The Psychology of Failure | Art therapy
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- When are you good enough to call yourself an artist? Imposter syndrome is a fear we all experience and can overcome. That's why we'll look at the psychology of becoming an artist. Self improvement involves more than developing ourselves on a technical level we also need to develop our mindset and stay conscious of our mental health. In this video'll I'll share a simple mindset realisation.
Thanks to @ProkoTV for inspiring me to make this video!
⌚ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:23 The brain
0:39 Real life & personal story
1:46 The Band
2:49 Life
3:30 Overcoming self-doubt
5:06 Best you can
5:36 Self Compassion
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I'm having hard time just drawing for the sake of drawing, I enjoy drawing a lot but constantly feel like I should practice something (fundamentals, do studies, etc.) to improve instead of just drawing whatever I want. On some level I kinda wish I had never learned about the "fundamentals" and kept a beginner childlike mind and just drew for fun, maybe I would make better progress.
Ohohoh I so understand your thoughts. Honestly your words precisley strike the balance every artist should aim for. So just keep doing what your intuition says. F*ck the fundamentals! And also, they’re very important. Lol
@@thedrDraw This could be a nice topic for a video maybe.
@@namstee yeah, good one! Let me give it some thought
@@namstee yeah good one, let me give it some thought. Ps. Like your username
I have decided to just draw whatever is in my mind, give myself permissions to be human and make the mistakes needed that the fundamentals come to adjust. I relate to your struggle and that's what I came up with to cope; the fundamentals were not meant to make perfect things, to put extreme pressure on ourselves.
Really useful video. Sometimes it's hard to keep in mind that pain and failures are part of the process. I tend to forget that it develop the resilience that allows us to improve as artists and as human beings.
Thank you, Alex, we miss these kinds of videos.
Well, you mention them spot on Raynald. Great words and you're a great artist!
I'd rather learn from an art teacher who has failed for years before success, than one who has only known success. Hard times add a depth to one's character that's nearly impossible to achieve otherwise.
Thanks for your transparency Manic. I totally agree, my teachers have failed more then they’ve succeeded. And that makes them human.
This was helpful to me because I am currently trying to process the loss of a relationship. I had been trying to just move on fast, and pretend like it didn't hurt me very badly that we parted ways. I've just been trying to move on to the next thing (but I've been frantically trying to figure out what that next thing is. I feel like I'm having a mid life crisis and suddenly wanting to change everything about my lifestyle and future goals. I think I'm just trying to pivot and feel like I have purpose.)
In this video there was some advice about what to do after you have a difficult experience like this:
Give time to the feeling. We live in a fast culture, but some things need time. You need to give yourself time to digest the experience. Open your perspective to what just happened. Process it, maybe talk about it with someone else. Create some distance between you and that difficult experience.
Take a step back and look at the experience from a different perspective.
You're a top notch human being, thanks.
I struggle to draw without caring about the result. The process of drawing becomes infuriating when I keep thinking about and seeing all the mistakes. I end up erasing and redoing sketches over and over until I eventually just give up.
Omg love your honesty. I totally recognise that. But if there’s one (annoying) tip I might share. Throw your eraser in the bin. Embrace your mistakes, they are honesty ❤️
thank you for making these videos, i especially like the one about showing how to train like kim jung gi. you bring a perspective to art that i have been looking for a while
Yeah I'll try to do more of those. Thanks
I love this channel. Thank you! You've opened my eyes on many things that happen to me on my art journey. And it's precious. I've never seen such a unique combintaion of really high psychology and art skills.
Thank u so much for this video! It helped me a lot)
These type of situations are oftenly happens in my life😂. As you taken an example that that was pretty similar to my life as well. But your helped me to realization sir. Thank you 😊
When I read or watch interviews with artists that are veterans in the industry, they always say that now that everything is online, it's so easy for aspiring artists to connect with other, more experienced artists. Yet whenever I muster up the courage to start a converstation with one of them, I always get ignored which is very discouraging. This long journey feels so lonely and I wonder if I'd only get recognized if I had those pros' skill level.
