yeah check out schoolism and gumroad both great value and twitch tv art section has lots of artists streaming you can learn a lot from there too for free
I may go to schoolism if it works in 6 years. I'd love to meet Bobby. FZD schools is like 3millions RSD and that's quite a lot since here lowest wage is 25000 dinars that's $248 or so
@Wexen Art Schoolism is NOT for beginners at all! Basic fundamentals, you learn from youtube or Skillshare. Skillshare is $1.34 for 2 months. WAY cheaper than Schoolism and FAR MORE courses!!!
I schedule my sessions like around midnight before going to bed. I got tired of excuses especially when going outside for not having a sketchbook on me and when I did have it, a 5 minute wait for the bus was not enough time. Now I do it every time I get the chance, even if it’s to draw a small detail from a bag or element from scenery.
I would personally love to see your early portfolios, which you submitted to companies, as well as the portfolio you sent that landed you the jobs. I think it would help us get an idea of how far or close we are to that. Plus I.m curious :)) and I.m sure others are too
I don't think that would actually help you though. The bar is always raising. A portfolio that would get you hired in 2006 will not get you hired at the same company today. None of the employees are the same, none of the industry standards are the same. The bar is always rising.
@Lulu Bell, so many factors besides portfolio that get an artist a job in a studio. I've known supervisors to reject portfolios that had artwork better than theirs. :/ If a place is looking for a $5 artist, and a $20 artist shows up....that $20 artist will be rejected. :/ Best thing to do is to look at what the company is making and that's your bar. Be able to fit into production. Have the relevant subject matter. Network as well. Meet people in person. People like working with people they can get along with. Start entering contests online, keep that Instagram full of art. :)
I am a young Single mother here, i just started to get into concept art,come back here every time I feel lost, I watch this video many times to remind myself when I feel burn out or other videos and tutorials on Gumroad, but I been making time to practice and sacrifice some sleep too to practice and dissecting but I do feel lost sometimes so hearing trent’s wisdom helps motivate me a lot.
I feel people don't really need school for art. Especially when you're just there to learn how to draw. You do need to go to school for the loans to afford the software & hardware, end with the portfolio, get the degree papers, and some of those neat doors open to you from studios looking to hire from schools.
When you said play games that excite and inspire you and then create characters that would fit in that world, that reminded me this was the way I use to think and draw when I was a kid, before things got so technical. Thanks for reminding me to really just love what I'm doing and to draw what i would love to see ! :)
Though I don’t play video games that much anymore I love watching them. Whenever I see people playing them with such creative characters and how happy they are it just makes me feel so inspired. I am in high school right now so I am still trying to work a lot of stuff out including a bunch of improvements for my art. Your video was very helpful and it made me excited again to keep working and to not give up on try to reach my goal of being a concept artist one day.
You were an inspiration for me as a kid because you weren't much older than me, when you got in the business at 16 years old with Creed. The way you made those characters look is one of the reasons I wanted to keep going. Even back then your shit was epic! I'm glad I found your channel!
i know this video is old but another good thing is to not listen to the people that are like "oh, you shouldnt go into this field, its not a real job" (or something like that) or the people that just say "its shit" without giving any criticism
To be real honest, I just want to be an educator. Is that odd? Like everyone else wants to be a concept artist for some AAA company but I feel like concept artists or illustrators has never been given the time to shine for what they do best! Which is making every detail count. Here in my country, you guys never get credit for the amount of work done and I wanna just educate the youth........idk I feel like artists get taken for granted unnecessarily... but I feel like my drawings are just meh, it doesn’t have that concept art oomf to it but like you said you just gotta push through and reevaluate my drawings keep growing :’] you’re amazing btw ❤️❤️
Damn I remember reading about you in a Wizard when I was a kid . You were publishing a book at 16. Huge inspiration. Glad to see you still doing your thing.
I like this video... I was spending so much time playing PS4 then I completed my drawing and now I'm hooked and back into my passion. I'm more happy to create.
LOVE the G.I.Joe example! I designed hundreds of my own characters when I was a kid....even hesitantly added a drawing of one to fill out a portfolio needed for an interview to get accepted into a summer art camp. It was the piece they seemed to like the most! I was so surprised, lol. Great advice, now time to go have fun drawing things I love!
These are the words more aspiring artists need to hear. I see so many give up when faced with the reality that you have to be good at what you're doing to be an actual artist and that you have to be great/excellent at what you're doing to be up there with the legends!
i'm no Concept artist, but damn these are some tips anybody can use regardless of field/hobby, your videos are really well thought out and there is a piece of info in there for everyone. gives me a little jolt of inspiration listening to you talk about your art
there is also the idea that in many trades the key information is protected by the artist to avoid selling his mindset. but the fact you mentioned it means it's very key in stepping up... key skills learned the right way, not just seen on a tut, but individually deducted and applied in work real-time...
