Judging by the comments you’ve received…you have touched a lot of people! You are not only a gifted artist…you are a natural marketer! I love your videos and your art! ❤ thanks for being so inspiring! ❤ you are awesome! 👏 ❤
Walter's sound advice is one in which I really needed when I started studying commercial art in 1986 at the Hussian School Of Art in Philadelphia (which sadly shut down last year). I wanted to be a graphic artist but the day after I graduated was the day I had quit. Looking back, I can't recall the reasons why I did it. But Walter's 5 mistakes has now brought to my awareness the truth as to why I gave up being an artist. During the ensuing years, I would not allow myself to admit these 5 mistakes (and then some) because I did not want to feel like a failure. My resilience and self-esteem was not enough to weather the storms and challenges that come with being an artist. Being a perfectionist did not help either. I also believe that, early on in my courses in art, psychotherapy would have helped me rise above my emotional and psychological setbacks that I had at the time and was not aware of. Back then, Hussian was not a fine arts school and so they did not teach extensively about the history of art and especially the trials and tribulations the artist of the past had to endure to become artists. Anyway, I'm far more mature and wiser now and maybe some day I'll take to drawing again -with Walter's encouragement. At 67yrs old and in good health, I'd say I still have 15 years left in me. I'd like to do something, anything, before I die of old age.
Ah... yes, marketing... "If people don't know who you are, you aren't gonna sell anything". I've never tried, and don't really know about that, but you are very correct. I'm on facebook and know a lot of people on there and in life in this small community. I just started showing some of my stuff and even though I'm a beginning artist, friends are actually drooling. I bet, if given the correct location to sell, I can sell some of my sloppy... well... beginners art, but I'm not going to. You're right, marketing is very important if you want to sell. "Something unique, stand out from other artists, do different things", BAM, to the point. I did a "gesso" art (actually a mural, still working on it) with really bumpy mountains, trees, river, a wolf, etc.. so that the light from my hall does the "highlights" without having to paint them in. And an idea I just came up with, some sorta light added onto a painting that acts as a sun or a light in the painting, to highlight the bumps from the gesso (if I can find such small battery run lights I'm gonna try it). Paint fire on glass, a light behind it lights it up, maybe paint some kinda clear light bulb cover, or a fire place with fire painted on a clear plastic sheet (yes, with that hole in the canvas). Your bonus mistake, yep, done that. I drew as a kid, and when I lost all my art work, I lost my motivation and heart as well. Recently I quit drinking cause of health problems, and soon after I got back into art again. First, I did a car model, but it was the painting that I was into, so I bought this and that and all the other stuff and dived right into art again. It's exciting, all that money that went into art supplies didn't drain down my neck in the form of booze! Ain't never making that mistake again! Thanks for sharing this with us, this is very inspiring!
Hi Walter. I like your content and your art. You’re doing good by young and starting artists. I like your teaching style; very real and down to earth. I wish you great success with your launch. I hope you share your art style, tools, supplies, and process in a next video. Thank you for putting your channel to great use.💖 To our success..🥂
Those were really solid tips, thank you 💖 With such an inspiration, I feel like the day when I will finally stop lurking in shadows is getting closer!;)
Spot on (with one exception)! I was an artist long ago, a marketing career got in the way for 25-ish years also. It wasn't full-on quit, as I was a creative leader doing a lot of design and Illustrator work. But now I'm back to launching my art business (mostly pen and ink, love your stuff brother) and fully grok your points. Except "Gary-Vee." Don't follow the Vee. Most professional/successful marketers dismiss him. Otherwise, rock on.
You're exactly right, if you aren't willing to market your art you have no one else to blame for not succeeding at it. An artrepreneur is what you need to be. Nothing sells itself, and there's no shame in learning how to sell a product, especially something you believe in.
This is a really valuable video. I'm a 47 year old artist in the process of "unquitting" ... I've made all the same mistakes I just need to get on with it now!!!
Point #2 is dead on. If you’re not willing to champion your art, who will? I think you have to be your number one cheerleader which means getting out there and pushing your art. You have to ask yourself how bad do you really want it.
I’m graduating as an illustrator later this year, I’m hoping I can get my own art off the ground! Do you think classes In marketing would be helpful? Or just looking up some resources online to learn would be better 😅 That line about Never quitting really hit me, I’ve had a lot of doubt about being an artist and if I’d make it.. so hearing that really motivated me!! Thank you for the video, from a fellow artist!
