HOW TO KILL YOUR PASSION FOR ART 🔪 

I got so caught up in drawing art for money that I lost the fun in it. Now, I only want to improve to justify charging more, It kinda sucks.

on studying: many artists find more success diving into a projects and study something as questions arise. This way you aren't burnt out from endlessly studying and you apply the new knowledge immediately!

I needed this 2 years ago. I got into drawing because it seemed fun and I wanted to create art, but it quickly devolved into taking it too seriously, doing too much study, and having almost no fun. I wasn't drawing for the passion of drawing, or just for fun/creativity, I was drawing with the sole goal of getting good, and only when I get good I could enjoy myself and be creative. It was such a toxic mindset and made art so stressful. I barely made any progress over months because I wasn't passionate about it.

I read a lot of comments talking about how drawing is no longer fun... In my case, I still love drawing, art is my passion, my life! I enjoy every stage of the drawing, even the most complicated ones. I hope you all can return to having art as something enjoyable again!

I have a lot of stories i want to tell, and i want to improve so the my art can accurately represent what I'm seeing in my head. I want to make something of my daydreams.

I've been drawing / painting now for... gods 50 years. I can't count the number of people I've seen just... stop. Lose their passion. Honestly I can't say how I've kept mine for so long but I still love it. Likes, no likes, don't care, don't chase the algorithm, just have fun!

As Frieren said, The pursuit of magic itself is the greatest joy.

3:05 “doing pure studies is not something I do, personally” - Saying that as a Teacher is the biggest inspirational moment for every aspiring artist 💙 - Hearing that a professional art teacher doesn’t overwhelm themselves with studies and “boring” stuff, is amazingly inspirational At least to me-

I needed this. I've been depressed and been thinking about quitting art for good because I can't make any artwork that I can consider "great" in my eyes. I end up comparing my old works and telling myself how I downgraded so much over a year. In addition to that, I put so much pressure on myself by seeing how much my peers are improving in a short amount of time. I'm not mad at them, I'm mad at myself for not being able to catch up and with the rise of a.i. and artist getting layed off by big industries like riot, I sometimes think what the point. Art is all I have, I love making art but it's just so difficult. But I'll keep trying and I won't stop. Thank you, Marc.

Yeah drawing has become a chore to me, it's a drag now, and I'm trying to regain the fun I had with drawing, but I'm having a hard time with it cause of my perfectionism and mild depression

The negative association part really got me there. Recently, it feels like doing art has become a chore, especially when I’m months into a final major project and that I don’t have a structure or steps to follow daily. Each time I draw, I just either keep doing studies or I keep thinking about the project. I just couldn’t have fun creatively. Ironically, I’ve been instead editing videos as a creative escape to drawing, I felt better doing it and I didn’t know why. Eventually after a few weeks, I didn’t look forward to drawing anymore and I hated that. Today, I severely questioned my career choice and beloved hobby. So really, thank you for sharing this. It helped me realize what I’m feeling and I’m actually gonna get up to try and have fun drawing

20yo, stopped drawing and started sculpting in blender, but i lost all the passion, there's no creativity... im trying to go back to this "creative path" and to drawing

the negative associations have become so bad for me. i completely trained my brain to unleash every negative feeling i have in my body while i am drawing, without realizing it. i cannot study, i cannot doodle, i cannot simply draw because i immediately feel angry and frustrated. it felt so good to have these few minutes of marc talking about it. I'll try and re-wire my brain into associating art with positive feelings again. i hope it'll work and it's not too late. i miss drawing from my heart so much and i want nothing more then improving but it's tough. it is so tough.

Small advice for the "avoid negative associations with drawing"-point It can really improve your experience of drawing and also "getting into" working on something, if you have a nice workspace! Get some nice posters from your favorite artist (or anime, movies, Comics, ANYTHING) that inspire you! Maybe get yourself a some small items that can unconciously make you happy and set you in a good mood (Examples from my desk include: A snowglobe, Lego-Pikachu, corkboard with silly doodles, figures [characters and animals], a pokemon plushie as support buddy). You can apply this logic to your digital workspace as well by taking some time to setup your PC, tablet (whatever you're working with) the way you like it! Personalize it by chosing a nice wallpaper, maybe change some other settings to make your workspace reflect and support you! If you use the same PC for art and other work, you can set an unconcious trigger for your mind by creating a profile for work and one for art/personal use and differenciating them by their wallpaper (and other visual triggers! Visual and auditive triggers are proven to have the greatest impact on your concious and unconcious mind. By differenciating the visuals and maybe listening to a special kind of music, LoFi in my case, you will have an easier time to start drawing). This does not only apply to art (recommending "atomic habits" if you're interested in learning more about these small butterfly-effect-changes)! But having a workspace that makes you happy the second you sit down is something that will rewire your unconsciousness to associate fun, happiness and other passions with your art! It will lead to a healthier, more motivated and more inspired experience in the long run! (Be mindful to not stuff too many things onto your desk; your items shouldn't be distracting or restricting your movements; and be mindful of what you're putting there. Decorate your space with the small things that YOU like and that make YOU happy, even if you don't quite know why they make you feel this way.) Edit: I'm working in homeoffice almost all year long and it does a lot for your mental health as well, trust me!

