How to Improve Your Art When You're Short on Time
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- Struggling to find time to work on your art? In this video I'll share 5 tips (and a bonus tip!) to help you continue to learn and grow as an artist even when you don't have time to paint!
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I’ve really noticed the beauty all around since I’ve been painting. Especially the clouds!⛅️ 😊
LOVE clouds!!
I have a soul crushing office job and have been trying to think of ways to paint on break or over lunch in my car, but the time is so short I wasn't certain I could do anything useful other than brush or color practice. Your tip for doing small studies is perfect, thank you for sharing that. It will definitely be used!
I used to be in a similar situation, gesture drawing was my go to
Yep, small but mighty!
@LutHeal think about what you just said..."soul crushing job"
I believe we are here to nurture and Grow our souls...I suggest you save your soul and leave that job..make a huge lifestyle change!
Best Wishes to you!
@@G.G.-nt2mi Thank you for the kind words. It is definitely a goal that I am working on. But I'm a "baby steps" type of person haha! :)
Something else that’s helpful is to actually NOT put your supplies away when you’re done with them and leave them out to have easy access to them in an area where you often have open access to like a dining room table or coffee table. It’s easier to just be able to walk by a common area and already have your supplies ready to go than to have to pull it all out, set it all up and then get in the mindset of getting ready to paint. You’ll have an easier time trying to convince yourself you really don’t have the time if you have to do all that ‘work’ to set it all up before you can paint over just already having it ready and waiting for you to use it if you only have a few mins here and there to do so during your day. If you’re already set up, you’ll also tend to invest in spending more time you really didn’t think you had to spend painting.
And the reality of the matter also is, is that no one is THAT busy during their day that they cannot carve out 5 mins to invest in something they love. People really need to be real with themselves if they’re really serious about wanting to do something they love. The problem really tends to be is that we just don’t prioritize it and spend our time doing other things we really don’t care as much about and convince ourselves that we don’t have the time while doing other things like binge scrolling online or binge season watching their favorite shows on Netflix instead.
Get yourself a small set up and have it ready to go, out in the open and where you will see it and have easy access to it all for the next time you have some more time to paint and it will be worth it!
GREAT tip! 🙂
Great ideas! I often wonder how You Tube artists/teachers/business owners have the time to do it all, and raise a family, keep a clean house, etc., etc., and then create art! God Bless you, you’re a better woman than I am, that’s for sure. Just wanted to add that there is something that I personally do to save time: on all videos except music, I listen at double the normal speed. In this way, I feel I can listen/ learn twice as much, as well as twice as fast. People who have overheard me doing this have been startled, asking me how I could manage to learn anything this way, to them it sounds like gibberish, so I just tell people, “try it before you knock it. You may just surprise yourself”. When I listen at double speed, I pay closer attention, and learn better than when I’m just mozeeing along at normal speed, lol. As with all things, including learning how to paint with watercolors, it makes life more fun to challenge oneself. If it wasn’t hard, then everybody could do it..
This video was perfect timing. I have three young kids and I’ve been painting some petunias. today I only had time for one petal! 😂 It’s teaching me to slow down and enjoy the process.
Great job on that petal! 👏
I'm in the UK - and always said I couldn't wait till I retired so I could paint most of the day: guess what, I am retired now and still 'complain' about the lack of time! Is it an excuse we make - who knows, however watching your video gave me lots of ideas which I'll follow up on - and I've decided not to complain about lack of time anymore. I love your videos Emily and look forward to your emails telling me of the new ones - many thanks for your inspiration! You are a very sweet lady.
So glad I could help! There's no time like today! :)
I just read your comment & I can definitely relate. I’ll be 64 this year and I just started painting & practicing the last few months. It’s helped me to paint the same thing over & over again. I love seeing how I improve each time. Hang in there & start painting!!!
Really good tips. Lately, I've been finding myself thinking about how I would draw or paint something, or studying how the light hits a subject and how it affects everything surrounding it. It never occurred to me that I was actually building my skill. Thank you for a fresh, new perspective!
Happy to help!
Ballpoint pen sketch are awesome 💯... amazing
Thank you!
Love the multi color pen idea.
They are SUPER fun!
I remember my friend telling me once that I seemed to see everything "as beautiful"... She doesn't know that in the back of my head, I am assessing it through different categories, values, construction, details... And thinking to myself that it's good for my studies. Which makes it interesting 😂
Love it!
Thank you for all these great tips and thank you for always encouraging our creativity! 🎨
My pleasure!
Great suggestions. I am often looking at something and wondering, "What color would I use? What would I mix?" And more.
Thinking like an artist! :)
Thank you! appreciate your suggestions!!
My pleasure!
Thank you for ideas and inspiring
Very helpful. I am so pleased I signed up to do your watercolour tutorials as they are so well filmed and constructed! Unfortunately I haven't been able to do many recently because of a house renovation but I do have those small watercolour pads you mentioned, of to check out the mini paletter 😆
Great suggestions! Thank you!
My pleasure!
Love this. Thank you ❤
So glad!
Great ideas Emily! thank you!
You bet!
brilliant ideas thank you 😊
You're most welcome!
I haven't painted or drawn anything since I started my last year of university in September. Even If I have free time, I feel guilty if I try to paint because my brain thinks that I should be using that time for something more productive. So I end up watching youtube in a loop because that's a passive act and doesn't take the effort and planning that I should be putting into something else. I know it sounds stupid but I struggle with absurd thoughts like that. I don't play videogames either because it's the same concept.
Oh, I get that! But making art is SO good for us!
Thank you so much I needed this! I started doing lil sketches a few weeks ago with those pens as I have no time because of work, dogs and rest(CFS) etc…I am a member or your yearly classes and love watching them and managed sometimes to do a few of your tutorials. You are so lovely and gentle too 💕
Thanks so much, and I'm glad the video was helpful!
Great video.
so many amazing tips, I love this ☺☺☺
So glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching!
Great suggestions ... I will do a few outlines up ahead of time and when i get the chance, then I can just paint. I love your suggestion of micro art to work on.
Glad it was helpful!
I’ve been taking pictures and drawing them as we camp. I brought pastel pencils and a few pan pastels and have painted a couple things. I have a watercolor started at home. I enjoy your tutorials and i have a great start on a portrait at home and I’m enjoying it and like it so far. I’ve sketched a few things also. Thank you so much Emily!
Glad you are enjoying your art!
I'm thinking about art...all the time...driving, gym. Shower,..during shaving too...😅 I'm mad. Recently I wanted to stop my car during my commute to work and watch beautiful sky...but even if I slow down with an awe!! I can hear big honks from behind 😂
Sounds normal to me! 😂 Just a regular day for an artist. :)
Thanks I love the suggestion about sketching and observation. I also do alot of pen work.
You're most welcome!
I have those pens! Never thought to sketch with them! Oh please make a video of you sketching with those!! 💕
Well ok!
Some great tips there Emily. Love the sketches you've done in biro and coloured pen, excellent. So glad I found your channel 🙂
Thanks for stopping by!
Love these suggestions, thank you! I sadly haven’t had much time to paint these last couple of weeks, so this is inspiring!
So glad you're feeling inspired!
This is WONDERFUL!!! Thank you for all of these awarenesses. I also love Walter Isaacson’s books - especially his book about Ben Franklin and wasn’t his story about Leonardo DaVinci and the woodpecker amazing? Love all of the tips…Thank you again.
I need to read the Ben Franklin one!
I'm always looking at greens and thinking about the crayon names I had as a child. So many come to mind!! Now, can I recreate these colors on paper? 😅