This is the most brutally honest art tutorial I have ever seen. As artists, we have a compulsion to create. Embrace that compulsion and recognize the compulsion IS the gift.
I have never been so moved by an art tutorial like this before. As soon as he started crying, I felt every word, I felt all the pain, I felt all the anger just pour out of me through my tear ducts, but, I wasn’t crying alone, I felt a very deep emotional connection in those words. With all the turmoil we are subjected to throughout our lives, it is ultimately what pushes us as artists to bridge the gap of communication and push through the barriers of isolation and offer compassion and understanding.
Take a breath. I'm enough. You're enough. I've been so so sad about my experiences. I recently reunited with my dad after 23 years. 23 years later and he told me how he should have fought to keep a relationship with me, and my 4 younger brothers. But he didn't. I've had this hurt, this loss and pain in me for about 30 years... and when I let out just a little.bit of that pain while i was drawing last week, I couldn't touch my drawing again for a week. Yesterday I sat down again to do a study of some rocks. I was listening to you on the way to the beach, to relax. My neevous systen is so overworked. Anyway. Thank you. You're a light in the darkness David. I'm clearly not alone in needing to hear this, to feel this along with you. My heart is broken but it's the cracks that let light in - and out. .
Kintsugi is a Japanese art form that involves repairing broken pottery with gold, silver, or platinum. The word kintsugi translates to "golden joinery" or "golden repair" and is a centuries-old technique that involves mending broken pieces with urushi, a Japanese lacquer, and then decorating the joints with powdered gold. The process highlights the breaks as part of the design, rather than trying to repair the item to look new. The idea behind kintsugi is that embracing flaws and imperfections can create a stronger and more beautiful piece of art. It can also be seen as a metaphor for healing and reconstruction after difficult events. You, too, are kintsugi...a beautiful piece of art.
"I'm just a boy standing here in front of you, showing you who i am. This is whats inside of me." - of all the things that dove deep into my heart from this video, this last thing he said was my voice echoing through his. I love how we collectively share such similar vulnerabilities and i see you. Thank you for showing us who you are. It allows me to see who i am too. ❤
My dad was an artist, he met my mum when she attended one of his classes. She’s 88 and still paints. I lost dad in 2003. He always challenged me to see and to show who I really was. I never listened. I played it safe. There’s no such thing. I got very burnt. Now I’m listening, and doing.
Honestly I feel that David Choe is more of an artist then 80% of the other artists out there. He is always himself, and has NEVER transformed to “fit” into the norm. I respect , admire and appreciate this soul more than ever. Thank you for continuing to inspire me and make me smile every time I watch your videos…. I honestly mean that. Love this !!!
This is one of the greatest things I have ever watched. Literally in tears. Hugged my dad even after he was being kind of a dick, he transformed. The wave is here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
David, I am begging you to keep making these videos!!! They are masterpieces, and you are legitimately an inspiration. The world needs more of this!!!!
David im 20 years old I follow you from Italy This year has been rough, university, work, breakup But I didn’t give up on my spiritual journey You came in my life right in time I love you man
started sobbing as soon as you said "I'm enough, your enough" and when you started crying too, it felt so good to cry with you. thank you for this awesome video and all your videos.
I was so inspired today by David Choe I actually for the first time ever painted with my authentic feelings. I have been repressing feelings not realizing it. NC tragedy unleashed it for me. I unleashed anger on the canvas . I wish I would have had a bigger canvas! Thank you David. I hope I can do it again. It was empowering.
Holy big glob of brown paint man! THANK YOU!!! I SO NEEDED to cry at the precise moment you let go as I had to put my 19 year old cat down yesterday. I'm still alive. I'm VERY MUCH still ALIVE...and then the "the more I cry the less I have to pee" made my day. After this video I'm going to get out my paint and work this stuff out on canvas.
I am so glad that I am alive to watch your videos. They make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. "The more I cry, the less I pee." I think this has become my favorite quote of all time.
