Timeline 00:00 intro 01:43 chapters' list 02:11 about art process 03:10 Should I use my real name for my art? 05:04 Why do some artists not use their real names? 07:17 When do we need an artist name? 08:23 How to come up with an artist name and how I created mine 10:42 Is it worth changing your artist name more than once? MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 14:31 A personal statement 15:42 outro
Jus fyi, Marilyn Manson chose his name (and those of his band mates) to reflect how the media sensationalizes both celebrities and serial killers with equal fervor. Having been a journalism student himself he used it to point out the hypocrisy in national media compared to supposed "moral value". The only band mates who did not follow that formula were John 5 (Jonathan Lowery) and Tim Skold. Both of them had already become recognized names in the metal industry by their previous bands. John 5 was originally from 2WO (with Rob Halford of Judas Priest) and Tim Skold is originally from KMFDM. Personally, I was always fond of the idea of the 'p0rn star name' formula (first name + name of street you grew up on). However, my online handle I have gotten used to is a shortened version of my last name and I think I will be using that for a while. Mainly because my art is about to take a very erotic and sexually graphic turn.
I’ve never realized how sometimes your artist name can effect or make an impression on my art! Thank you so much for being an amazing art teacher, if I could, I would give you an apple for my favorite teacher! (Or anything else of ur preference ofc 😂😂)
I've been thinking a LOT lately about names and I really wish I can find one soon, I don't like my "real name" bit also I haven't found anything that sounds like it could be me, I don't want to rush it tho. Your vids are very inspiring thanks for the effort that you put in them
15:40 PERIODT!!! love your input and perspective about this subject, and how reassuring you were about changing your name especially as small artists who are still trying to grow and discover themselves alongside their audience, that was very comforting to hear♥️♥️. ALSO THE BACKSTORY OF THE NAME VESPERTILIU IS SO CUTE!! :(
Hi! I usually just check it out myself! I would go to the major platforms and check the availability of the name and also do the same with a quick Google search. If nothing pops up then it's good! I wanted to call myself Vespertilia, but checking that up it was taken, that's when I decided to mix it with the name Liu from the Turandot :)
I learn something new every time I watch!! I have a question and I apologize if you've covered it before but how do you go about pricing your artwork? I guess it comes from my lack of confidence but I've given away art that I could have obtained money from just because I don't know how to price my art to be a full time artist
Hi! I can definitely make a video on that topic! In short: one tip I can give you is, find artists like you, as for level of skills, age etc, and start noticing how much they charge. Even if they have a huge following, it does not matter. At first, after raising your prices, you might not get commissions or sales for a while, but you have to be patient when your audience arrives at some point :)
Thank you for all the great content I genuinely enjoy watching your videos you inspire me to draw so I often draw while watching your videos and I thank you for your challenges they keep me drawing and I’ve finished two drawings so far but till the end something I previously wouldn’t do most of my previous drawings were left incomplete. And I love your style of art.
I just came across your channel this afternoon and immediately subscribed. Love the content and art, and the topics you talk about are refreshing and very informative! Glad to have found you! Cheers!
Wow. I just discovered you and I love you already. You've gained a new subscriber :) Thank you for helping me gain the confidence I need to change my artist name and leave the past behind!
