these illustrations are so pretty! ugh. someday I'll get to that stage of flowingness in my drawings too 💪🏼 you inspire me so much everytime i see your drawings and hear your thoughts on the internet ❤ i also love the audio 👌🏼 thx for "fixing" it, eventhough you were on your retreat 🤗
@@larajackson239 ohh thank you so much that is so sweet of you! That is such a lovely compliment to receive and OOF I am so glad the audio is working now. Couldn’t get a mic yet so I am just using my laptop to record the sound haha
Wow, your paintings are wonderful !!!! Nostalgic, warm, misterious, full of wonder !!! (I am not native English speaker, then I am not able to descrive my feelings fully in Eiglish, but I love your style !
This was so nice! Its my dream to travel widely and sketchbook while doing so. Its lovely to see a sketchbook tour that is so joyful, its easy to be hard on your own work, but it sometimes when someone is flipping through while critizing every other page it can be a bit sad, but your not that at all! You are such a light!
Omg!! A light!! What a kind thing to say!! Thank you so much :o I obviously know that my work isn't perfect, and theres always room to grow. But I think i have been trying to have more fun and be more playful with my art and I think it has been working, I see joy in my art sometimes, and memories I cherish :))) Thanks again for your lovely words!
There's a few monks that speak really good english, and with everyone else you just communicate with body language which is always fun haha :) most of the volunteers don't speak Korean but it somehow still flows :) and I found the temple through the Website WorkAway!
i remember seeing this film years ago. i couldn't find it again for a while, and it just popped up in my recommendations again. i remember every part. never gets old!!
@@martinald1715 omg haha you know what 😭 I never finished it 😭😭😭 covid happened and the labs shut down and I wanted to status new one when I came back 1.5 years later
i think you have really nice things to say but due to the editing of the sound and the bad quality of your microphone we can’t really hear it. which isn’t sad because i feel like you have a nice perspective to share:)
I LOVE your watercolour paintings. I'd love to pick up some watercolours again but I have trouble picking the right colours and a sketchbook that can "hold a good amount of water" Do you have any reccomandations? ✨
@@c.n.9840 Hii!! Thank you!! You know what, I don’t really use any sort of fancy paper, it’s just a cheap one from Michael’s really, it’s the hard bound sketchbook from the brand Art Alternatives. But I find any paper that’s a bit thicker than printer paper will do honestly! For the watercolors I like to get more high quality ones, usually from Schmincke or Windsor and Newton :) hope this helps!
Hey, I am so sorry to be that person, but I struggle really watching these videos because of the poor sound quality. The topics are so exciting and I wanna see all, really! I dont know, which microphone you are using, but I have one for just 30€ and it worked very good for me. Also one tip: Doing the off-text under a big blanket. So you have a very crisp sound without any background noises. I hope, this not requested tips help you. Please dont stop making these videos or your art. Its so inspiring and cool 😊
thank you for this! i'm more of a writer but somehow i find it less intimidating to listen to advice for other kinds of creative work (and i think a bunch of these tips still apply, like romanticizing the act of writing or the morning pages). i'm trying to find more tactile hobbies like knitting for my breaks (instead of going online), and you're reminding me to get back into the habit of sketching characters or scenes for fun. it lets me feel like i've come to understand my own material a little better, while working a different part of my brain, AND it gives me little pieces of art to look at that are tied to the project, which i suppose goes back to romanticizing it! but i also want to try automatic drawing now because i think it would probably be even better for my brain lol. anyway thanks again, always lovely to hear the advice you need when you need it :))
@@violetskypilot6697 ohhh I admire writers, I don’t know how you guys do it! But I agree, it’s funny how some of these things apply to many forms of art! I can talk to my dancer friend about exactly the same things, he has the Same struggles and thoughts we do! Anyways thank you for your kind words and I am really glad it was somewhat helpful :)) good luck with automatic drawing, I hope it works for you too!!
that was sooo wholesome and cuuute. This video was like a little hug for my broken art heart q.q I hope that I'll keep those tipps in mind and that I'll be able to execute them q.q Kinda hard to begin with something and even harder to stick to something... but I'll try a week of "no-negative-selftalk" from today .o. that's something and surely a big change on its own, thank you for sharing your thoughts and this video!
Hi! Love this content, I relate a lot to what you have said about being critical of what we make sometimes. I feel your energy is so beautiful ✨ keep doing you, its clearly working!
@@MsPitenali thank you!! And yeaaa I feel like almost every artist is suuuuper hard on themselves always 😭 it’s just part of the process I guess! Thanks for the kind words, all the best on your journey too!!
@@BIGBANGxP dude it’s so cool! There’s this website called Workaway and you can find volunteering opportunities all over the world! Sheep farms in ireland and temples in Nepal and guest houses in New Zealand literally anything! And you can stay there and work and in exchange get food and a bed and it’s such an amazing affordable way to see the world. I highly highly recommend!
dang. I know you’ve hit the dreaded “what to do about ai” but this is just so cool. Traveling, van art, contemplation. Keep it all up. Your CalArts piece was incredible and I really don’t think AI can create something soooo emotional. Keep it all up!!
