Over the years I've learned, it's really no rush gaining skills. Do hobbies when you enjoy them, focus and work hard when you can, and when you can't don't feel guilty for putting the hobby down. Perhaps there'll come a season when you want to come back to it, perhaps not. Some seasons you're not in a position to focus on it, and there may come a season when unexpectedly it suddenly "clicks." It's okay to explore all the good the world has to offer in the meantime. In my case, I've been circling the same hobbies for over 2 decades now. I used to feel awful about not being successful enough soon enough, especially when others did what I couldn't at younger ages. I had dreams of really "making money or something out of them, getting 'successful' or popular, etc." but over the years... I realized I only really wanted those things because other people online achieved those things. I like their work, their content, but it doesn't mean I have to take that path. And when I was forcing myself to was when I was the most miserable. Now I'm working a job in a completely different field comfortably from home, livelihood secured, and so my hobbies are just that once again. Fun activities to do or learn more about. I do still have goals for each of these hobbies, perhaps some will be achieved and others not, but it's all at my own pace. :)
@@finitedrawsstuff Thank you! And this animation was great, by the way! The disjointed hues were done so well, not to mention the perspective throughout!
There is a LOT of wisdom in this comment that I feel like people who haven't gone through the same experiences won't be able to understand, this is something I was and still struggle with to this day, I can't put into words how hard it is but you my friend expressed very well what many of us are going through.
I love seeing the “chromatic abberation” show the dissonance between expectations and reality!! This subtle bit was EASILY readable in this animation, so I wanna give kudos!!
So that's what's that special visual effect I see every now and then is called! Thank you kind person on the Internet for casually mentioning the name of it! ^_^
The gifted kid syndrome be hitting hard man, And a note You won’t always get it right on the first try, I know and it’s alright to make mistakes even if that pesky voice in your head or someone says otherwise. you can be tired! Practice makes better not perfect. You won’t be perfect at anything but you can be really good at it, to the point others think you’re perfect. So keep on going, whether it’s a dream, a hobby or something that a voice says it’s silly. Please don’t give in to the pressure, because only you can decide what’s good for you. Not even your parents Anyways that’s it. Hope y’all have a great time!
gifted kids are lie they just secretly learned it and they look like they skilled but most of the time dont even reach high levels because dont have motivation to do so
As i gifted kid that started piano as a hobby 5 years ago i must say that i rel- DONT relate at all ahahhahahahah i was immediately talented at the piano for some reason so get DUNKED ON i kept on playing and gotten better, just dont look at the other (non) achievements in my life. Also even if i was very good at piano i was lazy af at first, its taken me years to slowly get the discipline to learn how to learn but since i already had a pleasure and motivation to play piano plus external factors that pushed me to keep playing, i stayed patient with it and kept improving albeit slowly
What? Are humans collecting the comments now? I would be thankful if someone liked my animations, not some comments that I randomly drop everywhere... that's funny 😂
I first started crocheting around 4 years ago. It was during the spring in 2020 and I was bored, so I decided to try it out. I only learned how to do a simple square using the single crochet stitch, but even then the squares were wonky (the rows getting longer then shorter making the sides of the square wavy with a bunch of holes in the middle). I tried making a bucket hat and a beanie, both of which didn’t turn out how I wanted to, so I kinda just quit for a while. A year or so later, I was gifted a bunch of yarn and crochet hooks from a friend who learned that I tried crochet once and just had that stuff sitting in their attic. Since I had a lot more materials and was getting bored of my current hobby at the time, I decided to try and pick it up again. I went on RUclips and looked up how to crochet animals. Most of the videos were of amigurumi (basically stuffed animals), but I found a simple one of a flat butterfly and thought it looked cute. There were a lot of new crochet techniques in the video that I hadn’t learned before, but it was a beginner friendly video so the person showed what they were doing and what it was called very clearly. It took a couple (around 6) butterflies to make it without it looking lopsided, but when I finally got it to look how it did in the video, I was super excited! So with my knowledge of the techniques I learned from the video, I decided to try other flat shapes such as a heart and a flower. And once I got comfortable with those, I decided I wanted to crochet a gift for a friend of mine and, since they loved cats, I looked up how to crochet a cat on YT. I found a beginner friendly amigurumi video and followed along with it. I was really proud of the finished product and my friend loved it too! Since I knew I could crochet a cat, I started creating other things, most of which were amigurumi animals. But recently I decided to try making clothing. My first project was a hexagon cardigan (jacket) and I definitely learned what not to do when creating them, but it turned out fine overall. I made another hexagon cardigan and it turned out better than the first one. I’m now making a sweater and it’s going well so far. I’m glad I decided to pick up crocheting again and that it’s going so well, but I understand what it’s like trying a new hobby and not picking it up again because I wasn’t immediately good at it. I probably would not like crochet as much as I do if I had tried a more difficult pattern rather than the butterfly. I have had many other hobbies that I’ve tried and then quit a little while after, either due to frustration, a lack of interest, or a lack of time, but I’ve been able to find hobbies that I enjoy. Overall, trying out hobbies is fun to do, you’ll find some hobbies that you take to immediately, some that take a bit of trial and error, and others you’ll find don’t interest you as much. For trying new hobbies, I would recommend learning the basics first (obviously), but once you’re able to remember a majority of the basics, challenge yourself with a new part of the hobby that has some new ideas/techniques in them but not an overwhelming amount. For example, playing the piano: learn the notes (or have some tape with the name of the notes on the corresponding key), practice beginner songs (Mary had a little lamb, hot cross buns, ect.), and once you’re able to play those songs without pausing between each chord/note, try other songs that are a bit more difficult (a bit faster paced, a less repetitive tune, more movement between notes, in a different time, ect.) while making sure it’s not too difficult.
