There's 10,000 videos with a secret to success. I'll give everyone the real "secret". Get a 2025 calendar, hang it on a wall with a pencil. Now write down the number of hours a day you spend at your craft. The secret is called WORK. Everything is about work.
Hard work is better invested into things that are in demand and are highly likely to pay well. It's better to draw for leisure unless one literally has no other choice.
@@MrOrchardArt The real secret is that 90% of that hard work is going to be in marketing and running a business not in making art. One may as well have another full time job and make art as an avocation. I get more time in the studio this way than when I’ve been a “full time artist.”
Great video man! Art today feels like a race against the clock and that is the oposite of what a real artist wants. All we want to do is create cool stuff and hope others find it meaningful aswell. Keep it up man!
I love this message. I am an artist and also trying to grow my youtube channel. Being consistent is something that I am finally practicing after years of procrastination and daydreaming. lol
This is so true. Most artist lack discipline because they (im included in they lol) because feel like it puts their creativity in a box. But I like to call it organized chaos. I love how you said “your life as an artist is a long one” because I feel like with the age of social media it seems like things should happen instantly. Delayed gratification isn’t honored anymore.
@@beyondtayler thank you. I totally agree. We’ve lost the beauty of delayed gratification and the word “discipline” can certain irritate “fee” artists, but we can also frame them as chaos and order which are the universal yin/yang. That freedom needs order to thrive.
Success is doing what you want. Find your own voice or style. Do not copy, do not compare. Be yourself. Luck is important, too bad. Seize all opportunities. Above all else be prolific
Just discovered you. Happy New Year. What a lovely message. It's hard truth delivered with gentleness. Find your passion, Stay the course, do the hard work, keep the faith, never give up, never take No for an answer, keep asking, keep searching, keep your nose to the grindstone. Create create create. Also, FOLLOW YOUR HEART, GUT, INTUITION. Much Love and Peace.
@@lightbodyvehicle those are gracious words. Thank you so much. You’re right on… there will be ups and downs, but the consistent trajectory of creation is the path. 🙏
This is so true ! But I don't think it is about forcing yourself to be consistent. It is more about allowing yourself (consistently) space and time in your life to do what is essentiel to you, what you aspire to. If you stop, for whatever reason, after a while, a few years maybe, you find you live in a sort of uneasy meaningless blurr which disappears when you start ginving time and energy to your art again. Speaking from experience.
The words are on point, the view is amazing, and the best sunglasses I have ever seen online lol. You just brightened up my morning drawing session man. Great content! Give this bro a subscribe and all that RUclips things people!
To be consistent you have to either be passionate about your work that you never want it to end, or just make the decision that you’re going to stick to a path regardless or how you feel. Perhaps both.
absolutely. keep an eye out for my next video. I think it may also help if you are stuck in the process for that long. keep with consistent inputs, however small, momentum will build.
I couldn’t agree more. Consistency is key. I make my living with art as well, and getting to this point has been a lifelong journey, one way or another. Sometimes you hit rock bottom, but that’s exactly when it’s tested-are you consistent enough?💫
@@ARTandVOID Hold on...he has a point. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting the same results. It used to be that art school progressed from, drawing, drawing casts, painting in black and white and only after years of doing that did you even get to touch color. Now it is widely accepted that the best practice to art training is to occasionally paint in full color once in a while, still maintaining a drawing regiment as the main focus.
@ for sure. My point was not to do the same thing over and over. If you are not growing you’re doing something wrong. Consistent inputs on a goal - whether on a project or self marketing is what I’m talking about.
Some good points here. What kind of art do you make? I play in a surf band called The Electric Splash and recently took up painting and collage to make art for the band. I also make RUclips videos about collecting vinyl.
@ nice! I love some classic country on vinyl. It’s still out there and mostly affordable. Going down the hi-fi rabbit hole can be fun simply because it makes music sound better than it should.
