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Halo! Just want to clarify something :> cuz i've seen famous artists like shibaruirui sell their fanart of jujutsu kaisen and attack on titan in their own style. Does that mean it's okay to sell? :00 luv ur videos btw! 🤩🫶

this video is so important for artists who are still in the learning process; im not perfect myself but i've seen so many other artists who cant accept the idea of them having to create bad art and their fear of making bad art made them hate and give up the trial and error process entirely. quite a few of these people then pivoted to generating ai images bc it's "perfect" to them and don't have to put in any work. thats when i started doubling down on creating my "bad" art bc i just want to express my own passion and ideas through my own ability and not to care what others think. making art should have to be fun.

There's this one artist whose art I really like, their name is Mochizuki Kei and they make a lot of Danganronpa fanart (how I found them). I really like their artstyle and I always wanted an artstyle like that. Is it ok for me to study their art and have an artstyle that looks very similar to theirs?

Women well into their adult life that are petite, and short are often ostracized because people believe them to be p3d0bait. I've seen one such adult creator get breast implants because of this and I hate the idea that small women are discriminated against in this way. Lolicon art is something that at times both those who are and aren't victims of childhood trauma can relate to due to this similarity of body type - and dealing with their past as per individuals who have sworn by their therapists saying it is a valid way to deal with their trauma. Much more valid than cutting or abusing drugs. So while there is a stigma with this art type, and a desire for it to be hated, never say never. Art is expression. Expression is human experience. To ban or desire art to never exhibit certain topics or feelings is to limit the human experience. Of course, this isn't to condone those who use real subjects whom are underage in their works as that is explicitly illegal. There are plenty artists who use wooden dolls or petite women as their basis for their works.

ty for this tbh im rlly deppressed rn and this gave me the motivation to try !!!

Video topic: Do you think minors should/can draw nsfw? This in a question I have in general.

I love love love the eye glasses trope, I use it in my art all the time, including when I draw myself even if I very rarely actually wear my glasses in real life because I got the wrong prescription.

When I was a bit younger I remember talking to a friend about how annoying it was that everyone was pushing me to "go work for Disney". I was explaining that I don't really like being told what to draw. I lose all love and interest in drawing when I'm not in control. I draw for me. My friend started yelling at me that I'm stupid for wasting my time with art if I don't want to be a professional. He demanded I give up drawing forever if I wasn't going to make money from it. I told him I'd give up drawing when he gave up video games, cus he sure as hell wasn't making money off of his hobbies. I used a lot more colorful language than that though. Then I stopped talking to him entirely until he apologized a few days later. He doesn't believe that anymore, but every time I show my family something I drew I get a lot of "tsk tsk"s and "It's such a shame you won't work for Disney". IDK why they think I of all people could get a job at Disney specifically. I've never wanted to work for Disney. They know I hate drawing for other people. Hell, I failed almost every art class I ever took because I want to draw what I want to draw. My teachers would want me to paint a sunset and I'd be ignoring them and studying anatomy instead. You can't pull that kind of thing at a job. Especially not disney lmao. The only art class I passed was because he graded everyone based on themself. So as long as you were making genuine attempts at learning whatever you wanted to learn, you would be fine. So I could work on anatomy, or study perspective, or whatever I wanted. And as long as he could see that I was genuinely trying to learn something he didn't care what it was. I think he only gave out 4 actual assignments. One was to make a story board about whatever you wanted and another was to then animate that story board, for example. Best art class ever lol.

I had an oc x canon character... last august. I don't hate it, but i try to hide it...

As someone who has ‘quit’ art for nearly 4 years, thank you for making this

I started to learn and improve anatomy,and I feel like I lost some of fun when I made drawings without much effort,I look back and think I don't get that much fun I had.

I’m as rare as a unicorn! Wait, does that mean I don’t exist?

AI being so soulless made me appreciate even more bad art, to the point i intentionally use those for attention if i have nothing else to talk about in discussions I still wanna improve, so i take these as a sign of relief and still do my best

fedya!!!!!

