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Art block cures?
18 years ago
I've been seeing many artists in the last two months hitting art blocks. Out of curiousity I'm starting another community project around here on top of the birthday list. (Link in header)
I have my own ways for fixing an art block, and I've been getting incredibly curious about other people's methods. I see so many people claim they have no idea to get out of the slump, and I figure something like this might be helpful to creatively staggering artists.
My own methods include keeping a large collection of art and photo books full of models demonstrating poses and animals of every variety. The internet can work well for gathering images like this as well, seeing as I have a massive collection of photos gathered from every corner of the web. I also have a fairly large collection of liturature that I add to every month, it seems, full of novels, short story collections, comic graphic novels and so many other forms of the written word.
I browse through the art and photo books when I want to draw something and have no clue what to create. When I find something that strikes me, I draw a mock-up of it similar to this http://www.furaffinity.net/view/635618/ or this http://www.furaffinity.net/view/490528/ . Or sometimes I'll even create something duplicating an artist/group's style like this http://www.furaffinity.net/view/490448/ . Then I'll try to play with what I just made in my own original ways. I'll try poses I can't find images of and such.
On top of doing that when I feel the need to blindly draw whatever I have no clue about, I constantly read. At the moment I'm reading two books with about twelve on the list to start as soon as I finish one. I've started the second book of the 'Warriors' series by Erin Hunter and I'm reading the another second in a series, the second in the second series in the setting. This series is titled 'Acorna's Chilren' and the book I'm in is called 'Second Wave'. This line of stories was created and developed by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth A. Scarborough with Margaret Ball working on the first book with Mrs. McCaffrey.
Also, RP is an exelent way to break a block. Iroutinely run on MUCKs and MUSHs simply because it forces my mind to think outside of myself, which is how I find most people write simply because they have to think as a character to figure out behavior, rather than thinking, "I really don't enjoy this character and would probably wringe his neck if I ever met them." It's that means that all my characters online are persistant and don't forget something happening because it was just some random romp. Only way around that personal rule is to ask for a oneshot set-up before anything happens.
Anyway, that's my methods for dealing with art block, please share yours here too. :3
I have my own ways for fixing an art block, and I've been getting incredibly curious about other people's methods. I see so many people claim they have no idea to get out of the slump, and I figure something like this might be helpful to creatively staggering artists.
My own methods include keeping a large collection of art and photo books full of models demonstrating poses and animals of every variety. The internet can work well for gathering images like this as well, seeing as I have a massive collection of photos gathered from every corner of the web. I also have a fairly large collection of liturature that I add to every month, it seems, full of novels, short story collections, comic graphic novels and so many other forms of the written word.
I browse through the art and photo books when I want to draw something and have no clue what to create. When I find something that strikes me, I draw a mock-up of it similar to this http://www.furaffinity.net/view/635618/ or this http://www.furaffinity.net/view/490528/ . Or sometimes I'll even create something duplicating an artist/group's style like this http://www.furaffinity.net/view/490448/ . Then I'll try to play with what I just made in my own original ways. I'll try poses I can't find images of and such.
On top of doing that when I feel the need to blindly draw whatever I have no clue about, I constantly read. At the moment I'm reading two books with about twelve on the list to start as soon as I finish one. I've started the second book of the 'Warriors' series by Erin Hunter and I'm reading the another second in a series, the second in the second series in the setting. This series is titled 'Acorna's Chilren' and the book I'm in is called 'Second Wave'. This line of stories was created and developed by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth A. Scarborough with Margaret Ball working on the first book with Mrs. McCaffrey.
Also, RP is an exelent way to break a block. Iroutinely run on MUCKs and MUSHs simply because it forces my mind to think outside of myself, which is how I find most people write simply because they have to think as a character to figure out behavior, rather than thinking, "I really don't enjoy this character and would probably wringe his neck if I ever met them." It's that means that all my characters online are persistant and don't forget something happening because it was just some random romp. Only way around that personal rule is to ask for a oneshot set-up before anything happens.
Anyway, that's my methods for dealing with art block, please share yours here too. :3
Hope this thing gives you ideas that might help out. :)
Thanks for sharing.