I Need A Filter For My Brain

Do you ever find that you have so many thoughts and ideas that it actually hinders you from creating anything at all?

I have SO many ideas and things I want to do, I don't even know where to start. I need to learn how to filter my thoughts. Maybe I should just start writing down everything and organizing my ideas. Cause I'm not only a "Fashion Designer"... I'm an "Artist" as well. So I'm CONSTANTLY having visions of garments I want to make. Or I'm thinking of poses or faces I could draw. Which I could apply to my drawings or my fashion sketches. I also think of music videos I could make. Is that weird? I literally will hear a song and picture the music video in my head and get super excited. The "music video" will then lead me to think of designs for "costumes".

I also feel like there is ALWAYS so much I want to do and/ or NEED to do. I NEED to produce more pencil drawings, but I'm already starting to get bored with copying pictures again. I don't see what I'm doing as creative at all. It is more of a relaxation for me. I do not have to think what-so-ever when I'm doing portraits in pencil. But I need to do more to include on my Etsy page (which isn't selling by the way... maybe because I only have 2 pieces up). My main goal for my art is to create things like I drew in my last post. But it's SO hard for me to start. I feel like it takes forever for me to FILTER my ideas for a drawing. Again with the TO MANY THOUGHTS. I will want to start a drawing. I will have a specific pose I will want to do and thats it. I usually don't know what the context of the drawing is at all. Maybe because I'm so used to doing Fashion Sketches with no background?

See I'm already kind of getting off track. My mind wanders SO easily it's ridiculous.

I'm ALWAYS excited when I don't have school because that means I have time to create art and work on other stuff. But then when I sit down to draw, I get discouraged because I have so many thoughts in my head that I get overwhelmed and just end up going to Facebook or Twitter or YouTube and wasting time. Hours have passed, and I have done nothing except waste my time "surfing the web."

Wow, I think what it boils down to is that I need to WRITE DOWN MY THOUGHTS IMMEDIATELY. Then also keep a Planner to further organize what I need to do. Because right now I write down nothing and everything is just in my head.

I just answered my own question. SEE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO WRITE STUFF DOWN?! Wow...