puffle_huff said:My "muse" goes on vacation. >B|
My-muse/inspiration/creativity-has-left-me.I'm going to go listen to the zen channel, light some incense and try again in the morning. Love you all <3.
Nanobot said:Oh dear.
puffle_huff said:My "muse" goes on vacation. >B|
My-muse/inspiration/creativity-has-left-me.I'm going to go listen to the zen channel, light some incense and try again in the morning. Love you all <3.
puffle_huff said:In addition to hayfever, several of us are admitting to Artistic Congestion. Want to artify but either can get it out or it gets up and goes before we get to the desktop...Arrgh.
Xaa said:
puffle_huff said:In addition to hayfever, several of us are admitting to Artistic Congestion. Want to artify but either can get it out or it gets up and goes before we get to the desktop...Arrgh.
Work on something anyway.
An important part of artistic productivity is to be able to make your muse work for you, not the other way around. Crank out something, even if it sucks and you don't post it. Keep working.
Xaa said:Yes, exactly.
That image I did yesterday of the nude girl on the beach?
That's where it came from. Just doodling to keep the muse working for me, rather than the other way around.
Nanobot said:
Xaa said:Yes, exactly.
That image I did yesterday of the nude girl on the beach?
That's where it came from. Just doodling to keep the muse working for me, rather than the other way around.
And not only for visual arts. I also try to write a bit every day, too. And hey, that's what this forum's here for--to help each other feel like practicing when we don't, and enjoying it when we do.
puffle_huff said:
Nanobot said:
Xaa said:Yes, exactly.
That image I did yesterday of the nude girl on the beach?
That's where it came from. Just doodling to keep the muse working for me, rather than the other way around.
And not only for visual arts. I also try to write a bit every day, too. And hey, that's what this forum's here for--to help each other feel like practicing when we don't, and enjoying it when we do.
My initial reaction is to that is to NOT do anything at all. I dislike the feeling -having- to force the creativity. I push myself to do what I don't want to do in every other aspect of my daily life, I use Poser and rendering to take a break from all that. I mean, I totally understand what you two are taking about though. Maybe I'm on the other end of that spectrum. You talk of working until the ideas come and I only work when I have ideas, heh.
puffle_huff said:
Nanobot said:
Xaa said:Yes, exactly.
That image I did yesterday of the nude girl on the beach?
That's where it came from. Just doodling to keep the muse working for me, rather than the other way around.
And not only for visual arts. I also try to write a bit every day, too. And hey, that's what this forum's here for--to help each other feel like practicing when we don't, and enjoying it when we do.
My initial reaction is to that is to NOT do anything at all. I dislike the feeling -having- to force the creativity. I push myself to do what I don't want to do in every other aspect of my daily life, I use Poser and rendering to take a break from all that. I mean, I totally understand what you two are taking about though. Maybe I'm on the other end of that spectrum. You talk of working until the ideas come and I only work when I have ideas, heh.
Heh. Mine is more of an obession? Compulsion? I'm in meetings and I'm sketching on the bottom portion of the charts/files in front me. I'm on the bus and I try to eek out a hand, or a partial face, or some texture I spied onto whatever paper I have in my pocket, messenger bag, backpack, fast food box. I photograph everything. Trees, trunks, brick walls, cement floors, tile, sand, shadows...I have photos of CHEWED GUM. >.< I can't stop. I see something, I want to know what it feels like, how does it move if it does, how the shadows dance on it and why do they warp that way?
It's not just the 3D that has me this way, it's been this way since I was...well..since I can remember. I didn't always put things down, photograph or sketch things, ect- but the questions were Always there and usually asked. My poor teachers. *Smirk*
Now? I'm in the middle of a conference and the wandering thought of if layered a few different textures within Photoshop, erase here, burn there, change the opacity and work some different colors I could probably repeat the texture of the empty swival chair across the table in front of me. It happens. All the time. Different subjects, different moments, but it's constant.
puffle_huff said:I have friends that never loose their muse, they can create at the drop of a hat and I feel...well I feel inadequate and odd because SO many can do just that. Maybe I need to hop on that boat and try to render something everyday to keep the creative juices a flowin'.