@@ARTandVOID How? I haven't really been able to enjoy the process for years, not since I tried turning my art into a career - now, if the art doesn't 'mean anything in the context of my life,' e.g., if I'm not trying to turn it into a career, it feels pointless and like a waste of time. I used to draw constantly for fun, even at home. Not anymore. How do I get that back?
@@TheSundanceKid-s9f thanks for the comment. The natural expression of art comes from a space of freedom... even if it's out of pain there's a freedom to it. It sounds like you've attached a lot of judgments or expectations around it, or perhaps you've outgrown a specific expression and it may be time to get curious about a new way to play. One of the reason, I provide meditations and other spiritual resources here is because of this situation you describe. The answer is somewhere deeper, free of all the attachments. Spend some time with yourself and listen to what's calling you into your bliss.
Most modern art substitutes weird for quality, narrow isms for scope, and trendy for depth. It also refuses to change or even talk about progressive ideas in art like those that follow Too many treat art as a marketing scheme. Modern art has become a trendy clique and the art now is mostly over promoted footnotes to greater art that was done 100 years ago. But art is too important to be reduced to a trendy clique. Post-ism, is art for a new century, not a continuation of last century trends. 1 Mass Market Paintings like Prints. When any art form is mass marketed it enters a golden age. This has happened with books, records, and film. Let's add paintings. Most art is in storage in museum basements. Mass Marketing allows art to tour in copies and allows artists to make royalties on copies. Why do you think the world gets so excited about a new great book, record, or film; but no one cares about a new great painting? All are mass produced except the painting. 2. End a Century of Isms. Dump the genres and formulas and let all kinds of art be a part of the art world. 3. Shift Emphasis From Trendy to Quality. Shift emphasis from the latest trendy art, to quality art in any style. Just because art is weird does not mean it is great art. 4. Free the Art From Museums and Galleries. Get the art out of the ivory elitist museum and gallery towers and back into the world. Have city art centers open to all artists. Make art that is relevant and communicates with people. Start with the first generation of artists online. 5. Postism is Part of a Bigger Revolution. Postism is part of the bigger art and media revolution out of Dallas, that includes art, music, lit, film, media, and a lot more. 6. Postism online: Online artists are the new wave of art. We had all the isms of last century. Now we have a free for all, of all kinds of artists, that are not sanctioned by any museum or gallery, displaying their work. Out of that comes the next wave and revolution of artists. Last century the goal was to fit the ism. This century the goal is to do great art - no ism, no boundaries. Fractionalized art then, synchronized art now. Even calling something modern art is a type of ism that separates that art from the art of the past. The 20th century was a century of experimentation in art. Now in the 21st we can choose from all those styles and / or start one of our own. Then too if someone devises a way to charge and collect a penny per view on a webpage, that would allow any great artist to get money for their art and have a career without any middlemen. Duchamp broke ground 100 years ago - but now his clones are just shoveling dirt. Weird art is easy, you put a strip of raw bacon across an expensive violin, but it's not good art. Join the art revolution and pull the art world out of last century. Musea since 1992.
@@TomHendricksMusea thank you for the comment, although I connect to a lot of what you shared as true… I’m not clear what point you are actually making, especially in context of this video. Responding to your comment best I can… I don’t care if art is “weird” or common. Personally I’m think the ones who try to be “weird” are more performative and have less to say through their actual craft. But to each their own. I believe there is a more populist and democratized movement happening culturally that in fact empowers the small time artist to find their niche, and audience in way that can afford making a living at it. While I believe there is good art and bad art, I’m really not that interested in being an arbiter of it. Each of us is free to figure that out for themselves and have fun re-writing the rules along the way.
@ARTandVOID consider those 6 points. They are key for me or any artist to have a career. Go step by step. Modern art isn't modern anymore. Time for a positive change that helps all artists.
There is no such thing as an online "community". Community requires in-person interaction. People are not pixels on a screen or typed out words. Community is relationship, and relationship requires presence. Simple as that. "Online community" is a sales technique. If you disagree, then consider an online marriage, or an online parent-child relationship. Not possible. Absurd. Why? Because "online" removes relationship, and community is all about relationship.
