Hope you enjoyed the video! As mentioned, you can check out the free anime study guide here - oridays.com/animestudy 📝 P.S. I wasn't able to fit this into the video but wanted to share it anyway: Upon reading some of my old notes I found out that I thought about quitting multiple times throughout the journey. It was bizzare since I didn't remember at all until I read those notes again. I heard someone say before "you're not an artist until you've thought about quitting at least once." So we're definitely not alone in how difficult the journey can be. And probably the biggest 'secret' to art is sticking to it, and pushing through all the hard times. Keep at it gang 💪
Bro pls make ur vtuber character a male bro PLEASE i've been watching u for a long time i barely managed to imagine ur voice with a face- ( and cat ears ofc ) DO A COMMUNTIY VOTE ( I'll fight for this fr )
Hey uhm great video but did you do research about betterhelp? I havent done much research myself but well Im not getting sponsered here and I have heard some bad stuff about it
This video doesn’t just give us an artist’s perspective, it’s like a therapist guiding us through life’s journey and a successful mindset. I truly enjoyed your story, and I’m so glad that I found your channel. Thank you, Ori!
When I was in grade school I used to draw super well but due to struggles in life, I stopped all my hobbies and lost interest in most things I loved doing. Now in high school, I started drawing again but I noticed all my drawings sucked unlike before. I practiced for about 2 weeks and I drew a character for about 3-5ish hours I was proud of it, and I showed it to my "friends", and they said my drawing was... bad. After that I never drew once, but... this video gave me hope! Thank you for this video Ori! To anyone who reads this, I hope you have a nice day
I was in a similar situation too, but I was a complete beginner, and after a month of daily practice, I created one piece of art that I thought was really cool, but they just said it was total garbage and laughed. Maybe the drawing really was terrible, but at that moment I felt like complete shit. Although I didn't lose my motivation to draw after that, I just don't want to show my art to anyone anymore, because people who have never drawn or picked up a pencil don't understand how difficult it is for a beginner to create anything at all.
oh no!! i’m guessing you’re calling them “friends” because you dumped them? if so, that good! i’m glad to hear you’re better now! i may not know you, but please don’t let “friends” discourage you! ❤
If you only stopped for that, it just means you didn't want to draw and improve that bad atm. Real men just keep playing the game to improve their performances methodically
same, but I was smaller and my brother ripped up my art piece. I got upset (of course), but my mother told me it wasn't good enough to begin with. I don't blame them though. It's my fault that I quit and stopped practicing. It is irresponsible to blame them for stunting my growth (i.e. "oh, I would've totally mastered that if it weren't for your words, and so I stopped"). I just couldn't be bothered/didn't have the time to. Now I'm beginning to take it up again, just for fun
As someone who taught violin for 22 years, I realised that the 10,000 hour rule works better if the learner is mindful, is aware of one's ultimate goal and does research on how to get there. Illustration wise, playing Azur Lane helped me to improve a lot as I observe their artwork from various points like anatomy, proportions, and inking.
@@madhuripendam4650 It was explained throughout the video. Basically, taking the different rpg-like "skills" he mentioned, you choose which elements to focus on and then practice by creating works yourself which you analyze for points of improvement, or study the anatomy of subjects that allign with the element of your interest. Yes, you can just keep drawing non-stop for thousands of hours without doing anything else, but the speed at which you'll actually improve will be greater if you factored in research, studies, and generally be very analytical of not only your own works but others too. Understanding is important. This can be applied to any skill, really. Even something entirely different like programming...
Thank you very much di/bhaiya through this video I learnt how lazy I was being without any consistency , efforts and complained to myself not being able to do anything. I'm loser the worst all that but the dialogue by Ori's ex made realise that I was dreaming all the time
Hearing how much you struggled in the beginning gives me some hope again! On the internet you usually you just see the success of the people and never the path that lead to the success so this video is really helping me understand that I am not a slow learner but just need to stay consistent. Thank you ori!
I think the one thing that gave me a great boost in motivation was, as cocky as it sounds, going back through one of my favourite artist's art and looking at the earlier art work and being like 'i can do better than that.' It makes you realize that these people are literally just like you, they just worked to improve so if you work as well, you'll get there eventually.
Another tip for any aspiring artists that I picked up from Marc Brunet Observation haki(Just look at your favourite artists drawings)... Not just look but look hard and thoroughly for a few minutes without drawing but just imagining the process you would follow while drawing that subject matter... Do it enough times with all your focus and you'll start seeing lines float in your head(the amount time is obviously different for everyone)
Brunet is the only teacher who REALLY gets thru to me in a digustable way. I dont think he is "the best", per sey, but his teaching method is the only one that really helped me, even tho i understood from others. I love his teaching so much
AI it's so much better. I could do this with just a few prompts. In Japan, Loli it's a pretty common thing and being graped by one of your family members it's also a pretty common thing. I just watched a lot of Hs, and everyone should to watch and swipe up and down his 🐓 while watching H or 👧🏼s You can insult me, I Do Not Read Replies, and of course, you will get more likes than me.
This is honestly the best, most condensed video on art I've watched. It feels like this is the only video anyone would ever need to learn art, besides some fundamentals videos. Great work!
@@Murimz Just a bad product in general. The therapy they offer is done by unlicensed therapists. It's digital, so if the client ever wants to meet up, they can't. And since the client is "already in therapy", it lessens the chance of the seeking other therapists, which is a completely normal step to do since therapy is very personal and you need to find the therapist that vibes with you.
@@xaf15001 Lmao I had a friend who told her better help "therapist" how she was abused as a kid and doesn't want to have kids and they told her "Why would you not want children, they're the gift God gave to you as a woman, you should be having kids." LMAO
I've been trying to learn anime style art for the past 4 years but i never met any major improvement or breakthrough, and for a while I just did the cycle of doing it again and just quitting, I felt like I was stuck in this beginner's hell. That was until i found some of your tutorials recently when i actually started to improve. I'm still very VERY BAD at drawing anime style art, but after watching your videos and my Japanese friend motivating me recently, finally after 4 years of quitting I finally started to improve even if it's just that minor 0.1% improvement, it felt like a very MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH and I couldn't thank you enough! I still have a long way to go but having your tutorials makes it easier. Thank you from Indonesia!
Really happy to hear that! The small steps and bits of progress are definitely things to be proud of since that's what builds up to big improvements over time :) Good luck and keep at it!
@@qqwweeww2468 its in indonesian rupees, which is around 2 dollars in aud, idk which currency you use but you can convert it on google. but money had different worth in different countries, so the conversion won't be 100% accurate. and i think youtube doesn't allow big donations so 2k would be hard to give on here lol.
As an artist who drew for more than 10 000 hours and still feel like I'm unable to break the bottleneck, it's inspiring yet making me anxious as my artist friends don't give me helpful feedbacks and grinding isn't enough to make me past that level You're amazing
This did so much for my mental health. I am currently at around 400 hours and I kept on judging myself for not being as good as I expected myself to be. It is nice to see that someone whos art I appreciate (ori) took a long amount of time and I might just need more time. It kinda made me realise that I am not bad, I just didnt spend enough time on it yet
You’re actually the best guidance for me here on youtube, you actually know how to tell and make people listen. It’s so entertaining to listen and watch who has the same dream as mine and listen to their journey. Thank you Ori.