Learn online. It's more current. Learn stuff slowly while you get a killer portfolio together. I will be opening a free community on skool.com for people to ask me anything soon. Stay tuned...
weed can be a gift and a curse, I stopped smoking weed about a year ago after 30 years of smoking it and I have a lot more energy to create art and also I have dreams and I can remember them. A lot of people think weed makes you creative and it does. But often that creativity goes into finding ways to get stoned. I’m 43 and I know you’re a little older than me but us older guys need all the energy we can get. Weed has a chemical in it called fuck it. It will steal your dreams away if you let it. I may smoke weed again but when you’re building a brand you gotta have laser focus on your goals.
Bro! I'm going to quit soon. I'm going to make a video about it too. When you’re building a brand you gotta have laser focus I agree with you 100% Thanks, man for looking out for me. Solid advice.
Thats exactly the same shit every other TH-camr would say. Fuck Marketing...Are you an artist or a Buckingham salesman? So what if you don't sell...selling would make you more rich nit a better artist. What's the point? You didn't care for Marketing because its bullshit. Just get a job that pays good and make art in your free time. I would rather stay unknown and never sell rather than sell myself. Are yiu a better artist if yiu put lore time into Marketing? No yiu are a better salesman...so why dontvyiu hi and sell som other stuff if money is your number one concern? If yiu understand marketing yiu would know that...but hey...go ahead..playbthe game...make a uiutube chanel and whatever and tell peoplebthe samenstuff millions of other TH-cam artist told already. I guess in a few years yiu will add another mistake to yiur list. That will be taking money and selling to seriously. I am fed up with this nonsens...her yiu habe a comment...its good for engagement....edit: also uiu don't fuckin look like yiu need money...here I have the most important Mistake most people make: don't take yourself to seroliously.
Relax, bro. I get it. It's a mental fuckin' battle. Am I selling out? I'm not making a product, it's art! I know, I know, this is nothing new. You can make art for yourself, but I stand by what I said 100% Market your unique art to your unique customer or complain how the world isn't fair. Reality sucks sometimes. Regardless, I do feel where your coming from, brother.
@@shadowartistea short caption out of time but in context… Art cannot without disqualifying itself agree to submit to any outside orders or humbly fill the ranks, which some would like to assign to it in the interest of short pragmatic ends. You will only transform man’s condition if you take into account his subjective needs as well as his material ones. If you ignore them then communism will only create new forms of alienation. What we want is a proletarian art that will describe proletarian life and proletarian aspirations. Bourgeois culture is dying. It is the artists job to help lead the workers towards a new popular art that will emerge with liberation of the masses. But you are asking the impossible. How can a bourgeois artist be anything but inept at translating the workers aspirations. Trotsky has already argued that it is pointless to contrast proletarian and bourgeois culture in a pre-revolutionary period. To the extent that a culture is proletarian it is not yet a culture. To the extent that there is a culture. It is not yet proletarian. But look at your pasts. But look at your pasts, your comrade monsieur dragon recently referred to the Russian revolution as a vague ministerial crisis and made silly jokes about doddering in Moscow. You taken a very sharp turn since then haven’t you? Why should we believe that your present view of the revolution is your real one and look at your backgrounds your outrages of literary parties don’t impress the workers they see you as spoiled children of cafe society. Yes it’s true. We are asking to join your ranks in order to totally dissociate ourselves from the classes we come from. But this is not as you suggest one more provocative. We are far too conscious of the way bourgeois society tames its rebels. Savoring the poison and calling it entertainment or avante-garde. Thought, art even spiritual revolt can be reduced to a commodity. We can only avoid assimilation by writing hermetically by not making ourselves obvious to every department store shop assistant. Mystery is frightening. Only the unclassifiable, the indefinable is disconcerting and can be used to shake the complacency of the bourgeoisie. But think about who you attract. It’s the bourgeoisie who lap up your scandals. Your blasphemy and erotic outrages only charm the jaded palette of the anarchist set amongst the aristocracy. Don’t you see that since your works are appropriated and misinterpreted. It is necessary first to make a social revelation. After that you can think about heretic authenticity. To be anxious for such luxuries now is simply a diversion. it encourages hope when there is none. No I cannot accept that. Of course we regret the public treatment of our work. Of course we do not wish for their patronage. Perhaps it is true that we are wild beasts in a cage, but that does not make us wild beast any less. You seem to be saying on the one hand that we should create propaganda for immediate consumption by the masses. Against this we say that any revolutionary message that is embodied in a conservative form cannot have a revolutionary effect and on the other hand you demand that the mind and imagination must abdicate until the revolution has been accomplished. And against this we would say that even if our work does not immediately help to precipitate the revolution. The job of interpreting man’s condition is indispensable to building the post-revolutionary world. Every mistake in the interpretation of man’s condition involves a mistake in understanding the universe and becomes an obstacle to its transformation.
