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Post by skycaptain on May 5, 2015 21:58:49 GMT
I'm sure i read somewhere that ADHDers can be really creative people. But i cant see any threads? Well, i think we should have one! I spent my entire childhood interested in one thing only - drawing. And it frustrated the hell out of me when i saw kids my own age who would colour outside the lines - to the point of arguments! A friend of my mum's showed me how to put lids on felt tips properly, and i took that tip like a commandment! And then as i got older, i proceeded to study art for my GCSE's at school and then waste another 3 yrs studying it at college. I say wasted, because like a typical ADHDer, never finished a single course, my desperations to complete them were futile. Shame, really. But i still enjoy drawing, writing and photography and like to thimk i'm at least a little bit good at it. I cant be the only one here who enjoys these things? I'd love to see other peoples artistic ceations I'm all fired up after my most recent drawing (which has taken months because i've had to do it bit by bit lol). And some photography photoshops which is my latest obsession!
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2015 8:48:15 GMT
Not sure about the div with the fake chains but like the Charger (but neither is a comment on the creative aspect).
I see creative ADHDers all the time. My own variety does not translate well to the page.
You should come along to one of my peer support meets - if they're not actually employed in a creative venture then most have some connection. Or doodle.
I used to be in bands (original material) where NTs were notable by their absence. All media is absolutely chocka with our fellow travellers, the more 'out there' the more likely.
The only recent thread on art was one of mine - I have a connection to a homeless charity and they invited 'us' to contribute.
Guess what happened next?
Lots of promises of creative work from the entire support group and WHOOSH there went the deadline.
We only had a few exhibits but we stole the show even though there were some serious artists showing fine art. Not that I'm biased or anything - but we rocked.
Just not much in the way of threads here.
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Post by tessaract on May 6, 2015 10:48:23 GMT
Ahh cool, I also love to be creative. I am also religious about putting the cap on the felt tip pen, I freak out at my boyfriend when he uses them because he doesnt care about the lid, I actually watch him like a hawk when he's using one or I usualy go off and find a pen for him to use, so I can relax. I love drawing although dont do a lot of that lately, learning how to paint and it is so complicated, goddam messy business too at home, now I know why painters get a studio. I have a youtube page where I have uploaded my video projects over the years, the older stuff has pretty grainy video quality but with the newer stuff I'm really trying to nail that lately with better quality images, all the technical stuff. I love making music videos for electronic music and making video art. www.youtube.com/channel/UCRpZi2h3iymi9q24D7gjoqQ
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2015 11:05:34 GMT
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Post by oldwolf on May 6, 2015 19:26:51 GMT
I used to be good with a pen and pencil too, many many years ago. I have very little of what i did left though, its all disappeared over time. And none of what i do have left is particularly good. I also wrote alot, but i have no way of telling if it was any good. My last creative spurt was on wargaming models, i was very good at custom building models and a fair painter. Maybe i'll see if i can find my old drawing pads, see what i actually have left. As for the school college thing, i was the same. I faired poorly in my GCSEs, dropped out of college three times (Including Art College) and Uni twice. One long string of fail. EDIT: As i suspected, i only have the one pad left and i contains nothing but pen doodles. :/ I used to be really good too pfft! Well, i might as well post them. Note the font is something (I like to think) that i created myself, inspired by my fascination with Japan and Japanese culture.
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Post by spanna on May 6, 2015 20:34:00 GMT
I wish I could draw... I can hardly draw a stick man.
I use to love writing stories and poetry though, I might see if I can find my old notebooks. I didn't really have much confidence in showing people. I was embarrassed by my spelling and grammar. I'll never forget (or forgive) a school teacher accusing me of copying a poem I once wrote!
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Post by Babble on May 7, 2015 9:48:28 GMT
I'm pretty creative, but like most ADD-ers I struggle to stick with just one thing.
I draw, but not as much as I used to. Same with painting. I love making stuff, but my only physical creations of late have been drystone walls and a chicken pen lol.
I write a lot - stories and poems - and if I ever get my act together, I hope to get some work published someday
I've also tried my hand at knitting, basket weaving, pottery (I love moulding clay - like playing with mud as a kid!), dress making, quilting, crochet, and card making with various degrees of success. I go through phases of interest, and currently I'm stuck on writing. Might get out and about taking more photos now that the weather's improving though!
