Team Mathafaqa

Ideas to fight away artblock -to fully view a post and read the comments, click on it's notes-

[devinellekurtz]

Do you get art block? How do you escape it? Here’s how I do it! Patreon - DeviantART - ArtStation - Facebook

[damianmcgintleman]

Some Tips I Made For Arists

Admit you have talent

No, seriously, do it. Say it right now, aloud, in front of your computer. “I am a good writer/artist/musician/singer/whatever.” Just admit it to yourself. Because I swear when you do, your work will become better. You’d be amazed at what you can produce when you feel confident in your abilities.

Stop comparing yourself to other people

“I’ll never be as good of a writer as Hemmingway/Bronte/Rawling!”, “I’ll never sing like Adele/Florence Welch/Joan Jett!”, “I’ll never paint like Picasso/van Goh/O'Keefe!”, “I’ll never draw like Davis/McCracken/MacFarlane!”, “I’ll never play like Hendrix/King/Cooder!”

No. You won’t. You will never, ever be as good as them. And they will never be as good as you. Every artist is unique. You have your own voice just like they had their own voice. Don’t try to be someone else; be you.

Be proud of your work

Wrote a shitty poem? Song? Manuscript? Paint something you didn’t like? Drew something wrong? Who. The hell. Cares? At least you DID something! That’s more than most people can say! You finished a piece of work. Be proud of that accomplishment.

Realize that not everything you do will be great

This ties in with the previous tip. You’re going to do shitty things. It’s part of being an artist. Stop putting so much pressure on yourself to create something great every time. Strive for it, sure, it SHOULD be your goal. But realize that sometimes you’re just going to do something that sucks, and then get over it and try to do better the next time.

Be proud of your talent and enjoy it

I’m a writer and my best friend is a singer. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve told each other that we wished we had the others’ talent. This is a typical “grass is always greener” thing. Be proud of what you’re good at and enjoy it, because someone out there is wishing they were as good as you, I guarantee it.

[sadndirtyy]

If you have no idea what to draw...

its like having all the money you wanted ,but you dont know what to buy. Making this to look at when I get stuck with lame ideas. These are all suggestions from my followers:

Taking a break:  No option for me but it surely can be good for other overworked peeps

Exploring new art forms: depending on your art style, surrealism would be something I’ve never tried before.

Shape game: Either sketching blindly and connecting the dots or sketching random shapes  and fill them with faces or whatever comes to your mind.

Draw something you never drew before:  …a good picture…

Draw a shark:  How to draw a shark by Will Terrell 

Read books:  Let your mind to the picture first and then your hand.

Poses:  Action poses - freestyle dancing - fight styles - (dancing people in general)- life drawing - online 3D model

Redoing Artwork: Either your old stuff or from your favorite artists, your way.

Reverse storyboarding: take your fav movie and sketch the the shots after every camera change.

Screencaps: study them, draw them, look at composition

Characters: Let your OC’s do extreme expressions, let them do things (driving,cleaning,running,etc)

Concepts: How people could look like on other planets. Look at Character Design

Planing an art project: A comic in my case, thinking about environments and characters etc.

Drawing upside down: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

Fanart: Illustrate your favorite book, series,Manga ,etc

Sideblog: Gathering all the references for all your needs

[sandandglass]

The Creative Act of Listening to a Talking Frog

Kermit the Frog gives a talk on creativity and creative risk-taking

[fallfeatherspony]

did a puppet just fucking give some of the best advice ever.

[konveeart]

“Artblock” for our blog about fighting and overcoming artblock

Collaboration between konveeart & aethenart

[killartblock-blog]

In all kinds of art, artblock works the same way. It’s the point where your brain is telling you to stop, and in most cases to give up, because you cannot yet reach the desirable result in your music/ writing/ drawing. You know that something is wrong, something is missing, something is “not okay”. 

Those feelings are slowly swelling up, sadness, anger, fear and disappointment clog your brain, there is no more place for positive thought, everything becomes negative. The heart is screaming that it is okay, but eventually it loses hope as well and in the end there is no light. Only darkness. Desperately trying to reach the meaning and the purpose you have been working so hard, the conclusion is that all of your hard work comes to an end and you will not go any further. This is as far as you go.

However.. It is not time to give up, because you can never truly know how far you can go until you try. Sometimes it helps to take a small break, sitting down and asking yourself “why am I doing this?”. It is okay to feel bad, to let yourself feel completely useless, it is okay to let go, trust me. Because when you do, the heart will scream again “you are worth it, don’t give it”. The heart will scream out loud, no matter how much you want to lie. You can lie to anyone but yourself. If you have even the smallest, tiniest doubt about giving up, then DON’T! That one can make the huge difference and take you one step forward.

So ask yourself, why are you doing this in the first place? Why are you creating? Is it because you like it? Then that’s more than enough to keep you going. Everything you’ve done so far becomes pointless when you stop trying. So don’t give up. You know it yourself that you have surprised yourself many times. And there will be more, I promise. Just keep on going. Surprises never stop to happen, because YOU make them happen without even knowing.

So gather your pieces from the ground, slowly, stretch your wings a bit, test them. Then take the leap again. Get your pen/ pencil or anything, really and start creating again. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, don’t be afraid to do it, just do it and great things will happen. Artblock at some point will strike again, but since you know you made it through it once and kicked it’s butt, no matter how desperate you are, you can do it again and again and again.

[shattered-earth]

Updated my Art Cycle image thingy to make it a little easier to read. Still lots of info packed in there with my sub par infographic making skills but ah well. 

Whenever you feel bad about your art ability, please remember this! Art improvement for many is a cycle, art blocks do not mean you are doing worse. You are just getting better at seeing your mistakes, which is CRUCIAL to getting better at making art!! 

(If you want to translate this to your native language here’s a blank! http://sta.sh/01r8b4swvhy4)

Portuguese by sulamoon

[killartblock-blog]

Conquer your ArtBlock

DamaiMikaz published a journal on deviantART about art block and various ways of  fighting it and overcoming it!

-In their journal, they state:

A little science to help you

"Doing art might seem like it takes you only one skill to get there, while in reality you need two.

The skill to observe (visual skill)

The skill to make art (physical skill)

While in the perfect situation the level of these 2 skills will match, in reality they often don't. Hence leading to either thinking your art is perfect and not improving because your visual skill doesn't match up to your drawing skill. Or thinking your art totally sucks because your physical skills don't match up to the process of evaluating art in your mind (the latter one often comes with lack of physical practice). Needless to say, the last situation will often lead towards an art block. But knowing how this actually works, might make things better. Because while you might think your artistic skills totally suck, you're actually really skilled at seeing art, and you're probably on the brink of a great improvement -- if you just find the will to push it."

In the chart image above, this text is being shown visually. 

Read the whole journal here!

[killartblock-blog]

[killartblock-blog]

A blog about artblock demolition