Didn’t know where this was going at first, thought it might be for laughs only, but now I’m at the end and…wow, just bleeping bleeping amazing. I’m in tears, happy tears, sad tears, angry tears, my heart is stirring, feelings came up that I thought weren’t inside me. And I feel better. It was my birthday yesterday and I didn’t hear from the people who I was sure would,…anyway it doesn’t matter. What matters is I’m here I’m still able to FEEL, to show that through creativity and to share it yet not share it where anyone can see, that is beautiful. Thank you David Choe. Thank you for sharing this with us, with me. This was the birthday gift I needed and wanted most. Thank you.
that was amazing and inspiring David. Watched it twice. showed it to my girlfriend who is a middle school art teacher, and she welled up with tears and after a few tissues said that it was the best explanation she had ever seen and was excited that it was a "clean version and she was going to show her students when class starts back. thanks so much.
as social creatures, we are mirrors for each other. the mirror you hold up for us to see ourselves through you is so very beautiful, David. thank you for reaffirming the beauty inside of the darkest most painful parts of ourselves. thank you for reflecting back to us the power of humility, patience, self-trust and love, play, and sharing ourselves with the world, scars and all.
David picks up where Bob Ross left off and keeps us through the entire journey. Ross began the conversation about an emotion or even just feelings in general. One sided and not at all what we know life to be. David’s art truly transposes to the canvas with more than just what lies on top of it. You’re a treasure Sir and thank you for creating.
Whenever I watch you, I can’t help but to see who my brother could have been. You both look alike, had similar struggles, enjoy the same style of art, your personalities and humor so near identical that sometimes I feel like I’m watching him. But he’s gone. Mentally. I’ll never know what actually made him snap. But now he’s so scary dangerous to be around. I miss who he used to be. When I watch you, I feel my world aching. I hate my brother so much. But when I watch you, I know a part of me mourns who he was. I’m so happy that YOU are here, alive, aware, free to express yourself, capable of seeking help and being helpful to others. You are amazing David Choe. I look forward to see you continue on your journey in life.
Hey David it’s Wesley here. I really like the way you paint and show to us. I’ll paint know you just inspired me I was feeling to paint the whole week. I’m not a painter but I used to paint houses with my dad and he used to do some cool canvas. Then I grow up and moved to USA I’m from Brazil. When I start watch bob Ross I couldn’t even understand English but the way he talked make it easier for me. Now I’ve been watching your videos and I’m learning to use my feelings to make it. I really like your videos 🎉
This video made me cry afterward. As an echo. Something reverberated in me and started crying. Non-stop. The child in me. And it said: "You are enough, I am enough". And I just hugged you. And hugged everybody watching this video. We are just making it. We are just enough. And that's all there is to it.
This came up for me just as I sat down at my canvas. Cried so hard with you, feeling exactly how you’re feeling. You always put in words how I feel and I’m grateful. I’m also grateful a lot of us here can come together who also feel the same. I love you, I love y’all ✨ you are right, we are human beings not human doings. These videos help so much, I send them to every artist I know. Thank you so so much.
Honestly this was the best art video I've ever watched. I felt every minute of it. It had me in tears It had me smiling, It had me feeling every single bit of it. Thank you so much. I needed this video.
I laughed, cried and was struck with wonder. The best part is that it didn’t feel like I was doing it alone. You are enough. We are enough. This is enough. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ❤️
He said let’s close our eyes, and my tears started falling too. That moment was really special, and thank you for letting all of us share that together.
This right here is one of the most important pieces of media that exists on the internet right now, and in the future will be watched as something more then we can even value here watching it today… unbelievable, I am truly grateful.
As an artist myself, i used to only want to show the pieces I made that didnt come from a place of pain, and sadness or anger. Theres something I learned though. To sit with the discomfort, just as you did here. To embrace it, and acknowledge it without trying to run away from it. And what I learned from that is: I grew. I grew more than I have ever grown. I accepted the pain, and chose not to hide from it, and then I grew. I hope the same for you. Thank you for such a beautiful video, and for your bravery in sharing even just a sliver of that pain to the world. Best to you. Thanks for an epic video
I was literally breaking down crying about half the shit you talked about. Thank you for consistently calming me down. Your videos have helped me cope through a rough spot in my life. Thank you. Thank you. thank you.