Judging by the comments you’ve received…you have touched a lot of people! You are not only a gifted artist…you are a natural marketer! I love your videos and your art! ❤ thanks for being so inspiring! ❤ you are awesome! 👏 ❤
Wow, thank you!
A TRUE ARTIST NEVER QUITS 😍
We are born with a curse, absolutely. Must create no matter how bad the result, just keep creating. Thank you.
you understand... good. You get it.
Great video great video 🖼️💪💙
Walter's sound advice is one in which I really needed when I started studying commercial art in 1986 at the Hussian School Of Art in Philadelphia (which sadly shut down last year). I wanted to be a graphic artist but the day after I graduated was the day I had quit. Looking back, I can't recall the reasons why I did it. But Walter's 5 mistakes has now brought to my awareness the truth as to why I gave up being an artist. During the ensuing years, I would not allow myself to admit these 5 mistakes (and then some) because I did not want to feel like a failure. My resilience and self-esteem was not enough to weather the storms and challenges that come with being an artist. Being a perfectionist did not help either. I also believe that, early on in my courses in art, psychotherapy would have helped me rise above my emotional and psychological setbacks that I had at the time and was not aware of. Back then, Hussian was not a fine arts school and so they did not teach extensively about the history of art and especially the trials and tribulations the artist of the past had to endure to become artists. Anyway, I'm far more mature and wiser now and maybe some day I'll take to drawing again -with Walter's encouragement. At 67yrs old and in good health, I'd say I still have 15 years left in me. I'd like to do something, anything, before I die of old age.
Exactly what I needed to hear 🙏✨ Thanks man
Thanks!
YOUR PASSION / INTERESTS + YOUR SKILLS = GREAT ART POTENTIAL
100%
I am sure you will succed, lovely art!
Ah... yes, marketing... "If people don't know who you are, you aren't gonna sell anything". I've never tried, and don't really know about that, but you are very correct. I'm on facebook and know a lot of people on there and in life in this small community. I just started showing some of my stuff and even though I'm a beginning artist, friends are actually drooling. I bet, if given the correct location to sell, I can sell some of my sloppy... well... beginners art, but I'm not going to. You're right, marketing is very important if you want to sell. "Something unique, stand out from other artists, do different things", BAM, to the point. I did a "gesso" art (actually a mural, still working on it) with really bumpy mountains, trees, river, a wolf, etc.. so that the light from my hall does the "highlights" without having to paint them in. And an idea I just came up with, some sorta light added onto a painting that acts as a sun or a light in the painting, to highlight the bumps from the gesso (if I can find such small battery run lights I'm gonna try it). Paint fire on glass, a light behind it lights it up, maybe paint some kinda clear light bulb cover, or a fire place with fire painted on a clear plastic sheet (yes, with that hole in the canvas). Your bonus mistake, yep, done that. I drew as a kid, and when I lost all my art work, I lost my motivation and heart as well. Recently I quit drinking cause of health problems, and soon after I got back into art again. First, I did a car model, but it was the painting that I was into, so I bought this and that and all the other stuff and dived right into art again. It's exciting, all that money that went into art supplies didn't drain down my neck in the form of booze! Ain't never making that mistake again! Thanks for sharing this with us, this is very inspiring!
Hi Walter. I like your content and your art. You’re doing good by young and starting artists. I like your teaching style; very real and down to earth. I wish you great success with your launch. I hope you share your art style, tools, supplies, and process in a next video. Thank you for putting your channel to great use.💖 To our success..🥂
Thank you, that was so nice. I will show my process soon.
You've given me motivation so I've subscribed.
Love your honesty. Great tips.
Thankyou brother, I needed that !
Thank you so much for thos very wise lfe lessons.
