Creativity Isn't a Talent.
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The timing of this video was scary- because i was just feeling extremely burnt out about the comic i was working on, "the plot isn't interesting enough" , "it sounds like someone else's story ", "am i plagiarising" , these were some thoughts that were going on in my head. But yeah- nothing ever completely original, there are references everywhere, so don't fear to use them too!
I feel like that's a necessary step for all creative activities. Everything starts off as learning from other people's work, and it's no coincidence that the work we create is similar to what we see from other's work (cause you literally learned from them). It will most likely be a mashed potato salad of all of the things we learn, at the beginning, at least.
I also think the people have this obsession of being "original". Being original is cool and all if you already know a lot about your field of creation, but I always struggled by it when I tried to learn something new. Because I didn't have any expertise to create something original while I had desire to create one. That, for me, was another big barrier of learning.
I think the only way to overcome this in a mature manner is to take that into your account. Understanding that the outcome of my work could be bad or straight up plagiarised. And focus not on the one work that you created right now, but also comparing that to yesterday's work of your own and see how much you improved.
His videos are almost always in a scary timing, sonetimes I will be feeling a certain way and the next day or the same day he posts the solution, we really need more skilled artists like him who talk about the mental and personal problems we face in art but are scared to admit, thank you so much ErgoJosh
Hey do u mind sharing a way to check out ur comic?
You should see how people talk about this shit on Heyuri.
Never apologize for taking references! take Joker for example, you could say it's a rip off from taxi driver yet it won an oscar and people love it in pop culture now. Nothing is new, if you put your own spin then it's no longer plagiarising.
Yo, I was rewatching your videos because I'm struggling with my art and I'm constantly thinking about quitting because "I'm not good enough to make an art career". Thanks a lot for making amazing art and content
Felt this
As an Artist myself i have had that feeling,without Art i would have a gigantic hole in my heart that would Always need to be filled.Continue working on yourself and your Art..You will find your path..
NEVER GIVE UP!!
Theres an exercise called the paperclip trick. Take something from your surrounding, and come up with 20 uses for the item.
This is based off the paperclip experiment. Which you should look up! This is a GREAT warm up, and if youre an artist draw the item in perspectives, If youre an engineer, come up with a new way to use a paperclip. If youre a musician, pick a basic score, and sing from your brain.
Remember that a blank sheet is dangerous, so draw a dot and get started, because a blank page is worthless, ideas are valuable.
I think a lot of people have the mentality that creativity is some miracle that falls from the sky because of how much stuff exists in the modern day. In terms of concepts, stories, tropes, etc humanity has explored so many angles over millennia so it can often feel that whatever we come up with pales in comparison to what already exists. Why write a story that follows a hero's journey that's played out 100s of times, draw a character that shares characteristics with thousands of others, create things that people may very well end up creating to a better quality than yourself. As somewhat of a more 'logical' person these thoughts used to weigh me down since I missed in my childhood whenever I'd just sit down and create things no matter how shoddy or unoriginal. But I always think about the psychological schema: how our brains essentially find shortcuts to understanding the world around us. For example for a chair ur brain might think: four legs, a place for sitting, has a place for ur back etc. Fundamentally speaking all chairs are the same in a sense, since they're designed with the same purpose and yet look around and you'll find a whole range of chairs of different sizes, shapes materials etc. Obviously I oversimplified the concept and maybe I could have picked a better analogy but the point is that each chair is distinct and if u were to make ur own ideal chair you'd take aspects from the ones you like. Basically, its okay to 'borrow' aspects from things we like and reshape them to be our own, because that's how we understand the world in the first place. You can't make something from nothing.
Also iteration is key. Coming back to first drafts and ideas after searching for new information is what can elevate a decent idea to a phenomenal one.
I love your chair analogy
Very wise words 👏
Creativity is a skill, like all skills you need to practice it.
noup, there are shortcuts without practice
Creativity is a trait not a skill
@@Gyllrexxar creativity is a process and a system of data storage
@ช่างสงสัย yeah, there are, coming from a concept artist yes there are shortcuts to creativity, and no Im not talking about drugs if you think so, you just mistify art like many othet artist do
@@royalecrafts6252 By data storage, are referring to the visual library?