I was indeed designing a character while listening to this lol For the past two weeks I've been bingewatching your channel every morning, you motivate and help me a lot, thank you!!
I really struggle with that mentality, if someone tells me no, my first response is "oh okay." it is really holding me back from even starting, but every day I think, "I just want my imagination to be sharable" to draw, to animate, to just show...but it is so hard for me to motivate myself past that. thanks for the video trent, they (and the discord) really really help to give me those little bursts of inspiration I need to at least practice several times a week.
Oh my god. Take something ordinary and redesign it. That’s an amazing idea. I already love drawing ordinary still life’s I BET I CAN TOTALLY MAKE THEM MORE INTERESTING
I have 2 children I originally was gonna go to art school decided against it but my little girl started begging me for a "draw book" I remembered me begging my dad for a pad and along with my daughter I have jumped into it while hog and have improved so much thanks to your advice
Mindset, "taking punches"... I would love to hear more about that from you. About dealing with those moments, when you're knocked out during this fight for dreams... How to keep going, when you almost wanna quit in the same time.
Very inspirational speech!!! Just listening to you makes me wanna go design a character and fight my weary head after a long working day! Just great - love it!
I just signed my first real employment contract after some months of internship. It's not a job in concept art but more of a general artist for games (Finland doesn't really have that many concept positions). Just commenting on the notion that we live in a wonderful age of knowledge and I absolutely hate it :) . It's not that I cannot understand why people might see it that way, if they struggled with finding out about things when they were learning it might look like new people are having it easy now. Personally I feel like piling up all that information will simply come naturally over time as you keep working on things and it's not really that big of a deal. Instead, today we get blasted with absolutely top tier art and concepts on daily basis. It's also coming at us with various shapes and forms. One person swears by the texture brushes to get some painterly look while another is telling everyone to learn at least there three 3D programs to be able to work in the industry. Rationally, these just take you to different paths but it's hard to just pick one and stick to it when you don't really see these paths clearly. You just see this messed up tangle of webs where you might see some places you'd like to be in. So.. while finding information, often conflicting information, is not all that hard these days, staying confident in yourself is. That slow drip-feed information of the past seems like an utopia to me. I think self-confidence is the biggest and hardest obstacle on the path of learning to become professional. Working long hours and pushing yourself is in my honest opinion not hard at all when compared to having to see what came off of your hard work and then seeing hundreds of much better works posted online. All of which were made during the time it took for you to make that one thing. Obviously there are ways to work with this, I recommend people for example only checking Artstation on Saturdays and preparing to take notes for the occasion, that way it becomes about learning and not about depressing self evaluation. Anyway, that was a bit of a rant, sorry. Love your channel Trent, keep up the good work man! EDIT: I find it weird and a bit of a contradiction that one of the reasons I wanted to be in this field was that I have always new things to learn. I guess I might just put too much emphasis on being professional level and that stresses me out.
This is a video that truly motivates you and makes you want to work even harder at the craft. Great content Trent, I'm really glad I found your channel!
100,000,000,000% agree with your do the thing you want to do as a job even before it's your job. I started programming when I was 13 I never went to college, I did it work on the side for almost 15 years and did 14 years of telecom before landing a job in software development with no college education I earned alot of money along the way
I was inspired by your character at the start of the video and I started designing a character as you where talking.... and then at 2:40 u said:" you should design a character while you are listening to this". DUDE!
i went to art school but i ditched college and my social life to master my portfolio, ive spent almost half a year just being home drawing every single day and asking for feedback (still doing it), i started noticing that i'm getting much better at it and i ain't planing on stoping anytime soon, i know its not really the healthies always being home but that's my way of staying focused. i used to not even get replies on my submissions for a job but recently i started to get rejected with a proper response which actually got me really exited lmao, so the next step is just to land a few interviews and eventually my first job! i actually wanna work remote for small/indie companies cuz where i live we have a lower standard for products so the pay would actually be really good even in small companies :) (i've been also doing commissions on fiver for a year which was a pretty nice income)
I LOVE your videos! I can't tell if it's the way you speak or what, but you really know how to pour confidence and ambition into my head. I can't thank you enough.
Great video as always! Remember when you made a video about how to make money as a artist? I tired that and now I’m making stuff like banner and business cards for my mum and her clients. I’m really glad I followed your advice!...I’m 17 years old rightnow and although I wanna do stuff like illustration and environmental design, working with clients has really boosted my confidence, all thanks to you!
This past 2 weeks I've been moving and have been working from the time I get home from work till midnight every night to get everything moved and set up. It's hard work but the hardest part has been that I haven't drawn anything in this whole time! Its bitter sweet because, for one thing i'm frustrated that I can't draw right now but at the same time i'm proud of myself for making drawing *almost* every day (give or take my wrist hurting) such a habit that I feel kinda like shit if I go too long without it. This video makes me want to hit the ground running once i get my cintiq set back up. I'm self taught and even though it's harder I feel like it let's me really cherish the knowledge, the skill and the act of drawing itself. Anyway.... this is a rambly comment but this video was awesome and gives me the itch to get to drawing again! Soooon!!!!
