7 Habits of Effective Artists
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2024
- Andrew Price at Blender Conference 2016. More at conference.blender.org
0:00 Intro
2:28 1: Daily Work
5:46 2: Volume, not perfection
8:35 3: Steal
11:42 4: Conscious Learning
15:44 5: Stress
18:57 6: Feedback
24:03 7: Create what you love - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
my artist teacher told me "If you steal, make it better".
Silas Zindel 😁
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
~Pablo Picasso
@@NatPaintThat Congrats, your art teacher was garbage as an artist.
Galagya ? I don’t understand why you are directing your comment at me. I just smiled at Silas’ comment...
@@ThatGreenSpy MASTERS are ORIGINAL! . . . INSPIRED by "Great" Artists!
The best Ted Talk I've heard, without being a Ted Talk
Yes!!
That's funny
You haven't seen too many Ted talks then.
wait. this isn't a ted talk?
THIS Should be in Ted Talk!
Aqua is useless
2:28 1: Daily Work
5:46 2: Volume, not perfection
8:36 3: Steal
11:43 4: Conscious Learning
15:45 5: Stress
19:00 6: Feedback
24:05 7: Create what you love
This might get lost in the sea of comments so Ill just keep it on a doc somewhere
@@madarakun9952 k
I agree with what you said about Aqua, it made me laugh XD. Thanks for the timestamps btw!
#5 is Rest, not stress. :)
ty!!
@@ravenshadowz2343 I re-watched the video specifically to figure that one out :D
I honestly thought this was a ted talk at first
I've already seen this talk once years ago and only after reading your comment I realized it isn't a ted talk lol
@@anima94 S A M E O M G!
wait what. this isn't a ted talk?
It has the same structure as one mate
wait.......isn't it?
"Progress is better than perfection."
Progress is impossible without aiming for perfection . It only creates more problem and eventually you find yourself regressing .
@@morganolfursson2560 How about this phrase instead?
"Progress is when one moves a step forward toward perfection"
@@morganolfursson2560 perfection doesn't exist. Progress is realistic.
@@morganolfursson2560 no. The idea of perfection is an illusion. It's not accessible in the slightest.
@@Gay-Icon This is a very western approach to things.
For reference:
1) Daily work
2) Volume, not perfection
3) Steal (well)
4) Conscious learning
5) Rest
6) Feedback
7) Create what you love
What he meant by stealing well is being able to compose a new product out of existing elements.
Plus, it's not stealing if you give credit, especially not if it's sharing notes. 👍
Ah okay haha sorry, not really my kind of humor :P
Your kind of humour must suck...
Hm...some unknown internet person using a racial excuse for why someone didn't find them funny. Yeah, real pro comic. Maybe it's the -comic's- humor that's no good. Some just love tearing others down for no good reason. You're fine Amanda! I'm a writer, not an artist but I still found the video and the list useful. I think it works well for any creative person. I might write down your reference list for myself as a little self esteem boost to keep at it. Thanks! =)
I suspect it was not meant as humor, dear.
shoutout to my fellow traditional artists trying to succeed in a digital world
omg I feel you my friend!!
its tough trying to transition into digital as a traditional artist, just doesn't feel the same, though there are cools stuff you can do with digital it still feels like a whole new thing to learn.
Tali De I thought I was the only one!! I totally agree. My hand and eyes are definitely not as trained to map out space and color on digital
Shout out to my hoochie sleepin in the heat gettin off da beat
They are both transferable tech always wins
When I was a kid, we lived on a dirt road that had a lot of puddles in it. One day, some boys left their Hot Wheels cars in the road. I felt bad for the cars, gathered them up and brought them in to wash them. I loved the detailed paint job on the cars, and used to buy paint to touch them up. One year for Christmas, my mom bought me a Hot Wheels 18-wheeler (that I still have to this day). Sitting at my desk, I had always wondered why there were warnings of semis making wide right turns, because as a kid it didn't make sense (didn't they worry about left turns too?). I created a city intersection on my desk, and promptly discovered why. Each day I'd create scenerios that I'd put my 18 wheeler through. It was fun to do, and I did it everyday for a few hours. Little did I know, I was learning the maneuvering physics for such a vehicle. Now that my husband and I are retired, we wanted to purchase a fifth wheel and see the country. We bought a 40ft toy hauler, and since day 1, I've had no problems backing or maneuvering it anywhere, because I've already "done it" by having so much practice as a kid. It's just amazing to me that even while you're having fun with something, your mind is constantly learning from it. Keep having fun. Make mistakes. Learn from them. Keep going. Before you know it, it'll be no big deal (my mom thinks it's amazing I can drive my 40ft. fifth wheel without any problems), and you'll be a natural at it :)
I enjoyed reading that
Plot Twist: Those warnings of semis making wide right turns was actually the REASON why there were Hot Wheels cars left on the road...; 😱🤯
Expected copypasta, was pleasantly suprised. ^.^ Such a wholesome little story. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you
Your words will change my life for good and I will come here again to thank you .
Europpa wow very good advice! Love it! Will try fo sure!
10:23 Another quote I like: "Have several role models, so that you don't become the parody of one."
shoutout to my fellow traditional artists trying to succeed in a digital world
@@anthonyphung4956 I've tried traditional painting. It's a whole nother level of difficulty. Props to you if your sticking with it.
