HowTo: MaintaiN aCReative miNd

Well, ThiS sounds like a promising title. IN this segment I'll supply some tips on how to further a concept visually, or at least, give examples of what I do, and how to support and maintain creativity, and to stay oUT of an artistic rut.

For the past year, I've been struggling with all of these issues and have discovered ways to troubleshoot them to a certain degree, and I hope they can assist whomever may be having the same roadblocks.

First of all, it is very important to always be stretching and flexing your creative brain, figuratively.  Meaning, not sticking with one medium, topic, or piece for too long, because you may lose practice in other areas of thinking and execution.  It's always a good idea to have multiple projects going to 'keep creative juices flowing'.
For example, over a summer I created 'exercises' and 'assignments' for myself to do, \
such as, 'draw Anxiety' or 'summarize your day' or 'western theme'
One could use mark making, different media, color, content, theme, composition
to emote whatever the artist's interpretation of the assignment is.

When working on furthering a specific concept,
One must start out by identifying the goal, purpose, intent of the artwork
and how to best represent that objective.
Or identify an aspect you'd like to change or further and troubleshoot it
with methods and practice.
For example, with my thesis, I work from photos constantly, but I do Not
wish to replicate the images exactly, which is difficult for me.
So, I purposely seek photos to illustrate that I can establish a plan
of execution in style and content that varies from the precise photo.

Intro to my Aspiration..

Funny, as i post this, documenting what I've accomplished So far, all I can think about is the countless things that I have Yet to do! 

Regardless, andmoving Onward!!-
--> For the past couple months I've been illustrating with ink washes, movie still-like scenes of evening escapades.  -->Focusing on depicting social interaction and embracing the atmosphere- all together simulating the experience of narrative through the eyes of the artist, Me.  I gather material through my own ventures into the night and illustrate the photos.
The most recent series was taken at O'Bryon's Pub,
a Most entertaining excursion, aPlethora of useful and dynamic images resulting...

 

..I'd say that this selection is a very accurate summary of the types of compositions and content and visual style that I document

Here we go

So, this whole blog thing seems like a potential Awesome void to vent, file, record, declare, create, and Holllaa in to.. Yet- 

iShould consider it as such but an 'assignment' turns anything seemingly neutral or even apPealing into something to avoid. Perhaps also resulting from my tendency to Not want to do what I am told.. 

..blah blah... but thats what this place is for, right?  

Hmm.. objective= document inspiration, thought processes, and progress for artsake, 

because I do Not keep track of intriguing findings and notable life sources when they are discovered. Cool, a purpose, defined Too, that should help. 

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