ART ADVICE THAT ACTUALLY HELPS 

here’s my comic if you want to read it btw ! 💕💕💕 m.tapas.io/series/unfamiliar/info (it’s also on WEBTOON but it’s not fully up to date on there)

I was getting worried because I didn’t hear “leblehblehbleh”.

"Your art is only as good as it's worst parts" Person who does every part of there drawing poorly: Checkmate

"Your art is only as good as its weakest part" * looks at hands * YOU!..

“Have 1 sketchbook that you will never show to someone” Me: *funny that you think I even have the confidence to show somebody my sketch books*

Lavendertowne: Never go with your first thought for an image. Lavendertowne: *Erases the sketch she was working on and starts over* How appropriate.

Advice I definitely needed to hear, especially the "your work is as good as the weakest part". Thank you!

me: **draws** my mom: watcha drawing? me: oh you can't see this one my mom: why not? me: Oh haven't you heard? me: Not showing you my art is crucial to my improvement as an artist.

Lavender: “Don’t draw too much” Me, an art major with two art classes: 👁👄👁

guy floating in school hallway ominously: “explore your you ideas before commit” guy running away: “explore your ideas before you commit”

LavenderTowne: people will usually see the mistakes first People to my art: Omg, I love it, it’s perfect Me: *intensely stares at one line that’s a fraction of a centimeter off* Me: this is garbage Edit: damn that’s a lot of likes, thanks! And uhh, sorry if I caused any fights in the replies...

There’s one piece of advise that works for anything, and that’s, “if you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it” -Stan lee

"Your work is as good as your weakest part" Me: *FRICK, I AM AS BAD AS I ORIGINALLY THOUGHT*

“Your art is only as good as it’s weakest part” **looks at my art** ah, communism.

7:16 “Keep a secret sketchbook that’s just for yourself so you can practice without worrying about other’s opinions” Nosy strict parents: *Imma pretend I didn’t see that.*

Haley: * makes a random character to represent keeping a secret sketchbook * Me: ....he’s kinda hot though 👉👈

“Have a secret sketchbook” Me: **cries in parents always flip through my sketchbook when I’m not around**

"Have a secret sketchbook to experiment" Watch how I turn from a wholesome cute stuff artist to an NSFW artist in a day.

0:20 Your work is as good as the weakest part 2:20 Explore your ideas before you commit 4:40 Use your favorites to boost your weaknesses 6:50 Keep some art completely to yourself 9:29 Make time for the stuff that really inspires you

i really needed the “take time to inspire yourself” i just realized that for the past few days i’ve been pressing myself to draw more but haven’t really done much else

Anyone notice her art style has been slowly but steadily improving? She’s crossing into “unbelievably good art” territory

Lavendertowne: *gives art advice* Me:"Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!"

"Secret sketchbook" * *Me who never posts anything* * All my sketchbooks are secret.

1. Your work is only as good as its weakest part 2. Explore the idea before you commit 3. Use your favourites to improve your weaknesses 4. Keep some art to yourself 5. Make time for stuff that really inspires you

People in comments: Wow I'm so early! Patrons: *Laughing maniacly*

I was worried my brain would adsorb the bad advice, now it can sponge up this. So, thank you!

7:05 he’s just a drawing he’s just a drawing he’s just a drawing I can’t have a crushhhh

That one about keeping some art to yourself really hit the most, I always look at art I make like "what will people think of this? what will people think of ME? will this get any heart reactions? is this "cringe"?" and very often I always plan to scan and show my art to at least my friends. So, thanks for reminding me that I do have that option of freedom if I want.

Ok but everyone thinks that the “secret sketchbook” is hentai

Me: **Draws a wolf** My classmate: Looks jazzy but _insert the classmate artist’s name_ draws better than that. Me: ouch...

Fun fact: almost all of this advice can be applied to other skills and aspects of life, not just art.

Hey, you, random stranger. I don't know who you are, what you're going through, or what kind of day you're having. I don't even know your name. I don't know much about you at all, but what I do know is that you are absolutely amazing. You're doing great today. You don't need to be perfect, you're already doing your best. You're probably going through a lot right now, and that's understandable. The world is breaking, I know, but you can do this. You've been doing really well lately! You can make it, I promise. You're gonna be okay. Everything is gonna be okay. Take a deep breath, go make yourself a hot cup of coffee, or some hot chocolate, or maybe even some tea. Grab a book, or look something up to read. Give yourself a break, you deserve it. It doesn't make you selfish to have some alone time, if anything it makes you less selfish. Take care of yourself, because you matter. Everything is gonna be fine. Take a warm bath, read a book, make yourself a good meal, and remember that you matter. If you're an artist, your art is absolutely beautiful. Keep going! If you're a musician, you're music sounds amazing! If you're a writer, the things you write are absolutely wonderful! If you're an editor (pictures, videos, ect.), your edits are awesome! If you're any other kind of creator, your creations are great! If you do something outside of art, it's still amazing! You're doing great, I promise! Feel free to vent in the replies if need-be, I'll be here to listen!