"so you're only going to draw cute girls?"
Andrew: "Well you said their cute, so I'm obviously succeeding."
I think people should perfect a narrow area of drawing, it saves time as we are all weak in a certain area (my weak areas are cars, vehicles, planes, landscapes, seascapes, bird'seye angles)
@@AtticusStount just focus on your niche but at the same time try to add some of those elements on your niche work.
@The Tyro of Toriyama What if at the end of the day the only thing that matters is doing what we really want to do? I mean, people from my acting class said I were really good, even the best of the whole class. They insisted I had to keep studying and one of them even asked me to start an Acting Agency with her. But... I didn't want to. The amount of time and stress it takes is too much for something I don't even have full interest on. And this happens to everybody. Maybe we are good in something or can be really good in that... but don't want to do that simply because our interests are different. I know people who are amazing artists but prefer music.
@The Tyro of Toriyama Yeah, in that case I completely agree with you! But let's not forget all the succesful artists that don't master every aspect of the whole art.
@The Tyro of Toriyama I do exactly the same and I found that to be the only way that works for me. The problems comes when we are scared of jumping into the void. In a world of pencils and paper the worst thing that can happen is breaking the pencil nib, lol. If I stick to what I like... I eventually end up doing most, if not everything I need to do to achieve my goal. If I am scared of drawing hands just because they are hard, but I do like drawing people, is time to assume people have hands, hahah
The biggest take away for me is “Conscious Learning”. I find myself doodling around my weaknesses, and it always come out the same. But if I consciously practice and get to the root of my mistake then I can improve upon it at that very moment. It’s like listening to an audiobook, u can hear it but if you’re not listening to it then it does u no good
Supreem Court yes
what do you do for conscious learning tutorials?
Yes exactly! This and receiving feedback are my two biggest challenges at the moment. I would spend hours listening to music or podcasts and just doodling away, not producing stuff that made me feel, I dunno, not much of anything about what I was doing.
I also struggle to show my works to other people - this is going to be an ongoing hurdle, I think.
The biggest waste of time is not being conscious ... .. .
I believe this is one of our biggest hurdles, For me this is where meditation comes in, so to be in the moment, and not blundering away from here and now.
13:51
The way almost no one laughs in the audience blows my mind every time. It shows how much respect they have for the creative process. Everyone knows that you have to start somewhere when learning a medium.
For the wallet card:
The Habits of Effective Artists
1) Daily Work
- even the smallest amount possible.
2) Volume, not perfection
. Produce as much as you can.
3) Steal
- Find you idols. Use The stuff you really love as reference and inspiration.
4) Conscious Learning
5) Rest. Step away from your work.
6) Feedback
7) Create what you love
'Feedback' vs 'Do what you love '. Sometimes people don't distinguish what areas must get criticism, and what remain untouched by others. Production as a technical part that needs experience goes to 'feedback'. Creativity and ideas belong to an artist's soul. And when somebody sh*ts on your soul - you know which finger to show.
Andriy Vasylenko yes!!
I'm going to quote you a lot :D
the thumbs up one
exactly! i love the way you put it :) btw i wanted to refer to the same issue. they kind of oppose each other, dont they? well anyway, you have said it all ;)
Totally agree!
6:10 "being a perfectionist, actually undermines your growth" 💯
- Andrew Price, 2020.
@@Abhishekganesan 2016 or 2017?
@@MrYeet-ip4qj 2016 yes lol. I watched that video in 2020.
"Just do one line a day." That's what my drug dealer says too. I'll try to get him to make a TH-cam video.
oh you got jokes?!
HAR
Lol🤣🤣🤣
*"Just do one line a day." That's what my drug dealer says too. I'll try to get him to make a TH-cam video.*
by Azul Amazigh.
speedracer77 so is he going to?!?!
BlenderGuru's tutorials are really cool, but this speech was awesome. Particularly interesting how he showed real progress and was not ashamed to admit that early attempts were not nearly as good as the later ones. Some people might just choose the good and the best works, but the honesty on showing the slow and steady progress is very inspirational.
Nicolás Ramírez thanks mate. I really do think it's important to share the failures. Showing only the highlights just demotivates people when they try it themselves.
hey have you heard about the blender pin poster that you will be to buy on game guru and put in your own pictures. time to inject and look like a body for the whole world and get sexy huh.
Blender Guru I watched your color theory and I was wondering is that how pixar/Disney films use color scripts to make there textures and lighting off the color wheel ? is lighting for animation films called cinematic lighting. I know cinematic lighting has the teal, orange like in transformers or dark/light blue like in movie underworld. But seems light in animation film has more of a volume lighting effects .
his presentation was far away from being awesome.
yea mean that as in like really bad, or more than just awesome?
I've been a professional fine art painter for almost a decade now, I started selling in galleries after only a couple years after starting to learn how to paint. People always ask me how I got good so fast and I tell them aside from always feeling inadequate which creates the drive to keep learning no matter how good you may have gotten and although I paint and draw every single day. the most important aspect of growth is the moments between when you actually touch brush to canvas. I would spend and still do hours and hours just looking at an unfinished painting and painting with my mind, analyzing the work and thinking about painting all day long. It's those periods of rest from the physical part that set the big boys apart I've noticed. If you do not find yourself consumed or addicted to it, meaning obsessing with thoughts about art all the time you probably wont make it.
