Feeling stuck? Need a fresh approach to your creative practice?
Dürer's Melencolia I
Here are four tips to help overcome creative melancholy:1. Set up a different workstation. For most people, doing work means facing a computer. If it's a laptop, bring it to a new spot in the house or try working in a library or a café. Setting up a standing workstation can be a gamechanger.
2. Invent an alter ego and let them solve it. Pretend you've hired a specialist to help you with the part of the process that stymied you.
3. Trust the process, follow the workflow. For me, that means doing thumbnail sketches, planning tonal studies, doing a perspective drawing, gathering photo reference, etc.
4. Leave an easy step unfinished at the end of a work session. That way, when you return to work you know exactly what to do and how to do it and you don't need much brain power.
2. Invent an alter ego and let them solve it. Pretend you've hired a specialist to help you with the part of the process that stymied you.
3. Trust the process, follow the workflow. For me, that means doing thumbnail sketches, planning tonal studies, doing a perspective drawing, gathering photo reference, etc.
4. Leave an easy step unfinished at the end of a work session. That way, when you return to work you know exactly what to do and how to do it and you don't need much brain power.
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