[Ren]

This is not a question that is specific to digital art, but art in general. I used to do a lot of drawing when I was younger, and I really loved to do it. Back then it seemed that I never ran short of ideas of things to draw, or rather things that I wanted to draw. Now I am trying to rekindal my passion for art. There are times that I feel like I have this energy right below the surface, just waiting to break through and overflow, but I just can't seem to reach it at times. I feel like I have the equivalent of writers block for and artist. I like to draw, but the passion to REALLY draw just isn't there like it once was. So I thought I'd ask you guys. What do you do to get your mental juicing flowing, to break the artist block, or to get you so excited about your work that your hands just itch to start creating?

[balistic]

My problem is that I have too many ideas, all of which seem equally good, so it's become very hard to sit down and stick to any one of them long enough to see it past the sketch phase.

Sometimes I wish my imagination would take a vacation, and let me finish something without distraction.
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[The Niles Edge]

my best answer to get past artists block is to just draw anything. it sounds like a simplistic solution but drawing begets drawing. so in the time between ideas and creating from your mind, spend your time studying everything around you, and just draw from sight. that way you will be in the mindset of drawing and also have more refined skills to work with when you dig yourself back into a project. i recently bought myself a plastic skull http://www.dickblick.com/zz216/20c/products.asp?param=0&ig_id=6824
which i draw at least once a day. btw, knowing the skull really well also helps when trying to draw faces, either from life or mind.
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[CCroder]

I had that same problem for a little while and I dont see it as a lack of ideas compared what I had earlier in life, but rather that I have grown out of the ideas that were so abundant. I used to enjoy doing characters based around simple ideas, but they became very 1 dimensional so I started doing work involving very dynamic stuff. Its tough at first, but very rewarding. For a while i was like "damn this is some expressionistic shit" but in reality I guess I was just speaking my mind without knowing it. That kinda stuff made art very interesting for me again, heres hopin I dont grow out of this stuff too!
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