As beginner myself... I... actually overwhelmed just by watching this vid... the amount of experience,knowledge,wisdom and struggle you went through is... simply beyond my comprehension... as if i appraisal a god-lvl playerXD I hope you make video about you actually "learn" during your beginner days... im pretty lost at what should I do...
Waking up, being able to do what you love, having enough passion to follow your dreams are the most wonderful things ever! I can work for 10 hours straight with a happy face for my loved job. Whatever it is, whatever people say, don't give up on it!
I don't know if this is just the usual "3am motivation" thing going through my head right now, but I saw a reflection of myself right now from the 6 years of you before Depressed. Lost. Frustrated. All of the wisdom you've shared in this video weighs gold for me right now, despite being apathetic and lethargic for the past 2 years. If I were to see this video before, I may have just gave it a listen and give up on it because I just simply don't see a future in me. But somehow, right now, I feel like I've been given a chance by someone whom I don't know and doesn't know me either. I would use the word 不思議 to perfectly describe this moment. Maybe this IS the wake up call. Maybe I DO have a chance. Maybe I can BE someone that my parents could be proud of. If you are reading this, might be a stranger or Oridays themself, we are lucky that fate lead us to this miraculous moment, that because Oridays made this video that it could just be that one thing to be a catalyst for someone to start something fresh and anew, despite life treating them horribly. I would like to end this somewhat melancholic comment in a happy note. It's a blessing that these types of encounters are now possible because we live in this current age. Ultimately, it's up to us what to do with this information. But I guess we should complain after we travel through the first "10000 hours" first 😊
This video gave me a lot more motivation for my music career. I originally wanted to be a professional bass player, but i realized that i can’t do it without a teacher, and the music school i got accepted to is super expensive on campus, which really demotivated me. Then i realized that i have another talent for making music, i listen to Jpop/rock/anime music for 5-6 years, i know how to make anime music from the experience i have from listening to them every single day. Which made me decided to switch to online music school and focus on music production, where i can fully focus on making music, and getting better on bass as a side hobby for the moment. Everything here i can relate to you, music is a very long journey, just like art. Before you can find yourself, you have to be inspired by the music you love, and slowly mix in your own music taste into something that resembles you.
This reminds me of a video i watched for school about growth mindsets. At the time, i just brushed it off because for some reason whenever school tries to do things for mental positivity, it feels like it won't work. But this is a great example of not letting your obstacles discouraging you and viewing everything with the opportunity to grow. It makes me think, maybe this growth mindset thing isnt a sham after all xD
I'm old enough to have taken this kind of journey through programming, and then I decided I wanted to do it again with drawing and comics - and along the way I gradually narrowed that to traditional, mostly black and white inks. While I'm probably not at the 10,000 hour mark, it takes less time when you're doing the new game plus, and that's mostly because of learned patience, access to resources, and selective focus 😅 I would say this about the skills, though. Most narrow/deep skills can be successfully introduced at between 10 and 100 hours, which is much less intimidating than "10,000 to mastery". That's the level where, if you're doing something for a class, that level of effort will give you a major breakthrough and let you pass a test, even if it's not with a perfect grade. The biggest difficulty in the early phases of drawing is that there are actually a lot of ways to narrow things down, but each one takes you away from the language and initial motivations: "draw this character" has to be broken down to a bunch of technical things about how to compose a scene and making use of reference and applying perspective and so on. Those barriers are overcome by telling yourself to immerse yourself in each of these fragments of language for a while so that you can bring them out fluidly when you return back to "draw this character". The hardest part is always in that early committment of going from hour 1 to hour 2. It's not going from hour 999 to hour 1000 that's hard. Thus my current study project is to work through each page of Bridgman's "100 hands" book, just copying and doing some breakdowns a few different ways. Instead of counting hours, I count pages. I've done this with anatomy, animal drawing, and composition already. At the 80% mark, my hand drawing has definitely improved, although my success rate when working from imagination remains mixed.
Nice video! I have a feeling that this channel will become very important for a lot of artists in the future, especially as a bridge to Japanese-Stylized Art. I think your unique journey can really illustrate this well.
this video has given me so much hope. I have been drawing for 2 years now and I still cant say that "I'M PROUD" of what I'm doing, it feels like I have just wasted so many hours of my life, I am in the brink of "giving up" Since these past 2 years I feel I havent seen much progress at all. so this video gave me new hope
This is genuinely one of the most inspiring videos I've seen on this platform. You did such an amazing job on this video and it makes me want to pursue a goal, I just don't know what i want. I wish I had something like this
I just wanna thank you for talking about the social media part especially... I have been drawing for about 8 years now but since I started really young, the improvement doesn't really feel like that at all, and seeing all these other people that know more than I do in less time is taunting, but I've always tried to keep up. But for people like me, when you post something and it doesn't do well, it's so... frustrating doesn't describe it, I'd say. Cause you can't say you're a beginner but you're also not a pro either, maybe a intermediate, but more of a limbo where you just... fall. But what you talked about counting the hours to get motivation really stuck with me and I think I might try it! So thank you so much. Also I talk a lot, don't I? Sorry😅
your journey motivates me, my progress over 3-4 years has been slow but it has been there, your video has made me think about what I am doing wrong, thank you so much, I promise myself that soon we will see each other as pro artists just wait!!!!!
Been drawing for 10 yrs at this point and I’m JUST starting to feel a personal breakthrough of my own art. I have a lot to go still but I’m happy where I’m at now
Man I'm so relatable to you. Ignoring my artistic dream, trying to get good grades and satisfying the social standards... until I decided to end all of my sufferings to do what I've always wanted to and now I'm here watching this video and feeling so proud of myself for making that decision 😭 Still practising at my own pace knowing that one day I'll achieve my dream of being an illustrator. The fact is that I found out your channel during my darkest days and honestly it was life-changing. Thank you so much for sharing your story and becoming an inspiration for others 😊 Also I love that you mention about the importance of handling our mental health while trying to progress with our goals. Totally got it 🙌
I feel motivated and demotivated at the same time, when I left high school I remember saying I wanted to learn to draw. Now it's been 7 years and it's a bit frustrating knowing how much I could have progressed and that time is never coming back
Same. I spent 8 years being depressed and unable to draw and create, and now i regret all the wasted time every single day, but i believe that as long as we feel this passion for art, everything is possible, since it isn't a skill (passion). It's going to be hard to stop thinking about the past, but always possible!
Honestly one of the best anime art videos I've seen. I myself am dogshit at drawing and are sort of in the position you were when starting of not being motivated enough, so this was pretty inspiring.
the point of finding what success means to you is so incredibly important. i used to draw all the time. good or bad, it didn’t matter to me. then made the choice of going to art school, as i wanted to get into game dev as a character artist. it ruined my mentality and motivation due to lack of support and barely any resources for what i wanted to do. if you weren’t a god at hard surface 3d modeling, you pretty much got the short end of the support stick. those 4 years genuine broke my spirit and i ended up hating my art. i barely drew for years after that, seeing myself as a failure. i slowly picked back up again but couldn’t ever get past the sketch phase. i finally sat down asked just asked myself: why do i want to draw? not what someone else thinks i should be doing, but ME. it finally clicked that i just wanted to make art that made me happy and find a style i could resonate with. i didn’t care about social media following or anything like that (and still don’t. if i get found by someone other than bot accounts, then cool lol). i just wanted to make finished pieces i could look back on and be proud of. i still have a very long way to go, and a lot of negative thoughts to face, but i finally feel ready to try in earnest again. once you figure out what it is you really want, so much falls into place.
