Have you ever reached a point where you started thinking that your art was no longer improving and seems to have hit a wall? And you lost motivation and just stopped creating anything? Well, then let me tell you this, it’s completely normal to reach that point once in a while.
What is Art Health?
Your art health is something similar to your physical health. You keep your body running to stay fit, which not only shapes you up but boosts your motivation levels to keep doing the workout. In a similar fashion your art health has two main factors; your motivation to create art and the power of improved art to keep you motivated. Now both these elements go hand in hand.
They say the times when you feel your art isn’t improving is actually when your observational skills are at their greatest.
When you feel like you’re stuck on a dead end and there is no further improvement in your drawing skills, it‘s actually when you have a very good power of observing the mistakes in your drawings. So what do you then? How do you find motivation to keep going and not fall out of the cycle?
Here’s what you should do:
- Take a break if you feel you’re on the verge of burning out. Breaks are perfectly fine to take once in a while. In fact taking a break and coming back afresh may give you some amazing ideas for your art.
- Switch to a different art style. Paint an ocean, jump on the Inktober bandwagon or get crafty with your DIYs. It’s always refreshing to switch to some different style of art than you usually do.
- Look up to your favorite creators and see how they started their journeys from the scratch. It might give you the inspiration you’ve been looking for.
- Take up a challenge, use your amplified observational skills and point out what exactly is that you’re not improving in, learn some techniques to improve that from internet and then draw that subject repetitively to see if you make improvements.
- Draw daily! Set small achievable targets that you can fulfill in a daily basis and stick to it. Allow yourself to fail, you just need to show up and draw something.
