I'm 27 and i didn't had ANY major improvement since i was 21-26 (which was frustrating and painful) but for the last year my skills went up dramatically after i decided to draw only when i want and to have fun. When you don't have expectations you don't have insecurities and when you don't have insecurities you are more willing to experiment and try different things.
I think it's normal for these things to start clicking in your late 20s. Its often said that you spend your twenties figuring yourself out, and finding your path. You spend your 30s actually taking that path.
@@burgeryoufoundbehindthegrill it is! but sometimes society is so obsessed with achieving everything in 20s you forgot about that. Honestly life for my insecure self would have been easier if someone told me that art progress doesn't end when you are 25 hahah
part of "draw what you love" also sometimes means picking and choosing which parts of the process you do and don't want to do- not every piece has to be fully rendered if you don't like shading, if you don't like doing lineart just clean up your sketch a little or even skip straight to coloring the rough sketch, stuff like that! it's good to practice those skills sometimes but you shouldn't force yourself to slog through parts of the process that you don't find fun, it's going to discourage you from drawing at all. nothing is required for a piece to be "complete"!
Eso es lo que me gusta del dibujo, puedes adaptarlo a lo que te gusta, no es necesario que una pieza este terminada para ser buena, muchos dibujos que me gustan solo se quedaron en bocetos.
@MikusDad39 what if I really like rendering and only enjoy it especially the final parts, but hate / aren't good at everything before (sketching, getting form and perspective right etc)
@@CuriousTrotter try playing with abstract art, or customizing doll faces, or coloring manga panels/free lineart from online, you could even find another artist who likes sketching more than rendering and collaborate with them! "colorist" is a real job you can get in the industry, most commonly in comics.
I think one thing that's helped to offset this is paying special attention to not just your physical improvement, but also your ability to detect what doesn't look right. Having a good eye is just as important, if not more so, than having good hands. It's gonna feel like shit seeing all the mistakes you're making in real time (and even after you're finished, in fact ESPECIALLY after you're finished), but it'll help a lot in the long run
Yes! In fact, the most frustration and likely artblock will come from when your eye improves faster than your hands. That’s why nothing looks right. Once you level up your skills to match your eye, you take another leap up the graph of improvement.
I feel both inspired and frustrated at the same time when looking at professional artist's work. The ratio of inspired/frustrated shifts as I work on my own art. 😂
"I worried way more about art than I was actually drawing" THIS! I understand you so well. I feel like this video articulates all of my problems with art so well. Art can be so much fun and so rewarding but also soo frustrating. I know that other artists I look up to also struggle with this, but you're the first artist to really hit the nail on the head for me. You're just like me fr fr. This channel in general (and also your streams) have really helped me enjoy art again and actually have fun while learning! Which like even one year ago would've been absolute bonkers to me. Keep up the good work man! (Also shoutout to ScribClips the editing looks phenomenal as always)
That's awesome! so happy to hear about your progress, I'm currently trying to love art again and it's nice to hear it can be done. Glad I just found this channel too, can't believe how much this resonated with me. Usually I leave these types of vids like "okay, gotta practice more :(" and it's not ideal lol, now I'm all excited to create stuff?? I love it!
It's just really fucking frustrating when you see people mich younger than you being so much better at drawing, meanwhile you have been stuck in a depression hole for years now and can barely improve because burnout. And all you see is your skills regressing over time...
Yeah. Often I look at my art and I think I have regressed. Compared to a lot of other artists. That or I don’t have motivation to actually try and when I do, it looks awful. And I feeel more discouraged
I believe that others do not matter, prioritizing your own enjoyment is better. Constant comparing to others and trying to please people is what got me burned out in the first place, so I stopped doing that, it's much easier and more fun now to just open the editor, start pressing buttons and see where it gets me.
@@average_duck00 Sisyphus: "Sure hope i dont get damned to eternal suffering of pushing a rock today!" Also sisyphus: **Me And The Birds by Duster starts playing**
My full time profession has nothing to do with art or animation. I think that's helped me not feel burned out or not get sad when I work on my animation projects. Since its just a hobby, I find it relaxing and satisfying. I've had many failed animation projects, but I've never got depressed about them since I just view them as a learning experience.
I'd love to draw my favourite characters, I'd love to draw cool dynamic perspective and fully rendered pieces... But motivation, wonky results and incapability holds me back so, and I know this is the case for a lot of people :(
you've got such a soothing and logical way of talking about art while keeping things really entertaining, i get a neat boost of serotonin everytime i watch one of your videos
I graduated last summer and I thought I had done something horrible to burn out this badly, to only create maybe 5 peices since the summer of 2023... but this video kinda opened my eyes. I've been too focused on the results!! I need to sit and just, draw something I love and focus on the process, without worrying too hard about the end result. Genuienly, thank you so much!
You're right, I should stop blaming myself and use that time to embrace and accept the pain during my pursuit of my art's goal, and most importantly having fun on it.
It's so annoying that other people pushed me into this hole and now I have to dig myself out of it. I've been told by professionals, mainly art school teachers (of the school I was attending), that I am shit at art. I am not good, I won't improve and nothing I will ever create will be art or even considered good. And I just took that as truth because I was unable to find any arguments against ist. And those people are professionals, they are teachers. They obviously know what is the truth about art, right? So now I am here, years later, trying to convince myself that I am in fact not shit and failing miserably. And then I see videos like this and it's like, yeah, people push themselves into art block by having too high expectations. But I didn't do this to myself. And I just want to mope and complain. But that obviously does not solve the issue. I still have to fix it on my own. Because depending on other people to tell me whether or not a work of mine is good enough is not a healthy way of dealing with it.
Or having friends that make fun of your drawings and ideas. Then they don’t even show their sketchbook lmao. 😭 IMO an art teacher has to be very open minded to be an art teacher. The only reason they might push you a certain way is just the lesson they want you to learn that they’re trying to teach. Not to push you into a certain direction. Fug those teachers and other people. I hope you can get out of the hole. Lately I’ve felt like caca cause drawing my own ideas seem dumb and I always feel better drawing other peoples characters… Its also nice to know somebody just to draw goofy with where there’s no judgement it’s all for fun 😭
I suffer from anxiety, chronic depression, and fibromyalgia pain. Most days it's too painful to even sit hunched over the sketchbook to draw, and the other days my mood feels so low I can start crying if my art isn't how I wanted it. It just feels so hopeless to keep up with art lately and I can tell I'm getting rusty. It's very discouraging. It doesn't help that I'm a perfectionist. X_X
This video was SUPER helpful to me right now, because I've been "taking a break" from digital drawing, but I just realized that I wasn't actually taking a break! I was just stopping because I didn't think I could make anything good, and I would come back once I thought I was good enough. That ended up putting a lot of stress on me to somehow improve even though I wasn't drawing, and I expected myself to suddenly have my next drawing be way better than the last one. After watching this video I decided to pick up my tablet pen and just *draw*, so thank you :)
Thank you for talking about this, I've just taken up drawing after multiple tries of it since highschool, I keep hitting the same wall. I used references which was sort of detrimental to my thought process of drawing because I kept comparing the reference to my unfinished drawings and leading to me discarding them. Now I know why I'm not progressing, it's because I wasn't letting myself progress, I was focused on other people's progress instead of myself.
