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When I Lack Inspiration For My Pottery
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In this episode of 'Shaping Your Pottery,' Nic Torres shares his strategies for regaining inspiration in pottery and art. He debunks the myth that inspiration is a prerequisite for creating art and provides practical methods to stimulate creativity. Nick discusses the benefits of engaging in activities you love, disconnecting from technology, taking walks, and avoiding forced inspiration. He illustrates these points with personal anecdotes, such as how watching the Deadpool and Wolverine movie reignited his creative spark, leading to a Wolverine sculpture. The episode wraps up with a summary of these tips to help artists find their own inspiration.
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Introduction to Inspiration in Art
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What do you do when you lack inspiration for your pottery or for your art? What is up Shape Nation? This is Nick Torres here and on this episode I'm going to talk about what I do to help bring back inspiration for my own pottery for my own art.
Finding Inspiration Without Perfection
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And the first thing you know is that you don't need inspiration to make art. Sometimes we get so stuck in our head where we think we have to have this perfect inspiration in order to do something in order to make art, in order to make pottery. But that's just not true. At the end of the day, what matters most is that you start making something because sometimes when you start making something new inspiration starts coming. Like maybe as you're making something, new ideas start coming into your head and that becomes new inspiration for that.
Inspiration from Movies
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But if you feel like you need inspiration, here's some some things that I do. So you see, very recently and I saw the new Deadpool and Wolverine movie. And by the way, that movie fucking slaps. I love that movie so much. I'm probably going to see it like three more times. All right. That's just a side note. But very recently I saw that movie and. Before that, I was going to make a scorpion mug from Mortal Kombat, scorpion from Mortal Kombat, because I like Mortal Kombat. And I also wanted to make a video of it because I wanted to you know get views of my pottery. But everything I was trying, it just wasn't really working out. And I honestly wasn't too, too inspired to make it. I was just trying to make it so I can post it and get some eyes onto my work.
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And then after I saw the Deadpool and Wolverine movie, I loved that movie so much, I decided to change from making Scorpion from Mortal Kombat to Wolverine. And I enjoyed that so much more. But I didn't I would have got that inspiration inspiration if I didn't see the movie. And I already knew it was probably going to be really good because I like the first two first two Deadpool movies. But this one, I absolutely loved
Creating Art from Newfound Inspiration
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it. And I got so many new thoughts. Even now, I'm still thinking about that movie, and it just inspired me so much that I literally just made a Wolverine sculpture mug.
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And I love that so much. That's the first thing that I did. I do sometimes is just to do things that you enjoy, do things that you love to do. I love watching sci-fi, fantasy, Marvel, Star Wars stuff. I love watching that stuff. And it just brings me so much joy. And when I saw that movie, it brought me a lot of joy. I absolutely loved watching that movie. So that's the first thing that I do is do things that I enjoy. Maybe for you, maybe that is gardening. Maybe that is doing other art other than what you're currently doing. Or maybe that is taking care of your family. Whatever it is you you enjoy, try to do more of those things so that inspiration comes easier when you are doing things that you were enjoy.
Tech-Free Inspiration Techniques
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The second thing that I do is that I will try to get away from religious technology for maybe 10, 20 minutes. So every morning when I am taking my dog out to go to the bathroom, I don't look at my phone. I'm sitting outside and I'm just literally just kind of there. I'm not doing anything. I'm not writing anything down. I'm not doing anything. and but And during those times when I'm not doing anything, I'm away from that technology away from social media. That's when a lot of new ideas, a lot of inspiration starts to happen. So I'm just kind of sitting there. And when you're bored, sometimes the best solution to get inspiration is to be bored and being bored.
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allows you to have new thoughts, allows you to have these different ideas of how you can improve your part, improve your art simply by not doing anything, simply by just existing, not doing anything, being bored. So that's the second thing I do. So the first one is doing things that I enjoy. And the second thing is doing just being bored. The third thing I like to do is to go for a walk. I've got this advice plenty of times that if you are stuck and you feel like you need to make something great, go for a walk. And I do that. Every time I go for a walk, I feel like I do get new ideas and it kind of goes back to that boredom thing only that you are actually moving this time.
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But go for a walk. Go do something slow paced. Go do something that is not of the norm. Right. And just do that. And inspiration will come to you naturally. And finally, the fourth thing is I don't try to I try not to force inspiration a lot of times. Like I mentioned in the beginning, you don't need inspiration to make potty to make your art. So I try not to force it a lot of times. The more you're trying to force it, the more you are not going to get inspiration, the more you're not going to feel motivated to do anything. So don't try to force it. It's a it's like that thing when you, a lot of times we like, we have this like, or no.
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it's like it's like when somebody gets pregnant a lot of times the people that aren't trying to get pregnant they they aren't they they get pregnant they're not trying to get pregnant but they get pregnant and people that are trying to get pregnant aren't able to get pregnant because they're putting so much pressure on themselves is so much so much doing all this other stuff that isn't allowing them to get pregnant allowing them to have a baby But the people that aren't trying it literally ah happens all the time. So it's kind of like that. Don't try to force it and just kind of be there. Just allow inspiration to come to you naturally.
Summary and Final Thoughts
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So to recap, the things that I do to help me get inspiration. Do things I love. Like I watched Deadpool and Wolverine. I really enjoyed that movie. Number two is be bored. Get away from all technology. Allow yourself to be bored.
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number three go for a walk if you are feeling stuck if you feel like something is just missing number four and don't try just don't try to force it so that's how I get inspiration when inspiration is lacking Hope you guys enjoyed the episode and I'll see you guys in the next one.
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