Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
Shop deviantART for the
holidays and save BIG!
Click here! :holly:
[x]

deviantART

 

In a creative rut.

Sat Aug 5, 2006, 12:29 PM
I don't know what to do...

I have a terrible case of artist's block + writers block, in fact it's pretty much a whole creativity block. And I don't know how to make it shift. I don't know how to kick-start my muse again, to get back into the swing of doing artistic stuff like sketching, pixel art, and photography, as well as writing of any kind.

Over the time I was studying my first year at uni, I completely lost my drawing knack, or what I had of it. The few recent sketches I have are terribly disproportionate, very odd looking, and it seems I'll need to start all over again to get my drawing talent back again and to improve what I have lost. The same is true with pixel art.

Ditto with writing. The only good things I seem to write are witty remarks in emails and so on, but gone are the days when I had entire novels planned out in my head seem to be over. Now I just have ideas but but no good, concrete plot to go with them.
The worst thing is that the creative block just got highlighted as soon as I ended uni, and with the lack of a summer job I had nothing else to do-it just exaggerates the situation.

Now that I got my university results back for my first year, it was all good until I realised that I failed one module (maths, of course) and have to revise that for September, that's going to hamper my creativity more-if I try and do anything fun, it just makes me feel guilty that I haven't worked enough on studies.

I have some plans, most of them incomplete or just not started...most of these are actually just in my head right now.

So far my plans are:
-'Zep Tepi', a series of drawings and skits based around Egyptian gods and myths, mostly light hearted. Think of the main Egyptian myths as movies on DVD, with my skits/art as the 'deleted scenes' you get as extras. Apologies if someone else has used the name 'Zep Tepi' for their Egyptian gods project, if so, it is purely coincidental and I wasn't aware of it (I have been so out of the DA loop these days).
-An as yet untitled story about a girl who has moles/freckles on her body which make the exact shapes and patterns of the constellations in the sky. She has a special power that will protect the world from impending doom (currently in the form of either a black hole, an asteroid or the possible supernova of Sirius B-and yes, that may happen due to some astrophysicsy details that are too complicated to describe here now-it's highly improbable in real life at this time, but this is fiction...). And of course, this also ties into Egyptian myth.
-'Altar Ego', a story and possibly an RP about teenagers who are the incarnations of the gods of the mythologies and religions of the world, and have special powers relating to their deities.
-I have random stories relating to my cat, sort of like a blog written from my cat's point of view.
-I also want to do some more photography but I have no idea what to take pictures of these days-there isn't anything in my area that's picturesque enough. I have some holiday pictures but most of them aren't as 'artistic' and attractive as that one of the cat.

If anyone can suggest a way to get out of this artistic rut, please let me know. The only cure I can think of-for my Egyptian themed ideas at least-is a trip to Egypt. I've seen it so much on TV and books and pictures but I want to see it in three dimensions. I want to be there. I want to feel it, to hear it. Experience it with all my senses and more. I want to experience it for myself. That, I know, will get the creative juices a-flowing.

Devious Comments

love 0 0 joy 0 0 wow 0 0 mad 0 0 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0
:iconbunniangel:
well you can always do an art theme project...its what helped jumpstart :iconaibukou: when she had her rut. She and I are doing them together. Info is here [link] mind you, you dont have to do them all...just enough to get your art block away...

hope that helps!

--
† I believe in Jesus Christ my Savior. If you do too and aren\'t scared to admit it then copy and paste this in your signature †

Nurse at *ArtistsHospital

Journal History

Site Map