I've been doing art for about 10 years and was somewhat following along until you said "you eventually get followers and commissions" which I never have. I definitely suck and haven't improved enough for that, nor know what I'm doing enough to get there, but I've been stuck for such an indescribable amount of time with literally nothing to show for it. No support structure or any real dopamine from it either. The last two years in particular have really been the worst. I don't even know how it's possible to physically get anyone to even see my art for any feedback, let alone improve when it happens. Am I just fucked?
1:29 Dude, I feel you so much! I'm on the same track as you were back then... I can't find a job, and although my Japanese isn't bad today, studying in Japan is too expensive. Furthermore, my nation (Israel) is committing genocide, and just being here makes my head explode. I really want to be in a place where people appreciate my ideals and how I think. Right now, I'm trying to find ways to save money for studying in China (Japan is still too expensive for me) I wish I had more skills except just being trilingual. Many of my Japanese friends tell me that it's ok to only be good at Japanese, but I feel it's not helping me the way I thought it would... I also have ASD and struggling to work 8 hours...
Wow, I didn’t know who you were before clicking on this video, but I just realized that you’re the one whose art I’ve saved a lot of on my PC. Love your work, and great video!
I have the problem of wanting to learn too much. I get myself into rabbit holes like playing guitar, programming, math, sketching, street art and singing. Sadly I don't have 60.000 hours laying around in my freetime, so I try to get "ok" on everything. My grades are still dropping to an all time low but my A levels are gonna catch me up. And with social shit and family this entire life of a teenager gets pretty confusing pretty fast. I love this video. I've seen a lot of your art online but I didn't really notice your kinda all surrounding presence. Keep up the work. def gon sub
@@onedoORmoa0305 its not a good organization at all they have unlicensed therapists etc it's been talked about for years im not the best at explaining so if you're interested best to go down the rabbit hole yourself
@@onedoORmoa0305as a few other comments said. It's like Uber. You might get a good therapist or a really bad one. And you kinda don't wanna gamble on mental health.... Just seeking out therapists people recomend you and trying them out is better
@@onedoORmoa0305 it was proven to be an immoral scam with fake therapists a few years back. Now youtubes forgot (or swept it under a rug) and take sponsorships from it again.
I noticed I've improved when I did reference, showed it to a friend and she told me it looked really alike to the original. Made me smile and it shows I can improve, especially since I've been drawing without references for years, until this year.
mann i got burned out in art for like a year, only started drawing again last week....got pretty rusty, relearning everything again from scratch pretty hard tbh😔😔 but i won't let that discourage me....working out proved to me that by being consistent you can see changes it might not be immediate but there will be changes
It's calming to here you speak man, you have a nice voice to listen to. I've been getting less and less free time to enjoy things I like, very relatable. Wt 21:48 I can confirm that this was a very therapeutic experience and i feel more motivated to improve with what little time i have left and look for flaws and improvement on my own. I will definitely stand on the shoulder of giants and find myself✊
I think you’re amazing and really inspiring. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. Your advice deeply resonated with me. I think this quote “When you have a calling to be a creator and you ignore it, everything just feels wrong, and it just kinda eats at you on the inside.” is my favorite.
I'm a full-time arts department student in HS. I've been drawing since I had the motor skills to hold a pencil (although my first drawing definitely showed that with a cat whose face wasn't even on the head, lol.) Your videos always motivate me to pick up a pencil again despite my perfectionism and burn out. I'm commenting in hopes to help boost the algorithm. Good work, man
I really appreciate this video! I've been drawing casually for 4 years now and I'm at the point where I want to get more serious but also I'm looking up at that mountain like you said and getting overwhelmed with how many different skills there are to learn and improve on. Your video and the long time horizon really helped put things into perspective. I think with a lot of this stuff it's like, deep down you know what you need to focus on to improve, you just don't want to face it sometimes, and this video is a great kick in the butt to go and do some deliberate practice on the things I know I should work on next. As a side note it's kinda crazy to me that you had the presence of mind to start tracking your hours from basically the beginning. Probably very cool to be able to look back on.
Wow. This is massive. You started from scratch(almost), and you tracked everything you did, it's incredible! Now I'm more compelled to do my own learning journey. A Huge thanks to you.
1:59 pure gold quote, it took me many years (graduated university this year) what felt like consistent existential crisis and it also resonates with me when after one breakthrough point it starts to feel like overwhelming rollercoaster ride when you start to enjoy and have fun with whatever you’re doing (actually it could be used with almost everything creative). TYSM for this video, it was very inspiring to watch❤ P.S. English isn’t my native sorry if there’re few mistakes
18:37 I would love a video where you would explain every individual skill and how you practiced them! I feel like by optimizing individual skills and by outputting like 3 finished drawings everytime you leveled up every stat by one you could improve very very quickly!
This video just taught me something I already suspected: you truly need to be a special person to be an amazing top-level creator. The amount of dedication needed to be able to endure this much work for so long is something many people (myself included) just don't have.
I found this video at a perfect time. I've been identyfying with being an artist for a few years now, yet, recently I learned... I'm actually not that good. I didnt practice nearly enough and just sticked to imagining what I could do instead of actually doing it. I suddenly felt so left behind and like all those years were wasted, but listening to your expiriance gave me a lot of hope that I still can improve so someday hopefully I would be able to think of myself as an actuall artist
Writing this as I watch, cause I'm literally getting everything you are describing yourself as when you were a beginner, as its where I'm at. I want to climb the skill tree, but seeing that you spend 2700+ hours in a year is very overwhelming, thats like. 7.5 hours a day. Also, I feel like I am in the position you were in during college. I'm currently pursuing a degree that'll lead to a stable job, and while I'll live, I do want to learn more art, get into content creation, etc. It just sounds enjoyable, but lack of motivation and bad time allocation is really brutal. I'm definitely not in any state of depression, but I feel as though Im following a path that I won't like. In terms of art, I started taking drawing more seriously these past two months, and I've learned a lot. I think i'm making good progress, and I've taken a lot of lessons from various art creators on yt to heart. I get that theres a lot to learn, and I'm taking every notable step needed to get there. But theres still so much time I need to allocate. I got one close friend of mine thats honestly keeping me very motivated, which has kept me going.
This video is really relatable because I've been going through a lot of what you've been going through the past couple of years and man...has it been hard to do any art and me being Neurodivergent, makes it even hard but I love how motivational and helpful this video is!
This is your best video yet. I think I'll be coming back to it every now and then. Reaching this first quality threshold is really the most difficult, it's when people quit. The video really boosted my confidence, thank you! ❤
"But the thing is... when you have a calling to be a creator and you ignore it.. everything just feels wrong and it kind of eats on you on the inside" REAL.
glad to see an honest story, that doesnt end with- yeah this is my portfolio and im now working at (insert big company) for 2 years now, and oh I am just 20 years old. Idk but everytime I see an artist portfolio of someone who is amazingly well, and it turns out this person is much younger then me (I am 25), it gives me the feeling I have wasted my time too much (often procrastinate due to bad habits and adhd).
This is a really inspiring video with a lot of great advice :) what really resonated with me is when you said that the early days is all just grinding and putting in blind effort with little to no reward. I feel it’s easy to get discouraged when you don’t see the fruit of your efforts but knowing that it’s going somewhere is reassuring
This was an incredibly inspiring video. Your humility contrasted by your sheer determination and will to be better is inspiring and I feel as though this video not only pushed me as an aspiring artist but individually in every pursuit I have in life. Thank you for sharing your journey and I'm incredibly excited to see your progress at 20,000 hours ❤
Great video bad sponsor… do hope they pay you for the advertising as lots of the creators that did sponsorship with them since 2020 still haven’t received a dime.
