Stagnant, need help

[KevinArcamo]

Hey guys

I'm losing myself interest to make art these days

I need suggestions, recommendations or I need to join a group

I usually create mockup projects - advertising design and vector art

I wanna learn landscape painting, character design, 3D and how to improve branding

Thank you

[melissapiccone]

Play with AI - use Chat GPT to give you ideas - it's addictive. 

[KevinArcamo]

I'll try it out ! Thanks for your response

[Trevor.Dennis]

You are very welcome to join our Something For The Weekend threads.  A starter image gets uploaded every second Friday (GMT) and we are free to make what we like so long as it references the starter image.  This can be super easy using the Firefly engine, or you can spend hours creating something amazing.  I often get ideas from what other people upload.

It's been going for a few years now, and we have all learned from it.  (You have an idea but you are not sure how to do it. So you work it out, or get help from the forum, and you add a new tool/trick to your Photoshop box of trick.  People will tell you how they create any effects that you see and want to learn.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/something-for-the-weekend-part-238-bl...

There is a database of previous threads if you are interested.

A lot of the starter images are renders created by our @davescm with Blender and Substance 3D, and are beyond amazing.  Others might just be Photographs any of us have taken. 

Otherwise, you could browse Behance and similar online galleries.

https://www.behance.net/

Tell us what you are interested in, and we/I will fire some ideas at you.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Just remembered there are some Reddit Photoshop groups, but you have to post to a zillion threads and juggle chainsaws before they let you upload an actual image, so way too up themselves IMO.  There are lots of challenge groups on flickr, and they are unrestricted, although you might need a Mod/Admin to OK your joining some of the groups.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/ourdailychallenge/

[KevinArcamo]

I might try this one out! Thank you 🙂

[Stephen Marsh]

@KevinArcamo 

You could try digital painting, adapting from tutorials from traditional methods from Bob Ross:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAEQD0ULngi67rwmhrkNjMZKvyCReqDV4&si=kyZOlOYejgx_wJ1E

[KevinArcamo]

I'll check this one out, I like anime landscape most though 🙂

Thank you,