calm down, you have heaps of time. You can't think of good ideas when you are in a panic
The most important thing is to have ideas in your VAPD. They don't have to all stick together, you don't need to have a draft of an artwork which you plan to make across the year, its too early for that...just have ideas.
Spend a day looking up the artworks of Dali and other artists that inspire you. Stick copies of the artworks into your VAPD. Write why you like it etc. Have ideas and put them in. it DOES NOT mean that these things will even have the slightest of relevance to your final work. Your VAPD should just show how your ideas have evolved. When i did art, for the first half of the year i was spending my time on things that i ended up throwing out (an immersed broken computer in a concrete frame, hehe, it didn't turn out as expected), and most of my vapd had that crap in it, which i didnt even use. Have an idea of what medium you are good at. If you are great in one thing (i.e. painting) then do that. But if your strength is with ideas and not in a particular medium, then don't limit yourself to one medium. I combined digital works with construction. Nullanick, why not combine construction and painting? make a collection of things maybe?
Most importantly, the best works are often quite simple (well not too simple, but they aren't over-complicated) in design, the focus is the idea. Base your work on a theme (i.e. internet), think of things that are relevant to it (I'd like to see someone explore internet talk: lol, lmao, brb, etc). And just make things with that theme around it. Make a collection of things and near the end of the year, the coherence and selective bit comes in (what bits should you include, what should you not include). its far better to have 100's of works which you can discriminate from and pick about 10 for your final collection than having too few.
For construction, its a good idea to go to the hardware house. just seeing pieces of wood and metal might give you some ideas (but they are expensive, so think before you buy). CUBES always work
i got someone to cut cubes of wood for me and i stuck digital pictures on it and stuck it in a winerack. Compared to my failed concrete computer thing (which took 2 terms), it was simple and much more effective (took about a week, plus the digital pics which i had been making for several years).
This is the begining of the year. experiment with ideas, make things, spend a day making something, and research artists. Let worry motivate you but not consume you
