How much of your art is utterly perfect in every way? Most of it? Half of it? None of it? If you do think some is perfect work when you create it, what about when you revisit it a month later, six months later, two years later? Is it still [...] Read more »
How To Be A Complete And Utter Creative Failure
What does failure look like? What does it mean to you to fail as an artist? To many of us, failing with a new project means it doesn’t turn out completely perfect in every detail. It falls short of how we hoped and envisaged it being. 80 or 90 or [...] Read more »
Are You Unready Enough To Start Creating?
How many times have you thought about starting a new creative project, but felt not quite ready? Maybe you needed just a little more time to let the idea percolate in your mind? Maybe you needed to do just a tiny bit more research into the background story? Maybe [...] Read more »
How To Survive An Attack Of The Killer Ps – Part 1 – Perfectionism
When creating myself, and when hearing about other artists creating, there are common themes and blocks that show up time and time again. Shared struggles that, although they’re slightly different in their fine detail, have enough similarities to make them worth discussing, and finding ways to overcome them. Three of [...] Read more »
How To Puncture The Power Of Perfectionism With One Little Word
Ah perfectionism. I’m sure you’ve come across it once or twice? When I say once or twice, I mean once or twice a minute. That’s how often it seems to make unrealistic demands of our creativity and constantly attack every last word, note or brush stroke until they’re exquisitely flawless. [...] Read more »
How To Rediscover The Enjoyment Of Creating Again
Remember the good old days when you actually enjoyed creating, and rushed to it full of excitement and anticipation? You couldn’t wait to get started on all those ideas bubbling away in your head, and threw yourself headlong into your next new project with the energy and urgency that a [...] Read more »
The False Promise of the Double Zero
(or: How To Not Drown Your Creativity In The Details) Detail is important. If there weren’t subtle differences between the projects we create, they would all end up the same, and we’d be outpouring some homogenized version of our art over and over. More like a robotic conveyor belt than [...] Read more »