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In this video I talk about why you should keep making art even if you're discouraged, because only you can make your art.
Music: • ☕ Cafe & Chill (Royalt...
Equipment I use:
Art: Clip Studio Paint EX, Huion Kamvas Pro 22
Screen & Audio Recording: OBS
Microphone: Razer Seiren Mini
Editing: DaVinci Resolve
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CORRECTIONS:
I completely mispronounced 'millais', oopsie
I didn't make tails gets trolled, I realise in hindsight the wording sounds a bit like that, but it was just a good example of "bad art" with personality
Black Swan was released in 2010, I copied the text from Perfect Blue and forgot to change the year
Omg, another JP
loved this video :>
it's a pretty obvious point but i feel like a lot of people (even pros) can get into this sort of syndrom where they get lost in what they truly want to create and so switch from creating for themselves to creating for attention, for having this shiny social rank of being a little bit famous, but in this quest they can easely lost themselves. (that was the first point in the video i think, a bad, unique piece of art is better than an okay, already seen piece of art ) thanks a lot for having made such a video ^^
I totally loved it, thank you
So good
"If you only make good things you're missing out on a lot of things that could be made."
- Brian Buckew, indie game developer
Or look at Toby Fox. He literally just made a shitpost in game form, that was all he was intending to do, wasn't intending to make one of the most influential video games of all time, and look what became of it. And he was influenced by dozens of other creators, but he wove all together into one masterpiece. He wasn't even trying to make something good, it just... sorta happened?
@@chrissysonicutdrloz this is a pretty exaggerated but well meaning statement. even though it is largely a shitpost, it's also clearly intended as a proof of concept and was the culmination of years of work. Saying it was just meant as a shitpost is disingenuous to his intentions and creations
That... kind of makes no sense? Why would you intentionally make something bad and then expect to be taken seriously about it?
@@spidey5558 The notion is that it's better to make anything at all than stagnate in trying to make something perfect.
@@spidey5558What's "good" is built upon practice and refinement, which also means that if you focus too much on only making "good" things you get locked into repeating what's been done before. If you want to learn to make something new, you have to risk making mistakes along the way.
jesus christ. "until you make imperfect finished things, you'll never learn how to make better imperfect finished things" i'm a writer (or trying to be) i feel myself often getting stuck in the paralysis of i cannot write this, it's not original enough, it won't be my magnum opus or whatever, it's my debut and it has to be good, it has to be life-altering-- so, thank you for saying this. a lot. i needed this really badly i think. i think i will write a few words today when i wrote nothing yet this august, thank u for making this youtube video, this was perfect
I'm trying to be a writer as well I know how you feel, also the "magnum opus" reminded me of mad max I've been playing it lately lol
Practically doing "le bad" makes stuff "le better" sooner or later. Or is it? The level of growth is never stable and fuck everyone that made us think that it is. The true point is while you make art, distract yourself from actively making a good work.
The good 'ol "Sucking at something is the first step at being kinda good at something".
I do also like this video's version of the message for clarifying the importance of finishing things, even if it is less catchy
Could you tell me about what you’re writing about by any chance?
@@zecorim yes of course n it makes my heart beat fr that u were curious :) i am writing a book-- or trying, or was trying-- about two kids who meet online and run away to find each other and fall in love before becoming separated. but 13 years later they find each other again and one has become a violinist, entirely the embodiment of both of their dreams (they wanted to start a band when they were kids) but she aches and longs for stability now that she's given it up. meanwhile, the other wishes he had been bold enough to chase after what he wanted and is now too old, too jaded, knee deep in his career with a good degree and a life that doesn't interest him. They are falling in love again, or trying, because they both see each other as personification of their own dreams and only search for the sense of purpose they got from their love before, when they were just fourteen and nothing mattered but that they were together and could do anything and have anything they asked for. shit hits the fan. it is not really that good of a book, and i like the character journeys but it feels cliche. i started it for practice. im writing other books but love them too much to work on them. mostly i am not writing at all because i am so tired of trying for things lately but probably i will get back up again soon and try a little more :)
"It doesnt have to be perfect, it just has to be." This sentence is an enormous motivation to me every time I draw/paint.