5:31 this is so relatable. Same thing with me when it comes to animation, I've been animating for like five years and I barely made it across the starting line. In an artist's term, this is what is known as being a useless, worse printer.
Thank you so much for documenting your journey and making all these videos of what you've learned and how the journey kinda feels like. I feel like I'm following the same kind of path in terms of art skills and all the roadblocks and issues that pop up along the way. It makes me feel a lot better and motivated to continue to grow. And! I really love your art! I hope I can reach a similar point in the next 3-4 years.
By far the best video thats really inspiring to learn from. I find the 'how?' the most daunting task in learning art, I know the fundamental "what's" I would need to learn to understand and grasp to get through the bottleneck (learning anatomy, understanding rendering techniques), but with either having no access to those things or the 'how' to gain that knowledge has kept me stuck in a loop of mindlessly doing things, doodling away without a purpose than the love of creating, It feels like I am walking but with no destination if that makes any sense. Hopefully someday I might be able to see the metaphorical road, this video has helped me understand that it has to be somewhere, I just need to keep looking.
I’m probably still at the bottom of a huge ass mountain, but looking back, I get vertigo from the huge difference in quality of my drawings, from my beginnings to today. I’ll see where I’ll be in 5 years, here’s to hoping!
This is a fantastic video showing your very real journey through art! Thank you so much for doing that experiment of recording your hours and sharing it in one concise video because it truly shows what it takes to learn art, or really any skill for that matter. This is one of those kinds of videos that I'll probably end up watching again in a year just to keep track of where I'm at and keep a solid guide on where I'm going. There are so many things I took away from this video, like focusing on primarily one thing at first, logging your hours, and really how long it takes before you can start expecting success from the time you've put in. Again, thank you so much for sharing this, I think it truly will help me change my life as I am currently going through a similar journey but with learning music!
That’s me! I wanted to draw manga too when I was a boy/teenager. But, after almost 20 years, I started to do digital art for, like, almost 10 months now. I did improve and I will continue drawing if I have time. 😢
I started my art journey since Jan 2024, because I was accepted to study in animation Production in Aus Uni. Today is almost 9 months and I still don't stop practice, so keep going artists 💪🏿.
thanks for sharing your journey! doing some kind of work with Watame is basically my dream goal as an illustrator, since she is my kamioshi, and seeing you make it is actually really inspiring.
This video reminded me that I’m kidding myself thinking I’ll be a high level artist in only 2 years. In that time I’ve only done studies and never drew anything I actually wanted to b/c I was afraid it wouldn’t look good. I shook off the thought of quitting recently and now I just wanna focus on actually finishing drawings and enjoying what I draw. If I do that and still improve that would make me feel fulfilled. This is one of the first genuine art journey videos I’ve see on yt ori so I do appreciate it. Wish u the the best
I'm halfway through the video but everything that was said is just so true The mentality you show is what everyone who wants to learn should have Learning from the master, keep being consistent, finish your projects, get feedback... I wish I saw this video years earlier it would have saved me so much time
This video has a lot of great advice, and it has been quite interesting to see your art journey throughout the years. Thanks for putting this all into a video, I hope I can use some of your advice and really improve with my art as well. Again, thank you for doing this
This is extremely inspirational :) I’m already an artist, but I want to try this 10 thousand hour rule, as it might help me focus on certain goals in my art and work on those points that I desperately want to improve on. Your style is absolutely lovely 😭💗💗
Thanks for making this video. I love progress videos that summarize 1000s of hours of effort. And to see the examples, all the way from where you started to where you are now, hammers in both how much improvement is possible plus the time investment required to achieve it.
i want to say thank you. i watched your video because this year i getting less and less drawing because i am too focused on my work and my drawing tablet is broken. i tried to regain my energy to draw, but one day i saw your video and all of it made me want to stand up and back to draw. finally, I got XP PEN 22 PLUS and right now I keep practicing my drawing and i hope my skill will come back and improve. again thank you oridays.
As a person who often sabotages myself with distractions and temptations, I managed to focus on improving my drawings but I can't focus little by little.
Thank you for this video, This gave me a boost of motivation not only just for art but also for my life and encouraged me to keep moving forward as one day my hard work will be paid off. Again thank you very much ❤
You know what.. I'm glad that I found your channel, because I know how it feels when "the dream kinda slowly getting further away as I got older" for me is because still not finish the grade yet (already at end but got some problem) especially my drawing not that good tbh But this, helps me know that I'm not alone about this matter.. I can't say much, and I'm terrible at word (not my first language either) And thank you for not giving up until where you're up now, your video helps me to pictured myself if I go through my hobby. It helps me plan it.
these issues are not just about creators. it's about everything. even if you're scamming people, it takes time to master. and after you do master it, you have to prioritize. because there is a lot of opportunities. you have to decide who you want to be as a scammer.
A.I "artists" will be like "its so unfair that they were born with talent!!" No, not only are you trying to diminish their hardwork, you're also make it appear to be easier. If pewdie pie can spend 10 minutes a day while being a dad, so can you.
Hope you enjoyed the video! As mentioned, you can check out the free anime study guide here - oridays.com/animestudy
📝 P.S. I wasn't able to fit this into the video but wanted to share it anyway:
Upon reading some of my old notes I found out that I thought about quitting multiple times throughout the journey.
It was bizzare since I didn't remember at all until I read those notes again.
I heard someone say before "you're not an artist until you've thought about quitting at least once."
So we're definitely not alone in how difficult the journey can be.
And probably the biggest 'secret' to art is sticking to it, and pushing through all the hard times.
Keep at it gang 💪
thanks gang for the video and the tips
Bro pls make ur vtuber character a male bro PLEASE i've been watching u for a long time i barely managed to imagine ur voice with a face- ( and cat ears ofc ) DO A COMMUNTIY VOTE ( I'll fight for this fr )
Please don’t take better help sponsors
@@Mustafawazhere it's none of your business how someone represents themself
Hey uhm great video but did you do research about betterhelp? I havent done much research myself but well Im not getting sponsered here and I have heard some bad stuff about it
This video doesn’t just give us an artist’s perspective, it’s like a therapist guiding us through life’s journey and a successful mindset. I truly enjoyed your story, and I’m so glad that I found your channel. Thank you, Ori!
i swear i saw you on some ff videos, i did not expect to see you here also
fancy seeing you here 🤨
This comment is sponsored by betterhelp, huh?
hi person who comments on fe2 videos randomly
wow zero @!!