No u
@Janet C. Hunter turning it upside down or looking at it in a mirror is also good
@Janet C. Hunter some1 should go suck on a lemon whilst spinning in the air with their eyes closes
If you want to sell your art online, I am in quest (haha, fancy world) to talk to artists and see their artwork online. If you are intrested, do reply to this comment. :)
I do love making art but I just don't always have motivation for it. It's so much work but it's the only thing that fulfills me.
Same goes for cooking as an art. My boyfriend and I LOVE to cook, but we also really wish to keep getting better at it. 1. We cook everyday.
2. Volume, not perfection: we archive and keep track of all our homecooked meals in a shared Google Drive file.
3. Steal: I can look for hours at pinterest for recipes and beautiful Michelin restaurant plates.
4. Conscious learning: We regularly organise 'tasting dinners' with a small group of friends, during which we present things we wanted to try out. The mere fact there's actual guests makes us put in an effort to make it look and taste nice.
5. Rest: there's absolutely nothing better then being cooked for. And yes we do like to order food every now and then.
6. Feedback: Our tasting dinner pannel joins in on the reviewing fun; we love people being honest. Even people who can't cook, can tell what they do and do not like ;)
7. Create what you love: love goes through the stomach, right?
love this example : )
cute ❤
Those who have organised thoughts don´t need information in fucking numbered bullet points.
Same goes to a martial artist
One other reference:
- Getting started is often the hardest part
- Daily work (even when its just "This one line")
- Do various pieces of art
- "The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from"-David Bowie
- "Good artists copy, great artists steal. We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."-Steve Jobs
- "The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal." - -Pablo Picasso- _Banksy_
"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. It means that you sacrifice how it looks in your head, for what it really is." - David Foster Wallace.
One reason i try to be satisfied at 80% of what i want to achieve. Obviously there are exceptions like personal long term project and such, but when it comes to work for clients or your daily challenge, being done is better than being perfect.
Awesome talk btw.
Kids to school
so true I have tons of paintings and sketches in my closet that I never finished because I didnt think it was good enough or got tired of trying to make it perfect I'm barely trying to learn this lol
thanks for the quote man. really vital to know as a creative.
"but when it comes to work for clients or your daily challenge, being done is better than being perfect."
So true!!
Francis Bacon, Produced nothing for a year or two. It's not that he did not paint, but that he only wanted to put forward his best work. Sometimes perfection shows up by accident at other times it may take volumes to achieve.
Wished I had been his trash man !!
After putting hard work in your painting to make it after long time of work perfect, with very precise drawing in the small things. I think your satisfied with your painting then, when its finally done with perfection and then colored perfectly. I dont understand why many of these artists draw so many sci-fi female faces. These sci-fi women in thoese paintings just got stupid look, so its not so impressive and its sci-fi, so it does not feel real, when its just some anime girl, so its booring drawing not singel bit impressive. Thoese drawings about stupid anime girls with stupid looks on their face just feel more annoying to look at, than feel like good drawing. Better drawings would be making drawing about imperialistic era naval ship battles or drawing about battles in WW2 with airplanes in sky or with tanks in ground for example, when their really epic to look at as painting. Then drawing about dark force user holding red lightsaber would be also epic and battling some light force user, when it shows in the picture very strong power with the dark force user with his red lightsaber.
My vocal coach says "practice makes permanent," instead of perfect. Perfection is a concept that's impossible to reach, so it can be disheartening if you think you can find it.
Indeed, you can also say Practice makes Progress not perfection cause perfection is an idea humans came up which is nearly impossible or is impossible to achieve cause we always aim for something once we've had a thing.
I studied traditional lacquer ware with gold leaf , gold powder and inlaid Urushi Makie and traditional silk kimono making techniques and both the masters who taught me had the same motto . ”完璧が当然、完璧以上を狙うは目的。” which was written or carved on a board at the entrance of the atelier. It means "Perfection is the minimum, you must aim for more than perfection"
I guess this is why Japanese or asian art in general is so much about the detail and the perfection of the execution. There is no such thing in Japan as "perfection can't be reached" quite the opposite, "perfection can and must be reached"
I f you take for example the work of Jakuchu and its magnificent Roosters paintings. And compare it to western paintings . What is extraordinary when you understand his work is that he painted on, silk fibers mixed with plant and tree fibers, sort of paper and therefore unlike western style painting you can't fix a mistake because once the ink touched the canvas whatever you draw or paint can not be erased or drawn over . Which means that his work is perfect from start to finish, without a single mistake , because if he had made one, he would have had to start over .
Same with lacquer , once you apply the lacquer, there is no turning back , and if you draw with gold on it , it sticks immediately and can not be removed so the work must there again be perfect from start to finish .