You have no idea how much I needed this tonight. Recently life has been feeling a little stale, unmoving (if not moving backwards) I feel like things I was once passionate about are no longer a passion but a chore and something I push myself to complete something that once brought me joy but now brings stress. Today I had a little bit of a breakdown and had some painful inner realizations, felt some uncomfortable feelings and even though I let them pass I didn't allow them to really *flow*. Flow out and move on. Instead, just as you said, I tried stuff them up and hide them away because "I don't like to feel sad". My mom noticed that I was feeling down and said "I know exactly what you need" and texted me a link to this video. She was right. Everything you said is so applicable to how I'm feeling it was as if you were sitting across from me. I've been doing art since I was 6 years old and has been one my greatest passions and my only constant one. Lately I feel that my art is no longer improving, it lacks a light that it once did, lacks a *passion* that I once put into it. Tonight, as I sit here crocheting a silly little beanie that I've started over on like 5 times, crying in front of my computer screen, I see how I can ''fix" it; my art, that is. What you have created here is what ART is supposed to be. It isn't just a song someone's written, a dance someone's performed or a painting someone's thrown up. Art is emotion. Emotion is an art. And you have painted a beautiful picture of it. Figuratively and literally. You've reminded me why I started pursuing art in the first place. Because I loved it. Because I could see the emotions I was feeling and was proud to feel them. So thank you. Thank you for reigniting my passion to feel. I look forward to watching more of your content. ♥
The lights through the cracks - thank you for being a crack in my darkness to let the light shine through Giggling at my phone during the starfish painting… sigh, David - another video that connects to my soul and makes me feel alive and inspired again. I love you dude. Thank you for your vulnerability and sharing this with us. It really means more than you’ll ever know
I've watched a couple of these videos and found them helpful to me as an artist. Now I often "hear" David's voice encouraging me not to be a frightened little b!t@h when I'm painting...This video really caught me by surprise! I wasn't expecting tears, and as a cynic, I wondered if that moment wasn't a beautiful dramatic portrayal! All I know is that he captured perfectly the true "underpainting" that lies beneath the surface, beneath the skin of every artist. Beautiful work, and such compelling self-revelation! By the end, I had no doubt about the tears. Thanks again, man!
this one was really raw and inspiring. not just for artists that live in the pressure of doing, but for humans that just want to be and are tired of the sometimes mindless action of going onward. with each video i watch i gain more respect and admiration for David. it means a lot having another asian artist to look up to.
I'm watching this at about 1:30 am. I thought it was some kind of joke or maybe performance art at first. It got real, maybe too real. The artwork took genuine emotional shape at the end, which I was not expecting.Tomorrow, I'm going to draw or paint something and just be rather than do.
That part about always moving...😢 I found your videos while looking for help with my AP Drawing students. You're my new favorite tutorial creator and will be using your presentations a lot this year. Thank you for your honesty and courage.
David, I saw you walking out of MARUKAI market in little Tokyo and didn’t have a chance to say thank you for inspiring me. I didn’t want to bother you since you looked you were in a rush but overall, keep inspiring artists like us, you beautiful human being. Thank you.
This is the best art class ever! I am so incredibly moved and inspired. I feel seen, heard, and validated in so much of what I experience as an artist 🙏🏽 thank you so much, David you’re blowing my mind mind 💥😊🙌🏽
I think you are my soul mate 😂. You are intensely silly, intensely creative.......a true original. I've never seen anyone like you 😮. Art degrees here and taught art for years. But you take the cake above and beyond anyone ive come in contact with. You are a pleasure to my world!! (And thats saying a lot cause i am the polar opposite of a hippie type -meaning its not in my realm of reality to gush over someone). Please keep doing what you are doing. This is the first video of yours i have watched, and i now plan to watch them all
Wow! I'm impressed how you go through expressing your emotions using the different techniques in painting. Thank you for expressing not just your thoughts and emotions in painting, but in communicating them through this video...a medium that reaches more people faster. I feel you. I also feel and constantly pray that my soul (and your soul) connects with the light that carries the good words...calming, kind, compassionate, reinvigorating, and gives me the joy and strength to see the bright path even through a tunnel. May your good soul be blessed forever 💛.