I always disliked when people say art can't be bad, but saying bad art has value too feels perfect.
Art can feel like it is only bad, but it can become meaningful. For example, maybe you have extremely flawed ability to draw due to genetics or damage to your body/brain. You could make bad art that can still be symbolic of where you are in life. Someone could see it as a symbol of you trying hard or possibly restoring your capacity to do things. And that terrible art can be used to show how much you improved directly, or how much a circumstance prevented you from showing your true potential.
@@sigurdtheblue Thats not really the point. Its more about beginner art, etc.
Everything can be art but not all art is good
@@cinnamonbiscuit727
art is subjective.
not everyone is gonna like all art, and that's ok.
there is always gonna be someone who likes and/or dislikes something.
it's all about perspective.
@@timmyspiffyArt is subjective
But I refuse to call some of the modern "arts" an arts.
There’s a chance you made this for yourself most of all, but it’s a really clear and concise way to present this argument. “Hayao Miyazaki already exists.” I still have to remind myself of these kinds of things nearly 20 years into making art. Best of luck with your own process!
This video is a message all artists should hear
For realllll
"That artist's name is Hayao Miyazaki." Holy SHOOT, what a TWIST!! I actually gasped!
And seriously, this is one of the best videos I've watched in a long time. All the editing work really serves to elevate the message. It doesn't feel unnecessary or over the top, and it's just the right length to do what it sets out to do. And that little touch you built up to at the end, with the flashback to the drawing on the fridge, was golden. This video is, in itself, a work of art. Thank you, so much!
RIGHT!!! As soon as he said it was Miyazaki, my stomach dropped!!!!
yes thank you
I need to be reminded of this.
Just because someone can do better, doesn't mean they want to make things I want.
Also perfection is accomplishing goals despite setbacks. Without setbacks, there won't be any experience.
In times where people with less knowledge claims to be embodiment of perfection, a flawed stroke told a story unfold.
Essentially, do you. Dont try to be "the best" because "the best" isnt interesting, you are interesting. You are you. And there's only one you.
to be fair, not everyone is interesting
@@solarydays I think anyone can be, not everyone has figured out how to be. Its a skill.
@@Yipper64 not really. your life experience will shape your personality one way or another growing up, but you don't have control over that. sheltered people tend to be very hollow
@@solarydaysthat’s subjective
@@summero-my5in I don't know how it would be subjective, you have no control over what kind of environment you are born into
The ending of this video really got to me. It might sound silly, but I feel like I can create freely again so long as I accept it as imperfect and my own. Beautiful video man. Thank you for making it.
beautifully said
1:43 i have never related more to anything in my life ever
I knew there would be a comment for this
You ever been trolled before??
I like how you actually included real arguments people make instead of making your point wholly based on the Miyazaki story. It's easy to ignore amazing artists when they complain about their art insecurities, so I'm glad you focused on seeing the value in art people would agree is "bad."
I think it's fair to say that even "bad" art has value. Often however, artists are the worst judges of the "value" of an artwork. To me though, embracing bad art is part of the process because very artist has struggled at some point, now matter how good they are now. Looking at my awful drawings, I can instead see them as a stepping stone every creative person has had in their journey. I can move on to the next one because, as you said, we have a very short amount of time and we can't get discouraged. What separates the skilled artists from the others is that the skilled ones prefer the look of a bad painting to an empty canvas.
Anyway, this is a really well made video, keep up the good work!
I just revived a scrapped sketch I did of Hatsune Miku today after I had lost motivation with it. I just finished the lineart after 4 hours and am doing the colouring now! If you guys ever feel like scrapping a piece, you should probably just finish it. It might turn out better than you expect!
I feel the last line.
I started making animations just a few days ago, and I knew that I’m not “good enough” to achieve what I had in mind, but I still try to make the best I could.
And now each animation I do gets better and I learn news things with each of them, which leads me to make a better one.
I’m sure if I keep on making the best I could, I will someday look back and be in awe of how far I’ve come.
DUDE! SAAAAME!
The last advice is so valuable. I didn't draw or paint much original stuff for a long period of time and regret it so much. I almost did not improve with original artworks due to that.
