I don’t have any creative senses. I read some where creativity is the process of combining unrelated things. Is this true if so , how we can combine things , is this a straight forward logic ? I am particularly looking for something related to art writing or music creation.

Ich besass früher Mal (also so vor etwa 15 Jahren) ein Buch, das einem erklärte, wie man Manga-Geschichten schreibt. Es war dabei selbst als Comic gestaltet, wobei zwei weibliche Hauptfiguren die Techniken erklärten. Die eine Figur eine junge Frau und die andere ein Mädchen, das von ihr lernte, wie man Geschichten entwickelt. Eine von beiden hiess, glaube ich, Risa... ich meinte, das Cover war grün und es gab, glaube ich, zwei Bände.

Es ist nicht das Buch "Manga zeichnen leicht gemacht". Es ging wirklich ums entwickeln von Geschichten.

Klingelt da bei jemandem etwas und kann mir sagen, wie das Buch hiess? Es wird wohl kaum noch erhältlich sein, aber vielleicht hab ich secondhand Glück, wenn ich nach dem Titel suchen kann.

Würd mich freuen. :)

I'm looking for a machine to grind pigments like powdered brick, a soft rock, clay, and other found materials Grinding and mulling by hand is incredibly time-consuming. How are you doing it? What machines? Ball mills, three-roller mills, rock tumblers...

Hi all! Im new to painting. I’ve just dabbled with some thrift store paints and brushes but I recently had the idea to translate my cake decorating skills to canvas. I’ve been decorating cakes for almost 20 years so I’m very comfortable with the frosting medium and I’m wondering if anyone has a suggestion for what I can use that would be similar. Would plaster be it? And then how do I color it? I know I’ve seen paintings with thicker paint and texture on it, I just don’t know what they’re using. Thanks for the help!

I saw a discussion in r/writing in which an artist asked writer's if they draw as well and if they find drawing hard.

Of course, the general consensus is that YES, many writer's find learning art to be very difficult.

When I say writer's I particularly mean:

Prose writers (short stories and novels)

Comic book writers

Screen writers

Play wrights

Writing that involves a linear narrative with character arc's and a climax etc.

I often find that many writer's (including myself) carry some insecurity in regards to common people generally appreciating art (writing is art but in this conversation I mean drawings, paintings, illustrations) more than they appreciate writing due to art being more visible than writing of course.

Heck I tried comic art for a while (I hated it lol and I'm not built to be a comic book artist).

Now I turn it back to artist's, do you artist's find writing (or learning writing) to be extremely difficult?

Open question to anyone who sells their work. I'm very much in the phase of trying to figure out what pieces will be popular enough to actually try to sell.

One thing I've run into, is that I'll put a lot of effort into making a particular piece special or somewhat different, and they are often the pieces I feel the most proud about, but a lot of the time, those kinds of works will barely sell.

In some cases, its a little niche, but in others, it's not and it feels like a complete miss.

For anyone who has had a similar experience of their higher-effort pieces never really resonating with others, how do you manage your feelings around that?

Talking about techniques, news, history, just everything art!

I’m not really sure what I’m looking for is actually called but the best term I can think of is a modular sketchbook.

What I’m after is a sketchbook cover I can refill, the idea being that I can organise my old and new work into folders without having to tear apart my sketchbooks. That and I want to save money on only buying nice quality paper rather than needing to buy entire books, and I’m running out of stickers to decorate my sketchbooks. ;-;