I used to seek creativity, now I seek beauty.
Meanwhile I seek Heyuri...
I've been working on my fundamentals for a while now and I feel like I'm in a good spot, however when coming up with characters, my creativity was non-existent, learning creativity seems to be a new thing I must learn rather than feel like I either have it or don't. Great video as always! :D
Same. Im also working on it… and I gotta tell ya, ive never felt more fun being creative, and learning to trust the process as I remind myself every time I draw, it feels rewarding.
Theres an exercise called the paperclip trick. Take something from your surrounding, and come up with 20 uses for the item.
This is based off the paperclip experiment. Which you should look up!
Hi how did you practice it, I feel as if I’m in the exact same spot
As a beginner musician and a person who is drawing since he was born Im looking forward to this series. Such interesting thoughts already!!!
This is exactly the issue I'm having currently.
I'm in a very big class of graphic designers and illustrators when all I do is small doodles on the corners of my page. I want to get better but I see and compare my art to the other students and it's crushing seeing how far behind I am drawing. I started to say I'm not creative, that I have nothing special that can pop out from the crowd, but my friends point out that I'm incredibly creative. They pointed out the music videos I've done, the videos, and visual effects I've done, and they've all told me I am creative in my own special niche.
I am creative.. I have lots of cool ideas, but I'm not as good at drawing as I am at filming to let my creativity flow.
I made a mistake taking the art class, but I'm staying because being good at art would insanely help me with directing future projects.
Theres an exercise called the paperclip trick. Take something from your surrounding, and come up with 20 uses for the item.
This is based off the paperclip experiment. Which you should look up!
This is already making me cry, I feel like an imposter so much of the time because I’m not “special” and “creative enough “ thank you so much for this.
Not only a great artist, but also a great poet
p good advice tbh, especially the idea that we need inspiration from other sources in order to come up with something unique or interesting ourselves, i like to just scroll through pint rest and collect a bunch of refences and start drawing whatever i see and it's quite fun combining and experimenting, i even look at things i never considered before like fashion! which has helped me a lot with coming up with ideas. It's tiny things like these that help build up your mental library, even simple things like watching movies, looking at picture books observing our surroundings, might seem simple but all theses things really help in the long run.
This is one of the things you need to hear from time to time. I’m a huge believer in the fact that there is no talent, just incredibly hard work. But, even then, I fall into the trap of saying “I’m not creative enough”. As a video editor, I know it is incredibly harmful to think that way, and yet I still do it.
Also, another thing that Josh pointed out, that idea of comparing your art (or whatever it may be, frankly) to one of your peers and thinking you could never do that because you’re not creative enough. I’m also incredibly guilty of that, and on a daily basis.
Thank you for this video, because I really think I needed to hear this from someone else :D
Thank you for creating this series! It's so important to give time to yourself for creativity. There's a stage about this called Incubation in the Creative Thinking Model (ICEDIP). I was feeling a kind of void when I finished an artwork recently, wondering if I have enough creative energy to plan for another concept artwork. Being busy with college (CS Engineering heh) actually helped me take my mind off drawing for a while & now whenever I take a break from studying for exams now, new ideas just pop into my head like Eureka moments & I can imagine it way better than before!
All this made me realise that Art is a part of me & no matter how lost I feel for new ideas, my inner creativity will always remind me to be myself & create works that can hopefully communicate & inspire others in the future too.
the way you begin and end the conversation it is inspiring and alerting and informing of things people don't look deep into regarding how creativity makes it unique ... I played this video and repeated only to grasp wherever I needed and your videos are a joy ride and love your artwork the process is inspiring too, colour palate so interesting to see
The bit about one's bound of creativity being only one or two jumps beyond what they can currently imagine, that flipped on many switches and personally is invaluable to hear.. thank you so kindly :>
this is exactly what ive been wanting to hear, omg pls make more of these!!!😭😭
Preparations, sketching up drawings for Inktober are in full swing, I'm beyond excited but also find myself feeling scared and anxious; what if I fail to create something that is boring, what if it's uninspired, if it isn't complex or creative enough.