I’m still learning how to draw but I’m going to try what you said and do some concept art of video games i like. Cause why not. I might end up doing it as a job one day.
I stumbled upon your channel randomly today. I study architecture, and I find all the advice you're giving in this video/in general is really inspiring for people doing anything that has to do with art. I actually took out my sketchbook and wrote down some of it haha. Keep them coming!
This channel and the content is so delicious, I've had a graphic novel in my gut for 20+ years but I've been slow to pull the trigger to start. You've said in another video to feed off of the project to create the passion (paraphrasing) and not to wait for the passion to feed you. That was a real light bulb moment for me because I know that when I've not drawn for a long while but get back into it I get into the groove and start to think "I drew yesterday, I want to keep that going today". Your gumroad downloads are calling to me... a friend wanting to help boost me over the hurdles of just starting "it". I know the general advice is to just start and learn from your mistakes and finish no matter what because you'll learn from the experience but what mental exercises would you recommend to help push a staller into a doer. I see the whole thing as a giant project and get lost in the middle of something I haven't even begun to start yet.
you got it! Start with an exciting scene and work it out in script. Set your tone, and capture that one scene very quickly. Thats your standard. Next you should formulate a plan and a schedule based on how long it took you to do that sample. Stick to your schedule.
Thanks for taking the time to give me some very sound advice. I'm going to use that... I've got 2 weeks off for the holidays and no excuses not to get something started.
Love your channel and knowledge Trent. And I found all of this and your gum road, from googling Diablo 3 Concept Art. Went down the rabbit hole of your channel ever since. Not dissapointed. Love the content and wisdom.
I really love watching your videos, you are always so passionate when you talk about being an concept artist and getting to know more of the background of the job is a really great help. Thanks alot.^^
So inspiring, really. Everything you said hit the bullseye. I'll make an effort to plan my day as if I'm already doing the job as you said. I'll add this in to my practice time. Thank you for the valuable tips!!
Comp Sci major here, I was pretty salty about going to a tech school rather than an art school but your video has convinced me that I can’t let school be an excuse not to draw. Tbh I want to be a key animator/character designer but like you said, it’s something I have to do every day and I haven’t been doing that. Animation seems so intimidating to learn but I want to learn it so bad. Perhaps it’s not really any video game that gets me hyped *cough Elsword cough* but more so TV series. Watching passion projects like Mob Psycho and the Dragon Ball Super movie get me giddy for some reason. TL;DR time to pull a Deku *You Say Run starts playing*
New subscriber here! 6:00 really speaks to me because I’ve always been told art isn’t ideal as a career 😅 so spite has become one of the greatest motivators for me! Thank you for all your tips and inspiration
One thing is art as a whole ( a very complex term that goes beyond just drawing and coloring) and another thing is to specifically study : painting, digital illustration ,3d animation, graphic design , traditional illustration, concept art, character design , wood craving,sculpturing,crafting,etc. ( all of them are types of art). Even though you can learn all of them , I think it would be recommendable that you focus on just two things because it can become very frustrating to learn many things at once . However,if you really want to learn all of them , go for it .
Good talk really, I have no idea how I am not subscribed so I changed that fact hah Since I am finishing high school right now I plan on taking one year pause before seeing what I'll do. I'll use it to improve at art as much as possible and discover who I am and what will help me personally to keep being hyped up to draw.
Thanks for this im self taught because i cant afford school but im looking into gumroad, skillshare, and possibly schoolism as alternatives and more affordable
I love your videos, they are very inspiring! I have never been very optimistic ever in my life and after watching just a few of your videos I've already starting having a better outlook on not only art (which I do for fun) but life in general. Thank you for that! Also I love all your work, beautiful stuff indeed!
Hey Trent, I am a 32 year old full-time art student at a university and I'm learning very little about concept art/illustration. Most of my learning comes from studies at home. I'm enrolled because, although I'm not learning as much, it beats working 40+ hrs a week doing back breaking labor just to survive and have little energy left to draw. Is it realistic to say that I should fight through the fatigue and just draw or should I just give up and pursue something more suitable for my lifestyle?