You exhibit a lot of ignorance and limited thinking. If you have not engaged in an intentional online community and seen the massive growth in people's lives like I have, then you speak out of an un-informed perspective. Nowhere have I said to be exclusively in online relationships. We have relationships with all things. You have relationship to things, people, to thoughts etc. It's HOW we engage in them that matters. Bottom line. I have seen my life and others transform massively in online communities. In a world where people are feeling deeply disconnected and isolated, it is about changing how we use them to serve, heal, and transform. Pixels and screens don't negate intention, presence, and energy. So unless you have tried every online community then you really don't know what the F* you are talking about. Maybe ask around to those who have found depth, healing, and even love in them before you speak in such silly absolutes.
@@ARTandVOID People are feeling deeply disconnected and isolated because they've mistaken online "communities" for actual community. The fix is not more online community, it's real community - ditch the fake digital world and start connecting.
If we can use online space for community, then those of us who are capable of doing so will. You seem set in your ways, but perhaps you should listen to the hundreds of people who I've been in online community with that have seen massive shifts in their life. These beautiful people will testify to how it rippled into their every day relationships from marriage, to work, etc. The fact is a lot of people are disconnected even when people surround them. We need people who understand us, and can cultivate connection that transmutes into every facet of our life. You clearly haven't had this positive experience. I have. I will continue to do my work wherever I can. online or offline. We can reach more people through the internet than ever, so I choose to use as best as I can.... for healing and empowerment. You're welcome to come see for yourself, but it starts with an open mind.
@@ARTandVOID If it's not a zero sum game then it should be possible for everyone to be a full time artist at the same time. I don't think it's possible.
@@fuzonzord9301 I suppose you should give up then? One of the keys to being a creative mind is looking at what is possible, instead of being closed to what is not. I understand being realistic, but this current paradigm of is not our final form. Keep growing and expanding.
@ It's mainly a question of opportunity cost and having a choice. I'm not fit for work since I was a teen, so I don't get a choice of getting a career/job. For someone who has a choice the opportunity cost of pursuing a dream of being a professional artist is much higher. When it comes to creativity, embracing the grind often comes at cost of the relaxation, enjoyment, etc. that doing amateur art brings.
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There's 10,000 videos with a secret to success. I'll give everyone the real "secret". Get a 2025 calendar, hang it on a wall with a pencil. Now write down the number of hours a day you spend at your craft. The secret is called WORK. Everything is about work.
The real secret is hard work, i.e. putting yourself out there in the right places and a MASSIVE helping of pure luck.
Nahhh...there has to something I can buy...or maybe a pill I can take instead?
Hard work is better invested into things that are in demand and are highly likely to pay well.
It's better to draw for leisure unless one literally has no other choice.
@@MrOrchardArt The real secret is that 90% of that hard work is going to be in marketing and running a business not in making art. One may as well have another full time job and make art as an avocation. I get more time in the studio this way than when I’ve been a “full time artist.”
Honestly yeah, this is the truth
Great video man! Art today feels like a race against the clock and that is the oposite of what a real artist wants. All we want to do is create cool stuff and hope others find it meaningful aswell. Keep it up man!
I love this message. I am an artist and also trying to grow my youtube channel. Being consistent is something that I am finally practicing after years of procrastination and daydreaming. lol
Really connected with this. Great job on the colour grading, too
thank you!
This is so true. Most artist lack discipline because they (im included in they lol) because feel like it puts their creativity in a box. But I like to call it organized chaos.
I love how you said “your life as an artist is a long one” because I feel like with the age of social media it seems like things should happen instantly. Delayed gratification isn’t honored anymore.
@@beyondtayler thank you.
I totally agree. We’ve lost the beauty of delayed gratification and the word “discipline” can certain irritate “fee” artists, but we can also frame them as chaos and order which are the universal yin/yang. That freedom needs order to thrive.
