That is sort of me. My brain is always going a million miles a minute but I find it so hard to sit down and complete any of my half-formed thoughts
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LOL. Wow, that's some serious week long fixation!!
I had an interesting conversation with a friend tonight who has craploads of ideas and then never gets any of them down. She gets too ambitious in her plotting but then admits she doesn't have time for them with a wee one of her own. I tried to tell her to stop breaking her art process down to "one huge long chunk of time" and put her work together page by page.
sigh. We'll see if I can get her to think about art as smaller pieces of work...
I like the idea that I'm finally working towards practicing what I always said I would practice and the perk of the fancomic idea, is that it inadvertently involves daily writing in addition to daily art.
Yeah, I feel for your friend. I don't know where the transformation took place, but in the past, I've sort of done a "too big to start right now" attitude and for whatever reason, when I started this thingy, every time my brain went "I don't think I should be doing this" I said back, "well, all I have to do is do the next step and if I can't do the next step, I'll just stop." (And then it turned out OH OKAY. I GUESS I'LL KEEP GOING)
I might still fail but that's okay, I'll have learned something along the way. (Who IS this typing this??)
And it's not a super huge time investment either...I kind of do it at the end of the day, when things have wound down.
I know, but she's chronically getting new ideas. She has to figure this out for herself... as do others... a lot of artists are so ADD they can only handle one thing at a time and to expect more is to mess up their process :)
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I had an interesting conversation with a friend tonight who has craploads of ideas and then never gets any of them down.
She gets too ambitious in her plotting but then admits she doesn't have time for them with a wee one of her own. I tried to tell her to stop breaking her art process down to "one huge long chunk of time" and put her work together page by page.
sigh. We'll see if I can get her to think about art as smaller pieces of work...
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Yeah, I feel for your friend. I don't know where the transformation took place, but in the past, I've sort of done a "too big to start right now" attitude and for whatever reason, when I started this thingy, every time my brain went "I don't think I should be doing this" I said back, "well, all I have to do is do the next step and if I can't do the next step, I'll just stop." (And then it turned out OH OKAY. I GUESS I'LL KEEP GOING)
I might still fail but that's okay, I'll have learned something along the way. (Who IS this typing this??)
And it's not a super huge time investment either...I kind of do it at the end of the day, when things have wound down.
It's not too late for your friend!
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She has to figure this out for herself... as do others... a lot of artists are so ADD they can only handle one thing at a time and to expect more is to mess up their process :)
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