[Hase]

Actually this happens a lot (I�ve had a mild form of it once), a colleague of mine didn�t draw anything for six years after finishing art school.... time is usually the only thing that helps. and don�t try to force it, it will have to come by itself.

[Baldrox]

Hey all,
I was wondering if any of you has ever had a disgust for drawing. After having finished art-school, I went to college and stopped drawing because of the imense workload. After that I wanted to pick up a pencil and start drawing again, but realized I didn't like drawing anymore. Actually, I just hate it now. Has anyone had this before and if so, how did you get over it.

A3

[crazybread]

Time heals it all.

I don't want to give any bad advice to anyone in school, but I'v always failed art. The teachers said do this, draw this, and I rearly listened to them. They hated me for it and always failed me. I guess They thaught I was too arrogant. When they said draw still life I was studying muscle placement in animals and such. When they said throw stuff that really means something to you in a jar and draw it, I was drawing things I loved and what I thaught will have to give me bread at some point in life. Looking back today on people who got nineties and hundreds on their art assignments I'm learning that most of them just run out of gass and not all but most are not into art at all.

I believe every artist goes through that at some point or another. I know I have. Sometimes when I work on something too hard for too long I come close to ralphing on it all, thats when I need to heal for a week or so. I guess It would also depend on weather you were working professionally on something or just passionetly for yourself. If its professionally its common for an artist to get super hyped over some project at the begginning and that hype slowly wears off and dies down, sometimes to the point of discustment. I'v herd of some studios actually rotating their artists to different tasks along the project so that somebody who is lets say a 3d modeler will sometimes be told to just draw and sketch for like a week just to reverse their tension. Makes sense to me. If you're doing stuff for yourself I for instance try spending a big amount of time on discplineing myself and try not to fall victim to hating art for a wile. Dippending on the artist Sometimes getting inspired with something else will help. One word of caution: Try as hard as you can to allways comeback to the project and finish it as it might form a bad habit and you catch yourself not finishing a lot of your pieces. Its hard, but that would just be sad! my advice: I guess If it doesn't feel right from the start scrap it. don't try to fix it do it over (unless you're really far into it) I know for me its got to feel right from the begginning. Shit How did i ever get so talkative about this!

anyways good luck to anyone who will experience this problem. Just try to stay motivated and envision that light at the end of the tunnel.

[ October 07, 2002: Message edited by: crazybread ]

[Baldrox]

Thx to both of you. It's good to here people get over this. Just hope it won't last for two more years

A3

[Jelo]

I might join as well. I alternate between things al the time. Back in the Amiga days I alternated between painting in "Deluxe Pain" an making music. Some time a worked on an image a few hour then made music then went back to paint again. It's the same these days to. I spend allot of time learning and getting better at thing such as my programs or games. always progressing and learning more. But is always a matter of periods for a few days to some weeks. I might spend a few days practicing some thing intensively until I'm starting to get feed up then I just leave it for a couple of days doing something else. Ten when I get back I feel refreshed and much stronger at what I'm doing. It's like my neural net I'm my brain has had time to recover and grown. Almost like going to the gym. First you train hard then you rest and the next time you'll be stronger =) ... bla. bla. bla... could go on for ever hehe

[ October 07, 2002: Message edited by: Jelo ]

[c]

drawing, or anything creative really, is and always will be something immensely enjoyable...

that is, if you are happy with the results.

it's easy to beat yourself up if you don't seem to do very well, but you have to work through it and do your best to improve. try different styles, classes, subject matter, technique, instruction, etc etc. it's a crappy thing to go through (i'm just getting back into art myself) but anything worth doing is never easy . try to have fun with it!

regards,
steve

[jester1966]

After having been rejected by several design schools I didn't touch a pencil for drawing for more than 15 years (I studied a completely different subject, played guitar in a band and did everything else apart from drawing, for example, setting up Linux, learning TeX...). Then, all of a sudden, two years ago I started again - and haven't stpped since then. I hate myself for not having continued despite those people who thought I wasn't "worthy" to study.
grrrr and I hate them...

Jester1966

[Hase]

It�s been mentioned before, but a second creative occupation really helps a lot. Apart from taking away time you want to spend drawing it does help you over some of the worse blocks... I write, sometimes I go without drawing for a week or more...

[edraket]

When you say drawing do you also mean painting, photography, web design etc?
The act of drawing in itself is not the most exciting if you ask me. But you can still pursue creative interests even if you are sick of the evil pencil.

[Baldrox]

Just got back from the store where I bought myself a book on learning 3DMax. Been working through the first pages and already enjoying it. I did skip the part of having to make a storybord though

Thx for the comments all