Thanks for this video. I always need a push to be consistent in making art. This is what I need and like to hear.
Nicely put. Thank you…
All time best advice for any artist- read “The war of Art” Pressfield
Success is doing what you want. Find your own voice or style. Do not copy, do not compare. Be yourself. Luck is important, too bad. Seize all opportunities. Above all else be prolific
Just discovered you. Happy New Year. What a lovely message. It's hard truth delivered with gentleness. Find your passion, Stay the course, do the hard work, keep the faith, never give up, never take No for an answer, keep asking, keep searching, keep your nose to the grindstone. Create create create. Also, FOLLOW YOUR HEART, GUT, INTUITION. Much Love and Peace.
@@lightbodyvehicle those are gracious words. Thank you so much.
You’re right on… there will be ups and downs, but the consistent trajectory of creation is the path.
🙏
Thanks for this motivational message, God bless you.
I really needed to hear this. Thank you.
@@rhettstott8902 awesome. So glad to help you.
This is so true ! But I don't think it is about forcing yourself to be consistent. It is more about allowing yourself (consistently) space and time in your life to do what is essentiel to you, what you aspire to. If you stop, for whatever reason, after a while, a few years maybe, you find you live in a sort of uneasy meaningless blurr which disappears when you start ginving time and energy to your art again. Speaking from experience.
Oh I needed to hear this today. Thank you..!
@@rachellucetteadams5015 ✨ thank you for commenting. I’m glad it helped.
This was the best advice I’ve had all day. Thank you.
Cool video bro! My prices are going down but any money coming in is good.
The words are on point, the view is amazing, and the best sunglasses I have ever seen online lol. You just brightened up my morning drawing session man. Great content! Give this bro a subscribe and all that RUclips things people!
my man! thanks for the wonderful comments. 😎 So glad to support your drawing session.
Thank you for your wisdom shared with all of us here. Markers along the path help us along the way.
blessings. Thank you very much for the warm words.
Thank you for this video. Wonderful, inspiring and I agree 1,000%, consistency is the key. Something that I am going to work on hard in 2025.
@@KittyFoxArtWorld blessings and thank you. Yes having the mindset and goal of consistency is so key 🔑 to enjoy the journey.
This was very good, agree 100%!
Thank You!!
To be consistent you have to either be passionate about your work that you never want it to end, or just make the decision that you’re going to stick to a path regardless or how you feel. Perhaps both.
absolutely. Consistency is evidence of passion & belief.
thanks for the comment.
It’s not just art. I’ve been writing a book for years now. I need to finish it and get it published.
absolutely. keep an eye out for my next video. I think it may also help if you are stuck in the process for that long.
keep with consistent inputs, however small, momentum will build.
Age 63. Your message is well timed.
@@tesskansas I love that you are still passionate about it with the added maturity
Thank You. 😉
This video is so important 😢❤
@@LouisLuzuka thank you 🙏 stay on course. Keep creating.
I couldn’t agree more. Consistency is key. I make my living with art as well, and getting to this point has been a lifelong journey, one way or another. Sometimes you hit rock bottom, but that’s exactly when it’s tested-are you consistent enough?💫
🙌 awesome to hear some of your story. thanks for the inspirational comment!
and just subscribed to your channel
Thanks!
Thankyou for this advice. (It's a noisy desert!)
haha. we get some intense high winds, and the highway can be quite active during tourism season.
my blessings
I believe that would be 92.35 %
Consistency kills creativity.
@@jeffhildreth9244 trollish comment noted. Thank you for the wisdom 🙏
@@ARTandVOID Hold on...he has a point. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting the same results. It used to be that art school progressed from, drawing, drawing casts, painting in black and white and only after years of doing that did you even get to touch color. Now it is widely accepted that the best practice to art training is to occasionally paint in full color once in a while, still maintaining a drawing regiment as the main focus.
@ for sure. My point was not to do the same thing over and over. If you are not growing you’re doing something wrong.
Consistent inputs on a goal - whether on a project or self marketing is what I’m talking about.