I am part French on my mother's side and i am married to a Japanese . And when i saw Notre Dame burning i was horrified while my husband was more shocked . What shocked him was that workers who had been restoring the cathedral had smoked on the scaffolding although it was strictly forbidden , he was also shocked that dust that had accumulated for decades helped the fire to spread and then he was shocked that people needed to donate money to rebuild it . There is a temple in Nara called Horyu-Ji , which is the oldest and largest man made wooden structure in the world , it is 1200 years old , entirely made of wood and has never burned , nor was it ever damaged by earthquake . The point is not that it was made by master craftsmen but that it was taken care of. You will never find dust anywhere in the temple because it is entirely and very thoroughly cleaned 4 times a year , so dust will never accumulate . When it went through renovation it was always done by the elite carpenters and craftspeople of the country and none of them would even think of smoking inside or around the building (Actually smoking around Horyuj-Ji guarantees you some time in jail and a very salty fine, as it is strictly forbidden ) , and finally Horyu-Ji is insured , meaning that if anything was to happen to it , the insurance company will cover whatever it takes to fix it .
But what i mean to say is that perfection is in the detail and is not out of reach . It is not about skill it is about attitude toward things , it is about paying attention and showing a lot of respect not only toward what you do but toward yourself and toward the persons you are doing something for . Notre Dame burned because people didn't pay attention and neglected the building instead of respecting it . They used it, they enjoyed it , they were proud of it , but they did not respect it, and they didn't pay attention to details, and this is why it burned.
The problem in the west is that we live by the quote by Seneca "Errare humanum est" which means "To err is human" , while in Asia this concept is unthinkable . Besides we believe that this quote is "Errare human est" when the actual quote is "Errare humanum est, set perseverare diabolicum " which actually means "To err is human, but to persist in error is diabolical." Actually i believe that " Errare humanum est, and , set persevrare human est " To persist in error is even more human (in the west) . But it doesn't mean it can not be overcome . Conveniently in the west , when something goes well we congratulate ourselves , and when something goes wrong or we can't achieve something, we blame Diabolicum , the devil. In Asia they are not that self indulgent and self righteous , When something goes well , it only means that they did their job properly and there is nothing to be proud about , and when something goes wrong , you point the finger at yourself and accept the responsibility .
Perfection exists , in art and in many other fields .
In spite of studying art for a very long time , i am a veterinarian , married to an MD . When we operate (surgically) we can't enter the room thinking "to err is human" , mistake is not permissible , the surgery must go flawlessly and we can't make a single mistake , and if we do , not only aren't we going to blame the devil for it , but neither are the owners of the dog or cat or the family of the patient .
Perfection is the strict minimum , aiming for more than perfection is the ultimate goal . The only way to achieve perfection is to never lose your focus , never be self-indulgent, never be self-righteous thinking that you are good at what you do, show respect for what you do and whom you do it for and pay attention to every single detail never overseeing anything . When i operate on a animal i am always thinking about the animal's well being, about its life being in my hands and how much longer this life must last , about the owner who will be devastated if anything goes wrong, about everything i have studied in veterinary school and my years of experience. But i am also extremely grateful for my years of studying art in Japan , because i was taught the proper attitude to adopt when doing something, in order to do it right .
You can't do more than perfect though , but nothing can stop you from trying, so that "a least" you will achieve perfection. Hopefully !
@@morganolfursson2560 very interesting point of view and for sure food for thought. thanks for sharing your opinion on the matter. i often struggle with perfection in my artworks. i want them to be perfect, but sometimes my vision of perfection is flawed and i even make things worse in the process.
@@morganolfursson2560 I thoroughly enjoyed reading your insightful educational interesting and enjoyable comments in your post, thank you.
@@VAPIDISM You're very much welcome . Thanks for your kind comment too. All the best .
"They SEEK criticism and they ACTUALLY listen to it."
This guy is a really good speaker
It takes approximately 10,000 hours to be good at something, that why im so good at sleeping
Wtf this mean if I'm bad at sleeping
¡DITTO!!!🙄
Insomnia. I can't relate
thats incorrect.
it takes 10000hrs to "MASTER" a skill.
you can get "good" in a few hundred.
@@TheSighphiguy The "10000 hours rule" has been largely debunked since then though.
I constantly listen to Podcasts when I draw, I find it helps my mind slow down and relax instead of worrying about the quality of work
I listen to audiobooks which makes me paint longer when im really enjoying a story
SAME
Half an hour ago I was really down cuz I felt stuck with my art. I found this video again which I actually didn't finish watching last time and it was exactly what I needed right now
how has it turned out now?
Yes, did you finish?
@@GrandTheftBalow has worked out great. If it helps anyone else: I also read an extremely inspirational book a friend recommended to me called "Mastery" by George Leonard. He basically says that these phases of feeling stuck are a natural part of the road to mastering a skill. He calls it "the plateau" and it will be there in phases for the rest of your path. Mastery, he says, is about steady practicing eventhough you feel like you're not progressing... and of course steady learning. I can only recommend it as well.
"Copy, but only copy the best." - Dmitri Shostakovatch
serious
Only 7 minutes in and this guy changed my life.
I'm mostly a writer and not much a visual artist besides film. Truly can't wait to do daily work. Just that 1st point was enough.
ReyRoSho how did it go
Ha ha. That's good but if that's truly the case then don't you think you should be investing a bit more time on learning how to learn?
im sure he's fucked if he's saying "can't 'wait'" meaning he hasn't done it yet. Meaning he is unlikely to get where he wants if he can't start immediately.
well spotted ! do or don't do there is no try !
What color them nails painted today lad?
Many top comments are like „well don’t only create what you love because you‘ll never branch out“. These people miss the point.
