Creative Outlet

What happened to my creativity? It's as if my imagination and motivation to create art in any medium just... died. A lot of people tell me, "Well Stu, that's just what happens when you get older." It's a hard pill to swallow, but it seems pretty true. While my knack for creativity fell to the wayside of my job and parenthood, I still miss it, dearly. That should be motivation enough, but somehow it isn't. Or, at least, it hasn't been. I'm hoping that starting this blog will give me the spark of motivation I need to just do something. There's a lot of things that are floating around in my head and have been for ages that just never got off the ground.

• A Webcomic - I had a webcomic for several years in my twenties called Stu On This that I would update very sporadically due to my waning security in my comedic writing and drawing ability. I vowed at one point to "reboot" my entire process and start something from scratch, but that never happened.
• Random Drawings - I used to be very child-like in the sense where if I had a picture floating around in my head, I would just sit down a draw it. Now that I see my son doing this, it's making me ask myself why I ever stopped.
• Video Game Design - My dream as a teenager was to go to art school for computer animation and use that toward video game design. That never happened, and I spent too much of my twenties just bitterly pissing my life away, thinking my life was just relegated to working some shitty job I hate until I die of ass cancer. But, anyone can download Unity and just make a video game and sell it on Steam. Or code it themselves in C+ or whatever and share it however they want. I have no excuses.
• Creative Writing - Back when MySpace was a thing, I was actually pretty good at updating a blog on a regular basis, be it to rant about life, share some art, or do some creative writing. I used the idea of splitting my persona into seven parts, with each representing a certain aspect of my personality shown by writing in different colors. Unfortunately, it's lost forever, so I only have the general memory of what it was.
• Music - Now, I'm not going to claim I have any musical talent whatsoever, but I did dabble in producing some electronic music back in my early twenties and I'd really like to revisit that.
• Painting - Back when my son was a baby, I proved to myself that I'm a decent painter by recreating the Mega Man 2 select screen on nine small square canvases. I want to do more, not just to hang in my house, but maybe also to sell on Etsy.

There's plenty of other uses my blog could serve, but I feel like people don't really read blogs anymore. Everything is served in quick portions now. Just pictures or 140 characters or less. Life just changed and let myself fall behind. I need to catch up.