Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Creativity block
I have one big problem today. Well, aside from the fact that my response from VCU still hasn't arrived yet, I have one big problem today.
The big problem?
Yesterday I drew a self portrait that I had originally planned to use in my website's new design, but when I finished it I decided I didn't want to paste my face onto the main page of my website after all. It seems that after that original idea failed, I've reached a creativity block.
I'm not sure what I want to put on the main page of my website now. I don't have the patience to do another realistic drawing for it, but I don't know if I want to draw another anime girl or something like that. Even if it would be more fun for me and it would better represent what I like in art, I don't want people to take me or my art as "juvenile." On the other hand, I don't know if I even care because it'll just be on the ".com" page of the website and nowhere else, and if I give somebody a link to the "professional" part of my website, it would be their own fault for leaving that section and finding my less serious art. But that doesn't help me decide on what I want to draw; it just justifies my desire to make "stupid art," as Inka Essenhigh might have put it.
I really wanted to draw something original for my website to keep it recent, but I think at this point I might just give up and salvage one of my older drawings for it if I can't think of anything else soon. At least I've justified wanting to draw whatever I want to draw for it through talking to my boyfriend and writing about it.
I'm also not sure what I should use as my domain name for my website. I've noticed that a lot of artists just use their real name, but I really wouldn't want to do that. I'm barely willing to put my real name on my website at all, but I'm still not sure what to use as my domain name. I want something cute and simple that I won't get sick of later, but I can't think of anything yet. Meggi.com would have been perfect, but it's already taken and apparently on auction at like $5,700 or something like that. Oh well, I'll probably come up with something eventually. :\
By the way, here's a preview of the self portrait I finished yesterday. I'm pretty proud of it, even though it's not going to make it to my website design.
Self Portrait by ~sailor-meggi on deviantART
The big problem?
Yesterday I drew a self portrait that I had originally planned to use in my website's new design, but when I finished it I decided I didn't want to paste my face onto the main page of my website after all. It seems that after that original idea failed, I've reached a creativity block.
I'm not sure what I want to put on the main page of my website now. I don't have the patience to do another realistic drawing for it, but I don't know if I want to draw another anime girl or something like that. Even if it would be more fun for me and it would better represent what I like in art, I don't want people to take me or my art as "juvenile." On the other hand, I don't know if I even care because it'll just be on the ".com" page of the website and nowhere else, and if I give somebody a link to the "professional" part of my website, it would be their own fault for leaving that section and finding my less serious art. But that doesn't help me decide on what I want to draw; it just justifies my desire to make "stupid art," as Inka Essenhigh might have put it.
I really wanted to draw something original for my website to keep it recent, but I think at this point I might just give up and salvage one of my older drawings for it if I can't think of anything else soon. At least I've justified wanting to draw whatever I want to draw for it through talking to my boyfriend and writing about it.
I'm also not sure what I should use as my domain name for my website. I've noticed that a lot of artists just use their real name, but I really wouldn't want to do that. I'm barely willing to put my real name on my website at all, but I'm still not sure what to use as my domain name. I want something cute and simple that I won't get sick of later, but I can't think of anything yet. Meggi.com would have been perfect, but it's already taken and apparently on auction at like $5,700 or something like that. Oh well, I'll probably come up with something eventually. :\
By the way, here's a preview of the self portrait I finished yesterday. I'm pretty proud of it, even though it's not going to make it to my website design.
Self Portrait by ~sailor-meggi on deviantART
Labels: art, creativity block, design, domain name, website, website design
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