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Post by shiveringsky on May 7, 2015 11:05:01 GMT
Another one for the mish mash approach to creative endeavour here. I'm one of those musician*/painter/scribbler/photographer writer types. Quite good at all depending on medium but no master of anything. See below (I cant resist an opportunity to post some stuff.) *Musician stretches it. Sound manipulator is the preferred (w*n*ery) term. I cant play anyone else's songs at all. Except the bass line from The Chain.
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Post by shapes on May 7, 2015 18:59:37 GMT
The Chain is a great song.
Well I think "creativity" is something everyone with ADHD probably has, but I struggle to be creative. I think I would probably come close to a diagnosis of Dyspraxia as I certainly don't have good fine motor skills so that makes drawing a frustrating affair. I know what I want to draw but I can't persuade my hand to get anywhere near and when you spend hours trying to get something you are happy with (we are perfectionists too) then someone does it 10x better in one attempt, it is frustrating.
It's the same thing for music really, I'd love to be able to sit down and play the guitar or another instrument but I don't think I could really do any better than learning a bunch of chords and I don't have the staying power to learn. I suppose it's a classic case of wanting the end result without the boredom of having to practice.
I suspect poetry would be the best fit, short numbers of words and more importance on grammar and structure and specific vocabulary. I did enjoy English at school but unfortunately had an English teacher who enjoyed humiliating and bullying me and encouraging the other pupils to do the same, so I avoided all things literature as much as possible for a while. Anyway you have to enjoy something to want to do it, not just the end result but the doing.
A lot of the issue is perfectionism. I don't enjoy doing things unless I'm good at them, and you usually need to practice and put effort into something to get good at it but that means doing something you are not good at as a stepping stone.
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Post by skycaptain on May 8, 2015 12:22:36 GMT
Awesome work, shiveringsky!! Particularly love the first one. So colourful! XD shapes, i know exactly what you mean! I can only really get into something if i'm in the right frame of mind - which usually takes a lot! Possibly why i failed so badly at college, all my friends were able to pluck something like a masterpiece out their arse in a matter of minutes. While i sat there and stared at a blank piece of paper for hours on end - knowing what i wanted to do, just not knowing where to start. But when i finally get over that first step, i get on a roll. I also write. Have self-published a book once when i was younger. Mucho crappo! lol full of spelling mistakes and grammer. Realy surprised the self-publisher did it for me tbh. Been since working on it further to get it perfect. Been writing it since 2002... might one day get there!! :/ But it's taking so long because i struggle to find the enthusiasm and motivation to work on it. I've tried to drop it and forget about it but i cant. It's something thats become a part of me now, the world i've created, the characters that have grown with me. I cant abandon it.
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Post by tati on May 27, 2015 17:38:41 GMT
I mainly make 3D stuff with the computer, at the moment. But I also like doing hand-made things. Decorated boxes, booklets, junk jewelry and other small things. I also paint, but at the computer. Sometimes I draw characters. Or go take photographs around. a cg paint (still in progress)
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Post by screenname on Jun 4, 2015 21:15:46 GMT
I'd quite like to write, I also sometimes play guitar, I even bought a bass.......but I never stick with it, or I...meh Oh and I also have a strange urge to learn all about how to create house music. I also wanted to start a record label......a little bit like factory records. Y'know several ideas all going off, but, none getting done.
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Post by tati on Jun 4, 2015 22:19:11 GMT
The above painting has been... well, in progress for a few years But I have maaany others ... in progress
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Post by skycaptain on Jun 5, 2015 7:34:46 GMT
I started another drawing at the weekend. But thinking I've started something a bit out of my league for what I want, could be a while before I build up courage to continue on it :/
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Post by Babble on Jun 5, 2015 9:04:43 GMT
I started a fanfiction 2 years ago - nearly 50,000 words in and no-where near finished. I'm determined to get there though, so I'm still writing!
I've also been writing the same original fic since I was about 10. I'm not even kidding - I've still got the first draft written in crayon lmao.
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Post by tati on Jun 6, 2015 6:56:36 GMT
So I see that it's quite common to have this sort of "block of the creativeness"... and to have doubts about one's own talent. In creating things, I usually start, make something, and leave it there at the first stages of creation, or incomplete anyway... and I was thinking "I'm just don't have the ability to complete it".
So, this is due to this blessed ADD...