I cried. Right when you wanted me to. I felt my soul. My feelings. My heart. For the the first time since my son was born. Ive had anger in me ever since due to being a father and giving up my dreams and true aspirations. I love this video david. It opened my eyes to true emotion. I thank you from the deep bottomless pit of my heart david... You have saved my life. Thank you..
9:40 at first I laughed at the paint on the face but really it’s such a powerful image because sometimes the humility we swallow can be as blatant as paint on the face.
Thank you... I paint this way also. Paintings are layers of emotion. I appreciate the visual and emotional rawness. Layers of oneself on Canvas. It's very very therapeutic.
I just came across you, and you spoke from the depths of my artsy soul. anger, emotions. that is what inspires me to create. the things i am unable to put into words, i turn into Art. thank you for sharing this.
I love you David😊Thank you for displaying your authentic self and encouraging us to feeeeeel into our emotions and express them through our art (even if it's disguised under beauty 😉)
I was having a bad day and worked through the pain with paint. Thank you for feeling and sharing
Started painting after watching you a month or two ago. Thanks.
thx for being the courage you are bro
You ever see Painting with John?
I needed this so much right now.
I love your videos so much this is the light I need
This will go down as the greatest art session ever taped.
I agree 💯👍
Damn….this got me. Thank you
Amen
Yeah, I'm affected by it and can't stop thinking about it. It'll stay with me forever.
Holy smokes were you ever right
"I am a human-being not a human-doing" is a piece of advice that will stick with me forever. Thank You
YES
That was a fire bar tbh
Dalai Lama
Yes, it’s a well-known saying
Sane, it echoed through me
This is the most brutally honest art tutorial I have ever seen. As artists, we have a compulsion to create. Embrace that compulsion and recognize the compulsion IS the gift.
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Thank you ❤
"I chose art because it's solitary, it's isolating, I can be by myself" I can feel this, I love to be alone with my work, it comforts me
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After 30 years of painting, you are the art teacher I didn't know I needed today. Thanks
Same
Guys thats actually this dude, it blew my mind that's really him th-cam.com/video/OP1mXscTUnw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tTVF7yyVIFXV3hjS
not only do i love this video i love every comment on this video and i love being an artist
@blueseaswimmer1 agreed
I have never been so moved by an art tutorial like this before. As soon as he started crying, I felt every word, I felt all the pain, I felt all the anger just pour out of me through my tear ducts, but, I wasn’t crying alone, I felt a very deep emotional connection in those words. With all the turmoil we are subjected to throughout our lives, it is ultimately what pushes us as artists to bridge the gap of communication and push through the barriers of isolation and offer compassion and understanding.
The old artist who died in me years ago was just shook. And now I’m rethinking all of my life’s choices. Fuck.
I really needed this today.
So true,people turning their sadness into anger because they’d rather feel angry than sad.
Sadness hold you down; it holds you back. Anger motivates you to take action.
The vibes are immaculate. I feel like my 90s kid self is sitting right beside me.
Same. Big feelings rn.
Inner child healing 🦋
Same.
Take a breath. I'm enough. You're enough. I've been so so sad about my experiences. I recently reunited with my dad after 23 years.
23 years later and he told me how he should have fought to keep a relationship with me, and my 4 younger brothers.
But he didn't.
I've had this hurt, this loss and pain in me for about 30 years... and when I let out just a little.bit of that pain while i was drawing last week, I couldn't touch my drawing again for a week.
Yesterday I sat down again to do a study of some rocks.
I was listening to you on the way to the beach, to relax. My neevous systen is so overworked.
Anyway. Thank you. You're a light in the darkness David. I'm clearly not alone in needing to hear this, to feel this along with you.
