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Photo-realistic art has always baffled me. I understand that before camera's we needed to get good, but we have cameras, art for art's sake! Ok, watching rest of the video now.

Thanks for this❤ I will most certainly take your advice!!!

Great video, thank you, Dries!

Well done mate. Another cracking video, thank you for the PDF, I look forward to receiving it. You always give me confidence to carry on, and that makes you valuable. God bless.

I love making art and I love being surrounded by it. I sit here in my little studio, and it's good for my soul. I never went to art school, so completely self taught. I have no particular style either. One day I might do abstract, next day maybe an animal. I have many, many pieces on my walls. My friends tell me I should sell at local shows, but so far I haven't attempted that. I have just been given a commission to do a forest scene with animals, and I am thrilled, but also nervous about that. So, wish me luck. I have no desire to be a professional painter. I just do it for the love and joy of being a creative soul. I love your videos.

Love your work. But when I hear gd...I turn your channel off.

Basically, you are reducing art to commerical success. Ugly Art. Which amounts to chasing gimmicks and novelty. And what you are calling art style, or recognizability is just branding ~ like cereal boxes of corn flakes. I want to recommend a video by Odd Nerdrum, about how the philosopher Kant "changed our heads" about art. I have been researching how non-representational art became, supposedly, popular ~ but it wasn't. It was pushed by "The Art Police". Check out Nerdrum's talks on art. I learned a lot. czcams.com/video/EcjVXBXn7b4/video.html

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I honestly prefer to be alone most of the time. I find nothing wrong with it, only other people think it’s strange. I rather be in my little art studio creating my own little world that makes me happy then out and about with strangers acting like they care about my day or having those horrific awkward conversations with people that lead to nothing but uncomfortableness. I have a close group of friends that i love dearly but i honestly don’t feel the need to meet up at a bar to catch up on life all the time. They understand that and that’s why I love them. I think the older we get we realize a lot of truth within ourselves and no matter what it is, you follow your intuition and your heart. Seems like you have been through dark times and I can tell you one thing for sure, there is ALWAYS A RAINBOW at the end of that storm and everything that has happened will lead you in the direction in life you need to go. Even if it doesn’t feel like it at the moment ❤

Would you say that @TenHundred has created a brand for himself? He has many subscribers.

Umm.. that info on Ecce Homo restoration is wrong, but I hope the rest is more or less on track...

Yea i dont do consistency, i create when i feel like it and it has been a blast thats for sure

freinds are over rated, the more friends you have the more problems you have, your better off being crazzy artist who sells his art for millions, then you can buy as many freinds as you want

For the signature do you recommend to use your real name or a name you use for your art exclusively?

this whole video is an elaborate excuse to show that workout footage, BE HONEST SIR

I'm distracted by your hair...lol it's great!!

Earning money can ?

All or nothing, that sounds like me 😂 Thank you for the inspiration ❤ It sounds easy when you talk about it, but I know you do a lot of work and put a lot of effort into overcoming that procrastination process. I really appreciate that you share what you have learned ✨️

Hahah no. I make art. I have employees for everything else just like the majority of successful artists.

That was a very long rant for not even recommending any good on demand print services. I have been doing it for years on various platforms and they've absolutely been robbing my profits. The margins they keep are extortionate!

Brilliant. I’m a New subscriber. All I ever wanted to do is be a full time artist . This year after 30 years of the 9-5 to raise a family. I’m going for it! Social media is so confusing. I totally don’t get instagram . When I find an artist on instagram I can’t figure out how to go to a website, or message them. Seems like a waste of time. help! Can you make it without instagram?

This is gold

I LOLed when you said, "I know nothing about pricing" I often get buys (AFTER they purchase) tell me, "You are not charging enough."

The fact that this is true, just reminds me why I can't stand this world and how it works. This is gross and sullied of all pure heart. Thank God this life ends at some point for the higher world of true beauty and eternal truth and art.

Great stuff Dries you’re a breath of fresh air. Where are you based? Flanders?

Frighteningly incisive opinions. What an intriguing tack you have taken. I look on with interest.

funny thing is you and i look similar if we met we could do the spiderman thing also thank you for this channel , so much i needed here!