Thank you so much for your comment and advice!! I have picked up the piano again and decided to take things slowly this time. Hopefully i'll stick with it till the end
@@finitedrawsstuff I’m glad it helped! Learning a hobby gradually always runs the risk of losing interest, but if you’re able to stick with it, you learn a lot of tricks that help if you want to experiment with the hobby (which, for me, is my favorite part)
I have made the same mistake, except I only know how to make a stitch and I have no idea what a magic loop is and never picked up the hobby afterwards again. **inhales,** *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-*
For all who wants to take up a hobby, there is a very big difference with learning how to do something and taking up a new hobby. I’m a digital/traditional artist who wants to learn how to make music or mastering to play piano and learn In filmography, but my mind doesn’t start with this high goal of learning to make a whole ass song, or a filming a whole ass movie. You need to start with why you even have the tools/instrument for your hobby in the first place. Pick up a pencil and paper put the pencil on the paper and make a line and whatever shape I don’t care if it ain’t perfect looking, there you can draw now, have fun. Pick up your phone and take a selfie or take a photo of the sky, or record yourself doing whatever, there you can do photography and videography. Take your piano, play whatever notes I don’t care if it sounds dissonant af, there you might be a pianist now. Maybe soon you’ll have fun drawing a bunch of stickmen you’ll even take the interest to try to make a face even it looks bad, maybe you’ll have fun taking photos that suddenly you’ll try to take photos and videos in such a way you’ll suddenly try putting a subject and background in a specific composition, even though your camera in your phone doesn’t have high dynamic range, maybe you’ll have fun playing the piano so much you’ll try to play the first few notes of “Megalovania” to troll your friends that you may even try to learn how to play chords. To take up a tool/instrument is not that the tool was made for you to be good at it or impress your peers. It all started with just having fun at it for yourself and never taking it too seriously the first time, that is how you take up a hobby… Goodluck
When i start new hobbies or new games. I tend to dip my foot but not really spend much time. But as i get better i find myself spending more time since im drawn in to the cooler things im doing since i have enough skills to do more interesting things.
That tutorial binge-watching section is way too accurate. I recently picked up animation, and I have probably watched a month and a half worth of content on posing, weight, and how to use the program. 😭
I literally went through this video's process for 3D animation, except I throw everything into the closet tagged "return to when I doubt everything else again yet inevitably thrown back in."
learning stuff became a lot easier after I reminded myself on how to learn. all the studying and listening to people yap, that’s all a side activity because to learn you just kinda gotta do everything over and over and over and over and over again until your brain EATS the information and becomes the hobby, like how do you think you got so good at video games.
thissss bro, ive told heaps of people with art you just need to constantly be learning and looking at other peoples art and putting stuff into practice and just trying again and again and if you fail u THEN use a tutorial, instead of just info binging
i’m very into crafty things and i have tried about 7 or 8 different things, gave up on like 4, then later gave up on like 2 more, gave up on another and now just go back and forth with school and my one hobby - crocheting yea thanks for reading my hobby backstory oh and i bake sometimes
I feel this. Learning to sing feels almost impossible to me as an adult. I think it's coz I'm an adult that I feel embarrassed for being a noob at it when a lot of singers and musicians started waaaaay younger and are masters at it by my age. I'm already good at drawing coz I started waaaaay younger and had my entire future ahead of me. Now that I'm older, anything new I wanna try feels like I'm too late. But, it's never too late. If I quit now, I'd look back with regret, at an age when I coulda been a pro had I kept it going. So, I won't give up. I love music too much to not give it my all. Love over fear
Ah yes I love this ADHD kinda s. hit when I get interested in something for a day/week/month and then lose the interest completely. I've had dozens of hobbies with reoccurring interest, but eventually left with nothing, but depression and smth like learned helplessness. Now if I catch myself getting interested in something - I stop myself, knowing how painful it will be to lose interest. I'm grey now.
Fireworks are short-lived, but they make the most spectacular display on the way out. Embrace that everything is temporary and enjoy making those beautiful sparks.
part of the problem i had with piano is most of the beginner songs weren’t fun to play. The Tarantula Dance ended up becoming my favorite out of the book my instructor made me use and that became the reason i stayed on it at the time
I was drawing for 2 years and never felt like I understood what I was doing, or what I wanted from it. My improvement was minimal. I always found myself wanting to do anything other than draw because of my lack of creativity and self doubt. I always felt like I should have been doing better than I was. Eventually I gave up, and stopping made me happier, though I still feel like it's something I want to do. I dunno if I'll ever revisit it.
i was listening to this podcast and they said how things like this, you're creating the habit of always wanting more, and so when you work hard to find something and do so much to master it, when you eventually become top grade and really good at it, you wont be happy. in that way, you'll never really be satisfied with what you do. (the podcast is on spotify and probably other platforms, its Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, the episodes are weekly and give rlly interesting perspectives. one of the ones that got me looking into him was this really old doctor talking about death (? i think, smth like that), super interesting)
As a musician, this is exactly how I feel about drawing 😅 much respect for the animation, gonna have to go to my closet of stuff I never touch and pull out a notbook and start doodling
I was worried that was going to happen after I invested hundreds into tools and supplies for making a couple fursuits, but I've been putting in 5-10 hours a week for the last 2 months and I'm still having fun with it. It has absorbed almost all of my free time.
I remember when my parents had bought me a violin when I was somewhere between 6-8. I had been inspired by my favorite violinist at the time Lindsey Styrling and I really tried my heart at it with my lessons from a off the shelf music program on my laptop but in the end I never got any good with it. Then due to my father having a memory about me as a baby with a piano, my family now had a piano (specifically a yamaha) but this wasn't something I wanted but I tried anyway. But the problem was that I never asked to learn the piano so I quickly lost interest.
I remember an artist saying that it's important to figure out if an idea is genuinely something you want to make, vs something that would be cool if it existed. That way you can put focus on the ideas that you wanna work on while not chasing every stray idea and getting burnt out in the process.
@ drawing, a good piece of advice I've heard (thanks pikat) is that you gotta get through all the bad drawings before you start getting to the good ones
I almost feel called out but I actually didn't do this for once. I started by borrowing the library piano for a few weeks at a time and refreshed myself on how to read sheet music (we learnt in primary school so I had a vague idea). Then I learned the basics on a trial of simply piano and flowkey. And now I just print out sheet music to learn. I got an early christmas present from my mum, it was a yamaha 363. I play it pretty much every day for atleast 10 minutes. I at the very least just play Stolas' lullaby once a day lmao.
