Inspiration thread//Anti Art block

[Dwood]

Post anything you use that keeps you going during art block. I am running around in it with so many ideas I've frozen up D:

[neuro]

guess it's time to rar-up the ole' Inspiration folder again!

[Dwood]

guess it's time to rar-up the ole' Inspiration folder again!

I would love it to be rar'ed. I heard you have lots of stuff.

[neuro]

just need a place to upload it now, it's 250 mb :<

[Cagerrin]

1.46gb of inspiration stuff here, gotta find a way to upload it.

[Sel]

just need a place to upload it now, it's 250 mb :<

dropbox.

[SiriusTexra]

music

[Syuusuke]

Music and other people's photographs from portrait to landscape/cityscape to action, whatever that makes me think.

[neuro]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4253709/inspiration.rar will be the link when it's done uploading, so check back regularly.

[Dwood]

1.46gb of inspiration stuff here, gotta find a way to upload it.

Ask Codebrain. Edit: Also, Downloading your stuff now Neuro, i'm getting it at 50 kbps though :/

[Sel]

furologicaldisorder

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/selentic/Concepts/1213528741457.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/selentic/Concepts/1213529200421.jpg

[Dwood]

Furries get out of my poketmonsters. D:

[Cagerrin]

That is not inspiring.

Well, it's inspiring me to find a toilet to barf into, but...

[Sel]

stop fursecuting neuro, he's the coolest furry here.

Besides our most popular admin is a giant furry too get over it!!

[bapsi]

furry or not, pretty good quality art.
http://a.imageshack.us/img291/259/screenshot20100713at925.png
for a directory full of jpgs, i suppose that's quite a bit.

big dl? (http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/x5vhd.jpg)
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/377_large.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/sofia-ajram_ben-trovato31.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/tumblr_kzrz8lwcol1qzsm5ho1_1280.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/tumblr_l269l10rvl1qbqzzbo1_500.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/39697188.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/00.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/08.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/artistic-anatomy-jeremy-geddes-doomed-2.jpg
ye
i'll post more later if anyone likes

[Dwood]

.rar or something and upload it bapsi!

[bapsi]

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/bufu_team_persona3.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/gyu_beetle_king.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bapsi/inspo/summer_tryout.jpg
-robogabo

where should i upload it? my dropbox is 98% full D:

[Cagerrin]

If you split it into a bunch of small zip files, you can upload it to majhost and it'll automatically unzip it. Takes a while but if you're trying to host it as a gallery...

[bapsi]

The majhost solution might work. Currently taking requests for whatever I can try uploading first. on the left: my "Artists" folder. on the right, my "Sketchbook" folder. I'm uploading the misc/uncredited shit in sketchbook folder right now. If you don't recognize artist name, be a man and fucking take a chance.
<3
http://a.imageshack.us/img217/4274/screenshot20100730at958.gifhttp://a.imageshack.us/img830/4731/screenshot20100730at100.png

[Kornman00]

While I don't do the typical graphical "art", I do have some methods to get me out of mental blocks that I think can be applied to any task that requires creativity. Of course, it assumes that you also have creativity in the area you're trying to apply it to. You don't just pull a pain push our of your ass one day and become the next Michelangelo. You said you have ideas that are just frozen up, so I'll assume you have a art background (either from school or self taught) to provide a platform for your art creativity.

Thinking/concentrating too hard on something for too long will drain you (I would like to think this is a given, but I don't want to be ignorant either). I don't graph code all day as I would burn my ability to fluidly churn out logic statements and data structures. Think of it in this way: in order to successfully free run (see Mirror's Edge) you need to be aware of your surroundings. If you get too focused on a specific destination you may lose sight of a better route or fail to judge the one you're on and end up grabbing/landing on something that can't structurally hold your weight.