Those were really solid tips, thank you 💖 With such an inspiration, I feel like the day when I will finally stop lurking in shadows is getting closer!;)
Lol. Come out of the shadows and express yourself. Art is scary. I understand.
Good sir. Please keep it up. You’re really motivating the inner artist in me. I am pushing 40 and need as much motivation as you can dish out
I got you, brother
@ ❤️
This spoke to me, your last piece of advice is the biggest regret I have.
You are not gonna fail
Spot on (with one exception)!
I was an artist long ago, a marketing career got in the way for 25-ish years also. It wasn't full-on quit, as I was a creative leader doing a lot of design and Illustrator work. But now I'm back to launching my art business (mostly pen and ink, love your stuff brother) and fully grok your points.
Except "Gary-Vee." Don't follow the Vee. Most professional/successful marketers dismiss him.
Otherwise, rock on.
Lol. True. Business guru's come and go. Next! Thanks, man! Good luck, I love pen and ink.
Fighting self doubt is the biggest. I need to work on.
Real people real motivation!
For real. That is what I am digging myself. Starting from the bottom like the rest of us is refreshing
It really does helps a lot❤❤
Thanks, I hope it does. Your not alone.
Thank you
You’re awesome. Thanks coach 😊
Like a gym coach for art? That's a great idea! Thanks.
Good start Sir, keep going and finding your path. ❤
Thank you, I appreciate any support I can get.
You're exactly right, if you aren't willing to market your art you have no one else to blame for not succeeding at it. An artrepreneur is what you need to be. Nothing sells itself, and there's no shame in learning how to sell a product, especially something you believe in.
100%
Antrepreneur, good one!
I'm going to use that in one, thanks
I'm not going to quit!!!
Great Advice 😊
This is a really valuable video.
I'm a 47 year old artist in the process of "unquitting" ... I've made all the same mistakes I just need to get on with it now!!!
I love that this video has reached you. Your not alone. Unquit!
Your art is absolutely amazing! Great advice! and Subscribed :)
Thanks! Your the first to actually mention the art work. I appreciate that. I'll be making video's about my artwork soon.
brilliant thanks for the excellent post
I know exactly what you mean.. I quite 17 yrs ago.. I am now just dabbling in my old drawing.
Great video. You must’ve been learning marketing skills because you have charisma, charm, uniqueness and talent. Good luck.
I wish you nothing but the best
Thanks!
Love your Work and love your work. Thank you.
Thank you and thank you. lol
Never too late for a rebirth
never too late! Thanks!
thanks for making this, your stuff is rad, i needed to hear this, congrats on doing it, and wear more hot pint, it looks good on you
@@thiswillrogers Wear a hot pint? What's a hot pint? Anyway, thanks.
I try to stay authentic.
@@shadowartiste sorry for the typo. HOT PINK that is, it is a good color for you
@@thiswillrogers I thought you meant hot pants, for a second. Lol. no problem...
Awesome video❤
🙂
Point #2 is dead on. If you’re not willing to champion your art, who will? I think you have to be your number one cheerleader which means getting out there and pushing your art. You have to ask yourself how bad do you really want it.
Gospel 🙏🏼
Amen
Thank you sir
Your welcome
Sick video man, I’m in for the ride!
Welcome, brother. Let's go!
I’m graduating as an illustrator later this year, I’m hoping I can get my own art off the ground!
Do you think classes In marketing would be helpful? Or just looking up some resources online to learn would be better 😅
That line about Never quitting really hit me, I’ve had a lot of doubt about being an artist and if I’d make it.. so hearing that really motivated me!!
Thank you for the video, from a fellow artist!
Thank you my friend. I make these video specifically for you in the position your in. You'll figure it out, trust the process.
Learn online. It's more current. Learn stuff slowly while you get a killer portfolio together. I will be opening a free community on skool.com for people to ask me anything soon. Stay tuned...
weed can be a gift and a curse, I stopped smoking weed about a year ago after 30 years of smoking it and I have a lot more energy to create art and also I have dreams and I can remember them. A lot of people think weed makes you creative and it does. But often that creativity goes into finding ways to get stoned. I’m 43 and I know you’re a little older than me but us older guys need all the energy we can get. Weed has a chemical in it called fuck it. It will steal your dreams away if you let it. I may smoke weed again but when you’re building a brand you gotta have laser focus on your goals.
