I have a question for all the artists on the list (3D, 2D, music, or otherwise).
I am having an artist's block problem, and I do not quite know how to describe it... If any of you watched my galleries, you would notice a huge gap in my art (between 1999 and 2001). Durring that time I did very little Lightwave work, and most of what I did durring that time was fairly basic in modeling. In October of 2001, after a very long break from Lightwave, I produced my hollow dog model. After I made the model I was in a fair amount of shock. For someone so out of practice with Lightwave, using tools in Lightwave I hadn't used much before, I produced what was at the time, my best model. After that was the first time this artist's block hit me (and it hit hard, I didn't touch Lightwave at all for over half a year after that). I couldn't understand *how* I made the model. I looked at it and said to myself "How the hell did I do that?" I was actually afraid to try to model anything else again because of fear that it was a fluke and that any future attepmts to model an object would fail miserably. Eventually I psyched myself up and produced my newest dolphin model from scratch. That model then earned the title of my best model to date. Now I am working on a Rat model, and I am watching it as it emerges from the basic beginings, and it too looks like it is heading to being my best model to date. The problem I have is that the best models I have made seemed to flow out so effortlessly. I feel like I wasn't even trying. This makes me worry... If I wasn't really trying, if I were to deliberatly try to produce similar results, could I do it? I know from experience that I can, but somehow it still seems strange. Analogy: It feels like a cartoon, where I dip a brush in a bucket of paint, run a few strokes over the canvas, and then I suddenly have a complete, perfect picture, complete with different colors, even though the paint in the bucket is just 1 color and my strokes were only haphazard. Then I stare at the picture and say "How the heck did I do that?", and am afraid to try again for fear that the next time I try it will be a collosal failure. Has anyone else on the list ever dealt with something like this before? If so, how did you deal with it? This is really screwing with my head, and really inhibitting my Lightwave work. I spent a measly 2 hours on Lightwave today. I should have done at least 6 hours (Heck, if I did do 6 hours, I probably would have finished the rat model today, ahead of schedule). I just did the 2 hours, then stared in disbelief... I couldn't bring myself to do 3D modeling again today, so I just gave up trying and spent the rest of the day doing random system administrator tasks and finishing a book I had been reading. Any suggestions? Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] We do not inherit the Earth from our parents; we borrow it from our children. - Native American Phylosophy