So when I have free time to myself, I break up the things I like to do as means of mental exercising; to keep my mind fresh. Apart from coding I also


Play video games occasionally (I'd be willing to be that my monthly average is lower than norm, but there are periods where it's really high, ie if a game that has the GTA, Splinter Cell or Bungie anywhere on the cover).
If I'm not letting my mind wander in a video game I'm watching TV shows/movies (NOTE: not via TV, but the actual episodes you find on DVDs. I don't have time for commercials). Typically I stick between 2 or 3 actual shows so I also don't get burnt out while catching up on each show's seasons.
If I'm not getting lost in a show's story line I'm probably playing my guitar\bass.
If I'm not kicking out the jams (or I've done kicked 'em out) I may be reorganizing something around the house or data on my computer. This provides my mental state with some stimuli as I look at things and figure how I can make them better for daily interaction or consume less space (or find junk that can get thrown out).

List goes on but I think you should start getting the picture. In order to stay fresh you need to keep your mind fresh. In order to stay healthy, you need a wide variety of nutritional substances (part of where sensing different tastes comes in).

Asking other people what it is that keeps them going will only get you so far (http://www.amatecon.com/fish.html), especially when you limit the scope down to actual art. I may not be a graphical artist, but I'd be willing to bet that most inspiration people get doesn't actual come from other's paintings or images. Art is all around you. It's up to you to realize how it affects your mind (read: inspires your creativity) and what it is that you can do to add a very wide range of selection to draw inspiration from.

I don't go around looking at other people's code to get new or rethink ideas. I look at problems, just as an artist may look at a sunrise near a moutain with a river bending across the land in front of it and have a really awesome idea for a painting. Or how some look at furry little critters and imagine them in humanoid form. That last bit is not in my bag of tea, but some people somehow like to call it their poison :ugh:. But that's alright because it's their view of art, and just like time, it's all relative.

E: oh and literally exercising helps not only your muscles but your brain as well

[bapsi]

I'd be willing to bet that most inspiration people get doesn't actual come from other's paintings or images

I agree with this.


It's usually the qualities I admire the actual artist the most for or the subject matter they are most obsessed with are what keep me going 90% of the time, which is the big reason why I collect so much work and organize it so.

An example would be Robogabo, who I posted earlier. He's not only fucking great at what he does, but he's a prime example of just how far a dedicated person with a rock solid work ethic can go. He's a drawing machine and it blows my mind how much quickly he improves.
Each name comes with its own admirable skill or strength that I want a little bit of, whether it's a reason to continue on with this 2-3 day study binge, or just a good example of kick-ass environmental painting to call my next-big-skill-goal.

There's also photography, which is pretty cool too, but it's in that rivers/sunset/children's laughter type of inspiration you were talking about, which I wanna argue is he purest form of inspiration you can get.

[ExAm]

furologicaldisorder

It seems like drawing furries is a great way to keep people from adapting your art style. See, ordinarily I'd use an image like this as a reference alongside a new canvas and try to draw something new in the same style for study. But I can't. Because there's goddamn furries in it.

[bapsi]

Can't be as bad as this...excruciatingly well painted piece. (http://www.tf2chan.net/afanart/src/126520772032.jpg) (nsfw just.. what the fucklol.)

[DEElekgolo]

What?
Why.

[bapsi]

What?
Why.
it exists just for you.

[Sel]

needs a lot more furry concept art

[MMFSdjw]

conceptart.org (http://conceptart.org). All the inspiration in the world.

[neuro]

I agree with this.


It's usually the qualities I admire the actual artist the most for or the subject matter they are most obsessed with are what keep me going 90% of the time, which is the big reason why I collect so much work and organize it so.

An example would be Robogabo, who I posted earlier. He's not only fucking great at what he does, but he's a prime example of just how far a dedicated person with a rock solid work ethic can go. He's a drawing machine and it blows my mind how much quickly he improves.
Each name comes with its own admirable skill or strength that I want a little bit of, whether it's a reason to continue on with this 2-3 day study binge, or just a good example of kick-ass environmental painting to call my next-big-skill-goal.