Your message couldn't have come at a better time! Your amazing voice soothed my tired nerves, even as I sat down to listen only to you.
Your thoughts on what to do when faced with a particularly difficult situation helped me immensely as I'm prone to either push myself too hard or feel like I failed if I give up trying.
Thank you so much Josh, I'll be sure to listen to this more than once. To me this is the artists' meditation. Greetings from Hungary!
It's nice to see someone voice what I realized a while ago but not many people talk abou, nice video Josh
Very well said. Your videos are so soothing! Love it!
I'm here for wisdom Sensei
"Stealing" is one of the greatest skills an artist can have. Loot a ton of ideas from a ton of sources, drop it in the pot and stir it up. This video is top notch. We are not God; we cannot create from nothing. Gather and put together.
Looking forward to this, what you say is inspiring, and your voice is very deep and calm, Soo good to listen to
Very thought provoking video. Made me think about when I first started creating art. I didn’t think I had a single creative bone in my body. But the further down this journey I go the more I stretch the creative muscle and I am starting to surprise myself with what I can come up with.
It’s important to remember that it is a muscle and needs to be worked in order to see results.
I'm pretty excited for that procreate course!
i keep trying to explain how talent is a social construct, but your video puts it so much more eloquently. this advice is wonderful because you can apply it to generally anything, thank you for taking the time to talk about this.
Thank you so much for this video, truly helped me reconnect with my inner artist. Love the content and your art.
you can't even imagine how much you helped me with your videos where you talk about such serious topics.
so it turns out that they come out just when i feel like i can't handle it and suffering terribly about it. but after your words, it is always easier for me. your right words are the reason i don't give up. not only me, many in the comments also write about how you help them. thank you so much
Im happy to hear this! Thanks for sharing.
I am back from a short journey and what you say in this video made me realize so much more things , this 2 weeks i had now were amazing.
I kinda got off point , not really sure what to say but , beautiful words as always man.
Honestly all of the motivational videos that i watched.
You just hits different...
Wow I love this characters face and pose looks very awesome and cute at the same time keep it up!❤️🥰
Ergojosh, I’m reading through the comments after watching this video/listening and want you to know that, in my eyes, you have created a unique community of artists. You attract the energy that you put out into the universe. You should be proud of what you have built.
Thank you for making this video! Was down a couple weeks ago about my creativity skill. Thank you!
Was waiting for a new one thanks ergo
Hey Josh! Great topic, and very grounded facts about what creativity is. I’m actually integrating this topic into my doctoral research right now, and I’d be happy to contribute my knowledge on the topic if you ever wanted to talk about it. Long time fan, so just wanted to offer up myself if you think that might be helpful! Looking forward to part 2
this was really interesting to think about, a lot of great points. I 100% agree that there is a creator in everyone, even people who say they aren't creative. Super glad this popped up on my recommended!
Your art looks so good. You really got so incredible better. I want to be like you
This. I really needed this.
As a person who tried so hard to have ideas magically fall into my lap, I feel like I've done a crime by not relying on inspiration from the outside world. Thank you for clearing my delusional head; I will not stray from my path to improving my creativity.
Great advice! Love this stuff.
I enjoy every your video, you really help to calm down that nasty voice in me that I need to be unique and extremely creative, and just enjoy the proces ☺️ love your art, and the voice! omg ❤️
Love is the only thing that matters. When you *lovingly* put your attention into something, you naturally 'get better' at --- surprise surprise surprise --- lovingly putting your attention into that thing (this can be interpreted as 'creative' or 'talented' or being in 'flow' but ultimately those words are meaningless). If you create from any other place other than love it'll feel like a struggle. And if it feels like a struggle you're simply practicing *against* the only skill that matters - lovingly putting your attention into something.