When I was in grade school I used to draw super well but due to struggles in life, I stopped all my hobbies and lost interest in most things I loved doing. Now in high school, I started drawing again but I noticed all my drawings sucked unlike before. I practiced for about 2 weeks and I drew a character for about 3-5ish hours I was proud of it, and I showed it to my "friends", and they said my drawing was... bad. After that I never drew once, but... this video gave me hope! Thank you for this video Ori! To anyone who reads this, I hope you have a nice day
I was in a similar situation too, but I was a complete beginner, and after a month of daily practice, I created one piece of art that I thought was really cool, but they just said it was total garbage and laughed. Maybe the drawing really was terrible, but at that moment I felt like complete shit. Although I didn't lose my motivation to draw after that, I just don't want to show my art to anyone anymore, because people who have never drawn or picked up a pencil don't understand how difficult it is for a beginner to create anything at all.
oh no!! i’m guessing you’re calling them “friends” because you dumped them? if so, that good! i’m glad to hear you’re better now! i may not know you, but please don’t let “friends” discourage you! ❤
If you only stopped for that, it just means you didn't want to draw and improve that bad atm. Real men just keep playing the game to improve their performances methodically
same, but I was smaller and my brother ripped up my art piece. I got upset (of course), but my mother told me it wasn't good enough to begin with. I don't blame them though. It's my fault that I quit and stopped practicing. It is irresponsible to blame them for stunting my growth (i.e. "oh, I would've totally mastered that if it weren't for your words, and so I stopped"). I just couldn't be bothered/didn't have the time to.
Now I'm beginning to take it up again, just for fun
@@ni-the-artist mhm, i dont need friends who are bad influences in my life so I dumped about 70% of them.
As someone who taught violin for 22 years, I realised that the 10,000 hour rule works better if the learner is mindful, is aware of one's ultimate goal and does research on how to get there.
Illustration wise, playing Azur Lane helped me to improve a lot as I observe their artwork from various points like anatomy, proportions, and inking.
How does rule affect us and why is it important 🤔 please tell me more about it
@@madhuripendam4650 It was explained throughout the video.
Basically, taking the different rpg-like "skills" he mentioned, you choose which elements to focus on and then practice by creating works yourself which you analyze for points of improvement, or study the anatomy of subjects that allign with the element of your interest.
Yes, you can just keep drawing non-stop for thousands of hours without doing anything else, but the speed at which you'll actually improve will be greater if you factored in research, studies, and generally be very analytical of not only your own works but others too. Understanding is important.
This can be applied to any skill, really.
Even something entirely different like programming...
Thank you very much di/bhaiya through this video I learnt how lazy I was being without any consistency , efforts and complained to myself not being able to do anything. I'm loser the worst all that but the dialogue by Ori's ex made realise that I was dreaming all the time
Hearing how much you struggled in the beginning gives me some hope again! On the internet you usually you just see the success of the people and never the path that lead to the success so this video is really helping me understand that I am not a slow learner but just need to stay consistent. Thank you ori!
Me too!
I think the one thing that gave me a great boost in motivation was, as cocky as it sounds, going back through one of my favourite artist's art and looking at the earlier art work and being like 'i can do better than that.'
It makes you realize that these people are literally just like you, they just worked to improve so if you work as well, you'll get there eventually.
私は今イラストレーターになるために、芸術大学に通っています。それは「このまま仕事を続けるよりも、四六時中絵を描いて、絵をひたすら向上させたい」と思ったからです。オリさんの話は確かにすごくて圧倒されるけれど、私も頑張れば辿り着けるはずと励まされました。
Thank you❤
Another tip for any aspiring artists that I picked up from Marc Brunet
Observation haki(Just look at your favourite artists drawings)... Not just look but look hard and thoroughly for a few minutes without drawing but just imagining the process you would follow while drawing that subject matter... Do it enough times with all your focus and you'll start seeing lines float in your head(the amount time is obviously different for everyone)
Brunet is the only teacher who REALLY gets thru to me in a digustable way. I dont think he is "the best", per sey, but his teaching method is the only one that really helped me, even tho i understood from others. I love his teaching so much
"seeing lines float in your head" im not schizo tho
This kind of haki will show after you know your tools good enough... so practice more 😅
@dadolphinplayz it's visualizing
@@Oreoareyumyum wait people can just do that??
"I'll see you guys again, hopefully, at twenty thousand hours."
Hopefully we see you again before that.
AI it's so much better. I could do this with just a few prompts.
In Japan, Loli it's a pretty common thing and being graped by one of your family members it's also a pretty common thing. I just watched a lot of Hs, and everyone should to watch and swipe up and down his 🐓 while watching H or 👧🏼s
You can insult me, I Do Not Read Replies, and of course, you will get more likes than me.
This is honestly the best, most condensed video on art I've watched. It feels like this is the only video anyone would ever need to learn art, besides some fundamentals videos. Great work!
Show us what you learned dear ❤
Taking sponsorship deals from better help in 2024 is wild
great video, tainted by a terrible company. at least ori got money i guess. i hope they didn't sign a deal for multiple videos
Whats bad with em?
@@Murimz Just a bad product in general. The therapy they offer is done by unlicensed therapists. It's digital, so if the client ever wants to meet up, they can't. And since the client is "already in therapy", it lessens the chance of the seeking other therapists, which is a completely normal step to do since therapy is very personal and you need to find the therapist that vibes with you.
@@xaf15001 Lmao I had a friend who told her better help "therapist" how she was abused as a kid and doesn't want to have kids and they told her "Why would you not want children, they're the gift God gave to you as a woman, you should be having kids." LMAO
i think better help is trying to come back because in the script he said “licensed therapist” so they might’ve changed but it’s still unforgivable
I've been trying to learn anime style art for the past 4 years but i never met any major improvement or breakthrough, and for a while I just did the cycle of doing it again and just quitting, I felt like I was stuck in this beginner's hell.
That was until i found some of your tutorials recently when i actually started to improve.
I'm still very VERY BAD at drawing anime style art, but after watching your videos and my Japanese friend motivating me recently, finally after 4 years of quitting I finally started to improve even if it's just that minor 0.1% improvement, it felt like a very MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH and I couldn't thank you enough!
I still have a long way to go but having your tutorials makes it easier.
Thank you from Indonesia!
Really happy to hear that!
The small steps and bits of progress are definitely things to be proud of since that's what builds up to big improvements over time :)
Good luck and keep at it!
20,000 DOLLAR DONATION?!!!!!!!!!
@@qqwweeww2468 its in indonesian rupees, which is around 2 dollars in aud, idk which currency you use but you can convert it on google. but money had different worth in different countries, so the conversion won't be 100% accurate. and i think youtube doesn't allow big donations so 2k would be hard to give on here lol.
20k idr 😂😂 $1 only @@qqwweeww2468
@@qqwweeww2468that’s Rupiahs it’s converted into 1.29$ USD. Still very nice.
As an artist who drew for more than 10 000 hours and still feel like I'm unable to break the bottleneck, it's inspiring yet making me anxious as my artist friends don't give me helpful feedbacks and grinding isn't enough to make me past that level
You're amazing
good luck
@@4ryd511 thanks
This did so much for my mental health. I am currently at around 400 hours and I kept on judging myself for not being as good as I expected myself to be. It is nice to see that someone whos art I appreciate (ori) took a long amount of time and I might just need more time. It kinda made me realise that I am not bad, I just didnt spend enough time on it yet
You’re actually the best guidance for me here on youtube, you actually know how to tell and make people listen. It’s so entertaining to listen and watch who has the same dream as mine and listen to their journey. Thank you Ori.
As beginner myself... I... actually overwhelmed just by watching this vid... the amount of experience,knowledge,wisdom and struggle you went through is... simply beyond my comprehension... as if i appraisal a god-lvl playerXD
I hope you make video about you actually "learn" during your beginner days... im pretty lost at what should I do...
Waking up, being able to do what you love, having enough passion to follow your dreams are the most wonderful things ever! I can work for 10 hours straight with a happy face for my loved job. Whatever it is, whatever people say, don't give up on it!