I've recently attempted to pick up music as a hobby, and have been an artist for years. Even though I've been doodling and drawing as long as I've been able to hold a crayon, it still feels like this sometimes. You see someone who's so unbelievably good at their craft and it drives you to pursue it. The difference is how it ends. I never get it right of course, which is just as frustrating as it is true, but I keep pushing with it. I feel like a beginner in many of the things I draw. I used to draw only animals, and felt like a beginner trying to draw humans. Now it's the other way around. And although I struggle to keep going with the music, me knowing that I'm not going to get it right, and that there is SO MUCH you could POSSIBLY master with any form of art makes me feel better about it. I don't practice all the time but I practice when I feel like it, just like when I draw, even if it's all the time. I'm never going to be perfect, but I want to engage in something that makes me happy, create something that makes me happy even if it never truly reaches the standards in my mind. It's going to take time to get anywhere and that's okay. Keep trying at something you love. It's worth it.
This was me for my entire goddamn life, until recently when it finally hit me that I'm never going to get good enough to do the things I'm impressed by if I give up just for being a beginner, and that having a ton of things I know a little bit about is fun, but not satisfying. So I picked the hobby that impressed me most, that has been this kind of fixation on and off for years (oil painting), and I'm choosing to stick to it. No throwing it into the bin, no giving up, but I am allowed to put it down when I get frustrated. And now I've signed up for drawing classes so I can improve drawing faster, because I need that skill to get to my real goal. It sucks that it took me until my 30s to have the self confidence and internal commitment to myself to actually stick to one thing long term, even if it's hard and I don't understand it instantly. But better now than never! I've also had to learn to say "that hobby looks really cool and I really enjoy seeing it and knowing that it exists". It sounds stupid but it helps me remember that I'm allowed to just....enjoy witnessing cool stuff too. I don't have to DO all the things I think are neat.
This is true for us autists, but that initial interest takes soo much longer to subside, and often that means we actually learn the thing we’re trying to successfully, it’s great until you realize that you have nobody to share all your passion with because everyone else quit so much earlier, and nobody wants to hear about the octave of E minor when they don’t really care at all (I never got into the piano though, and it’s been years since I played the cello, so I don’t remember everything about how music works) I personally got into something way more niche and now can both spit out guilty gear lore at stupid pace, and dominate you in any given match
This is me with literally any TTRPG that isn't modern D&D. I don't even want to play D&D, be interested in a game of literally anything else please god (especially if it's Mythras) ...Also Elder Scrolls lore. However far you think that rabbit hole goes, it goes further. Stuff you think of as deep iceberg shit feels almost surface-level at this point. Yes, I have been making a Mythras Elder Scrolls hack for years. No, it will probably never be used for anything.
This me af, thing is, i put two years into learning the guitar, two years everyday but then i stopped because my highschool didn't have a guitar class and i had 0 energy to do anything after school so eventually i just forgot the notes The muscle memory is still there tho
More time is needed! Some say that the more difficulty in a task is positively related to how fulfilling it can be. The most important aspect is finding what makes your gears turn. I am mainly a musician, but I am trying my hand at physics as well. Boy it is really deep and at times utterly beyond me. That is what makes it tantalizing. Learning is not a comely process, rather it is a climb to see the view of life with a completely different perspective. Idk, I am young, so I could be wrong and hideously idealistic. Good fortune to all in pursuit of their craft! Played for five years; still suck:( But I love it. Sucking is the best part of doing something.
I can make soundtracks for my own animations, I'm not a profesional, nothing to proud of actually... but till my music fits the atmosphere that I need, I'm ok. All those lessons is the most exhausting. You better dont watch how they are doing it, try doing it yourself instead! It's like a game, and its more fun when you don't know parts of it, experiment, be unique, do it your way. Science and lessons just ruins your inner child. At least that's how I make music. Maybe this comment will be helpful for someone tho... 😅
I've always had such a complicated relationship with art, i fixed it by quitting after a lot of years and switchting to guitar, it jusy clicked immediatly, it felt right and even if i was bad i could still enjoy it. I went like "damn so that's what a hobby is supposed to feel like"
As someone with ADHD I have an issue with committing o hobbies once I’ve gotten “good enough” at them. I can draw, 3D model, knit, crochet, sew, play Haggstrom on the Kalimba, papercraft/origami… because once I reach a competent level, I guess I subconsciously realise that the initial challenge is over and any further progress would be much less impressive. In a way, it’s cool that I can do so many creative things, but I do wish I could stick to a hobby for a little longer.
I always found setting some sort of goal, a reasonable goal for yourself, always makes it not just so much more fulfilling to complete, but also boosts your chance of actually delivering tenfold. I've seen it personally millions of times my entire life. ESPECIALLY when there is a real world pressure to deliver. I wanted to learn the drums, and I did, I got pretty decent. But eventually the drum pad got put in the infamous drawer of aimless hobbies. Suddenly, when a project at school allows me to basically practice an instrument for a grade, I ended up picking it back up and improving fast, consistently as well, with my friends. Ironically it was bass, I didn't even play drums and gave the pad to my friend for him to do the same. Even when giving yourself pressure can be difficult to visualize, setting goals just makes everything better. Do you want to improve at drawing? Make some kind of small comic idea and try to draw it. Do you want to improve at music? Try to improve until a point where you can do a cover of your favorite song. Do you want to improve at game design? Try to improve to create a demo or pitch of a game idea you have. If you dont set realistic goals, chances are the hobby drawer is only going to fill.
I love your animation style! So cool seeing the multiple color effects here and there. I feel this video in so many ways. Did the same kinda thing with instruments. Nice to dip my toes back into music once in a while. Won’t get better if I don’t try.
As someone who’s played piano since I was five, I laughed when I realized bro was like “ah yes, ima learn piano to play moonlight sonata third movement . *right now* “
So true. But I prefer just juggle my hobbies. 3 month -1st, 3 months -2nd, 3 month -3rd, 3 month -1st, etc. I didn't touch my violin in years though, but.... Buy at least medium quality instruments for the start or research better the low budget options. You can stuck with instrument with issues in such areas you didn't know exist. My violin literally untunable, and first guitar has 11th and 12th frets the same pitch, so I basically have no 11th fret. First guitar got somehow more playable with years though, and I don't really use 11th because of prefering improv. It better keeps tuning even on the 3d string now, which is most prone to getting untuned. Idk why it got better. A miracle. But new strings are half of the sound. So better change them often. Maybe that's part of the reasons why.
