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Via Schatky with thanks to Lickal0lli for the translation

This is actually such an amazingly motivational post because it explains visually exactly what art block is. Do you know what art block is?

Art block is that moment when you realise your skills could be so much more then they currently are. It frustrates you to draw because you can finally see your drawings differently. You can see where they can be better and you want them to be better. 
It’s not a matter of “I can’t draw today”, it’s a matter of “I imagined this would turn out so much better” and “there’s something missing, I just know it. What technique did I miss.”
You’ve got past that temporary phase of analysing and researching and now you’re able to incorporate it in your own work, you just need to figure out how, and when you get past that art block. Well, you’ll see the improvement before you know it. Slowly, but it’s there. And once you get comfortable with using those new skills you’ll move on and start analysing again, and you’ll see where you can improve.

Stay experimental and open to learn, it’s the quickest way to get over art block.

This is definitely how you actually deal with “art block” too.

Art block doesn’t exist, it never existed. When you’re not feeling it, it really is just a matter of getting up and doing it anyway until you ARE feeling it. It may take a while, it may just happen immediately, but that’s the only way to solve the problem.

That’s how the people who make it in art do it. They FORCE themselves to do it. They’re not magically more motivated than you, they don’t have any genetic superiority in the arts. They work hard even when they don’t feel like it and they don’t stop.

For every mountain you have to climb in life, there will be storms and there will be plateaus of beauty, but never will you have both at the same time. Let the joys that lay ahead motivate you when you are most scared to go on, and may the thrills of the storm excite you towards your next discovery. Life is nothing if not a challenge.