ArtBistro

Are new ideas plentiful for you or are they hard to come by?

A lot of them are plentiful, until someone asks for something specific. Otherwise I just draw something I feel good enough to finish and thats about it.

Ideas are usually plentiful for me. I often feel swamped by the flow. Then I wrestle with picking one, then struggle to find the motivation and confidence to get started. then it's a trick of making them come out right within the parameters of my talent, materials and attention span. I'd say I don't do near as much as I could. I wish I had a local art crowd to have create-ins with.

Totally depends.

Ideas come when you least expect them. I always try to carry a pen and paper around just in case I need to write something down quick. I have like 2 years worth of stories to write and draw... And I have a notebook of quick ideas that I need to work on and develop into more substantial stories/illustrations...

I guess something else I learned about this subject in college was... to be a professional, you need to be able to create on command/demand... you cant wait for inspiration, or for the moons to align. Tapping into one's creative juices needs to be practiced and worked on, its a skill like any other. And one should be able to produce good work even if they are having an "off day". And then when you DO have inspiration, you can produce amazing work.

it depends on whether i feel like getting my draw on that day. I usually crank out a drawing to 3 drawings a week. This week I've put off doing a portrait of actress Emily Deschanel for far too long.

I find that it's easiest to keep a notebook or sketchbook full of ideas in the same way a writer may keep a notebook full of story seeds. Some of my best ideas come from when I'm hanging out with my friends. It's easy to talk to friends about even the weirdest things, and since a lot of my friends are artists, they always have a suggestion or addition to make to the base concept.