hello peoples! well, i dont know really where to start.. but my life has had a dramatic turn.. i had an excellent job and had plans to move out of my apartment to live with a friend to save some real money. 2 weeks prior to moving, we get laid off. plans changed. so i am collecting unemployment for now. and have too much free time. but with all this time, i have not been drawing like i should.. well i have been holding Lucy for like 3 months now. and i usually dose 1 to 2 times a month. the last time i dosed at my new place i had no inspiration to draw something really cool and interesting that i could post here. not even sober or high on weed. do you guys think that this is due to my life/schedule change? i think so. everytime i trip i try to make it as productive and enlightening as possible. whether it be getting crazy ideas on paper, practicing my acoustic and electric guitar, meditating or basically learning something new. anyone here who is an artist of any kind got any ideas on how regain inspiration??? i dont not feel fully alive as i once did.. maybe i should hero dose??
just sit in your room and stare at the wall. It something should come. Usually that helps me, and if i am really bored or have no inspiration, I actually use that and the art is about that. the good thing about art is that it can be anything really.. Or just take a huge dose and hope for something to come, either during the trip or after, who knows.
I think the hero dose is a stellar idea. Also for drawing, dont put thought into it man, none at all. Just draw. Get rid of that ego, forget the fucking veil and just DRAW. You can do it man, all the inspiration is in you, its just clouded by your current situation. Take a journey man, forget everything, and just draw.
To find inspiration in drawing I do what I guess you could call 'collecting energy'. I walk around the city with headphones on for a number of hours closely analyzing everything, trying to absorb as much new feelings as possible. I keep a pocket sized sketchbook with me at all times, it's like a cell phone to me. I always try to capture new sources of energy in it. I walk around sober, I'll walk around after drinking tea, I'll walk around chewing on ginseng, I'll walk around after smoking... anything to create the sensation of 'new'. Even if it's subtley new, it's still new. Sitting in your house, no matter how many drugs you have, you are going to run out of 'new energy' to transcribe into art. You have to go outside and find new energy. Yes the drugs help you get the new energy out of you and turned into art, but the energy of inspiration does not come from the drugs. It comes from everywhere. And you can't scour the internet for it either. You know, the medium is the message, the only energy your really getting from the internet is the screens energy. You need NEW energy. Don't stare at your wall like the guy up above said, go sit somewhere you've never been and stare at the wall of a building you've never seen... thats if you want to stare. Like I said, I like to walk around with headphones. Just walk around in a deeply meditative state and 'feel' the whole city, feel my surroundings, absorb it, absorb new feelings/energy.
rygoody, you are a inspiring man! i agree, life is about experience. the more you absorb the more you can output.
thanks alot! yea i dont get out much.. but when i have, i take in almost everything i see and have gotten ideas that way.. i will make a trip dedicated to 'collecting energy'... and as for what prone420 said, its pretty hard for me to get rid of my ego and just draw. i never want my pieces to look bad. i will try to rid myself of it when i have a normal state of mind. when trippin one night i realized what you said.. that its art, and it really doesnt matter how it looks! but when i got out of that state, i hesitated on paper
yeah that is true, you should get out and experience new things. Everyone has their own methods, but no one can argue that a new experience won't help you in your situation.
regain inspiration, hmmm....you need to figure out the reason for why you draw. Whats your purpose, without a purpose the art you create will not be authentic to your human spirit.
I dont know if this will help, but I will through it out there anyway. I make music as a form of meditation.... maybe you draw as a form of meditation. Now, while you are seeking a new imployer, and possibly changing direction in life, meditation (creating art) could be very benificial. I suggest you start off basic and before you know it, you will be in the zone and be back to making art again. (may I add, I have enjoyed all your artwork that you have posted)
A professional artist friend and teacher of mine always suggests just forcing yourself to do some artwork even when you aren't in the mood. It's often just getting started that will get you motivated and in the zone. Work through it instead of waiting for the inspiration to hit you.
I like your way, rygoody, but I would like to point out that we can often miss out on all of the 'new energy' (which is not really an energy in my opinion but a mental process) that exists in the spaces we inhabit every day. New energy comes not just from exploring different places, and different situations/sensual states, but also from exploring new actions, new ways of changing the world in accordance with your will. For example, I like to find 'new energy' in flames, in light refractions, cups of unstirred tea, interpretive dance, making sounds from unusual sources, shadow play. Our imagination is constantly generating New impulses, but 'new energy' must come from outside, it is a confirmation of a new relationship in the world. it is the input that could possibly be used to develop new internal relationships. These new internal relationships provide new possibilities for our imagination. So we can use our imaginations to further our imaginations simply by stretching out of our zone of awareness and generating sensations that are new to us. The 'new energy' that comes from sensations externally willed, or imagined, or incidentally occuring, is going to provide more possibilities to inform our internal relationships, but it requires an extra step of cognition to be able to consciously grasp these relationships. In the case of 'new energy' derived from self-willed sensorgenisis, this step of cognition is included in the process, but our imaginations can never compete with reality, except in ways that only the imaginor can appreciate. Some people claim that they use their creativity just for themselves, but if this was the case, i would imagine to see them doing a lot more strange hedonistic art practices. I think people should strive to have a creative force that can speak to all people, and the way that all people are directly connected is through our shared world. Thus from our shared world (the former 'new energy') comes the most furtive inspiration
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