[razzak]

im in a real bad slump, not just in drawing, for everything!!!! i just cant do anything anymore. i can draw, but i cant think of anything good to draw. what shall i do?! what do you people do when u have a slump

[Steven Stahlberg]

One way I found helps me is to vary some activity in your daily routine. Like taking a course in something totally random, or getting some books from the library on subjects that you'd never get normally, or go out jogging...

The brain is like a huge complex muscle with many parts. Certain activities excite different parts, if a part never gets excited it stagnates, if it gets stimulated it grows. I've read somewhere that varying your activities as much as possible will actually delay onset of senility.

So try to balance the right brain with the left, the motor center with the language center, etc. A little each day is better than a lot one day and then nothing.

Another thing that's good for the brain is new experiences, traveling is good for that, but a bit expensive; again a class or a trip to the library (or even the video store) can be an ok substitute.

[BlackPool]

I think that is some good advice Stephen. I would emphasize excersising. It's a known fact that physical activity stimulates brain function. Likewise, it takes you from a stagnit state or heaven forbitd, depressed, state to an active state or mode. I used to and still do fight this more often then not and this is what has helped me more then anything.

[henrik]

Working out. Running and bicycling. Works all the time. That is my meditation.