Hey dude I'm doing through the same thing almost , I'm 19 but not in school. During the final years of hs i did all the research and thinking and came the conclusion that i cant afford to go the the proper schools for art and theres no point in going to a school i can hardly afford to learn next to nothing. I come from a "family' with not a lot of money so i was always at the short end of the stick and to add insult to injury i wanted to be an artist, not the doctor or what ever my parents want me to be. So things happen and i have to work over 40 hours a week now to get by right out of high school and it is the most depressing thing ever. during high school i was making so much progress with art putting in hours a day to become a concept artist, but work ruined a lot for me i couldn't adjust, i developed bad habits and didn't draw for months. i felt frustrated angry so much was thrown around i really wanted to quit i thought i should just do something and give up on it. There is just so much emotion that i cant put in to this. But the one thing i want to share to people is how important willpower is and how you should train it like your life depends on it. if its the life you want, then its not even an option to sit idle. After a while i wanted to scream at myself, i couldn't believe the type of person i have become and i realzed that nothing and i mean NOTHING can change me but myself. I took a giant step back looked up looked down looked around, zoomed out and really think about my next step. I looked at my mistakes and learned on them. i reformed the bad habits into good ones, figured out to work the same hours and still be able to draw. My way was to work afternoons for 8-9 hours then come home and draw for another 5 then sleep the day. its a system that has the best results for me and feels best for me so you could find one for yourself its hard but its possible. The way i was able to make it work for me now is the way i think about things, my mindset as always been "do my best and do whats right" Yours could be different so this will take a bit of digging to make work, i cant say that this is the best and only way of thinking about things and i wont say it because theres many ways to success right? I think i went of on a tangent but i sure it will still help someone(kinda wanted to get that off mychest as well) Point is just dont ever give in to other thoughts and emotions. if art is your thing and you love it, THERE IS NO MORE SUITABLE LIFESTYLE! the art life is what you want and what you *_will_* work for.
@tsorakin.....dude, you're asking for life advice without explaining much of anything. This is not a fair question to ask. You haven't even stated what your goals are, and you're asking someone if you should quit? Dude....seems like you answered your own question. :/ IF your WHY isn't strong enough, any excuse to quit will be enough. :/
@shovel where do you live? What State? Did you get into a Trade? I can state this to any artist out there. Get into a Trade while working on your art. Reason being, you will be working with your hands, you will be interacting with people, you will be developing the soft skills that will aid you in a studio environment if that is your goal. Also Trades pay the same and sometimes MORE than art jobs in studios! :)
I want to give a tip too... Retro engineering practice, if you are familiar with the termn them try to aply It to the art you want to learn, try to go layer by layer if you know what I mean
I love your videos Trent! I just discovered your channel and I tend to watch your videos twice a day for inspiration. I recently got a drawing tablet and am hoping in a few years of me drawing and placing finished work in a portfolio I can be a quarter as good as you! I just bought your 2019 brush pack too so I'm stoked to use them! Thanks Trent for all that you do!
I'm torn between doing illustrations for the game industry, specifically Riot and Blizz, I love their games, I make a lot of fanart of their characters, but also I want to get to do my own designs and illustrations like WLOP and other instagram/patreon artists, which gives them more creative freedom. I said this last video, the problem is the experience, those companies don't hire if you don't have experience, as someone who lives in south america where there is no local art jobs, idk what to do, and finding jobs for indie companies online is hard
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nice profile pic lmao
I almost wheezed
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Looked at the price for fheng zhu's school... Now im here. Thanks for the tips.
yea man.. that's literally the lifesaving just for studying something that might not even work out. Sad times I say.
did you look at schoolism.com?
yeah check out schoolism and gumroad both great value and twitch tv art section has lots of artists streaming you can learn a lot from there too for free
I may go to schoolism if it works in 6 years. I'd love to meet Bobby. FZD schools is like 3millions RSD and that's quite a lot since here lowest wage is 25000 dinars that's $248 or so
@Wexen Art Schoolism is NOT for beginners at all! Basic fundamentals, you learn from youtube or Skillshare. Skillshare is $1.34 for 2 months. WAY cheaper than Schoolism and FAR MORE courses!!!
"MINDSET!!!"
Aspiring concept artists with depression: ....f u c k
Yeah!! We are playing this game in hard mode!
I schedule my sessions like around midnight before going to bed. I got tired of excuses especially when going outside for not having a sketchbook on me and when I did have it, a 5 minute wait for the bus was not enough time. Now I do it every time I get the chance, even if it’s to draw a small detail from a bag or element from scenery.
You're a warrior!
I would personally love to see your early portfolios, which you submitted to companies, as well as the portfolio you sent that landed you the jobs. I think it would help us get an idea of how far or close we are to that. Plus I.m curious :)) and I.m sure others are too
I don't think that would actually help you though. The bar is always raising. A portfolio that would get you hired in 2006 will not get you hired at the same company today. None of the employees are the same, none of the industry standards are the same. The bar is always rising.
Lulu Bell maybe you could visit Laura Price channel. She got what you are asking here.
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@Lulu Bell, so many factors besides portfolio that get an artist a job in a studio. I've known supervisors to reject portfolios that had artwork better than theirs. :/ If a place is looking for a $5 artist, and a $20 artist shows up....that $20 artist will be rejected. :/ Best thing to do is to look at what the company is making and that's your bar. Be able to fit into production. Have the relevant subject matter. Network as well. Meet people in person. People like working with people they can get along with. Start entering contests online, keep that Instagram full of art. :)
I'm 2D artist for game and make videos about drawing in photoshop. PLease support my chanel)
I am a young Single mother here, i just started to get into concept art,come back here every time I feel lost, I watch this video many times to remind myself when I feel burn out or other videos and tutorials on Gumroad, but I been making time to practice and sacrifice some sleep too to practice and dissecting but I do feel lost sometimes so hearing trent’s wisdom helps motivate me a lot.
