29 Aug 06:18
--when you're learning through an academic kind of style, from what I have found through researching, and seeing the curriculum from various atelier/academy,
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29 Aug 06:18
--I don't even feel like I'm in a place where I can create a space, really. Just fragments of characters.
29 Aug 06:18
--Something that kinda bothers me is that people keep telling me that I should be making an imaginative piece-- I've got plenty of imagination, but I don't feel that I've collected enough memory images to really apply to an imaginative piece in more than a crude, child-like way. Do you guys think that making imaginative pieces are really necessary as you go along, or is it okay to do studies and apply them from memory, and just doodle it out instead of trying to go all out to create images?
29 Aug 06:17
--But, certain medications might have been better, I dunno. I've learned how to cope without at the moment.
29 Aug 06:16
--I stopped taking the medication though-- It kinda had the side effect of turning me into a robot and taking away my imaginative... Spark. haha
29 Aug 06:16
--I was diagnosed and took medication both when I was a child, and as an adult-- So I do legitimately have it. At least according to a few psychiatrists.. Still, their method of diagnosis was A) Talking to me. and B) Giving me a questionnaire.
29 Aug 06:15
--Mindset have changed a lot, ever since I started following more of the what peoples refer to "new age spirituality" such as Eckhart Tolle, Alan watts etc.
29 Aug 06:14
--Not sure if I have that or not, but if anything, I do not label myself with anything. Because in the end, I feel, its just a word peoples use to categorize them self/others.
29 Aug 06:14
--It's just easier to stay focused if you know someone else is gonna check up on you
29 Aug 06:13
--I have ADD, so I'm definitely motivated by external rewards-- So it makes it tougher, because I don't really make my own rewards just for doing something. So I gotta get pretty creative to stay on track, haha
29 Aug 06:11
--If that's the case, you have to make an appointment with yourself on a daily basis then. Like building up discipline for a specific amount of time or so.
29 Aug 06:10
--But even the smallest step sometimes seems hard to do, and I'm still figuring out how to deal with that
29 Aug 06:09
--Lets say if you immediately start with draw 8 hours a day for 1 month, not only that will exhaust you, it's something you're not used to yet, so one could start maybe with draw 30 minutes a day, or even 20 minutes etc.
29 Aug 06:07
--And starting small and slowly increasing certainly sounds like a good idea tooo
29 Aug 06:07
--I might as well share the ideas that helped shaped what I meant, http://seanwes.com/podcast/136-how-to-se...difficult/
29 Aug 06:06
--It sounds like you have found a way to set goals and go about achieving them that fits you
29 Aug 06:04
--And another thing is, if you set something you know you can consistently do without a problem, it becomes easier to follow what you set yourself to get towards to, and eventually increase it just a little bit out of your set amount see what it feels like.
29 Aug 06:03
--It's the way you set it, that makes it either difficult, or make you lose track of following it from the first place.