I have 2 peices of art, which probably are my favourite ones, these to arts would be considered "bad art" to most those 2 arts are a drawing of 2 stickmen eating at a dining table with chat bubbles talking about how good the food is and another with multiple badly rushed drawn characters with names ontop the first is me just wanting to draw like i was a child, drawing me and my sibling eating, and the other is me and my siblin drawing each others ocs with only description they may look bad, but I had fun with it, i felt happy with them, and those artworks will always be my favourites and you know whaat? from all the art peices i have, these 2 are the ones i hang up on the wall

So what do I do? I like sketching, I got some supplies the other day and for about a weeks now have been practicing everyday. I know that isn’t much time, but I don’t know how to get better. I know that if all I want is to get into art as a hobby then I shouldn’t worry too much and should just enjoy myself. But I want to have something to show people, I don’t want to hide the things I make. Perfection isn’t possible but I want to be as close to it as possible because the past few months i’ve become more of a perfectionist. If I can’t become good at this within the next year then I wish there was some way of me knowing now. Im so busy, and if I spend so much time and energy into something just to give up then I might not ever try at this again and that really scares me

Well, it actually makes sense for an assassin to not wear armor. They're supposed to kill without being seen. They aren't supposed to get into sword fights where they need armor. And it actually makes more sense to not wear armor and wear casual clothes to not stand out in a crowd. Or wear clothes that are sexualized so they aren't thought of as a threat.

Nice message, also... NO SQUARESPACE!?!?

Im good at art but i respect the bad artists❤❤

between this and the perfectionism video... I finally started drawing fanart again. Just for fun! I never thought I could have this much fun drawing digitally, just for me

It's honestly extremely weird how people expect ALL art to meet professional standards but God forbid artists actually do art as a profession

9:55 Besides representation that's just boring. Seriously, the whole point of bringing up a new nation in a new location should be making it new and different. Being able to make more diverse character designs not just for representation but to have fresh new ideas.

2:20 that's exactly what i was wondering about almost all my life as an artist but never asked anyone because i thought something was wrong with me. while it's good to have a community, the art community puts so much pressure on you to make the best piece possible every time it's overwhelming, so i usually tend to stay away from it. thank you for covering this extremely important topic!!

Making comics by Lynda Barry talks about how bad art is great too! It also has drawing exercises that could help prevent losing your inner child.

it's implied in the body swap episode the PPG have a certain way of holding things since when Buttercup was in the Professor's body she can't hold the phone since she's not used to having fingers

I think a lot of people have gotten so addicted to ridiculing people they became Vitriots...

In my personal experience, A lot of Roblox games tend to get shitted on just from the Creator's actions, no matter how good the game is; And a lot more personal to me, I enjoy Flavor Frenzy and Dandy's World; But I know the fact about both games' creators, one is a farily normal person, and the other is an alleged pedophile. So I have this moral dilema of "Should I still continue liking these games?" because one of them is normal but the other one made heinous acts such as grooming a minor or drawing CP that happened years ago before both of those games were made. And it sucks trying to search content of both of these games on Social Media and then just bombard with people saying "You can't enjoy these games because one of it's creators is a child molester, and you're a bad person for enjoying them". At least it's practicaly easier to seperate those two games from one of the creators sinse as far as I know, there's nothing remotely problematic.

Very hot art take. Honestly; I don’t think bad art exists, only bad perceptions of art if that makes sense. Art is inherently a beautiful form of our own humanity, i find that no art is inherently amazing or awful, its all good, there’s no inherent ‘improvement’ other than the ways you let it shape yourself. Like yes you have ways to make it look better to everyone else, and sometimes that’s needed for something like a comic, but that doesn’t make it the only good way to have art. Once I begin to try and make art for other people and make I get soooooooo depressed. Maybe i could make a ‘bad art’ exception when the intent of said art was to cause harm, such like fascist propaganda or like making harmful caricatures of people, or the boomer humour art style lmao (the last bit was more a joke).

This is a very important video. I deeply respect the determination to make art a job and keep it up. I knew that this choice crushes lighthearted creativety and curiousity, but I had no idea that it is THIS anxiety-filling. I guess the increasing bullying online makes things much harder. Some of the artists of the past (I don't even mean the 'great painters' but indie- and mainstream comic artists, mangaka and animators) were rather suffering from the pressure they put on themselves than that of their critics. Even when I draw as a hobby, I often lose the fun in it when I put myself to higher and higher expectations. I know the feeling of fearing the white paper before me and crying about a ruined picture for two days. My luck is, that in the past 10 years the internet mostly ignored me. I'm certainly not one of the good artists. But I guess I fell into that crack of mediocricity, so I was just too small and average to be bullied. It is important that you still produce art for your own enjoyment that you don’t have to share with others. And if you share it - maybe with a limited community of non-bullies.

