August 11, 2017   40 notes

Anonymous asked: Right now, I feel like everything I do in art is wrong. I feel like I start wrong, my construction is wrong, my brush tip is wrong, my ideas are wrong, my head is wrong. Do you have moments where you feel like this? Do you have any words of advice for getting through it and trusting your methods?

kotepteef:

blogshirtboy:

Yeah I for sure go through long stretches like this, and I wish I had anything definite to share but I think it’s different for each artist.

When I start to feel like that then I step away and take a break. When I feel up to it I try to draw something -anything- and sometimes I still feel like shit, but other times something just clicks and suddenly I’m okay again.

I wish I could be of more help, I know that it’s not a fun feeling at all. I think the most important thing is just not giving up.

My advice basically echoes BSB’s, but when I feel stuck, there’s a couple things I do. Sometimes I just take a break for a little while and it feels better, sometimes I need to go do something new (try out a new band, go walking somewhere I’ve never been, see a movie, etc), and sometimes I just need to switch media from writing to drawing or vice versa.

I’ve found that I rarely feel like “agh I really feel like writing!” after a slump like that. Usually, I have to make myself write, and then after an hour or so either I feel better, or I don’t, but it’s that making myself try that lifts me out of the slump.

I wanna add this speech by Elizabeth Gilbert to everything above: https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius

It’s helped me a lot with dealing with the times I feel stuck.

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