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Artist's block?

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~HarmonicViper Sep 21, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Do you every start on a piece of work out of inspiration, and run into a problem that might prevent you from creating the piece as well as you imagined it?
Well I've hit that road block recently. I started on an emotional piece that was inspired by a new song I heard. I got around to start figuring out colors and I got lost.
The project has been on the side line for a week now, and I've started to loose the motivation to finish it. Anyone else been here, done that?
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~blue-marine Sep 22, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
That happened to me few times. Sometimes I'd find strength/inspiration much later (like, months later) to finish the piece, or on the other side, I'd just scrap the unfinished piece.
If you have an artblock, the worst thing to do is to force yourself to finish something. Start drawing something without obligation, just... pure enjoyment. :)
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~HarmonicViper Sep 22, 2012  Student Digital Artist
I might do that. Start something fresh just for the fun of it.
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~blue-marine Sep 22, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
:nod:
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~HarmonicViper Sep 22, 2012  Student Digital Artist
You're all so helpful here.
I should really come to the forums more often.
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~Vineris Sep 22, 2012  Student General Artist
Sure. I don't think of it as an "art block", though, because that implies that it's unusual and it's unnatural. But the nature of experimentation is that a lot of sketches just aren't going to work out. I sketch a lot of ideas out but not all of them are going to become finished artwork. Some of them will get re-done a few years from now. Some of them are just going to suck forever. As long as some finished work is coming out on a regular schedule, I'm not going to worry about it.
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~HarmonicViper Sep 22, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Art block is the only thing I could think to call it at the time.
I need to work on drawing something on a regular schedule. Maybe worrying over stuff like this keeps me from doing that.
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~Vineris Sep 22, 2012  Student General Artist
Probably. When you do something infrequently, just doing it seems like a major effort and failure seems like a major waste of effort. When you do something all the time, you don't fear failure as much because there's another opportunity to succeed coming up again right away.

Like I always say -- if you have one baby and it's ugly, that's devastating. If you have 10,000 babies and 7000 are ugly, that's all right, 'cause you still have 3000 that look good. So aim for 10,000 drawings and a few (or even lots of) bad ones will be no big deal.
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~HarmonicViper Sep 22, 2012  Student Digital Artist
That's an excellent way to look at it. I'll keep that in mind
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~Glori305 Sep 22, 2012
Figure out where it is going wrong, take some time off to work on the technical skill that is giving you problems, be that perspective or anatomy, then try again.
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~HarmonicViper Sep 22, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Taking time off work isn't something I'm willing to sacrifice for this one. Perhaps I can find some time on the weekend to learn about some things.
Do you normally start over from scratch?
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