I ended up with “Marianne’s Studio” because that felt like a neutral name that 1) would forever feel appropriate (since Marianne is my name) while 2) leaving me room to grow; you can do anything you like in a studio. It’s nothing flashy or interesting… but it makes me cringe less than previous aliases I tried 😅
oooh this topic is very dear to me... i have been using this handle for a very long time now, and i remember when i was just starting publishing my art i spent days thinking and changing my username. i mainly focused on something short that could tell a little bit about myself, but had to sacrifice pronounciability! i too don't have a fixed way to pronounce it atp. i never managed to really grow an audience and i still wonder if my "weird" handle has some play in that, and i ask myself if i'd prefer changing it but... it really grew on me, now im too attached ! so for the moment i use both my real name and my username, i think they kind of compensate each other :) lovely video as always! the quality keeps on increasing
Yet another wonderfully made and incredibly informative video! This video was so inspiring and helpful! 💜 I've been contemplating changing my username or starting a new account for YEARS but always thought it would just be a bad idea. This video really helped me realise that it's totally ok to change your username and start fresh with a new alias. Even the most well known celebrities and artists change their alias from time to time for numerous different reasons. I can move on from my past and have a fresh start doing what I personally love, without feeling held back and worrying that doing something new wouldn't fit my old style or persona. Having a fresh start and starting a new persona/identity or stepping into a new reality as you described it would be wonderful. Moving on from your past and changing your branding to start fresh would definitely be a massive lifesaver. Feeling stuck and like you're not able to break free from your past and try new things totally kills your creativity and ability to give new things a try. Thank you so so much for making such a wonderful and detailed video, and even describing your own personal experiences with starting fresh with a new account/name. You're a lifesaver and all of your videos are so insanely helpful for creative people to help them change and improve. The way you delve into your own past experiences just really goes to show how you've dealt with similar struggles and want to help others better themselves as well :) Your videos are so helpful and inspiring. Also loved the story of how you created your artist name :) Absolutely excellent video legend! Cheers from Australia 💜🦇
Are you kidding me? This is one of the most wholesome, thoughtful, heart warming comments I've ever received. I have no words. This is literally my goal. What I try to do is tell you what I wished someone else told me. The fact you are here telling me that my videos are helping is really the best thing. Thank you so so much! I'll do my best to keep providing this kind of content for you all! Thank you so much ♥️🦇
@@vespertiliu You're doing such a fantastic job with your videos!! :) Your content is so informative, inspiring, engaging, well edited and structured, and fun to watch. You give us so much incredibly helpful information in such an easily digestible format. You can definitely tell that you are making these videos from the heart to help people with things you have struggled with or wondered in the past. Keep it up you are genuinely one most helpful and inspiring channels out there. You are the best and coolest art teacher on RU-vid! Thank you so much :D
Just wanted to pop in to say I love your videos! The vibe is great and there are a lot of helpful tips and ideas in a very easily digestible format. Thank you for making them! I love to play them on the bg when I draw
Omg this is so incredible. I draw while listening to youtube videos too and to know someone is doing it with my videos is just incredible! Thank you 🥺🦇♥
Argomento interessante!! Sono d'accordo che cambiare nome sia un ottimo primo passo per cambiare la propria vita per il meglio 🥲💖 Io ho sempre odiato il mio nome, ma ho anche sempre ADORATO il nome che mio papà e mia nonna avrebbero voluto darmi... Morgana! Per cui è un nick che uso online da anni, con qualche variazione qua e là. Quando mi sono finalmente fatta la domanda "Quale dovrebbe essere il mio nome d'arte?" la risposta era abbastanza ovvia, ho solo aggiunto il cognome LeFou in onore di Morgan LeFay, l'incantatrice del ciclo arturiano; ci sta, perché nella mia arte inseguo immagini fiabesche ed evocative, e mi piacciono i personaggi oscuri, intraprendenti e vendicativi come la strega Morgana
I now really see your Félicien Rops influences. Your pages have the taste of "les épaves" but with a fresh metal/old gothic style.n😍 thanks for your thoughts on this topic
Interesting topic. It’s tough to come up with usernames that match an interesting professional name that you want to use since so many usernames are already taken on different platforms. About your choice of name, interesting that you liked it because of the bat meaning. I'd guessed, incorrectly, that it was because of the meanings associated with vesper. Vesper, by itself, in Latin means evening star. Vesper also means an evening prayer or a hymn sung during evening prayers. Both have that evening/twilight meaning associated with them, which seems to go with your art style and aesthetic. Anyway, enjoyable video! For future video suggestions, maybe a video on how you found your art style would be good, and how others could find their own styles?
Hi! Thank you so much! I actually talked about "finding your art style" in my previous video, but I'm still planning a whole video about that topic :)🦇♥️
Would using the name I have on RU-vid as my artist name be a good idea? The audience from my videos and people I talk to on Discord might be interested in my art. Also, have you considered setting up a Discord server so your students can show their work and help each other?
For the first question: it's up to you :) There's really no right or wrong answer! Also, nothing stops you from changing your mind later on. Just go with what feels more natural to you right now, and then see what happens :) For the discord server, I actually never thought about it, but might consider it :) 🦇♥️
I love your real name! But your working nane is very fitting. It's like a character. The piece and art work you do is incredible. But your message at the end was best of all. Thank you very much
This helped me so much! I dont know if im happy with the name 'theartwitchh' but once i post more art and learn more about what i like maybe ill find the perfect name, like you did. 🖤🥀
thank you so much! You have to "follow your heart!" no one is stopping you from changing your name as well as no one can stop you from keeping it :) 🦇♥️
I dont intend to release my real Name for my works. Becuz I want my stuff to be free (I have a job and I dont want to monetize it) because I dont want to engage in dumpsterfire-drama online over the stuff I create. Even if 1 person on the Planet would like me stuff, Id be happy :) As for my artist name: I cant pick something serious. On good days It would be things like "Autofart McMachinepistol" or "Comrade Crackmonkey" Edit: Mad respect to the tolerance-aspect and taking a stand against hate. You Rock!