Great insights, gives me a lot of food for thought. Makes me wonder if there’s a fast and efficient way to develop your brand.

Gotta sell works. Just how it is.

I mean this is just loose collection of vaguely related conjecture : directors cuts have existed since the 70s, and rereleases started happening shortly after VHS got started, products have resold themselves with minor variations since time began from waffle makers to TVs to clothes. It's not a new thing, and its not all related to the movie market. Subscription models for many software is in part to keep earning money, but also to make it harder to pirate software. Much of the standardization of cars in the 60s has to do with conserving costs, but also standardizing safety features and gas milage, ect. We knew less about how to make a car that drives long without breaking down or killing someone in an accident. Now there are laws to ensure those standards. Which increases uniformity. If you're point is that companies will try to reskin products for increased profit, and to decrease development costs, then sure, yes, that's true. But you're acting like you discovered some connection between these things, rather then just stating a core model of business.

love your crazy insane style dude!

If I may. I’m like 50 now. I grew up around artistic people and lovers of art. To some extent. I seen the amount of art decrease and peoples disposable income and desire for art increase. I tell everyone to buy any painting without looking at the brand if the price is low and the talent is high. We are approaching the dark ages.

The more you work as a professional artist, the more you understand the truth of this video. Well done!

Why the wine is flowing at every art show. 🍷

bro ai doesnt steal, it learns concepts through analyzing the image, the same humans do but way more efficient and gets more data per image

Just here for the weirdness.

Often, when it comes to crazy expensive modern art, it's actually money laundering. Yes, the autograph is more important than the composition. But at its fundamental core, it's money laundering. Delve into this. I'm not making it up.

fear of success stops many of us

Digging your hair, dude!

Good points. Hirst once said that it wasn’t about art but how far he could go until somebody would stop him, and nobody came. We are stopping ourselves with our beliefs 😢

“The most important moment in the life of an artist is when he is born, and when he is establishes an autograph.” Taking this to heart. Seemingly all influential artists have a brand, proko has proko tv, Kim Jung Gi has superani. I think I should make a brand around manga artists too, because it basically has few waves in the art environment or even the media environment as a whole. The problem with focusing on branding is lack of time for practice and struggles to even get people to notice it. Anyway nice video, thanks

Thank You!!!😵‍💫❤❤❤

Hello Dries, I've really enjoyed your expertise and knowledge that you've shared. If you could take the time to give an opinion it would be much appreciated. I've had a decent career as a professional artist since 1991. I've created many pieces and mastered many mediums over the years. A globally recognized artist friend of mine has implored that I create a new brand for my fine art, and disassociate it from my 30 year body of work (mostly commercial and bodypaint). At 53 years I feel it is too late to start anew especially with the looming threat of AI. I also like my given name and have issues trying to wrap my head around a new alternate identity. Thanks again for your advice.

I started my life as a professional artist in college by making life-size chalk portraits on velvet. As an avid entrapraneur and stay-at-home mother I spent 15 years dabbling in a variety of art genres (photography, fashion design and eventually graduated to painting flowers and birds on the clothing I designed and sold. It was 1980 when my precious family life exploded and eluded restoration I took my broken heart on a 6 month retreat to kive on a sailboat in the Virgin Islands. It was there in 1980 that I began sewing sundresses for myself and my new friends and my retreat developed into a full-blown, word of mouth business eventually leading to mass production hand-painted merchandise which I sold to gift shops on St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, St. Martin and Anguilla. My main products evolved into hand-painted and silk screened t'shirts which were distributed through gift shops to people from all over the world. People paid upwards of $125. for some of my most popular t'shirt designs and framed them as worthy works of art to display in their homes. That was about the time of actual artistic burn-out and I relocated to a small beach shanty on the little island of Anguilla where I found a whole new way to live, think and grow as a painter. I merged into painting larger works primarily of the island people, flowers, fish and birds that I was surrounded with. It was then in 1987 that I began doing gallery work, primaril on stretched canvas and Bristol board..

I was just thinking this today how it's the artist, artist's name that makes art valuable and therefore desired among art collectors...

Well done. A big thanks to you.

So true

Well explained. 👍

I'm poor, so I have to start with cheap services. I'll upgrade later when I make enough money.

How do I turn my paintings into digital prints?