Too Many Options; Not Enough Time

I have been making myself crazy. Started off wanting to create a comic book for my grandson, but realized that I had to start practicing drawing things that I had never drawn before. Realized I needed help and would need to watch and participate in tutorials...many tutorials.

Looking at other comic books made me realize that my artistic style did not lean in that direction. However, I could do a story with illustrations. So now I have to write a story (which I have never done before) and create characters and dialogue. Suddenly the comic book story that I started out with is (POOF!) gone and it has inspired this other story.  

While I was thinking of all the things I was needing to do and learn to create this new project, I started watching these painting tutorials that popped up on YouTube. I became fascinated with painting, and drawings that you painted. I had a set of gouache paints that I bought a while back and started watching tutorials on that. Curious about painting on glass, I started watching tutorials on painting on glass with acrylic paints. Not to be outdone by drawings with technical pens. I could go on and on with all the fascinating choices for creating works of art that tempted me to watch tutorials on.

Yes, I fell down the Rabbit Hole and into this crazy-making land of creative options! I was watching a tutorial on feeling overwhelmed by art choices (I couldn't believe that I was not the only ditzy person to have this happen to them). The person in the tutorial had chosen an established and very talented artist's work to inspire her and lead her to her chosen artistic expression. Or, she said to find what you are passionate about and just start doing that one thing and see where that takes you.

 Okay, so I think I will be writing the story and practicing drawing what I will need to illustrate the story. I believe for the most part they will be pencil and ink drawings with perhaps a touch of watercolor (have to wait and see). But once that is done all bets are off, and it will be a smorgasbord of art projects! Hopefully, I will remember to choose just one and start focusing my energies on that and see where it takes me before I choose something else. That sounds right to me. 

It's like with the comic book choice that once I started focusing on creating one that I discovered that it wasn't what I wanted to do, and that it had no appeal to me as an artist to create. Don't get me wrong, I love comic books and go to comic book stores (for over 25 years) and really enjoy reading them. Just like so many art forms that I visually enjoy, but have no desire to participate in as an artist. 

I believe that I started writing tonight to share with you how addictive YouTube tutorials might be and to perhaps help someone else before you get overwhelmed by all the choices and make the mistakes I did. It feels good to share this with you, and it helps me to feel like I am making a good choice after putting it all down here in my blog (very cathartic). Enjoy the rest of your day. Night y'all.