Sunday, 14 October 2012
Monday, 8 October 2012
Creativity Block
I think every person that works in any creative field will know exactly what I'm talking about. The dreaded block that suddenly and violently stops you from producing anything.
I say "work" but I don't have a job. Drawing,
writing stories, origami, crafts and video making are the closest things I have
to a job so when I'm not doing ANY of them my life is essentially devoid of all
meaning.
In the normal times I'm constantly flooded with
inspiration; I'll have a million and one ideas being screamed at me at
once in all kinds of languages and codes that I don’t really understand.
It’s actually quite stressful but I wouldn't have it any
other way. Because them sometimes I make something that I don't hate.
No matter where I am - I'm building new worlds in my mind.
Then the block comes along and changes everything. It's like
being imagination deaf, I'm empty.
Sometimes the ideas don't go away all together but I lose my
ability to translate them.
And in that case I must burn everything.
Now I'm constantly bored and spend all day refreshing
facebook and youtube waiting for something to happen. My art folder becomes
littered with half hearted attempts of pictures I lost the motivation to
finish. Like these:
and these:
and so on....
This has happened many times before including the last few
months. Each time I think "this it- it’s never coming back. Maybe this is
just growing up" and I see my future in a boring normal person office job
of normalness.
The most important thing to remember is that it is a BLOCK
and just sitting around won't make it go away on its own. I felt like couldn't
get past it instead I just had to plough through. And as difficult as it is
that's the only way to get your creativity back.
Even if you have to draw ten thousand stupid looking alpacas
to get a good one.
Perhaps I have not quite gotten back to
"normal"(AKA weird) but I forced myself to make this substandard blog
post. So that counts for something.
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