Question!
What do you guys do when you feel like you are in a rut, creatively? How do you get yourself out of it? Also, what are some great books to have as resources for design/craft whatever.
So for the last year or so I've been drawing these cute little animals. I like drawing them and I think now know that cute is something I can do, and do well. But do I really want to be doing it? I don't know. As fun and quick as they are, they are just that..fun and quick. I'm not feeling challenged and it's really starting to bother me. I feel like by sticking with them I'm just going to end up stunting what I could do. I've been noticing that in a lot of cases the work that I admire and wish I could make is most of the time much different than what I'm doing and that is starting to seem really wrong to me. Why am I being all jealous over work that I feel like I could be on par with?! By no means do I miss doing homework or projects in school, but I think I kind of miss the challenge of a new assignment. I miss that feeling of..."what the hell am I going to do.." and then the feeling that follows with the final product of.."I had no idea I could do this..."
So I think I've come to decision that for a little while at least, no new animals unless they are embroidery or plush. Cut back on the cute for a while. I don't know that this is really going to benefit me in any way, but I think it will help me feel like I'm trying at least. I know I'm capable of way more so I have to get my butt in gear. (Or brain, rather?)
Maybe it's just the time of year for this kind of stuff because I know that I am not the only other person feeling like this right now. It seems like lots of other people on my friend's list are too!
Oh and in other news, the PDX Craft Mafia Kick Off Show was a success!
So for the last year or so I've been drawing these cute little animals. I like drawing them and I think now know that cute is something I can do, and do well. But do I really want to be doing it? I don't know. As fun and quick as they are, they are just that..fun and quick. I'm not feeling challenged and it's really starting to bother me. I feel like by sticking with them I'm just going to end up stunting what I could do. I've been noticing that in a lot of cases the work that I admire and wish I could make is most of the time much different than what I'm doing and that is starting to seem really wrong to me. Why am I being all jealous over work that I feel like I could be on par with?! By no means do I miss doing homework or projects in school, but I think I kind of miss the challenge of a new assignment. I miss that feeling of..."what the hell am I going to do.." and then the feeling that follows with the final product of.."I had no idea I could do this..."
So I think I've come to decision that for a little while at least, no new animals unless they are embroidery or plush. Cut back on the cute for a while. I don't know that this is really going to benefit me in any way, but I think it will help me feel like I'm trying at least. I know I'm capable of way more so I have to get my butt in gear. (Or brain, rather?)
Maybe it's just the time of year for this kind of stuff because I know that I am not the only other person feeling like this right now. It seems like lots of other people on my friend's list are too!
Oh and in other news, the PDX Craft Mafia Kick Off Show was a success!