I JUST had a 4-ish hour conversation about this vicious cycle with my step father. This hits a little too close to home. Even the titles of the videos at the beginning are similar in circumstance. The only difference is that I cycle through my interests over and over again...feels like two steps back, one step forward. And, I have SO many other things I wanna learn. Very nice work with excecuting this concept. I love the creative display of thoughts as video titles.
I can absolutely relate to this, I picked up a piano quite some while ago because it looked "CoOl aNd EaSy" online, turns out, it's not that easy as people make it look. I've tried it a few times since then but it hasn't really "clicked" for me. A bit after that I actually got a drum kit like in your video, but I've stuck with that one for quite some time now. That's one of the first hobbies I actually quite enjoy - even though it probably sounds pretty horrible and off timing to others still, it is very fun for me. I just put a few minutes into practice when I feel like it and take it quite slow, I'm not trying to be the "best of best".
The absolute best way to learn piano is literally playing random keys forever untill you find cool sounds, learn to recreate them. This works for anything you want to learn ✨️Bulshit your way into understanding it✨️ Thats how our ansestors did it, when there where no tutorials then
As someone who loves everything, and has done most hobbies i usually learn the basics before going to another hobby that interests me. Some atick to me and do it whenever i can and other just stay as the basics :]
That's how I kinda feel with drawing rn. I do a sketch, I hate it, I neglect the drawing tablet, I see something cool, I dust off the tablet, Rinse and repeat.
J’ai découvert cette chaine grâce à cette vidéo , au début j’avais cru que t’avais 5K Abonnés mais non , je me suis abonné et je te donne tout mon respect.
Learning any new piano piece is difficult. Unless you’ve been playing for multiple years, you will slow down and methodically hit every note. I’ve done it plenty of times, but it’s the feeling of playing it at full speed with perfect accuracy that makes the struggle worth it. Don’t give up just because it’s going slow. You _need_ to go slow to go fast.
I wanted to learn Tokelauan language, but there were so few info about it and I gave up :( (If you have tips how to learn it PLEASE TELL ME, I STILL WANT TO LEARN IT!)
It's kinda weird that this is a video about not sticking with hobbies because it takes too long to get gud but this guy probably spent months animating this
Omg I feel this. I’m currently learning how to draw as a hobby to try and build up to animation, but OH MY GOODNESS is envy one hell of a bitch, and frustration is encouraging her!
Pretty sure this got recommended to me because I've taken up piano recently and my entire RUclips feed is piano covers or tips videos ahaha 😅 it's a grind no doubt, but nothing worth having is easy to obtain or else everybody would do it.
I got a piano and then played it for an hour a day for four months and I got decent at it. But ever since then I’ve barely made any progress on it. It’s like the more you learn the slower you learn. Like sure I’ve definitely gotten a lot better since then but the progress is slow and steady.
Relatable (sadly 😂), but an additional type for me is... retrying old hobbies I've had in the past, but not being able to retain the same old feelings/thrill back then. But still I think it's best for us to always fervently follow the pursuit of that one thing we chose, old or new, and surely nothing will get in our way. :)
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FOOTAGE OF ME anyways really cool animation, and i really like the effect you put when the guy feels inspired by the hobby great stuff man!
While you may not be able to teach yourself to read music, play chords or anything complicated, you can learn a simple song in 10 minutes. Thought myself some themes from video games lol.
HELLO WHY WAS 1:14 SO GOOD + also the thumbnail honestly looks like the visual representation of "anybody can find love (except you.)" in a good wayy :3
Honestly, I would pick up the drums if a random youtube video was playing of somebody playing Caravan from Whiplash after I just had a mental breakdown because I couldn't learn how to play the piano the moment I got it
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so much respect for animating the hands
As a pianist, i too respect
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cheap drawing tablet
as a pianist and artist, i hate hands
Seeing those who put in the hours preform is truly something, they make it look soo easy yet it's actually really hard
True. They deserve ALL the respect 🙏
Preforming is hard
These, my friend, are called practicing
Over the years I've learned, it's really no rush gaining skills.
Do hobbies when you enjoy them, focus and work hard when you can, and when you can't don't feel guilty for putting the hobby down.
Perhaps there'll come a season when you want to come back to it, perhaps not. Some seasons you're not in a position to focus on it, and there may come a season when unexpectedly it suddenly "clicks." It's okay to explore all the good the world has to offer in the meantime.
In my case, I've been circling the same hobbies for over 2 decades now. I used to feel awful about not being successful enough soon enough, especially when others did what I couldn't at younger ages. I had dreams of really "making money or something out of them, getting 'successful' or popular, etc." but over the years... I realized I only really wanted those things because other people online achieved those things. I like their work, their content, but it doesn't mean I have to take that path. And when I was forcing myself to was when I was the most miserable.
Now I'm working a job in a completely different field comfortably from home, livelihood secured, and so my hobbies are just that once again. Fun activities to do or learn more about. I do still have goals for each of these hobbies, perhaps some will be achieved and others not, but it's all at my own pace. :)
That's Amazing! Good luck with that!
@@finitedrawsstuff Thank you! And this animation was great, by the way! The disjointed hues were done so well, not to mention the perspective throughout!
well said!
There is a LOT of wisdom in this comment that I feel like people who haven't gone through the same experiences won't be able to understand, this is something I was and still struggle with to this day, I can't put into words how hard it is but you my friend expressed very well what many of us are going through.
I feel like this is the final piece of thought that I needed to read for the same issue I have. Thank you stranger, I really needed that :]
I love seeing the “chromatic abberation” show the dissonance between expectations and reality!! This subtle bit was EASILY readable in this animation, so I wanna give kudos!!
So that's what's that special visual effect I see every now and then is called! Thank you kind person on the Internet for casually mentioning the name of it! ^_^
The hardest part is getting through the beginner phase.
so fucking true
It feels like I'm never through the beginning phase
@@reremu js gotta keep thuggin it out man
The gifted kid syndrome be hitting hard man,
And a note
You won’t always get it right on the first try, I know and it’s alright to make mistakes even if that pesky voice in your head or someone says otherwise. you can be tired! Practice makes better not perfect. You won’t be perfect at anything but you can be really good at it, to the point others think you’re perfect.
So keep on going, whether it’s a dream, a hobby or something that a voice says it’s silly. Please don’t give in to the pressure, because only you can decide what’s good for you. Not even your parents
Anyways that’s it. Hope y’all have a great time!
