I haven’t posted anything from my 365 journal in quite some
time. Obviously, it is so far behind
that it’s really not even a 365 journal any more, but I’m still determined to
finish all 365 prompts. I believe the last page I posted for that
was Prompt #128, so I thought I’d pick up the trail with #129, “What have I
done over and over this week?”
I did this page a while back when I had a lot of work that
wasn’t getting done as quickly as I would have liked. The result was a lot of late nights, so I took
an easy approach to journaling this
page and went with a doodle/zentangle. I
used Copic markers for this project, and I had originally intended to do some
shading/blending with them, but in the interest of time, I just let the page
be.
I’m sorry to say it’s been a year since I got off-track with
this project and I haven’t even come close to getting back into a regular
groove with it. I’m really not even sure
why. I love working in my art journal,
but it seems like every page is so time consuming and I have to think so hard
and work so hard at it that I don’t have time to finish it. I feel like these pages should take about 30
minutes to an hour, tops. But day after
day, I sit here with the same pages and prompts, and I’m not sure what to do
with them. I don’t want to call it a
creative block because I still feel very creative, and I often know exactly
what I want the page to look like. The
problem is that I’m not always sure how to get the results I want and I wind up
spending too much time trying to figure it out. So it’s more of an engineering problem than a
creative one. I guess I just have to
keep working at it, and eventually my block will become unstuck.
Question of the day: What
do you do to break out of a creative block?
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