My heart is broken but it's the cracks that let light in - and out.
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Kintsugi is a Japanese art form that involves repairing broken pottery with gold, silver, or platinum. The word kintsugi translates to "golden joinery" or "golden repair" and is a centuries-old technique that involves mending broken pieces with urushi, a Japanese lacquer, and then decorating the joints with powdered gold. The process highlights the breaks as part of the design, rather than trying to repair the item to look new. The idea behind kintsugi is that embracing flaws and imperfections can create a stronger and more beautiful piece of art. It can also be seen as a metaphor for healing and reconstruction after difficult events.
You, too, are kintsugi...a beautiful piece of art.
Hugs
was in tears even before you were. didn’t even know I had the sadness in me I needed to get out. Thank you 😢 greatest art teacher of our time
Me too
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"You have suffered enough" Choe, you are such a beautiful human being. 💜🤟
"the more i cry the less i pee"...
Im happily crying. Thank you . For showing me how our vulnerability is an asset ❤
❤you
When the student is ready the algorithm does not disappoint. Thank u for sharing
"I'm just a boy standing here in front of you, showing you who i am. This is whats inside of me." - of all the things that dove deep into my heart from this video, this last thing he said was my voice echoing through his. I love how we collectively share such similar vulnerabilities and i see you. Thank you for showing us who you are. It allows me to see who i am too. ❤
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I don't know how it happened, but I love this man. I never knew I could love strangers. On a TH-cam video.
I love him too
My dad was an artist, he met my mum when she attended one of his classes. She’s 88 and still paints. I lost dad in 2003. He always challenged me to see and to show who I really was. I never listened. I played it safe. There’s no such thing. I got very burnt. Now I’m listening, and doing.
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Honestly I feel that David Choe is more of an artist then 80% of the other artists out there. He is always himself, and has NEVER transformed to “fit” into the norm. I respect , admire and appreciate this soul more than ever. Thank you for continuing to inspire me and make me smile every time I watch your videos…. I honestly mean that. Love this !!!
This is one of the greatest things I have ever watched. Literally in tears. Hugged my dad even after he was being kind of a dick, he transformed. The wave is here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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David, I am begging you to keep making these videos!!! They are masterpieces, and you are legitimately an inspiration. The world needs more of this!!!!
David im 20 years old I follow you from Italy
This year has been rough, university, work, breakup
But I didn’t give up on my spiritual journey
You came in my life right in time
I love you man
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same
started sobbing as soon as you said "I'm enough, your enough" and when you started crying too, it felt so good to cry with you. thank you for this awesome video and all your videos.
"I'm a human BEING, not a human DOING. So I'm just gonna BE here with these birds and with these sounds." What a gift you are. Thank you!
"You don't even know what this painting is going to look like" is beuatiful
I was so inspired today by David Choe I actually for the first time ever painted with my authentic feelings. I have been repressing feelings not realizing it. NC tragedy unleashed it for me. I unleashed anger on the canvas . I wish I would have had a bigger canvas! Thank you David. I hope I can do it again. It was empowering.
This was a complete art therapy session, I cried three times.
Holy big glob of brown paint man! THANK YOU!!! I SO NEEDED to cry at the precise moment you let go as I had to put my 19 year old cat down yesterday. I'm still alive. I'm VERY MUCH still ALIVE...and then the "the more I cry the less I have to pee" made my day. After this video I'm going to get out my paint and work this stuff out on canvas.
If bob ross was angry instead. This made my day, made me cry, made me smile. I needed this.
Me witnessing a literal breakthrough frame by frame 😭😭 this is my favorite piece so far
I will never forget this moment
Thank you David Choe. You’ve changed a life. Mine.
I laughed and I cried, and I fell in love. I’m not kidding. Thank you for showing us who you are. 💗
I am so glad that I am alive to watch your videos. They make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. "The more I cry, the less I pee." I think this has become my favorite quote of all time.