I was told "do studies"Study study study, your xyz sucks!", so often. I did this, almost only studies, no "transfer works". In the end I HAD to practise the learned stuff in my originla artworks though. I forgot SO often what I studied (e.g. certain materials) and could not apply them. That's why I am not going to ever listen to another artists advice again aside from me being convinced that it is a good advice lol.
All you can do is keep going. You only fail when you give up. Also in terms of making imperfect art, yeah I need to just work on video projects. I tend to think I'm not ready to do something so I hold off on it. I need to stop that. I just need to do something so I can improve.
3:05 existential jumpscare
You haven't posted a vid for a hot minute, but it gave me some motivation to continue leaning art, almost like universe hitting to me or something. Thanks for the motivation and inspiration, good luck on ur art journey
You put my feelings into words, this has been my mantra for so many years. No one can ever make things the way i would make them, because the only me is... Me. Thank you.
when it comes to making things, I sometimes notice I made something super similar to a piece of media I like. I almost always remember a quote that was along the lines of: "yeah it has been done before, but has it been done by you?"
it's like, there's so many pieces that are similar but aren't copies of one another.
just because it's been done before, doesn't mean you can't make your own spin on it.
your video was awesome!
"Even the greatest artists live in the shadow of someone else."
Meanwhile with Bob Ross:
The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the Master.
every day I wake up and after I dismiss my alarm my little google assistant tells me my mantra: "You are at once the art and the artist. You are your magnum opus."
I think many people forget that the thing that brings value to your art is not actually one thing. It's many thousands of little things, scattered about in the minds of those who partake in the experience of your art. It's your own perception and the perception of everybody else that shapes your art and makes it unique. Who cares if an idea isn't original? Originality is and always will be impossible. It's not about the concept, it's about the execution. So long as you are not blatantly copying another's art word for word, frame for frame, beat by beat, and then passing it off as your own, then you are creating art that has value. Your art has value because your art is you. You yourself are a piece, slowly being sketched and outlined and colored and revised throughout your life. You are at once the art and the artist. You are your magnum opus.
This video hits me hard, as someone who procrastinate a lot. the more time I took watching tutorial and wondering how to get better the less time I have to actually put it to use and actually "Enjoy" the process. now I realized that it all only started when I thought stickmen fighting animations were cool and started animating.
"until you make imperfect finished things, you'll never learn how to make better imperfect finished things" this quote demolishes all the doubt, Thank you!
This video is also a work of art. I’m glad I was able to watch it and be impacted by it
He’s a god even he has a lot negative thoughts on Disney
This couldn’t have come at a better time. I told myself I’d start on my story turned one-shot (that I’ve been putting off for 5+ years) before school resumes this August. School literally starts next week and I’m still scared that “X character won’t be believable enough, reeee” so I really needed to hear this. Thank you JP Art!
Good to see you back JP! Been hoping to see more of your stuff pop up in my subscription feed.
For anyone who needs this validation/affirmation, yes, this applies to what you're thinking of. If you're wondering if it's art, it is art.
Amazing message man. It's really easy to get caught up comparing yourself to other people who have thousands of more reps than you in a given field and feel sad about it. This video was a great reminder that there will only be one of us, ever, in the universe, and that's a lot more special than trying to copy someone else's success.
Best piece of advice i ever heard was "learn to finish things"
Great video
UA-cam has been recommending this to me non-stop and at first I was very confused as to why. I don't do drawing or animation or anything, and I thought it was going to be about AI art vs human art.
I'm really glad I kept seeing it pop up, though. I may not draw, but I am delving into game development, and the advice really hit close to home.
Stopping and then starting over has got to be one of the hardest things an artist can do, but also one of the bravest.
I'm glad this video popped into my recommendations. This is advice I needed to hear because I never finish any project because "it's not good enough/going to look like their's". Thanks for making this video!
Absolute goat just fed the whole nation with this vidro, thank you so much
I can still look back proudly on my MSPaint shitposts for sure
This is sooo true. When you first start out your drawing journey, everything you create is fluid and has heart and emotion in it. As you start to get good, you get too fixated on that technical aspect that you deviate from the other things that makes your art so great. Back then you would create something and appreciate not only on a visual level but on an emotional level because of its raw depth.