Heyy any updates?
I feel people don't really need school for art. Especially when you're just there to learn how to draw. You do need to go to school for the loans to afford the software & hardware, end with the portfolio, get the degree papers, and some of those neat doors open to you from studios looking to hire from schools.
When you said play games that excite and inspire you and then create characters that would fit in that world, that reminded me this was the way I use to think and draw when I was a kid, before things got so technical. Thanks for reminding me to really just love what I'm doing and to draw what i would love to see ! :)
Though I don’t play video games that much anymore I love watching them. Whenever I see people playing them with such creative characters and how happy they are it just makes me feel so inspired. I am in high school right now so I am still trying to work a lot of stuff out including a bunch of improvements for my art. Your video was very helpful and it made me excited again to keep working and to not give up on try to reach my goal of being a concept artist one day.
I'm ready to be rocky, hell yeah. *Cool 80s music starts playing*
Uh, do you want holy diver, stone cold crazy, or rebel yell?
You were an inspiration for me as a kid because you weren't much older than me, when you got in the business at 16 years old with Creed. The way you made those characters look is one of the reasons I wanted to keep going. Even back then your shit was epic! I'm glad I found your channel!
i know this video is old but another good thing is to not listen to the people that are like "oh, you shouldnt go into this field, its not a real job" (or something like that) or the people that just say "its shit" without giving any criticism
To be real honest, I just want to be an educator. Is that odd? Like everyone else wants to be a concept artist for some AAA company but I feel like concept artists or illustrators has never been given the time to shine for what they do best! Which is making every detail count. Here in my country, you guys never get credit for the amount of work done and I wanna just educate the youth........idk I feel like artists get taken for granted unnecessarily... but I feel like my drawings are just meh, it doesn’t have that concept art oomf to it but like you said you just gotta push through and reevaluate my drawings keep growing :’] you’re amazing btw ❤️❤️
illustration is where its at if you want more attention.
EDUCATING IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK.
YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE @ UDEMY...
@Vazazell did you work in a AAA company?
Damn I remember reading about you in a Wizard when I was a kid . You were publishing a book at 16. Huge inspiration. Glad to see you still doing your thing.
I like this video... I was spending so much time playing PS4 then I completed my drawing and now I'm hooked and back into my passion. I'm more happy to create.
LOVE the G.I.Joe example! I designed hundreds of my own characters when I was a kid....even hesitantly added a drawing of one to fill out a portfolio needed for an interview to get accepted into a summer art camp. It was the piece they seemed to like the most! I was so surprised, lol. Great advice, now time to go have fun drawing things I love!
These are the words more aspiring artists need to hear. I see so many give up when faced with the reality that you have to be good at what you're doing to be an actual artist and that you have to be great/excellent at what you're doing to be up there with the legends!
i'm no Concept artist, but damn these are some tips anybody can use regardless of field/hobby, your videos are really well thought out and there is a piece of info in there for everyone. gives me a little jolt of inspiration listening to you talk about your art
This guys enthusiasm just got me through a massive creative block ~ thank you so much
there is also the idea that in many trades the key information is protected by the artist to avoid selling his mindset. but the fact you mentioned it means it's very key in stepping up... key skills learned the right way, not just seen on a tut, but individually deducted and applied in work real-time...
Yes.
Man you dont even know HOW MUCH this video helped me to organize my thoughts
I was indeed designing a character while listening to this lol
For the past two weeks I've been bingewatching your channel every morning, you motivate and help me a lot, thank you!!
I think this is honestly some of the best pieces of advice I've heard in a while man, thanks.
I really struggle with that mentality, if someone tells me no, my first response is "oh okay."
it is really holding me back from even starting, but every day I think, "I just want my imagination to be sharable" to draw, to animate, to just show...but it is so hard for me to motivate myself past that.
thanks for the video trent, they (and the discord) really really help to give me those little bursts of inspiration I need to at least practice several times a week.
Thanks for this, I am already 99% sure what I will do in the future, but I needed this 1% percent video to boost my confidence up. Thanks again!
I love listening to your videos while I work on my characters and designs
trent made me draw continuesly for the last few months. thank you
Oh my god. Take something ordinary and redesign it. That’s an amazing idea. I already love drawing ordinary still life’s I BET I CAN TOTALLY MAKE THEM MORE INTERESTING
I have 2 children I originally was gonna go to art school decided against it but my little girl started begging me for a "draw book" I remembered me begging my dad for a pad and along with my daughter I have jumped into it while hog and have improved so much thanks to your advice
Thanks dude! From all the tips you could give, you gave the most important of all!
