Train of Thought

[curiousb]

It's been a bit quiet around here lately, hasn't it?

This is the reason: I feel like I'm stuck in a complete rut, creating-wise.

I guess it's not really something anyone can help with (unless anyone has some helpful words of wisdom they can share?), but I just feel the need to get it off my chest - so please forgive this minor rant, Friends' List!

See, this is what happens: I get all motivated and enthusiastic about a new project; everything starts well, and for a while I'm motoring along quite happily, making good progress, when suddenly I seem to hit a brick wall. This is usually about the time when I'm trying to put the finishing touches to something - tweaking the final textures, dealing with minor mapping issues, eliminating weird shinyness in-game, etc. I just seem to reach a point where nothing I try to do works as intended, so I get incredibly frustrated with the whole business and decide to put the project on hold for a while. Then I start a new project thinking maybe this time I will actually be able to complete something, and the exact same thing happens.

As a result, I have god knows how many nearly-finished projects lying around that I can't face dealing with, as it just gets me too wound up when I can't resolve the problems that made me put them aside in the first place. Grrrr.

I'm not sure whether this is a case of extreme perfectionism, or just plain lack of skill/ability/talent.

Anyway, suffice to say, I'm heartily fed up with myself - and my projects folder - at the moment. I have so much new stuff I'd like to be able to share, but I just can't get the damn things finished to my satisfaction. Humph.

OK, rant over - I know there are far, far worse problems to have than this - but I just wanted to have a bit of a grumble to the only people who are likely to understand. Now I'm off to make a comforting cuppa.

Comments

[curiousb]

I really, really appreciate the offer of help, thank you! However, I am going to dispute that I am more skilled than you - I couldn't hope to retexture hair or create new makeup as well as you do. ;P

Anyway, I like your idea of a post showing progress so far, and asking for feedback or suggestions - I think I'll dig out some of the stuff I'm really stuck on for that one!

As I've already said to someone on LJ, I really didn't want it to seem like I was fishing for compliments, but I'm genuinely feeling at the moment that perhaps I've just reached the limits of my abilities in some areas and need to be less ambitious. But thank you, for the vote of awesome, which cheered me up no end (and I think you're pretty awesome too, as demonstrated by my 'Nymphy' downloads folder). :D