I keep a collection of inspirational quotes by creatives about making art, to ground my perspective when I feel like my work isn't worthwhile. My favorite one is this, from Ira Glass: "Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you."
There's more to the quote, but that's the gist. Miyazaki wasn't even a beginner when he saw "Ophelia," it's just natural for someone with a good eye to see a masterpiece and think "Man, I could never make that!" But of course he couldn't, just as Millais couldn't have made "Spirited Away."
Anyway, now I'm going to add my first-ever UA-cam link to the list. Great video, thank you!
Concise, to the point, and real af
A thing I struggled with, and still do to an extent, was that I would procrastinate on ideas I was excited about because I "wasn't skilled enough to do them justice." Then people pointed out what you did: better to make something imperfect than not create at all. Plus, whose to say if I'd have the same passion for these ideas ten, five, even just one year down the line. Best to get them out of my head in one way or another while they're burning bright.
You are a beautiful human being
This was exactly what I needed to hear, and wonderfully done!!
you made me feel way better about my art thank you
I don't strive to be compared to other artists. I don't want to be the next Tolkien or Terry Prachet. I don't want my books to be a retirn to form. Instead i want future creators to strive to become the next me, and then surpass me.
The best never existed, nor will it ever exist
That's why we have art❤
This is a valuable resource for beginners.
you have no idea HOW MUCH i needed to hear this
Paraphrasing Aristotle's words "Perfection is not an act, it's a habit". This helps me whenever my perfectionist side takes over and tries to ruin the fun. I am what I do repeatedly. So it doesn't matter if the result isn't perfect because that's not what I am. Focus on working diligently and patiently. This is what perfection is about.
1:40 made me laugh so hard. Masterpiece indeed.
Funnily enough, I’ve been fixing my habit of leaving videos midway through, so the message at the end of this video felt two fold in meaning :))
Oh my gosh, I needed this video so much, you have no idea. I'm saving this so I can rewatch this every time I get discouraged or am about to have a breakdown. Thank you so much
Great video and well written, amazing
I think I really needed this, thank you.
I've always been a very self motivated artist. I make the things I want to make for the simple fact that no one else ever will.
This video is so beautiful, thank you so much for making it 💖
ngl this video left me speechless, its really good.I'm surprised it didn't go absolutely viral! Please keep doing what you do
"before you run out of time"
Wow thanks bro
I actually love this video, because i have characters and a whole story, which is mostly a joke/shitpost, since i love shitposts anyway, but i also take heavy inspiration from an anime that already did so much of that, and i feel like i am a rip off most of the time, and that people would not like my work. This actually helped me realize a few things.
this was honestly so great, fresh and chill. its genuine as well, i really enjoyed it. thank u for this
I just wanna say thanks. As someone who's fumbling around ideas and not following through because it'll be bad, this is a nice reminder that is ok to make bad art because it's still part of the journey
One of the issues I have with my art is that if I'm truly self-expressive with it and make what I want to make I feel like it will be unappreciated by the people who matter most to me. Most of the people around me in my life whose opinions I actually value and who I love very much simply do not like the art that I make. It has been a struggle to create when I get pursed lips and "that's not art" from my friends for drawing my catgirl OC watering her plants and playing scratcher tickets or my foxgirl OC nude but bundled up in blankets while she reads and drinks tea.
They don't look at the time and consideration and genuine expression I am putting into my work when I ask them for feedback on a WIP and instead offer empty platitudes or scathing discouragement and it fucking sucks because I love these people and they are important to me. I'm not going to uproot my social circles for comfort's sake but sometimes it genuinely feels like my art isn't art and I feel guilty towards them for continuing to create out of spite and I feel guilty towards myself for putting my pen down and going back to wage slavery instead of trying to live my dream.
I need to set this entire video as my alarm every morning
This was really sweet
This really opened my mind! Thank you so much for making this video. It was very entertaining, it's art.