1. "Your art is only as good as the weakest part of it" 2. "You should always explore your ideas before you settle on one." 3. "Use the things that you're good at or passionate about and use those skills to boost the parts that are difficult for you." 4. "Have at least one secret sketchbook that you genuinely never plan to show to anyone else." 5. "Set aside time to stop drawing and to experience the work of other people." ..I'm really surprised that some people don't have secret sketchbooks!

Here's my bit of character design advice. Don't be afraid to make your characters look ugly outlandish or weird it'll because guess what not everyone looks like that perfect tictok e-girl we all have things we hate about ourselves and it grounds your character in a weird way

Having a secret sketch book honestly really helped me. I would end up skipping out on drawing something I wanted to draw because I was worried someone might see it and I was too scared of messing up that I just didn't draw it. It's honestly so freeing to have a sketch book I can put as much bad art and fan art into without it ever seeing the light of day again.

"young enough that we don't remember the time before the internet" me a child: *laughs in 11 years old*

Tik tok advice be like: dont use a pencil use a potato and put it in paint it totally works~

the art gods: how many original characters do you want to create? haley: *y e s*

"Never go with your first plan or thought." Sorry dreams, It bye-bye time.

9:46 THIS!!! This helped me so much! I've had the issue of wanting to draw but feeling completely burnt out, and I had no clue why. I wasn't drawing very often, how could I be burnt out already? That tip made me realize it was because I haven't picked up any new inspiration sources in months. Thank you so much!!

“Have a secret sketchbook” *cries in parents make me show them all my sketchbooks” Holy this comment blew up- Thanks for liking my sad life :,D

the most important thing i had to realize was that “someone is always better than you, and someone is always worse” and it works for everything in life and it honestly lifted this huge weight off my shoulders

omg the hair shading for the "explore your ideas before you commit" MMMM it looks so cool

“Use your favorites to boost your weaknesses” is such a good piece of advice. I hated doing backgrounds when drawing my characters and so I decided to make creating believable spaces for my senior year of art my focus. It was a fun challenge because I used my two favorite characters to base the surroundings on (they’re the main characters of a graphic novel I’ve been working on) I did a total of 6 paintings/drawings and tackled a specific part of the background to just keep things fresh and with the last _complete_ drawing, I used all of the lessons I had learned from the previous pieces to create the one drawing I am most proud of. Looking back at the first and last “picture book” paintings (that’s what my teacher and I called the non-comic pages) makes me feel so good about what I achieved in just 7 months It also made me realize that I’m actually capable of doing things on my own and motivating myself. It also made me realize how much I love those two characters and pushed me even further to wrote their story

“Have a secret sketch book” Me: Ha. That’s all my sketch books. The only time you see my art is either when you walk in on me drawing or ask to see it ;-;

Summary: 1) Your work is as good as the weakest part 2) Explore your ideas before you commit 3) Use your favorites to boost your weaknesses 4) Keep some art completely to yourself 5) Make time for the stuff that really inspires you I really love your videos and I have been improving for the past several years with this channel's help Looking forward for more ( / • w •)/ 💕

I actually found this out on a field trip, if you crack open an acorn seed, you can use it as chalk! It's actually pretty cool.

“Your art is only as good as your week points” Me:my week point is making art that looks like a 4 year old dew it-*cries in the NOT AN ARTIST corner*

Is it just me or when i watch her, my brain feels like its *actually* being educated unlike school ?? orrrrrr

I love how much lavendertowne has improved, the shading and lineart looks really nice and soft, and her style has grown in really nice ways. I’m not saying her older art was bad or anything, I just feel like she’s improved a lot, which is great!

Over-working happens to me too. When I work on my art and stories too much, I end up procrastinating on the story or art that I was working on, and I sometimes stop working on it entirely, so what you said was helpful. Thank you, LavenderTowne!

Best art advise I got is that you can't just sit there and complain that your bad at art without acting upon what you think your bad at and try to improve on it it's helped me lot with motivation and made me realize that hey... Instead of just saying bad which is incredibly vague and overly just a wrong form of self observation you should question yourself on what you think your bad at and improve upon those aspects. That's just helped me quite a bit because yeah at the end of the day it's helped my big time with working on my flaws and well I have expanded outwards in my art because of thinking instead of me just being bad I think what do I think I'm bad at what's the specific thing that I feel I'm weak at. Ik this was just me sharing what really made me pop off and love art I've been doing it seriously as a hobby ever since I understood that info hope it helps some who the whole I'm not good enough issue.