Really like your profile picture
gifted kids are lie they just secretly learned it and they look like they skilled but most of the time dont even reach high levels because dont have motivation to do so
As i gifted kid that started piano as a hobby 5 years ago i must say that i rel- DONT relate at all ahahhahahahah i was immediately talented at the piano for some reason so get DUNKED ON i kept on playing and gotten better, just dont look at the other (non) achievements in my life.
Also even if i was very good at piano i was lazy af at first, its taken me years to slowly get the discipline to learn how to learn but since i already had a pleasure and motivation to play piano plus external factors that pushed me to keep playing, i stayed patient with it and kept improving albeit slowly
Thank you for this😭😭
I was forced to learn piano when I was 5 and it lasted till I was 14 when I finally had enough. I hated it from the start and till the end. still do.
that guy gotta need another 2 years learning that one single drum phrase
woah 2? that's being generous😅
@@finitedrawsstuff only if he put all his time for learning drums and watched that movie without feeling bored
shiny object syndrome be like
edit: 300 likes? Damn
Bruh r/Beatmetoit
thanks to you I realize why I keep dropping my animation projects 💀
What? Are humans collecting the comments now? I would be thankful if someone liked my animations, not some comments that I randomly drop everywhere... that's funny 😂
I first started crocheting around 4 years ago. It was during the spring in 2020 and I was bored, so I decided to try it out. I only learned how to do a simple square using the single crochet stitch, but even then the squares were wonky (the rows getting longer then shorter making the sides of the square wavy with a bunch of holes in the middle). I tried making a bucket hat and a beanie, both of which didn’t turn out how I wanted to, so I kinda just quit for a while.
A year or so later, I was gifted a bunch of yarn and crochet hooks from a friend who learned that I tried crochet once and just had that stuff sitting in their attic. Since I had a lot more materials and was getting bored of my current hobby at the time, I decided to try and pick it up again. I went on RUclips and looked up how to crochet animals. Most of the videos were of amigurumi (basically stuffed animals), but I found a simple one of a flat butterfly and thought it looked cute.
There were a lot of new crochet techniques in the video that I hadn’t learned before, but it was a beginner friendly video so the person showed what they were doing and what it was called very clearly. It took a couple (around 6) butterflies to make it without it looking lopsided, but when I finally got it to look how it did in the video, I was super excited!
So with my knowledge of the techniques I learned from the video, I decided to try other flat shapes such as a heart and a flower. And once I got comfortable with those, I decided I wanted to crochet a gift for a friend of mine and, since they loved cats, I looked up how to crochet a cat on YT. I found a beginner friendly amigurumi video and followed along with it. I was really proud of the finished product and my friend loved it too!
Since I knew I could crochet a cat, I started creating other things, most of which were amigurumi animals. But recently I decided to try making clothing. My first project was a hexagon cardigan (jacket) and I definitely learned what not to do when creating them, but it turned out fine overall. I made another hexagon cardigan and it turned out better than the first one. I’m now making a sweater and it’s going well so far.
I’m glad I decided to pick up crocheting again and that it’s going so well, but I understand what it’s like trying a new hobby and not picking it up again because I wasn’t immediately good at it. I probably would not like crochet as much as I do if I had tried a more difficult pattern rather than the butterfly.
I have had many other hobbies that I’ve tried and then quit a little while after, either due to frustration, a lack of interest, or a lack of time, but I’ve been able to find hobbies that I enjoy. Overall, trying out hobbies is fun to do, you’ll find some hobbies that you take to immediately, some that take a bit of trial and error, and others you’ll find don’t interest you as much.
For trying new hobbies, I would recommend learning the basics first (obviously), but once you’re able to remember a majority of the basics, challenge yourself with a new part of the hobby that has some new ideas/techniques in them but not an overwhelming amount. For example, playing the piano: learn the notes (or have some tape with the name of the notes on the corresponding key), practice beginner songs (Mary had a little lamb, hot cross buns, ect.), and once you’re able to play those songs without pausing between each chord/note, try other songs that are a bit more difficult (a bit faster paced, a less repetitive tune, more movement between notes, in a different time, ect.) while making sure it’s not too difficult.
Thank you so much for your comment and advice!! I have picked up the piano again and decided to take things slowly this time. Hopefully i'll stick with it till the end
@@finitedrawsstuff I’m glad it helped! Learning a hobby gradually always runs the risk of losing interest, but if you’re able to stick with it, you learn a lot of tricks that help if you want to experiment with the hobby (which, for me, is my favorite part)
That’s a lot of words
I have made the same mistake, except I only know how to make a stitch and I have no idea what a magic loop is and never picked up the hobby afterwards again.
**inhales,** *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-*
if someone who knits is a knitter, then are you perhaps... a crotch-eater?
For all who wants to take up a hobby, there is a very big difference with learning how to do something and taking up a new hobby. I’m a digital/traditional artist who wants to learn how to make music or mastering to play piano and learn In filmography, but my mind doesn’t start with this high goal of learning to make a whole ass song, or a filming a whole ass movie.
You need to start with why you even have the tools/instrument for your hobby in the first place. Pick up a pencil and paper put the pencil on the paper and make a line and whatever shape I don’t care if it ain’t perfect looking, there you can draw now, have fun. Pick up your phone and take a selfie or take a photo of the sky, or record yourself doing whatever, there you can do photography and videography. Take your piano, play whatever notes I don’t care if it sounds dissonant af, there you might be a pianist now.
Maybe soon you’ll have fun drawing a bunch of stickmen you’ll even take the interest to try to make a face even it looks bad, maybe you’ll have fun taking photos that suddenly you’ll try to take photos and videos in such a way you’ll suddenly try putting a subject and background in a specific composition, even though your camera in your phone doesn’t have high dynamic range, maybe you’ll have fun playing the piano so much you’ll try to play the first few notes of “Megalovania” to troll your friends that you may even try to learn how to play chords.
To take up a tool/instrument is not that the tool was made for you to be good at it or impress your peers. It all started with just having fun at it for yourself and never taking it too seriously the first time, that is how you take up a hobby… Goodluck
When i start new hobbies or new games. I tend to dip my foot but not really spend much time. But as i get better i find myself spending more time since im drawn in to the cooler things im doing since i have enough skills to do more interesting things.
