There are few things that you should watch for to avoid losing your creativity and enjoyment in making digital art. You'll be able to enjoy making digital art by avoiding the 10 biggest creativity killers.
1. Uncertainty In Your Ability:
As a digital artist you may see a fantastic work of art and think "I wish I could draw like that." or you may feel uncertaint about your ability to create similar digital art works. Feeling uncertain about your ability to create something beautiful is an instant Creativity Killer. The best way to get over your uncertainty is to understand that Digital Art is done in simple steps that you can do. In addition to this there are various types of software that will help you create anything that you can imagine.
2. Only Working With One Type of Art Style:
Being a Master of one type of Art Style is great, just as long as you do not let this one type of style consume you. One of the common things GSG sees when evaluating some of the websites is the lack of variety within a style. Some graphic artists have become so focused on mastering one style of art, at the expensive of their creativity, that many of the graphics look the same or lack a sense of character individuality. Keep your creativity strong by combining other art styles with your own.
5. Copy Cat:
Learning how to make a specific graphic is great unless you become 100% dependent on that tutorial. Don't be a Copy Cat when it come to tutorials. After you have mastered the tutorial, take the techniques that you have learned from the tutorial to create your own works of art. If you feel that the only way you can create a digital work of art is by copying a tutorial then you are suffering from #1 and #5.
6. Doing It Alone:
Learning how to do something by yourself can sometimes work against you. Instead of spending hours and hours of dedication on trying to do something yourself, you should utilize the Internet to find tutorials and groups that may know an easier way, or a shorter technique that can help you. By asking around you can spend less time being frustrated and more time being creative.
7. Avoiding Art:
This is something that we do with many things in our lives. We avoid things with the assumption that we do not like it. We often do this based on a few samples of art work, and apply that sample to the whole. If you want to be creative then you'll have to take the good with the bad and realize that inspiration and creativity can also be found in the things we "don't like." Many inventions have come into existance because someone looked at a situation that they did not like. Art works the same way. Let tasteless art inspire you to make tasteful art. Don't avoid art, look at everything.
8. Being Perfect:
As much as we would like to make perfect art, sometimes it's just best to settle for what you can do and be happy with that artwork at that stage. Create art just for the sake of creating art. Don't create for the sake of being perfect. Once you can accept this, you will see that you might not create what you had in mind, but on the good side you have created something totally unexpected. This is creativity at its best. Something from nothing.
9. Using The Wrong Tools and Wrong Technique:
Using the wrong software to do the job will make things very frustrating for you. In fact, using the wrong software and expecting to create something beyond the ability of the software or hardware will just turn you off to digital art period. If you want to draw on the computer the same way that you draw on paper, then don't use a mouse; use a digital drawing pad. If you want to color and outline in a specific way then learn the technique for coloring the outline.
10. Being Too Hard On Yourself:
Don't be hard on yourself. If you like the art, then that's all that matters. So what if your dog looks like a cat? You can either like it as it is, or go with the flow, and say that it's a cat even though you were trying to draw a dog. Everyone as some amount of creativity in them. Don't try too hard to bring it out. Just let it come out naturally.
