I've stolen an idea for a post today... yeah, really...
I've grabbed an inspirational video from a fellow Maltese's blog, a great illustrator and graphic artist called Jimmy Grima, whose work I was admiring earlier...
I recently spent time looking up friends and friends of friends in LinkedIn and I've realised, just very suddenly, what a large number of Maltese are doing fantastic work in the creative arts .... I felt fantastically humbled and a bit disillusioned, as if my work was just scratching the surface of the reality of it all... and I actually still had to work very hard to reach the level of creativity that I aspire to...
I generally put a lot of effort in my work, a lot of thought and planning goes in to achieve what I want... I look forward to the adrenalin kick that I get when an image of mine flashes up on my monitor and makes me stare and grin, and when I impress a client with my work.
Posting to blog is very difficult sometimes, as I look back at my previous postings and wonder whether the latest work is up to scratch and a little bit better, or in a different direction, to my other work. I would not post just any photo so I scrutinize my work and only post the very best, the work that is up there for me and that I am happy to move forward on with and share with you. This often leads to a creative block that makes it increasingly difficult for me to come up with new ideas to share with the world (well actually, my very small audience) on here.
How do you move on after you've produced what you think is your greatest work? Do you worry about it, ponder to infinity, procrastinate? Or do you just labour on, and keep finding inspiration in the little things that surround you, and the ideas just keep flowing, just very naturally?
I thought the following talk by Elizabeth Gilbert was very inspiring - beware, it is about 20 minutes long, but worth listening to and pondering on...
Enjoy x
I've grabbed an inspirational video from a fellow Maltese's blog, a great illustrator and graphic artist called Jimmy Grima, whose work I was admiring earlier...
I recently spent time looking up friends and friends of friends in LinkedIn and I've realised, just very suddenly, what a large number of Maltese are doing fantastic work in the creative arts .... I felt fantastically humbled and a bit disillusioned, as if my work was just scratching the surface of the reality of it all... and I actually still had to work very hard to reach the level of creativity that I aspire to...
I generally put a lot of effort in my work, a lot of thought and planning goes in to achieve what I want... I look forward to the adrenalin kick that I get when an image of mine flashes up on my monitor and makes me stare and grin, and when I impress a client with my work.
Posting to blog is very difficult sometimes, as I look back at my previous postings and wonder whether the latest work is up to scratch and a little bit better, or in a different direction, to my other work. I would not post just any photo so I scrutinize my work and only post the very best, the work that is up there for me and that I am happy to move forward on with and share with you. This often leads to a creative block that makes it increasingly difficult for me to come up with new ideas to share with the world (well actually, my very small audience) on here.
How do you move on after you've produced what you think is your greatest work? Do you worry about it, ponder to infinity, procrastinate? Or do you just labour on, and keep finding inspiration in the little things that surround you, and the ideas just keep flowing, just very naturally?
I thought the following talk by Elizabeth Gilbert was very inspiring - beware, it is about 20 minutes long, but worth listening to and pondering on...
Enjoy x
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