I’m kind of shocked by the negative comments on this video, especially considering Stan is one of the most likable artists in the entire community, and has given so much value to MILLIONS of artists for well over a decade at this point. FOR FREE I might add. The hate comments just come across as jealous and bitter, because I can’t imagine anyone that’s actually truly passionate about art having a single negative thing to say about the man.
Because people, without a single exception, that attack successfull businessman and capitalists, are just sore losers that cannto accept that they are failures for their OWN fault. So they need to find means to negate the success of others.
The best. First, he has achieved mastery of his subject. Couldn't do what he does without this. Consistency, high quality, excellent use of technology. Love his channel and so thankful for it. And he has a sense of humor, which I appreciate. Easily the gold standard in this genre. All the success is well deserved.
the podcast with marshall became one of the most timeless podcast ever simple, very high value, very educating, but also entertaining edit: but I think the one which made proko huge is because he is the first man and all artists (famous/not, legend/not) approve him and support, and even following his path
I am very glad to have found Proko's channel back when I was younger, when he had only a few thousand subscribers. Him and Mark Crilley both pushed me from being someone who just enjoyed drawing to what I could call an artist. Thank you for this video, I hope he liked it as well!
I went to art school with this guy. Super nice dude. It's crazy he built this huge platform, I never would have expected it. (Watts Atelier was the school we went to)
He's truly a mastered artist. He doesn't rely on luck or accidents. His philosophy in terms of teaching and painting is quite objectivist (in that it's very method). Which made him one of the greatest teachers of art I had. Because he understands the reason behind every stroke he puts down (much like bridgman), and can explain it very well. In real life i've had 5 different teachers of art, none as articulant and conscious as him. Well deserved success
Proko is top-of-the-line. Forget going to college you’re getting your moneys worth with him. And I’m not even a subscriber, but his work is wow!! Just his free content on RUclips was so superb, I learned how to draw portraits like I never thought I could.
I’ve been following Stan from day one. He’s a fun guy and entertaining in his way of teaching. But there’s a specific property pertaining to people like him teaching online, be it art or anything… the teacher must have an image that’s appealing, and a personality that’s magnetizing. You can’t teach that, it’s innate. So regardless of what you do, if you don’t have that you’ll have a very hard time replicating his success.
There is definitely some truth to what you’re saying, although I think every artist can carve out their own niche based on their personality and skills. For example, Gawx Art leverages his filmmaking abilities instead of his humour, and Alphonso Dunn doesn’t use humour or high production value at all. Both art channels are very successful in their own right. i think a lot of success comes down to identifying your “superpowers” and going all in on that.
From experience, not really Teaching is a skill like any other, based on learning human psychology and paying attention to what your words imply, it takes a LOT of trial and error to build, all while noticing the reaction of people and improving upon it Check the very old videos of any teaching channel vs their new ones, you'll see a huge difference in the quality of material and how easy it is to understand But if you aren't a fan of dealing with people, that's understandable You can still apply art to any passive income strategy, as long as you give people something they want, and let them know about it It's easy in concept, hard to apply because again, trial and error till you find what people really like, and where would they find it (also some common grounds between your and people's interests)
Just like with any other creative professions, you need to find your spot and have a business mindset, crunch numbers and deliver something others don't. Either entertainment, exceptional quality or something unique (or all of them together). I have lived as an independent artist for 30 years and doing very well, but 90% of all artists I know have a completely wrong mindset. They don't understand that they are selling a product (themselves and what they create) and have a negative attitude towards business and only want to stay in their comfort zone. Then you will not go anywhere and it should just stay as a hobby. Full respect for Proko and what he/they have achieved.
Amazing artist and guy. But the video title on how an artist makes 3.5million a year is more about becoming a successful RUclipsr and video course producer. Not by selling his art
Marketing is the way to make money from anything He chose to market through RUclips, and sell skills instead of painting You can choose anything as long as you give people a service that they want, and doesn't take much time from you, also doesn't run out Another option is to do that to get money + exposure, so you'd get enough time and passive income to focus on the parts you like
My art teacher would use his lessons and his image bank of references in class, along with other ideas. What he does is amazing, and nowadays I buy his content as well to keep learning. He deserves every bit of money, and should get even more. I am highly grateful to him.
it's click bait. he said he get the money without getting lucky or famous or selling his art in gallery. the dude is very famous, like almost every artist who search the internet for tutorials he will definitely end up at his channel. also he is lucky, sure he spent years of hard work but so does other artists who didn't end up with this sum of money. but combine luck with hard work and you get his position, basically. also he spent years working and drawing, it didn't happen in like weeks or months.