Basically, if you're passionate about something, you will find the perseverance to get better at it.
i needed this ty mr ergo josh :D
I started this video about a week ago and wasn’t able to listen to the rest of it until now. Between starting and ending this video I finished my first week of animation college, and boy did it make me realize I’m not nearly as creative as my peers. This video has been really helpful, thank you
I don’t know if you had a script for this or not, but this video, the hook at the beginning, the speech was super captivating.
For me creativity can be found in constraints. When you have a clear defined goal and only your available knowledge and skills at your disposal the outcome of what you produce will be unique to you. This can also be applied when thinking imaginitively as specificity allows your to compare and contrast against a set ideas. I believe going through this process really grounds your own thought process and allows us to think out of the box when there is no box to begin with
man I really need this , thank you 😳
Thanks for this video. I am extremely rigid with my style and freedom in art. This made me have a better perspective and thoughts on creativity 💙
Theres an exercise called the paperclip trick. Take something from your surrounding, and come up with 20 uses for the item.
This is based off the paperclip experiment. Which you should look up!
@@baileyjustin12 Hey i looked it up. Thanks for the wholesome suggestion. I'm going to fo this!
Your audio quality alone is so appealing, man
I'm so glad you made this video because it's true and it's NOT something anyone should feel bad about!! Creativity is a science and a very fun one to study to learn more about! I used to feel poorly about myself and feel I wasn't "Creative enough" because I couldn't activate it at will, but of course I can't, no one can! Taking my creative studies course was one of the best decisions I made in art school! I'm neurodivergent and sadly typical artschool couldn't be healthily completed by me, but understanding creativity as a concept and as a science still helps me accept myself and my art today!
Love the message, and “creative perspective view of the video :D
thank you so much Josh 😊❤️🙏
You help me a lot since i found your videos!
Muchas gracias!
Creativity/Uniek is having hundreads of very context pasific ideas and putting them in a very creative way. Which can only be done slowly over time.
You don't need to read or hear a story to make the best story. You just need to know how to tell the best story. If your meant to be a story teller you can do so with out influence.
Thank you. I needed this.
I like how you see things in different perspective. I've been thinking is there any original thing when we copy most in nature. I never thought someone may actually do that when they are out of their senses.
I appreciate your insights. One thing that I am always concerned with, is how many social media profiles to focus on. At 9:10, you mention ArtStation, Instagram, and DeviantArt (with Pinterest in the "links below"). I have Twitter and DeviantArt for my artwork, but never got IG or ArtStation. I have the most connections on Facebook, but rarely go on there, since it's not where I am connected to other artists. Lastly, since you are on UA-cam and Twitch, I would ask if you recommend doing time lapse art as a beginner, braving the no-viewers-on-Twitch, or how you feel about TikTok for small doses of art. Also, I'm not an Apple fan, so I use Clip Studio Paint on a Surface, but I imagine this series is more about the creativity aspect, and less specific to the tools being used. Looking forward to it. I've watched your videos for a while now, but went ahead and subscribed today.
There is a misconception about talent and creativity. People think being skilled or talented is to never struggle, and they fail to understand and teach younger generations to if they want to become a painter they should want the know lonely hours of practice and prepare them for the long lifetime journey, but everybody just want the end result and not the hard work
As a random person who just wants to draw stuff for entertainment, this video is very comforting and motivating. I kinda try to push myself further to be more "creative" in my art style and like I would always make plans to make like a "complete masterpiece" just so that people can see it. All it did was make me tired. It's only when I actually feel more relaxed and unbothered in my own quiet environment that I feel more confident in drawing (even if the end product isn't exactly a "subversive masterpiece" or the "greatest art piece to ever exist")
Thanks a lot for the video (and your work is also great), man!
as i was just questioning my creativity this came in the perfect time
It’s so true when I try to force it, it runs away. When I take a break from my art for a week it comes running back to me. We gotta learn to balance our downtime and art time!
