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Pressure to Deliver
16 years ago
Yesterday night I brewed a nice cup of chamomile tea and went for a stroll in what little part of the neighbourhood is richly equipped with not-suck. I was test listening to a first demo of my latest musical project on my mp3 player, and found it quite all right. Both in the sense of quality, and regarding my applied efforts earlier on the day.
I found that it's a lot easier on me, both in getting started, and in easing the tension, to warm up with other creative activities. It's good excercise for the brainbox, and it gives me a pass if I don't get to the real work as I know I usually want to.
My problem has always been the opposite of art block - I have too much ideas to even attempt to take them on. Verily it seems to be a mountain at times. Half of the ideas, if not more, are of course bad ideas to begin with, but I won't know that until I do something with them. The worst of it is that while I'm procrastinating, more ideas pile up, so that it seems I've got the following three years dotted out. That's not an exaggeration, I'm afraid.
So yeah, I'm doing some miscellaneous things (voice acting, colouring furniture) and drawing for hours upon hours these days. I've done about one hundred drawings this week and I feel a lot better about my routine - especially because I don't critique myself so massively on those endeavours.
No, there's no moral lesson or conclusion here - just a few observations as I'm muddling along.
I found that it's a lot easier on me, both in getting started, and in easing the tension, to warm up with other creative activities. It's good excercise for the brainbox, and it gives me a pass if I don't get to the real work as I know I usually want to.
My problem has always been the opposite of art block - I have too much ideas to even attempt to take them on. Verily it seems to be a mountain at times. Half of the ideas, if not more, are of course bad ideas to begin with, but I won't know that until I do something with them. The worst of it is that while I'm procrastinating, more ideas pile up, so that it seems I've got the following three years dotted out. That's not an exaggeration, I'm afraid.
So yeah, I'm doing some miscellaneous things (voice acting, colouring furniture) and drawing for hours upon hours these days. I've done about one hundred drawings this week and I feel a lot better about my routine - especially because I don't critique myself so massively on those endeavours.
No, there's no moral lesson or conclusion here - just a few observations as I'm muddling along.
Just sayin', like.
when me ideas get too stuffy, I wonder how they would be on the contrary... hmmm meaning... how they are... backwards... if the "backwards idea" sucks, then the idea is good, or it's ok, if the "backwars idea" thingie is ok, or cool, then my idea is either bad... or strange!!!
I envy your life foxie... I want to be so... so, so artistike XD
I try not to categorise my ideas too much before trying them out.. but when I try them out and it's too hard it's obvious the idea isn't good enough, or I'm not ready to do it justice. So I throw it out. If it ever comes back, it turned out it was the latter option.