I don't know how, but I have to be blessed in some strange way to not ever get noticed on Twitter while I was still learning how to draw. I can say it helped me get over my fear of posting cringe really fast (since no one noticed), but it's not a strategy that is going to work for everyone. One thing that I found interesting in your video is how you mentioned something switching in your brain that made you go from "drawing for fun" to "drawing to get better". I can't quite relate to that with art (I never really drew often when I was young), but I did have something similar happen to me when I would play games. Often time when I was younger I'd just play games to explore. I didn't care if I wasn't doing the main objective, I just wanted to run around and do sweet tricks or something. Then as I grew older, I found it boring to run around games to do sweet trick. I wanted to progress, and see what was beyond the 2nd level, and beat every game I played. Maybe this "for fun" to "for glory" switch that happens is more a sign of maturity rather than something that we forget we did. It's probably just our brains saying "hey, you should put those skills to good use for survival". Not saying your point is wrong, but just that maybe this little switch goes way further back to the cavemen era, and maybe our caveman brains are holding us back a little. Though, I will say that not giving a damn while drawing is a recommended mood to have. I still try to do a decent job, but sometimes I can't be bothered to fix a glaring problem. No one will notice it anyways, and I already wrote it down in my mental notes for the next time I do something similar. I'll still live.

I am a in-between-artist. My goal is to work as a professional and I am no hobbyist anymore at all, having been drawing daily for a couple of hours over the past 6 years. But hell, whenever I ask for advice online that is NOT paid (aka in classes or mentorship sessions if I have the chance), I get insulted as heck.Lass year, I also had a bad mentoring experience I never want to have again, the mentor was so verbally abusive because my sletches were so bad (she was right but her tone and way of speaking was extremly humiliating) and I was so sloppy. Funny thing is, she even said I should make mistakes to improve but whenever I did she scolded or insulted me. I was really on the verge of giving up lol. The in-between-stage is so annoying because I don't see a way of overcoming this plateau to reach a professional level... Due to grinding, I also often have times where Idon't know if I even liek art anymore. But whenever I do something for me, in manga style instead of realism, of stuff I enjoy, I am remembered how much I love it. I am also glad for not playing the social media game atm, this would stress me out even more at this intermediate stage.. I don't understand why people doing art as a hobby stress out about it, honestly. I often see reddit posts and just think:"But, you aren't intending to work as an artist, so why are you so stressed out about improving?". Though I have always wanted to improve even back when I drew only as a hobby but thats me and my competitive character. xD

8:16 I think it's actually plausible for number 2 and 4 to work in real life. Just look at the WWE and how small their outfits are but they don't fall off. There is a special powder that holds the clothes tightly against the skin and doesn't let it move much.

20:50 oh my god. As a hobbyist, I really really needed to hear this, and so do others do. Almost like we’re not allowed to partake in an activity that supposed to you, bring you fun. It’s a hobby for me not a job, so I will treat it like one

RANPO SPOTTED !?!??!?!?!?!

Thank you so much Celestia! You made me realise that trying to be perfect every new illustration is just a hopeless chase for a utopia. My current illustration I’m making isn’t really better than the last, and you know what? That’s okay! Because that’s the process of becoming better. You make bad art to learn from. If we made perfect art every time, then what’s there to learn? Nothing!

I needed to hear this. I have felt the pressure you're talking about where I see polished artwork with nice crisp lines and perfect colors and effects that make everything look magical - and I just want to draw like that. I look at my own work, and I see the sketchy lines, the mid coloring and the non-existent after effects and I get disappointed. But then I find a piece where I remember how I felt while I drew. I remember getting into "the zone" and just drawing for hours, feeling no stress, no hunger, no tiredness, just "art bliss". And even if it still didn't come out as perfect as those online, I still love those pieces because I made them for me. So thank you for reminding me that this is normal and healthy.

