As an artist and a student I procrastinate a lot. The way I distract myself is by making plans and seeing friends, watching movies, shopping for things, eating food. I will do anything to distract myself sometimes. The 2 most popular things I use to distract myself is watching movies/ TV shows and also being on my phone. Just to get back on track, i will notice how much I need to get done and I will lock myself in my basement with soft music playing in the background and phone away with the TV off. I won’t come out till I have most of my things finished. It’s hard though because when I’m rut or an artist block I watch movies for inspiration as well. I love directing and telling a story, so movies obviously help me with that. I also go on long drives when I’m in artist block for new places to shoot at or if something catches my eye that I can base my work around I will use that as well.
This article down below talks about how today everyone watches movies to escape the world that they live in and I would say I do a lot because I love the way movies make me feel.
https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/film/why-do-we-watch-movies
Right now to distract myself I’m watching criminal minds, if you haven’t watched it, please do. It really does make you feel every emotion, some of the episodes are scary because some of them could actually happen, but overall this show makes me procrastinate.
