Overcoming Art Block - Staying Productive and tips to keep pushing!

Just wanted to spend a little time with you this Friday to help think of ways and to motivate you to keep creating even when we feel not creative and are looking to push through art block. Thanks for being amazing everyone!

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Want a link to my brushes used in the video? (DG_MAIN is what I use most)

[emannijoy]

I like this format, I kinda just leave it on while I'm working so I don't feel too alone lol

[yiannispk]

the best art-block cure (for me at least) is watching other people's streams, and especially your streams Dave have helped me very much with this, I'm pretty sure other people have been helped from this as well, thanks 🤘🤘

[wjsnoncrack]

How do you know what I'm going through right now? This is exactly what I need thank you!

[mirrormountain]

I got into a block and didn't draw for 10 years... just got back into it. Thanks for chatting with me on Twitch

[TheDripstone]

Thanks for your work Dave, you're a beast!

[HardcoreWoodworking]

More Drawing with Dave episodes are all I want in life

[Starlitskateboards]

My better ideas always come to me when I'm away from my studio and or art supplies.

[josed.toledo]

In order for me to break free fron an art-block I need to sit back and entertain myself with a videogame or a movie.

I love your work Dave and I'd like to see you doing more sci-fi stuff!

[clickerflight]

I would love more drawing with Dave! Thank you fir your beautiful art!

[pukepok]

so, nearly a year from the release date of this Dave´s video. I find it, just in the middle of one of my worst art blocks i´ve ever had, like 3 weeks long.

And it just give me so much hope. I´m going to follow some of the advices u gave here, and if they work, which i just hope it does, Dave u will be my hero as always <3

[daviddunnartanimation]

Great shirt. Thanks for making this video.

[srgusantiago]

Finding your work on Artstation got me out of a long artblock period in my personal works. Thank you for all of the content you're creating, it's amazing.

[nicolaegirnet]

Since i have started watching you i really improved my art, gave me a lot of motivation and for that i thank you, so lucky that i found your channel.

[davemarinas]

1:10 I didn't expect to see Titania Prime in this channel. You got a new sub _katukayo_

[TK-_]

More drawing with Dave would be great. Anything with getting values right is always helpful as I always seem to struggle there.

[septendecim]

One of my main issues is trying to start a new piece after finishing one. Going from a finished piece to basically restarting always messes with me. Makes it hard for me to get my anatomy right or motivated to even work on it. Especially when I have an idea in mind, but no matter how many times I try to sketch it. It's just not coming out how I'm picturing it. Which is the art rut I'm in right now.

Also your draw with Dave is my favorite series of yours.

[Chropoles]

uh oh! it's super dangerous now! you just hit 90k WooHoo!

[ashw]

As much as I loved how nice the editing in the last video was, these sit down and talk videos are my favorite over all. The white canvas can be so daunting- I find watching your streams, browsing pinterest and artstation help me a lot. But I think it would smart to get outside alone and let my mind wander like you said in this video. Thanks for putting out such good content!

[thoraf]

Lots of useful advice here, as always ;)

As someone interested in breaking into the video game industry as a concept artist and animator, it's been phenomenal to watch your tutorials where you produce beautiful splash art and "promotional" style pieces. But I'd also be interested to see your process for "thumb nailing" through to refining a concept for a before it gets finalized.

Would it be possible for us to see an example of the design and art process you went through for "Crowfall"? Perhaps with some community interaction where we collectively come up with a "design brief" and watch your walk through of the process - That would be helpful! Especially because at this point I get the idea that polished, promotional style pieces take a moderate amount of patience and a lot of prior work before starting, and I'd like to get a better idea of how fast you need to be with the conception/thumb-nailing stage, and the subsequent steps leading up to that final splash art.

[Tombuxtondrums]

Thanks for the video Dave! Love these vids! Currently creating an entire world for a game I'm personally making! these motivational vids really help!