when you’re losing your creative spark, how do you get it back?

[RNotteLovesOwls]

i feel like, artistically, i’m running out of ideas. doesn’t matter if it’s a music video for a client, or a song i’m writing. but i don’t want to lose my spark. artists, as per the title: when you lose your spark, what do you do to get it back? i would appreciate any and all advice you may have

[fairyrune]

try a new medium or subject. as a visual artist it really helped me to change what i thought of as "my art". lately i've been drawing for an art rpg game called dungeon coursers, and as someone who hasn't really drawn horses before now and lately has spent a lot more time drawing humanoids, it's been pretty refreshing. they move and interact with the world in different ways, i need to employ different tricks to show emotion, they have different colours and textures...

[arcus]

Collect inspiring art and references, look back at saved art, look back at my old art, do studies of things that are inspiring, watch/play/read something new, and brush up on the fundamentals. With the last point, learning something new puts things into a different perspective and make me notice things I previously overlooked, and motivates me to draw so I can apply what I've learnt.

try a new medium or subject.

This is what I've been doing lately. I have a bunch of comic ideas that have been sitting around, and instead of thumbnailing them, I've been writing them as drabbles. I'll get around to making them as comics eventually, but it's a fun way to flesh out ideas.