just think about nasty bright colors and juxtapose it with some thing nice and sweet even i doesn't help with a current project it always gets you mind rollin.

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sorry to here life is rough for you

whenever I need inspiration, I stop trying to draw and take my mind off it by doing something else. Usually, as silly as it sounds, cleaning my room or writing or going watching movies.

Also, looking at other artists' work can help too

hope this helps

Where u studying , london? Which uni? Basically fuck london! Worst place to go.

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Saint Martins are pretty evil...just think about all the people who would kill to get there.

At the moment I'm doing a project on food...maybe that might help you?

I really don't know, maybe collect a load of images you really love and see if you can pick out a recurring theme...hmm...I hope I've been remotely helpful

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use words. create regularly.

my advice is to create one artwork every day for a set time period. at first I did it for a month (30 days exactly). the transformation of the works was just crazy. especially when you are forced to create work when you don't feel like it.

I always have no ideas for work, I overthink my designs. which means you need to do more sketches. carry your sketchbook around with you and travel to unlikely locations. the shopping centre, a carpark, a tennis club. it doesn't matter whatever. just go there, put some music on and sketch. as you sketch ideas will come to you. I get the wackiest concepts when I least expect them. for me all my ideas come when I drive places.

online places for inspiration - illustration friday. every week they give you a word to work from. whether you draw, sew or photograph it is interesting coming up with a concept from a single word. unlplanned is good.

good luck

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oh and if they really don't like your work - try to think more outside of the box. they may mark you low cause they see the same kind of concepts consistently. break yourself out of the box & do work that is true to you. don't stylise it or make it pretty or anything. be daring & dangerous. make it your own. work when you don't feel like it, when you are in a bad mood, when you hate it. I work all the time when I don't feel like it, and my best work tends to result from it. especially when I hate it when I work on it, and just keep working on it, and in the end something appears from it without me meaning to.

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oh.... and... I'm not trying to spam but I keep thinking of more things... ha ha.

quite often lecturers will mark low to good students to make them excel at their work. when you are in the 'real world' it is tough to please clients. you need to be adaptable to everything and anything they ask, but firm with what your limitations are. they are giving you a challenge. some of the biggest illustrators in the world failed their courses or quit. make the most of it whilst you are there & listen to the advice - but don't forget you don't always have to adhere to it. Personally I'm stubborn as all hell so I come back at them with something a million times better then the last & work my guts out. I get huge jobs from clients because I always work hard and put 500% into the jobs. Show them your passion & you'll see a change in their attitude. Take their negativity as a positive aspect to push your work further then you would ever think it could go.

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