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INFPs and Art/Creativity?

I have heard a lot about INFPs being strong with writing, but what about visual arts like painting, photography, film, etc? Do INFPs tend to lean on the visually artistic side? I am an INFP and find myself to my more visually artistic and literarily artistic than musical.

EDIT: Sorry about the typo in the title, I have no idea why I put are in the title lol
 
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I think that you can edit that by going to the advanced editing options...

I'm very much into all kinds of art...painting, oil pastels, drawing, clay, etc. I would think INFPs would be, also.
 
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In my own experience Poetry,songwriting, and Music composition came naturally to me. While, it was a struggle to find a medium for visual creativity I still had a desire to try it. I eventually found a knack for graphic design, and collages, but still a very less-than mediocre ability to draw or paint very well.
 
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I'm very good when it comes to visual learning, but not so much inventive when it comes to art. Give me something to draw, and I can make it look great, with my own personal style (all scratchy and distorted, I never learned to color inside the lines haha).
And I'm good with photography and such.
But painting, sculpting, etc, no.
I have found my niche in writing/calligraphy, photography, and sketching.
...I also admire the scratchboard. =P

I wish I was more artistically inventive though! D=
 
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I actually took a drawing course once, and the teacher said that while I was not good drawing details and that I had trouble when drawing objects, I did have a knack for making up motives, to imagine nicely composed scenery for instance.

My writing are very related to mood, as such my grades in school fluctuated. If I where in a good writing-mood when it happened to be writing-day, I got good grades. When I bad mood, I didn't succeed that well.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I've read that art is organized imagination. Art is not just creative and imaginative, it also need to be structured. When in bad mood, I don't do well at being organized. Perhaps thats why my grades varied.
 
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I've never been very good at anything really. I really enjoyed pottery. When I took pottery class I loved using my hands, and shaping the clay. I shy away from most creative things like drawing because I had a traumatizing experience with an elementary art teacher that yelled at me for trying to do my own thing. I also like writing sometimes, and I do dabble in poetry and short stories sometimes. When I was in the mood of course. :) I used to be really into photography, and I hope to take a class in it while I am in college. :)
 
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I do this and that. I write, I photograph, I play guitar, sometimes I draw... but my drawing is like... weird. I want to draw somebody's portrait and in the end it looks like alien again..and again...and again. My drawing skills are below zero.
 
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I am NOT a creative writer, but I am a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to the visual arts.

I like to write research papers and opinion pieces, but trying to produce any kind of fiction/poetry/creative writing feels like torture.
 
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Well, Im studying graphic design so I hope Im a bit visual! Hehe. Though I do like to dabble in other visual areas such as craft (love working with paper - making awsome cards is what I do for close friends on their Bdays - the last one I made was a pop-up card of a tree with a bird in it, came out really well :D).

Originally I thought that I was terrible at drawing, but over the last few years I have learnt to embrace my 'style'. No, Im not going to be able to draw a persons face with amazing accuracy and detail, however, I can draw my intepretation of it, and if other people cannot relate to it, that is their loss. I think what inspired this thinking was seeing my friends drawings. They were so abstract and interesting, yet beautiful. They were out of this world. Child-like and sohpisticated. Now I just do my own thing, and if people dont appreciated it, thats ok.
 
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:points to avatar: 3'x4' charcoal drawing I did at school. Right now I'm working on an art project. I'm working on another for my dad who wanted to fix up a guitar. I'm painting the pick guard.
 
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Ohhhhh yeah. I love art. I'd say I'm best at drawing (mostly faces and life-like things; I want to be able to visualize surreal things or put images that I see in my dreams down on paper, but I can't seem to get that down yet), and photography. I love to write, and I've been modest about my writing until lately, when I actually had some friends and family members read some of my stuff. And they all seemed to like it. And now I'm writing a book! I also love to throw pots, and one of my FAVORITE things to do is design clothing. So... yes. I also love painting but I really kind of suck at it.

The downside to all of this... I start 8 million things per day, but I barely finish any of it. Photography is the only thing I ever got anywhere with, but sometimes I still go back and edit year-old photos.

@Lily: Your art teacher was a jerk! :sad:
 
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Oh yes! I'm very interested in film and photography. I have a knack for knowing what will look beautiful to people without having studied up much on the arts.
I'm not so good at drawing and painting though. Unless it's cartoonish :)
If you give me a few weeks I could produce something slightly better the mediocre.
 
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ooh i am certainly a visual person however i do write fiction sometimes
i tend to be very descriptive to the point where my writing almost get visual
i want to be an experimental film maker/ music video director
as i am very good at coming up with ideas for shots and effects
and i can see pictures to music often really vividly to music in my mind's eye
:D ultimately if i ever get the funding i want to make one of my storys into a film
it will probably end up being something like children of men, or city of god or 500 days of summer or like the science of sleep :D:laughing:
 
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I'm not as good at drawing/painting as i'd like to be, the ideas are there but I just can't seem to draw them without making a mess of it
I love writing poetry and transforming them into lyrics adding a melody and some composition to it with my guitar so yeah writing music is one of them.
I think I must be the only infp who isn't a book worm, i'm not fussed with books and writing stories really.

I love to create films and videos to music in my head and I watch films literally all the time but each one only ever once no matter how much I love it. My strangest one being an infp seems to be creating characters, pieces of drama, scripts and actually acting. I really do love drama with a passion and I always loose my shy awkwardness instantly and can express any emotion to just about anyone with it I can perform in front of 200 people with a character but only 5 people as myself and people I know can't understand it at all. The directing and coming up with ideas is fun too :)
 
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I cannot write to save my life.. or draw for that matter. As a child I did spend most of time drawing; I remember an old photograph of my room where my walls were covered with drawings (pretty much all of them were ugly drawing of girls in dresses or drawings of aliens...yeah don't ask). I also remember creating characters for stories that I never actually wrote.
Now, I don't like writing; I'm really not talented in choosing words.. and creating sentences (I think I just proved my point) and I'm no good at expressing what I feel through words.

Photography, now that's a different thing. I feel it's my true passion and I am currently studying in that area :)
 
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I am extrememly artistic art-wise (drawing, painting, creativity) and also talented music-wise (piano, singing) Although I do not have perfect pitch, so it comes a bitter harder to me to compose piano; Thus I stick with my Chopin and beethoven. :) <3

Suprisingly, although english is my strongest of the basic school-necessity classes (Math, Science, History = fail) It is not my strongest talent. This is quite amusing considering the fact I am an INFP and we are known for our writing. Hehe. :) But I am definately not an "ISFP", the typical 'arist' personality type.

But eh. Just odd little me. :p
 
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Yeah, I consider myself a visual artist first & foremost. I started drawing as soon as I could hold a pencil, although lately I hardly draw due to stress :frustrating:. I'm a bit of an aesthetic, so I also use everyday things like dress/grooming & home decor as creative opportunities. I'm a graphic designer by trade. I'm not an exceptionally talented designer or artist, but visual art feels like my most natural form of expression. Although I started writing poetry at age 8, so that's my other form. I've also dabbled in short stories & outlined ideas for novels.

I pretty much love all the arts, and if I had more time & self-discipline I'd like to learn to play an instrument & compose songs, finish that novel, refine my crappy poetry, paint & draw more....but instead I just crank out ad designs :crazy:.
 
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