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1. My pen nibs in their little box
2. My printing spoon and my printing hammer. Seriously. I make prints with a hammer. And a spoon.
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This is an example of some of the doodles I make to help me cope with anxiety or nervousness. What helps me is to doodle the certain emotion/feeling/event that caused me a lot of anxiety. Drawing it helps me get it out of my system and seeing it on paper makes me aware that it’s out of my mind.
I have a submission by the wonderful http://justynadabrowski.tumblr.com/! She was kind enough to share her art that helps her cope with her anxiety.
-Olga
Q:Hello Olga, I stumbled upon your Art & Anxiety post & your methods have helped me as an artist who is trying to cope with anxiety. I agree with your advice on not working on major projects when anxious because your thoughts definitely get in the way of your work & it's best to work in a calm atmosphere when your head is clear. Some methods that have worked for me are creating silly doodles with a certain emotion attached to it/events that have made me anxious. Again, your post is really helpful!
Thank you so much for getting in touch! It’s really amazing to have tangible proof of your words reaching people.
Drawing things that trigger your anxiety seems like an amazing therapeutic technique - I wish I’d thought of it myself. I’ll try it next time.
Thank you for sharing, I am sure this will be helpful to others too!
Olga
PS. The original post cane be found here
I drew a thing last night. It will help me make a bigger, better thing. But I like it as it is already, too.
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Art and Anxiety
Hi guys! As some of you know, my name is Olga and I am an illustrator from Russia who lives and works in England. I also struggle with anxiety which can at times be overwhelming and it really, really gets in the way of my work.
This post is about how I, as a person who draws, handle anxiety and I’d like to get a discussion going on about what you, as a person who draws or sculpts or paints or photographs or knits, do to manage your anxiety. If we share our methods, who knows, we might help each other cope better.
Please reblog this, whether you’re an artist or not. Tell me how you use your skills to cope with anxiety. Let’s help one another!
Reposting to try and reach a wider audience.
Art and Anxiety
Hi guys! As some of you know, my name is Olga and I am an illustrator from Russia who lives and works in England. I also struggle with anxiety which can at times be overwhelming and it really, really gets in the way of my work.
This post is about how I, as a person who draws, handle anxiety and I’d like to get a discussion going on about what you, as a person who draws or sculpts or paints or photographs or knits, do to manage your anxiety. If we share our methods, who knows, we might help each other cope better.
Please reblog this, whether you’re an artist or not. Tell me how you use your skills to cope with anxiety. Let’s help one another!
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Mystery note I left myself (???) at 5 am last night.
Struggling with the need for acknowledgement
We all need to be acknowledged for what we are and what we do.
We, artists, even more so. And it can be so scary, too, when your entire future depends on whether or not other people like/want to buy your art; when other artists’ ‘inspirational’ success stories make you taste bile in the back of your throat because you don’t know why they got where you don’t seem to be able to, and you start to hammer yourself into the ground and tell yourself that all this lack of attention is what you deserve, because you have no right to be in this profession, an impostor, a talentless hack.
I still don’t know how to deal with days like that. They always pass in the end, and I can go back to drawing and even liking what I draw. But I am starting to realise one important thing: no amount of external affirmation will make me believe in myself unless I learn to do it on my own first.
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Angstspiration (n.): a feeling you get when you look at someone’s work and it is so good that it makes you angry. You then proceed to draw frantically until you sink in a pit of despair.
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And one more text update, hopefully the last before art starts rolling in. Siân and I had a wonderful skype chat/briefing last night. We talked for about 2 hours and both have made lots of notes, including tentative deadlines for parts of our project. I have started a gorgeous new hardback sketchbook, which I simply cannot wait to fill with lino prints.
This week will be research week. Really excited to dive into a library again and to finally have someone to share and swap research with!
I will keep you all posted on further developments!
An Update On Stuff And Things
Hey guys, for those of you wondering about where I’ve gone, here’s a brief update on my life!
I am currently finishing off a translation job which took me a good year to complete. I am emotionally and mentally drained by it, because the text is of a somewhat unpleasant nature. I really look forward to finishing it this week.
There’s a couple of personal projects of mine that I have put on ice, but I’ll try to return to them and finish them in my free time. Those include the book cover for Brave New World and my series of andro ladies with patterns.
The exciting news is that Siân and I shall be collaborating on a deck of Tarot cards, which we intend to make a limited edition of and distribute it via Etsy or eBay. We shall start a collective blog where we’ll post our progress, so watch this space for the link!
Love,
Olga
Discipline! I can make an image work with just two flat colours.
(Darkflame Shyvana take 2 by Olga Sinodova)
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