Oooo thank youuu!! It definitely still sucks but this scary time is really helping lots of artists focus on what’s important too 😱❤️❤️ thanks for your kind wordsss
one demand tho, please find a better mic, there are plenty of cheap options which would make listening easier for many viewers. I have audio processing difficulties sometimes and your mic makes me basically "squint" my hearing if you understand what I mean. Like putting much more extra effort to distinguish words. But love it anyway!
Thank you for all your kind words and that you phrased your critique so kindly! I'll definitely try to invest in a mic, it's been hard to find one since I am traveling and it's difficult to order things here but I am on it and I will figure it out eventually! I am doing my best to keep the audio quality as good as I can until then! Thanks a lot again for being patient while I figure this all out!!
Hi :) your video is probably very nice, I like the visuals and the idea and message! But I could hardly understand your voice over the music. Hope this helps, I'll keep a lookout for your future content!
i love ur videos so so much:,) whenever u post something i get super exited!!! Ure such a wonderful person and Im just so grateful that ure making these tipes of videos<33 It really helps a lot, honestly ive been struggling to create for fun ever since I was a kid bc I was always seeking external validation and now im 18, wanting to get to art colllege and im re-learning to be a kid in art again xd Im really trying to change my mindset bc its really hard to create when i feel like everything I do has to be perfect:,) So i just really want to approach art with a "childs" mindset and just make it fun and enjoy it and be present!!! also u have such a beautiful and calming voice and absolutely amazing energy:,) Thank u so much again for sharing these tips and for being u I really enjoy watching ur content and i wish u the best!!!<33
Ooo my god that is so so sweet of you to say, thank you so much for all your kind words this is so motivating and lovely of you!! And I think it’s so great that you realized this for yourself before even starting art school, I wish I would have known how valuable it is to enjoy what I am doing when I was in school😱 I‘m sure you‘ll do amazing things!
duuude yes I know its so scary! Can't believe this is happening still :0 I hope you can find joy in drawing still despite all this chaos :/ hang in there!
i adore your drawings, especially the faeries you showed! aside, a huge THANK YOU!! for this video. this resonates with me so hard, especially because i’ve been going through the exact same thing as an illustrator and graphic designer. it makes me so freaking sad to see AI generated graphics, animation, etc. social media has changed SO MUCH! i’ve also been so sooo tired of it, i’m preparing to quit instagram soon and solely post on my online portfolio! i’m tired of making myself feel bad about not creating and posting all the time, in hopes to get a bunch of followers and be “famous.” i’m tired of not creating for myself, and thinking “oh, this sketch won’t get me a bunch of traction” or “i want to draw fanart of this character just because they’re popular.” thank you for reminding me of WHY i started drawing in the first place as a child! to channel my emotional energy and heal my soul. you are such a lovely human and i am sooo thankful for this. i’m so inspired! please keep speaking your mind and making your art 💓
oooo my god thank you so much for your comment, you have no idea how happy that just made me and It's sooo motivating! And good for you foe leaving Instagram behind, I know its probably a super hard and scary step, but we KNOW these apps are poison to creativity and authenticity in our work and removing that from your life completely can be so healing. My sister took a two year break from Social Media and her love for drawing grew SO much, she is so in touch with what feels right and inspires her now and its really really beautiful. I wish you all the best on that journey and thanks again so so much for your kind words!
In my opinion Ai is similar to what photography did to painters when it all started. although this is not ethical right now maybe someday it will be useable to some extent and ethical
In the future artists will only make art for other artists. Art won't be destined to be for the large public because ai will just overflow the market, the only one remaining who will look for real art will be actual artists. We artist will stick together to create an art haven so we can share things together, knowing how it feels to create, the satisfaction of real art
I've been really really loving seeing all the strength and support in the art community. Some people are fighters and some are giving hope and everyone is just sticking together like you said and trying to be prepared for whatever is coming. And that is so special! This would be impossibly hard without you all
I actually think that this will just be a phase (however long it may or may not take..) but similiar with other industries where the market was overflown with content that was readily available for everyone (and by everyone too). (Like musik or books) people will start looking for their specific niche ( its the longtail theory from i think chris anderson or something...) that they want to see so anyone growing up in this day in age will start learning how to navigate the current plattforms and media and find the things they want to see and once that happens a lot of people outside the artcommunity will look for art with substance and thats where they will find all the artists that found their own way or founded their own platforms to share their art etc. and then the art haven will open up too substantios parts of the general public :)
@@larajackson239 that's what a frend of mine told me too, but idk... I really hope you're right and that is a good reasonning, it may be like nfts and crypto, just a shot phase but the thing is ai is improving everyday very fast, and if it stops improving at a certain point maybe your theory will be right but if it doesn't... I hope the hype will at some point calm down
@@yelop_0w087 Yeah, lets hold on to that hope! :) I also recently watched a youtube vid on AI where they talked about how AI art is flooding all the platforms with all the pictures but at the same time it uses the platforms to train itself so after a while it trains itself with all the falty pictures it uploaded in the past.. so the learning curve is not exponential but flattens out the longer it goes on... and in some parts it learns wrong things cause humans dont have 6 fingers etc. and to learn more and more and fix those mistakes as well it also needs exponantially more data ...which it wont have at some point, so maybe that is also where humans have the upper hand still ;P
AI is going to destroy the art industry. Ethics doesn't matter. It will happen. All non-AI art jobs are about to be erased. You'll need to find a new line of work if you refuse to leverage AI tools. Soon AI will replace most jobs when combined with robotics. We're driving rapidly into a dystopia.
