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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I was in tears by the end of this video. I’ve been lacking motivation and feeling hopeless for years. When I was the most productive, it was before my grandfather passed. I realize, now, that my grandfather was the main reason I painted. He was an artist and got me into art. My favorite part about painting was showing him my paintings. He passed six years ago, and I’m struggling without him. But now that I’m creating holiday cards, I’m painting more than I have in a long time, and I feel alive again. I feel like me. This video was very inspirational and helpful. Thank you.
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Once again, you’re speaking a very important truth about being an artist in the world today. Its so frustrating being a ‘low pace’ artist in a ‘high pace’ artist environment. Having to force yourself to switch on your creativity on and of daily takes SO much energy away from actually doing the art itself. I understand why and how art needs to be industrialized in the film industry. I just dont like, that that story of the hollywood artist is the ONLY story of succes an artist should try to match up to. Again, thank you Adam, please never stop being a voice in the dark.
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This is exactly why I created an Instagram for my artwork. Growing a fanbase for my artwork is what I used as fuel to drive creation of my art. It also allowed me to find what was successful, and yes it is kind of shallow, but the amount of likes I was getting for a post would inform me on what was successful. Having those viewers who looked forward to and appreciated my creations was priceless for me, and gave me purpose. Purpose was essential, and is essential for me.
In the end, after 2 years of posting consistently for my followers, I got to a point where I was hirable and landed an industry job. Now I'm in a place where I thought I would never be financially. It's amazing. I am happy.
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When you said that remembering a time when you were productive can help you determine what's stunting your motivation, I immediately thought back to my high school days where I had friends who loved seeing my drawings and always asked if I had anything new the next day... That feeling of knowing there were people who I could draw for always made me not only draw more frequently but put an amount of effort into each drawing that I barely if ever produce today.
Ever since getting out of college its been significantly harder to find that same drive, I'm the most isolated I've been which means there's nobody to talk to about my art and look forward to draw for to see their reaction, nothing to make me hold myself accountable and keep creating.
At the moment I do want a job in the arts, preferably storyboarding or being a key animator, but that alone isn't enough to motivate me and make me build up my portfolio.
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I think I really am a designer.
I switched to graphic design a year ago when the AI shit was starting to take a toll. I needed a job and my degree helped also. Started doing packaging design and making assets. A couple months in, when I was settled into it, I felt liberated, man. Deeply. I related so much to that thought of "I don't live and breathe art, this isn't my identity, I have other passions on the side". I am a hoarder of hobbies. I knit, I craft, I sew, I write, I play chess, I cook, I decorate. I need all of that to feel fulfilled, I pick up a new hobby every few years and carry it in my sack forever. That is my identity: the culmination of everything I do, and I do many many many things.
I think what happened at some point when I got into art, is that all the YouTube artists started making me feel like I can and should do this as a job. I don't need to. I don't need to at all. I can thrive as a graphics person because I have sense of visual aesthetic thanks to art. And similar to that, I pull from every single one of my other hobbies also. All my interests somehow came together and unified to give me a lot of value in this field. I'm still a newbie, but I already feel how much more suited I am to this than to making art.
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That feeling of responsibility and a deadline is literally the only way I manage to get things done. I have never felt passionate about any graphic design profession even though I know I could do it, now I realise it's because I'm more connected to emotion and feeling than superficial 'looks'. I'm glad to have shaken off the naive self that I was during university when I wanted to be a concept artist/character designer. That wasn't me. What IS me, it in writing and illustrating my own books. So far I've published 3, and I'm just getting started. Thank you for this reminder Adam :)
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I have noticed I have extreme motivation that makes me able to move mountains (at least, to my standards) when I'm having an "hyperfixation". Meaning I'm utterly obsessed with something to the point of wanting to create for it. And most of the time it's fiction.
I think i've realized that drawing is not what I love, what I love is stories you can tell via drawings, characters you get to meet and give life to. I'm motivated, because weirdly enough, I feel indebted to the characters that I love, be it from shows I watch, or shows I work on. I feel a responsability towards them and it makes me want to do my very best! Even when it's hard, I tell myself "Do it for that little kid, he needs your help to finish his story!"
I think at the core, I just personally find meaning in life through fiction, so, giving it my all so the characters I tell the stories of can get the best outcome possible is my personal motivation haha.
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I'm a casual artist not professional just trying to learn, improve but most importantly to me i just want to draw almost every day. Even if its just some gesture sketches or a small completed anime portrait. I have low standards because i have burned out in the past when trying to force progress. I would draw a complete portrait from photo reference every day for 30 days straight and then not draw for 5 months. I don't want to repeat that cycle so this time around i'm just using the motto "draw when i want to but try to draw at least something every day." it's been good i still have days every now and then when i don't but most days of the last 3 months i have drawn something each day. I struggle with procrastination and the highs and lows of art. When a piece doesn't come together i have to remind myself i'm learning and it's good that i just did something and got that part of my brain working. Sometimes just doing more than nothing has to be good enough. Try not to put too much pressure on yourselves and don't compare yourself to pros too often. Just focus on you and do things your way.
