How to overcome a 'creative block'?

I came up with a great idea for a story, and decided the best way to get it on to paper would be an Manga comic (Japenese style drawing). I used to draw all the time but just lately I have had a huge creative block and I now find it hard to draw anything anymore. Can anyone suggest a way to get out of this creative block?

Comments

[jeff-o]

If you're not in a drawing mode, start writing things down in movie-script format. Eventually, start adding little doodles to the margins to better explain the scenes you're thinking up. Hopefully, at some point something will click and you'll just want to draw everything!

[blkhawk]

I met an artist who told me that every time that he encountered a creative block, he went back to the classics for inspiration. He loved oil painting but he stumbled with his creative block and tried something else like pottery. After a while he was back oil painting happily again.

[LoneWolf]

Snap out of it...

Just kidding :) If you used any guides to help you get started drawing manga you could go back over those. Or you could take a look at some of your past drawings and try to copy them (not trace them) to get an idea of how you used to do it. Or just keep on drawing it on scrap paper till' you start getting good at it again.

[Jayefuu]

Do something else. Stop what you can't progress with and stop fretting over it. Do something else creative for a while and hopefully you'll get inspired while doing that.

Works for me!

[Re-design]

Great idea!

[yokozuna]

Jayefuu's idea is good if you can afford the time. If you have to work through it, I suggest breaking it all down- start with an outline, break it down to pages, spend some time just thinking of things you want to incorporate and go back and add them to your outline. All the way down to pictures... do a rough layout, go back and add background characters and objects and such, then start working on your lines. Sometimes getting through a block is just about perseverance.