Lack of Inspiration

It's the end of the year and I'm feeling quite down.
I'll be posting a progression meme tomorrow or so and I'm quite happy with how and where I've taken my art this past year.

However, I'm feeling quite uninspired as of late. I have plenty that I want to draw but little to no will to start or complete it aside from wanting to or having to.

Typically my friends serve as my inspiration to draw, thinking it might make them happy and in turn, myself happy. Not so much as of late, but I also haven't seen the majority of my friends that much lately. The last month was filled with them working retail and me studying for exams. I'm meeting up with them on Wednesday for New Years, so maybe that will help but I'm not quite sure.

Ghibli movies were my inspiration at the beginning of the year or so and I went on a great binge. I've seen one or two Ghibli movies in the past few weeks and while they cheer me up, they haven't quite inspired me to create.

I need to restore my creative juices but I'm not sure how. I wouldn't say I'm quite in an art block, I'm just uninspired. I can create on a whim if I want to but the whims have been coming and going quite a lot lately. I'm not sure what's causing it. It may be my mild depression or it might be my loneliness. It could just be the winter blues or blahs or whatever you'd like to call it. We haven't gotten very much snow this year so it doesn't even really seem like winter; and yet the Solstice has already come and gone.

*sigh* I guess I'll figure it out eventually.