Comment on Creativity and Depression Edit: CHATROOM OPEN by lockstock
Personally, I never get writers block or artist's blank page syndrome. I feel like I am always tapped into the creative conduit. But where I fail is motivation. I haven't got it. I get excited by a project and then realize how many brush strokes it's gonna take and my heart sinks into my stomache and my hands start shaking.
It's incredibly frustrating. I wish there was a way to fix it.. but I refuse to take medicine. I barely take aspirin for headaches. :/
The only thing that seems to help is creating art in the same room with other artists. Working with a team, or simply next to other artists or even musicians seems to energize me. Which is why I do fine in art school and slump miserably when I live alone.
It's incredibly frustrating. I wish there was a way to fix it.. but I refuse to take medicine. I barely take aspirin for headaches. :/
The only thing that seems to help is creating art in the same room with other artists. Working with a team, or simply next to other artists or even musicians seems to energize me. Which is why I do fine in art school and slump miserably when I live alone.
I've noticed that, too. It seems much easier to create new things when you have other creative people to bounce ideas off of. It may be an entirely psychological thing, but just about all of the artists I've worked with have said pretty much the same thing.