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I crawled out of my bed today sad and beat up because yesterday I realized I don`t enjoy drawing anymore. The thing that sustained me most of my life did not give me a spec of joy and the lack of feeling terrified me. Now I am sitting, tears running down my cheeks, because once again, Adam, your words hit me hard. And those words are what I needed the most. Now I just need to find out what value I can give to the world.... If there is any value at all I can offer.
Thank you for your videos.
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Your drip never disappoints Adam!
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Adam, you are the only one who gives me hope. Without your videos I'd have to say goodbye to art at the very beginning, but you are motivating me to move forward to my dream of becoming a tattoo artist. Thank you very much, you've changed my live forever
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"It's much easier for me to dissapoint my self than it is to dissapoint you".
That's been my biggest hurdle with getting back into art after having spent multiple years focusing on a normal job to survive.
I've been formulating a youtube channel in order to build the accountability to the audience thing. It's nice to hear that it can work.
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Thank you for sharing Adam. Your moms story resonated with me as I’m at this crossroads with my fine art degree, bills, meeting my sons needs, and substitute teaching. I’m enrolled to become a special education teacher. Part of me feels like I’ll be giving up trying to be an artist bc as a long term substitute special Ed. teacher, it’s so time consuming. I love working with my students, but feeling like I’m severing something if I go through with this entirely. I love that your mom is painting now 🍀💗
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What you said about chasing the needs of the industry is so true. I spent so much time just adding to my portfolio what I thought the industry wanted that I eventually lost sight of what I actually want to do.
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You mentioned multiple times how making art for someone other than yourself makes you accountable and can get you to produce better work more frequently. I had been struggling with motivation on making personal pieces to go in my portfolio. The classes I took this year were fruitful in pushing me towards professional looking work, but my motivation to create had been a little sapped from the constant studying. I started questioning if this was a good idea, if I should be pursuing this as a career. Then I got the biggest news of my life. I am going to be a father.
Now all I want to do us draw and paint. I want to carry my family on these skills I have such a passion for. I want my son to pick up his gaming console, show it to his friends, and proudly say, "My daddy made that." I want this more than anything else. He isn't even born yet and I want him to be proud of what I can do.
The first thing my parents said after all of the tearful congratulations was, "I guess you can't do that art thing you wanted to do anymore." They couldn't be more wrong. Now I have to, there isn't a choice in my mind anymore. I am compelled. My son is counting on me.
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Yeah, wow, kinda needed this. I've been feeling for a long time that my art is just not valuable, like there's plenty of other people who could do what i do better, even though it makes me sad not to do it? And then I'm also just absolutely terrified of the internet in general. So I tend to keep my art to myself, but it never really goes anywhere and I usually just feel like it doesn't matter. So what you say about having something to keep you accountable, or creating something that matters to you, and matters to other people, is probably what I'm missing. Really, I know that my art does resonate with people, but- something feels wrong. Maybe I just need to take that leap and stop being scared about sharing my work and maybe I'll find a community that encourages me to keep at it. Isolation is shit for your mental health, and I've been isolated quite a lot the past few years, even in terms of places like discord. I started looking around for groups to join, and it is kinda helping with that itch to draw, like maybe my art isn't the best, but it will get better if i at least get motivated to try. There are so many things i like. I used to draw spiderman art. There's a million drawings of spiderman, way better than mine, but will i feel happy drawing it? Hell yeah i will. Because i get to reflect on all the things i like about spiderman, and the memories I have of going to the library to get the books, reading on the bus, going to my grand parents to watch the toby movies. That special time period that I will never get back of my life that was special to me where i learned about stories and characters that resonated with me.
So, maybe you're right. I need to bring to the table what I can bring to the table. For me, and for people that it matters to. Thanks, Adam.
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This is really interesting, because I have the opposite relationship to art. My job is in the medical field and while it's very rewarding to help people, the entitlement, dependency, and unreasonable expectations are absolutely exhausting and demoralizing. When I make art I only have to please myself and I have absolute freedom from the expectations of others. Of course I think this is the difference between making art for public "consumption" as a career and making art as a "hobby". Love from the west coast of Canada! I enjoy the atmosphere of your videos and the attention to detail and effort you put in definitely shows.
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I have been drawing for a while. Lately I lost my drive. This was something i needed to listen to.
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This feels like it's more dor the mid to post art-school folks in terms of skills and experience? Or it feels like it's geared to a rather specific sort of personal mindset behind and/or around doing art (in a way that felt like important context to view the video through from the start, rather than be clued into only at the very end)
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@kitanuma
6 months ago
I heard a Korean professional illustrator say that fundamentals are everything, because it is the backbone of being able to do commercial art. The separation between personal and commercial art is important. Personal art for yourself can be as you like, and it can give you creative ideas, but commercial art needs professional processes. Maybe the thought of having others appreciate our art really is the motivation for us to get better.
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