Frustration

If you read my first blog post, you would know that I have a constant hunger to be creative. What I've been realizing recently is I've been drying myself out. I've been trying to force myself to be creative because I know how the satisfaction feels after creating a piece that I love. However, recently I've been struggling with feeling burnt out of ideas.

I have to realize that I cannot be creative 24/7. I have to take a break and step back and realize that I have to live my life in order to get inspired. When I first started creating art using Adobe Photoshop, I had so many ideas in my head and so much excitement for the new skill I realized I had. I created probably five pieces in the span of two days. That was probably too much looking back on it.

That is how I am, though. I learn something and I don't stop. I did that with the alcohol ink and I did it with this blog. This is the second blog post I wrote today. If I don't feel the drive to be creative on Photoshop, I know I can be creative through my writing. I do not write as much as I should I don't think. I have so many thoughts that are just punching me to get out into the world. Right now, I am writing this post because I've been thinking about this post all day. I'm glad I slowed down enough to sit down and focus on this.

I hate feeling the need to be creative but having to ideas coming to life. I am going to try and balance writing and creating and hopefully that will calm down my head a bit and keep me going. I've gotten burnt out by so many projects that could've been great but weren't because I hyper-focused on them and nothing for a week and I gave up once the thoughts stopped coming. I don't want this project to become one of those.

If I ever stop putting out content, know that it is not because I stopped, it's because I need a quick break to regroup and will come back even stronger. Thank you to my loyal supporters for sticking with me through it all. I appreciate it more than you know.