[MarshallX]

Everyday I draw something, usually, but they are always in phases, sometimes i love to draw figures and i can be good at it and then i get another phase where I am very interested in drawing...warcraft figures, and then maybe butterflies, now I am completely out of ideas. For freelance artists out there, or any artist that just draws, paint, animates on their freetime, where do you get all of your ideas? I'm fresh out for 2 weeks here of ideas, and decided to talk about it with someone so lets find out how this happens. Thanks.

[MarshallX]

Like what??? I just drew some hands and a tree with a butterfly but thats pretty much it, wish I had a scanner to show you guys, but I don't, I'm getting so much better! I need to be, but really give me some of your ideas, and ill get em on the white stuff! (paper for all you sick minded people out there) Anyone else have the same problem as me?????

[[666]Flat]

You could draw me. But keep it sexy

[Floppydawg]

Read a book then draw out a scene that catches your imagination.
Works for me when I have a block.

[Ahcri]

When I have a block, I would stop drawing and start to take on a different project and to make something with my hands, like folding boxes or building paper houses. You'll still be kept busy, and maybe you'll find ideas in the things you did. Or you can go out and sketch people, scenery, or just doodle. I haven't painted anything big for the past two months, but I have used up two sketch books for doodling and life drawing. And now I can flip through my sketchbook and collect the ideas from it.

[Pat]

I've always felt the mechanism for creativity was innate. If I had your problem I'd jump start the mechanism by relying on the natural instinct of the mind to create relationships between disparate elements. I listen to ambiguous song lyrics and paint what I see. I make flash cards with random nouns and adjectives, put them in a pile and pick out two of them at random. I then draw what the cards suggest. Got "sexy toast" that way once. You know how hard it is to draw sexy toast? I also do studies when I'm stumped. If you can't make up a good idea on your own, learn from a good one that's already been done.

You can't be at your peak all the time. Sometimes, when I have problems drawing something I make a note of it. I put it on a list. When I'm not feeling inspired, I whip out that list and focus on the weaknesses in my technique and visual vocabulary.

-Pat

[ March 19, 2002: Message edited by: Pat ]

[MarshallX]

[666]Flat - I'm already workin on it, man your are one sexy bitch!

Floppydog - Great idea! I just started a new book, its friggin 700 pg's long so it has to have somethin i can draw!

Ahcri - Hmm. I havent ever really tried something like that, maybe I'll give it a go!

Pat - Man you use really big words! But they are very knowledgeable (i can't even spell that!) but really, ill draw some of the stuff at school, thanks!

Anyone else here have any suggestion of brain fart syndrome?!

[Anthony]

Shit happens. I would suggest setting up projects for yourself. Take them from start to finish. Even if the idea seems lame at some point, always follow them through. I have waaay too many ideas of things I want to do, and not enough time to do them!

[razzak]

ive trained my head to think three dimensionally. i sit down and go through a few mags or tv shows, and just think of those characters and just move the various bodyparts around and think of things i can add. it just goes from here.