Pressure vectors
Recently I have been struggling a bit with my art. Not exactly with actually making something (I completed a difficult commission just yesterday) but with my overall attitude to making stuff. You may call it an artist’s block but I decided to call it vector stress. Let me explain:
Not so long ago I finished all my big projects: my “Tokyo Storefronts" book, “Yuragi” comic, a short animated movie and the “Tokyo at Night" illustration series. I had a blank, long-term schedule, with nothing I could just go and do. Gradually I became weirdly stressed and “touchy" about my work. I could not complete a thing without stressing out few times on the way.
I started to think about things like my *motivation* and the directions of my *creative drive*. I thought and analyzed hard. And here is what I discovered:
For me there are two main aspects that drive me when I’m doing something creative:
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