What challenges do we face creatively?

Aughh, readers, just "Aughh"!! You know what I'm saying? No? Of course you don't I can never ugh... I'm so frustrated..!! *Screeches into the heavens* Have you ever wanted to MS Paint on a Monday and you just can't? That creative frustration that we all face from time to time, not just with paint, but anything creative that you enjoy. You know the one, don't you?

OMG, I even spelled frustration wrong I'm so frustrated!! :P

There's always those fears and frustrations, such as fear of never getting noticed or recognized for your work, or perhaps (one i personally fear on the regular) not being good enough at what you love to do. Maybe you found a creative passion later in life and you feel you are simply too old to be good at it, or perhaps you are just getting started and you feel you are too young to get any attention. Another frustration of mine is due to the internet as a whole, sometimes I will have a thought or idea, and will work on it, only to find 20 other people have done something online displaying the same, killing off one's originality, and frustration of being unoriginal is one of the worst feelings.Or when you don't feel like you are actually progressing in your art (or craft of any sort), where you are even to the point where you are too ashamed to practice because of how awful you see your own art, and that in itself is another frustration that just ruins ones creativity...

As these are a few of the many self-criticisms and frustrations I layer onto my own creative self-conscious on a daily basis I thought many others may do the same as well, and that is when I conveniently stumbled onto this video, a TED talk in fact, and it was a breath of fresh air as far as creative motivators go, so I thought I'd share with all of you, my creative readers who find themselves frustrated and/or out of ideas, whether it be just a hobby or your career.

I'll put a couple of links to the same;

https://vimeo.com/130898948

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG-ZXiYtLy8

With this I leave you all today, hope this talk spoke to your creative selves as much as it did mine! I can't wait to see what all our future creations will become in the coming year!!

Happy Holidays!

Much Love,

Wachi

MS Paint Mondays 19

MS Paint Monday is back again for another week, what you can't wait for Monday? Y need to MS Paint erryday?? Whoa why don't you learn to be patient, I mean Monday is the only day that begins with "M" it wouldn't be as catchy on multiple days... (Unless Readers decide to send me their paints for Fan Fridays to be a thing) Any whom......

--Thoughts of the day--

* Have you ever felt impatience? I hate this feeling as I am normally a very patient person, however, I am also a very excitable person so for some things my patience may not be able to overcome my excitement bringing upon this feeling of "I want this NOW"!!

* Sometimes I stay awake to a certain time for something that doesn't end up happening, making me feel frustrated, or I order a package on a specific day, in order to time the perfect delivery only for it to be delayed, or when someone tells me that they can do something for me better than I could myself, but take forever to prove it making me wish I had just done it myself...

* Again, I detest this feeling, and therefore I also despise having to make others wait, I always try to be punctual even when it isn't necessary and I try to bring something extra should I not have a valid excuse to make someone wait, because if I hate that frustration, I can't imagine how it makes others feel.

So this paint, unsurprisingly, depicts impatience at its worst, simply titled "Where the fack is my HDD!?" (HDD meaning hard-drive for those who may not know.) Anyhow, this was inspired by a colleague of my uncle who guaranteed he could get me a hard drive I wanted twice as fast as I could, as I could get it in 5-6 days I was thinking he meant a 3 day turn around, the thing is he had it sent to his parents, and he got in a fight with them so it actually took him over a month to get it to me, which infuriated me beyond what a human should become infuriated when it comes to a simple external drive, but it goes to show you, one shouldn't create false expectations, nor should one let petty personal issues affect agreements made, of course there are always special exceptions, but you understand my point. Lastly, don't let yourself create grandeur out of nothing at all, (this is not the same as living life with the expectation of something exciting each day just so we are clear) as this could cause you to become a grump towards someone else, with no real grounds for it, and nobody likes a grump.

As always, I hope this exercise helps you ease that weekly case of the Mondays and inspires you to start creating new things, and really help expand the creative construct that is your brain! I encourage you to share/send me your own MS Paint Monday creations, if I get enough I plan to do an MS Paint showcase at the end of every week so we can enjoy each other's styles and imaginations.

Much Love, Wachi