First of all you don’t have branch out. You can become very successful in just one Niche.
Second the things you love change over time and it will be natural to feel the need to seek out new things from time to time but don’t force yourself to branch out because you think you have to. Branch out when you feel like you want something new and fresh because then your heart is in it again :)
LOL if you want to get better, get better.. thats it..
your comment is like one of this "im so woke, please like this comment" comment.. you know.. doing your best and also reach out to new lands, is a good thing.. sticking to what you like is okay but just staying there without ever reaching other limits is bad!..
in my own comment, which is propably gone..(i dont know why) i just already said it.. i couldnt draw boys.. i thought well.. i just stick to it!
but this wasnt a realistic view on the world.. there are not just girls in the world and as i wanted to get more authentic and original i needed to learn also drawing boys! and even if i couldnt in the beginning, im now better in it than before.. just learn, learn and learn out! learn new! JUST LEARN! doing just.. one thing is not just lame.. it shows that you wont even try to get better.. lol
There's no niche for drawing cute girls anymore, it's so overdone it's been run into the fuckn ground
TheTheoristx3 Just the first sentence in your clueless comment is enough for me to know that you’re probably a very bad artist or that you don’t possess any artistic skills at all. “If you wanna get better, just get better” Thank you for those words of enlightenment. How was humanity even able to survive without your wisdom? We are truly not worthy, you fucking moron. And don’t even get me started what i think about the rest of your comment.
I find it odd everyone attacking the OP's comment. If you he's absolutely right about both points.
@@mikipav1064 You completely looked past his point just to make a pissy comment just for the sake of it. He had a good point, continue learning and branch out. Your comment is just insecure and obnoxious.
It seems like a lot of this advice can also be applied to being an entrepreneur or a musician or other vocations where someone is self employed and responsible for bringing in their own income. This is great advice.
That explains why J. K. Rowling's wizarding world is so fleshed-out: She spent essentially every day there... revisiting things multiple times over an extended period really helps ironing things out or developing constructs far too complex too work out on a day. You internalise what you already have, you sort of learn your own creation. And when you know it inside and out, you can add something meaningful to it. In a week you will not build and "learn" your own creation, no matter how many hours you spend... love this lesson!
I’m definitely gonna do that
I found this video to be more like "how to beat procrastination"
basically the same thing as the subject of this video.
I guess your own perfectionist approach is the biggest blocker.
the guy is quite slimy
Maybe, but I wouldn´t have watched if it had that title. I´m glad I did, it was good advice.
@@margarita8998 tittle? You mean title?
"You are the most motivated when you have something to lose" Really interesting, I never thought or heard that before.
Andrew: Something I am terrible at, 2D art
Also Andrew: Shows awesome 2D art
much from what he said i actually am doing with my writing and yeah, it does work. i used to just write and write without looking at how others do it, how they express motions of characters, how they build dialogues that are informative and intriguing at once.
Get this guy to a TED talk.
May you put that into context please? Is it just that you dislike TED or the topics they promote?
William Craven Hmm can you be more specific please? Which video was that, I'm really curious.
William Craven Disturbing. I suppose there's an agenda everywhere, even in places that promote themselves as free thinking and development driven, yikes. Thank you for replying.
this is only a shame because people deserve the right to be stupid in a public forum (healthy fat people exist, scientifically speaking). better example of TED "silencing" people?
There have been a couple of interviews on the Joe Rogan podcast where former Ted speakers described both the suppression of content and an oddly cultish atmosphere in the organization itself. They can be viewed here on youtube, so you can take them at your own measure.
I watched this video in order to kill time. I was genuinely surprised by how much I learned from this video! Amazing talk. Well done.
same :)
As an aspiring artist and animator, I can’t describe how much I loved this speech. It was done really well and the honest approach that shows your actual growth and development (instead of just floundering only your best stuff and hiding the rest like most people do) was very admirable and highly respectable.
You inspired me to be a lot less embarrassed and ashamed about my work I consider mostly bad as well.
To be honest, I’m sort of in the “stop drawing only cute girls” basket as well so the “who gives a shit what other people think?” made me really happy/inspired to hear as well.
You are the sum of the knowledge available to you. Absorb culture to create culture.
Definetly, getting started is the hardest, after some time, it becomes like breathing.
This was a great talk, entertaining and without boring filler. Thanks for the inspiration!
Ciaran Boyle thank you!
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I find myself watching this lecture every year for the past 7 days! One of the best lectures ever
A Blender Guru strategy - starting things consecutively and then looping through them until they're done. doing this makes the artist feel detached from the work and every time they go back to a task, they see things in a way they've never thought before
"So I put on my headphones and I listen to Podcasts" while working lonely. man that hit the nail, I be doing the same.
BigBenEco NotMyJob! i rather call it more personal than lonely
I guess I would too. I was more pointing out the fact of working in solitude, rather than the idea of being alone or rejected.
BigBenEco NotMyJob! oh yes man i get you 100% it is a journey that we experiemce with others, but must do alone
So is that a good thing or a bad thing? Atm I'm really confused ;-;
Well, it's being productive, while also not having anyone on discord to talk to, so a bit of both.