Didn’t know where this was going at first, thought it might be for laughs only, but now I’m at the end and…wow, just bleeping bleeping amazing. I’m in tears, happy tears, sad tears, angry tears, my heart is stirring, feelings came up that I thought weren’t inside me. And I feel better. It was my birthday yesterday and I didn’t hear from the people who I was sure would,…anyway it doesn’t matter. What matters is I’m here I’m still able to FEEL, to show that through creativity and to share it yet not share it where anyone can see, that is beautiful. Thank you David Choe. Thank you for sharing this with us, with me. This was the birthday gift I needed and wanted most. Thank you.
that was amazing and inspiring David. Watched it twice. showed it to my girlfriend who is a middle school art teacher, and she welled up with tears and after a few tissues said that it was the best explanation she had ever seen and was excited that it was a "clean version and she was going to show her students when class starts back.
thanks so much.
Wow! 🥳😍🤩 What.a.teacher!
🥺 of all my years of art classes, this has been my most valuable art lesson. Thank you.
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Thank you for letting us know we aren't the only people who deal with this. This is a true good that you gave to the world.
as social creatures, we are mirrors for each other. the mirror you hold up for us to see ourselves through you is so very beautiful, David. thank you for reaffirming the beauty inside of the darkest most painful parts of ourselves. thank you for reflecting back to us the power of humility, patience, self-trust and love, play, and sharing ourselves with the world, scars and all.
David picks up where Bob Ross left off and keeps us through the entire journey. Ross began the conversation about an emotion or even just feelings in general. One sided and not at all what we know life to be. David’s art truly transposes to the canvas with more than just what lies on top of it. You’re a treasure Sir and thank you for creating.
Whenever I watch you, I can’t help but to see who my brother could have been. You both look alike, had similar struggles, enjoy the same style of art, your personalities and humor so near identical that sometimes I feel like I’m watching him.
But he’s gone. Mentally. I’ll never know what actually made him snap. But now he’s so scary dangerous to be around. I miss who he used to be. When I watch you, I feel my world aching. I hate my brother so much. But when I watch you, I know a part of me mourns who he was.
I’m so happy that YOU are here, alive, aware, free to express yourself, capable of seeking help and being helpful to others. You are amazing David Choe. I look forward to see you continue on your journey in life.
I’m so sorry for your brother’s loss of you in his life, you sound like a lovely person
Hey David it’s Wesley here. I really like the way you paint and show to us. I’ll paint know you just inspired me I was feeling to paint the whole week. I’m not a painter but I used to paint houses with my dad and he used to do some cool canvas. Then I grow up and moved to USA I’m from Brazil. When I start watch bob Ross I couldn’t even understand English but the way he talked make it easier for me. Now I’ve been watching your videos and I’m learning to use my feelings to make it. I really like your videos 🎉
This video made me cry afterward. As an echo. Something reverberated in me and started crying. Non-stop. The child in me. And it said: "You are enough, I am enough". And I just hugged you. And hugged everybody watching this video. We are just making it. We are just enough. And that's all there is to it.
This came up for me just as I sat down at my canvas. Cried so hard with you, feeling exactly how you’re feeling. You always put in words how I feel and I’m grateful. I’m also grateful a lot of us here can come together who also feel the same. I love you, I love y’all ✨ you are right, we are human beings not human doings. These videos help so much, I send them to every artist I know. Thank you so so much.
Honestly this was the best art video I've ever watched. I felt every minute of it. It had me in tears It had me smiling, It had me feeling every single bit of it. Thank you so much. I needed this video.
I laughed, cried and was struck with wonder. The best part is that it didn’t feel like I was doing it alone. You are enough. We are enough. This is enough. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ❤️
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“ The more I cry the less I pee “
Well said brother
He said let’s close our eyes, and my tears started falling too. That moment was really special, and thank you for letting all of us share that together.
This right here is one of the most important pieces of media that exists on the internet right now, and in the future will be watched as something more then we can even value here watching it today… unbelievable, I am truly grateful.
As an artist myself, i used to only want to show the pieces I made that didnt come from a place of pain, and sadness or anger. Theres something I learned though. To sit with the discomfort, just as you did here. To embrace it, and acknowledge it without trying to run away from it.
