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I think I forgot the reason why I was creative. I can look at old stuff I used to do, but I can't remember why. So, I wanted to ask you guys for feedback to see if I can get that spark back. What makes your inner reason to want to draw/color/write and keep doing it? What makes you want to even when it gets difficult, you get frustrated with it, or something didn't turn out the way you wanted it to? If it ever burns out, how do you rekindle it? How often does it burn out for you if you've experienced it a few times before? I'm thankful for any and all help with this. Thanks!

Hiiiiii. I’m Kay, if we haven’t met. Sitting here. Drinking my evening coffee. Feeling inspired by DaddysMonkey’s questions (and coffee-drinking contemplationzz) lately. Also feeling a little out of practice talking to people. ^____^ Question for those who are artists and/or have creative hobbies: How do you self-motivate to create, especially with *any* kind of regularity? Background on my qwahn-duh-ree: so I make electronic music as a hobby, and I’ve been doing it entirely self-taught for like 12 years now, and it’s something I largely do to channel/deal with my more negative emotions and whatnot. And I have a lot of negative emotions! Like depressive emotions, and anxiety emotions, and dysphoria emotions, and dysmorphia feelings, and more for sure. So sometimes I have big bursts of creativity where I’ll make a lot of music, but eventually I’ll either get like too sad and get demotivated (to do anything), or I’ll get a really satisfying high from creating—and then have a crash not too long afterward, and then get too sad and get demotivated. This makes my music-making process (and thus my whole hobby, which I love!) really inconsistent and unpredictable! And that’s frustrating. It’s always been hard for me to get, like, consistent practice, and there have been looooong periods of downtime in my hobby. Just kinda a long term struggle for me to keep up with it, even though it’s a sincere source of joy in my life. The professional artists I know block out time every day to work on their art, for obvious reasons—it’s their job! But that’s never been my goal, and I’m really bad at committing to spending any amount of time every day doing anything (besides going to work, which is WAY more time than I could devote to sitting pushing buttons on my synths, lol). So the whole “just commit to doing it every day!” thing isn’t effective for me. BUT at the moment, I’m on my BIGGEST and MOST PRODUCTIVE creative streak I think I’ve ever been on! And I credit it to something extremely silly — wanting to work on “5 beats a day” everyday, cuz of that one frickin’ line that Kanye West wrote about MAKING 5 beats a day for 3 summers. About a week back, I had two days in a row of making 5 original beats a day, and wanted to keep it up as much as I could — so I settled for “WORKING ON 5 beats a day”. (I dunno for how long though, lol. Especially since it’s not summer right now where I am. ) So yeah, the whole thing is really contrived and silly — I don’t even really like Kanye anymore! But I can’t lie, not wanting to break this streak is extremely effective at forcing me to make time to work on at least 5 tracks every day. It ends up being like 1-2 hours of really pleasant time in the evening, usually! I genuinely don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep this up, and I’m kinda scared of how ephemeral this made-up motivation is, but I’m gonna let this ride as long as I can. But uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhm back to my quh-wehh-shtee-ohn(s): 1. How do you other folks with creative hobbies keep it up?! What do you do to motivate yourself? 2. Is it something you just kinda let yourself do when you feel like it (and if so, how regularly does that end up being for you)? 3. Do you FEEL like you need to have some consistency/regularity in practicing your art? Just really curious to know how other creative peeps handle this! And also, I’m excited to learn about (or hear updates about!!!) everyone’s creative endeavors! ~Kay

H e l l o ! I'm new to the DD/LG community and so is my daddy! One thing that I have found that makes me feel very happy, puts me into little space, and makes my daddy smile, is when I draw and color for him! (A common activity for littles, but also something that I feel is unique to me since I'd like to think I'm pretty good at it!) I have been running low on ideas of what to draw for my daddy. I want to ask him, but I like to keep my drawings for him as a special surprise, and asking him what to draw for him kind of defeats that purpose! I have drawn things related to the things that he loves (favorite bands, favorite T.V. show characters, favorite animals, video games, me!) but I just need some new suggestions (: Please give me some suggestions for what I should draw! Despite being creative, I'm in a bit of an artist's rut :/ ThAnK YoU

This post is for everyone who wants to post their pages from the book "Wreck this journal" by Keri Smith. For everyone who doesn't know the book. The name already says it, you must destroy this book. You have tasks in them, like "Take this book with you into the shower" or "Throw away this page. Except the loss". You don't have to follow the rules word by word, be creative, there is nor right or wrong. There are two editions a normal one and an extended one. For this post it doesn't matter which one you use or in which language it is. (I have a german edition) If you want to make it a bit harder you can think about a theme for your book. Like I want some with only Harry Potter stuff in it.

I just wanna see some stuff you guys created or colored or whatever! I think this would be a great way to find others that like to draw, write, sew, or anything. Self promotion is allowed. Always shamelessly promote your art. It's how you make it~ So I'm gonna start by showing something I drew recently. (I'm also open to constructive criticism) I have other art on my instagram if you'd like to peek at it. Links are on my profile. c:

So I want to say first off I am new here. I have a little who means the world to me. she and I have talked the past few days and just came up with some rules for guidance as to how she should behave and I have been looking for a goal chart for her to use in RL. I found something called Habitica which has an Android app but I want something I can set up for her and surprise her with it. Does anyone know any good apps or anything for helping My little improve her day to day and feel accomplished as well as feeling she made Me proud?

I love coloring! Even when I don't have my coloring books and crayons I can color on the go with my app Colorbook. It's an app for Apple users but I'd love to start this for anyone to post pictures they colored on apps with little stories or tales behind them or whatever! Let your creativity shine! And it's not exclusively for littles! Anton who likes to color should totally show their works! (๑°꒵°๑)･*♡ kawaii babydoll