Many established artists make their living from teaching ecause to sell enough artwork to support life Is nearly impossible. Stand found a great way to support himself & his family, and also help a lot of people gain skills.
The biggest reason why Proko was a success is Stan himself. He's very likeable and he knows how to keep putting content out that is new and fresh. If he just did tutorials on how to draw a figure over and over, people would lose interest. He has a very strategic business mind and knows how to keep his viewers engaged.
Let it be known, that even though you'd decided to put him up around the time where you talk about RUclips not having great art tutorials at the early days, macro Bucci is in fact one of the better tutorial channels, if looking for something other than Proko.
That's the courtesy man..... Showing the "original footage by SLEW" and it would be offensive even for me if it was not written there. Great job. 😊 You are a phenomenal creator.
there really aren't any trends in art education. it's not like "oh man this month people are crazy about learning the planes of the head, I should totally hop on that and make a tutorial for it!" lmao
Then the ad appears at the end. Lol. As for Proko….even with all of the advice and tips provided here(which are certainly valid)….NONE OF IT WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED WITHOUT ONE KEY TRAIT; LIKABILITY. It CANNOT BE TAUGHT or LEARNED in a video or manual. I cannot tell you how many times I watched art training content that I NEVER supported or subscribed to, not due to the quality of the content or lessons,…but due to the fact that the host was an absolute jerk. You need to be likable and surprisingly enough there are millions of people out there that just are not. You can’t fake it either. It’s either in you or its not. A lot has to do with your upbringing and life interactions and lessons. It seems so simple and insignificant but it usually ends up being the difference between a successful channel or a static subpar one.
being likable absolutley can be learned, being likable is a skill, just as everything else. The idea that something cannot be learned implies you have to be naturally gifted with it but that isn't true, yea some people are naturally a little more likable but that's true for anything some people are naturally better at certain art skills, does that mean you cannot learn those skills of course not. It's through practice and applying and learning from failure that you grow, likability is just a combination of personality traits and aspects that one can learn and copy to an extent and turn it into their own.
In the first seconds of the video you say proko made 3.5 mil/ year without being famous, then in the next seconds of the video you mention that he has a RUclips channel with 3.8M followers.
I wouldn't say that's famous though he has a sizeable online audience within the art sphere but if you aren't an artist or looking for art related tutorials you likely have no idea who he is, he has a following yea but most artist do that are making money now especially independent ones given if you do not have an audience as an independent artist you simply will not make any money
@@MyNamesHunter75 If 3.8M is not famous what would you consider being famous then? Also if you're not an artist OF COURSE most likely you haven't heard about him because you haven't checked art related stuff and algorithms won't feed you art related stuff, but that doesn't mean he's not famous... That's like saying Metallica or whatever is not that famous because there are people who don't listen to rock therefore never heard about Metallica...
I doubt if he ever struggled and likely from a wealthy background with family financial backing …please prove me wrong i mean all that equipment costs tens of thousands just to set up a production system and all the assistants . His videos are very good though and he appears to be a very good illustrator or draftsman.
He talks about it in this video here (ruclips.net/video/C9v1PdnypsU/видео.htmlsi=OpyiF0mS_J5-3FTp). A lot of help he got at the beginning was that he was able to live with his parents when he was making videos that didn't earn any money, then when he made enough he was able to move out and start hiring people.
3.5 million, and if the Proko channel had Spanish, the audio could be understood in Spanish, which is the second most spoken language in the world after Mandarin, even above English, it would have more value and power. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@ninja_tony I think he means the creativity and innovation aspect of art which, you can argue, can't be taught. Craft is the foundation, though, so there's no shade. Craft is where it all begins!
Love Proko. But you do know just like you can't easily live out of art you can't easily grow a business if you don't like the business part of things. So either I have to get that to sink in and actually think about selling stuff or give up and keep my day job for something half way done which odds to work are less than starting a business... which is still slim but maybe a bit more than "doing my thing" for sure. Something has to give and if I'm to find out there is no way around, have to sell stuff. So bye bye ideal artist life (which didn't existed anyhow I guess...)
