How to overcome creative blocks?

What is Creative Block?

A “creative block” is the inability to access one’s flowing stream of inspiration and creativity. What was once an overflowing well of ideas may now feel like an endless drought. It can last for days, months, or even years at a time.Creative block is something that can be described as loss of creative ideas or losing art abilities whenever an artist wants to create something new and feeling bored or frustrated for this. This may hamper your career if it stays for longer period.

Types and reasons of creative blocks.

Mental block to think new: If you are locked to look towards world in a familiar way and you fail to see other options. A make an assumptions to be limited for your thoughts.
Emotional barriers: Creativity may cause many emotional ups and downs to artists. May be your subject matter is weird, embarrassing, painful. Somewhere an emotional barrier can cause limitation to your creative works.
Work habits that unusual to you: If you try to work hard at unusual time or may be different types of environments when you aren’t habituated to work. If you don’t have enough downtime or stimulation or may be you haven’t setup systems.
Personal Problems: Personal problems may affect artist’s life that makes creative blocks. Breakup/ divorce, any tragedy in life may damage an artist’s creativity.
Poverty: Yes, that’s true. Poverty really affects someone creative person’s life badly. If you don’t get to sell your artworks or not getting price for it. If you are lacking behind to maintain your normal lifestyle for not having enough money then you will be unable to concentrate on your creative works.
Overwhelm: Sometimes a block comes from having too much. You’ve taken on too many commitments, you have too many great ideas, or you’re overwhelmed by the bigger volume of incoming demands and information. You feel like a traffic jam in your minds and thoughts by so many options and obligations.

How to overcome creative blocks?

So these above types of creative blocks generally happens on a creative person’s life.How to overcome creative block?There are so many ways and good practices that can be useful to overcome creative block. I would like to say just leave the problem (creative block) alone and enjoy somewhere else.

Sleep Tight: Just don’t think about it too much. Sleep tight and take rest. This may help your brain cells to take rest.
Hang with Friends and foes: Just keep busy for doing other works in life. Hang up with friends relatives.
Have a trip in a new place: Having a short or long trip to some new places may help you to overcome boredness
Yoga Time: Just don’t be nuts and all time get depressed. Keep calm and practice yoga.
Carry a notebook: Carry a note book all time with you. Whenever a new idea occurs then sketch out the thing and keep a note.
Analyze your notes: Keep your noted ideas check regularly. Find out the best and better ideas and make them to create new works.

Thus you should go on against fighting creative blocks and make a fresh new start.

15 ways to be a famous artist

This post is for those artists who are still unable to make your identity and you should not be worried. This world is not bothered so much about you and your work until you know how to show off. I will suggest to be a little tech-shabby. This will help you to make your own identity. Here is how you can be famous on internet and how to show off your talent.

You should own a smart phone.
Should have profile in social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Instagram and frequently use every of them.
Add many friends to your profiles.
Gift your artworks to your friends, relatives.
Make a Facebook page of your artworks. If your artworks really good then people will like it frequently.
Add many other art pages to your page by liking them and share their on your page as well as share your page on their pages.
Upload your art works in your Facebook albums so both places, your page and and your profile people can see your works.
Link your other accounts like twitter to your Facebook so the same update automatically shared.
Make blogs, websites to discuss about art works by using Blogger, WordPress, Webs, Weebly etc.
Add affiliates and ad-sense to your blog for earning.
As well as make Facebook page of your blog so that both the direct art page and blog page attracts audience.
Approach online art selling websites to sell your art works. Like E-bay, Fizdi, IndiaArt, Indian Art Collectors.
Join DeviantArt forum and create profile where you will get ideas about art works.
If you have a available space at your home or else then start a coaching class for children. Contact your friends and give a local advertisement or use your social networks to make free ad of coaching center.
When you get some identity and money both by these then approach the art galleries to hold some exhibition.

Be a Superstar by yourself.

How the earth would look like after it destroyed by Nuclear War – In the eye of an artist

War, has been the biggest tragedy in mankind’s history. Millions, Billions of people killed in war around the globe. We have seen the destruction of WWI and WWII. Humanity was shaken by the destruction of atomic bomb when Hiroshima and Nagasaki was destroyed in Aug’ 1945. It has been 74 years since then. Technology has upgraded a lot in this years. Still our human society facing a lot of danger and all caused by greed, sin, stupidity of ourselves.

We live in an era where we are now fearing to loose our environment as well as this planet. World is facing many major political conflicts. One of the most threatening is Terrorism.
If this time another world war happens then it wouldn’t be a safer ending for it. Nuke bombs are hundred times powerful than 1945. Few numbers are enough for Armageddon. As an artist I tried to imagine the world after a nuclear war in my Survivors of earth album. I wanted to show you how extremely terrible, horrifying the future is going to be it.

