Escapism

Both art and games are an excellent way of escapism, when it comes down to it. I, for one, am capable of spending hours at a time beating my frustrating at a particularly difficult boss in my favourite game, or in deep concentration creating my next piece of artwork. It helps me to block out the world when I least feel like interacting with it or at my most unsociable moments. Then, given some time, painting something - maybe an out-of-this-world fantasy scene or possibly a fictional creation of my mind engulfing enough to distract my thoughts from an otherwise disheartening, droll day. 

Sometimes it's absolutely necessary to escape from real life for a while, especially when the atmosphere beneath the roof you live is somewhat tense and less than amiable. This, unfortunately, appears to be the case for me and has been over the past eighteen hours. 

I very much need to retreat into my own private world for a little while. So maybe you might see more frequent uploads of art, or maybe none at all if I so choose to immerse myself in video games rather than to take the more artistic route and digitally paint whatever comes to my mind. I'm thinking I'll turn more towards  playing games, especially since I yet have to completely The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. That will certainly keep me busy for hours on end. Of course, games are the kings of procrastination and the bane of productivity - but once in a while productivity can wait in line. After some quiet time. 

Quiet time is good. 

Escapism is something I'm quite adept at, easily able to throw myself mentally out of reality and into a daydream. In a way this is also good for creating a new piece of artwork. The more I daydream, the more ideas that spark strong motivation for a potential piece, ultimately making that piece better quality than it might have been without that random imaginative flare. Take my Winged Wolf in the previous post as an example. I'm not entirely sure where that stemmed from at all, except maybe my love of wolves (those spectacular creatures!). As I've said before, sometimes the less you think about it - when it comes to an initial idea - the better. It gives you so much creative freedom when you get creating and painting, moulding and shaping as you absently built a piece from your mind to paper (in my case a Photoshop canvas). You lose yourself in what you're doing, stroke by stroke, imagining that whatever it may be forming on that blank canvas is real.

Even if you cannot physical evade hardships, you can always indulge yourself in the best thing you can escape to mentally, a haven. For me that's art and that's games. 

Perhaps a somewhat solemn entry, but given the skittishness within these walls, I very much needed to express myself somewhere. Basically I'm probably going to ignore the world for a day or two.

Nachos
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