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GreyScale
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Quote GreyScale Replybullet Topic: Avoiding Diversions and Staying Concentrated
    Posted: 10 September 2011 at 6:37pm
How do you guys manage to actually sit down and keep working on a piece. Being new to pixel art (and still preferring non-pixel digital art as I am a "long, loose brushstrokes" type of person), I find I lack the patience to continuously work on a piece, and am able to only work for probably between ten and thirty minutes AT MOST at a time, then I get distracted for hours.

How do you stay on task?
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Quote Hapiel Replybullet Posted: 11 September 2011 at 5:02am
The few guys who did not have this problem became professionals. The rest are probably like me and you.
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Quote tuaarita Replybullet Posted: 11 September 2011 at 7:06am
I just find it hard to start, but when I get a good idea in my head and I see it coming together I can't put it down.

Try listening to music when you're at it?

Edited by Leroy - 11 September 2011 at 7:07am
I'm running in the desert,
running in to the sun,
running out of blood
and I'm going numb.
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Quote greenraven Replybullet Posted: 11 September 2011 at 9:56am
"pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso   
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Quote CELS Replybullet Posted: 11 September 2011 at 10:26am
I have two computer screens, so I tend to watch a lot of TV shows while pixelling. Like all the episodes of Simpsons. Really though, it's the same as everything else. There's no point in looking for motivation, whether it's for pixelling, training, reading books, practicing the guitar or whatever else. There's so much to do in the world, just do whatever you want. Live each day as if it were your last and all that.

Or get some amphetamines.
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Quote TheSound Replybullet Posted: 13 September 2011 at 12:50am
I don't manage to stay concentrated for more than 15 minutes 
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Quote Melee Replybullet Posted: 22 September 2011 at 10:44am
Originally posted by CELS

Or get some amphetamines.


Yesssss. (Jkjk.)

I just get kind of addicted to a project; right now it's a vector project for one of my classes, but once I get into a pixel, I can't stop. It's got to be finished nownownow. If I can't pixel for a few days, though, I completely lose interest and can't finish it. :P
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Quote jalonso Replybullet Posted: 22 September 2011 at 1:45pm
I sit and start something and eventually it become something else which usually turns into something else and eventually something develops that exites me then I explore the sh*t out of that and then while working on that something else develops, and I start that (roughly and put away in my 'black hole' folder) then go back to whatever I was doing and continuously work on everything.

This way when I'm having a creative slump I can dig thru the ideas in the black hole folder and focus on technique and exploration of process as I wait for the next creative flow.

When I'm not working as I go about life EVERYTHING goes thru the "Is it an idea' filter and jot it down or email myself. I think great ideas come from casual conversation, things people say and do...

...for example this clever idea, just added by T-Mind
is begging for everyone in Springfield to become a Pokeman. If you like Pokeman then that's an incentive to sit and focus.


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Quote Friend Replybullet Posted: 29 September 2011 at 7:06pm
the drive to make something good is enough incentive for me to stay concentrated.  to improve as well
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