ARTIST'S BLOCK!!

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UGH. I just hate it when I get artist's block. I can't draw anything. I can't even get inspiration for anything. It sucks so much, because I need more stuff in my deviantART gallery.

Well don't just sit around, experience new things, people, places, artworks, technologies, information, ect.

Inspiration wont just come to you, it needs to be found.

There can be lots of reasons for artist's block, but it can just be that you are going through another stage. As for most artist I'm never happy with my work always moving forward. But have found as improve / develop often need space and time in between these times to reevaluate my next faze.

Other points:
I often find I work better if given a dead line or project to do.

I can also be effected by my moods and have found work much better if have time and space and thats hard as have so many other things to do and people / family always about.

But if my canvas is staring back at me blank, usually a good walk in the hills alone, head space really helps...

It's kinda had for Beserk, you guys, what with being locked up in her house and all...

Can you find anything that inspires you? Nature? Movies? Music? Everyday life? Those sorts of things can help me at times.

That kind of information would be good to provide at the very start as it is relevant, and not everybody is up to date on Beserker's life.

Anyway you can still find inspiration from the comfort of your own home, assuming TVs, Computers, ect can provide you access to the kinds of things that inspire you.

The only things I get inspired by are video games. But I don't really have that many games to get inspired by...

well look for more forms of inspiration!

films are a great thing for anybody who is into visual art. tell me what kind of drawings you do or show us your deviantart account, and ill show you some films that you'd be interested in and inspired by.

videogames are great, if you've never played any half-life games, i suggest you drop everything and start now, they're some of the most visually stunning games ever made, i think the art direction for half life 2 is some of the best ever done.

I only have one drawing on deviantART. To be honest, I've never drawn anything that isn't from a video game...


http://darkmessengerdiablos.deviantart.com/

Browse around the internet looking at pictures. That's how I get inspired.

I often get inspired not by the video game itself, but by what I experience in it. The big air of SSX Tricky, the Palace falling down in Jak 3, the sense of lonliness and isolation in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, or the utter speed and destruction of Burnout Paradise (demo). All these things are what get me to draw, and often include similar sequences and scenes in my own story, no matter what I have to do to deviate or change from the actual plot to get it there.

That's actually how my story is, to me. This plot driving the characters to these amazing scenes.

well broaden you're horizons my friend, you have everything to gain from it.

watch some films by stanley kubrick, ridley scott, sergio leone and terry gilliam, lots of very cool visuals and very interesting situations to inspire you.

I can only copy stuff. I can't draw from imagination, so getting inspiration of things to copy is very hard. The only thing I can seem to draw from imagination is my character Kyo. But I don't want to draw him...

Try downloading free games from the internet.

http://www.freewaregames.net/

I'm not allowed to download stuff.