Give this guy a TED talk already lol
Eric Holliday they should start a petition for it on a website called change.com or something
Not only does practice not make perfect, but you only learn how to do what you do in practice. When I was a kid, the band teacher always said, "Practice doesn't make perfect. *Perfect* practice makes perfect." Because if you're "practicing" just to put in the hours, but playing the piece wrong the whole time, not trying to make extra effort to fix your mistakes, that practice is worthless.
Another teacher would also say, "Don't just practice until you get it right. Practice until you *can't* get it wrong."
Rebecca Jo Anthony I had a choir teacher say literally the exact same thing. He doubled as a band teacher too!
Art is creation. Doesn't matter in what field. As long as youre creating something, and it expresses something its art.
Art is an insight of who you are. Your ideals, philosophies, feelings, and experiences.
“We have no art, everything we do is art” :-)
12:29 this touches me so much. I started studying an art-related career last years, it's only two years long. I chose it because drawing has always been my PASSION and I couldn't spend 1 week without sketching something, but thanks to this studies and all of the homework I now despise drawing, I don't feel like grabbing a pencil on a whole year anymore, and it's sad because it has worsened through this two years, most of the time it's a task that should take 3 hours, but it takes me days because I just sit in front of the computer for hours doing anything except what I have to do because I just don't want to draw anymore, and when I'm not doing homework I am thinking that I will have to some point so it never leaves my mind, I take so long trying to finish my homework that it has taken almost every second of my life, sometimes I can't even eat or bath because I don't have time anymore, and stress has actually worsened my health to the point I get colds and flu almost 6 times a year.
It's like art-school took all the love I felt for drawing and turned it into hate.
I'm actually doing homework right now while listening to this, even when I don't have classes tomorrow and it's 3:31 am.
This is how programming is for me sometimes.
All this is great, but I think he missed one very important habit. Do not compare yourself to others. What I mean is don't compare in a negative way by saying things to yourself like, 'I could never draw like that' or 'I'll never be as good as...'. This is a bad habit. We should replace it with, 'Compare to improve, not to belittle yourself'.
I have that problem, even more now with instagram, it's like look at this kid who is only 15 and do awesome stuff, and here I am doing crappy work, even when people compliment me regurlarly, but that's because they don't do anything art related, so being on instagram for me is like going down a rabbit hole, I can admire their work but at the same time feel bad about it.
So true! It's like a bear trap for one's development
I have the same habit. Instagram is the only social media (besides TH-cam) app I use and being surrounded by artists of immense skill leads me to doubt myself, however, it's also been one of the main motivations that still pushes me to do my best. Seeing artists like Andrew go from zero to where they are today makes me ask myself "Why can't you do the same? You have a love for creating art and two healthy hands" I hope you experience the same uplifting inspiration
Best thing i've found to work is challenge yourself and compare your current self to your past one, did you improve in something or whatever, works well as i tend to obsess with things that interest me.
i do not agree. just to know that i'm pretty good in what l do, chek me on instagram (giulyarts). Comparing to others challenges you, and moves you to go and take what you want. Yes, compare yourself and even think "im not good at that", trust me, you need to prove yourself you were wrong, cause we work really fast to prove we are better than negative thoughts
I’ve watched this so many times and get something new every time - jealous of his incredible energy and freedom - let’s hope I catch some and paint this time !
Dedication makes perfect, practice makes consistent
Doing one line on days you are tired is super effective. Just don't do to many in a row guys. Also, stay hydrated.
and be sure you change your underwear daily... super important.
SR47 water is like oil in a car you’re body just doesn’t perform at 100% I went long periods of a days not drinking water and noticed the difference
Lol
@@santiagopino2407 good job not dying
this video tells me “You’re not the only one”.
The part about taking a break and working on something else and coming back to a project is spot on. I used to work on one chapter(manga) until completion but recently started doing 3 chapters at a time all at different stages and alternating the days. I'm able to see things I didn't before by having time away from a chapter. This new work flow also helped to not get that anxiety I sometimes get when working on the same thing for too long. Each chapter takes me about 60 hours of work so alternating between chapters made me more lively about working and it shows in the quality of my work also.
Absolutely loved all your arguments. As an artist, I face all the challenges that you have faced. Bad day at work spoling my mood, people telling me on what I should draw and shouldn't, drawing more with perfection...
This speech has gone a long way to awaken my spirit back to the art world... Thanks alot man the speech is far more than been aewsome
I watch this once every few weeks. Trying to teach myself to paint and it truly helps. Thanks a lot for making the video!
I never knew how much I needed this. I'm in this weird place on my drawing journey and this hits home in so many ways.
When he mentioned about what to do when you had a long day at work in the office, I was almost brought to tears, it's such a simple way of thinking but completely changed my mindset of what time really is, thank you
A very well thought out presentation. I was surprised how "unmotivated" the audience seemed to be. Putting on my old man hat for a moment; "back in my day, this type of motivational presentation, coupled with great graphics, would've elicited wild applause and a honest enthusiasm!!" Something about casting pearls before swine...
Yeah, like the guy looking at his cell phone or the one who wouldn't raise his hand for anything, even "who has heard the phrase, 'practice makes perfect'?"
Speaking in front of an audience isn't easy, as an audience member if you're not going to at least give them your attention and basic participation when prompted, then why even be there?