Year 2265: We are in an era when Earth is an wasteland. Nuclear war in last century destroyed this planet, converted into a toxic, inhabitable land.

After the long battle we lost cities, countries, lives, nature.

The fight was over because we had none to fight with. We were left with nothing but ashes of bodies.

Billions of people died in war. Those who survived lost their lives in cold, radiation, hunger.

Some of us are survived still and left this planet. Now our home is an artificial city in space. We have made artificial environment to sustain.

We are here continuing research to find a new planet where mankind can live again.

Still some facilities we kept running in earth to provide us information, data and samples of organics that we left.

We can’t live in earth’s atmosphere with bare skin. Our skins may burn and we may die in radiation.

Earth is vital for extracting energies only from volcanoes, Ocean waves etc.

In some last decades we could collect some organics samples. We are now growing plants, species by genetic modification in labs.

Hope never dies. We will rise again like a glorious civilization. This time it will be different.

A little discussion about pencil sketch

Who does not wants to have a good skill of arts. It gives you an amazing and impressive side of your character and personality. You can amaze your close and dear ones, even everyone. Like wise painting is a very beautiful form of ART. It needs both talent and skill. This blog of mine is for those all art lover people who wants to develop their skills of painting and sketching. An artist needs a good talent but beside this regular practice is very needed to develop more skills otherwise talent becomes useless. In this blog I have tried to explain about pencil sketch techniques which I know and of course I have shared some of my artworks with you.

PENCILS

Many types of pencils are available in shops. Commonly available pencils are HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B, 10B, 0.5, charcoal.

HB and 0.5 are for sharp strokes and soft shading. For thick strokes and dark shades we normally use 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B, 10B. Charcoal is a completely dark and rough strokes.

This picture shows different types of pencil lead and their difference.

Above picture clearly depicts the difference of strokes made by different pencils. This concept should be very clear when you are making a sketch by pencils.

HOLDING TECHNIQUES

Holding the pencil in proper manner is very important in pencil sketch drawing. It may be said that hold the pencil as you are most comfortable to hold it.

STROKES DEFINES MATERIAL SURFACE

Yes, that is true. different strokes are used to define the surface of materials. Or different strokes forms are used to sketch a picture. It surely needs some examples to explain. Although these strokes needs good practice to develop skills.

This picture shows different strokes which are used commonly in pencil sketch. These strokes are used to define different types of material surfaces.

This picture is a clear example of 3 types of commonly used strokes.
First line is done by rubbing the lead in a horizontal direction. Second line is a triple crosshatch practice. Third line shows the zigzag type strokes.

But these pictures clearly says that controlling the pressure of pencil is very important when you are creating different depths of shades.

This is an example how different depth of shades are created by controlling the pressure of pencils

Now, talking about this picture. A very good examples of strokes. First is single crosshatch, second is double crosshatch, third is triple crosshatch and the fourth is quadruple crosshatch.

This is a nice example of converting a 2D object to 3D. How a circle is changed to a sphere by using pencil shades. During shading of an object you have to always remember the direction of light. Opposite side of the light the depth will be shaded.

EXAMPLES ON VARIOUS MATERIAL AND THEIR TEXTURES

In the next pictures I am going to show how the different shades and strokes are used to draw different materials or things.

This picture clearly shows the shades, strokes of pencil for drawing a cloth. Look at the picture the shades are more and depths are given where shadow created and direction of light has also kept in mind. This concept should be clear that strokes are good to be molded as the material surfaces are molded.

When drawing cloth I have used the rubbing the lead strokes which creates a soft surfaces and textures of the cloth.

This is an example of drawing rock. Rock surfaces are rough. So I have used the different crosshatch method. As you see the orientation of strokes can be changed as the surface of the material molds in different direction.

The shadow and shades are done by keeping the orientation of light in mind.

This sketch gives an example of two types of material and their surface. First is the steel surface of the tap. I have used 0.5 for sharp edges, HB for light shades and 6B for depth.
This also depict how the shiny surface and sharp edge materials are sketched.

Second is water flow from tap. Look at the picture, water flow is shaded in various depths depending upon the transparency of this.

Again I am repeating the orientation of light source should always be kept in mind.

A BRIEF DISCUSSION ON PORTRAIT DRAWING

Drawing of Human face needs a very good skill. Human face has a proper ratio that you need to understand.

From these above pictures you will be able to understand the ratios of human face. How the proportion has to maintain when you are drawing a face. An artist has to practice a lot this proportion of face and figure for developing skills of human drawing.

These two above pictures shows how a human face proportion changes from different angle. From every angle if it is front, left right, three quarter from top, bottom or any side proportion has to be maintained in a proper way.