There's also photography, which is pretty cool too, but it's in that rivers/sunset/children's laughter type of inspiration you were talking about, which I wanna argue is he purest form of inspiration you can get.

this si true, the reason i look in my inspiration folder, it for ideas/brainstorming, and SHAPES.

not to find a concept to model.
i've got to admit thats how it started, but as i became more of an artist, i ended up only looking for shapes, and not for 'the larger picture'.

[bapsi]

I'm that way too, but with gesture. Flow.

/it's fucking poetry.

http://a.imageshack.us/img59/4262/barbarianfiltered.jpg

[DEElekgolo]

frog.

[bapsi]

ye

[Dwood]

I'm that way too, but with gesture. Flow.

/it's fucking poetry.

http://a.imageshack.us/img59/4262/barbarianfiltered.jpg

That axe is going in a different direction than his arms say it is.

[Sel]

It seems like drawing furries is a great way to keep people from adapting your art style. See, ordinarily I'd use an image like this as a reference alongside a new canvas and try to draw something new in the same style for study. But I can't. Because there's goddamn furries in it.

I want to make a game with cute fuzzy animals and spawn a sexually oriented fan following that creates entirely new fetishes. You can stick to your generic run of the mill art, and never impact anyone's lives if you really really want to.

[ExAm]

I contend that art doesn't have to be furry to avoid being run-of-the-mill. You seem to be implying that it's the only way to truly express yourself, which I feel is a misguided opinion. It's just not my bag. End of story. That fact doesn't add or detract from my work in any way.

[Cagerrin]

See, the problem with furry stuff in general is that it's nearly always fetishized. It's hard to take any of it seriously.

[Sel]

I contend that art doesn't have to be furry to avoid being run-of-the-mill.

You obviously know nothing of art.

[Kornman00]

Cut the shit/trolling. Like I said, just like time, the perception of art is relative. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion except when they try to force it down the necks of others.

[Llama Juice]

http://www.simonchristen.com/index.php?x=ue

From the gallery above.

http://www.simonchristen.com/images/ue/ue_001.jpg

http://www.simonchristen.com/images/ue/ue_003.jpg

http://www.simonchristen.com/images/ue/ue_015.jpg

Awesome Concept artist, works for Raven Software - http://ericspray.blogspot.com/

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r7F2tt51Of8/TDdCvdb-pfI/AAAAAAAAAwI/q8OT6Tupp4A/s1600/GarbageWorld.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r7F2tt51Of8/TDdCuUGlkTI/AAAAAAAAAv4/Qz9MOiwil4I/s1600/Spaceships.jpg

[bapsi]

http://quote-book.tumblr.com/

http://papertissue.tumblr.com/

http://maybeghosts.tumblr.com/

http://-cityoflove.tumblr.com/

http://architectureblog.tumblr.com/

http://blog.yimmyayo.com/

http://fuckyeaheyegasms.tumblr.com/

a little bit of the inspiring shit I keep on my tumblr dashboard. Pretty cool photography and words n stuff.

[Lateksi]

Wow thanks for those. Also the axe piece is fucking great except with those lines of motion added, the axe is gonna chop its wielders head off :suicide:

[bapsi]

yeah. i think that's what a sketch tends to have--errors are the cost of its energy.
i wish I knew who drew that so I can find more of their work ;^;

[Cagerrin]

yeah. i think that's what a sketch tends to have--errors at the cost of its energy.
i wish I knew who drew that so I can find more of their work ;^;
TinEye doesn't have any results for it, sadly.

[/URL][URL="http://Finished%20uploading%20my%20inspiration%20collecti on"]Finished uploading my inspiration collection (http://Finished%20uploading%20my%20collection). Well, except for the Halo stuff, which needs to be categorized since it's all in its own folder.

