What’s up guys in this video we’re going to be talking about seven things holding back your art
So I figured with the new year coming up there might be a lot of people picking up art as a hobby and there might be a New Year’s resolutioners so um I want to help you guys out I just want to give you guys some information that’ll help push you along on your art Journey give you a bit of a head start and make sure that you’re not a failure like me so let’s jump right into it the first mistake that I want to talk about that’s holding back your art is not having goals a lot of people tell me that they feel unmotivated when it comes to jarring they just can’t bring themselves to pick up a pen every single day and draw something on a piece of paper something that could be causing this is the fact that you don’t have a goal you’re working toward…
Long-Term Goals
When we talk about goals I like to break it down into long-term and short-term goals long term refers to what you see yourself doing in the future you want to think to yourself in 10 years time what do I want to be where do I want my art to be do I want to be an animator at this studio or do I want to be a hobbyist still but just be able to tell my own stories more comfortably like for for example the long-term goal for me is to just be able to draw good good enough that every time I flip my canvas I am not horrified and also have a big enough mental Library so that I can just tell stories on a canvas with ease because right now it’s tough so that’s long term but that might be kind of hard to imagine because it’s so far in the future and it seems like something that’s so unattainable and that brings us to short-term goals when you have an idea of generally where you want to be in the future you can kind of work backwards from that and set some short-term goals for yourself if you want to be an animator maybe it’s good to start off by learning how to draw Anatomy it could be something like for the next two weeks I’m gonna focus on human anatomy and it can get even more specific than that you could be like I’m gonna focus on drawin…
Focus on One Thing at a Time
Do it in a way that works for you but set your mind on something and have a little bit of focus have a goal that you’re working towards for that subject that’s going to lead to much better absorption of that information and you can pick things up a lot quicker than if you were all over the place now the third mistake for us to avoid very important one is not using references there’s a lot of idiotic individuals out there say that if you use references you’re cheating it’s like what as an artist you need to observe Things from real life in order to learn you need to understand how lighting works and how it interacts with subjects you n…
ow what do I want to be where do I want my art to be do I want to be an animator at this studio or do I want to be a hobbyist still but just be able to tell my own stories more comfortably like for for example the long-term goal for me is to just be able to draw good good enough that every time I flip my canvas I am not horrified and also have a big enough mental Library so that I can just tell stories on a canvas with ease because right now it’s tough so that’s long term but that might be kind of hard to imagine…