Bro! I'm going to quit soon. I'm going to make a video about it too. When you’re building a brand you gotta have laser focus I agree with you 100%
Thanks, man for looking out for me. Solid advice.
Thats exactly the same shit every other TH-camr would say. Fuck Marketing...Are you an artist or a Buckingham salesman? So what if you don't sell...selling would make you more rich nit a better artist. What's the point? You didn't care for Marketing because its bullshit. Just get a job that pays good and make art in your free time. I would rather stay unknown and never sell rather than sell myself. Are yiu a better artist if yiu put lore time into Marketing? No yiu are a better salesman...so why dontvyiu hi and sell som other stuff if money is your number one concern? If yiu understand marketing yiu would know that...but hey...go ahead..playbthe game...make a uiutube chanel and whatever and tell peoplebthe samenstuff millions of other TH-cam artist told already. I guess in a few years yiu will add another mistake to yiur list. That will be taking money and selling to seriously. I am fed up with this nonsens...her yiu habe a comment...its good for engagement....edit: also uiu don't fuckin look like yiu need money...here I have the most important Mistake most people make: don't take yourself to seroliously.
Relax, bro. I get it. It's a mental fuckin' battle.
Am I selling out? I'm not making a product, it's art! I know, I know, this is nothing new.
You can make art for yourself, but I stand by what I said 100%
Market your unique art to your unique customer or complain how the world isn't fair. Reality sucks sometimes.
Regardless, I do feel where your coming from, brother.
@shadowartiste You make your art a Product. That's what Marketing is all about...
@@shadowartistea short caption out of time but in context…
Art cannot without disqualifying itself agree to submit to any outside orders or humbly fill the ranks, which some would like to assign to it in the interest of short pragmatic ends.
You will only transform man’s condition if you take into account his subjective needs as well as his material ones. If you ignore them then communism will only create new forms of alienation. What we want is a proletarian art that will describe proletarian life and proletarian aspirations. Bourgeois culture is dying. It is the artists job to help lead the workers towards a new popular art that will emerge with liberation of the masses.
But you are asking the impossible. How can a bourgeois artist be anything but inept at translating the workers aspirations. Trotsky has already argued that it is pointless to contrast proletarian and bourgeois culture in a pre-revolutionary period. To the extent that a culture is proletarian it is not yet a culture. To the extent that there is a culture. It is not yet proletarian. But look at your pasts. But look at your pasts, your comrade monsieur dragon recently referred to the Russian revolution as a vague ministerial crisis and made silly jokes about doddering in Moscow. You taken a very sharp turn since then haven’t you? Why should we believe that your present view of the revolution is your real one and look at your backgrounds your outrages of literary parties don’t impress the workers they see you as spoiled children of cafe society. Yes it’s true. We are asking to join your ranks in order to totally dissociate ourselves from the classes we come from. But this is not as you suggest one more provocative. We are far too conscious of the way bourgeois society tames its rebels. Savoring the poison and calling it entertainment or avante-garde. Thought, art even spiritual revolt can be reduced to a commodity. We can only avoid assimilation by writing hermetically by not making ourselves obvious to every department store shop assistant. Mystery is frightening. Only the unclassifiable, the indefinable is disconcerting and can be used to shake the complacency of the bourgeoisie.
But think about who you attract. It’s the bourgeoisie who lap up your scandals. Your blasphemy and erotic outrages only charm the jaded palette of the anarchist set amongst the aristocracy. Don’t you see that since your works are appropriated and misinterpreted. It is necessary first to make a social revelation. After that you can think about heretic authenticity.
To be anxious for such luxuries now is simply a diversion. it encourages hope when there is none.
No I cannot accept that. Of course we regret the public treatment of our work. Of course we do not wish for their patronage.
Perhaps it is true that we are wild beasts in a cage, but that does not make us wild beast any less.
You seem to be saying on the one hand that we should create propaganda for immediate consumption by the masses. Against this we say that any revolutionary message that is embodied in a conservative form cannot have a revolutionary effect and on the other hand you demand that the mind and imagination must abdicate until the revolution has been accomplished.
And against this we would say that even if our work does not immediately help to precipitate the revolution. The job of interpreting man’s condition is indispensable to building the post-revolutionary world.
Every mistake in the interpretation of man’s condition involves a mistake in understanding the universe and becomes an obstacle to its transformation.
So glad I stumbled across you today, really needed your down to earth attitude and DONT QUIT🫶🫶🫶