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Ready to Advance Your Art? Draw These 8 Challenging Subjects

1. Animal and pet portraits. Drawing animals can provide many challenges for an artist.
2. Glass. How can something see-through be so tricky to draw?
3. Eyes and facial features. About face!
4. Human figures.
5. Hands and feet.
6. Automobiles.
7. Flowers.
8. Water.

Many artists consider hands are the hardest thing to draw due to all their possible positions and details. Drawing hands presents a hard challenge to artists because many lack experience doing it, making mistakes more common.

20 ways to overcome creative block

1. Tap into your subconscious. Shotopop took an imaginative approach in this Clarks Originals campaign.
2. Get it down on paper.
3. Always carry a sketchbook.
4. Don’t be afraid to step away.
5. Finish what you’ve started.
6. Put some fun in your studio.
7. Don’t retread your steps.
8. Look in unlikely places.

5 Steps to Unblock Your Creative Potential

1. Redesign routine and habits – Daily divergent thinking.
2. Use it or lose it – Start a creative project.
3. Growth mindset – Don’t stop creating.
4. Let go of comparison – Just be you.
5. Get visual – Practice drawing ideas.
6. Become the co-creator of your life.

One of the most common reasons for creative block is the fear of imperfection, feeling like you are not good enough to see an idea through. Many creatives consider themselves perfectionists, which can prevent the pursuing of ideas or completing projects. The reality is that nothing and no one is perfect.

Work habits that don’t work. Maybe there’s no great drama — you’re just trying to work in a way that isn’t compatible with your creative process. You work too early, too late, too long, or not long enough. You try to hard or not hard enough.

Fear of inadequacy. Another fear creatives must overcome is the fear of inadequacy. As a whole, creatives tend to be hard on themselves. We want to create great things, we want to make a difference in the world, but as we compare ourselves to others, we think we come up short.

Albert Einstein has been called the most creative genius of the last century. He started his career as a patent office clerk. That means he spent a lot of time studying other people’s ideas and thinking about them.

People all over the world rank creativity as a highly desirable quality in a partner, and people who are creative across a variety of fields report more sexual partners (similar results have been found in specific fields such as visual art, music, and humor). It’s no secret: creativity is sexy.