Right? How else could he have put “all” the money earned in the first 8 years back into his studio/business? Still had to eat, pay bills & take care of the family 🙄 They’re acting like he started from nothing. I know what nothing looks & feels like!
I’m pretty sure it means “without getting famous before teaching”. He got famous because of his teaching, he didn’t get famous by instagram/other types of RUclips art content then transitioning to teaching art
There's something misleading in this video as if we can all achieve this when we feel like it. You don't wake up one day and become famous and make a few millions a day later. There's a factor of luck involved and it's also a lot of hard work and takes time and money to get anywhere. There's thousands of better artists than him on youtube and they never made it, but with his mediocre skills Proko did. There's definitely thousands of better teachers on youtube that never made it, but with his mediocre teaching skills Proko did. Why? Because he started when youtube wasn't saturated and not overly crowded. If he would be starting this year without having a name, but being a nobody that just graduated from college and started a youtube channel, no one would notice him at all. That's the bittersweet truth. He was lucky enough to have started at the right moment, like all the larger art channels did. Most of us starting now aren't that lucky, we have to fight for a spot on an overcrowded platform that now has an algorithm working against us. He made it, not because he's that good, but because he was lucky enough to start at the right time... decades ago and stuck with it for years investing a lot of money into growing his brand. Took him many years to arrive here. He's earned it, that's for sure, but not because he's that good, but I won't repeat he's lucky because of the time, place, background, country and even privileges he had when starting.
@@neggit2063 Proko is a good artist and no sane person would do as much as he did just for money, trust me: there are a ton of easier ways of making tons of money.
Don't let this video fool you. Many people make WAY more than Proko per month doing art. The trick hasn't changed. It's who you know, who you can control, and who will pay to see your work. That recipe has never changed.
So the Art Industries is like a big pyramid scheme. He was taught how to be an artist. He couldn't make it as an artist, so he decided to teach people how to become artists who will not become successful artists. Then they'll decide to teach other people how to become artists who will fail and become teachers. And so on. And so on. Add edit my first post because speech to text didn't work good
I can somewhat agree with you about what you said about Art industries, however not about Stan. He provides professional lessons for free, and even offers more detailed courses for an affordable price, meanwhile students all over the world pay hundreds of thousands of dollars just to attend dimly lit classroom and listen to a guy who most likely hates his job. Now you decide which one is a real scheme.
Most braindead stupid take I've ever read. As an artist who teaches I can tell you that a large chunk of people I teach have 0 interest in selling or making money from their art. They do it because they love it and want to get better at it and hopefully show some people. Part of being an artist is passing on your knowledge to the next generation too. All of the greats did this. Humans have been doing this for hundreds of years. Calling it a pyramid scheme is the most sub 80 IQ take I've ever read. Google what the word hobby means
@noahfletcher3019, you're just part of the Ponzi scheme and want to safeguard your employment. You teach people who will never become profitable unless they follow in your footsteps. No one says they want to grow up to be an astronaut teacher-it's because that sounds insane. The only industry that has more teachers than workers is art.
Without getting lucky? He got born white, lived in a developed country, enjoyed health without disabilities. That's all luck. Everything is built over luck, good or bad.
I am artist. Quite successful. Never ever I heard about him or his website. Nor any artist I talk to. Interesting. Also his views on the 3,5 mil channel are more like what 50-100k channels have. 3,5 million income? I highly doubt it
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I’m kind of shocked by the negative comments on this video, especially considering Stan is one of the most likable artists in the entire community, and has given so much value to MILLIONS of artists for well over a decade at this point. FOR FREE I might add. The hate comments just come across as jealous and bitter, because I can’t imagine anyone that’s actually truly passionate about art having a single negative thing to say about the man.
The guy changed my life, i gave up multiple times even with his RUclips channel but now i don’t know hat id do without my ability to draw
Because people, without a single exception, that attack successfull businessman and capitalists, are just sore losers that cannto accept that they are failures for their OWN fault. So they need to find means to negate the success of others.
Haters can only hate because they can't do shi-😂🗿💀
Proko is great, Prokopenko is greater
Prokoooooo give me a new draftsmen episodeeeeeeeee
@@chok1169 here you go: ______
Thanks!
Meanwhile in Russian
Prokopenkiest is the greatest!!!!
@@chok1169 I'll see what I can do! Marshall's busy with his perspective course lol
He DESERVES to be successful!
