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🐣 Tell me about your earliest creative works or earliest memories of being creative.
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🤸 Are there things you allow yourself to do even though you know they're technically procrastination or unproductive, because you just don't always feel like being creative?
Hiii Mabledonut! Thank you for the ask <3
🐣 Tell me about your earliest creative works or earliest memories of being creative:
Okay, funnily enough the last few weeks I've been collecting all my sketches and sketchbooks I have because there are so many and I need to get them organised! When I was 8 years old or so I was so into drawing mythical creatures (mainly griffins, dragons, fairies, mermaids) my whole bedroomdoor was full of stuff like that, and I rmemeber being so happy to just create back then. When I was around 11 I started getting interested in manga-style and since then my sketchbooks are filled with the typical anime/manga style girls xD. I was so inspired by the colors and cell-shading, yet what I find in my sketchbooks are sketches and scribbles.
What I notice looking to these drawings from 8-12 Y.O is that I wasn't 'afraid' to use color, or make huge drawings or paintings (I made my biggest painting when I was 9 or something, it was larger than I was then). I was much more free spirited in creating something. That is something I imagine my younger self would say to me now: 'just create, it doesn't have to be perfect but you'll learn through trial and error'.
🤸:Are there things you allow yourself to do even though you know they're technically procrastination or unproductive, because you just don't always feel like being creative?
Okay, I have a few of these. I love baking and experimenting with baking. When I feel uncreative in the art-field, I find myself going towards baking as a different way to be creative. Instead of drawing, I get to experiment with taste or texture (And I get to eat all the sweet stuff I make). When I first started baking, I felt 'guilty' for not being busy with art and what I always thought I wanted to do, namely creating some comic book that has always been a dream to achieve, or drawing or painting. Now I just say I have a lot of hobbies that are 'in rotation' because that's what it is xD. Some weeks I go 3-4 times to the gym or I want to run 10km, other times I love baking more, suddenly I've found a new interest in playing the piano, then randomly I'll want to pick back up painting. You know, Sometimes I wish I was more consistent, but that's how it is for me and I should embrace that and be content that I have the ability to have so many fun things to do and to explore.
Watch Youtube shorts (what a h*llhole sometimes, I can waste hours on that platform) BUT when it's art related, I feel inspired by them and I pick up on new tips and tricks that I can use later when I do start creating something new.
Stare into the abysse (aka just being a couch potato). Life can get busy with work, family, chores, going to the store and planning dinner, getting enough movement, going to bed early and getting enough sleep etc etc. It's not always to do with 'just make time to make art'. I find myself unwinding by just laying on the coach and doing nothing, let everything sink in and just be. Some find it a waste of time, but I find it necessary since we're all living in such a rush that we tend to forget that not every hour of the day needs to be filled with something to do.