I don't know if this is just the usual "3am motivation" thing going through my head right now, but I saw a reflection of myself right now from the 6 years of you before
Depressed. Lost. Frustrated.
All of the wisdom you've shared in this video weighs gold for me right now, despite being apathetic and lethargic for the past 2 years.
If I were to see this video before, I may have just gave it a listen and give up on it because I just simply don't see a future in me. But somehow, right now, I feel like I've been given a chance by someone whom I don't know and doesn't know me either.
I would use the word 不思議 to perfectly describe this moment. Maybe this IS the wake up call. Maybe I DO have a chance. Maybe I can BE someone that my parents could be proud of.
If you are reading this, might be a stranger or Oridays themself, we are lucky that fate lead us to this miraculous moment, that because Oridays made this video that it could just be that one thing to be a catalyst for someone to start something fresh and anew, despite life treating them horribly.
I would like to end this somewhat melancholic comment in a happy note. It's a blessing that these types of encounters are now possible because we live in this current age. Ultimately, it's up to us what to do with this information. But I guess we should complain after we travel through the first "10000 hours" first 😊
You have no idea how well timed this video was for me
This video gave me a lot more motivation for my music career. I originally wanted to be a professional bass player, but i realized that i can’t do it without a teacher, and the music school i got accepted to is super expensive on campus, which really demotivated me.
Then i realized that i have another talent for making music, i listen to Jpop/rock/anime music for 5-6 years, i know how to make anime music from the experience i have from listening to them every single day. Which made me decided to switch to online music school and focus on music production, where i can fully focus on making music, and getting better on bass as a side hobby for the moment.
Everything here i can relate to you, music is a very long journey, just like art. Before you can find yourself, you have to be inspired by the music you love, and slowly mix in your own music taste into something that resembles you.
This reminds me of a video i watched for school about growth mindsets. At the time, i just brushed it off because for some reason whenever school tries to do things for mental positivity, it feels like it won't work. But this is a great example of not letting your obstacles discouraging you and viewing everything with the opportunity to grow. It makes me think, maybe this growth mindset thing isnt a sham after all xD
I'm old enough to have taken this kind of journey through programming, and then I decided I wanted to do it again with drawing and comics - and along the way I gradually narrowed that to traditional, mostly black and white inks. While I'm probably not at the 10,000 hour mark, it takes less time when you're doing the new game plus, and that's mostly because of learned patience, access to resources, and selective focus 😅
I would say this about the skills, though. Most narrow/deep skills can be successfully introduced at between 10 and 100 hours, which is much less intimidating than "10,000 to mastery". That's the level where, if you're doing something for a class, that level of effort will give you a major breakthrough and let you pass a test, even if it's not with a perfect grade. The biggest difficulty in the early phases of drawing is that there are actually a lot of ways to narrow things down, but each one takes you away from the language and initial motivations: "draw this character" has to be broken down to a bunch of technical things about how to compose a scene and making use of reference and applying perspective and so on. Those barriers are overcome by telling yourself to immerse yourself in each of these fragments of language for a while so that you can bring them out fluidly when you return back to "draw this character". The hardest part is always in that early committment of going from hour 1 to hour 2. It's not going from hour 999 to hour 1000 that's hard.
Thus my current study project is to work through each page of Bridgman's "100 hands" book, just copying and doing some breakdowns a few different ways. Instead of counting hours, I count pages. I've done this with anatomy, animal drawing, and composition already. At the 80% mark, my hand drawing has definitely improved, although my success rate when working from imagination remains mixed.
Scrolling thru the comments, I wanted to thank you for giving the name of a resource to actually help other watchers
Nice video! I have a feeling that this channel will become very important for a lot of artists in the future, especially as a bridge to Japanese-Stylized Art. I think your unique journey can really illustrate this well.
this video has given me so much hope. I have been drawing for 2 years now and I still cant say that "I'M PROUD" of what I'm doing, it feels like I have just wasted so many hours of my life, I am in the brink of "giving up" Since these past 2 years I feel I havent seen much progress at all. so this video gave me new hope
Indeed, I feel like everyone goes through this period. This video really showed that it's possible to overcome it.
Be proud of what you have. Be proud of what you have. The happiness is in understanding your own self.
This is genuinely one of the most inspiring videos I've seen on this platform. You did such an amazing job on this video and it makes me want to pursue a goal, I just don't know what i want. I wish I had something like this
I just wanna thank you for talking about the social media part especially... I have been drawing for about 8 years now but since I started really young, the improvement doesn't really feel like that at all, and seeing all these other people that know more than I do in less time is taunting, but I've always tried to keep up. But for people like me, when you post something and it doesn't do well, it's so... frustrating doesn't describe it, I'd say. Cause you can't say you're a beginner but you're also not a pro either, maybe a intermediate, but more of a limbo where you just... fall. But what you talked about counting the hours to get motivation really stuck with me and I think I might try it! So thank you so much.
Also I talk a lot, don't I? Sorry😅
your journey motivates me, my progress over 3-4 years has been slow but it has been there, your video has made me think about what I am doing wrong, thank you so much, I promise myself that soon we will see each other as pro artists just wait!!!!!
Been drawing for 10 yrs at this point and I’m JUST starting to feel a personal breakthrough of my own art. I have a lot to go still but I’m happy where I’m at now
Man I'm so relatable to you. Ignoring my artistic dream, trying to get good grades and satisfying the social standards... until I decided to end all of my sufferings to do what I've always wanted to and now I'm here watching this video and feeling so proud of myself for making that decision 😭
Still practising at my own pace knowing that one day I'll achieve my dream of being an illustrator. The fact is that I found out your channel during my darkest days and honestly it was life-changing. Thank you so much for sharing your story and becoming an inspiration for others 😊
Also I love that you mention about the importance of handling our mental health while trying to progress with our goals. Totally got it 🙌
I feel motivated and demotivated at the same time, when I left high school I remember saying I wanted to learn to draw. Now it's been 7 years and it's a bit frustrating knowing how much I could have progressed and that time is never coming back
Same. I spent 8 years being depressed and unable to draw and create, and now i regret all the wasted time every single day, but i believe that as long as we feel this passion for art, everything is possible, since it isn't a skill (passion). It's going to be hard to stop thinking about the past, but always possible!
Honestly one of the best anime art videos I've seen. I myself am dogshit at drawing and are sort of in the position you were when starting of not being motivated enough, so this was pretty inspiring.
the point of finding what success means to you is so incredibly important. i used to draw all the time. good or bad, it didn’t matter to me. then made the choice of going to art school, as i wanted to get into game dev as a character artist. it ruined my mentality and motivation due to lack of support and barely any resources for what i wanted to do. if you weren’t a god at hard surface 3d modeling, you pretty much got the short end of the support stick. those 4 years genuine broke my spirit and i ended up hating my art. i barely drew for years after that, seeing myself as a failure. i slowly picked back up again but couldn’t ever get past the sketch phase. i finally sat down asked just asked myself: why do i want to draw? not what someone else thinks i should be doing, but ME. it finally clicked that i just wanted to make art that made me happy and find a style i could resonate with. i didn’t care about social media following or anything like that (and still don’t. if i get found by someone other than bot accounts, then cool lol). i just wanted to make finished pieces i could look back on and be proud of. i still have a very long way to go, and a lot of negative thoughts to face, but i finally feel ready to try in earnest again. once you figure out what it is you really want, so much falls into place.
