Improving Art Through Meditation
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- A discussion on how meditating can assist your art journey. Given at Lightbox 2022. Be sure to check out lightbox in person if you can, I highly recommend it: 2023.lightboxexpo.com/
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:01 Ideas behind this topic
20:22 Guided Meditation
36:40 Summation and Mental Frameworks
"the man who loves the journey is better than the man who loves the destination"
STORMLIGHT ARCHIVESSSS JOURNEY BEFORE DESTINATION!!(I'm a huge nerd I apologize)
Facts
Is better … how ?
I have a suggestion for how to draw AND meditate sort of mindfully as an exercise.
There was a proko video that gathered tips for good art habits etc and I pull this from there, but it's quite helpful.
So you draw from life how you normally would. You find an object or subject to draw, but- rather than looking back and forth between your page- you focus on the feeling of your pen. How it feels on the page, where it's position is and so on.
You draw blind effectively. And it can be done with closed eyes also.
But you try and visualise where the pen is from how it's feeling, (without looking) and you conciously determine where each stroke should go.
It's very helpful for pen control and spacial awareness too.
I had an "artblock" for a big part of life, and part of that was that i was uncomfortable being aware. I could only do it if i reached a flowstate, so i naturally gravitated towards activities i could do while unaware. Meditation actually helped me be okay being aware, so naturally my desire to draw came back because i didn't need to be in a flowstate anymore to be comfortable drawing
that's beautiful!
You accepted the change and adapted. That's so awesome
This is the most useful art talk that hardly talks about art, sinix always highlights the interdisciplinary-ness of art
I always think every aspect of life can be seen through the passion of art if you will it to be, i think sinix might feel the same.
probably why I've been watching for so long
The most unexpected thing I expected to see here XD
Thank you for what you do
Whilst I dont meditate, I always do my morning pages which act as the same resource for me, its a game changer ❤❤❤
This is one of your best videos, I usually don't comment much here on youtube but felt like doing the exercise and coming here at the end to wish you a great joyful practice in your art making. I've been learning a lot from all your videos after re-watching most of them recently. This discussion also confirms some of the things that I had going in the back of my head after coming back to art with a much more positive mindset, after taking a break for almost a year. Thank you for re-uploading it to your channel because I think it will be of so much help to a lot of people, today, tomorrow and for the rest of the future. To anyone else reading this, I wish you a great day and may you make the art that you love!
Guided meditation by Sinix is the best video I've seen in a while.
Hey man, was great to meet you at Lightbox. Loved the sprouts, they were everywhere!
i only started drawing at almost 30. i had a horrible childhood. one good memory is the -maybe- only time i reached flow state (besides when i read books). i had taken a huge stack of paper from my dads printer and phantasized about making a princess dress out of it and draw scenes from my favorite grimms fairytales on every part of it. i was like 10 or something. i dont even know how much of it is phantasy and what i actually did, i was straight up in trance. when my dad came home and i showed it to him he was angry because i wasted his paper. everytime i drew it was like "dont waste my paper". yeah, good looks lol. i wonder how you could transfer that to writing what you say in your speech. i write too but i always struggle with the heartbreak of having to decide for one of the two. with writing, i feel like i have a natural gift for it, cant really explain. with drawing not so much but i cant stop somehow. theres this weird need to be good at it. but i never lose that inferiority feeling of "oh its just not for me" whenever i dont like what i did. very depressing at times. also, with drawing i crave to do something uniquely my own but often find myself reproducing generic stuff. i did a course of yours and i cant thank you enough because it was the first time i felt lifted up and not put down by a teacher. i learned more than in years combined. when i catch myself kicking myself when im down i think of your statement that theres a way to bring my very own, unique vision that only i have out of me. still, i feel like its buried in a lot of seen-before clutter. any idea how to overcome that?
Really lovely comment. wish i could go to the child you that used your dad's printer paper and encourage them and celebrate them.
When my art looks too generic I do it over and over again and force myself to bring a new aspect into it each times. for example I don’t like how I draw eyes. Then I draw 50 eyes or so, each being unique from each other through lines, shapes, shading, color value… it’s a real challenge to do, but once ur done u will have amazing results. It also helps to have a folder on ur pc or such with lots of different artists work that inspire you. Hope this helped and good luck :)
Some people are mentioning drugs in various ways. While it can be, sometimes, interesting, relieving even eye opening or simply enjoyable. I am a bit disappointed some of us instinctually turn to that aspect in the face of concepts explored in this talk.
I am partially to blame to choose to comment this, so hey, I guess i am part of the problem too... YES sometimes I hit the za za too!
But i kinda feel it is a disrespectful endeavor not only to the amazing talk, to the subject, and honestly to ourselves.
I am not here to tell anyone what to do, or what to feel bad about (we all know there's enough things inside and outside to feel bad about) i simply want to emphasize the powerful tools residing in this talk. For me, exercising compassion and gratefulness to ourselves and to other artists was the greatest take way! I will reenforce what Sinix said, and invite you to wish upon a fellow artist you know, the grace of effortless and enjoyable creation.
So if you're reading this, go ahead and enjoy yourself, marvel at your own creations with caring and childlike enthusiasm, you deserve it... We all deserve it!
Lastly, thank you Sinix for the courage and vulnerability! Throughout the years, unbeknownst to both of us, you have shaped my artistic worldviews in a very positive and proactive way. Thank you for creating the way you do.
