I'm sure all artists experience this, maybe from time to time, or even for one large portion at a time; the inability to create ANYTHING, because you cannot project exactly what you visualize in your head. It's a sense of perfection, yes, but at the same time there's a greast deal of frustration to it. Personally, alot of it for me is doubt artistically speaking, that I'm getting worse than before, or I can't achieve what I want therefore it's "failed" where, in the art world there's hardly a "fail" or a "pass" unless it IS in fact, for art class itself.
Is anyone going through this? How do you cope?
I've found that even just actually doodling really really bad things helps..I don't mean dirty things... I mean for instance, you're VanGogh and you decide to draw stick figures...to remove all challeneges from yourself artistically. It relieves stress for me, but still...
Another issue is patience, do any of you have trouble simply because you want what you see right now and can't get it out on paper or the computer so you say eff it! and don't do anything at all? It's been an ongoing battle for a few years now for me, I can't find a sense of style I like in myself, I can't get anything to feel right and overall I feel as if my art is crap because it's not the way I visualize it, while all these other pieces of artwork are brilliant and somehow achieved...
((also don't know maybe this thread goes to an artsy area, non tlk art or tlk art...))