That is because, perhaps, the presentation wasn't particularly captivating and nothing new wasn't there. The auditorium looks rather disappointed than interested. Their expectations were different than the delivered information
Well, one problem was that it came across more like a "Oooh, I learned to draw! Look how good I got at it!" speech than anything else. The second problem, tying into the first, is since he mainly use his own amateur stuff to get his point across most people are probably sitting there and thinking "Who the hell is this Andre Price guy anyway?"
#7 Create what you love but try topics and themes outside of your comfort zone at least once in a while or you'll only draw the same things over and over again.
I thought I will watch this for first 5 mins then move on. Very straight forward talk for huge tips to create art for the art career. Thankyou for sharing this.
I really learned a lot from this video. Good to hear that other artists are experiencing the same stumbling blocks. Thanks for sharing!
Andrew, you're an inspiration to us all :)
Richard Hawkes thanks man :)
I love how the comments are criticizing ‘Do what you love’, arguing that it doesn’t make you very versatile as an artist. But those people, don’t they just love versatility? If you love being versatile and work towards that, it’s still doing what you love lol
Thank you! Timeless advice! I have been seeking my lost motivation, purely creating for my own need to artistically express myself. I have read and listened to dozens of motivational writers and all have missed that spark that speaks to my artist's soul. Then I found this talk and it all fell into place! That bullet journal I designed while I was seeking motivation wasn't was wasted time!! Lol. I have now added "Create" to my habit tracker and I also reslized how my need for perfection had been a huge part in both the creation of this simple planner AND my art!
Bless you for your hard earned wisdom and for putting it all out there knowing there had to be others that needed to know they were not alone while giving a helping hand with your insights (I know they were hard won)
Years after this was released, I'm still referring students to this talk.
Just create what you love, the world is linked by tons of stuff and everytime you start working on something you love, you'll be sure to find something you didn't expect to find.
Two things I've learned in my life as an artist:
-Concentrate as soon as possible on developing your own narrative and aesthetic vision, don't spend years on dry technical learning. Ideas need training as much as (and more than) mechanical skills. Beware of academic art courses, they have nothing of the spirit of the old masters!
-Develop a sense for beauty and, most importantly, for what works in any given artwork, even a very bad one. First see the good, only later criticise the negative, even when observing the work of somebody you don't like at all.
That’s a trap. The obvious, inevitable flaw there occurs when you can’t resolve certain ideas due to weak technical prowess. Develop skills first and cultivate ideas on the side. Once somewhat comfortable, technical proficiency can evolve preconceived ideas. It can also cultivate its own set of ideas you couldn’t have without developing the skill. You can always opt against using a known skill; you can’t opt to instantly use an undeveloped one.
Ideas are easy, executing them is the hard part.
@@EulogyfortheAngels He´s actually right, he´s basically talking about the Alberti's principle of art, that is: "it´s not about the technique, it´s about the best idea", hence the technique is just a detail, a path to put an idea in practice/develop the idea. It´s secondary.
This is by far the most eye opening talk for me.
as an artist I can totally relate to all those steps! my biggest problem was taking a break. I wanted to "get 'er done" NOW! until a couple weeks ago. I had "thought I had" completed a painting... until a week later I looked at it... something wasn't quite right. I was able to make it better because of that "break". Wonderful conference. Thank you for sharing this!!!
I want to give this 1000x likes, but here's 1 for now
yeah that's the point of likes, if anyone could give as many as they wanted, it would lose its meaning 🙃
Well, there was a time when TH-cam had 5-star system. But I suppose like/dislike is doing it's job
Me too, he's amazing!
28:28
Summary
1. Daily Work
2. Volume, not perfection
3. Steal
4. Conscious learning
5. Rest
6. Get Feedback
7. Create what you love
dont alot of other artist say perfection and not volume? for example you shouldnt be doing alot of stuff but like 1 thing form start to finish as good as you can?
Create what you love comes first not last
Just remember, if you do art or anything similar just because you want praise from others, maybe re-prioritize your values in life. I asked a youtuber "illustrator" why in his lessons he stressed the importance of "sharing" your "work". Immediately I thought it was because criticism makes you better etc, but when I mentioned that he seemed confused and said something like "yeah I guess some art teachers or something could critique some stuff". He was so obsessed with hearing others say he's good, that he forgot that he exposes himself as such. Imagine no one else on Earth exist, but you are safe and got all the time in the world; do you suddenly not feel like drawing anymore because there aren't other people? FInd a new hobby, or draw for yourself, for fun. Not because you want praise like a child that never grew out of it and developed
Every once in a while I come back to this video. This is so inspiring!
learning blender i didnt sleep for 3 days. i just took that 72 hours and learned the basics... i hated my self by the end of it but at the same time i knew how to use blender
Kinzuko that's probably a bad way to learn. Too much info in too little time seems bad.
Yeah, that's the exact opposite thing Andrew was advocating for.
Honestly man I have to listen to everything in Andrew's tutorials because he always has something to teach me.
Just what I needed to hear, I have been searching for an order of how to make it a mindset, guidance that says it’s comes from within and others can help you find that. Thankyou.
Charles Bukowski,"Some people will love what you do. Some people will hate what you do. Most people won't give a damn about what you do."
I always see myself returning to this talk whenever I lose motivation. It gets me immediately inspired! Thank you so much
I enjoyed it. And I agree with you, especially about working every day and conscious learning.