And thank you to everyone who read this! English not first language 😖
money is not a resource I usually have to spare, but you are the only one on the internet I've been gladly contributing to through patreon as I believe you are such a gem to the internet and this world, thank you from the bottom of my heart and I hope you continue doing what you do best
I expected to learn something about art with this talk.
I have learned about art and life.
Love you Sinix, is always interesting to listen to you, what a great person you are.
I cant breathe anymore :_( thank you so much sinix
I remember when I was a kid I had an obsession about breathing, I thought I would die without breathing deep enough everytime
@@artunblock9433 whenever I swim I can't go back to breathing normal for atleast 2 days, I remember actively holding my breath for long periods after a teacher taught us that animals who breathe less per minute tend to live longer.
I had started breathing again, but your comment took my breath away lol
Didn't expect to do a guided meditation from this video, glad I did😊😊
i can't say how much i love this video now :) , Thanks for this
Thank you for taking the time to share all that you do
This guy just spitting FACTS!
Sinix teaching us meditation and psychology. Love it
Great talk - thank you. I immediately recognized the problem I'm having with a piece I'm working on - focusing too consciously and not letting the flow state take over.
sinix , thank you so much for all you do and all you have learned on your journey and share with us, you help me more than anyone in my art journey, best art teacher that i ever had
Love it, thank you.
"Hey Snackers, Sinix here. You are now (not) drawing manually."
Love this so much!
oh man how i missed these videos
Good video, hearing another person's thoughts on a similar conclusion I recently discovered helped me connect more ideas and add more nuance in my understanding of this topic.
Video that Sinix uploads, video that I watch
very inspiring talk
I just find it lovely how as your art progressed on an exponential level and you've approached the level of classical masters, now godlike entities, you've gained enlightenment in the process
This feels like a legend in the making
(I am high)
no you aren't , he is amazing
i want to be you, at least something close to who you are… incredible talk
thank you omg
Interesting!
This was a really great talk! It helped me a lot with focusing on art and not worrying too much about the end result. Thanks!
thank you sinix, anytime I put myself to draw I try to remind myself of everything you have taught us and the art flourishes, thank you and sorry for the bad english.
ty for the upload
Inspiring talk! 🍀
Love you Sir 😘❤️❤️❤️
Hi! Can anyone share a gist of the talk? I have a difficult time processing all the words and would love to get another person's pov on what was talked about. From what I was able to capture: We can build trust in our skills and knowledge through practice of mindfulness. This mindfulness practice helps us to focus less on being too technical or mechanical or overwhelming with our works so that our art process becomes enjoyable again. From my understanding this speaks to artists who have reached a certain skill level but are unsure or lack confidence in their skills, artists who stress on the details (?). Taking the reigns of the shoulds and woulds and trusting yourself and your sub consciencse so as to relax throughout the process.
I do love the summarized second part, the Mental frameworks. Too bad that got cut short! It hit me hard as I am someone with depression (and also a little enlightening because I didn't realize i had this kind of default framework). I love the final exercise of wishing the best towards another artist to lessen the negative in one's life! :") Heartwarming!
Lovely ❤
Great
i literally started drawing to have a cute little party trick or to impress people and now its my vehicle for self actualization.
44 minute sinix video omg
Don’t fight the nature of things boieezzzz
A great artist and thinker. 0__0
❤❤❤
What books are there about Design Theory
for anything really
sinus video :D
Hi Sinix can I sign up for your portfolio review ?!
SINIXXXXXX
Is that Sinix Zapata ? :o
Every time I laugh at an inappropriate time, take a shot.
"anyone can cook!"
-Sinix
I meditated for an hour straight, and my canvas is still blank.
Keep mediating!
@@artunblock9433maybe don't
...😂
BRO PLEASE TEACH ME HOW TO DRAW, I LOVE YOUR ART DAMN really i think its awesome
I watched this already... Give me BRAND NEW content to feed my dopamine addiction...FEED MEEE!!!!
First
I'm a bit lost with you using the term "in the flow/zone" or "flow state". Don't they use this term for people that already mastered their topic? As far as I know this refer to a kind of hyper focus they have while performing their task, they focus on 2 or 3 things and everything else goes on "autopilot" because they don't have to think about their fundamentals anymore since they already mastered them.
watched this at 1.75 times speed
Relax , you need some meditation
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sinix u r high❤
I disagree financially l fundamentally that there's a set of universal aesthetic rules. Perhaps there are things that are *more common,* but what you talk about as aesthetics here... I've always been baffled by them. Never once did it occur to me that most people *agree* with them, I guess that makes sense, but I'd assumed for much of my life that Art Rules are the way they are because some dudes during The Enlightenment period decided they liked them that way, or whatever. And I see things talking about the motion of a piece, how the lines guide the eye to this or that place... I've accepted that many folks *do* find their eyes guided like that, but I've never understood how, or why. It all feels like an inside joke I'm not privy to the context for.
In fact, that idea you mentioned, of an image half lit and half in shadow -- maybe I'd say something different on seeing such a thing, but conceptually that appeals to me a lot. I like symmetry, or reflected opposites, or whatever.
I don't know what I think about the subject of aesthetics, but I've always considered that I have a problem reading images, because the focal point where most people look, where the "lines" are pointing, is not usually the place that catches my eye. I often get lost in games because I don't recognize the indications subjectively pointed out. When I realize I'm falling into a manhole in the game or got stuck in some random place lol
Maybe that's why I liked genshin impact, random places is where I'll find treasures lol
topic is great, but guide is too annoying to actually meditate/ sorry
Man, what a load of coping nonsense.