I'm trying to remember how to draw. I wasn't able to draw for years and now I'm trying to rediscover how to do it. This helped a lot because I was panicking about how it was going to look or how I was going to post my art. Thank you for making videos :)
I felt all of this with art and writing. Writing more so recently since it's something I didn't start really trying to improve on until recently. I wish I could say I gotten over the hump but been on and off it with both. Sometimes, regardless of the facts of the how or why, I still feel down about my art/writing. It hasn't stopped me from doing either but the embarrassment seeps in and drowns me to a point I eventually delete all my stuff. I may not even get that far and sometimes don't bother to post. I agree it takes a long time to get over everything mentioned in the video (and for some maybe more), I hope I reach a comfortable level with my stuff art/writing but this video adds perspective. It's a step closer hearing this from someone as skilled as you are. That you too had those struggles but they didn't hold you back. This video helped me for sure, thank you for this transparency and sharing your art journey in general.
Don't delete your old stuff! I know how it is to feel "inadequate", but trust me, old works can be very encouraging when you compare to your newer stuff. I still have my first attempt at digital character drawing saved, it's _abysmal,_ but it felt so good to compare to one year later. _You don't need to post everything,_ don't get rid of your journey logs!
@@sirframes Thank you for this advice, I'll stop deleting stuff. I still have copies my old works on my pc but I always clean my galleries. True, I'll keep that in mind that not everything needs to be shared too. I never thought of it like that, a museum of progress, seeing it would probably help a lot. I really appreciate this advice, thank you again!
Very well said! I went a very long time between drawing things because I didnt feel I was good enough. Then I got on the kick of watching sketchbook tours (like, that's 90% of what I watch on RUclips now) and I saw all the practice people actually put in. I've had supplies dry out and go to waste before I could use it, because I didnt think I was good enough to use it. Ultimately I had to shift my thinking. I had to see myself using the supplies in exchange for gaining experience. Materials are replaceable, but you can take your experience with you everywhere. I started drawing like crazy, coming out with good and bad pages. But every page is progress to me, so long as it's used up. And i've been improving and learning a lot :D
I just discovered your channel recently, but boy was it the right time. I've been struggling with my art for quite a while now, and your videos are really helping motivate me to really start drawing again. Thank you!
I really needed to hear this, I'm at a similar point in which you were. This year I graduate from art high school and I feel as if I hadn't reach the standard and seeing the work of younger classmates I felt like I'm behind and not enough, and that has been discouragung me from drawing for myself or even enjoying it. Some points you made I was already warapping my head around but your video helped me realize my situation and I feel way better about it, but also helped me change my focus into something more healthy. Really thank you so much for this video! :)
I'm new here and this is the second or third video of yours that i watch and have to thank you for the positivity and meme-ish editing of your videos. It's super helpful, encouraging and fun! I've been stuck without trying drawing for years, and hearing these things really makes me think differently and more optimistic c:
I think your videos are an un understood art of teaching because I swear this is the only art channel that’s made me want to try gives me confidence and are so easy to understand
I stumbled onto your channel and I gotta say, you're a huge motivation for trying to draw again. I can personally reallly relate to the last bit of this video, constantly comparing yourself to other artists so unfairly. Love the stuff u put out!
i have a weird way of practicing. I just kind of.... make an oc designed around what I'm struggling with. like, mocha; the coffee slime. who I literally made because I wanted a character I can draw to practice fluid dynamic poses, without worrying about the details in anatomy. I just make an oc that fits what I want to work on, and draw them nonstop until I have learned what their design requires me to learn.
6:55 I relate with this segment so much. I LOVE drawing/art but I've never focused on improving my skills despite my interests and even though I'm a young adult, I can't help but compare myself to people who are in high school doing this. Now I feel like I should have used my time more wisely and I can't keep a constant schedule. Then it's like why are you so worried, you have the time right now and remember to have fun with it. Thanks for making this, it's probably the best video that tackles the common artist struggle I've ever seen. 💥
my funny drawing technique is the following: I choose something I want to represent and then I make spirals, streaks, sets of strong graphite lines to built it - and I love the chaotic result that comes out, because as it is a violent line, few mistakes become noticeable, and the designs become strong and scary ( i love it)-
The part where being bitter about other artists is so true. I'm not that affected with it anymore but I still struggle with it once in while. It's great knowing that I'm not alone and I hope I overcome it completely. Thank you
RIGHT! I get excited with a blank canvas but then I get scared I’m going to “ruin” the page and waste it 🤣😭 and then I don’t know what I want to draw, or I have an idea of what I want to draw but I can’t figure out how to put it out.
There’s this one person’s OC art that I love, mostly as it’s a cool mad scientist, and seeing they’re younger than me demotivates me so bad cuz I love their artstyle yet I’m older and hate mine It’s rendered so well and I just don’t understand how to render
This video feels like exactly what I needed. Some words directly reflected my situation, witch showed me that I'm not alone in this art dilema.Thnx for that Pikat... I also love the fact that the happiest moment of the video is accompanied by cute, fancy birds in top hats and bowties.=)
Yeah, this helped my nerves a bit. I've tried to draw for so long, but I keep getting frustrated and caught up in everyday life. I kept TRYING to do daily regular practice, get to the grindstone.. but I could never feel the progress enough to commit for long enough to feel any better. I'm trying to puzzle it out; I think I have some very unique mental blocks that circumvent good ways of dealing with it. My current focus: just learn to love the process. Learn to love what I create. THEN I can start trying to add more technical learning and begin all those human figure or 101 drawing tutorials again for review. I know all these things about shadow, perspective, negative space, proportions, reference, line quality, on and on.. but learning those never improved anything. Turns out endless drawing lessons and tutorials may have been holding me back, as I became less and less able to just draw because I wanted. Drawing became exclusively a tool, for a result I can't imagine, and that.. thoroughly sabotaged the process of improvement and learning. I have been incapable of enjoying the process or drawing for any reason besides a tutorial for some time. In fact, I don't think I even properly plateaued; I think I just didn't enjoy it even when I improved and it shut me down. The basic doodles I'm making in just a minute right now certainly feel more even and rendered than I feel they should be. I'm figuring it out. Thanks for the video; you were a pleasure to watch.
Very timely, I basically threw my sketchbook across the room because of how dissatisfied I was with my work tonight. Still not sure how to enjoy the process since I'm still so focused on the outcome. Any who thanks for the encouragement (I know I know not specifically for me but it was a boost either way). Also nice avatar, I'm a huge fan of the retro 8/16 bit looks.
