today I want to touch on a topic that has bothered me for the majority of junior year. the unspoken stain on the art world. the un-glamorous part of being an artist (is any of it glamorous?).....
creative ruts.
if you're an artist, writer, musician, or creative human of any kind....you know what I'm talking about. the lack of ideas. the ideas that flop. the bleh side of creativity.
here's my story: I love art. I always have. I've always been weirdly full of ideas. but somewhere along the road-probably around December-I had my first full-fledged creative rut. I couldn't think of anything. it was like my brain was stained gray. sure-I took pictures. but none of them were going in my portfolio or even the Google Classroom folder for class. I still doodled. but none of them were being scanned into Photoshop. I would have one big idea, and then it would flop. lucky for me, my photo teacher very well understood my pain, providing me with books and encouraging me to push myself (she was my saving grace the whole year).
it was on and off for a few months. now, my creativity is back to normal. but I very much understand the perils of a creative rut and know enough about them to create this post. maybe this post can be the remedy for your creativity, which just happens to have a cold!
1. view other artist's work
2. find inspiration through words
3. find resources
4. get out of the same-old
5. capture fleeting ideas
6. dig deeper
7. just relax
I hope hope so very much that my tips help you! after a year of copious art blocks, I am practically an art block pro. in all seriousness, just push yourself and your happy creativity will be back to normal before you know it!
xoxo,
the creative rut pro (sarah)