Thanks for the vid Josh
so poetic I almost cried
I've struggled with making art this past half a dozen or so months. I just feel like I have no art left. Like I'm a dead piece of wood artistically. I think I just need to experience more in life before I can truly express anything and that's what I've been doing. The more experience you have in life the better your artistic expression is. A lot of you guys and gals are just like I was. On the internet all the time. And I think it's good to take a step back and enjoy your life a bit more instead of staring at a screen or a piece of paper for the whole day. I say put down not only your phone but also the pencil and take a bus somewhere really far. Or work hard at something you care about to get a meaningful result. I'm just so at peace right now, maybe the youtube comments section isnt the best place to put this but I've truly found what makes me happy. It's life. I don't wanna spend all my time on the internet anymore. I'm gonna make the real world something worth living to me. :)
You’re kinda losin me at some parts but i still value this advice a lot
Thank you so so much❤️
Great thoughts
I don't know if you've been told this, but you are uncanny to Morpheus. You're like a Morpheus for artists. Keep up the excellent work. New subscriber.
I loved this video so much
Creativity IS both talent and hard work! Can everyone draw? No! You can be creative by nature but you just don't have the talent for drawing. Years ago when I started my hobby animal art and was in my plaster of paris phase, a person I knew said anyone can can do what you do! What's so hard! Anyone can put in an animal miniature, plants and the like. So I said great! YOU try it! Well she failed miserably. I got out of that phase because I never got the water plaster right. Too watery, too dry, wasting more than I used. I tried something else on the same animal theme. Is it talent or creativity to find the right animal figure or picture? Is it talent or creativity to find the right base? Talent or creativity to know where to put things. Hard work deciding those, creativity to think of it, and talent making your idea work. If art wasn't talent AND hard work prefecting it, everyone could do it. I went through a short story phase. Creativity for the serial idea. Talent in that writing comes easy to me, hard work making characters, scenes and how my characters spoke and inventing a language, real. Talent helps. Creativity helps, hard work perfecting something so it looks easy is another thing. Those who object to talent are mostly those who've never done art as a serious hobby or a job.
i remember bob ross himself saying something like "creativity is not a talent, it is a skill that gets better with practice" and i live by that
Creativity is sometimes grabbing into the spiritual
There are spiritual beings out there. Good or bad
Not all creative ideas are good ideas either. Some are quiet whacky
What I see is that people have a hard time separating art skill and creativity.
Art is a skill, much like a language, that you slowly learn over time.
You can actually break down most art into simple skills stacked on top of each other.
It is not the learning or use of these fundamental skills that is creative.
It is actually very systematic, like mathematics or any language.
The creativity comes in the story you want to tell.
The higher your mastery of a language, the more interesting stories you can tell.
Much the same, the higher your art skill the more interesting stories you can portray on the canvas.
If you take this approach, you will realize that creativity comes secondarily to art skill.
Learn to be a good artist first, then worry about being creative.
you forget to ask an important question, what is creativity, without a frame you can't really say that is or isn't a talent
Dude I love your voice
That is why in an animation or comics studio there are creative minds in making stories, creative minds in making characters and voice actors, etc.
And by creative it doesn't mean completely unique and original really.
Anyway, some people are better at character creation and some are better at story creation, and some are better at animation because of the depth, the colors maybe, Some are better at simple shapes and others can't do any drawing or movement without extra specific details.