[DEElekgolo]

Cool link bro.

http://finished%20uploading%20my%20inspiration%20collecti on/ is a cool site.

Also, this may help (http://deelekgolo.codebrainshideout.net/References/). A bunch of halo stuff and references in one place.

[Cagerrin]

Oh whoops. Too used to Jarte's multi-slot clipboard.

This is the link I meant to use (http://www.majhost.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=161681)

[Lateksi]

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/218/b/3/b3563f2e3e73b79645a79051aaf49a53.jpg http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/138/3/f/Gun_with_Nade_Launcher_by_Pynion.jpg

This is forerunnerish/human looks cool.
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/107/2/5/Waterfall_by_annisahmad.jpg

[MXC]

Anything from Patrick Brown, Adonihs or Tracyjb
[/URL]
http://patrickbrown.deviantart.com/ (http://tracyjb.deviantart.com/)
[URL]http://adonihs.deviantart.com/
http://tracyjb.deviantart.com/

[Warsaw]

Anything with a shape I can use or with a pragmatic element that I didn't know but can apply.

Also music, especially Bear McCreary's stuff. My imagination is fueled by music, which is why I don't like music videos.

[Cagerrin]

Heh, this piece (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_asTk-MzzLp4/THHPMaR2cOI/AAAAAAAABuM/VPocgjfYjh8/s1600/contest1-painter-s.jpg) from his page reminds me of Guild Wars.

[Con]

Me too. I love how they put all that concept art in their loading screens.

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Yeah GW2 has a book on all the art concepts.

[Dwood]

I found something on dA the other day for an anti-art block. Check it out it's (http://aquasixio.deviantart.com/art/ImagInAction-179935595) very interesting!

[ExAm]

I'm surprised it took me this long to find this comic. Better art than 99% of other webcomics (And the cats are a storytelling device. The author doesn't even know what a furry is, literally. So stuff it). Shame it takes the artist a month to make three pages, it's been going since 2007 and the story just seems to be picking up now (not that it isn't worth reading up until now).

Why am I posting about this here, anyway? Well, look at it:
http://imgur.com/JaPIq.jpg

http://imgur.com/yiOBq.jpg

[TeeKup]

I enjoyed the art style and the dialogue. :-3

[Warsaw]

Ha, I enjoyed that. The pacing is wonderful.

Retro for the win.

[ExAm]

Pacing's definitely high on the list of things that sets it apart, yes.

[Dwood]

I love the humor in it, it's funny that makes me smile but not laugh a lot...

Definitely one of a kind.

[bapsi]

this is pretty neat (http://fuckyeahconceptart.tumblr.com)

[ICEE]

^^ some freaky stuff going on in some of those pictures.

Very clive barker

[Dwood]

To add to the Lackadaisy, here's an interesting tutorial.

http://tracyjb.deviantart.com/#/d37hme5

[Warsaw]

http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Expression-tutorial-77399204

This guy is pretty good too. I linked it more for the list of tutorials he has given in the description more than for this tutorial itself; it's just another expression tut.

[ExAm]

Oh hey, just when I was thinking I'd like to see a tutorial on facial expressions from that lass.

Not a big fan of that other one, Warsaw. That guy just didn't go into enough detail, and often answered questions I was thinking with more questions, which was very, very annoying to me.

[Warsaw]

Difference of learning processes, I guess. Whatever works for you man. Tutorial aside, his web-comic (http://www.meekcomic.com/2008/12/27/chapter-1-cover/) is pretty good, if slow to update.

[ExAm]

For the guy who draws the fucking Meek, he sure sucks at explaining things.

[Warsaw]

Like I said, difference in learning processes. I learn by merely observing. Explanation is not required. But if you want explanation, then I can see where his tutorials are not so good.

[Dwood]

For anything, watch this guy. He's pro:

http://www.livestream.com/moatdd/video?clipId=pla_0a39d42d-048c-4f30-853f-7d90ae6d0671