elgyfu opened this issue on Sep 22, 2003 ยท 28 posts
usslopez posted Mon, 22 September 2003 at 4:41 PM
Ditto on all the "I know how you feel"s... When I was going to college the art professors used to tell us that when we got "artist's block" similar to "writers block" to go back and clean up the studio. That's always worked for me. Go over your old stuff, get rid of some old stuff, take inventory of your art supplies, keep some and toss some (you get the idea). Cleaning up the studio is like going over your life and trying to find why you started creating art in the first place. Why am I keeping this box of charcoal nubs and 15 giant markers (all dried out)? So you toss out the markers and keep the nubs! One important thing is to try and get back to basics like drawing, photography, watercolor things that you can get messy with. Draw shapes, take pictures of objects and I like to do watercolor landscapes. So all this basic stuff will somehow bring back that creative spark you might be missing. It won't happen overnight but eventually you'll sit back down at your computer and create one of the best works you've created.