Mindset, "taking punches"... I would love to hear more about that from you. About dealing with those moments, when you're knocked out during this fight for dreams... How to keep going, when you almost wanna quit in the same time.
06:00 thank you for sharing the secret ingredient to developing a healthy drive :)
"trying to demistify the black art of concept at" This is why I subscribed. This is such an important topic omg
Such inspirational talk! Thanks
Very inspirational speech!!! Just listening to you makes me wanna go design a character and fight my weary head after a long working day! Just great - love it!
this is probably the single most inspiring/motivating video i have ever seen. thank you :D
I just signed my first real employment contract after some months of internship. It's not a job in concept art but more of a general artist for games (Finland doesn't really have that many concept positions). Just commenting on the notion that we live in a wonderful age of knowledge and I absolutely hate it :) .
It's not that I cannot understand why people might see it that way, if they struggled with finding out about things when they were learning it might look like new people are having it easy now. Personally I feel like piling up all that information will simply come naturally over time as you keep working on things and it's not really that big of a deal. Instead, today we get blasted with absolutely top tier art and concepts on daily basis. It's also coming at us with various shapes and forms. One person swears by the texture brushes to get some painterly look while another is telling everyone to learn at least there three 3D programs to be able to work in the industry. Rationally, these just take you to different paths but it's hard to just pick one and stick to it when you don't really see these paths clearly. You just see this messed up tangle of webs where you might see some places you'd like to be in. So.. while finding information, often conflicting information, is not all that hard these days, staying confident in yourself is. That slow drip-feed information of the past seems like an utopia to me.
I think self-confidence is the biggest and hardest obstacle on the path of learning to become professional. Working long hours and pushing yourself is in my honest opinion not hard at all when compared to having to see what came off of your hard work and then seeing hundreds of much better works posted online. All of which were made during the time it took for you to make that one thing. Obviously there are ways to work with this, I recommend people for example only checking Artstation on Saturdays and preparing to take notes for the occasion, that way it becomes about learning and not about depressing self evaluation.
Anyway, that was a bit of a rant, sorry. Love your channel Trent, keep up the good work man!
EDIT: I find it weird and a bit of a contradiction that one of the reasons I wanted to be in this field was that I have always new things to learn. I guess I might just put too much emphasis on being professional level and that stresses me out.
This is a video that truly motivates you and makes you want to work even harder at the craft.
Great content Trent, I'm really glad I found your channel!
100,000,000,000% agree with your do the thing you want to do as a job even before it's your job. I started programming when I was 13 I never went to college, I did it work on the side for almost 15 years and did 14 years of telecom before landing a job in software development with no college education I earned alot of money along the way
I was inspired by your character at the start of the video and I started designing a character as you where talking.... and then at 2:40 u said:" you should design a character while you are listening to this". DUDE!
I just love the enthusiasm and encouragement in your voice, Trent. Thank you so much. :)
i went to art school but i ditched college and my social life to master my portfolio, ive spent almost half a year just being home drawing every single day and asking for feedback (still doing it), i started noticing that i'm getting much better at it and i ain't planing on stoping anytime soon, i know its not really the healthies always being home but that's my way of staying focused. i used to not even get replies on my submissions for a job but recently i started to get rejected with a proper response which actually got me really exited lmao, so the next step is just to land a few interviews and eventually my first job! i actually wanna work remote for small/indie companies cuz where i live we have a lower standard for products so the pay would actually be really good even in small companies :) (i've been also doing commissions on fiver for a year which was a pretty nice income)
Absolutely loving the channel.
Trent, you are so inspirational bro.💥
dang that was inspiring o.o im ready to keep drawing all day
Thanks for the push brother
I LOVE your videos! I can't tell if it's the way you speak or what, but you really know how to pour confidence and ambition into my head. I can't thank you enough.
thank you so much for all the inspiration and help Trent !
Great video as always! Remember when you made a video about how to make money as a artist? I tired that and now I’m making stuff like banner and business cards for my mum and her clients. I’m really glad I followed your advice!...I’m 17 years old rightnow and although I wanna do stuff like illustration and environmental design, working with clients has really boosted my confidence, all thanks to you!
10:10 "FORTNITE UPDATE STOP THE ART GOGOGO"
I will be a concept art warrior! Thank-you Trent, I really appreciate the encouragement :)
Happy New year and best wishes to Trent and all people fallowing this amazing videos! Thank you for everything!
This past 2 weeks I've been moving and have been working from the time I get home from work till midnight every night to get everything moved and set up. It's hard work but the hardest part has been that I haven't drawn anything in this whole time!
Its bitter sweet because, for one thing i'm frustrated that I can't draw right now but at the same time i'm proud of myself for making drawing *almost* every day (give or take my wrist hurting) such a habit that I feel kinda like shit if I go too long without it.