If you feel lonely you should look for a community of like-minded people. I've been there and thought I was alone. But the reality is, EVERY aspiring artist feels what you feel. If you want you can check my Patreon ;)
@@thedrDraw I'm happy to learn that I'm not alone in this! I'll check out the Patreon!
I loved this video I needed this
I lost all the competitions I had in my life even I was so sure that I will win. I've never felt the feeling of being recognized by others and still I expect myself to grow and be motivated. I fear...I fear everything now
That fear makes you human. Now learn to live with it, not against it.
You're awesome, man. Thanks for the knowledge!
This channel will get big for sure :)
Let’s see, I’m not gonna stop.
I remember a while back where Popcross did these challenges. Basically “draw for me, and I might consider redrawing it”. I had put time, passion, and thought into the drawing. Only for one of the more competent artists to get their art done. Even to my still developing art mind. That the drawing he chose was utter fucking shit. Technically well rendered? Sure. What pained me was he was taking the easy route of redrawing a finished piece. Instead of going for a kid’s creative design. That’s when the true bombshell dropped on me. Art youtubers do not give a fuck about you. Which sucks if you’re a kid who doesn’t have much. Especially since the part about art people forget is it’s communication. Whether it be from the artist or the audience. At the end of the day, I saw it like this. Big art youtubers don’t give a shit when they tell you that what you’re doing is wrong. Even with in person learning, I still fight with my art teachers as much as I respect them. Because at the end of the day. They take time out of their day to help others.
Really needed this video. I'm taking a design mentorship now and I've been demotivated to draw because I feel like my results arent enough and not as compelling as my peer's. Because of this I wind up procrastinating and not having enough time to put a decent effort into my assignments. I think I really needed to hear "The only reason we fail is because we tried, and trying something that is a challenge, is a victory on its own."
Ah I'm so happy to read your comment. Yeah, self-criticism is the hardest struggle of all. I actually advise you to keep a journal. It helped me a lot in those days. And still does actually
@@thedrDraw I don’t write in it daily but I do write to myself every few days as like a check in with what I’m thinking about/stressed with daily. It definitely helps keep my focus centered. I think my biggest struggle is pushing myself to keep drawing when I’m frustrated in my work. Like I know I’m psyching myself out but that doesn’t make the feeling go away. Thank you for the response though!
If you don’t feel like drawing; don’t. No need to push yourself. Follow the fun
Ik kan mij het verliesverhaal herinneren. Super chill dat je helder en boeiend benoemt (en visueel maakt) waar iedereen mee te maken krijgt. En ook leerzaam voor andere situaties in je leven :) Like it, like to see more!
There will be more :)
@@thedrDraw can’t wait
so great
So very interesting en helpful, Alexander!
Thank you master teacher 😃😃
nice video, i found your channel almost half a year ago, at that time i was really motivated, drawing almost every day, started a twitter account to upload art, picked up an anatomy book focused on form and perspective and i thought to myself i was doing pretty good. One day i had a few bad drawings but didn't think much of it, then the next day it happenend again, and that situation repeated for like a week and a half straight. At that point i felt like giving up, and quite frankly i did, i had been drawing since 2014 and took it seriously since 2018 but at that time all those years drawing felt like a waste, all those years, specially the latters trying to learn and study so much, trying to become the next kim jung gi but i just kept thinking i wasn't enough, i wouldn't ever reach some kind of level i would be content with (also around that time master Kim Jung Gi passed away, and he was and is my biggest inspiration to anything related to drawing, i don't know how many streams i've watched live, how many drawings i've copied and studied from him, i even got some tips from him during a livestream which i won't forget ever, and him passing really made me think in negative ways towards my drawings he was the first ''stranger'' i couldn't accept the death of, it just didn't seem real, i just wanted to meet him irl so much and be able to show him a drawing and go ''ey KJG this drawing, all my skills i've honed have been to be like you, look what you inspired me to achieve'') and at that time i gave up, i just felt like every drawing made me loose skill, every mistake was bigger than the last, and it seemed like i just would not stop failing over and over again...
