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Journal Entry: Fri Jan 25, 2008, 8:51 AM
Happy Friday!

I'm in a strange mood right now where I have no thoughts for the weekend or for much of anything. I am just...in the moment. Very zen, perhaps. But also very unhelpful for inspiration.

So in a reckless act of stepping out of my comfort zone, I am asking for outside inspiration. Does anyone have an idea for a subject that I could start on? *Except fan art!* (I have to be in a particular mood for fan art.) I say it's out of my comfort zone because when I try to do a request that I don't feel the inspiration for, then I start to panic that I'm forcing something onto paper that doesn't look very good.

With that said, I'm hoping for general inspiration, not dictation. If someone says, can you do a dragon taking flight from the top of a castle with birds flocking around it and three planets in the sky and his scales are green and there's fighting going on, etc.... That will definitely freak me out, and I guarantee it would not be a pretty picture. But if someone would be so kind as to just suggest incorporating a couple of things together that I might not ordinarily think of, I think that would be very inspiring. Like a night scene with a teacup and a rabbit. :paranoid:Now that was bizarre--I don't know where that came from! But you see, with that being the only example that comes to mind, now you know why I need help.

Any ideas??? I don't care if it's crazy, I'll appreciate any suggestions!

  • Mood: Content
  • Listening to: Tom Petty
  • Reading: HP & the Goblet of Fire
  • Watching: The sands in the hourglass
  • Drinking: coffee!!! the breakfast of champions

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I excel at randomness like this, yay! Wait, I know someone who is even better at it, maybe I could draft her to help out as well. Hmm.

Anyway, ermm... three combinations in one minute:

1. A jar full of pencils with weird eraser tops on them

2. A little tin of candy with people in it instead, and the lid (to the side) reads... ???

3. A terracotta pot with many different holes in it, some growing trees, others growing... ???

Apparently I'm in a mood for collections today, ha. Just off the top of my head, feel free to ignore everything here.
Well, I love your randomness! Except maybe for number two...that disturbs me a little. :laughing: I will definitely attempt at least one of your suggestions, though. Thank you so much.

Incidentally, your suggestions remind me of this board game my family used to have called Adliners (I think), it involved crazy photos that you had to match up old marketing slogans to. It got very funny. I swear it would have a picture like number 2, for example, and then someone might end up with a slogan card that says "plop, plop, fizz, fizz"--it's such a crazy match-up it's just funny. Ah...I miss that game.
haha, glad you like #2, that could go all over the place :)

That game sounds like a blast! We had a game sort-of like that but much too generic. I can only imagine the match-ups with "Tastes great, less filling"
Exactly :lmao: ...that was a popular phrase! And there were also slogans that obviously came from ads waaaay before my time, but they were so strange it was hard to believe they were ever used for anything.

How much planning goes into your artwork?

30%
3 deviants said Little planning other than basic subject/setting: I like to figure it out while I go.
30%
3 deviants said People plan these things!?
20%
2 deviants said I do periodic planning and evaluating: at the beginning, at certain points throughout, and an overall review at the end.
10%
1 deviant said I thoroughly consider each piece: I evaluate how to do it and how it works with the artwork as a whole. I sometimes get bogged down with the individual pieces.
10%
1 deviant said I try to plan, but it constantly changes as I go along.
0%
No deviants said I have to force myself not to plan or I will never decide what to do!

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