I've been doing art for about 10 years and was somewhat following along until you said "you eventually get followers and commissions" which I never have. I definitely suck and haven't improved enough for that, nor know what I'm doing enough to get there, but I've been stuck for such an indescribable amount of time with literally nothing to show for it. No support structure or any real dopamine from it either. The last two years in particular have really been the worst. I don't even know how it's possible to physically get anyone to even see my art for any feedback, let alone improve when it happens. Am I just fucked?
This video is a great inspiration for all the talented young artists out there. If you believe you cna do it and love it, you can definitely do it 😃
1:29 Dude, I feel you so much! I'm on the same track as you were back then...
I can't find a job, and although my Japanese isn't bad today, studying in Japan is too expensive.
Furthermore, my nation (Israel) is committing genocide, and just being here makes my head explode.
I really want to be in a place where people appreciate my ideals and how I think.
Right now, I'm trying to find ways to save money for studying in China (Japan is still too expensive for me)
I wish I had more skills except just being trilingual. Many of my Japanese friends tell me that it's ok to only be good at Japanese,
but I feel it's not helping me the way I thought it would... I also have ASD and struggling to work 8 hours...
יאמלך
Wow, I didn’t know who you were before clicking on this video, but I just realized that you’re the one whose art I’ve saved a lot of on my PC. Love your work, and great video!
I have the problem of wanting to learn too much. I get myself into rabbit holes like playing guitar, programming, math, sketching, street art and singing. Sadly I don't have 60.000 hours laying around in my freetime, so I try to get "ok" on everything. My grades are still dropping to an all time low but my A levels are gonna catch me up. And with social shit and family this entire life of a teenager gets pretty confusing pretty fast.
I love this video. I've seen a lot of your art online but I didn't really notice your kinda all surrounding presence. Keep up the work. def gon sub
bruh the better help sponsor...
What's with it?
@@onedoORmoa0305 its not a good organization at all
they have unlicensed therapists etc
it's been talked about for years
im not the best at explaining so if you're interested best to go down the rabbit hole yourself
@@onedoORmoa0305as a few other comments said. It's like Uber. You might get a good therapist or a really bad one. And you kinda don't wanna gamble on mental health.... Just seeking out therapists people recomend you and trying them out is better
@@onedoORmoa0305 it was proven to be an immoral scam with fake therapists a few years back. Now youtubes forgot (or swept it under a rug) and take sponsorships from it again.
@@onedoORmoa0305 its a bad company that did a lot of bad things
I noticed I've improved when I did reference, showed it to a friend and she told me it looked really alike to the original. Made me smile and it shows I can improve, especially since I've been drawing without references for years, until this year.
Love how honest this was, bro’s talented and humble lol
Thank you for sharing with us your journey, and it really helps new artists (like myself) on how to go on our art journey as well.
mann i got burned out in art for like a year, only started drawing again last week....got pretty rusty, relearning everything again from scratch pretty hard tbh😔😔
but i won't let that discourage me....working out proved to me that by being consistent you can see changes it might not be immediate but there will be changes
It's calming to here you speak man, you have a nice voice to listen to.
I've been getting less and less free time to enjoy things I like, very relatable.
Wt 21:48 I can confirm that this was a very therapeutic experience and i feel more motivated to improve with what little time i have left and look for flaws and improvement on my own. I will definitely stand on the shoulder of giants and find myself✊
I think you’re amazing and really inspiring. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. Your advice deeply resonated with me. I think this quote “When you have a calling to be a creator and you ignore it, everything just feels wrong, and it just kinda eats at you on the inside.” is my favorite.
I'm a full-time arts department student in HS. I've been drawing since I had the motor skills to hold a pencil (although my first drawing definitely showed that with a cat whose face wasn't even on the head, lol.) Your videos always motivate me to pick up a pencil again despite my perfectionism and burn out. I'm commenting in hopes to help boost the algorithm. Good work, man
I really appreciate this video! I've been drawing casually for 4 years now and I'm at the point where I want to get more serious but also I'm looking up at that mountain like you said and getting overwhelmed with how many different skills there are to learn and improve on. Your video and the long time horizon really helped put things into perspective. I think with a lot of this stuff it's like, deep down you know what you need to focus on to improve, you just don't want to face it sometimes, and this video is a great kick in the butt to go and do some deliberate practice on the things I know I should work on next.
As a side note it's kinda crazy to me that you had the presence of mind to start tracking your hours from basically the beginning. Probably very cool to be able to look back on.
I used to struggle on whether copying art was the right method for personal creativity and it sure helps growing up quick
Wow. This is massive. You started from scratch(almost), and you tracked everything you did, it's incredible! Now I'm more compelled to do my own learning journey. A Huge thanks to you.
1:59 pure gold quote, it took me many years (graduated university this year) what felt like consistent existential crisis and it also resonates with me when after one breakthrough point it starts to feel like overwhelming rollercoaster ride when you start to enjoy and have fun with whatever you’re doing (actually it could be used with almost everything creative). TYSM for this video, it was very inspiring to watch❤
P.S. English isn’t my native sorry if there’re few mistakes
such an inspiring video, thank you so much ori!
18:37 I would love a video where you would explain every individual skill and how you practiced them! I feel like by optimizing individual skills and by outputting like 3 finished drawings everytime you leveled up every stat by one you could improve very very quickly!
Art is not a destination. It's a journey. damn that Hits.
youre on of my biggest inspiration Ori, thank you very much for existing
This video just taught me something I already suspected: you truly need to be a special person to be an amazing top-level creator. The amount of dedication needed to be able to endure this much work for so long is something many people (myself included) just don't have.
I found this video at a perfect time. I've been identyfying with being an artist for a few years now, yet, recently I learned... I'm actually not that good. I didnt practice nearly enough and just sticked to imagining what I could do instead of actually doing it. I suddenly felt so left behind and like all those years were wasted, but listening to your expiriance gave me a lot of hope that I still can improve so someday hopefully I would be able to think of myself as an actuall artist
Just want to say how much of an inspiration this is for me, thank you :D
Writing this as I watch, cause I'm literally getting everything you are describing yourself as when you were a beginner, as its where I'm at.
I want to climb the skill tree, but seeing that you spend 2700+ hours in a year is very overwhelming, thats like. 7.5 hours a day.
Also, I feel like I am in the position you were in during college. I'm currently pursuing a degree that'll lead to a stable job, and while I'll live, I do want to learn more art, get into content creation, etc. It just sounds enjoyable, but lack of motivation and bad time allocation is really brutal. I'm definitely not in any state of depression, but I feel as though Im following a path that I won't like.
In terms of art, I started taking drawing more seriously these past two months, and I've learned a lot. I think i'm making good progress, and I've taken a lot of lessons from various art creators on yt to heart. I get that theres a lot to learn, and I'm taking every notable step needed to get there. But theres still so much time I need to allocate. I got one close friend of mine thats honestly keeping me very motivated, which has kept me going.
wow... how you describe yourself at the beginning hits home veeeerry hard.
thank you for sharing your story.
Such a Beautiful Video in so many cases.. you can be so proud my brother
This video is really relatable because I've been going through a lot of what you've been going through the past couple of years and man...has it been hard to do any art and me being Neurodivergent, makes it even hard but I love how motivational and helpful this video is!