No he doesnt, he earned it! And trust there is a difference
🤦🏽♀️
So does a lot more people, but guess what they won’t see that success because that’s how capitalism works.
@@EatYourPancakesDummie your point being?
None of this would work today. He lucked out. Right place at the right time.
true.. there is no difference between watching Proko videos 10 years ago or 10 hours ago..... they are all valuable ❤
The best. First, he has achieved mastery of his subject. Couldn't do what he does without this. Consistency, high quality, excellent use of technology. Love his channel and so thankful for it. And he has a sense of humor, which I appreciate. Easily the gold standard in this genre. All the success is well deserved.
the podcast with marshall became one of the most timeless podcast ever
simple, very high value, very educating, but also entertaining
edit: but I think the one which made proko huge is because he is the first man
and all artists (famous/not, legend/not) approve him and support, and even following his path
That’s a GREAT podcast. Such value in every episode
"without getting famous" - literally the most famous art teacher.
99.99% of humanity walking the earth don't know who he is.
Stan deserves it. I learned so much valuable info from his videos.
I am very glad to have found Proko's channel back when I was younger, when he had only a few thousand subscribers. Him and Mark Crilley both pushed me from being someone who just enjoyed drawing to what I could call an artist. Thank you for this video, I hope he liked it as well!
I went to art school with this guy. Super nice dude. It's crazy he built this huge platform, I never would have expected it. (Watts Atelier was the school we went to)
Jeff Watts is amazing too
@@noahfletcher3019 yes he is!
He's truly a mastered artist. He doesn't rely on luck or accidents. His philosophy in terms of teaching and painting is quite objectivist (in that it's very method). Which made him one of the greatest teachers of art I had. Because he understands the reason behind every stroke he puts down (much like bridgman), and can explain it very well. In real life i've had 5 different teachers of art, none as articulant and conscious as him. Well deserved success
Thank you for making this. This was so inspiring.
Showing up everyday just makes the difference 💯
This one.
Proko is top-of-the-line. Forget going to college you’re getting your moneys worth with him. And I’m not even a subscriber, but his work is wow!! Just his free content on RUclips was so superb, I learned how to draw portraits like I never thought I could.
I’ve been following Stan from day one. He’s a fun guy and entertaining in his way of teaching. But there’s a specific property pertaining to people like him teaching online, be it art or anything… the teacher must have an image that’s appealing, and a personality that’s magnetizing. You can’t teach that, it’s innate. So regardless of what you do, if you don’t have that you’ll have a very hard time replicating his success.
There is definitely some truth to what you’re saying, although I think every artist can carve out their own niche based on their personality and skills.
For example, Gawx Art leverages his filmmaking abilities instead of his humour, and Alphonso Dunn doesn’t use humour or high production value at all. Both art channels are very successful in their own right.
i think a lot of success comes down to identifying your “superpowers” and going all in on that.
Too bad my personality is insufferable
From experience, not really
Teaching is a skill like any other, based on learning human psychology and paying attention to what your words imply, it takes a LOT of trial and error to build, all while noticing the reaction of people and improving upon it
Check the very old videos of any teaching channel vs their new ones, you'll see a huge difference in the quality of material and how easy it is to understand
But if you aren't a fan of dealing with people, that's understandable
You can still apply art to any passive income strategy, as long as you give people something they want, and let them know about it
It's easy in concept, hard to apply because again, trial and error till you find what people really like, and where would they find it (also some common grounds between your and people's interests)
@@BxBL85 felt that - my personality is a disorder.😂
Just like with any other creative professions, you need to find your spot and have a business mindset, crunch numbers and deliver something others don't. Either entertainment, exceptional quality or something unique (or all of them together). I have lived as an independent artist for 30 years and doing very well, but 90% of all artists I know have a completely wrong mindset. They don't understand that they are selling a product (themselves and what they create) and have a negative attitude towards business and only want to stay in their comfort zone. Then you will not go anywhere and it should just stay as a hobby. Full respect for Proko and what he/they have achieved.
thank you so much proko
and thank you skelly, my beloved.
That's great to hear! Wow. I am a part of his success by watching his content. Thank you, Stan!
Best Art teaching Account on utube. Bless him !
the quick clip of kim jung gi floored me....... its at 2:10..rest in power!!!
