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Help with focusing?
7 years ago
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I've asked on Twitter but gotten no response so I'm gonna ask here!
Anybody here have any tips on how to keep focus on things especially art?
I have the attention span of a fricken toddler and its really bugging me especially commission wise. I start working but about 30 minutes in I start losing focus and motivation to work on the same piece and will start/work on something else or do something else which is making the whole commission process super slow when I know the icons for example can and should be done in only a couple days but it takes me a week to finally get enough motivation to finish the sketch and its not like I don't wanna do it either I just quickly become bored and feel the need to do something else no matter how much I enjoy the actual piece. I try to force myself to focus but then I end up hating the process and deliver sub par work.
I thought maybe the internet was being too distracting for me so I downloaded an extension that basically blocks it for however much time I want(currently an hour) and it helped but I still find myself easily getting distracted and leaving my computer while I'm suppose to be working.
I just really wanna start freelancing seriously but I feel I can't really do that if I can only manage to seriously work on commissions once or twice every other week or something -.-
Anybody here have any tips on how to keep focus on things especially art?
I have the attention span of a fricken toddler and its really bugging me especially commission wise. I start working but about 30 minutes in I start losing focus and motivation to work on the same piece and will start/work on something else or do something else which is making the whole commission process super slow when I know the icons for example can and should be done in only a couple days but it takes me a week to finally get enough motivation to finish the sketch and its not like I don't wanna do it either I just quickly become bored and feel the need to do something else no matter how much I enjoy the actual piece. I try to force myself to focus but then I end up hating the process and deliver sub par work.
I thought maybe the internet was being too distracting for me so I downloaded an extension that basically blocks it for however much time I want(currently an hour) and it helped but I still find myself easily getting distracted and leaving my computer while I'm suppose to be working.
I just really wanna start freelancing seriously but I feel I can't really do that if I can only manage to seriously work on commissions once or twice every other week or something -.-
Also I don't know if this counts, but I found it a lot easier to get in the mood to draw when I had a friend drawing with me. Then we would compare our drawings to each other's and laugh or some such.
Wish I could be of more help.
There's also just the possibility of having off days, sometimes it can be like being in the zone, but the next nothing really comes out right haha ;;