1. Create an idea treasure chest
Collect images from magazines, quotes, postcards, etc. This can be anything that will stimulate future work. Store them in a way that makes them easy to get at.
It’s an amazing experience to open your treasure chest of ideas and rediscover things that previously excited or inspired you. Maybe you weren’t ready for them when you found them and put them in the box but you might be ready for one or more of the ideas now.
2. Keep an art-related idea journal
Keep a spiral notebook with you at all times to capture ideas, sketches and references to use later. It’s like keeping an art diary, and it’s for your eyes only, so you can record everything.
Writers call this a “swipe file.” It doesn’t mean that you plagiarize things that you find—that would be highly unethical and unoriginal to boot! But whether we acknowledge it or not, we are all inspired by what surrounds us and what came before.
3 Take a Break(or change) art projects that are boring
If a idea is not working move to something else, or change it completely.
If that doesn’t work, it may be freeing to just throw the piece away.
4. Adjust Your Thinking and Be Flexable
Maybe you’ve created something that isn’t quite right. Or it’s not the final vision that you wanted. Consider it a practice piece and remove the pressure of it being the final version.
Since it’s just practice, consider what would happen if you tried to wreck it. Even if you don’t actually do that to the piece, you will come up with interesting ideas that don’t come when you are treating the art piece as too precious.
5. Find Someone to Create With
Working by yourself can be just what you need, but other times it can be frustrating. To have someone that you can bounce ideas off off, or problem solve with can be creatively lifting, not to mention Fun.
Collect images from magazines, quotes, postcards, etc. This can be anything that will stimulate future work. Store them in a way that makes them easy to get at.
It’s an amazing experience to open your treasure chest of ideas and rediscover things that previously excited or inspired you. Maybe you weren’t ready for them when you found them and put them in the box but you might be ready for one or more of the ideas now.
2. Keep an art-related idea journal
Keep a spiral notebook with you at all times to capture ideas, sketches and references to use later. It’s like keeping an art diary, and it’s for your eyes only, so you can record everything.
Writers call this a “swipe file.” It doesn’t mean that you plagiarize things that you find—that would be highly unethical and unoriginal to boot! But whether we acknowledge it or not, we are all inspired by what surrounds us and what came before.
3 Take a Break(or change) art projects that are boring
If a idea is not working move to something else, or change it completely.
If that doesn’t work, it may be freeing to just throw the piece away.
4. Adjust Your Thinking and Be Flexable
Maybe you’ve created something that isn’t quite right. Or it’s not the final vision that you wanted. Consider it a practice piece and remove the pressure of it being the final version.
Since it’s just practice, consider what would happen if you tried to wreck it. Even if you don’t actually do that to the piece, you will come up with interesting ideas that don’t come when you are treating the art piece as too precious.
5. Find Someone to Create With
Working by yourself can be just what you need, but other times it can be frustrating. To have someone that you can bounce ideas off off, or problem solve with can be creatively lifting, not to mention Fun.