The best video I’ve ever listened to. I love this man 💰
I love the ending message I spent years in an art block. Defeated after work to want to draw, but was too tired, and when I did, I was angry with my work. I was learning digital, and have never been more hard on myself. Everytime I’d finish a trashy piece I’d hate it, and when I would draw I left everything incomplete, most of the time in the sketch and lineart phase. Once I started breaking that and forcing myself to finish things, I saw improvement fast. And I’ve made it my mission to never fall into that hole again, of comparison, and self doubt. Wow you really took what I was going through, and ik a lot of artists need to hear this as well.
I've been focusing on this aspect for a little while and I think I am starting to find my voice through art. I always felt that great artists around me were inferior just because they had no vision or only followed others. Of course, they are better at surviving due to those traits, but I still think they could have improved on themselves more.
thank you for this...I'm actually in my mid point where i finished art academy lessons and it feels as if i've lost my goal or drive to continue, not because i wouldn't like art anymore, but as if making it became tiring for me now and i don't even know what i'd make most of the time...This gave me somewhat of an little push to at least try something that i genuenly enjoy to draw.
This is so incredibly well made and I feel like hearing this helps me a lot with my motivation. Thank you!
Best youtube video today for sure
Thanks so much for making this, I needed this
thanks brother, beautiful, much needed words :)
Thank u sm for the video, especially that last bit, really needed to hear this and remind myself i need to draw things im not good at to start improving at them, i keep forgetting that its okay to make things that dont look the best
while the first three drawings were kinda forgettable, I got a good chuckle out of that tails masterpiece, great vid!
Wow. I uh, I kinda needed to hear (or, watch?) this.
So... thank you.
Such an important reminder for you to do you
the title alone got me motivated tbh
thank you for making this. exactly what i need to hear, bro
Means a lot, thanks.
Somewhere right near the end I almost sobbed. I miss animation. I miss the funny stick figures.
At the End You dropped Speech more stronger than 3 spoons of Coffee. 🎉🎉🎉
I will continue to draw
I'd love to learn how to art but starting out plus the amount of failure id have to endure is just too much lol. I guess that goes for most things
Pick up the pencil and get to work. Death is a whisper that draws closer every second you let pass by.
what a wholesome video!! :D
For me I struggle to find the motivation to try drawing or animating. Always feeling tired and dealing with six classes in college now doesn't help, but when I have the time I just feel not motivated to do much which ends up making me angry
Good to see you back
Fantastic video
Thank you for this, I feel bad of my artwork. But then now wellp I will keep drawing regardless
I’m saving this so I can watch this again
I just wanted to say that this was nice for me to watch. If I may, I naturally have worries about my art not being good enough or just a cheap rip-off of other people's art. However, it was nice to know that my art still has value and that having influences doesn't mean my art is a rip-off or pointless or anything like that. Essentially, this was a nice video for me to watch and I just wanted to say that. Thank you.
thats a good perspective, its nice to see a positive view of art for a change, especially since my view of art is "the goal matters, not the journey, nor the methods used to get there". the original reason i got into drawing was because it was nescessary if i wanted to make animations and games and other stuff
I'm nowhere near being an artist, I tried. So I think writing would be easier, though I realized that's the same thing just with letters.
Eye opening... Love it!
i love this so much bc its so so real
Hmm... Couldn't have been recommended to me at a better time.
Thank you.
This is really well done.
That’s actually a great message
Which
I have come to understand over the past year or so
It also reminds me vaguely of the book “steal like an artist”
I love the editing in this
And I think
I might just make that thing
ive... jsut gotten this recommended for me, and ill admit? for the past 5-7 years of my life, ive been wanting to get into trying so many different new things, from drawing to ... writing... to programming to... just makin youtube videos. ive always heard that i need to stop worrying about making perfect stuff, but it feels like... putting it like this, is... inspiring. maybe i WILL write something and finish it, even if it isnt me writing about every little tiny thing i could ever write about on that topic. maybe i WILL make a video sometime, praising one of my favorite games. maybe i WILL learn to program, even if its not gonna be the most amazing stuff at first.
i just need to learn to persist...
this is really motivating and well made, thank you for this :3
This came when I most needed it, thank you.