NOT THE ANIMATION OF THE HANDS ON THE PIANO ACCURATE ASF!!! PROPSS BROOO
That tutorial binge-watching section is way too accurate. I recently picked up animation, and I have probably watched a month and a half worth of content on posing, weight, and how to use the program. 😭
I literally went through this video's process for 3D animation, except I throw everything into the closet tagged "return to when I doubt everything else again yet inevitably thrown back in."
This is so real!!!
The dude playing whiplash at the end was so accurate
randomly hearing caravan again activated an undiscovered part of my brain
Bruppo brimmi noop opppooooo
Bang bang zoop zop
learning stuff became a lot easier after I reminded myself on how to learn. all the studying and listening to people yap, that’s all a side activity because to learn you just kinda gotta do everything over and over and over and over and over again until your brain EATS the information and becomes the hobby, like how do you think you got so good at video games.
thissss bro, ive told heaps of people with art you just need to constantly be learning and looking at other peoples art and putting stuff into practice and just trying again and again and if you fail u THEN use a tutorial, instead of just info binging
I can definitely relate I have like 5 or more hobby’s and 3 of them I gave up entirely
Real
i’m very into crafty things and i have tried about 7 or 8 different things, gave up on like 4, then later gave up on like 2 more, gave up on another and now just go back and forth with school and my one hobby - crocheting
yea thanks for reading my hobby backstory
oh and i bake sometimes
Lowkey had small phases of like more than 70 different hobbies especially during the pandemic
@@dryelene me tooooooooo
I feel this. Learning to sing feels almost impossible to me as an adult. I think it's coz I'm an adult that I feel embarrassed for being a noob at it when a lot of singers and musicians started waaaaay younger and are masters at it by my age. I'm already good at drawing coz I started waaaaay younger and had my entire future ahead of me. Now that I'm older, anything new I wanna try feels like I'm too late. But, it's never too late. If I quit now, I'd look back with regret, at an age when I coulda been a pro had I kept it going. So, I won't give up. I love music too much to not give it my all. Love over fear
Ah yes I love this ADHD kinda s. hit when I get interested in something for a day/week/month and then lose the interest completely.
I've had dozens of hobbies with reoccurring interest, but eventually left with nothing, but depression and smth like learned helplessness. Now if I catch myself getting interested in something - I stop myself, knowing how painful it will be to lose interest. I'm grey now.
Fireworks are short-lived, but they make the most spectacular display on the way out. Embrace that everything is temporary and enjoy making those beautiful sparks.
>buys cheap piano
>starts off by learning BACH
>wants to try drums
>gonna start off by tryna play a piece written TO BE HARD
Realest video ever seen. Losing focus was really well captured by the person becoming doubled lines
part of the problem i had with piano is most of the beginner songs weren’t fun to play. The Tarantula Dance ended up becoming my favorite out of the book my instructor made me use and that became the reason i stayed on it at the time
I was drawing for 2 years and never felt like I understood what I was doing, or what I wanted from it. My improvement was minimal. I always found myself wanting to do anything other than draw because of my lack of creativity and self doubt. I always felt like I should have been doing better than I was. Eventually I gave up, and stopping made me happier, though I still feel like it's something I want to do. I dunno if I'll ever revisit it.
i was listening to this podcast and they said how things like this, you're creating the habit of always wanting more, and so when you work hard to find something and do so much to master it, when you eventually become top grade and really good at it, you wont be happy. in that way, you'll never really be satisfied with what you do.
(the podcast is on spotify and probably other platforms, its Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, the episodes are weekly and give rlly interesting perspectives. one of the ones that got me looking into him was this really old doctor talking about death (? i think, smth like that), super interesting)
As a musician, this is exactly how I feel about drawing 😅 much respect for the animation, gonna have to go to my closet of stuff I never touch and pull out a notbook and start doodling
0:10 witnessing the raw talent of valentina lisitsa is enough to get anyone to want to learn piano
I was worried that was going to happen after I invested hundreds into tools and supplies for making a couple fursuits, but I've been putting in 5-10 hours a week for the last 2 months and I'm still having fun with it. It has absorbed almost all of my free time.
This reminds me of myself wishing I could do more for getting how much I already am doing in my life and it's so cluttered and full
I once tried to draw as a hobby and i was about of say "KYS" to myself cuz i messed up a lot
I remember when my parents had bought me a violin when I was somewhere between 6-8. I had been inspired by my favorite violinist at the time Lindsey Styrling and I really tried my heart at it with my lessons from a off the shelf music program on my laptop but in the end I never got any good with it.
Then due to my father having a memory about me as a baby with a piano, my family now had a piano (specifically a yamaha) but this wasn't something I wanted but I tried anyway. But the problem was that I never asked to learn the piano so I quickly lost interest.
This is so true, it’s always easier to just be on my phone than fail over and over at my hobby
I remember an artist saying that it's important to figure out if an idea is genuinely something you want to make, vs something that would be cool if it existed. That way you can put focus on the ideas that you wanna work on while not chasing every stray idea and getting burnt out in the process.
Up ‘til this point: 0:31 is what I haven’t experienced 😭
help the piano posture is killing me-
This is so underrated! This is amazing!!!
I totally relate to this, I want to try everything but I don't have enough motivation to actually do it lol.
@ drawing, a good piece of advice I've heard (thanks pikat) is that you gotta get through all the bad drawings before you start getting to the good ones
The analogy of a solitary confinement cell is apt.
That's why reading books is the purest hobby
Even reading and understanding books is a skill
@@foxygrin of course thats why its in school and its very difficult
Lmaaao the doomscrolling at the start
I feel called out when the whiplash music started
So true, big tip is to go to an actual teacher! The human interaction makes it way more fun and manageable🥰
I almost feel called out but I actually didn't do this for once. I started by borrowing the library piano for a few weeks at a time and refreshed myself on how to read sheet music (we learnt in primary school so I had a vague idea). Then I learned the basics on a trial of simply piano and flowkey. And now I just print out sheet music to learn. I got an early christmas present from my mum, it was a yamaha 363. I play it pretty much every day for atleast 10 minutes. I at the very least just play Stolas' lullaby once a day lmao.
