Awh, sorry to hear... Good luck and all...

And I just draw random little things here and there, and sometimes I just watch some cartoons as well. <3 Hope that will help some.

Draw random cute things here and there :D
Specially on papers that you find lying around x3 That's always good.

Suggestion: Listen musics and try find the one that you impress you the most what drags your fancy to draw back! ;3 Good hunting!

eMule is perfect.

As I always say : DON't push yourself, read books (helps creating images), go take long walks (helps you thinking about other things - also nature and human works is excellent for imagination), just live and see as much things as you can. TV is nice too, but not too much, as you are much passive than active in your mental constructions. :) :)

welcome to the working world or life :P . it feels good making money ^^

Best of luck - just keep sleeping... urm... kinda

Actually, I'm going through the same thing right now. I just got a new job, I'm sort of stressed over it, and so my art mood has all but died on me o-x

Even if I haven't been able to do so myself, the best thing you can do is just take deep breaths to relax, and give everything time. Maybe you'll get lucky and your mood will return sooner than you felt it would ^^;

The best cure for art block is to stea... liberate a pencil.

I'm serious! It works for me!

I work at a place where pencils are always being left laying about. So I started "liberating" them and I haven't been blocked since.

It has to be one not being used for art or it won't work. Every pencil deserves to create something beautiful in its lifetime.

:)

Good luck, prettiness! *snuggle*

My only suggestion for art-block is to do as much of taht stereotyped, cheezy angst-art that DA is made of as you possibly can. After your first or second one, you may find that you've got something worth doing.


See, if there's something I've learned about all art through writing, it's that if you don't set aside a few minutes every single day to just go at it, then you end-up missing a lot of stuff.

Of course, as I'm a bump-on-a-log hypocrite, I haven't drawn or made music in close to four months. And I assume it's been for the same reasons you've got, to whatever extent.

eh i know how it is hon, you and me have been in a small funk latley,, and hey i get called to a interview monday <3!
good luck on your first day!

Wish you luck Miss Ksharra :P

Try the art meme going around... Good ol random doodles that might get you in the mood. Worked for me yesterday! :3

Best of luck. Don't worry about things with us. You just do things as you feel like.

Hey, I just hope youre ok Ksharra hon.

Now, if you need ref for inspiration, let me know ;)

::noses the kewl striped one:: best of luck with the new job. Can't really think of anything atm 'cept Anubis and a harem. :P

All the best. *purr* :X)

I deal with art block by ... drawing anyway. It doesn't technically stop me from making pencil marks, it just makes it harder, but the hardest part, it turns out, is sitting down and beginning something. All I can do about it is what I can, try not to allow other things to make it harder, so it really takes discipline. That's why I clean up my area when I finish working on a picture for the day. The less things that I have to do to get ready the easier it is to start working, whether I'm inspired or not. I don't view the times when I am not feeling creative as a time when I shouldn't be drawing.

Working to get out of the block involves as much hard work as it does to perform the work itself. Everybody values the time that others spend working on their projects (despite how much they believe the stuff about needing to let the artist take their time), because they appreciate the effort (and waiting isn't effort). I had a commission that took a whole year to complete (using a new medium I was awkward with). It was slow-going but I made sure that, whenever I emailed them, I'd send a picture attachment with at least *some* progress made, and I wanted to be in communication and have something to talk about, and that made it easy to sit and work on the picture because that was my motivation. Sometimes I got lucky, though, and finished way more than I was expecting to.

I have worked art jobs that were scheduled and paid by the hour (animation and storyboards and character designs and inking and turnarounds) and had deadlines so I always had to be productive. There were a LOT of artists on some of those projects, and nobody left because they had "art block." Illustrating color pictures for people is almost nothing compared to the intensity of the work that I used to do (not saying that it doesn't get pretty intense sometimes), I just am not able to let art block be something that stops me, because it has never been allowed as a good enough reason before.

yeah, know what you mean by the block, im in the same bit

we'll just keep worshiping you from afar then

Read, write, or draw lil' doodles. It works for me. I just recently got out of mine by drawing a weird lil' 'skit' (if you want to call it that) about Kilts and....yeah you get the picture...

Hope things go well with the job, and hopefully my tips help. ^^

Some suggestions:

• Draw about the things you experience from day to day, as dull as they may seem.
• Doodle randomly, even if what you doodle makes little sense.
• Be more open for commissions.
• Read one of your favourite books, or one of your favourite movies. Focus on a particular scene that you enjoy the most, and then find inspiration from that scene, or expand on the possibilities of that scene.
• Draw about your problems with artists' block!
• Make sure to eat decent meals that doesn't consist of "Mc" anything, or anything "King." ;)

Hope this helps!

Actually commissions intensify my art block. I get bogged down by them (even just a few) because I don't feel like I have the freedom to be creative, I'm chained to drawing something I may not necessarily feel like drawing. That's why I've quit doing commissions twice. Once, I was in art block for a whole YEAR. Did not draw, doodle, or sketch a thing. I stopped taking commissions, refunded money, and bam, I was back. Maybe I have too much on my plate right now. I dunno.

Well, you have a point. Too many stooges in the door, and, well, you get the idea.

Maybe you should take a long break from drawing? Take a month off.

We're not demanding that you draw more frequently. I personally enjoy looking at your work. I find it to be fantastic!

I usually turn on my music player to shuffle, and draw a little something based on the lyrics/meaning of whatever songs come on. It's always helped me to get out of a funk.

Just find something that makes you happy and destressed for a while and it will all fall back in place. I know I've been there before.

*hugs* congrats on your new job! I hope you'll like it hon! :)

Coming from someone who gets rabid art block constantly (still going), I understand. But I do hope you break out of it soon.