@@DrWarbird oof maybe, that would be really really sad. I really hope that there’s a few people who value human art more than artificial art, just like some people still value hand potted ceramics or bring their old shoes to a leather repair shop as opposed to just buying new shoes but we will have to see. It’s sooo hard to let go of the dream of making a living from art but if it really comes to that I am sure we‘ll work through that too somehow. It’s so out of our control. Might as well just do what makes us happy in the meantime
just as written language was gonna destroy culture and humans ability to articulate ourselves proplerly ... or the book press would lead to a degenerate society that wont be able to apreciate art and cherish written words ... or the internet would lead to the death of the book within a few years and be the downfall of any kind of media company that acts as an intermediate between creator and consumer, and photography will lead to the death of painting etc. etc. you can go back to plato and will always find poeple who thought that a new tool or medium will lead to the fall of human society, art and morality ...and guess what it never happend! So I think there is still hope for Art and Artists just that we will literally not know where exactly it will lead us, however a complete dystopia is unlikely because humans react and adapt and sometimes in completely different ways that we in our current times are able to foresee or imagne, so. Dont loose all hope its never white and black.
Oh, I've been going through the exact same thing as you. As probably all artists are. As soul-crushing as it has been to have to let go of my dreams and years of effort put towards finding my way into the animation industry, I'm also simultaneously strangely grateful. Yeah, it's likely I might never get a shot at working in the industry, but... I didn't start drawing as a child to get into the industry. I didn't ask for more paper and pencils from my parents so that I could fill my portfolio. I didn't share my first art post online to get the attention of an art director. I was subtly aware that I lost sight of why I really do what I do, but I didn't have to face that fact until I felt like I lost the possibility of that external achievement. It took me these 2 or so years to rinse traces of social media out of my system and start paying attention to my inner child artist again, but now I find myself playing again! I'm experimenting. I'm having fun drawing and painting, just for the sake of drawing and painting, and it's comforting and freeing. I have no idea what my future is going to look like, I haven't managed to find a new dream yet, but it's okay. Because I'm playing and creating again. And AI can't feed off of my private sketchbooks and canvases. Unless I use photoshop lol. I hate this bleak reality we're facing, but at least I can still create something just for me and feed my own starved soul. Kim, if you do decide to keep sharing your work somewhere online going forward, I'm looking forward to seeing what you make! And if not -- I'm happy for you finding your joy either way.
Oh my god this is such a beautiful message, thank you so much for writing this so beautifully that truly means so much! You put it so well!! Playfulness is so strangely fulfilling and comforting that it even manages to ease all the fear and grief I‘ve been feeling! It feels really good knowing there are other artists out there like you who are on this same journey with me ❤️❤️ I am super proud of you being able to let go of the dopamine hits of social media completely 🙏 it sounds like you are on such a good path no matter where it leads, and I think the younger you would be so happy to see where you are right now!!
@@scribblediary237 Your last sentence legit made me cry!! I hope you're right 💖I'm so proud of you too Kim, you're doing it too! Making our inner children happy and proud of us is one of the greatest things we can hope to achieve, I think. We can do this together. And luckily there are still artistic communities buried deeper below the surface of the internet (like discord servers) where we can feel safe and support each other when we need to, privately. We'll make it to the other side. Not unchanged, but we'll make it.
Its a beautiful Idea But Id rather not revisit my childhood. I do however struggle with finding ways to let get my ideas out. I tend to feel it a hopeless endeavour and that makes me sad.
The second part I can definitely relate to. It's like you know that theres something super wonderful in you but it only sometimes comes out when you are lucky right?? I'm sorry that childhood isn't a comfortable place for you to visit, I didn't think of that when making the video. But even if it's not childhood that gives you inspiration, there must have been comics and games that got you super creatively stimulated back then? Maybe try revisiting that, putting on nostalgic video game music and visiting places that remind you of that part of your past? Maybe that can be a portal for you?