@@Knock-kneedyou mean expecting different results?!
Best advice on Art so far I have come across…..just do proper art no gimmicks or dances or pranks in name of art but actually Art…that’s it.
Great video
@@ROBACKERX thank you so much
Some good points here. What kind of art do you make? I play in a surf band called The Electric Splash and recently took up painting and collage to make art for the band. I also make RUclips videos about collecting vinyl.
thanks for sharing! I just picked up a vinyl of Tammy Wynette yesterday, but I need to upgrade my system at some point this. year.
@ nice! I love some classic country on vinyl. It’s still out there and mostly affordable. Going down the hi-fi rabbit hole can be fun simply because it makes music sound better than it should.
Addicts are pretty consistent.
I'm addicted to art
Nice
thank you
I was afraid you’d say that 😢❤
@@LouisLuzuka haha. Nothing to fear. Enjoy the process
@@ARTandVOID How? I haven't really been able to enjoy the process for years, not since I tried turning my art into a career - now, if the art doesn't 'mean anything in the context of my life,' e.g., if I'm not trying to turn it into a career, it feels pointless and like a waste of time. I used to draw constantly for fun, even at home. Not anymore. How do I get that back?
@@TheSundanceKid-s9f thanks for the comment.
The natural expression of art comes from a space of freedom... even if it's out of pain there's a freedom to it.
It sounds like you've attached a lot of judgments or expectations around it, or perhaps you've outgrown a specific expression and it may be time to get curious about a new way to play.
One of the reason, I provide meditations and other spiritual resources here is because of this situation you describe. The answer is somewhere deeper, free of all the attachments. Spend some time with yourself and listen to what's calling you into your bliss.
Watch out for rattlesnakes.
@@ApproximatelyCee haha. They are hiding during the winter. 🐍
Most modern art substitutes weird for quality, narrow isms for scope, and trendy for depth. It also refuses to change or even talk about progressive ideas in art like those that follow
Too many treat art as a marketing scheme. Modern art has become a trendy clique and the art now is mostly over promoted footnotes to greater art that was done 100 years ago. But art is too important to be reduced to a trendy clique.
Post-ism, is art for a new century, not a continuation of last century trends.
1 Mass Market Paintings like Prints. When any art form is mass marketed it enters a golden age. This has happened with books, records, and film. Let's add paintings. Most art is in storage in museum basements. Mass Marketing allows art to tour in copies and allows artists to make royalties on copies.
Why do you think the world gets so excited about a new great book, record, or film; but no one cares about a new great painting? All are mass produced except the painting.
2. End a Century of Isms. Dump the genres and formulas and let all kinds of art be a part of the art world.
3. Shift Emphasis From Trendy to Quality. Shift emphasis from the latest trendy art, to quality art in any style. Just because art is weird does not mean it is great art.
4. Free the Art From Museums and Galleries. Get the art out of the ivory elitist museum and gallery towers and back into the world. Have city art centers open to all artists. Make art that is relevant and communicates with people. Start with the first generation of artists online.
5. Postism is Part of a Bigger Revolution. Postism is part of the bigger art and media revolution out of Dallas, that includes art, music, lit, film, media, and a lot more.
6. Postism online: Online artists are the new wave of art. We had all the isms of last century. Now we have a free for all, of all kinds of artists, that are not sanctioned by any museum or gallery, displaying their work. Out of that comes the next wave and revolution of artists.
Last century the goal was to fit the ism. This century the goal is to do great art - no ism, no boundaries. Fractionalized art then, synchronized art now. Even calling something modern art is a type of ism that separates that art from the art of the past.
The 20th century was a century of experimentation in art. Now in the 21st we can choose from all those styles and / or start one of our own.
Then too if someone devises a way to charge and collect a penny per view on a webpage, that would allow any great artist to get money for their art and have a career without any middlemen.
Duchamp broke ground 100 years ago - but now his clones are just shoveling dirt. Weird art is easy, you put a strip of raw bacon across an expensive violin, but it's not good art.