I saw so many people who started learning at the same time or later than me make much better art than me that my whole point of art changed to just improvement "I WANT TO IMPROVE" and during that and a lot of studies... my art just got worse n worse, slowly losing consistency as well I will try to draw something for fun today just to reignite my feelings for art again

This probably my favorite illustration u have done so far!

It's been years since I've mentioned what happened to me lmao, but listen: I failed to enter art school and my family convinced me to study a "real" career. I graduated with very good grades, and I HATED it. Every year it was harder to convince myself it was what I'd "wanted" to do, until I realized later it was a mixture of family pressure and my own fear of failing at it again. I'm 28 now, I moved out, I got a job - and I'm going to apply for art school again. I shouldn't have listened to my brain over my heart in this one thing. DO prioritize your passion if it is what truly makes you happy, as hard as the industry is right now!

Doing something positive before leaving the work is a good tip.

I've been struggling with my art for many years. When i think I lost my passion, I find myself gravitating back to it. The negative associations hit hard because I got a lot of emotional baggage and resentment because of the decisions I made and the people I spent time with. I've been trying to rekindle that passion because I still like to create stories and characters. I just need to let go of my own baggage and just be me. I got a sketchbook at work since I have some downtime and it's been kinda helping. Thanks for these videos, Marc!

I take my art very seriously and I have never improved more in the last two years than in almost 13 years. I simply stopped caring about social media and stuff and just doing it for myself, for fun. Completely changes the way I see art today. People like Marc really helped me in that process and I kept discovering so many great artists that way, so thank you so much. ❤

Your art class videos are one of the main components for keeping my art passion strong for over 2 years

Motivation is always fleeting, I have a real hard time learning things and unless I grasp something right away my brain just slides off and any further attempts are failed. All I can do is stick with just showing up and doing something every day, I don't know where to go other than keep the wheels spinning because this car is all I've got left, I don't expect to go pro anytime soon but it needs to happen eventually, every day gets a little more demanding and the people around me expect me to do SOMETHING, its toxic to my will to keep going but hey, if anything I'm stubborn so here's to the rest of my life to trying and not giving up.

Walking out frustrated is a real one. I'm in the process of using background music/shows I like to recover it little by little. I don't dread sitting at the desk anymore.

As a person who been starting to learn how to draw, I have did most of these things and it really does kill someone's passion. Now I starting to gain the same motivation that I had when I started. Always a helpful video when Marc posts it.

For me the best way to destroy my passion fort art and drawing was to go at an art school, paying a lot of money for some little advices you can have for free on internet. They wanted us to do too much work without having the basics. Learning the basics is the key and i think time must not matter when you learn them, everyone is different and you need to find the best compromise between learning and not being overwhelm. When you have too much work to doo in different kind of domain (animation 2D, 3D, animation 3D, english/spanish, etc) you can't focus on one thing, you can't have too much time for basics who are the key. You will spent your time working fast because "deadine is very important" it's a nonsence to impose "deadline" to people who don't even have solid basics to enjoy what they are doing. You just get crushed by time, your work suck, your mind is fucked and to learn its important to have alot of awarness on what you are doing. So yeah take your time and think about what you can improve a bit after each session, each week, each month. It take time, practice but i think if do it well you will not feel so much pain at the point you associate the fact of drawing at "A PAINFULL THING". Today i draw again but he took me 5+ year to found fun again at drawing, what a fucking lost...

a guide to starting on social media would be helpful, cause nowadays it seems like every platform has a bunch of problems going on

I've only ever set the goal "I want to improve" and that has helped me more than anything else.

Never did anything apart from studying in the last two years XD. I dont really know why but I can't bring myself to draw for "fun"; I instinctively prioritise learning.

Is this a Yoneyama Mai study? Istg, poses like this and hair structures like that always remind me of that artist.

About the observation thing... Interesting point since I think working out helps you understand aspects of anatomy like muscle and movement better

I remember making the mistake of focusing only on getting better without a specific goal. I always told myself that I wasn’t good enough. This lead to me to stop drawing pictures and only doing anatomy studies (my weakness at that time). Whenever I had time I sat down and drew human mannequins. And because I am a perfectionist I never made any progress. I was never happy with my results. One day I was about to continue my studies. I looked at them. But before I could begin drawing I emotionally felt something tearing apart and even a bit of panic? And that was the moment I stopped my studies and just wanted to have something in front of me, that I can be proud of. I was driven by the stress that had built up inside me these past weeks. But this time I resisted the urge to make every single line perfectly. „Perfectionism is the enemy of progress.“ When I finished I looked at my drawing. I felt something like breaking free from chains. The pressure was gone. I will never forget, how happy I felt in that moment.