I'm 18 and I've been drawing like my whole life. Art was always my thing, but last year in the summer I got the worst art block I've ever had. I only now am getting out of it. I think I was focused on my future and weather I wanted to make art a career or not, and that I needed to be better and I had to improve that it sucked the fun out of it. I've just sort of started drawing whatever I want. And I mean that literally. If i feel like drawing something I just do it. Drawing in a sketchbook helped me too cause it felt like it didn't have to be as good as anything I was posting. Art is hard, hang in there
your videos help me get motivation to actually sit down and study. i really want to be able to make art i enjoy and that i can share with others, but things like boredom and lack of motivation and knowledge about what to do halts me. your channel gives me so much knowledge and motivation:3 so thank you! ❤
I felt this a week into drawing. I can see I'm doing way better then stick figures but I'm not drawing the things I want to and it's a little frustrating. But I continue to draw because it just is fun to do and I like it as my other hobby besides gaming so eventually I hope to improve enough to that level.
I'm spending this evening looking at art mental health stuff because I just can't make anything good. I think this video is the closest it's gotten to rekindling my flame, so to speak.
I randomly stumbled upon your channel and I just love how you explain things that I can resonate with. I just started learning art and as someone who used to love to draw as a kid but stopped for a very long amount of time is definitely frustrating. I was both inspired and frustrated whenever I saw art better than mine but over the time since last year I can say that I have improved. it's a slow progress but even small progress is enough.
Late to the party, but seeing the top hats drawn on at the end gave me ideas to just have zaney meme like fun with a drawing after I finish to keep thins intresting
I come back to this video whenever I’m feeling bad about my art. This journey is absolutely a bumpy one. But the highs feel great. If you’re reading this and are also an aspiring artist, keep at it. Never give up!
I turned 18 this year, I've been drawing for almost my whole life and recently I've been so frustrated with myself thinking negativity that I'm never going to be good enough when its to a point where art is really the only possible choice that I have in life to make a career out of and a 'stable income' so I've been very stressed and depressed lately, crying and tearing up. I'm grateful that I found your channel and decided to give it a watch, I feel a lot better knowing that there's still many people that are either older/younger than me that have at least struggled once in their time.. thanks :)
I recently joined social media after improving for a while and got discouraged when I saw other artists who were much better than me around me. I honestly felt intimidated when one artist I loved followed me after a quick chat, and I’ve been on hiatus ever since due to my fear of disappointing them. But I’m doing better now and I think as long as I’m having fun, they’ll enjoy my work, and as long as they are as well I’ll enjoy their’s! Thank you for this video, it was helpful and gave me a push in the right direction. Have a good day/night!
Im so happy I was able to break through my plateau, once you get start feeling like you're actually improving after hitting that wall, the confidence boost and the ability to draw more freely is such a good feeling. Currently 20 years old i've been drawing for the past 10-15 years but seriously practicing for the last 4 or 5 years.
One thing is for sure, drawing used to be so much fun until recently AI took over the world soaring high. Having to make art in a matter of seconds and seeing my Instagram post full of AI artists getting greater likes than other artists out there. I am just loosing patients to draw and even pewdiepie advancing his art overnight makes me think that my decades of practicing art isn't worth sharing to world out there. It is a very tough position for me of having to lose interest in what I like to do.
I haven't seen anyone mention this yet but Bakuman mentioned and it's a good anime and reference for how art can be seen and improved-- blue period is a good one as well
i feel like this is the only art motivational video that actually got through to me, despite hearing almost the same info. you made the info come through, thank you
This is exactly what I needed to hear tonight 😊 Thank you so much for making this beautiful video. Your voice is super soothing and I can feel a rush of motivation surging from wanting to make art because it's /fun/ to do, not because I need to reach some ever-moving goalpost of what "good" art looks like !
this is genuinely the first time i hear someone express 1:1 the struggle i am working on. the frustration instead of motivation when seeing others' art always felt like there was something wrong with me because everyone else's response to fantastic art was "wow that's so motivating!" yet i'm just sitting there, bitter and crushed. everything else was also on point. the important part is a lot of acceptance that things are as they are, knowing of the improvement process, and being kind to yourself.
I just want to thank you😭 I subscribed to you recently and I really want to imrpove my art so bad also because i really like your videos but i feel like my drawings last year were much better than the ones I drew this year.. i thought about giving up.. but this video coming out is such perfect timing
Im not a visual artist, but I am a writer. This video reminds me that even if I'm not at my computer, having a notebook and writing descriptions or getting down a thought is valid engagement with the art form. I value the community and support that artists provide for each other, it's incredibly helpful and inspiring.
i dealt with this for so long because i didn't understand that i needed to learn anatomy or even how to go about doing that i even tried to quit drawing for almost 4 years but just couldn't stay away from it but doing figure drawing and observational drawing changed the way i look at art so much and helped understand it a lot more. but don't just draw the exact same thing repeatedly like i did it's extremely exhausting and doesn't really help much
5:10 This is exactly what I needed. I'm practicing drawing eyes right now and I just feel stuck because the eyes I draw doesn't look so good. So hearing that you need practice, but you should also make time to just draw what you want to really helped me.
Thank you so much for making this video when you did. I've been struggling with my art recently, but after taking a step back, I think I'm ready to start drawing again! This time I'll just trust the process and not worry about improvement.
This is so true, fall in love with the process not the result. Even if you do this magnificent piece you can always go back and do it again, differently, or even better than before so why fixate on something that is so short-lived and temporary? The experience of creating it, what you learned along the way, the ideas you had, that stuff is set in stone because it is your personal experience. You can't go back and change it. Someone in my art group had a really good comment for someone who was just learning how to draw and complaining about not being better at it like other members of the group. They said "imagine you are a farmer and you get upset because you can not harvest your crops after having only planted them yesterday" and it makes insanely good sense to me. Anything you deem as worthy of your time to do, is going to take time to do. If anything a plateau is your signal to push a little harder, otherwise you won't see improvement.
Man this vid is 7 months old but speaks to me now. I'm in a funk right now and I'm finding myself almost actively avoiding drawing despite wanting to do so. @_a I'm trying to change my habits and environment to see if it'll help. Thanks for the vid. ✌
I always have wanted to get better at drawing, since i was young but only really started back in 2018 Today, I feel like i havent improved much and that I should leave it all, i have been trying to face the fear of drawing, the anxiety, its just unbearable I can't take it anymore, I dont even know if i like it anymore, I just wanna be happy and i have been watching these videos to try gaining motivation and the courage again but i just cant get over that fear, I feel its better to stop all together Somtimes its better to let dreams be just that, dreams, because pursuing an impossible dream will just end up in frustation and a feeling of worthlessness
Amazing video and so honest and true, it's so frustrating to see beginners make the same mistakes over and over but honestly part of the learning journey is failing over and over
For me, the reasons why I don't enjoy drawing as much are: - I don't like repetitive things in general. Designing is super fun since every character is a different process, but then when it comes to making a rendered version, drawing just gets repetitive. - I just want results. But in general, things are so much more enjoyable when you are enjoying the journey rather than the destination. - In the end casually playing video games is more fun than anything. So I procrastinate. I feel like if I can find a drawing process that I feel good with and that gives results quickly, I'd be able to enjoy drawing a huge lot more. So I've been experimenting other ways of drawing, such as drawing colored shapes first instead of the lineart. But haven't found my miracle solution yet.