I've recently attempted to pick up music as a hobby, and have been an artist for years. Even though I've been doodling and drawing as long as I've been able to hold a crayon, it still feels like this sometimes. You see someone who's so unbelievably good at their craft and it drives you to pursue it. The difference is how it ends. I never get it right of course, which is just as frustrating as it is true, but I keep pushing with it. I feel like a beginner in many of the things I draw. I used to draw only animals, and felt like a beginner trying to draw humans. Now it's the other way around. And although I struggle to keep going with the music, me knowing that I'm not going to get it right, and that there is SO MUCH you could POSSIBLY master with any form of art makes me feel better about it. I don't practice all the time but I practice when I feel like it, just like when I draw, even if it's all the time. I'm never going to be perfect, but I want to engage in something that makes me happy, create something that makes me happy even if it never truly reaches the standards in my mind. It's going to take time to get anywhere and that's okay. Keep trying at something you love. It's worth it.
First note was like.."mount everest aint got shit on ne"
Wanting to learn drums because of Whiplash ( the movie & song) is too real. 💀
This was me for my entire goddamn life, until recently when it finally hit me that I'm never going to get good enough to do the things I'm impressed by if I give up just for being a beginner, and that having a ton of things I know a little bit about is fun, but not satisfying. So I picked the hobby that impressed me most, that has been this kind of fixation on and off for years (oil painting), and I'm choosing to stick to it. No throwing it into the bin, no giving up, but I am allowed to put it down when I get frustrated. And now I've signed up for drawing classes so I can improve drawing faster, because I need that skill to get to my real goal.
It sucks that it took me until my 30s to have the self confidence and internal commitment to myself to actually stick to one thing long term, even if it's hard and I don't understand it instantly. But better now than never!
I've also had to learn to say "that hobby looks really cool and I really enjoy seeing it and knowing that it exists". It sounds stupid but it helps me remember that I'm allowed to just....enjoy witnessing cool stuff too. I don't have to DO all the things I think are neat.
This is true for us autists, but that initial interest takes soo much longer to subside, and often that means we actually learn the thing we’re trying to successfully, it’s great until you realize that you have nobody to share all your passion with because everyone else quit so much earlier, and nobody wants to hear about the octave of E minor when they don’t really care at all (I never got into the piano though, and it’s been years since I played the cello, so I don’t remember everything about how music works) I personally got into something way more niche and now can both spit out guilty gear lore at stupid pace, and dominate you in any given match
i put 200 hours into factorio in a single month and i haven't really touched it since, i can confirm the sustained interest
This is me with literally any TTRPG that isn't modern D&D. I don't even want to play D&D, be interested in a game of literally anything else please god (especially if it's Mythras)
...Also Elder Scrolls lore. However far you think that rabbit hole goes, it goes further. Stuff you think of as deep iceberg shit feels almost surface-level at this point.
Yes, I have been making a Mythras Elder Scrolls hack for years. No, it will probably never be used for anything.
Literally bought a practice pad after watching Whiplash... I don't even have money for a drumkit 😭
This me af, thing is, i put two years into learning the guitar, two years everyday but then i stopped because my highschool didn't have a guitar class and i had 0 energy to do anything after school so eventually i just forgot the notes
The muscle memory is still there tho
More time is needed! Some say that the more difficulty in a task is positively related to how fulfilling it can be. The most important aspect is finding what makes your gears turn. I am mainly a musician, but I am trying my hand at physics as well. Boy it is really deep and at times utterly beyond me. That is what makes it tantalizing. Learning is not a comely process, rather it is a climb to see the view of life with a completely different perspective. Idk, I am young, so I could be wrong and hideously idealistic. Good fortune to all in pursuit of their craft!
Played for five years; still suck:(
But I love it. Sucking is the best part of doing something.
not gonna blame you
music instruments are not toys, you need to not underestimate the learning curve
I can make soundtracks for my own animations, I'm not a profesional, nothing to proud of actually... but till my music fits the atmosphere that I need, I'm ok. All those lessons is the most exhausting. You better dont watch how they are doing it, try doing it yourself instead! It's like a game, and its more fun when you don't know parts of it, experiment, be unique, do it your way. Science and lessons just ruins your inner child. At least that's how I make music. Maybe this comment will be helpful for someone tho... 😅
I've always had such a complicated relationship with art, i fixed it by quitting after a lot of years and switchting to guitar, it jusy clicked immediatly, it felt right and even if i was bad i could still enjoy it. I went like "damn so that's what a hobby is supposed to feel like"
As someone with ADHD I have an issue with committing o hobbies once I’ve gotten “good enough” at them. I can draw, 3D model, knit, crochet, sew, play Haggstrom on the Kalimba, papercraft/origami… because once I reach a competent level, I guess I subconsciously realise that the initial challenge is over and any further progress would be much less impressive. In a way, it’s cool that I can do so many creative things, but I do wish I could stick to a hobby for a little longer.
I always found setting some sort of goal, a reasonable goal for yourself, always makes it not just so much more fulfilling to complete, but also boosts your chance of actually delivering tenfold. I've seen it personally millions of times my entire life. ESPECIALLY when there is a real world pressure to deliver. I wanted to learn the drums, and I did, I got pretty decent. But eventually the drum pad got put in the infamous drawer of aimless hobbies. Suddenly, when a project at school allows me to basically practice an instrument for a grade, I ended up picking it back up and improving fast, consistently as well, with my friends. Ironically it was bass, I didn't even play drums and gave the pad to my friend for him to do the same.
Even when giving yourself pressure can be difficult to visualize, setting goals just makes everything better. Do you want to improve at drawing? Make some kind of small comic idea and try to draw it. Do you want to improve at music? Try to improve until a point where you can do a cover of your favorite song. Do you want to improve at game design? Try to improve to create a demo or pitch of a game idea you have. If you dont set realistic goals, chances are the hobby drawer is only going to fill.
