The difference between creative and critical thinking, how are they the same and how are they different? Well, I think they are different in many ways, creative thinking is usually from your prespective and thinking out of the box. Now for critical thinking I you mostly take critiques from others and learn from them. You could also critique others work but still respect their opinion in their work. They are the same because you still have to put a lot of thought in both of them. For example; an art project: I worked on different things in my studio 3D art class. We worked on something called an ocarina. An ocarina takes both creative and critical thinking. For creative we thought about what shape we wanted, the different designs we want, and the details and expressions. For critical thinking we had to correct our mistakes. Like mine, I made my hole of the ocarina too big and I asked Mrs. Collins how come my whistle is not working? She showed me my mistake and told me how to correct it and what I need to correct it. This was me understanding the critiques Mrs. Collins was telling me. So I took her corrections and fixed my ocarina and the whislte now works perfectly!