Very good question, sometimes I make art out of what I THINK other people are saying in their art

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i struggle with this really bad and where i’m at rn is to just combine parts of references to make a brand new whole until i can figure out how to start from scratch

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I also have aphantasia, but I don’t think that limits creativity—it’s really just about practice and combining unlikely things in a way that

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Maybe you could try to make a sort of collage out of many different subjects and mediums, and then use that as a reference for a piece?

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