HOW TO BEAT ARTIST’S BLOCK

Sachin explains why drawing like a child can help when you’re stuck

I was working on my junior thesis for illustration at Pratt. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t catch a break in this class. Nothing that had carried me before mattered to this professor. And I couldn’t understand what he meant by “confounding” – his favourite descriptor for conceptual work. It was about to be the end of the semester and I still hadn’t made a breakthrough. My initial sketches for the thesis were shot down. So I had to start over. I was certain I was just going to fail. Painting alone wasn’t getting me anywhere so I decided to just read a lot. There had to be books or articles, essays, something that would give me some insight I wasn’t seeing. I eventually landed on a…

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ImagineFX Annual (Digital) - 1 Issue, ImagineFX Annual 2019

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