Drawing what you love is extremely important! I’ve been drawing for four years, 3 of them I drew stuff I didn’t really care about, recently this year though I’ve dedicated myself to drawing what I love, (aswell as study’s) and I’ve improved dramatically! Draw what you love people!
This helped me out today. I'm a literal professional and sometimes it's just.. not fun anymore. But I'll probably watch this video again when I feel down. Thanks a bunch. :3
i started drawing at 10, had major improvements until 14 when I got depressed and now I haven’t improved in 6 years. seeing talented young artists and people acting like it’s easy is honestly infuriating. i think enjoying drawing is a privilege, honestly
4:24 real. If I spent these 5 years actually drawing consistently instead of complaining, I would have seen improvements. 5:54 Both, actually. It depends. When I'm not drawing, I feel the inspiration. When I'm watching videos like this and the creator draws this amazing piece in the background, it's rather counter intuitive.
Fear of the drawing...exactly....I know that feeling. But somehing I noticed..every time you overcome it and just draw anyway...and the less time is between the sessions. the less fear you feel of drawing :D idk... works for me somehow (not always tough)
One tip i have is if youre really into a game, show or you really like the design of an environment try capitalize on that excitement and draw stuff related to that, if you like a game try come up with skins for some of your favorite characters for example.
I think the thought of an adult who has a hobby that demands so much dedication is like thinking "am I wasting my time? Could I be doing something more meaningful?" That's the feeling
I'm at the point of questioning if art is for me, whar frustrated me isn't skills, I'm fine with trying. I just lost the spark that made me pick up a pen and draw. I have other hobbies I tend to, but I have been neglecting my art so much...
In 2016, when I was studying Digital animation, a teacher told to my class: "never practice, never do something if you do not have the mood because the final result will just suck." When you practice or do anything with good mood, believe me you will progress and final result will be better. One thing you can do is only practice if you have atleast 55% of your mood in favor of practice drawing. If not, do something else and while you do that another thing, sometimes repeat yourself "I could be practicing right now" and after finish that thing, practice atleaste 30 minutes. You will always progress if you never drop drawing, it does not matter how many minutes per week you practice, you always will improve at the end.
This is the most relatable video ever. It sucks how something so enjoyable to me when I was young, became something I almost loathe. I still love drawing but I hate everything I draw.
I'm new to your content and I may as well claim these videos as mine because HOW ARE YOU SAYING WORD FOR WORD MY SOUL CRUSHING STRUGGLE THESE PAST FEW YEARS. *cough* Really though thank you. I'm glad to have found artists like you that have similar issues regarding our insecurities in our art journies, and that it really takes some self-humbling, acceptance and patience for the craft that we'll be able to move forward.
My dream is to draw, I get very frustrated and stressed and I end up taking breaks or almost giving up. But in the end I like drawing and I would like to draw better. It's so hard
One thing i hate about being in the art sphere, is seeing how other artists start to post about what they're doing. I always try and try my best to put myself out there. Then lo and behold, someone i know has gotten a big client, or found their dream job, or start a successful online business. I used to look up to big artists and dreamed myself being them. Now with myself trying to make a living, I feel jealous more often than happiness because relatively, im a fuckin nobody. I resulted to being more recluse to avoid confrontation. This is where im at in my journey, and I wish i can get out of it.
I’m 32 now, I’ve been drawing since I was 6, so I’ve got 26 years of experience under my belt more or less and I’ve had peaks, valleys… but worst of all I don’t like a majority of the stuff I’ve done. Some pieces I’m like “oh damn, that’s great” but they never got any traction anywhere and a lot of my work I’d rather just toss in the trash. That’s kinda where I’ve been for most of my art life, was I envious of some artists? Sure but i soon stopped caring about that and looked back at my own work and still hated it. For me too though I think it’s just an info overload that’s kept me not wanting to work on stuff but still longing to do art but then hating my work when I do it. So weird.
I find personally that setting goals for myself helps a lot, like something ill do is draw the same thing for like 3 days and look back on them and see what ive done wrong and draw it once more and see if i can improve l. This helped me learn where my weak points are and what to look up to try to help myself. I personally find it hard to improve if i dont know whats wrong to start with and honestly speaking to others doesnt help me much, i was astonished at how.much better ive gotten because i do this now
Whenever I start to get frustrated with my art or burnt out, I always try to remember the Kiki's Delivery Service quote from Ursula. "Stop trying. Tank long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. don't even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you'll be flying again."
26 now, I only watch youtbe videos and draw for fun since 17yo. And I only draw when Im in the mood of drawing, sometimes only 2 artworks per year. Even though most of the time I dont practice drawing, but i do constantly save any illustration that I like for future reference/art study (90% i will just forget bout them 😂). Every time i saw someone's better than me, I was like "hmph, u think u good? wait me in 2 months". I always set high standards/expectation to myself to push my limit and challenge whoever better than me. I always have this question when Im drawing, "I want this to look good even after 5 years, so I won't get embarrassed showing it to others." And because of this, I did spend 3-4 hours just to sketch the eyes to have just enough of the expression I want on one of my drawings. Sometimes i do feel burnt out, so i'll slack off for months. I'm literally the basement/closet art enjoyer, only draw what i like and know how good the industry pro artists are. Never been to art school or anything similar. But recently, I saw some local college/uni levels artworks. I was like "that's it? u guys pay college to draw like that?". This made me realize how far I have improved without noticing it, because I was constantly compare myself with the best of the best, not my past self. So now I feel happier, confident and proud of my improvements, currently trying to be more consistent in drawing more. Hoping i can truly be a full time illustrator. Whoever reading this, thank you for your time 😊
I'm 27 and i didn't had ANY major improvement since i was 21-26 (which was frustrating and painful) but for the last year my skills went up dramatically after i decided to draw only when i want and to have fun. When you don't have expectations you don't have insecurities and when you don't have insecurities you are more willing to experiment and try different things.
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@@Saltedroastedcaramel yeah, this is so tricky for real 😩
I think it's normal for these things to start clicking in your late 20s. Its often said that you spend your twenties figuring yourself out, and finding your path. You spend your 30s actually taking that path.
@@burgeryoufoundbehindthegrill it is! but sometimes society is so obsessed with achieving everything in 20s you forgot about that. Honestly life for my insecure self would have been easier if someone told me that art progress doesn't end when you are 25 hahah
@@Saltedroastedcaramel *Cries in same same*
part of "draw what you love" also sometimes means picking and choosing which parts of the process you do and don't want to do- not every piece has to be fully rendered if you don't like shading, if you don't like doing lineart just clean up your sketch a little or even skip straight to coloring the rough sketch, stuff like that! it's good to practice those skills sometimes but you shouldn't force yourself to slog through parts of the process that you don't find fun, it's going to discourage you from drawing at all. nothing is required for a piece to be "complete"!
Eso es lo que me gusta del dibujo, puedes adaptarlo a lo que te gusta, no es necesario que una pieza este terminada para ser buena, muchos dibujos que me gustan solo se quedaron en bocetos.
