Any advice on fighting distractions and developing a good creative

Deactivate your social media accounts and lock yourself up in a boring room with just your tools and reference pictures, and whatever else you need to make art. Once you get into the flow and habit of making art, you won't get distracted as much. Making a schedule with goals the night before or the morning of your day is really helpful as well.

>>3080119
>Balzac

>>3080131
He was nuts.

Having a time dedicated to "free time" activities is what helps me the most. I can just tell myself "oh I can play Overwatch in the evening, but now I work"

>>3080119
Testosterone supplements

>>3080119
Take up polyphasic sleeping and regiment your activities in general. Sleep at the same time, eat at the same time, work at the same time.

Basically if you want to do something and you end up doing something else instead or procrastinating thats just your body beating your mind. So do everything you can to minimize its effects.

I have similar problem guys with discractions. I have to listen something from youtube when im paining but when album ends i search another. This searching eats majority of my time. Do you know better alternative?

>>3080119
>50 cups of black coffee
That doesn't sound healthy, how the fuck is he even alive?

>>3080119
make sure your room is clean. Some reason that helps me a lot and motivates me.

>>3082228
Decide before hand what albums you will listen to, how long you will be working and how long they are. Limit yourself 10 minutes to find them and begin.

>>3082228
decide before, or have at least a short list of albums to choose

>>3082233
they probably don't mean mugs of coffee but rather those small cups, I guess

>>3082233
he isn't, anon.

>>3080119
sort yourself out

>>3082228
Make a playlist baka

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Hmm

Set a time, example: 5 hours
Remove all internet connections
Draw for 5 hours
Reward yourself with internet.

It's easier said than done but it's worked for me. It's better to start slow (one hour a day, or even less if that'll motivate you to start) and go for it. Starting is the hardest part

>>3080119
The secret to good art is Black Coffee, preferably cold.

>>3082353
how long did it take you to be able to work 5 hours straight? And does that count watching videos to learn and shit or 5 hours of actual drawing?

>>3082874
Actual drawing and it's not 5 hours straight, I take breaks, sometimes even long ones. The point here is to complete 5 hours of drawing, if that doesn't happen then I get no internet for the day.

supplements that help the brain...a white board... and other than that

the fear of reaching 30, still working in a boiler room and not in the industry is enough

>>3082882
Impressive, I'm drawin 'full time' right now 8-6 with lunch break and I just timed myself and in those 8 hours I only actively drew 2:40:00 aprox. I'm still learning a lot of theory so I did spend like 3 hours watching NMA video lessons and about half an hour analyzing and going back to each drawing and make and seeing what's wrong with it and shit.

But still, In 8 hours I'm drawing less than 3 and I'm probably procrastinating or not being actually productive for at least 2 hours. Fuck I still have a long way to go. One step at a time I guess.

>>3080119

What are you actually trying to develop your art skill for anyway? Do you have some type of purpose, or is it a hobby? If it's a hobby, who fucking gets distracted from a hobby.

>>3082988
What do you call it if it's not a hobby? A skill?

>>3082988
you are lucky if you can't relate, a lot of people(millennials) are incapable of doing anything that doesn't grant immediate gratification, generally playing video games or watching porn

>>3083051
as I millennial, I totally have this problem if I had to be completely honest, but on the other hand I see many of my generational peers that don't have this problem. I call bullshit that it's just millennials with this issue, right?

Stream it. You feel forced to do stuff because people are watching you.