Art Blocked? The Anatomy of Art Block ↗

by ~zack-sr

ART-BLOCK

We all get art-blocked at one point. “I don’t want to draw” or “I don’t feel like drawing this…”

By understanding what art-block is, we can take steps to avoid it in the future, and possibly even control its presence.

Let’s start by removing the term “art-block” from our vocabularies for a moment. It is too vague and only describes its effect, not what it is. This doesn’t help us except when we want to commiserate.

Now let’s start to take apart the artistic process. If we can understand why we draw in the first place, it will help us to understand why we stop drawing.

The artistic process developed and culminated in homo sapi

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