I love your animation style! So cool seeing the multiple color effects here and there. I feel this video in so many ways. Did the same kinda thing with instruments. Nice to dip my toes back into music once in a while. Won’t get better if I don’t try.
all my talents (art, piano, cooking, uhhh swimming) just randomly became something when i got bored and decided to learn
As someone who’s played piano since I was five, I laughed when I realized bro was like “ah yes, ima learn piano to play moonlight sonata third movement . *right now* “
Not the whiplash drums 😭😭😭
So true. But I prefer just juggle my hobbies. 3 month -1st, 3 months -2nd, 3 month -3rd, 3 month -1st, etc. I didn't touch my violin in years though, but.... Buy at least medium quality instruments for the start or research better the low budget options. You can stuck with instrument with issues in such areas you didn't know exist. My violin literally untunable, and first guitar has 11th and 12th frets the same pitch, so I basically have no 11th fret. First guitar got somehow more playable with years though, and I don't really use 11th because of prefering improv. It better keeps tuning even on the 3d string now, which is most prone to getting untuned. Idk why it got better. A miracle. But new strings are half of the sound. So better change them often. Maybe that's part of the reasons why.
I JUST had a 4-ish hour conversation about this vicious cycle with my step father. This hits a little too close to home. Even the titles of the videos at the beginning are similar in circumstance. The only difference is that I cycle through my interests over and over again...feels like two steps back, one step forward. And, I have SO many other things I wanna learn.
Very nice work with excecuting this concept. I love the creative display of thoughts as video titles.
His mistake was it that he wanted to git gud. Giting gud ruins hobbies.
I can absolutely relate to this, I picked up a piano quite some while ago because it looked "CoOl aNd EaSy" online,
turns out, it's not that easy as people make it look. I've tried it a few times since then but it hasn't really "clicked" for me.
A bit after that I actually got a drum kit like in your video, but I've stuck with that one for quite some time now.
That's one of the first hobbies I actually quite enjoy - even though it probably sounds pretty horrible and off timing to others still, it is very fun for me.
I just put a few minutes into practice when I feel like it and take it quite slow, I'm not trying to be the "best of best".
For me it’s painting! 😂 Always wishing the next time I attempt it I’ll just suddenly be a renaissance painting master lol 😅
Good thing I played it as a kid. When I restarted 20 years later 2 weeks was enough to reach my previous (quite low) level.
Real, especially if you've been practicing before but abandoned it cause of life circumstances
Me trying to find a way to stop the crushing feeling of inadequacy.
The absolute best way to learn piano is literally playing random keys forever untill you find cool sounds, learn to recreate them. This works for anything you want to learn
✨️Bulshit your way into understanding it✨️
Thats how our ansestors did it, when there where no tutorials then
As someone who loves everything, and has done most hobbies i usually learn the basics before going to another hobby that interests me. Some atick to me and do it whenever i can and other just stay as the basics :]
That's how I kinda feel with drawing rn. I do a sketch, I hate it, I neglect the drawing tablet, I see something cool, I dust off the tablet, Rinse and repeat.
learning instruments are hard, took me 4 years to learn how to play a song perfectly on drums
J’ai découvert cette chaine grâce à cette vidéo , au début j’avais cru que t’avais 5K Abonnés mais non , je me suis abonné et je te donne tout mon respect.
Learning any new piano piece is difficult. Unless you’ve been playing for multiple years, you will slow down and methodically hit every note.
I’ve done it plenty of times, but it’s the feeling of playing it at full speed with perfect accuracy that makes the struggle worth it. Don’t give up just because it’s going slow. You _need_ to go slow to go fast.
That animation is like I'm looking at myself from a third person view
Thank you for animating the hands correctly
I wanted to learn Tokelauan language, but there were so few info about it and I gave up :(
(If you have tips how to learn it PLEASE TELL ME, I STILL WANT TO LEARN IT!)
Because of this video I will try to find a new hobby or 2, I will try to remember this and keep updating if I can
lol, this is actually really high quality, must have taken a lot of time to do...
you captured it really well, i have a irritating disdain how things are like this
my keyboard has been sitting on my desk unused for the last year
so real x_x I'm hyping myself up to learn to actually PLAY the keyboards I've had in my home since forever
It's kinda weird that this is a video about not sticking with hobbies because it takes too long to get gud but this guy probably spent months animating this
Nooooooo I was looking at electric keyboards on craigslist right before I watched this
Don't feel bad. It's ok to try new things and maybe find you don't enjoy them
I am not financially capable of experimenting like that
this is literally the story of my life.
AND I LOVE YOUR ANIMATION WHAT-
Omg I feel this. I’m currently learning how to draw as a hobby to try and build up to animation, but OH MY GOODNESS is envy one hell of a bitch, and frustration is encouraging her!
Eyyy, the drummer at the end was playing caravan from whiplash! you animated it so accurately to! Well done
I literally started learning Beethovens moonlight sonata 1st movement 2 weeks ago.
All The best!!!
Playing percussion is very accessible to me so i was able to keep with it for a while
Pretty sure this got recommended to me because I've taken up piano recently and my entire RUclips feed is piano covers or tips videos ahaha 😅 it's a grind no doubt, but nothing worth having is easy to obtain or else everybody would do it.
I got a piano and then played it for an hour a day for four months and I got decent at it. But ever since then I’ve barely made any progress on it. It’s like the more you learn the slower you learn. Like sure I’ve definitely gotten a lot better since then but the progress is slow and steady.
Relatable (sadly 😂), but an additional type for me is... retrying old hobbies I've had in the past, but not being able to retain the same old feelings/thrill back then. But still I think it's best for us to always fervently follow the pursuit of that one thing we chose, old or new, and surely nothing will get in our way. :)
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FOOTAGE OF ME
anyways really cool animation, and i really like the effect you put when the guy feels inspired by the hobby
great stuff man!
While you may not be able to teach yourself to read music, play chords or anything complicated, you can learn a simple song in 10 minutes. Thought myself some themes from video games lol.
Literally me. The only skills I have gained are understanding english and drawing.
I also fade away very quickly in this regard and it makes me sad
HELLO WHY WAS 1:14 SO GOOD
+ also the thumbnail honestly looks like the visual representation of "anybody can find love (except you.)" in a good wayy :3
this me but I get obsessed with being good at everything qwq
Great animation btw, the handssssss!!!
Such a meaningful video and comment section...
Have a lot to learn to not lose more of my life.
Sometimes you have to stop and think: do I really want to start a new hobby or do I just want to buy the thing?
Honestly, I would pick up the drums if a random youtube video was playing of somebody playing Caravan from Whiplash after I just had a mental breakdown because I couldn't learn how to play the piano the moment I got it