Do other artists feel like they need to be in the best possible headspace and energy level to start working on an "important" piece or comic panel or have I developed weird and unnecessary working habits
If it's like late in the evening and I only have a little time to draw, I feel like I can't start work on like, a climactic comic panel, or start a new sketch of a big illustration, etc
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Oh absolutely. I basically have two designated places where its okay for me to do any writing, and neither of those places are inside my house. And that's just a small part of the headspace process.
Oh gosh, yeah haha. That does make it difficult! Just okay in your head, like you're usually able to concentrate well in those places?
I can kinda work around it, like I always have a lot of projects in different phases, so right now I can at least work on rendering for a piece that's in later stages. And like, having enough energy to do something is real, but I can't help but think it's partly an unnecessary mental block on my end 😅
So like...part of it is I can concentrate a bit better in those places, but it is mainly a weird mental thing. Because one specific coffee shop works, but another is much less effective. A more extreme example is like...If I have toast with peanut butter for breakfast, something specifically about that meal makes me more productive. I have NO IDEA why, but its a thing.
I'm trying to break out of that by just writing more. Like...just writing anything to keep me practicing, and when I have the time and space to do so, I work on my main project.
Gotcha, I understand that definitely, sometimes it’s just a vibe. Like I’ve called bottled iced jasmine tea “productivity juice”. I’ve found being really deliberate about art time helps too, like telling my partner when I want to be doing art 😮
YES! All the time. I'll get home and think. I can't start on something because it's big and I don't have the time. I've gotten around it by just telling myself I'll do a small thing. If I don't have the time or the energy but I have to or want to work on something I give myself a small goal like Finishing the line work on one character or doing the shading or something like that. Tricks my brain into going "okay. I can do that at least."
Exactlyyy, and god now I'm someone who feels the need to warm up, like I notice how my ability to make the really good feeling gestures and sketches needs a bit of runway to rev up, so I really feel like I need significant time to do anything difficult or the foundation of a big piece? But I guess that's just how it is sometimes, and managing easy and hard tasks into those time slots is just how you do it ^^;
(And sometimes the "easy" rendering tasks are stuff I've been putting off anyway)