I know the answer is "make it!" but I'm not a natural. I want to make expressive vibrant abstract art with a 2000's "glow" but all I really see is "how to draw" "how to learn art" how to this how to that. How do I make art that comes from the heart and not from a step by step guide and isn't just drawing? I can draw kind of but to me it's a boring process and nothing I actually wanna make requires drawing. Teach me your ways, pls!!!
Art is the expression of ideas or emotions in a way that others can experience. It can be the physical product of that expression, such as what it seems you want to create. The problem is this: you are not being specific about what it is you want to produce. "From the heart" is not enough. You are ending up at basic art skills videos/tutorials, because someone who says she wants to write a symphony is first going to have to learn to read music and associate the notations with sounds (and silence for rest notations). If you want to perform one of Chopin's Nocturnes (from the heart or otherwise), you are going to have to learn to read music, sit down at a piano, stretch your fingers, and start learning some basic scales. If I say I want to be able to keep food cold in my house, that's not specific enough. I'm either going to have to buy a refrigerator, build a refrigerator, or fix the one sitting in my kitchen with a burned out evaporator fan motor. "How do I replace an evaporator fan motor for a Whirlpool refrigerator model X37541LL?" Now, that's a well-defined problem, one that can be solved. Get specific. Select a medium, assemble the materials, and start there. Until you say "paint," identify what you want to apply it to, and select some colors and a way to apply said paint, you can't create a painting. You haven't said even that you want to paint, only that you don't want to draw. That's not enough. You don't have to see, hear, or feel the exact completed work in your mind before you start, but you do have to decide whether your expressive, vibrant, abstract art is something others will see, touch, hear, touch, taste, or smell (or some combination). You have to get more specific from there. Work your way to the point at which you are moving and not just thinking, and you will create art. "Vision is not enough. It must be combined with action. It is not enough to stare up the steps. We must also step up the stairs." (Vaclav Havel) You want to go straight to action, without enough vision. If you want to step up some stairs, you first have to find a staircase. Standing in a flat space without a ladder, stairs, or anything to climb onto and asking someone: "How do I go up?" isn't going to get you anywhere. No one will know what it is you are seeking to do, and levitation is not a realistic skill for gravity-bound beings such as us.