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Post by Mouse on Apr 9, 2016 5:47:36 GMT
" I spent my entire childhood interested in one thing only - drawing. And it frustrated the hell out of me when i saw kids my own age who would colour outside the lines - to the point of arguments!" Read more: aadduk.proboards.com/thread/9092/where-all-creatives#ixzz45IppztkqHope it's okay to resurrect old thread but this made me laugh out loud at my own take at colouring in between the lines. I was a very timid and quiet child (where has she gone, I wonder?) but I have a very vivid memory of being in my first year of infants school and of a drawing incident. The task was for each of us to draw, within a dinner plate-sized circle, a spiral. When we had finished colouring it in we were to cut out the circle then cut along the spiral line to create a snake shape that we could hang up. I was totally absorbed in the job at hand when I was rudely interrupted by a bossy classmate telling me loudly I was "doing it all wrong" and she was going to tell on me!! My 'crime' was that I was colouring over the lines. Which was partly true. I'd coloured between all the lines very neatly except for around the outer edge of the circle! I was telling her that it didn't matter because we were cutting the circle out, so it wouldn't show, but she wouldn't accept that! Fifty years later I'm quietly impressed that I'd worked out when I needed to follow the rules, and when I didn't!
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Post by shiveringsky on Apr 13, 2016 14:59:51 GMT
I love that story Mouse. Fair play to you! I have a less good story about colouring inside the lines. I was abysmal at this as a kid. I simply didnt care enough about the activity of colouring in. So I had this one teacher who decided enough was enough. I needed to pay for my crimes with immediate effect. And so, she sent me off to the 6th class room with the instruction that I was to give the abomination to the teacher there. I must have been in 1st class at this point so it was very scary to go to the big kids class. But nothing prepared me for what would happen next (clickbait!). The teacher told me to go and sit by the wall and when I did she passed my art horror around. All the kids began to laugh and snicker. Openly encouraged by that teacher who just shook her head at me in disappointment. You'd swear I'd been tearing the heads off monkeys or something! Very traumatic. But it was also the point at which I suddenly became very focussed on colouring inside the lines. Two months later I won the school colouring contest. If that isnt an ADHD style turn around I dont know what is. And as painful a memory as that is, with all the damage it did my confidence, there's every chance I wouldnt have art to fall back on had it not gone that way. A very conflicting series of emotions round it. Anyway, here's to the freethinkers and the survivors. To art and outlets which enable us all to deal with the demons and damages of living a bit differently. Slainte!
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Post by alien on Apr 16, 2016 9:20:36 GMT
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Post by frameofmind on Apr 16, 2016 14:51:24 GMT
I am making a Documentary movie on adult ADHD there is a thread posted on the subject matter. I recon you take a look and if interested id love to have a chat about it.
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Post by merrial on Apr 16, 2016 23:46:55 GMT
Very interesting reading, I loved loved loved Art at school and that's all I ever wanted to do. I had some of my pottery and art put on display in the local library. I also did print and design. But like a lot of people's stories here I create sporadically. My son bought me some lovely paints and brushes for my birthday last year. So far I've completed two paintings and then started a third but wasn't happy with it because it didn't flow like the others. So I was stunted and haven't gone back to it since. But some great creativity posted on here. I am inspired
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Post by chrisandhisbrain on Apr 18, 2016 9:57:02 GMT
I did music technology at university. Luckily for me, around 80% of the course relied on creativity instead of 'academic' results, so I was able to achieve a 2:1 by getting 1st's in all the creative projects and just scraping by in all the theory based projects.
I currently work in marketing where I'm able to use my creative skills for good occasionally. But as you probably know, it sometimes get out of hand and before I know it I've spent a lot of time thinking of planning something that really is relevant to my work!
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Post by Mouse on Apr 18, 2016 18:22:11 GMT
ShiveringSky... your recollection made me mad at the way you were treated. But also glad that showed 'em ☺ I have to say that if I met a particular one of my teachers at primary school now I'd like to be telling her a few things, getting it off my chest- actually, in reality she'd be in her 70s and what'd be the point! I'd be tempted though to say that we spent what felt like some considerable time on a project where we blew up a balloon, covered it with strips of glue-soaked paper and painted and decorated them. Well, I'm sure I would have produced something reasonable if I'd been able to blow up my balloon! Instead I spent my time fretting and wandering around with this ruddy flat piece of rubber in my hands. I think she only noticed me when I was crying otherwise I was invisible ? I still can't blow a balloon up.
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