Artistic self-esteem.This is a message to anyone who´re feeling bad about their "artistic self-esteem" or lost the motivation to keep going with art. But of course, anyone can read and interpret this! Feel free to leave a comment if you want to add something. You´re also free to share this!
Be "happy" with your art? Well... Not saying that you should stay satisfied with all your art so you´ll never improve. It´s more about being confident with the one you are as an artist. The artist inside of you. ~
Feel good about your art just the same way as you should feel confident with being yourself as a person. Draw what you wan
Do you know that sinking feeling...?
It's the ART BLOCK OF DOOM!...and it's come to stay!
There has to be a way out...
...or through!
But how do you get there?
Personally, I've tried the following - sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn't (lately it seems it doesn't, but maybe I just haven't figured the right combination out yet). If you have other tips and tricks to deal with art block, leave a comment and share, pretty please :flirt:
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1. Leave it be for a while and do something elseGo outside, spend time with your family and friends, dance the night away, go on a hike,... Basically, take a vacation from your art, so when you
Cures for art block
Art block. An ugly thing, isn't it?
Sometimes you might be sat there lurched over empty paper with absolutely no idea what to fill it with.
Perhaps you're bursting with all sorts of scenes and pictures, but when you attempt to draw you're unhappy with every single outcome.
Maybe you feel you're not even good enough or suddenly find the act of drawing tedious as an actual job.
From what I've seen, art block can come in different forms. All with different reasons behind them and a different set of frustrations along the way, but each one can be cured.
Setting the scene: Some people can draw anywhere, give them a crus
Art Blocked? The Anatomy of Art Block by zack-sr, journal
Art Blocked? The Anatomy of Art Block
A brief edition, 7 years later, as this article is still receiving attention.
AS a webcomic artist who has now produced over 1,000 pages of work with no hesitation, I should amend this article with the following summary:
Art-block is caused by a lack of creative purpose. Purpose is the best means by which a vacillating artist might finally become motivated again. Whether it's as simple as the need to capture a beautiful image, like a sunset with a loved one, or as dire as the need to communicate an imperative revelation before death, this purpose is the key to allowing the feeling of importance, which will allow artists to undertake as grea
Exercise: Your Character's Distinct Voice by MissLunaRose, literature
Literature
Exercise: Your Character's Distinct Voice
The purpose of this exercise is to see how much you've differentiated each of your main characters' voices from each other.
How to Use
Pick a few major characters in your story. (I recommend using between 3 and 6.) For each of the numbered prompts below, choose what each character would say in that circumstance. You may want to write a few sentences of dialogue from that character or a quick internal monologue.
These lines are meant to generate short pieces of dialogue (about 1-5 sentences), as it's easiest to compare lines to each other that way. If you start writing long paragraphs or another character's reply to your character, then sto
Hope this helps~
Sorry writers, but maybe some of these tips will help you out too?
Disclaimer: This is just how I experience art block, I understand that it probably won't help everyone.I don't recall experiencing art block in the sense that I don't know what to do draw, just that I don't like what I drew.
So I'm afraid in that respect- opening requests from people would help? If you don't know what to draw, perhaps being told what to draw would help???
Art block is a terrible, terrible thing. We’ve all had it. And writer’s get writer’s block. Unfortunately, I am only going to focus on how to get over art block and dim
dA How-to: #4 Finding and Using Resources by Managodess, journal
dA How-to: #4 Finding and Using Resources
Originally, these how-to journals were supposed to come out every Friday, however I feel like it might be better to only do it every other Friday/every Friday IF I have a topic instead.
Hence why there was none last week.
I have a few topics I want to cover, however I am open for suggestions from others if there's anything you want to see~
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Finding and Using Resources:
Introduction:
Resources. Now there's a very broad term. But basically, resources is anything and everything you might make use of in your art. Be it brushes that other artists have put online, textures, fonts, stock images, visual references, tutorials, free-to