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Advice for anyone who wants to make art:
Make art.
I've been focused on paper quilling for a few days & new ideas for designs keep popping into my head. I close my eyes & see swirling paper.
This is what happens when I consistently do creative work. I go from having no ideas to having too many.
When I sit down & start working on something at random without knowing what I want to make or what it could look like, it gets my brain in gear, & THEN the ideas come. To make art, you gotta make art.
If you don't have any ideas of what to make, get a blank page & start making marks. Do whatever you feel like.
It may turn out cool, but even if it doesn't, you will have woken your brain up.
If you "don't have any ideas", then do random stuff. Try things. Mess around.
Exercise your creativity.
Don't wait for inspiration. Inspire yourself.
At least for me, nothing fills my brain with artistic ideas in the same way that dedicating time to making things even when I "don't have ideas" does.
I haven't been making art as consistently, & I thought it was because my ideas had dried up.
That's backwards. My ideas dried up because I wasn't making anything.
Make stuff even when you don't feel inspired. Where do you think inspiration comes from?