Thanks fam
I could listen to this man read a entire book without getting bored of his voice
Yes , sure
I tried to be creative and without giving it any thought i started digital art but got hit hard with the reality that i cannot do it its my 3rd year trying to be good at it but so far no improvements i used to do manual 10 hours practice a day i was good at that but after graduating from university without a degree in arts design i found the bitter truth that manual drawings aren't needed so it pains me to see that my skill set is no longer wanted and am currently unemployed
i listen to ur vids like they're a podcast
me with absolutely terrible, unhuman, destructive society and country and people around me everywhere and conditions, full package of mental diseases (some of them are genetic like bipolar disorder from my grandma and some neurological disorders such as shaking of entire body and complete lack of strength to even staying on legs, suffocating and heart pain from my mother genes, and everything this just from slightest frights, idk how i did not died yet with such troubles), chronic depression, chronic paranoia, learned helplessness, complete lack of self-thinking brain (my brain can't think on it's own mostly, only doing what others says, like instructions to anything in this life for my non-independent childish helpless brain, and also i get a brain trauma when i was born so medical examinations showed that some parts of my brain doesn't functioning at all, they are dead, and this cause me a lot of problems cuz i barely can learn at least something... almost always it's just leads to brain "crash" from overloading, my brain can't bear even slightest intellectual load on him, instantly shutting down and throws me asleep) inadequate family, who ruined my mental health for all those years what i exist, bullied by most of the people around me my whole life, living in totalitarian country without human rights and any smallest freedom, being in constant danger of getting arrested or beaten/killed just for your existence, grown up without interests, hobbies, and likable activity (i'm not enjoying DOING anything in this world), i don't ever understand how i end up being an artist, i started to draw only because of my inadequate mindset and my mental problems, i saw that everyone around me and all my friends are artists and doing a cool things (AND THIS HAPPENS ALWAYS THE SAME WITH ANY THINGS, my motivation is black envy and self-hate, but that's not a motivation at all, because i'm suffering from the fact i can't do this and not being someone and doing something, but i don't do anything and not enjoying to do anything) so i started to envy them and wishing to be better than they all, but in the end i only destroyed myself completely now and can't do anything anymore ever again but addicted to this wish and "goal" of my envy, living whole life without soul, without personality, that's not a life, it's hell, i hate being who i am, i don't have anything and i am nothing, how i can live and be happy and not endlessly suffer in agony if i don't have any hobbies and interests and can't enjoy anything in this life while everyone around me have interests and love doing something and be good at it... i'm not living, just only pointlessly existing as living corpse, i can't bear it. I just don't understand how to live a happy life being mediocrity without any passions and seeing all this people and their works over the world and internet...
I don't know why but this feels like a LucidPixel parody
What's your opinion on the csp news🤔
My problem is that I'm too creative, and my stories aren't easy or small scale nor my ideas, creating these things isn't like an artwork, it's like a production, a book series, a film, a comic, etc. UA-cam vids and art ideas come naturally but I want to go beyond that, I just don't know what stuff has more value to the world as you never know what is and isn't of merit, as the creator you become a bit bias and the workload to complete something by yourself can get overwhelming at times.
Creativity is the Greatest rebellion for mad society. Creative people are more individual, they are harder to be condition to follow a society. Uncreative people are more obedient, hard, and mechanical. Which is what society needed.
This is an interesting take
Congrats on 666k
This is so true 🤍😯
wake up babe josh posted
ergo !!!
Is it only me to notice that the character looks a lot like Makima from Chainsaw Man?
Nice to know I wasn’t the only one!
Once I added the red hair I knew this would happen but it just looks too good 😂
@@ergojosh My sensei you know Chainsaw Man 😯? Imma wait for your fan-arts then for the series.
Maaan i wanna be your friend in real life. lol awesome video
A thing I often say is, Good art is like pizza. It's always liked and bought by people that had it many times before, doesn't matter if it's some obscure topping or plain old ''uncreative'' pepperoni.
I have gained enlightenment
coping is key
Creativity is all about solving problem. Creativity is related to high IQ. There for creativity is a talent and not everyone is creative. If you have below average IQ, your UA-cam motivation and hard work will not work for achieving success. So, don't give People false hope and motivation. You are privileged by your luck and High IQ.
ergojosh, your still one of my favorite people, your smart and talented and your advice has gotten much better.
Many have the talent to create brands that cater to momentary trends. But who actually has the creativity to think outside of the box and explore that territory with their basic skills? Fact is, nothing popular starts out as popular. It gradually becomes what it is by *speaking to the crowd.* I say no more.
It's when you create the trend that the creativity really shines sometimes
@@rouge-ish324 Food for thought.
This.
Artworks are
80% creative ideas
20% talent
You can hone our skills asmuch as you want, if your ideas are boring....
Good news is: Inspiration can be found everywhere. Literally.
What was the music that do you used?
A few different tracks from epidemic sound
@@ergojosh thanks you for responding my comment
Literally drop the vid right when I was trynna be creative