Every artist experience this one thing called an Art block. If you’re an artist I’m sure you’ve experienced this every few months or even weeks. This is very normal for not just artist but creatives—people whose work revolves around ideas and skills. And I, as an artist that has been drawing for over 6 years, have experienced this countless times. And I have collected a couple of ideas to bring back that creative spirit so that I can get back to drawing again over these past few years. Here are my top 5 favorite things to try when being stuck at drawing or when I seem to have zero ideas what to draw. 1. Use a Medium You’re Not Used To      I tried this with acrylic marker and gouache before and it really helps for me. It made me try tricks to make the drawing looks good since I’m not really familiar with these mediums. And searching for tricks and applying them to your art really helps at recovering from art block, because when you try new things you ...

     I welcome you to my new blog, artificial life, where I make posts about random things and art stuff! I go by the name Lane and writing has been a hobby of mine since I was a little kid, but English is not my first language so please excuse any grammar mistakes in my future posts!  In this post, I'd like to write about myself. I know that may seem narcissistic of me, but I'm a pretty chill person (am not!) and I have a ton of hobbies! Even I can't keep up with them sometimes... But my favorite of them all is drawing, both analog and digital drawing. I want to share some of my drawings in the later posts because I like having my own platform to upload things, unlike having insta or tumblr, you can really be free here, and it's your own little blog! How fun is that! I have always wanted to create my own blog, and I wanted to create a Q&A section in this blog, where you got to ask stuff (probably art advice?) and I can answer them! That is a miss-know-it-all-fro...