Ahh I love ur stuff sm, I was just wondering what inspires u? I love collage but I'm crap at continuously creating stuff and making time for it but I'm a big fan of ur stuff!!!!
you are so kind thank u !!!! continuously creating stuff is SO difficult dw i feel you. i love me some bullet points so … here is a handy list of stuff that inspires meÂ
seeing other people making good shit is so inspiring and like putting that stuff on a pinterest board/separate blog is super helpful so whenever i’m feeling uninspired i can just browse and gather inspiration
i, a 20 year old human woman, am so bad at expressing my emotions lmao so a lot of the time i make art about how i feel ??? like really petty passive aggressive things that i would never confront someone about but still piss me off
i also have a really weird need to document literally everything ? so like “let me write this playlist down in case spotify breaks and the internet is lost forever JUST IN CASE so i don’t lose this great selection of songs that i love” or “this is a great lyric I HOPE I NEVER FORGET IT i must write it down 100 times JUST IN CASE” or “i have no photos of this particular place i lived/went on holiday/went to college so let me try and draw it from memory so i NEVER FORGET” etc etc so that always gives me ideas and then i just try and make those things look prettyÂ
going through free magazines/travel brochures and cutting out the pictures i really like the look of is always inspiring bc i’m then super excited about making art with them and want to get on it immediately
i always have lists of ideas (ideas for layouts, words/phrases to use, colour schemes, general ideas etc etc) that i add to when i am inspired so when i have no ideas i can pick something from there
similarly i have a list of things i like to draw so when i’m stuck i can just think “oh look i like to draw hands i feel very uninspired but let me draw this hand” and then you can draw a hand on a mountain picture or draw a hand on some pink paper or draw a hand and colour over it with colouring pencil and you never know it could turn out looking fantastic
this sounds so ridiculous but absorb things ??? watch tv, watch films, think about the shapes and the cinematography, screenshot your fave parts and draw the shapes, listen to music and jot down good lyrics, write down playlists, look through photos from 2009 and think about how embarrassing you probably were, read poetry and underline the good bits, have a 10hr sleep, go outside and look at a tree, find a dog, pet a dog, draw a dog, listen to conversations and write down things people say, read through texts and write down the good bits that probably won’t make sense in 3 weeks, think about family holidays and write down things you associate with that holiday etc etc it sounds so cringe but just try and immerse yourself in other creative stuff and eventually something will give you an idea
this is so lengthy and i know it’s so easy to say “just do this and it’ll be great !” but i hope this helps somewhat ???