He was truly one of the best artists of our generation. His precision with ink is unmatched. Rest in peace ❤
Proko is an inspiration for anyone who wants to make a living doing what they love
cant imagine a world without prokopenko
Seeing that little clip of Kim Jung Gi made me sad. What a force of nature that man was. RIP.
Amazing artist and guy. But the video title on how an artist makes 3.5million a year is more about becoming a successful RUclipsr and video course producer. Not by selling his art
Marketing is the way to make money from anything
He chose to market through RUclips, and sell skills instead of painting
You can choose anything as long as you give people a service that they want, and doesn't take much time from you, also doesn't run out
Another option is to do that to get money + exposure, so you'd get enough time and passive income to focus on the parts you like
There are other artist that are good too
Proko is and was great from his first video to where he is now. Well deserved.
This is a great.
He deserved everything he got these days. 🎉
He Deserves it. Proko the man - very art and business smart !!
I love his RUclips channel! It was the first channel I ever subscribed to!
Revenue is cool, but what is left after all the costs and salaries? This is what we all want to know!
This is awesome and helpful, thanks.
My art teacher would use his lessons and his image bank of references in class, along with other ideas. What he does is amazing, and nowadays I buy his content as well to keep learning. He deserves every bit of money, and should get even more. I am highly grateful to him.
Mr Prokopenco ,you have fans from the Twin Isle Republic of Trinidad and Tobago,West Indies,Caribbean. Cheers!
Proko's anatomy course is the best money I've ever spend in my entire life.
It's called "early mover advantage". It would be exponentially harder to build a teaching empire now.
Right? I like how the video states "just copy paste what stan did bro!"
Really great video and course. Thanks sir
The title of this video is very click baity but I've followed proko since the beginning so I know he's legit
it's click bait. he said he get the money without getting lucky or famous or selling his art in gallery.
the dude is very famous, like almost every artist who search the internet for tutorials he will definitely end up at his channel.
also he is lucky, sure he spent years of hard work but so does other artists who didn't end up with this sum of money. but combine luck with hard work and you get his position, basically.
also he spent years working and drawing, it didn't happen in like weeks or months.
The ultimate buy-my-course bro.
Many established artists make their living from teaching ecause to sell enough artwork to support life Is nearly impossible. Stand found a great way to support himself & his family, and also help a lot of people gain skills.
Proko courses are worth every penny.
He deserves all of it!
The biggest reason why Proko was a success is Stan himself. He's very likeable and he knows how to keep putting content out that is new and fresh. If he just did tutorials on how to draw a figure over and over, people would lose interest. He has a very strategic business mind and knows how to keep his viewers engaged.
Hes earned it 100%
AND we get Aaron Blaise and Peter Han often
good for him.
Great content.
Let it be known, that even though you'd decided to put him up around the time where you talk about RUclips not having great art tutorials at the early days, macro Bucci is in fact one of the better tutorial channels, if looking for something other than Proko.
Macro Bucci is also very cool. Proko and him are two of the OG’s
We LOVE Marco and just livestreamed with him. He's the best.
Stan is just Stan ❤
Except that, it's not art, but craft. That's ok, that is valuable too.
Tysm proko
proko is the best 🥰
Agreed! He has helped so many people learn how to draw. Including me!
E algo simples, mas que o fez explodir foi criar boas legendas para os outros idiomas, agradeço muito a ele por isto.
Lets apperciate what Stan has done for the industry! Well done Stan 🤘
3.5 million gross or net profit?
Proko my goat
That's the courtesy man..... Showing the "original footage by SLEW" and it would be offensive even for me if it was not written there.
Great job. 😊 You are a phenomenal creator.
We agree that it was really important to have that shown. His video was great.
@ProkoTV Indeed it was great!!
You know sir, it's just marvellous and surreal to talk with you or either with your team.😅🤗
Good luck to students of this digital age.
He is kinda famous😏. I grew up watching him.
Yo that wheel for net worth/gain is hilarious
so much money and he still can´t draw a kangaroo.
Lol 😂😂😂😂
lol
Neither a human figure.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well, kangaroos can't draw him either. 😂
Anyone can copy / paste his “strategy” but very few have the skillset
does his business have a turnover of 3.5 million or is his salary 3.5 million?
there really aren't any trends in art education. it's not like "oh man this month people are crazy about learning the planes of the head, I should totally hop on that and make a tutorial for it!" lmao
Then the ad appears at the end. Lol.
