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coconutmonkey · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2000 5:36 pm

Ok does this ever happen to anyone? I went crazy saturday I spent 12+ hours on saturday producing some of my best 2d and 3d work EVER. Now....i cant do CRAP! I sit here just...I feel like i cant draw anything! And it's driving me insane! has anyone else been through this "hell" or know a way to get out of it? lol

Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

I'm going through that right now, but this time I'm just forcing myself to draw. i.e. the crap I posted earlier today. Its like how I play basketball. I'm gonna keep throwin up bricks until I get in the zone again.

coconutmonkey · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2000 6:08 pm

Well right now my problem is modeling and...it's just like i wanna throw my computer out the window lol. it's like whenever your stressed out your computer just seems to run so much slowly and crash so much more

Nightime · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2000 6:12 pm

Sounds burnt out... that happens after overwhelming amount of work -- take a break!

Relax!

For some people, pressure can really motivate to get the best work out; but afterwards, your mentality just collapses...well mine does =)

Haven't found a way to combat this, I just end up feeling very cold. Sometimes I'd flip through Impressionistic paintings (van Gogh, Monet) and admire their vibrant subjects... all that color seems to light a fire in me... kind of religious experience in a way

-Nightime

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it's like whenever your stressed out your computer just seems to run so much slowly and crash so much more

AMEN. Thank god my computer is so damn expensive.

Jenn · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2000 6:34 pm

Its like taking a car around a slippery corner.. some you back off.. others you stick your foot to the floor and kain it. I kain it. It helps alot. For me. Depends on the person..

Im in my crap period atm..
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Plop · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2000 7:07 pm

In my opinion you produce your best work when you are confident. And thats not only art related, it can be said about anything.

Doubt creeps in after you finish something really good and have to immidiately start working on something else and you don't know if you can do as good of a job as you previously did

It helps me when i say i am gonna do an even better job.

Another case (in my opinion) is when your brain gets tired thinking about the same thing for too long, a creative jar depletes itself, because the excitement is gone. Very often after finishing a site for anotheruselessbusiness.com i couldn't think of anything cool for the next project.
Finding some awsome reference or looking at another awsome site or flipping through a design book would fix that for me.

Das my 2 cents.

dr . bang · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2000 7:26 pm

I spent alot of time producing crap but I don't get mad cause i've learn something. You can't just make good art right away when you try something

Kebab · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2000 2:28 am

I�t very frustrating when you get into these periods, i doesn�t seem to do anything about it really, just feeling a little sad and waiting for it to pass. Sometimes i�m in an incredible creative mood, feel like i can do anything (practically laughing at Frazetta and Bisleys work... no, not really but almost)
And sometimes it feels like i�m defenitly not meant to do art, it�s strange though, because as soon as i get to do art for someone else then just myself it�s alot easier, don�t know why.