LavenderTown's like the bob ross of digital art

I think not being afraid to embrace even the weirdest and most incoherent ideas and fleshing them out. It has really helped me out. Also, if you want to draw sometimes it is good to take inspiration from emotions or things that would feel familiar on a wide scale. It ends up connecting with a wider variety of audiences especially if it the piece is a little more left to interpretation. Just thought I might share some things that help me create.

2:49 - 4:28 i actually developed a habit from an early age of putting down all the thoughts in my head into papers whether they were weird/quirqy or if they were what i thought would be the best of my ideas. for me i improved in my artstyle (please keep in mind that i stated that this was for me at least) by always drawing all the time everyting around me and copying artyles to

2:07 “Your work is WEAKEST as good as the PART”

“Art tips that helps” *I’d take notes*

Quarantine is forcing me to stop being a workaholic so now I'm doing art again 😊

9:00 okay the best part about this one, I basically tought myself that I should always draw whatever I want, what makes me happy. no one's gonna see it, so it can be as good or bad as it wants, and if it comes out good enough to share online, then sweet! 👍

I was also told in art school to “never draw hairy lines” as it shows that I wasn’t “confident” in my art. Yet. I was totally allowed to draw totally crooked lines and go back over them. They looked the same but somehow they were always worse to me. It almost totally ruined my art style. Art school messed me up art wise. Learn more from you! More on how to find a style! ❤

My biggest is problem: I’m always doing other shit when I SHOULD be drawing (I legit don’t draw for like weeks and that’s not good!)

Heres a tip: Listen to lavander towne while doing your school work because her voice is soothing and calming that helps me concentrate and make it less boring :3

4:00 "Explore your you ideas before commit." ~ LavenderTowne, 2020

11:37 The girl looks more scared then inspired

I have loved watching Lavendertowne's art improve over the years, anyone else?

The first piece of advice is especially true in comic books. There are terrible panels that have been memed so much no one even knows the rest of it.

That last piece of advice has helped me so much. Not even just with art, just with burnout in general.

I love that on the "don't go with your first idea" one, you changed your idea completely and was constantly changing it as well.

Me: *has secret sketchbook* My dad: *acts passive aggressive about me being "secretive"* Me: _spoilers, brah_

When I saw this sketch of a hand in the first picture I was like “Woah, no, no, wait, what?”

Okay Lavender. thank you. Thank you thank you thank you. I really needed to hear... Pretty much all of this. Both this one and the bad art advice one, too. I have been in a severe art slump for the past few years (coming up on a decade) because my medical-based education has literally ate up most of my time. When I'm not doing school, I am working my medical-based job and cramming creative writing into my lunch breaks so I don't dive into full-blown depression from lack of fun (the creative writing part regularly goes on haitus for months at a time) I have been trying to get back into visual art for a few years now and I have slowly started to hate it. Not the viewing-- the doing. I keep looking at art of my friends who I used to draw alongside (still friends with) and they are all really really good (they've been at it while I have not), while my art is now realistic, but hard, static and flat. My perfectionism leads me to the point that I haven't completed a piece in... over 5 years because I get so frustrated with it that I have to put it aside or I'll stress delete. The past year or so has put me in a deep depression with my art because I feel like I've lost any talent I've ever had and that any skills I built up as a child/teen are so atrophied that they pretty much aren't there. There has been dozens (maybe even hundreds) of times where I feel like visual art just isn't something I can do and that I'll never get back what I had, but the logic tells me that it's a skill and it's something I can do if I just try. Despite logic, the fear still resides. If I sit back and really look at it, it's not the art that I hate. What I resent (not hate) is the fact that I've lost the joy and excitement drawing and visual art once gave me. I genuinely miss it and I'm terrified that I'll never get it back. Lately I have been going to other artists and asking those classic questions "how do I get better?" and I am hearing " just practice" "see things in 3D" "Don't stress over what can't be seen" "not everything has to be perfect". It doesn't help and, really, it just frustrates me more and makes me want to quit more. Then the few people who are willing to give me advice stop (sans one, who really gave me a hard tongue lashing/bludgeoning over respect and perseverance). Now I am a mature adult trying to figure out how to do it again with a hilariously unbalanced toolset. I understand that I need to start from square one because my skills are more or less foundationless, so I have been perusing the interwebs in an attempt to gain not only inspiration, but motivation. I found some here. Over the two part series on this, I'm pretty sure I cried at least 6 times, but this part definitely had me crying the most. Your words are incredibly compassionate, inspirational, and are exactly what I needed to hear. I'm trying my best to remove myself from thoughts like "I've studied (insert art-based subject here) for so long (in the past), so I should be better at it. What's wrong with me?" and instead treat myself like an absolute newbie. Even if I still have some skills tucked away (somehow), I shouldn't rely on them and treat them supplementary perks. Thank you for giving me motivation to pick up a pencil again. Also, thank you for encouraging me to try and ease up on the anatomy and light physics. More than anything, thank you for indirectly telling me to calm down and just enjoy it. It doesn't have to be perfect and it's okay if there are weak parts. Just do it. TLDR: Thank you Lavendertowne for all the warm vibes and good insight (both indirect and direct). I have struggled a lot with art and you are helping me motivate myself to start learning visual art again. Thank you again!