As for Proko….even with all of the advice and tips provided here(which are certainly valid)….NONE OF IT WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED WITHOUT ONE KEY TRAIT; LIKABILITY. It CANNOT BE TAUGHT or LEARNED in a video or manual.
I cannot tell you how many times I watched art training content that I NEVER supported or subscribed to, not due to the quality of the content or lessons,…but due to the fact that the host was an absolute jerk.
You need to be likable and surprisingly enough there are millions of people out there that just are not. You can’t fake it either. It’s either in you or its not. A lot has to do with your upbringing and life interactions and lessons.
It seems so simple and insignificant but it usually ends up being the difference between a successful channel or a static subpar one.
being likable absolutley can be learned, being likable is a skill, just as everything else. The idea that something cannot be learned implies you have to be naturally gifted with it but that isn't true, yea some people are naturally a little more likable but that's true for anything some people are naturally better at certain art skills, does that mean you cannot learn those skills of course not. It's through practice and applying and learning from failure that you grow, likability is just a combination of personality traits and aspects that one can learn and copy to an extent and turn it into their own.
@ We agree to disagree.
I'm not confident enough in my art ability to teach 😩
Super helpful resource for creatives trying to make a living
Happy to hear that!
he made it
Why does that look like Slew’s studio?
3.5 in what, Bitcoin... what is that "m" for, million or minimum?
how can i get the DvDs?
No need for DVDs anymore! All of his courses are available on demand at proko.com
In the first seconds of the video you say proko made 3.5 mil/ year without being famous, then in the next seconds of the video you mention that he has a RUclips channel with 3.8M followers.
I wouldn't say that's famous though he has a sizeable online audience within the art sphere but if you aren't an artist or looking for art related tutorials you likely have no idea who he is, he has a following yea but most artist do that are making money now especially independent ones given if you do not have an audience as an independent artist you simply will not make any money
@@MyNamesHunter75 If 3.8M is not famous what would you consider being famous then? Also if you're not an artist OF COURSE most likely you haven't heard about him because you haven't checked art related stuff and algorithms won't feed you art related stuff, but that doesn't mean he's not famous... That's like saying Metallica or whatever is not that famous because there are people who don't listen to rock therefore never heard about Metallica...
he is luckier than me 😢
I see proko, I clickk❤❤
Man, I'm a student of this guy😅 and he's a student of Jeffrey Watts.
Jeff watts?
@te9591 yes bro, a brilliantly consummate artist.
@UjjwalPrakash-c3w oh, Watts Atelier? Then?
@@te9591 Yes!!!!!
I doubt if he ever struggled and likely from a wealthy background with family financial backing …please prove me wrong i mean all that equipment costs tens of thousands just to set up a production system and all the assistants . His videos are very good though and he appears to be a very good illustrator or draftsman.
He talks about it in this video here (ruclips.net/video/C9v1PdnypsU/видео.htmlsi=OpyiF0mS_J5-3FTp). A lot of help he got at the beginning was that he was able to live with his parents when he was making videos that didn't earn any money, then when he made enough he was able to move out and start hiring people.
3.5 million, and if the Proko channel had Spanish, the audio could be understood in Spanish, which is the second most spoken language in the world after Mandarin, even above English, it would have more value and power. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Transfers effect distracted me. 😡😡😡
After every 10 seconds one appears
He’s not teaching art. He’s teaching craft. That’s fine, as long as you know the difference.
Ok, explain the difference then.
@@ninja_tony He won't, he's just salty like some others in this comment section
@@ninja_tony I think he means the creativity and innovation aspect of art which, you can argue, can't be taught. Craft is the foundation, though, so there's no shade. Craft is where it all begins!
What does he think about AI stealing his style NOW ...in seconds?
Love Proko. But you do know just like you can't easily live out of art you can't easily grow a business if you don't like the business part of things. So either I have to get that to sink in and actually think about selling stuff or give up and keep my day job for something half way done which odds to work are less than starting a business... which is still slim but maybe a bit more than "doing my thing" for sure. Something has to give and if I'm to find out there is no way around, have to sell stuff. So bye bye ideal artist life (which didn't existed anyhow I guess...)
Most artists don’t love it that much
1.5 million after taxes.
He deserves it
Looks like he already had the resourses
Right? How else could he have put “all” the money earned in the first 8 years back into his studio/business?
Still had to eat, pay bills & take care of the family 🙄 They’re acting like he started from nothing. I know what nothing looks & feels like!