This video makes me want to hit the ground running once i get my cintiq set back up. I'm self taught and even though it's harder I feel like it let's me really cherish the knowledge, the skill and the act of drawing itself. Anyway.... this is a rambly comment but this video was awesome and gives me the itch to get to drawing again! Soooon!!!!
Ive been really struggling with the confidence of my art and this has gotten me AMPED UP.
I’m still learning how to draw but I’m going to try what you said and do some concept art of video games i like. Cause why not. I might end up doing it as a job one day.
I stumbled upon your channel randomly today. I study architecture, and I find all the advice you're giving in this video/in general is really inspiring for people doing anything that has to do with art. I actually took out my sketchbook and wrote down some of it haha. Keep them coming!
This channel and the content is so delicious, I've had a graphic novel in my gut for 20+ years but I've been slow to pull the trigger to start. You've said in another video to feed off of the project to create the passion (paraphrasing) and not to wait for the passion to feed you. That was a real light bulb moment for me because I know that when I've not drawn for a long while but get back into it I get into the groove and start to think "I drew yesterday, I want to keep that going today". Your gumroad downloads are calling to me... a friend wanting to help boost me over the hurdles of just starting "it". I know the general advice is to just start and learn from your mistakes and finish no matter what because you'll learn from the experience but what mental exercises would you recommend to help push a staller into a doer. I see the whole thing as a giant project and get lost in the middle of something I haven't even begun to start yet.
you got it! Start with an exciting scene and work it out in script. Set your tone, and capture that one scene very quickly. Thats your standard. Next you should formulate a plan and a schedule based on how long it took you to do that sample. Stick to your schedule.
Thanks for taking the time to give me some very sound advice. I'm going to use that... I've got 2 weeks off for the holidays and no excuses not to get something started.
Agree I self teaching myself since I was little first generation Goku and Pokemon here!
Awesome work ! Thanks man, you're a genius. You are saving my life man.
Loved the intro music
Love your channel and knowledge Trent. And I found all of this and your gum road, from googling Diablo 3 Concept Art. Went down the rabbit hole of your channel ever since. Not dissapointed. Love the content and wisdom.
Thanks! Glad you found me!
I really love watching your videos, you are always so passionate when you talk about being an concept artist and getting to know more of the background of the job is a really great help. Thanks alot.^^
So inspiring, really. Everything you said hit the bullseye. I'll make an effort to plan my day as if I'm already doing the job as you said. I'll add this in to my practice time. Thank you for the valuable tips!!
So inspirational, as always bro. Thanks so much
Thank you so much!!! You game me the starting point that I was looking for.
Comp Sci major here, I was pretty salty about going to a tech school rather than an art school but your video has convinced me that I can’t let school be an excuse not to draw. Tbh I want to be a key animator/character designer but like you said, it’s something I have to do every day and I haven’t been doing that. Animation seems so intimidating to learn but I want to learn it so bad. Perhaps it’s not really any video game that gets me hyped *cough Elsword cough* but more so TV series. Watching passion projects like Mob Psycho and the Dragon Ball Super movie get me giddy for some reason.
TL;DR time to pull a Deku *You Say Run starts playing*
Thanks for this one mate, I've been stagnating recently because of poor time management.
Me too. It's the Red Dead Redemption. It ruined all of my productivity for the past 4 weeks.
Thank you for this Trent! It really is fuel for my fire!
New subscriber here! 6:00 really speaks to me because I’ve always been told art isn’t ideal as a career 😅 so spite has become one of the greatest motivators for me! Thank you for all your tips and inspiration
0:35 "Big Illusion of security". Ouch...
One thing is art as a whole ( a very complex term that goes beyond just drawing and coloring) and another thing is to specifically study : painting, digital illustration ,3d animation, graphic design , traditional illustration, concept art, character design , wood craving,sculpturing,crafting,etc. ( all of them are types of art). Even though you can learn all of them , I think it would be recommendable that you focus on just two things because it can become very frustrating to learn many things at once . However,if you really want to learn all of them , go for it .
Good talk really, I have no idea how I am not subscribed so I changed that fact hah
Since I am finishing high school right now I plan on taking one year pause before seeing what I'll do. I'll use it to improve at art as much as possible and discover who I am and what will help me personally to keep being hyped up to draw.
Thank you so much for this! Stay Awesome!
We have a lot in common,no one can"t tell me - I can't, because my mind set is to excel my talent.Thanks
This was such a pep talk
I need more of this pumped, motivational, optimistic encouragement so I'm subbing.
I was sleepy but damn after watching this video I kinda don't want to sleep and just continue practicing.
Thanks for this im self taught because i cant afford school but im looking into gumroad, skillshare, and possibly schoolism as alternatives and more affordable
@Mega Psyduck go with Skillshare and RUclips. Schoolism is NOT for beginners. Far from it.
Cubebrush is a good resource as well
Thank you Trent, this is the kind of video that I needed to hear :)
Thank you so much man, thats the motivation I needed right now to pursue my dream!