And what I learned from that is: I grew. I grew more than I have ever grown. I accepted the pain, and chose not to hide from it, and then I grew.
I hope the same for you. Thank you for such a beautiful video, and for your bravery in sharing even just a sliver of that pain to the world.
Best to you. Thanks for an epic video
I was literally breaking down crying about half the shit you talked about. Thank you for consistently calming me down. Your videos have helped me cope through a rough spot in my life. Thank you. Thank you. thank you.
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You have no idea how much I needed this tonight.
Recently life has been feeling a little stale, unmoving (if not moving backwards) I feel like things I was once passionate about are no longer a passion but a chore and something I push myself to complete something that once brought me joy but now brings stress. Today I had a little bit of a breakdown and had some painful inner realizations, felt some uncomfortable feelings and even though I let them pass I didn't allow them to really *flow*. Flow out and move on. Instead, just as you said, I tried stuff them up and hide them away because "I don't like to feel sad". My mom noticed that I was feeling down and said "I know exactly what you need" and texted me a link to this video. She was right. Everything you said is so applicable to how I'm feeling it was as if you were sitting across from me. I've been doing art since I was 6 years old and has been one my greatest passions and my only constant one. Lately I feel that my art is no longer improving, it lacks a light that it once did, lacks a *passion* that I once put into it. Tonight, as I sit here crocheting a silly little beanie that I've started over on like 5 times, crying in front of my computer screen, I see how I can ''fix" it; my art, that is. What you have created here is what ART is supposed to be. It isn't just a song someone's written, a dance someone's performed or a painting someone's thrown up. Art is emotion. Emotion is an art. And you have painted a beautiful picture of it. Figuratively and literally. You've reminded me why I started pursuing art in the first place. Because I loved it. Because I could see the emotions I was feeling and was proud to feel them.
So thank you. Thank you for reigniting my passion to feel.
I look forward to watching more of your content. ♥
thank you for letting us in on who David Choe is, it’s inspiring to see such vulnerablity and authenticity.
I’m not ashamed to cry. Thank you for the therapy session I didn’t know I needed. ❤😊 oh and your art is beautiful. Thank you
This blew me away. Thank you for sharing your self. Thank you for your art. Thank you, thank you!
And .. Your soul shines bright David Choe!
The lights through the cracks - thank you for being a crack in my darkness to let the light shine through
Giggling at my phone during the starfish painting… sigh, David - another video that connects to my soul and makes me feel alive and inspired again. I love you dude. Thank you for your vulnerability and sharing this with us. It really means more than you’ll ever know
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I've watched a couple of these videos and found them helpful to me as an artist. Now I often "hear" David's voice encouraging me not to be a frightened little b!t@h when I'm painting...This video really caught me by surprise! I wasn't expecting tears, and as a cynic, I wondered if that moment wasn't a beautiful dramatic portrayal! All I know is that he captured perfectly the true "underpainting" that lies beneath the surface, beneath the skin of every artist. Beautiful work, and such compelling self-revelation! By the end, I had no doubt about the tears. Thanks again, man!
An artistic philosophy lesson like never seen before
It's my favorite episode since I found your videos recently. Thank you for sharing your heart and art 😊 .
this one was really raw and inspiring. not just for artists that live in the pressure of doing, but for humans that just want to be and are tired of the sometimes mindless action of going onward. with each video i watch i gain more respect and admiration for David. it means a lot having another asian artist to look up to.
I love the crying at the end, how cathartic
Couldn’t sleep and stumbled upon this video. You are my new favorite human.
I love that - " I'm a human being not a human doing"
really beautiful David...thanks for sharing this moment. We all love you!
I just wanted to let you know I appreciate you and your insight.
One of the greatest videos I've ever seen on YT. Thank you, from the bottom of my cynical, sarcastic, angery demolished heart
I scrolling desperately hoping to see something nice in all the crud.. this is exactly what I needed and wanted. Thanks David x❤
You're on another level David. Mad respect.