This is your best video yet. I think I'll be coming back to it every now and then. Reaching this first quality threshold is really the most difficult, it's when people quit. The video really boosted my confidence, thank you! ❤
"But the thing is... when you have a calling to be a creator and you ignore it.. everything just feels wrong and it kind of eats on you on the inside" REAL.
glad to see an honest story, that doesnt end with- yeah this is my portfolio and im now working at (insert big company) for 2 years now, and oh I am just 20 years old. Idk but everytime I see an artist portfolio of someone who is amazingly well, and it turns out this person is much younger then me (I am 25), it gives me the feeling I have wasted my time too much (often procrastinate due to bad habits and adhd).
this is a very motivational video, you helped me see more clearly the joy of the journey of drawing and the rewards of hard work
This is a really inspiring video with a lot of great advice :) what really resonated with me is when you said that the early days is all just grinding and putting in blind effort with little to no reward. I feel it’s easy to get discouraged when you don’t see the fruit of your efforts but knowing that it’s going somewhere is reassuring
Very well done Ori! This video hit the spot pretty hard for me... Thank you... Congrats and keep up the good work!
This was an incredibly inspiring video. Your humility contrasted by your sheer determination and will to be better is inspiring and I feel as though this video not only pushed me as an aspiring artist but individually in every pursuit I have in life. Thank you for sharing your journey and I'm incredibly excited to see your progress at 20,000 hours ❤
it's so cool that you began to try counting your hours as a beginner. i wish i had thought of that when i started my art journey
Great video bad sponsor… do hope they pay you for the advertising as lots of the creators that did sponsorship with them since 2020 still haven’t received a dime.
5:31 this is so relatable. Same thing with me when it comes to animation, I've been animating for like five years and I barely made it across the starting line. In an artist's term, this is what is known as being a useless, worse printer.
Thank you so much for documenting your journey and making all these videos of what you've learned and how the journey kinda feels like. I feel like I'm following the same kind of path in terms of art skills and all the roadblocks and issues that pop up along the way. It makes me feel a lot better and motivated to continue to grow.
And! I really love your art! I hope I can reach a similar point in the next 3-4 years.
By far the best video thats really inspiring to learn from. I find the 'how?' the most daunting task in learning art, I know the fundamental "what's" I would need to learn to understand and grasp to get through the bottleneck (learning anatomy, understanding rendering techniques), but with either having no access to those things or the 'how' to gain that knowledge has kept me stuck in a loop of mindlessly doing things, doodling away without a purpose than the love of creating, It feels like I am walking but with no destination if that makes any sense. Hopefully someday I might be able to see the metaphorical road, this video has helped me understand that it has to be somewhere, I just need to keep looking.
Honestly, I would be happy if I could even draw as well as your "I went from this" (0:25) example.
I am not an artist or even pursuing it but i am trying to become a video editor one day and this video really helped me stay motivated to work hard
Thank you for sharing your art journey, it helped putting things into perspective of what it means to grow as an artist.
I’m probably still at the bottom of a huge ass mountain, but looking back, I get vertigo from the huge difference in quality of my drawings, from my beginnings to today. I’ll see where I’ll be in 5 years, here’s to hoping!
0:30 my dream as an anime artist .. you're Living the life man! Big inspiration
This is a fantastic video showing your very real journey through art! Thank you so much for doing that experiment of recording your hours and sharing it in one concise video because it truly shows what it takes to learn art, or really any skill for that matter. This is one of those kinds of videos that I'll probably end up watching again in a year just to keep track of where I'm at and keep a solid guide on where I'm going. There are so many things I took away from this video, like focusing on primarily one thing at first, logging your hours, and really how long it takes before you can start expecting success from the time you've put in. Again, thank you so much for sharing this, I think it truly will help me change my life as I am currently going through a similar journey but with learning music!
Your art looks like AI's "artists" favorite meal.
Better help sponsorship 😔
That’s me! I wanted to draw manga too when I was a boy/teenager.
But, after almost 20 years, I started to do digital art for, like, almost 10 months now. I did improve and I will continue drawing if I have time. 😢
Its very important for artists like yourself to share your journey. Thanks. If only you weren't sponsored by better help haha.
I started my art journey since Jan 2024, because I was accepted to study in animation Production in Aus Uni. Today is almost 9 months and I still don't stop practice, so keep going artists 💪🏿.
thanks for sharing your journey! doing some kind of work with Watame is basically my dream goal as an illustrator, since she is my kamioshi, and seeing you make it is actually really inspiring.
This video reminded me that I’m kidding myself thinking I’ll be a high level artist in only 2 years. In that time I’ve only done studies and never drew anything I actually wanted to b/c I was afraid it wouldn’t look good. I shook off the thought of quitting recently and now I just wanna focus on actually finishing drawings and enjoying what I draw. If I do that and still improve that would make me feel fulfilled. This is one of the first genuine art journey videos I’ve see on yt ori so I do appreciate it. Wish u the the best
I'm halfway through the video but everything that was said is just so true
The mentality you show is what everyone who wants to learn should have
Learning from the master, keep being consistent, finish your projects, get feedback...
I wish I saw this video years earlier it would have saved me so much time
Thank you for not giving up! A very motivational video indeed ^^
This video has a lot of great advice, and it has been quite interesting to see your art journey throughout the years. Thanks for putting this all into a video, I hope I can use some of your advice and really improve with my art as well. Again, thank you for doing this
This is extremely inspirational :) I’m already an artist, but I want to try this 10 thousand hour rule, as it might help me focus on certain goals in my art and work on those points that I desperately want to improve on. Your style is absolutely lovely 😭💗💗
Thanks for making this video. I love progress videos that summarize 1000s of hours of effort. And to see the examples, all the way from where you started to where you are now, hammers in both how much improvement is possible plus the time investment required to achieve it.
i want to say thank you. i watched your video because this year i getting less and less drawing because i am too focused on my work and my drawing tablet is broken. i tried to regain my energy to draw, but one day i saw your video and all of it made me want to stand up and back to draw. finally, I got XP PEN 22 PLUS and right now I keep practicing my drawing and i hope my skill will come back and improve. again thank you oridays.
In this video I feel like my future self is giving me advice not to fall, thank you very much Ori, I'm glad I found you ❤
Seeing this video gives me more motivation and I thank you so much because you're giving me an insane drive
What an amazing story and I learned a lot along the way about how I should my own artistic journey. Thank you!
As a person who often sabotages myself with distractions and temptations, I managed to focus on improving my drawings but I can't focus little by little.
Thank you for this video,
This gave me a boost of motivation not only just for art but also for my life and encouraged me to keep moving forward as one day my hard work will be paid off.
Again thank you very much ❤
You know what.. I'm glad that I found your channel, because I know how it feels when "the dream kinda slowly getting further away as I got older" for me is because still not finish the grade yet (already at end but got some problem) especially my drawing not that good tbh
But this, helps me know that I'm not alone about this matter.. I can't say much, and I'm terrible at word (not my first language either)
And thank you for not giving up until where you're up now, your video helps me to pictured myself if I go through my hobby. It helps me plan it.
so keep going, keep climbing and eventually you will reach the top, but that eventually has a large possibility to take a lifetime to do
these issues are not just about creators. it's about everything. even if you're scamming people, it takes time to master. and after you do master it, you have to prioritize. because there is a lot of opportunities. you have to decide who you want to be as a scammer.
A.I "artists" will be like "its so unfair that they were born with talent!!" No, not only are you trying to diminish their hardwork, you're also make it appear to be easier. If pewdie pie can spend 10 minutes a day while being a dad, so can you.
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