Good morning/afternoon.
I believe having a regular art practice is important to artistic growth and expression.
If you're often working on artwork, or writing down snippets, its easier to keep coming up with ideas, and its easier to feel like making art everyday is normal.
Wanna get better at watercolors? Make a watercolor doodle every day at lunchtime, breakfast, or before bed. Its the same with gouache. (I need to do this.)
Your daily art piece doesn't have to be a big finished piece of work.
Ex: If you wanna make comics but are stuck, make a one panel doodle.
Write one paragraph. (3-5 sentences).
Mix gouache colors on your watercolor paper. Use pictures you've taken as inspiration, maybe.
Maybe you need weekly, not daily. Then, try to make stuff a few times a week! If you're having trouble, *write down* the thing you want to create! Keywords.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of what I've done to help myself when I feel stuck creating artwork.
Rest is important. If you're tired or mentally burnt out, I would suggest rest over creating at that moment.
Quite literally, you can create anything in 5 minutes a day. You can learn anything in 5 minutes a day. (or 10, 15, 20, etc.)
Forcing yourself to make something fully polished every day is toxic art advice. Trash iiiiiit.
#mastoart #painting #comics #queer
The only times I've pushed through being exhausted or burnt out was when I've needed to finish art for an exhibition, or a commission. Its not healthy. (Am professional artist.)
(My ADHD won't let me breathe sometimes.)
I probably could do better planning, but I'm doing the best with the brain I have. We all are.
Work that creative muscle, but let it rest! How many fitness ppl are lifting weights 24 hrs a day?
TBH I think you'd ruin your muscles, joints, tendons and ligaments (not to mention your organs) if you were lifting weights for a majority of the day. You might even die. 🤔
Thank god for the 8hr work day. Concept artists often get burnt out because they have to make so many revisions and do it so fast...
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