I love your videos, they are very inspiring! I have never been very optimistic ever in my life and after watching just a few of your videos I've already starting having a better outlook on not only art (which I do for fun) but life in general. Thank you for that! Also I love all your work, beautiful stuff indeed!
Thank you for the tip! Its really helpful
Hey Trent, I am a 32 year old full-time art student at a university and I'm learning very little about concept art/illustration. Most of my learning comes from studies at home. I'm enrolled because, although I'm not learning as much, it beats working 40+ hrs a week doing back breaking labor just to survive and have little energy left to draw. Is it realistic to say that I should fight through the fatigue and just draw or should I just give up and pursue something more suitable for my lifestyle?
Hey dude I'm doing through the same thing almost , I'm 19 but not in school. During the final years of hs i did all the research and thinking and came the conclusion that i cant afford to go the the proper schools for art and theres no point in going to a school i can hardly afford to learn next to nothing. I come from a "family' with not a lot of money so i was always at the short end of the stick and to add insult to injury i wanted to be an artist, not the doctor or what ever my parents want me to be. So things happen and i have to work over 40 hours a week now to get by right out of high school and it is the most depressing thing ever. during high school i was making so much progress with art putting in hours a day to become a concept artist, but work ruined a lot for me i couldn't adjust, i developed bad habits and didn't draw for months. i felt frustrated angry so much was thrown around i really wanted to quit i thought i should just do something and give up on it. There is just so much emotion that i cant put in to this. But the one thing i want to share to people is how important willpower is and how you should train it like your life depends on it. if its the life you want, then its not even an option to sit idle. After a while i wanted to scream at myself, i couldn't believe the type of person i have become and i realzed that nothing and i mean NOTHING can change me but myself. I took a giant step back looked up looked down looked around, zoomed out and really think about my next step. I looked at my mistakes and learned on them. i reformed the bad habits into good ones, figured out to work the same hours and still be able to draw. My way was to work afternoons for 8-9 hours then come home and draw for another 5 then sleep the day. its a system that has the best results for me and feels best for me so you could find one for yourself its hard but its possible. The way i was able to make it work for me now is the way i think about things, my mindset as always been "do my best and do whats right"
Yours could be different so this will take a bit of digging to make work, i cant say that this is the best and only way of thinking about things and i wont say it because theres many ways to success right? I think i went of on a tangent but i sure it will still help someone(kinda wanted to get that off mychest as well) Point is just dont ever give in to other thoughts and emotions. if art is your thing and you love it, THERE IS NO MORE SUITABLE LIFESTYLE! the art life is what you want and what you *_will_* work for.
@@shovel203 Wow... thank you
@tsorakin.....dude, you're asking for life advice without explaining much of anything. This is not a fair question to ask. You haven't even stated what your goals are, and you're asking someone if you should quit? Dude....seems like you answered your own question. :/ IF your WHY isn't strong enough, any excuse to quit will be enough. :/
@shovel where do you live? What State? Did you get into a Trade? I can state this to any artist out there. Get into a Trade while working on your art. Reason being, you will be working with your hands, you will be interacting with people, you will be developing the soft skills that will aid you in a studio environment if that is your goal. Also Trades pay the same and sometimes MORE than art jobs in studios! :)
@@MrRossT1 What is a Trade exactly? Is it a facility where artists meet?
I want to give a tip too... Retro engineering practice, if you are familiar with the termn them try to aply It to the art you want to learn, try to go layer by layer if you know what I mean
when he talked about being rejected several times all I could think about was that vine "oh my god you again? give it a rest buddy!"
Thank you, Trent! Very inspirational talk! I love your work!
Good stuff man!
I really appreciate your videos and way of designing interesting things!
Watching to get me started, thanks
this guy has really good advice im subbing
I love your videos Trent! I just discovered your channel and I tend to watch your videos twice a day for inspiration. I recently got a drawing tablet and am hoping in a few years of me drawing and placing finished work in a portfolio I can be a quarter as good as you! I just bought your 2019 brush pack too so I'm stoked to use them! Thanks Trent for all that you do!
I just want to say thank you for such a good advice!
Listening to your video while working out.
wow, extremely inspiring, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you!
@ Trent Kaniuga This... This is the answer i was looking for.. Thank you!
I'm torn between doing illustrations for the game industry, specifically Riot and Blizz, I love their games, I make a lot of fanart of their characters, but also I want to get to do my own designs and illustrations like WLOP and other instagram/patreon artists, which gives them more creative freedom. I said this last video, the problem is the experience, those companies don't hire if you don't have experience, as someone who lives in south america where there is no local art jobs, idk what to do, and finding jobs for indie companies online is hard
Those companies hire foreign contract artists all of the time.
I can’t thank you enough
"You should be designing characters right now"
well, now I feel really nice because I was.
Thanks for this vid. Really motivating!
I realy like this mindset