anyone have one of those lately? what have u done to get rid of them?

Care less. Take a more relaxed attitude to the comic... If you work yourself up about it anything that does happen will be poor quality anyway.

Take a week off and think about the comic. Play it through your mind. Generally you think up stuff when you can't actually work on it, like you're walking somewhere.

I sometimes look over my old work and then think like a reader. Then it gets to a point where I am a reader and I start thinking 'Oh, this should happen next' or 'Maybe he should do that'.

Other times I do what Jimeth said and just leave everything to do other stuff.

I haz artist and writerz bloke now.

IT KILLZ MEH.

I just start drawing something. More often than not if I just start drawing something, no matter how unrelated to my comic it might be, I start to get ideas. this only works because I'm an extremely visual person. I think best when I have some sort of visual image to look at.

Otherwise, I flip through old pages and that often gives me ideas that I spin off and take to create new ideas. I fully believe that each and every drawing I make has a full story behind it. I question why and how events that result in what you see have happened.

Most of all though I agree with the idea of relaxing about it. Any time something becomes work your head and heart just aren't in it. Things are always better when you're feeling laid back and chilled out.

I pull out a stack of unread comics (or go to a friend for some as he imports 20 times more than I buy locally, haha), check webstrips etc. and at some point I get so pumped up with creative energy that I simply dive back to work :D

Draw. Even if I wad up every piece of paper and throw it in the trashcan afterwards, I draw. Sometimes, it helps to draw more "mindless" things - like PoseManiacs - because I know that's just for practise and I'm not going to show anyone. Less pressure that way.

Three different things work for me.

1) Go out and do anything. Movies, bookstore, mall , walk around the block. Just get out and clear your head.

2) Look at other art. Find interesting art and break it down, find out why it works.

3) Draw. Treat it like a job, something you have to do.

Drink a lot of beer, and try again the next day.

Or not.
Music really helps. Make a mix that you love, and only listen to it while you draw.

Works for me, but I prefer the beer option.
~Brad

Music is definately a plus, and that's where many of my more serious strips come from: the wonders of metal.
Also, building up creative energy is a great way to put it, and at times I spend a few hours screwing around here at DD.
But sometimes you end up writing yourself into a corner on some plots. I, for one, am excellent at starting off plotlines, but not so much at transitioning between them smoothly. There, I have no idea what to do, but simply reapproaching it from a different fashion, maybe scrapping a few panels and rewording it.
Simply put, artist's block doesn't have any true cure. It's frustrating sure, but it simply phases out of existance, and you can't force it, because that could greatly degrade the quality of the comic.

My art skills have an up and down tendency no matter what but there are days when I simply can not draw. I still do draw, at least a little but none of it is even within the realm of usable. Usually, I just roll with it and hope I'll have my chops back the next day.
The one thing that has been a remedy in the past is randomly devised warm up experiments like I'm going to draw a person but only fill in the shadows or I'm only going to use one line weight.

I think I have, like, chronic artist block or something; I get it all the time. :/

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Take a break. Don't think about your comic. In fact, try not to think about anything important.

In a few days to a few weeks, you'll get back up.

Hey jissai,

one of the good ways to kill off the writer's block is find something that inspires you. For instance, I would feel inspired if I would listen to music and visualise what's happening.

It doesn't have to be music, in general. It's something that'll help you get ideas.

You could relax a bit or have little naps so you would be able to dream or something.

Another tip, you could force yourself to write anything without having to think about anything. Open MS Word and write whatever comes to mind and don't worry about it, and something might come up.

Anyway, those are some tips if you'd find them helpful.

FrostFlowers
PoseManiacs

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if you force it.....it won't come.

do something else.

Yeah, I'm going to have to try something else for a while... This past week every time I start working on my strip I just end up wiping it out and starting over in frustration. It's really starting to piss me off, which I know is not helpful.

Luckily, I'm going to have so many hours at work this coming week, I don't think I'll have time to even try working on my strip. Yay. :P