Feelings of Inspiration

Often times I endure serious artist's block. Well, that and I'm just incredibly indecisive about what I want to do sometimes. This past semester, I've probably done every single art homework assignment last minute. Part of it is because of procrastination, but the larger part is lack of inspiration/motivation.

For example, just recently, for my 2d art and design class, we had a color schemes project; it involved doing something with analogous colors and then complementary colors. I couldn't decide what to do until the Sunday it was supposed to be due. But once I completed the first half of the project, I was suddenly inspired to do something for extra credit. Live. Laugh. Love. I did Live first, then Love was the extra credit. I was SO excited once I completed photoshopping Love. SO. EXCITED. Once I finished it, I was more happy with the result itself than proud of myself that I did it. I guess that's what being an artist is all about? And then I did Laugh and the project was whole. :) My professor said she loved it. I just got it back today. She said she didn't even want to return it back to me. Hehe.

I like showing people what I've done. But not because I'm arrogant? But because..it just looks so freaking COOL. Doing this kind of stuff reallyyyy makes me happy. I love it :)

More on feelings of inspiration though. For drawing class, our final assignment was to draw any three things but had to include 3 of the 6 ideas from Calvino: lightness, quickness, multiplicity, exactitude, something I forgot, and consistency/our own alternative. For two weeks, I had NO idea what to draw. I barely figured out what ideas I wanted to draw and how I wanted to draw it. But once I figured out, once I was inspired, I became excited and anxious to begin. Worked on them all night while I worked my graveyard shift at the library. I'm freaking tired and exhausted but it was worth it. Just talked to my professor about it. She gave me a 94 :))

I swear. The feeling of being inspired has to be the best. There is nothing like wanting to do something great, knowing how you're going to go about doing something great, actually doing it, and then..finishing. Best.

See, I may not put in as much time into my projects..but I put in "HELLA" effort! So, I'm not a procrastinator. I'm an incubator. If you're actually reading this and wondering what I am talking about, you should Google it :)

Oh, and I have an A in 2D, bee tee dub. :))

K, peace out.