"Task: Dress as a Serious Artist"

I thought this excerpt from Julia Cameron's The Vein of Gold might amuse you! (Very tongue-in-cheek, of course).

"Drag out all of your basic black. Rip a few holes. Smudge some dark circles under your eyes. Grease your hair back in some patently unattractive dork hairdo. Sprinkle your shoes with specks of white. Scuff them. Do not wear a belt. Go to a coffee house. Act dour. Grimace and scribble furiously, cursing quietly under your breath. Finally announce, "Screw it!" and stalk out.

You may wish to undertake this role-playing with a friend. Go to a coffee shop together. You may wish to invent a fictional project you are working on, one involving only the most dour and existential themes. Additionally, you may wish to give your dramatic character all of the character traits associated with the most cliched version of a suffering artist: let it be known you have a serious drinking problem, you are promiscuous, you can't earn a living, you sponge off your friends, you are neurotic, self-centred, miserable, contemplating suicide ...

... For those of you who have been acting out some version of this already, it may break the code and allow you to look pretty in pink someday if that's what appeals to you."