@MikusDad39 what if I really like rendering and only enjoy it especially the final parts, but hate / aren't good at everything before (sketching, getting form and perspective right etc)
@@CuriousTrotter try playing with abstract art, or customizing doll faces, or coloring manga panels/free lineart from online, you could even find another artist who likes sketching more than rendering and collaborate with them! "colorist" is a real job you can get in the industry, most commonly in comics.
@@MikusDad39 this is such wonderful advice that more people need to hear!!
I usually just skip the sketh alltogether
I think one thing that's helped to offset this is paying special attention to not just your physical improvement, but also your ability to detect what doesn't look right. Having a good eye is just as important, if not more so, than having good hands.
It's gonna feel like shit seeing all the mistakes you're making in real time (and even after you're finished, in fact ESPECIALLY after you're finished), but it'll help a lot in the long run
Yes! In fact, the most frustration and likely artblock will come from when your eye improves faster than your hands. That’s why nothing looks right. Once you level up your skills to match your eye, you take another leap up the graph of improvement.
So, improve your observational skill then? In short?
I feel both inspired and frustrated at the same time when looking at professional artist's work. The ratio of inspired/frustrated shifts as I work on my own art. 😂
No literally 😭
same, i feel like i can be like them, but i feel frustration couse it will be a long run
Real.
"I worried way more about art than I was actually drawing" THIS! I understand you so well. I feel like this video articulates all of my problems with art so well. Art can be so much fun and so rewarding but also soo frustrating. I know that other artists I look up to also struggle with this, but you're the first artist to really hit the nail on the head for me. You're just like me fr fr.
This channel in general (and also your streams) have really helped me enjoy art again and actually have fun while learning! Which like even one year ago would've been absolute bonkers to me. Keep up the good work man! (Also shoutout to ScribClips the editing looks phenomenal as always)
That's awesome! so happy to hear about your progress, I'm currently trying to love art again and it's nice to hear it can be done. Glad I just found this channel too, can't believe how much this resonated with me. Usually I leave these types of vids like "okay, gotta practice more :(" and it's not ideal lol, now I'm all excited to create stuff?? I love it!
It's just really fucking frustrating when you see people mich younger than you being so much better at drawing, meanwhile you have been stuck in a depression hole for years now and can barely improve because burnout. And all you see is your skills regressing over time...
Yeah. Often I look at my art and I think I have regressed. Compared to a lot of other artists. That or I don’t have motivation to actually try and when I do, it looks awful. And I feeel more discouraged
Are you me lol
Perhaps you should whine less and draw more? Just an idea.
did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed today?@@cratoss.4772
I believe that others do not matter, prioritizing your own enjoyment is better. Constant comparing to others and trying to please people is what got me burned out in the first place, so I stopped doing that, it's much easier and more fun now to just open the editor, start pressing buttons and see where it gets me.
idk what i enjoy anymore
Go fishing 👍
So relatable :/
Me
Don't kys please...
@@Micochillete chill dawg they meant art wise
Thank you internet woman I will draw
me too lets go
Must draw :D
@@THATAroSpecWallet amen :3
Draw ALL THE THINGS!!!!
We shall draw
One must imagine artists happy.
Got the reference lol
@@average_duck00 Sisyphus: "Sure hope i dont get damned to eternal suffering of pushing a rock today!"
Also sisyphus: **Me And The Birds by Duster starts playing**
@@RAFAELHATYLA real
My full time profession has nothing to do with art or animation. I think that's helped me not feel burned out or not get sad when I work on my animation projects. Since its just a hobby, I find it relaxing and satisfying. I've had many failed animation projects, but I've never got depressed about them since I just view them as a learning experience.
I find it so annoying when people say "Just draw what you like" while ignoring that people's abilities ACTIVELLY PREVENT THEM FROM DOING SO!
I'd love to draw my favourite characters, I'd love to draw cool dynamic perspective and fully rendered pieces... But motivation, wonky results and incapability holds me back so, and I know this is the case for a lot of people :(
you've got such a soothing and logical way of talking about art while keeping things really entertaining, i get a neat boost of serotonin everytime i watch one of your videos
I graduated last summer and I thought I had done something horrible to burn out this badly, to only create maybe 5 peices since the summer of 2023... but this video kinda opened my eyes. I've been too focused on the results!! I need to sit and just, draw something I love and focus on the process, without worrying too hard about the end result. Genuienly, thank you so much!
WOW the most perfect timing, uploaded 2 minutes ago as I'm drawing while wondering how to make it fun again
Glad im not the only one
You're right, I should stop blaming myself and use that time to embrace and accept the pain during my pursuit of my art's goal, and most importantly having fun on it.
It's so annoying that other people pushed me into this hole and now I have to dig myself out of it.
I've been told by professionals, mainly art school teachers (of the school I was attending), that I am shit at art. I am not good, I won't improve and nothing I will ever create will be art or even considered good. And I just took that as truth because I was unable to find any arguments against ist. And those people are professionals, they are teachers. They obviously know what is the truth about art, right?
So now I am here, years later, trying to convince myself that I am in fact not shit and failing miserably. And then I see videos like this and it's like, yeah, people push themselves into art block by having too high expectations. But I didn't do this to myself. And I just want to mope and complain. But that obviously does not solve the issue. I still have to fix it on my own. Because depending on other people to tell me whether or not a work of mine is good enough is not a healthy way of dealing with it.
Or having friends that make fun of your drawings and ideas. Then they don’t even show their sketchbook lmao. 😭 IMO an art teacher has to be very open minded to be an art teacher. The only reason they might push you a certain way is just the lesson they want you to learn that they’re trying to teach. Not to push you into a certain direction. Fug those teachers and other people. I hope you can get out of the hole. Lately I’ve felt like caca cause drawing my own ideas seem dumb and I always feel better drawing other peoples characters… Its also nice to know somebody just to draw goofy with where there’s no judgement it’s all for fun 😭
8:00 - AAAAHHHH!! I wanna hug them. They're so gosh dang cute ;_;
I suffer from anxiety, chronic depression, and fibromyalgia pain. Most days it's too painful to even sit hunched over the sketchbook to draw, and the other days my mood feels so low I can start crying if my art isn't how I wanted it. It just feels so hopeless to keep up with art lately and I can tell I'm getting rusty. It's very discouraging. It doesn't help that I'm a perfectionist. X_X
This video was SUPER helpful to me right now, because I've been "taking a break" from digital drawing, but I just realized that I wasn't actually taking a break! I was just stopping because I didn't think I could make anything good, and I would come back once I thought I was good enough. That ended up putting a lot of stress on me to somehow improve even though I wasn't drawing, and I expected myself to suddenly have my next drawing be way better than the last one. After watching this video I decided to pick up my tablet pen and just *draw*, so thank you :)
Thank you for talking about this, I've just taken up drawing after multiple tries of it since highschool, I keep hitting the same wall. I used references which was sort of detrimental to my thought process of drawing because I kept comparing the reference to my unfinished drawings and leading to me discarding them. Now I know why I'm not progressing, it's because I wasn't letting myself progress, I was focused on other people's progress instead of myself.