Ti ho scoperta solo oggi e già amo la tua arte! Ho visto su tiktok che parli molto di Art magic; io volevo scriverci la tesi di laurea all'accademia di belle arti riguardo a questo (in quanto sto anche progettando un grimorio da portare come progetto finale). Non è che avresti libri o fonti da consigliare? Sicuramente imparerò già molto da te e dale tue serie sulle art witches, ma se ci fosse modo di scoprire qualcosa in più mi farebbe davvero piacere!! Oltre questo grazie mille per questo video, voglio riprovare a buttarmi nel mondo dei social come artista e direi che partire da uno pseudonimo sarebbe l'ideale ^^
Ciao! Grazie di cuore per il tu commento e non sai che piacere leggere che sei interessata alle art witches! Assolutamente il primo libro che mi viene da consigliarti è "Witchcraft" della serie Library Of Esoterica, pubblicato da Taschen (c'è anche in italiano). In quel libro ho scoperto la maggior parte delle artiste-streghe che ora amo alla follia. Il libro tratta di storia della stregoneria e della figura della strega in generale, sia a livello spirituale che "semplicemente" politico. Il bello è che essendo un libro Taschen è completamente illustrato con opere d'arte a tema, quindi è sia un libro di storia della stregoneria che di storia dell'arte (non ne tratta il libro in se, ma ogni opera ha la sua piccola didascalia con le informazioni). Il volume è fisicamente stupendo, straconsiglio tutta la serie! Un altro testo molto carino che però parla più del collegamento storico tra figura della donna e strega piuttosto che di artiste/arte è Kitchen Witch di Sarah Robinson, il titolo può fuorviare ma è un testo leggero ma interessantissimo e pieno di informazioni che analizza l'archetipo della strega e la sua origine nelle cucine. Ti consiglierei anche "Arte e Magia" catalogo di una mostra riguardo "Il fascino dell'esoterismo in Europa", ma devo dire che tratta più di Arte e Esoterismo che di Arte e Stregoneria. Spero possano esserti utili! Ho fatto l'Accademia a Roma! Scenografia! La tua tesi sembra interessantissima! I miei migliori auguri 🦇♥️
@@vespertiliu Grazie mille davvero!! La tesi della triennale è stata sull'iconografia della strega nel corso della storia dell'arte, ora mi sto laureando con una specializzazione in Grafica d'arte, illustrazione e fumetto!! Diciamo quindi che ho quindi un'infarinatura sull'argomento ma seguirò le tue raccomandazioni per saperne di più. Magari uno dei tuoi prossimi video potrà essere su questo, chissà. Ora vado a divorarmi tutti i tuoi video hehe 🦉🖤
Thank you I absolutely loved this video. It is not surprising to me that many Italians change their last names- with an Italian last name myself people are always confused by the spelling and pronunciation 😅 (I am very proud of it). I had thought to shorten it or change it- still can’t decide.
Thank you for this and for your positive message at the end! I am thinking hard about this dilemma for myself, but I am also thinking I might never want to share anything I make online at all: P
It saddens me that you had to express that hateful/hurtful comments are not welcomed. I have seen the worst what humans can do to each other. Some people just have to go out their way to express their validity as the expense of others & with perceived notion that consequences do not apply to them because they are "right". Love the videos but sad there people who come here to be just that A-hole.
Hi darling, no worries, to be honest I received very very few hateful comments under my video. What concerns me is the amount of people who shared bad experiences with people who hurt them in many ways. My message was not meant to "scare away" people who hate on me personally, but to say that the kind of people that like to hurt us all, me and the people of this community, are not welcome. I said those things because I want a safe space for YOU :)
Ok I overreacted, sorry I assumed there were individuals trolling commenters on your videos. I am that trollers worst nightmare, ask my wife, the minute she was being trolled by incel ilustrator haters on a discord illustrators forum to the point of us getting doxxed & calls to intimidate her at conventions.. I told them to come by anytime she has a booth, & we can chat. They have yet to show. I@@vespertiliu
@@vespertiliu It was exactly what I was looking for, and you touched on the questions and concerns I had when deciding on a name! I especially appreciated that you talked about it being more than okay to change your name throughout your artist journey. I've been very caught up on finding the "perfect" name that it has stopped me from sharing my work online, and this was the push I needed. Thank you 🖤🖤🖤