Today i've finally broken out of that cycle of self hate and demotivation, i've decided i'm going to be better, i've noticed that while some of my last drawings were worse so many other were great compared to the ones a year before. I've been feeling stuck at the same drawing level for about 3 years, but it simply isn't true, at the time i couldn't see it and just focused on my mistakes, but i also learnt so much during those last 3 years, in a way i didn't give those succeses as motivation since i thought getting better was just how things had to be, but no, no longer will i have that perspective, i really did improve during those years, they weren't wasted and i'm not going to loose more time thinking i'm a failure, i'm gonna keep grinding.
Now this last part is more personally and i'm writing it more for myself, so i can look at this later if my motivation wavers again.
Master Kim Jung Gi, wherever you are, you always said it, ''visualize before drawing and always, always, draw'' i'm gonna keep drawing just like you would want me and all of us to do.
Ah I'm so happy to read your comment. Thanks for sharing and you're not alone in your experience. We all have moment in which we feel demotivated. A true artists isn't someone who has great technique but who conquers those moments. If you do that and give yourself some time, you'll get there!
Very good video
great those bloopers at the end!!
haha they we're fun to make. Next time put them in the video!
goede uitleg, jezelf bloot geven met een vervelende gebeurtenis in je leven WERKT !
Zo lief mam, bedankt x
people learning art (like me) should pay more attention to this part
Definitely, it’s a highly underrated subject but we all deal with this
Nice vidd
cant wait :>
Hehe this is my best video so far. I least I think so :)
@@thedrDraw its an excellent video!
@@nowothing Thank youuu!
very good video
Grazi!
Cool channel.
Share your sketchbooks (flip throughs) - sketchbooks are very popular on CZcams - especially Moleskine,
Given enough time and age passed you can no longer recover from “the slap” no matter what you do or try because you come to the undeniable realization that you simply don’t have the mental capacity or willpower or charisma to do anything in life. The most painful and annoying thing then becomes the fact that you have a conservation instinct, then you realize life on this world is truly hell and it has been made by the devil for you to suffer in the most perverted way possible. But then again there is the notion of inferno which can be even worse than hell. Or maybe this is just the warmup, a slow and painful disappointing deadly purgatory.
How do you make your animations sir?
Working my ass off
We did participate in the same challenge. I did a lemur in a motorcycle.
Oh cool! Do you have a link?
I LOVE U 2
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embrace failing
Hey! How did you come up with the idea that our brain categorize every experience into either fear of happiness?
Hey! In reality it works more complicated of course, but complexity doesn't make things easier to understand. Experiences can be categorised in more emotions that fear and happiness but they seem opposing emotions. That's why I used them.
Everyone says that the basics or the fundamentals are supposed to help us to draw but for me I think thats opp. I feel very restricted and almost become a robot while drawing. Im lacking that natural element in my drawing. How do I overcome this? because I know both are important :(
Hey! Thanks for sharing. Well I think you're already sharing the solution: do both. Spend 50% (average) of your time on the robot drawing (perspective, form, anatomy) and 50% of your time just doing whatever you want to do.
The reason we need a bit of robot is to master the skills to express our thoughts. You could see drawing as a language and we need to understand the grammer (robot).
It's like tough love. But if it wasn't tough then everybody would do it.
@@thedrDraw love the example u used! yes, I will work on it harder. That example cleared a lot things in my mind thanks!
@@thedrDraw that's a good point of view, before i got burned out and stopped drawing for a while i only did studies and practices, this time i'm gonna mix it up like you say so i don't hate it so much
I don't want recognition.
I don't want to draw quickly.
I don't draw for likes or pats in the head like a dog.
I want this, i need this only for me; the people is irrelevant.
Good mantra!
keep the great work man i realy love what are you doing here thats really super helpfull
Haha I always will! you keep sharing your thoughts friend!