The Secret to Being Inspired - Creators.Chat #15 with Noah & Rachel Bradley
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Join us for an honest chat about finding inspiration, dealing with art block, and THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF BEING INSPIRED. 😲
A couple questions for you to answer in the comments below:
What inspires you? What percentage of your time working on art do you feel inspired?
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I get a little bummed when I feel inspiration in the middle of the night when I’m in bed; mainly because I’m hemiplegic and can’t really get to my computer. On the other hand, watching the two of you is also inspiring! Thank you.
Oh man I hate that feeling of being inspired and not being able to work. I feel like it happens so often that I get an itch to work and create when I have no access to any tools to do so.
Thanks so much for the support!
My heart goes out to you, that must be so difficult :(. I can definitely relate to the night time inspiration though.
For me, my imagination is most active when I'm trying to fall asleep. Most of the best ideas behind my novel came from the time before sleeping, but it's also led to difficulties sleeping (insomnia and sleep paralysis) and the repeated frustrating experience that I can't remember my ideas come the morning!
@@ImRachelBradley Hi Rachel; thank you for your kindness and your thoughts. Being half paralyzed; I wonder if my brain ever says: ‘Hey, let’s give this guy a break; let him remember his dreams for later use in his work’; my point is that in my dreams, with myself in them, I am almost always not paralyzed at all during them; so I am thankful for that! When I see you and Noah talking, I think of the movie ‘Somewhere in Time’ and you remind me of Jane Seymour from that film. God bless you both and thank you.
I'm not even a visual artist but I took away a lot from this. Thank you for the upload!
That's awesome, so glad we could help! These sort of things apply for all sorts of different pursuits. The terminology changes but the lessons are fairly universal. :)
I'm so pleased to hear that! It's interesting/funny how common some threads are among even entirely different pursuits. Thanks for watching!
Always enjoy seeing the talks by you two! The dynamic you have is beautiful
Thank you, we love making them! It's a nice little glimpse into what we're like as people. :)
Amazingly good talk. Just wanted to say that I think boredom, in the form of stepping away from the Internet, is actually underrated these days, purely because we finally get a quiet chance to think. A lot of people spend way too much time in the consumption phase - constant stimulation from the moment they wake up till the time their head hits the pillow, so they never get a chance to process everything they have seen, and therefore can’t engineer it into something creative.
Absolutely right. Rachel and I were actually talking about boredom the other day and how important it is. Maybe even a subject for a future creators.chat... hmmmm... :)
Why does this video only have 89 likes? What? This video is so great, your channel deserves so much more!! Thank you so much🧡
Haha, well thanks so much! We think so too. :)
This is THE art channel;)
Do you sometimes find inspiration in your older sketchbooks? lile, 3 or more years older ones?
I rescently had that. I've been working on client stuff for most of the year, not much time for practice, let alone my own pieces or projects. Once that calmed down, i wanted to get back into just drawing, and felt i horrobly failed. No ideas, or just bad ones., freezing up for fear of failure, say hello to impostor syndrome right here. Nothing worked.
then I went through some of my older sketchbooks and was amazed at the ideas i had back then, the fluidity of the pencil strokes, how loose they where... I was asking myself where did the guy drawing this go?!
But seeing those old drawings and ideas... connecting with the mindset back then, helpt a lot in calming me down again. I still feel somethings missing though. But the art stream started the flow again.
Absolutely! This is why I love going back through old art, sketchbooks, and even notebooks. Looking over that old work for inspiration or things I used to do well is a lot of fun. Sometimes there are sketches or thumbnails that I wasn't capable of doing back then that I can do now. Or sometimes I wrote down ideas for some piece and it suddenly sparks some ideas for me.
This is kinda why I think everyone should keep some sort of sketchbooks & notebooks. It's incredibly valuable to get all of those thoughts and ideas out of your head and onto paper.
Sometimes, I'll have figured something out on a passive level but not yet active enough to commit to reason or memory, and I'll only recognise it looking back. I also find an element at play that I mentioned in this video- that we undervalue our own skills and overvalue skills we do not have. I often find time provides the distance I need to more objectively value my work.
I fully relate to this! Thanks so much for sharing, this is really interesting!
I have the same issue with turning to video games as a way to avoid making art. I tell myself things like - "well, at least a video game is interactive and not passive, at least I'm using my mind instead of passively watching a show" but of course it's also completely unproductive, just another one of the seductive forms that resistance can take to keep you from your goals!
really enjoyed the talk! hope more will come in the future :) also liked your drawing streams, its super chill and nice to draw along :)
I am not an artist but I am sure those skills you are mentioning can be transferred to other kinds of endevours and lives. Thank you!
That's awesome, we do try to make this stuff pretty universally applicable! We can all relate to these experiences. :)
I feel the consumption guilt too at times, good to control it though
Do you find that your childhood or the early experiences of your life plays a large role in inspiring your work or the things that you are inspired by?
I feel like as a youth my imagination was always inspired to create, but I didn’t have the ability to illustrate those ideas. Now that I’ve had time to develop my craft I have more of an ability, and I seem to continually return to those things that inspired me while I was young.