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Time Management - Enemy of the Professional Artist
| Posted on September 10, 2010 at 11:30 AM |
If you're a professional artist you pretty much make your own schedule. Many artists have their days meticulously planned and follow it diligently, but others spend a lot of their time fucking off and when the deadline looms they have to hack it out. The Xbox and the internet are largely to blame for slacking off, and justifiably as those excuses may be, as a professional artist you have to get your work done on time or else you'll be trying to make a living blogging like the rest of us and you really don't want to do that.
So go here and read this excellent article all about how an artist can manage his time more efficiently. It's written by an artist for artists, so it's totally comprehensible.
Here's a good quote from the article:
"Maybe you were excited about it when you started. Or maybe you were never excited about it. Whichever applies, the fact is: the thing you're working on no longer inspires the Inner Artist, and when the Inner Artist gets bored she rarely reports in to work. You can try whipping her or bribing her, and sometimes that gets you somewhere. But art is about sharing something that moves you with the world. If a project no longer excites you, why are you torturing yourself finishing it? Choose something new and work on that instead."
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It only leads to frustration above frustration when you haven't made any progress because you chose to cook and eat in your little window of time instead of write and draw. :-(
My problem would be that my job leaves me mentally drained at the end of the day and only gives me one day off a week.
There's been a few good weeks. I did two pages of Driftwood in one week last month.
But a lot of bad weeks. The last two weeks saw no progress whatsoever. This tends to fluctuate with the stress level of work.
It's also important to know that a) I hate my job, b) it pays a lot better than most everything else here, c) it's just a job - not a career, d) I need it to pay my rent and e) last, but most important, it stifles creativity.
I have noticed that if I can get everything else into a routine (things like cooking, eating, laundry, grocery shopping) and run them on sort of auto-pilot, my mind gets freed up some to be more creative.
I've also noticed that if I can start brainstorming at work then I can transition easier when I get home. However, this does not happen very often as I'm constantly bombarded with complications at work, going from one crisis to another.
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