I feel it's good in general to reach beyond your "comfort zone" when doing art, try new things, etc. The friend who advised you probably meant well, but clearly this did not help you at all. You don't need to make EVERY image a cohesive scene. But, by the same token, a character by themselves with nothing in the background does not challenge you much, artistically.puffle_huff said:So when I got the urge to do something I had to rethink it to make an entire cohesive scene.
surochek said:And the phrasing and the timing of advice is often just as important as the content of it!
Terre said:{{{hugs}}}
puffle_huff said:The truly sad part is is that I -was- creating something everyday and then someone close to me said it was too much. As I said I love the human figure. I can render people ALL day and they said I needed to focus on scenes rather than just people. It really stumped and my entire creative process suffered for it. So when I got the urge to do something I had to rethink it to make an entire cohesive scene.
...I uh, I feel a weight falling from my shoulder and I'm...kind of crying right now because I just figured out why I lost my inspiration to begin with. I stifled myself. I was trying to please the masses when it was me I needed to make happy. Yep, that was it...there are the tears.Seriously, thank you all -so- much for your commentary. I know it wasn't JUST for me, but I'm going to pretend it is anyways. :'D
Nanobot said:Yet another random fish.
Here's the original: http://clicks.robertgenn.com/inspiration.phpNo fish today?
April 17, 2012
Dear Nan,
Last Friday I was pacing the studio, bumping into doors and walls, tripping on canvases, knocking over cups of pre-mixed acrylic. "What to do?" I was asking myself. In my panic I briefly impaled myself on a brush I had forgotten to wash the day before. Like my head, it was hard and thick but still held a good point. Some days there ain't no fish.
I had a look in my near-gridlocked inbox. I searched "what to do" and got 14 returns from recent incoming emails. They were asking the same question, and I, in my flimsy guruness, was stuck for answers.
I decided to consult the Brotherhood and Sisterhood via the Resource of Art Quotations on our site. It's a place like no other--enriched by the great artists including our own subscribers. My eyes caught on the words of New Zealand painter Beverly Claridge: "Inspiration is a byproduct of discipline."
I realized I had fallen prey to my own fatal error. The day before I'd finished a painting--even signed it before I went to bed. Big mistake. There was nothing left to do on it. I knew it all along. It's always best to sign things early in the day. Then I dug up a faintly remembered quote from Ernest Hemingway: "I learned never to empty the well, but always to stop when there was still something in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."
The quotes were getting me as hot as a firecracker. "Inspiration," said Henri Matisse, "comes while one is working." "I write only when inspiration strikes--fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp," said Somerset Maugham. "Inspiration exists," said Pablo Picasso, "but it has to find you working.
That's when my line started bobbing up and down. Up until then I had been looking for fish in the sky. My line hadn't even been in the water.
Best regards,
Robert
PS: "When inspiration doesn't come, I go to meet it." (Sigmund Freud) "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it." (Jack London)
Esoterica: I put the previous day's effort to the wall, went quietly to my workstation, set a virginal canvas on the easel and squeezed paint. I turned up the music, breathed deeply and settled into my routine. "Routine," said Twyla Tharp, "is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more." It was a serene rebirth--a happenstance event loaded with calm desire and gentle optimism. "Inspiration is not born of 'the eureka moment,'" said subscriber Sharon Knettell, "but in the quiet spaces we allow ourselves to be in--whether in a beautiful part of nature or in a peaceful meditative state of mind." My enthusiastic and energetic stroking came later in the project. It builds up. It's the action itself that generates the inspiration.
Nanobot said:Ah, a random cat, of course.
how cute is that cat?!
Nanobot said:How about more...pens and pencils? No, wait, we're digital...
greenandwhite said:Thankfully all of my pens are fountain or dip pens so at least the nibs can be stored in small flat boxes. The holders are all in an old coffee mug
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