lolnazis

All the top threads in here are about drawing in some way
Tortured artists ITT, 'Crawling in my skin', /wrists etc :C

Seriously though, I'm having huge issues with lack of ideas and demotivation just now for art and writing so since there's a whole lot of creative people in here I wanted to a) whine about it, b) invite everyone else to whine about it, and c) ask everyone what they do to get their art groove back when it fails.

I'm not just having problems with my personal stuff but my college work, and I think it's because our tutor is really bad at giving critique or feedback. I live off people responding to what I write or draw by telling me what they think of it, but our class is all about 'self-assessment' because he's too lazy to go round and look at all the different students' work. But if I drew it, how the hell am I supposed to tell what's right and wrong about it? If I knew THAT, I wouldn't have drawn it 'wrong' in the first place!
So then when my college work is going badly, it reflects on my personal work because I'm too busy worrying about the stuff I have to complete for college. :I I so badly want to write right now, but I can't find the chance to sit down in the absolute calm that I need to be able to sink into the story and concentrate for hours on end. Nor do I feel much motivation to when I DO get the chance, because I feel no-one's going to want to see it apart from me. Which is pretty faggy for me, because the whole reason I do art and wrting stuff is so that people will read or look at it and feel a response and hopefully give me feedback, but no-one will do that if I don't work on it, but I don't work on it because I feel no-one will look, and it forms a vicious circle and makes me fail at finishing sentances. :C

So how does everyone else deal with that? Or am I the only freak that needs perfect silence and heaps of attention afterwards to make nice things?

I'm undergoing an on-again-off-again art block here. I think I have some problems with drawing proportionate bodies. XD And also, I haven't been drawing my Nazis in a loooong while.

Although, what I do to get into the drawing mood is to watch The Producers. That's what pushed me back into the arts in the first place, anyway... I think I'll watch it again some time.

Aww i'm sorry about it :c
*huggles*
Personnaly... I never had an artist block.
Being sad helps me drawing as well as being VERY HAPPY.
I just can't stop drawing. My drawings just change with the mood (( when i'm happy I draw lulz, when i'm sad, I draw sad things. When you see my drawings you can see my mood XD )

I know what you mean. :C
Don't give up. Maybe you need something inspirational to do to get you back on your art mood again. What I usually do is find a great book to read, listen to music you haven't listened to in a while, or go see a movie you've never seen yet, but are interested in seeing. Usually for me, that triggers inspiration because those things give me fresh ideas to work with. Hopefully, this helps and I hope you get motivated again.

Poink wrote:When you see my drawings you can see my mood XD

Me too, actually!
When I'm in a great mood, I use bright and vivid colors.
When I'm down, I usually use dark browns and greys. I also have a tendency to take it out on my characters depending on my mood. When I'm angsty, I draw them getting mutilated. (Dun know why, they don't deserve it, but it just happens XD)

Ahaha I do that too <3
But I stoped posted it
People will think i'm emo, after
(( BECAUSE DRAWING MUTILATION MAKE YOU EMO, YOU KNOW. )

Drawing mutilation is epic fun. Especially with painter programmes where you can practise blood effects with all the different tools. *guro meets software nerd-out*

I'll definately try going back to some old musics and films and seeing what happens. I'm currently messing about with art memes stolen from DA to try and get some ideas flowing, it's actually working pretty well.
I guess I'm just temporarily fed up of OMG SRS angsty bleeding heart artwork and just want to make dumb colourful doodles for a while. I have an art programme with a glitter shaker tool! Why have I not used this before?! :B

(I keep drawing retarded two-minute doodles of anthro critters. lolwhat I never drew anthros before in my life. In before 'furries' )

Anthro does not equal furry.

I used to draw anthros too, but they were really bad. xD;

I know! But I left it lying around and my dad asked if I was getting into furry. I had to explain to him that not all anthro art is furry and most furries are not zoophiles. :C
He only knows the word because of those two episodes of CSI: New York that featured fursuiting and Second Life, and now he uses it a lot to appear knowledgeable about the internet. :I

I watched The Producers two days ago...
STILL DON'T WORK.

I NEED TO WATCH SWEENEY TODD!
*breaks down*

I...don't really get art blocks.
A few years ago there were times when I drew a lot and times when i didn't draw at all. Right now it's much more regular, I draw almost everyday, except when I don't have time.
But I do feel unconfident about my art a lot. Sometimes I feel like I draw like crap, that my anatomy is completely off and my style crappy but I can't see it. But then at some other times I feel UBER TALENTED. And then I see something much better than what I do and I think I stink again.

OMG. I think I conquered my art block. Because I just finished coloring THREE drawings in one week... And I only color drawings that I find good!

Funny thing: I said earluier that I never really had art blocks.

I think I'm having one right now.
I haven't drawn anything I found interesting/good in about two weeks. It makes me feel depressed and puts me in a bad mood. HELP

My thread gave you the blockAIDS.

I figured something out today. My capacity to work for myself has vastly decreased since I took up my crappy college art course and spent all my day being taught more about how to shock people by using piss and blood in paintings than about proportion and observation. I'm so dropping this goddamn A-Level and taking up History instead next year, and keeping the art as a self-taught hobby.