Art Block - Motivation and Inspiration Boosters

Poetry.
It's short, sweet, and you don't have to drag yourself through it (unless it's like an epic or something)
I'd say that you have to find some books that you KNOW you won't like.
Force yourself to read it.
Force yourself to like it.
For instance: The Stranger by Albert Camus
Really boring (so far) about the daily life of a guy who murdered some random person. It mostly just gives Portraits of what is happening.
For instance: Albert (the whole thing is in 1st person present) spends the whole day staring at people through a window.

may not be the most interesting thing you ever drew, but it's something.

Try to read some plays.
Think about how YOU would say it, and how you'd act if you were in the situation.
Think of how you look to other people.
Envision yourself how you are currently.
Do a self portrait of yourself without any mirrors, that is, paint yourself painting (or draw yourself drawing).
Then take that and do it from different angles.

May not be exptremely inspiring, but it's something to get your brain juices flowing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Hmmmm.......
Do you paint what I call "Moments of time?"
you know, kodak pictures from a book?

Just finished The Stranger last night, I really suggest that you read some lame books. Although they're really boring to read, they have A LOT of description of the country side.

Or if you do Portraits, really boring books sometimes give inch by inch descriptions of people.

Top Four List of Books that have potential in art:
1)Les Miserables (also winner of the Boring Award)
2)The Stranger (Runner up to Les Mis)
3)Crime and Punishment (Very Interesting!)
4)Everything else by Dostoyevsky (good for portraits)

Something that makes you mad................
Well, it depends on how mad you want to get.
Not angry, depressed: A wrinkle in time (good for Sci-Fi)
Kinda angry and amused: The Stranger
Slightly Indignant: Something by Charles Dickens
Very Angry at the Chain of Events: All's Well that Ends Well and Measure for Measure by Shakespeare.

I seem to see a chain in my suggestions. They're all classics.
It's because they all have better descriptions and usually have more expression than books churned out today.

Don't read James Joyce, though. He's just pointless.

Hope you get out of this phase!!!

PM me if you need anything.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The problem with that is just that: even if what you're churning out (since you're supposed to do that) is shit, it's still shit. No one wants to read that.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

"You are powerful and Important..."

Reminds me of those stupid tapes they used to have.

How ya doing, buddy?

Most people in my opinion try to improve on perfect.
(Oh, perfect means unchangeable in Latin. Yay! I learned something!)
It may be very beautiful, but some people just cant accept it for what it is.

I was speaking idiomatically.