I'm trying to remember how to draw. I wasn't able to draw for years and now I'm trying to rediscover how to do it. This helped a lot because I was panicking about how it was going to look or how I was going to post my art. Thank you for making videos :)
I felt all of this with art and writing. Writing more so recently since it's something I didn't start really trying to improve on until recently. I wish I could say I gotten over the hump but been on and off it with both. Sometimes, regardless of the facts of the how or why, I still feel down about my art/writing. It hasn't stopped me from doing either but the embarrassment seeps in and drowns me to a point I eventually delete all my stuff. I may not even get that far and sometimes don't bother to post.
I agree it takes a long time to get over everything mentioned in the video (and for some maybe more), I hope I reach a comfortable level with my stuff art/writing but this video adds perspective. It's a step closer hearing this from someone as skilled as you are. That you too had those struggles but they didn't hold you back. This video helped me for sure, thank you for this transparency and sharing your art journey in general.
Don't delete your old stuff! I know how it is to feel "inadequate", but trust me, old works can be very encouraging when you compare to your newer stuff. I still have my first attempt at digital character drawing saved, it's _abysmal,_ but it felt so good to compare to one year later. _You don't need to post everything,_ don't get rid of your journey logs!
@@sirframes Thank you for this advice, I'll stop deleting stuff. I still have copies my old works on my pc but I always clean my galleries. True, I'll keep that in mind that not everything needs to be shared too. I never thought of it like that, a museum of progress, seeing it would probably help a lot. I really appreciate this advice, thank you again!
Very well said! I went a very long time between drawing things because I didnt feel I was good enough. Then I got on the kick of watching sketchbook tours (like, that's 90% of what I watch on RUclips now) and I saw all the practice people actually put in. I've had supplies dry out and go to waste before I could use it, because I didnt think I was good enough to use it. Ultimately I had to shift my thinking. I had to see myself using the supplies in exchange for gaining experience. Materials are replaceable, but you can take your experience with you everywhere. I started drawing like crazy, coming out with good and bad pages. But every page is progress to me, so long as it's used up. And i've been improving and learning a lot :D
I just discovered your channel recently, but boy was it the right time. I've been struggling with my art for quite a while now, and your videos are really helping motivate me to really start drawing again. Thank you!
I really needed to hear this, I'm at a similar point in which you were. This year I graduate from art high school and I feel as if I hadn't reach the standard and seeing the work of younger classmates I felt like I'm behind and not enough, and that has been discouragung me from drawing for myself or even enjoying it.
Some points you made I was already warapping my head around but your video helped me realize my situation and I feel way better about it, but also helped me change my focus into something more healthy.
Really thank you so much for this video! :)
I'm new here and this is the second or third video of yours that i watch and have to thank you for the positivity and meme-ish editing of your videos. It's super helpful, encouraging and fun! I've been stuck without trying drawing for years, and hearing these things really makes me think differently and more optimistic c:
Knowing people with good art feel not talented enought is refreshing
I think your videos are an un understood art of teaching because I swear this is the only art channel that’s made me want to try gives me confidence and are so easy to understand
I stumbled onto your channel and I gotta say, you're a huge motivation for trying to draw again. I can personally reallly relate to the last bit of this video, constantly comparing yourself to other artists so unfairly. Love the stuff u put out!
i have a weird way of practicing. I just kind of.... make an oc designed around what I'm struggling with. like, mocha; the coffee slime. who I literally made because I wanted a character I can draw to practice fluid dynamic poses, without worrying about the details in anatomy. I just make an oc that fits what I want to work on, and draw them nonstop until I have learned what their design requires me to learn.
6:55 I relate with this segment so much. I LOVE drawing/art but I've never focused on improving my skills despite my interests and even though I'm a young adult, I can't help but compare myself to people who are in high school doing this. Now I feel like I should have used my time more wisely and I can't keep a constant schedule. Then it's like why are you so worried, you have the time right now and remember to have fun with it. Thanks for making this, it's probably the best video that tackles the common artist struggle I've ever seen. 💥
my funny drawing technique is the following: I choose something I want to represent and then I make spirals, streaks, sets of strong graphite lines to built it - and I love the chaotic result that comes out, because as it is a violent line, few mistakes become noticeable, and the designs become strong and scary ( i love it)-
One part that I find hard is that how do you get inspiration with out looking at other peaples art and not get demotivated like you said
Ahh, yes. Such a calm ending- *Pikat explodes* OH MY LORD, WHO MADE PIKAT CAST SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION?!
The part where being bitter about other artists is so true. I'm not that affected with it anymore but I still struggle with it once in while. It's great knowing that I'm not alone and I hope I overcome it completely. Thank you
I think the blank canvas fears bit might be my issue. You're right, I should just focus on the fun and be curious about what the process brings.
RIGHT! I get excited with a blank canvas but then I get scared I’m going to “ruin” the page and waste it 🤣😭 and then I don’t know what I want to draw, or I have an idea of what I want to draw but I can’t figure out how to put it out.
There’s this one person’s OC art that I love, mostly as it’s a cool mad scientist, and seeing they’re younger than me demotivates me so bad cuz I love their artstyle yet I’m older and hate mine
It’s rendered so well and I just don’t understand how to render
This video feels like exactly what I needed. Some words directly reflected my situation, witch showed me that I'm not alone in this art dilema.Thnx for that Pikat... I also love the fact that the happiest moment of the video is accompanied by cute, fancy birds in top hats and bowties.=)
Yeah, this helped my nerves a bit. I've tried to draw for so long, but I keep getting frustrated and caught up in everyday life. I kept TRYING to do daily regular practice, get to the grindstone.. but I could never feel the progress enough to commit for long enough to feel any better. I'm trying to puzzle it out; I think I have some very unique mental blocks that circumvent good ways of dealing with it.
My current focus: just learn to love the process. Learn to love what I create. THEN I can start trying to add more technical learning and begin all those human figure or 101 drawing tutorials again for review. I know all these things about shadow, perspective, negative space, proportions, reference, line quality, on and on.. but learning those never improved anything. Turns out endless drawing lessons and tutorials may have been holding me back, as I became less and less able to just draw because I wanted. Drawing became exclusively a tool, for a result I can't imagine, and that.. thoroughly sabotaged the process of improvement and learning. I have been incapable of enjoying the process or drawing for any reason besides a tutorial for some time.
In fact, I don't think I even properly plateaued; I think I just didn't enjoy it even when I improved and it shut me down. The basic doodles I'm making in just a minute right now certainly feel more even and rendered than I feel they should be. I'm figuring it out. Thanks for the video; you were a pleasure to watch.
Very timely, I basically threw my sketchbook across the room because of how dissatisfied I was with my work tonight. Still not sure how to enjoy the process since I'm still so focused on the outcome. Any who thanks for the encouragement (I know I know not specifically for me but it was a boost either way). Also nice avatar, I'm a huge fan of the retro 8/16 bit looks.