@@KitKatToeBeans he never said he didn’t pay himself a modest salary.
without getting famous?
I’m pretty sure it means “without getting famous before teaching”. He got famous because of his teaching, he didn’t get famous by instagram/other types of RUclips art content then transitioning to teaching art
thought only dealers make money in art...
There's something misleading in this video as if we can all achieve this when we feel like it. You don't wake up one day and become famous and make a few millions a day later. There's a factor of luck involved and it's also a lot of hard work and takes time and money to get anywhere. There's thousands of better artists than him on youtube and they never made it, but with his mediocre skills Proko did. There's definitely thousands of better teachers on youtube that never made it, but with his mediocre teaching skills Proko did.
Why? Because he started when youtube wasn't saturated and not overly crowded. If he would be starting this year without having a name, but being a nobody that just graduated from college and started a youtube channel, no one would notice him at all. That's the bittersweet truth. He was lucky enough to have started at the right moment, like all the larger art channels did.
Most of us starting now aren't that lucky, we have to fight for a spot on an overcrowded platform that now has an algorithm working against us. He made it, not because he's that good, but because he was lucky enough to start at the right time... decades ago and stuck with it for years investing a lot of money into growing his brand. Took him many years to arrive here. He's earned it, that's for sure, but not because he's that good, but I won't repeat he's lucky because of the time, place, background, country and even privileges he had when starting.
Maybe he can finally pay for some dance lessons
He's great tho, all props to him! There are some shitty artists out there
selling courses, everybody’s drea.. oh wait no
ripped off all
Proko is not his first business.
what’s his business before proko?
But he's not an artist. He became a teacher. Most of use get into art, to make art, not to teach.
what you said makes no sense
John Singer Sargent, Loomis and many others also were teachers.
@ great rebuttal of my argument lol
@ In a completely different time. They didn't do it to become Multi millionaires. And Proko isn't even a good artist to begin with.
@@neggit2063 Proko is a good artist and no sane person would do as much as he did just for money, trust me: there are a ton of easier ways of making tons of money.
Don't let this video fool you. Many people make WAY more than Proko per month doing art. The trick hasn't changed. It's who you know, who you can control, and who will pay to see your work. That recipe has never changed.
So the Art Industries is like a big pyramid scheme. He was taught how to be an artist. He couldn't make it as an artist, so he decided to teach people how to become artists who will not become successful artists. Then they'll decide to teach other people how to become artists who will fail and become teachers. And so on. And so on.
Add edit my first post because speech to text didn't work good
I can somewhat agree with you about what you said about Art industries, however not about Stan. He provides professional lessons for free, and even offers more detailed courses for an affordable price, meanwhile students all over the world pay hundreds of thousands of dollars just to attend dimly lit classroom and listen to a guy who most likely hates his job. Now you decide which one is a real scheme.
Most braindead stupid take I've ever read. As an artist who teaches I can tell you that a large chunk of people I teach have 0 interest in selling or making money from their art. They do it because they love it and want to get better at it and hopefully show some people. Part of being an artist is passing on your knowledge to the next generation too. All of the greats did this. Humans have been doing this for hundreds of years. Calling it a pyramid scheme is the most sub 80 IQ take I've ever read. Google what the word hobby means
@noahfletcher3019 you're making my point for me. Those who can't do, teach.
@@uncutsquid lol just say you can't read and move on
@noahfletcher3019, you're just part of the Ponzi scheme and want to safeguard your employment. You teach people who will never become profitable unless they follow in your footsteps. No one says they want to grow up to be an astronaut teacher-it's because that sounds insane. The only industry that has more teachers than workers is art.
Let me guess, i have to pay you money first.
I see so many people saying they're making millions. Really? Let's see. I think the way to make money is to sell a course about ways to make money.
damn he aged a little since i first found him
… like a fine wine 🍷
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Um yeah that kinda happens to people. It’s pretty much unavoidable lol.
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all the people who aren't good for the industry, start teaching...
what a sell-out. yikes.
How exactly is he a sell out?
Without getting lucky? He got born white, lived in a developed country, enjoyed health without disabilities. That's all luck. Everything is built over luck, good or bad.
I am artist. Quite successful. Never ever I heard about him or his website. Nor any artist I talk to. Interesting. Also his views on the 3,5 mil channel are more like what 50-100k channels have. 3,5 million income? I highly doubt it