Didn't realize you had this second channel! It was recommended to me on the main page and I'm happy I found it because I love hearing your thoughts on different art topics. I definitely find that creativity is born out of limitation rather than excess. What could be creative about having every option at your fingertips? Lately I've been trying to figure out what the limitations are that I want to put on my own work and I'm having trouble finding something that speaks to me right now. It's hard to know what specific limits I want to put on myself when I'm not sure what direction I want to go in right now, so for the moment I think I just need to experiment and make a lot of stuff. Now to carve out the time...
I usually use the frame of a task list rather than a fixed deadline (It's just less stressful for me to focus on a "required sequence of tasks" vs "you will be punished if this work is not summited on time"). Im a kinesthetic learner and for comics like anything else I need to fail in private and fail fast (with feedback of course) to then solidify the process in my brain. Im in the Inking phase of my first one shot manga and yea... Comics are incredibly hard 😂
I had a huge problem with making designs for my personal scifi setting. Quite a huge problem. You can in theory draw everything so you can in theory go in any direction. Scifi and space opera are dime a dozen. How do you even start making it its own thing? Pulling in all possible directions is great way of never having anything finished. Then I've found projectrho site which is populated mostly by hard scifi fans and a few actual physicists and just reading it was giving me a sense of direction. What if everything was made to look more grounded and functional? Make it simply look hard sf even if it's not. That axed a lot of ideas, but also streamlined everything. It was giving me a very clear list of do and don't. Having a clear focus is precious.