I'm 18 and I've been drawing like my whole life. Art was always my thing, but last year in the summer I got the worst art block I've ever had. I only now am getting out of it. I think I was focused on my future and weather I wanted to make art a career or not, and that I needed to be better and I had to improve that it sucked the fun out of it. I've just sort of started drawing whatever I want. And I mean that literally. If i feel like drawing something I just do it. Drawing in a sketchbook helped me too cause it felt like it didn't have to be as good as anything I was posting. Art is hard, hang in there
your videos help me get motivation to actually sit down and study.
i really want to be able to make art i enjoy and that i can share with others, but things like boredom and lack of motivation and knowledge about what to do halts me.
your channel gives me so much knowledge and motivation:3 so thank you! ❤
I felt this a week into drawing. I can see I'm doing way better then stick figures but I'm not drawing the things I want to and it's a little frustrating. But I continue to draw because it just is fun to do and I like it as my other hobby besides gaming so eventually I hope to improve enough to that level.
thank you for making this, it helped alot
I'm spending this evening looking at art mental health stuff because I just can't make anything good. I think this video is the closest it's gotten to rekindling my flame, so to speak.
I randomly stumbled upon your channel and I just love how you explain things that I can resonate with. I just started learning art and as someone who used to love to draw as a kid but stopped for a very long amount of time is definitely frustrating. I was both inspired and frustrated whenever I saw art better than mine but over the time since last year I can say that I have improved. it's a slow progress but even small progress is enough.
Late to the party, but seeing the top hats drawn on at the end gave me ideas to just have zaney meme like fun with a drawing after I finish to keep thins intresting
I come back to this video whenever I’m feeling bad about my art. This journey is absolutely a bumpy one. But the highs feel great. If you’re reading this and are also an aspiring artist, keep at it. Never give up!
You inspired me to pick up my pen again. Thank you!
i have never related to a video in so many different ways, thank you
I turned 18 this year, I've been drawing for almost my whole life and recently I've been so frustrated with myself thinking negativity that I'm never going to be good enough when its to a point where art is really the only possible choice that I have in life to make a career out of and a 'stable income' so I've been very stressed and depressed lately, crying and tearing up. I'm grateful that I found your channel and decided to give it a watch, I feel a lot better knowing that there's still many people that are either older/younger than me that have at least struggled once in their time.. thanks :)
I recently joined social media after improving for a while and got discouraged when I saw other artists who were much better than me around me. I honestly felt intimidated when one artist I loved followed me after a quick chat, and I’ve been on hiatus ever since due to my fear of disappointing them. But I’m doing better now and I think as long as I’m having fun, they’ll enjoy my work, and as long as they are as well I’ll enjoy their’s! Thank you for this video, it was helpful and gave me a push in the right direction. Have a good day/night!
One thing that I found helpful is to share your work with a friend since even though you may not be able to see your improvements your friends can.
Im so happy I was able to break through my plateau, once you get start feeling like you're actually improving after hitting that wall, the confidence boost and the ability to draw more freely is such a good feeling. Currently 20 years old i've been drawing for the past 10-15 years but seriously practicing for the last 4 or 5 years.
One thing is for sure, drawing used to be so much fun until recently AI took over the world soaring high. Having to make art in a matter of seconds and seeing my Instagram post full of AI artists getting greater likes than other artists out there.
I am just loosing patients to draw and even pewdiepie advancing his art overnight makes me think that my decades of practicing art isn't worth sharing to world out there. It is a very tough position for me of having to lose interest in what I like to do.
This video helped me a lot! I started doing art again and I’m stuck on boxes in perspective 😂
I haven't seen anyone mention this yet but Bakuman mentioned and it's a good anime and reference for how art can be seen and improved-- blue period is a good one as well
i feel like this is the only art motivational video that actually got through to me, despite hearing almost the same info.
you made the info come through, thank you
This is exactly what I needed to hear tonight 😊 Thank you so much for making this beautiful video. Your voice is super soothing and I can feel a rush of motivation surging from wanting to make art because it's /fun/ to do, not because I need to reach some ever-moving goalpost of what "good" art looks like !
this is genuinely the first time i hear someone express 1:1 the struggle i am working on. the frustration instead of motivation when seeing others' art always felt like there was something wrong with me because everyone else's response to fantastic art was "wow that's so motivating!" yet i'm just sitting there, bitter and crushed. everything else was also on point. the important part is a lot of acceptance that things are as they are, knowing of the improvement process, and being kind to yourself.
a lot of the stuff you've said really hit the nail on the coffin for me, this was helpful!
I just want to thank you😭 I subscribed to you recently and I really want to imrpove my art so bad also because i really like your videos but i feel like my drawings last year were much better than the ones I drew this year.. i thought about giving up.. but this video coming out is such perfect timing
Im not a visual artist, but I am a writer. This video reminds me that even if I'm not at my computer, having a notebook and writing descriptions or getting down a thought is valid engagement with the art form. I value the community and support that artists provide for each other, it's incredibly helpful and inspiring.
i dealt with this for so long because i didn't understand that i needed to learn anatomy or even how to go about doing that i even tried to quit drawing for almost 4 years but just couldn't stay away from it but doing figure drawing and observational drawing changed the way i look at art so much and helped understand it a lot more. but don't just draw the exact same thing repeatedly like i did it's extremely exhausting and doesn't really help much
love the explosion at the end.
5:10 This is exactly what I needed. I'm practicing drawing eyes right now and I just feel stuck because the eyes I draw doesn't look so good. So hearing that you need practice, but you should also make time to just draw what you want to really helped me.
8 years, and im not move on from artblock. + The depression + the financials.
Thank you so much for making this video when you did. I've been struggling with my art recently, but after taking a step back, I think I'm ready to start drawing again! This time I'll just trust the process and not worry about improvement.
Thank you for showing up on my feed. Really, I need these words.
This is so true, fall in love with the process not the result. Even if you do this magnificent piece you can always go back and do it again, differently, or even better than before so why fixate on something that is so short-lived and temporary? The experience of creating it, what you learned along the way, the ideas you had, that stuff is set in stone because it is your personal experience. You can't go back and change it. Someone in my art group had a really good comment for someone who was just learning how to draw and complaining about not being better at it like other members of the group. They said "imagine you are a farmer and you get upset because you can not harvest your crops after having only planted them yesterday" and it makes insanely good sense to me. Anything you deem as worthy of your time to do, is going to take time to do. If anything a plateau is your signal to push a little harder, otherwise you won't see improvement.
Man this vid is 7 months old but speaks to me now. I'm in a funk right now and I'm finding myself almost actively avoiding drawing despite wanting to do so. @_a I'm trying to change my habits and environment to see if it'll help. Thanks for the vid. ✌
I always have wanted to get better at drawing, since i was young but only really started back in 2018
Today, I feel like i havent improved much and that I should leave it all, i have been trying to face the fear of drawing, the anxiety, its just unbearable I can't take it anymore, I dont even know if i like it anymore, I just wanna be happy and i have been watching these videos to try gaining motivation and the courage again but i just cant get over that fear, I feel its better to stop all together
Somtimes its better to let dreams be just that, dreams, because pursuing an impossible dream will just end up in frustation and a feeling of worthlessness
Amazing video and so honest and true, it's so frustrating to see beginners make the same mistakes over and over but honestly part of the learning journey is failing over and over
For me, the reasons why I don't enjoy drawing as much are:
- I don't like repetitive things in general. Designing is super fun since every character is a different process, but then when it comes to making a rendered version, drawing just gets repetitive.
