm also starting my own apothecary cabinet at home and it's one of my prompts so I've been pinning different apothecary set ups as well.
I'm big on mermaids and long, tentacle like floating hair so I pinned a bunch of those as well as some hair designs and things I might use for paintings later. I've been trying to get better at drawing hair so I like to pin things in the style I wish I could draw in. The 2nd from the left on the bottom was mostly color inspiration!
I pinned some pattern inspirations here and flowers because I'm always trying to draw flowers better. Some cauldron's and cloche designs for inspo for later prompts. That Batgirl on the bottom right is gorgeous and I ended up pinning it for inspiration for future Ladies Night flyers.
I'm big on skulls, horns, and creepy hand poses and pinned a few references I found. I had the idea of having a girl covering her face with her hands and drawing eyes in her palms and making her whole body galaxy colored with white lineart, but haven't gotten to that yet. I also want to draw some creepy witch/monster hands for Inktober and maybe do another animal skull.
And a lot of these are Persephone and crystals inspired. I want to draw a neat pomegranate with flowers and skulls for one of my prompts. And I absolutely suck at drawing crystals so I pinned some for reference. I'm doing a Tarantula with crystals growing out of it later and need to get my crystal game in order. And then of course more flowers because I have a problem.
I've only been using my mood board for a month or so but it's already helped a bunch when it comes to inspiration and coming up with new ideas. I have a seperate board for clothing inspiration and things like that and I think I'm going to start pinning them in my mood board instead. I use it mostly for art anyways and I'm fashion challenged for the most part.
If you'd like to check our my art board you can see it here! I pin more stuff as I need to and with Inktober, it's probably going to get a lot bigger.
Do you use Pinterest for your mood board or do you use something else and what do you put on it? Let me know and share yours in the comments!
-Sam <3