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I sat down to work on a design this morning, and I fiddled with so many different ideas. Nothing was happening. The last two days I've been in this weird creative funk. Restless yet frustrated. I had ideas, I couldn't seem to pull them to life. Everything I have attempted to create in the last couple days, has been garbage. No where near anything that I usually create.
So after a couple hours I gave up. I walked out of my studio, I went upstairs and ate a microwaved hot-dog wiener, no bun and stood in my kitchen looking around wondering what the heck is going on with me lately.
Then I sat down and started drawing circles on a paper. That's it, literally just doodling circles with a pencil not thinking of anything in particular, not pressuring myself to come up with an idea...I had already accepted it wasn't going to happen today.
Then I had the random idea to turn one of the pictures I took last week while out with my kids and turn it into some sort of geometric design. Boom. 5 minutes later I have this, and I decided to put the words 'Just Breathe' on it because I needed that reminder today.
Inspiration and creativity can be so elusive at times. Usually it's not an issue for me, so when it does happen, it is deeply unnerving. I learned a valuable lesson today, to just chill and give myself a break.
Check out the picture I used for this image:
I have a weird expression on my face, and there was a awkward twig in the way. I wasn't planning on doing anything with it, just another random reject...but turning it into a distorted image somehow makes it work.