I started crying when you started crying. Thank you for this
Two seconds in and I immediately subbed
Real. It’s like watching your own thoughts manifest something beautiful. Thank you David. You make me SO Fn AngRy.
that must be the most beautiful self portrait i’ve ever seen
I'm watching this at about 1:30 am. I thought it was some kind of joke or maybe performance art at first. It got real, maybe too real. The artwork took genuine emotional shape at the end, which I was not expecting.Tomorrow, I'm going to draw or paint something and just be rather than do.
Wow! This is an anomaly! Words don’t do justice to how much I appreciate this. Thank you brotha
I’m taking this as a form of art therapy.
That part about always moving...😢 I found your videos while looking for help with my AP Drawing students. You're my new favorite tutorial creator and will be using your presentations a lot this year. Thank you for your honesty and courage.
Your way of expressing things and emotions is really beautiful... You're a lovely person Mr. Choe
David, I saw you walking out of MARUKAI market in little Tokyo and didn’t have a chance to say thank you for inspiring me. I didn’t want to bother you since you looked you were in a rush but overall, keep inspiring artists like us, you beautiful human being. Thank you.
Love you David 🖤💐 thank you for your radical honesty, inspiration, laughter & tears.
Got me crying with you. ❤
Kinda wish an art school professor had been this honest.
I don't have words right now to explain what this meant to me in this moment. Thank you.
Brilliance. Gratitude. No permission needed. 💖
I cried at the ending of this, thank you David, you truly are such a helpful inspiring person.
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This is the best art class ever! I am so incredibly moved and inspired. I feel seen, heard, and validated in so much of what I experience as an artist 🙏🏽 thank you so much, David you’re blowing my mind mind 💥😊🙌🏽
I think you are my soul mate 😂. You are intensely silly, intensely creative.......a true original. I've never seen anyone like you 😮. Art degrees here and taught art for years. But you take the cake above and beyond anyone ive come in contact with. You are a pleasure to my world!! (And thats saying a lot cause i am the polar opposite of a hippie type -meaning its not in my realm of reality to gush over someone). Please keep doing what you are doing. This is the first video of yours i have watched, and i now plan to watch them all
Geniunely the most life changing art video ive seen lmaoo
This just changed my life ❤
Wow! I'm impressed how you go through expressing your emotions using the different techniques in painting.
Thank you for expressing not just your thoughts and emotions in painting, but in communicating them through this video...a medium that reaches more people faster.
I feel you. I also feel and constantly pray that my soul (and your soul) connects with the light that carries the good words...calming, kind, compassionate, reinvigorating, and gives me the joy and strength to see the bright path even through a tunnel.
May your good soul be blessed forever 💛.
This is how I feel right now!! It brings me to tears😭
your videos always give me this chaotic mental clarity that i love, thanks dave
I cried. Right when you wanted me to. I felt my soul. My feelings. My heart. For the the first time since my son was born. Ive had anger in me ever since due to being a father and giving up my dreams and true aspirations.
I love this video david. It opened my eyes to true emotion. I thank you from the deep bottomless pit of my heart david... You have saved my life. Thank you..
9:40 at first I laughed at the paint on the face but really it’s such a powerful image because sometimes the humility we swallow can be as blatant as paint on the face.
Thank you... I paint this way also. Paintings are layers of emotion. I appreciate the visual and emotional rawness. Layers of oneself on Canvas. It's very very therapeutic.
I just came across you, and you spoke from the depths of my artsy soul. anger, emotions. that is what inspires me to create. the things i am unable to put into words, i turn into Art. thank you for sharing this.
WOW......YOUVE JUST BLOWN MY MIND!! THANKYOU ❤❤❤
Lucky me you showed up just in time! This is the second video in a row and I can't wait for tomorrow to see and hear more!
Blown away...this was pure magic brother. Genius in so many raw and pure ways...🙏
I love you David😊Thank you for displaying your authentic self and encouraging us to feeeeeel into our emotions and express them through our art (even if it's disguised under beauty 😉)