I think try every day can definitely work if you limit your time period. It's definitely work for me setting like a 10-minute timer and just doodling something out or following a couple exercises something that's easy to crack out in just a little bit of time the key is to stop right before it starts not being fun if you could do that for a significant time. You'll train your brain to really enjoy the act of drawing and doing art and it'll serve as a big dopamine hit

Wow, this video earned you a subscriber. The part about hobbyists feeling pressured to get professional level skills despite not even wanting a art career resonated with me and is something that I’m struggle with from time to time. You’re the first person I’ve heard that mentions it.

i had this realization very recently (i’m impressed my algorithm is so spot-on)! learning *how* to learn is the missing piece in a very frustrating puzzle every self-taught artist feels like they’re perpetually solving. thanks for this video 🤍

For me when I try to “improve” it just looks worse to my eyes. So I’ll keep making my unrended small child drawings very quickly until I die, because I love drawing and people irl say I’m very good. (I don’t post to social media as I mostly draw with crayons and pens and my art looks worse when I do it digitally as I don’t have an Apple pen.)

I feel we let the criticism of those who don't know the process it takes to get good at art too seriously. Though an outside observation can be good, knowing what to listen to is important. When I got back into art around 2019/2020, I wanted the work that I posted to show the process an artist takes to improve. Even with this mindset going into it, I fell into the trap of only valuing the art that turned out, "looking good." So when I'd start learning something new or improving a skill, I'd slip into a bad mindset. Even if I went into it with the " it won't be good" mentality. I learned that this constantly needing to improve or making 20/10 art ironically led to me taking longer to improve.

I think the most insidious part of social media has been the shift of "I am and artist sharing my art for fun" to "YOU are making art for ME to consume". Content consumers feel like it's their right to judge, critique, and deliver justice towards art and creators because content is created FOR the consumer, not as an outlet that the consumer shares with the artist. UA-cam videos, tik tok, and Instagram are littered with comments of people demanding content, demanding subjects, demanding acknowledgment at therefore control over the creator. And the creators that do give in to their audience and bend over backwards for them are rewarded with more engagement, making it difficult for the ones just doing their own thing for fun. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it anyways! Your group will find you and even if it's small, it's more important to remain true to yourself than give in to the demands of strangers.

It's very hard to draw for the sake of drawing when you become a "serious" artist. When i was in school i drew as a way to relax, now i relax by doing things not related to drawing ahahah This is the reason why I always tell my friends and family that i don't intend to monetize my other artistic hobbies, i don't want them to become a job or something i have to worry about, i'm happy to do my shitty little crochet stuff and my shitty sculptures without external (or internal) pressure

Personality how I deal with 11 is instead of doing line art I color my sketch and then paint over it, I hate doing line art because I have super shaky hands,i also can relate to 14 but I can’t draw many poses and I’ve not perfected drawing arms and hands, I also REALLY relate to 15 :) thank you for making such high quality videos!

Drawabox is the goat🐐

This is a very valuable thing to think about. Making art for arts sake. It just made me think of the people who made art before even the concept of realism, rendering, lighting or any other technical skill. Back when people where drawing fancy stick people on cave walls. They probably weren't thinking about how good their stick figures where, they were probably just thinking about making stuff. If someone was to draw a bull like they did on those cave walls today, there is a good chance lots of people would just think its bad or mediocre, but despite that, despite just basically being stick figures on a rock wall. They have become some of the most valuable art humanity has access too. They have created a shared human connection across 10,000s of years. And I think that just goes to show that the value and meaning in art is not inexorably tied to how "good" the art is.

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It's such a paradox, isn't it. We're so scared of making bad art, but, in my experience, it's usually when we let go of that fear and just enjoy the process and stop worry about making good art, that we actually produce our best work. I recently got myself just about the cheapest sketchbook I could find, labelled it in big black block letters on the cover "THE UGLY SKETCHBOOK (with all the ugly sketches that are not supposed to ever see the light of day)" as a way to remind myself that it is a judgement-free space where the sketches and doodles are allowed to be as bad and ugly as they please. The Ugly Sketchbook has really revitalised my creative process, and I now carry it everywhere, and basically all my bigger work start with an ugly, experimental ideation phase in there. And honestly, the fact that I feel like "I didn't waste money on good paper or a beautiful sketchbook so now my art has to match that" has been very liberating.

Why is art so bad during an art block, and how come everything you know just goes out the window? I love your content, have an awesome Canada Day! <3

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