'Have 1 sketchbook that you never show to anyone" My family: lol no me: 👁👄👁

“I know a lot of you who are worried about getting likes on the internet” me: *doesnt show my work to anyone but my cat because I despise most of it*

This is what I do Whenever I cant think of anything to draw: Think of a Character Think about their story Draw the character with their friend or enemy. Think about how they would react when they see each other or they were forced to hang out. Background: Weird shapes The end.

YOU ARE VERY TALENTED GIRL! From the sketch to the outline and the shading

I LOVE how your videos and art mentally improves me. Thank you

"Worried about attention" Me who barely or had no interaction at all on the art websites: *pls give me attention* ;-;

The last time I was this early, Trump wasn't president.

Im trying to find my style right now, and some things I do is take characters from cartoons I like (I take ones from cartoons I like so I know different angles and know the character well) Then draw the character from scratch right next to a photo of the character I chose. This can help people find Their style (like me) and also help people after they find their style, be able to customize it a bit more to differ from the original cartoon.

Her energy is amazing!! She made my mood better 💘🥺

"Secret Sketchbook" Ah, and then the memories of my days training posing by drawing really lewd shit come rushing back in.

Once someone told me not to use sketchbooks and just put everything in a folder- I still wonder how tf they passed 1st grade-

Thank you so much for all of these tips! Honestly it has improved my art SO much. I can't say it enough! :)

That was really helpful, i think, thank you for this advices!! From my own experience, I can confirm how cool it is to have a secret sketchbook where are works that I don't even show to my friends. No, there is not even anything forbidden there, it's just that sometimes the feeling that I created it exclusively for myself is so pleasant!~

Art advice: use your strengths to improve your weaknesses. Me: use hair and clothes to improve backgrounds and shading?

"Keep some art to your self *only* " Me: Lol, all my art *is* private-

*have a secret sketchbook* bold of u to assume privacy is something my family understands

The thing I love about your art is when I see like the outline or the sketch I keep predicting what the colours would be but when you start the base colour I get surprised.you are very creative and don’t just go full normal.

title: "ART ADVICE THAT ACTUALLY HELPS" Me: "WHO SUMMONED ME"

If I could tack on a piece of advice that I’ve been following myself recently: if you start to feel burnt out and have all these ideas, reduce your art to a rougher, faster version, like a rough sketch or very simple style. Make your art simple enough to show the ideas you want to get across, and then just move on to the next. Sometimes we overwhelm ourselves by needing to fully render a drawing, and burn ourselves out on an idea before we get there. If you feel comfortable to going further or rendering, do it once you have everything down, but give yourself some time between the sketching and the rendering.

AAAAAA Your art style has improved so much and I love it! I really low how much you have inproved as a content creator over the years.

When you say “people’s eyes are are to that part” I look at your drawing- I see nothing wrong, your art is beautiful ✨❤️

Me : **gets sketch book** Me at the same time : I GIVE UP REEEEE

my favorite art advice is "draw the hands/feet even if they look like sh*t" because it's better to have an ugly hand than no hand at all

Thank you so much for all the work you put into these videos, it really has helped me, I am just starting with digital art, and these advices help me more than you realize, and I'm glad I had most of them clear since the beginning, but there is still a ton of things you have made me see in a different way and has helped me a bunch

This really helped boost my art and I appreciate it! Thank you!

LavenderTowne: Keep some art to yourself! Me, who shows my parents everything I make: 👁👄👁

My dad: why dont you ever show us your sketchbook Me: 😑. No.

“Have a secret sketchbook” *laughs in loving to show off*

I love your art style and line art is so smooth! Your shading is on point ✨✨✨✨✨