For me, I find that it's important to have a finite project: create a short story or illustrate something that has a deadline. This FORCES me to finish things and move on. Thanks for a great talk.
The ZEN of creativity! You knocked it out of the park ! This should be standard. Through hours of talks on this subject I have never come away so fulfilled. I Thank you very much for me and a thank you for the ones I will share this with, I know they will appreciate this. (Appreciate = to add value to something.) Your talk here IMHO has elevated your position. man, from an artist to a true guru, a teacher of high caliber. I am not blowing smoke up your backside mate, I am seriously grateful for this talk and will take it with me to the end.
You're one of these people I just enjoy listening to. A really great talker. Also one of the only "motivational" talks I've seen with advice you can actually use.
One of my favorite sayings is, "CORRECT practice makes perfect."
Correct practices males better, perfect is impossible.
Never stop trying tho
Perfection is usually irrelevant, and more important, impossible... focus on the realistic.
Andrew Price !!!!!!! You made it 😱😱
Pockys haha thanks :P
AeroAndZero I was so happy he made it
Bidoof Games Me Too
This helps so much! I was stuck a lot of times not knowing what I lacked, either doubted myself or kept doing random sketching with no real motivation being too tired to do anything since I didn't start. This video inspires me, Thank you!
I bet most people don't finish the video... it's like your helping them actually get to work.
This guy is so good at blender! I appreciate him, because he uses his spare time, to teach other people about blender. I think that's really cool! Keep it up Andrew!
"Perfect is completing the finishing the maximum requirements before a deadline to make room for critique and further revisions. The boss and the client's perfect should be your concept of perfect"
Even though the current pop cultural trend of the "likes" or thumbs up', is part of the process of "transparency" that we have to leave behind sooner or later, as a part of a collective manipulation that has nothing to do with the real ( as Andry Vasilenko commented here three years ago) this young artist has a great point, and it proves that even what may seem wrong may turn to good ( when the dust settles at the end of our journey)
Creating art shines freedom and dwells you in a sanctuary of cosmic connection.
Thanks Andrew! incredibly inspirational! I came here initially to skim through the video but ended up watching it from beginning to end on my working hours...oeps haha! A lot to learn from this as an aspiring artist. Thank You and I hope to see some more intermediate tutorials on your channel.
He's so right about everything, specially about the concious-learning part. If you want to do it better you have to dominate the concepts and then APPLY THEM into the practice. That goes for everything
one of the best presentations I've ever watched. TED should invite Andrew for a talk!
I always feel like i have to learn a bunch of stuff because i just draw faces and bodies, but i was looking at the artists i admire and I realize that they were doing the same thing over and over again and they were being successful. So the thing of draw what you love really got me thanks
The only one I don't agree with (and I'm a professional artist) is the Create What You Love. You HAVE to branch out and break out of your boundaries, you can't always just stay drawing cute girls and whatnot. You have to challenge yourself. He could have easily done this by slowly weeding girls out of his drawing and finding other subject matters. As an artist, you have to be versatile.
Otherwise, great video.
Interesting opinion, but lets be honest: Nobody really has to do anything. One can work in a singular style and still be effective, communicative and yes, truly an artist. Is Stephen King any less of an artist for not writing instruction manuals? Or is David Lynch any less of an artist for not creating documentaries?
Yeah but the whole point of branching out is to discover more things that you love.
I agree with you
Derrick Espino i think wut he mean by that is: get some 'study', i (most of the time) draw a lot of monsters/zombies or that kind of stuff, cuz this is what i'm good at and truly love to do; but i force myself to draw things that i don't feel confortable drawing, tryin to see where my mistakes are, and study to fix them.
For example, the other day i tried to draw a tree, but was not convinced, so i learned how to get to a point where I liked it,( do not mean in anyway that you've to only draw trees from now on ) it serve me well and inspired me alot : 2 days after that i drew a sort of possessed spriggan; i was able to get the right colors values, woods textures on the character and to paint the surrounding forest in the background to my liking.
if you apply that to a cyberpunk zombie, it can be great to know how to handle enginneering and mechanical parts on a canvas, i stick to my true style but painting a meca could help^^
anyway you got the point ,)
versatility in art can complement YOUR artstyle, that's why it can be important to go offroad when drawing or painting.
but i join you on the fact that 'nobody has to do anything', you need to have fun while doing what you love, that's the only obligation!
excuse my english.(hope it was not a pain to read until there) not my native language ^^
@@megazoned3973 Steven King writes in different genres because he knows it can be useful to improve his skills. Sometimes, we have to avoid the comfort zone.
Great presentation, Andrew. Always an inspiration.
Good to know you've read "Steal like an artist". I recommend you take a look at Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant, you will surely like it.
Cheers!
Oh yes I'm actually reading that book right now! It influenced several of the points in this presentation :) And yes the book is awesome. Highly recommend it. Dispels several myths about what being an original is about.
These are great tips. I have discovered basically all of this on my 20+ year journey transforming into an effective software producer. There's a big difference between somebody who has skill and somebody who is effective at producing final products. These tips will help you get there
I've learned a lot from this man in a short while. I have been procrastinating on "consciously" improving my art for years now. I think I need to stop up my game.