- I just want results. But in general, things are so much more enjoyable when you are enjoying the journey rather than the destination.
- In the end casually playing video games is more fun than anything. So I procrastinate.
I feel like if I can find a drawing process that I feel good with and that gives results quickly, I'd be able to enjoy drawing a huge lot more. So I've been experimenting other ways of drawing, such as drawing colored shapes first instead of the lineart. But haven't found my miracle solution yet.
Drawing what you love is extremely important! I’ve been drawing for four years, 3 of them I drew stuff I didn’t really care about, recently this year though I’ve dedicated myself to drawing what I love, (aswell as study’s) and I’ve improved dramatically! Draw what you love people!
This helped me out today. I'm a literal professional and sometimes it's just.. not fun anymore. But I'll probably watch this video again when I feel down. Thanks a bunch. :3
YOU ARE AN ART SUPERGENIOUS YOU HELPED ME SO MUCH THANK YOU!!!
yea... I guess that did help a fair bit, also the explosion at the end got me when I was typing this. thank you pixel person
i started drawing at 10, had major improvements until 14 when I got depressed and now I haven’t improved in 6 years. seeing talented young artists and people acting like it’s easy is honestly infuriating. i think enjoying drawing is a privilege, honestly
4:24 real. If I spent these 5 years actually drawing consistently instead of complaining, I would have seen improvements.
5:54 Both, actually. It depends. When I'm not drawing, I feel the inspiration. When I'm watching videos like this and the creator draws this amazing piece in the background, it's rather counter intuitive.
Fear of the drawing...exactly....I know that feeling. But somehing I noticed..every time you overcome it and just draw anyway...and the less time is between the sessions. the less fear you feel of drawing :D idk... works for me somehow (not always tough)
I'm listening to this pixelart avatar like it's my life professor like my life depends on it
As someone who's relatively new at art and trying to learn to draw, I really needed and appreciate this video!
The "eh, whatever RUclips video" part really got me 😭
I'm unfortunately in that stage where looking at other peoples art I self harm because I know, despite drawing every day, I will never be that good.
One tip i have is if youre really into a game, show or you really like the design of an environment try capitalize on that excitement and draw stuff related to that, if you like a game try come up with skins for some of your favorite characters for example.
I think the thought of an adult who has a hobby that demands so much dedication is like thinking "am I wasting my time? Could I be doing something more meaningful?" That's the feeling
I'm at the point of questioning if art is for me, whar frustrated me isn't skills, I'm fine with trying.
I just lost the spark that made me pick up a pen and draw. I have other hobbies I tend to, but I have been neglecting my art so much...
In 2016, when I was studying Digital animation, a teacher told to my class: "never practice, never do something if you do not have the mood because the final result will just suck." When you practice or do anything with good mood, believe me you will progress and final result will be better.
One thing you can do is only practice if you have atleast 55% of your mood in favor of practice drawing. If not, do something else and while you do that another thing, sometimes repeat yourself "I could be practicing right now" and after finish that thing, practice atleaste 30 minutes.
You will always progress if you never drop drawing, it does not matter how many minutes per week you practice, you always will improve at the end.
This is the most relatable video ever. It sucks how something so enjoyable to me when I was young, became something I almost loathe. I still love drawing but I hate everything I draw.
I'm new to your content and I may as well claim these videos as mine because HOW ARE YOU SAYING WORD FOR WORD MY SOUL CRUSHING STRUGGLE THESE PAST FEW YEARS.
*cough* Really though thank you. I'm glad to have found artists like you that have similar issues regarding our insecurities in our art journies, and that it really takes some self-humbling, acceptance and patience for the craft that we'll be able to move forward.
My dream is to draw, I get very frustrated and stressed and I end up taking breaks or almost giving up. But in the end I like drawing and I would like to draw better.
It's so hard
Your videos are a such relaxing content :D i love them
One thing i hate about being in the art sphere, is seeing how other artists start to post about what they're doing. I always try and try my best to put myself out there. Then lo and behold, someone i know has gotten a big client, or found their dream job, or start a successful online business. I used to look up to big artists and dreamed myself being them. Now with myself trying to make a living, I feel jealous more often than happiness because relatively, im a fuckin nobody. I resulted to being more recluse to avoid confrontation. This is where im at in my journey, and I wish i can get out of it.
I’m 32 now, I’ve been drawing since I was 6, so I’ve got 26 years of experience under my belt more or less and I’ve had peaks, valleys… but worst of all I don’t like a majority of the stuff I’ve done. Some pieces I’m like “oh damn, that’s great” but they never got any traction anywhere and a lot of my work I’d rather just toss in the trash. That’s kinda where I’ve been for most of my art life, was I envious of some artists? Sure but i soon stopped caring about that and looked back at my own work and still hated it. For me too though I think it’s just an info overload that’s kept me not wanting to work on stuff but still longing to do art but then hating my work when I do it. So weird.
I find personally that setting goals for myself helps a lot, like something ill do is draw the same thing for like 3 days and look back on them and see what ive done wrong and draw it once more and see if i can improve l. This helped me learn where my weak points are and what to look up to try to help myself. I personally find it hard to improve if i dont know whats wrong to start with and honestly speaking to others doesnt help me much, i was astonished at how.much better ive gotten because i do this now
You know what creator I just want to say thank you you help me out with something I appreciate everything you said and did Ty:)
Whenever I start to get frustrated with my art or burnt out, I always try to remember the Kiki's Delivery Service quote from Ursula. "Stop trying. Tank long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. don't even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you'll be flying again."
26 now, I only watch youtbe videos and draw for fun since 17yo. And I only draw when Im in the mood of drawing, sometimes only 2 artworks per year. Even though most of the time I dont practice drawing, but i do constantly save any illustration that I like for future reference/art study (90% i will just forget bout them 😂).
Every time i saw someone's better than me, I was like "hmph, u think u good? wait me in 2 months". I always set high standards/expectation to myself to push my limit and challenge whoever better than me. I always have this question when Im drawing, "I want this to look good even after 5 years, so I won't get embarrassed showing it to others." And because of this, I did spend 3-4 hours just to sketch the eyes to have just enough of the expression I want on one of my drawings. Sometimes i do feel burnt out, so i'll slack off for months. I'm literally the basement/closet art enjoyer, only draw what i like and know how good the industry pro artists are. Never been to art school or anything similar. But recently, I saw some local college/uni levels artworks. I was like "that's it? u guys pay college to draw like that?". This made me realize how far I have improved without noticing it, because I was constantly compare myself with the best of the best, not my past self. So now I feel happier, confident and proud of my improvements, currently trying to be more consistent in drawing more. Hoping i can truly be a full time illustrator. Whoever reading this, thank you for your time 😊
I almost had a panic attack over drawing a silly little catfish the other night so this video was MUCH APPRECIATED 😭