How do you get inspired?

How do you get inspired?

When looking at my list of questions this one came up and I find it to be such an open question. The reason I say this is because there are a lot of things that inspire me. I find sometimes no matter what I've put in front of that is no inspiration it really depends on how I'm feeling and sometimes I will feel nothing but inspiration from the smallest of things so this is quite a hard one to block about it's a hard one to put into words of how I was feeling and how I would express desk question enough to give to you. I think as a creative person I do find that a lot inspires me quite frequently, especially as an adult where my imagination has continued to be as strong as when I was a child. The best way at the moment especially having Covid I'm on day four, by the way, is to listen to soundtracks at the moment studio Ghibli is a perfect one for me to listen to and just imagine I'm in a completely different world while I'm driving on my iPad or reading a book I'm in the reading a book part might be a little bit less than the drawing but I'm trying!

At the moment before Covid, it's just borrowing someone's dog and I know this sounds a bit silly but I don't have time for my own dog at the moment so just borrowing a dog walk around the park happy earphones and listening to some music some of the best therapy and something that I have learnt to enjoy more than going out drinking really!

Above is a picture of a pug from my hometown in a little park I'm just watching her walk around buying her own business while listening to maybe the up soundtrack from Pixar can really make me in a good happy mood I feel inspired!

Another one I find takes yourself out to places most museums are free in London and also different events in different parks and different Historia moments and places and you can find inspiration from a lot of these the picture above is my time at the natural history museum in London and I came across this older guy who had been sat down and was drawing what he could see from the above him, I was caught mesmerised by his work he'd been coming here for days and then drawing different things to learn the study and didn't mind me hovering above him just to watch that day it had been raining and raining a lot it was pouring in fact but the room is full silent when you are watching someone at work and you can feel the concentration of the connection between the peace and them.

You don't have to do it alone either if you are somebody that can't bear to do anything like this by yourself there are many Facebook groups or TikTok pages that dedicate themselves to going on friendly dates with other girlfriends or friends or like-minded people so you can sit down and you can draw together in silence or speaking it's completely up to you I have done both and in my experience, I do prefer to sometimes be alone so I can really get in my head and feel inspired but sometimes talking to somebody and speaking about a certain shape they can see in the pattern of a skeleton or how a watercolour piece looks to them can also be just as inspiring.

Another one for me is visiting artists, now I am a photographer and artist and sometimes I will do collaborations with both and see what it's like to be in the world of the artist or person I'm visiting. This is somebody who I work with and we both work in retail and I found out that he does portraits I just felt the need that I had to go see what he was doing I fell in love with the idea that he worked with oils and I could never work with oil paints I've never managed to make it work in the correct way that he found a way to do just that he didn't like to call it self portraits as more people studies and he had a blanket up which he called his ADHD Blanket hidden away from the word with your headphones in.

There are many ways to feel inspired you can also go and try something completely new recently I went rollerblading with a bunch of friends and it was a two-hour session in the first hour I found it to be so fun and I was constantly learning watching your friends fall over and also succeed it's a really good feeling!  it can make you feel inspired from that unfortunately after about 800 cal but I was starting to feel a bit tired and realised maybe rollerskating isn't for me but the amount of fun that I had meant that it was all worth it for me and something that I would continue to do just so I thought connected to people and you get to network as well! you meet people that you thought that you could never really meet and I think TikTok is a really good one for that as well you can constantly engage with different people events and being in London there are a lot of events that you can go to that you can meet like-minded people.

We are living in a world now where it is more accessible to get hold of me than ever before inspirations live with meeting people in networking go and do it! If you feel like you're inspirations work best when you play games or draw or research go do it. There is nothing stopping you at the moment apart from yourself and it is something that I've taken a long time to learn. I find when I'm isolated like this having Covid but my brain really starts to work in different ways I could work with myself and network and become a better me when a fact I should be just resting but I can't help myself.

Look up what your niche is and look at what social media platforms are using that niche maybe there is in the knitting club on Facebook, or maybe you walked past a group of people on rollerblades and you want to feel inspired by joining them go up and say hi nobody is going to be concerned or worried about you being confident and saying hello but actually take the chance to build confidence in yourself and to inspire your because life is very short and inspiration is everywhere now I know this blog isn't necessarily how you should be inspired more myself and how I'm inspired but I feel like maybe if you're reading this you're like by the person I can see where I'm coming from it's been lovely chatting with you guys again see you soon.