Join the art revolution and pull the art world out of last century.
Musea since 1992.
@@TomHendricksMusea thank you for the comment, although I connect to a lot of what you shared as true…
I’m not clear what point you are actually making, especially in context of this video.
Responding to your comment best I can…
I don’t care if art is “weird” or common. Personally I’m think the ones who try to be “weird” are more performative and have less to say through their actual craft. But to each their own.
I believe there is a more populist and democratized movement happening culturally that in fact empowers the small time artist to find their niche, and audience in way that can afford making a living at it.
While I believe there is good art and bad art, I’m really not that interested in being an arbiter of it. Each of us is free to figure that out for themselves and have fun re-writing the rules along the way.
@ARTandVOID consider those 6 points. They are key for me or any artist to have a career. Go step by step. Modern art isn't modern anymore. Time for a positive change that helps all artists.
@ that’s what this channel is all about.
Taking ownership and following the spiritual calling of being an artist… enjoying each step along the way.
There is no such thing as an online "community". Community requires in-person interaction. People are not pixels on a screen or typed out words. Community is relationship, and relationship requires presence. Simple as that. "Online community" is a sales technique. If you disagree, then consider an online marriage, or an online parent-child relationship. Not possible. Absurd. Why? Because "online" removes relationship, and community is all about relationship.
You exhibit a lot of ignorance and limited thinking.
If you have not engaged in an intentional online community and seen the massive growth in people's lives like I have, then you speak out of an un-informed perspective.
Nowhere have I said to be exclusively in online relationships.
We have relationships with all things. You have relationship to things, people, to thoughts etc. It's HOW we engage in them that matters.
Bottom line. I have seen my life and others transform massively in online communities.
In a world where people are feeling deeply disconnected and isolated, it is about changing how we use them to serve, heal, and transform. Pixels and screens don't negate intention, presence, and energy.
So unless you have tried every online community then you really don't know what the F* you are talking about. Maybe ask around to those who have found depth, healing, and even love in them before you speak in such silly absolutes.
@@ARTandVOID People are feeling deeply disconnected and isolated because they've mistaken online "communities" for actual community. The fix is not more online community, it's real community - ditch the fake digital world and start connecting.
If we can use online space for community, then those of us who are capable of doing so will.
You seem set in your ways, but perhaps you should listen to the hundreds of people who I've been in online community with that have seen massive shifts in their life. These beautiful people will testify to how it rippled into their every day relationships from marriage, to work, etc.
The fact is a lot of people are disconnected even when people surround them. We need people who understand us, and can cultivate connection that transmutes into every facet of our life.
You clearly haven't had this positive experience. I have. I will continue to do my work wherever I can. online or offline.
We can reach more people through the internet than ever, so I choose to use as best as I can.... for healing and empowerment.
You're welcome to come see for yourself, but it starts with an open mind.
They depend on 95% of people giving up. When everyone sticks to it, it doesn't work.
@@fuzonzord9301 I don’t believe it’s a zero sum game. There’s room at the table for anyone who is willing to claim their space.
@@ARTandVOID Then it should be possible to have a world where every single person is a full-time professional artist.
@@ARTandVOID If it's not a zero sum game then it should be possible for everyone to be a full time artist at the same time. I don't think it's possible.
@@fuzonzord9301 I suppose you should give up then?
One of the keys to being a creative mind is looking at what is possible, instead of being closed to what is not.
I understand being realistic, but this current paradigm of is not our final form. Keep growing and expanding.
@ It's mainly a question of opportunity cost and having a choice.
I'm not fit for work since I was a teen, so I don't get a choice of getting a career/job.
For someone who has a choice the opportunity cost of pursuing a dream of being a professional artist is much higher.
When it comes to creativity, embracing the grind often comes at cost of the relaxation, enjoyment, etc. that doing amateur art brings.
Why would you ask for likes at the Beginning of a video
Probably because he wants likes…idk just a guess.