Honestly, it's been so hard on me since I lost my passion, and thing is that I lost it from personal experiences in day to day life that took out all the happiness and creativity in me, not the way I looked at my art. People used to know me for my artistic skill and it just feels like I became a nobody without that drive. I wish I could go back to drawing so bad, but whenever I try, I just panic and close everything, now I don't even have my art to escape to anymore :'D

Lately I have seen my mindset deteriorate and negative associations have become more common. I have spend countless hours practicing and drawing for fun, but when I publish my artworks, hardly anyone seems to like them. Even worse, my beginner artworks which were on a way lower skill level were way more popular. It is really frustrating. I think I needed this video. I'll try out your tip on #4, doing something easy when I am unhappy about an artwork

What bums me out most when it comes to drawing is not knowing how certain things are done by other artist relating to the drawing program. Anatomy can be learnt, perspective can be learnt. But how does this or that artist draw the lineart lines this way? Am I using the wrong pen? Maybe the good looking pens I can't use because of the drawing program I use? What about this kind of colour and shading? Did they use a tool or specific pen again? Maybe a setting or a blur? So many things that I feel like I will never understand just because I didn't see a certain setting or don't have the right pen. I'm also worried about not being able to draw in the style that I want to draw in. It makes me want to give up knowing my artstyle doesn't look like the artstyle that I want it to look like.

I got your art school program for christmas but i'm currently not working on it at all after doing it for about a week and a half. School has just been very stressful lately, havig to write a scientific essay, studying for important exams, etc. and i've kind of turned doing the daily practices and watching the videos into a chore in my brain. i'm currently just allowing myself to take a break from it and just do whatever i want. been' learning the muscle anatomy of arms for the past, like, two weeks which has actually been really fun. i'll try to get back into the program during the upcoming winter holidays i have, but might not stick to the program full force in the beginning. the first lessons have all already been stuff i know so i've been getting bored quickly and got demotivated because i didn't really find any good refrences for gesture drawing. i'm gonna try to allow myself to learn my own stuff WHILE losely following the programme, as long as i feel i don't REALLY need or care for the content it offers. i still think it's a great programme, i'm just having some trouble getting into it.

I was told both in college and in an art community I was banned from that studying for hours is the only way to ever improve. I was literally told that unless my anatomy and construction were perfect, I should not be drawing my own characters or comics. I never knew I could do both. I'm trying desperately now, for some reason, to get better via your draw better in 30 days.

Hello Mark, here a Mexican sends you greetings and thanks very much for the advice, when I was a child I remember that on Mother's Day they asked us to draw the joke is that we all had said project, but those of us who still didn't know how to achieve a very good drawing, they didn't show it but... the ones that we drew were very ugly, so to speak, they showed them in front of the entire "Christian" type school in said exhibition, including my drawing, mine was horrible and humiliating in the end. of my being, even though I am 30 years old, I feel devastated but I am trying to recover my passion for art again, something inside me whispers to me, come on, don't give up and keep going, brothers, make art and your passion for drawing is very fun.

Yeah, it is very important to cherish the small victories. Over time, I became more and more passionate about drawing, but that wasn´t always the case. My first drawings were so bad that even my dad rejected a manga I wanted to gift him lmao. And also, he being more realistic but with more touch, told me many times I should be getting my stuff together and get more money. Right now, more skilled, taking classes and making SOME money, my dad is now very positive with me, and that also made me love drawing more. In a perfect world you shoudn´t care what people say, and I now know the things he said were to push me to improve, but it really did help me like art more.

Thank you marc!! Feels like your vids always come out when I need them I’ve been struggling with motivation for drawing latelyyyy

I needed to hear... all of this, this morning. Thanks! Always love how motivational your videos are!

I knew about negative associations, but never realized how often I do that in my practice sessions, I have to improve on that part, thanks :D I always liked your illustrations but, this one, it feels different, something changed but I'm not skilled enough (yet) to point what. It's awesome!

Really enjoy this style of video!!

Man, watching these timelapses is the most satisfying thing ever. It makes me so inspired to try and draw again, and this video was great for me since I sometimes tell myself negative things about my art!! Thanks teach 🎉

This is a fun coincidence! I've just made a video about art goals and you gave me another topic for a new video. Thank you for sharing, Teach!

It feels nice knowing habits that just felt good to me to do, was exactly what I needed to do. ❤

Great tips (to not do) video SENPAI! 🙇‍♂️ (So, ready to start Ur “art program” as soon as I get ‘gud enuff’ with the software I’ve chosen to use and “I can’t wait”.!

Thank you so much I was literally doing all of these and I’ve been feeling myself slowly lose my passion. I’m so glad I found this when I did

This came at the right time 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I've been hitting wall to wall recently and I've felt like I could never improve. My heads look wrong, my gesture drawings barely resemble a human, and my god, my line confidence is just blegh I keep thinking that the moment I learn a new skill I should be able to do it that instant but I need to remember I need to have both the knowledge and the skill, it's something I need to do repetitively esp since I'm still around the beginning. I almost lost the fun in drawing so ty for this video

Thanks bro for keep your community motivated yes I developed the bad habit of leaving my drawing in the middle to do something fun. I love drawing but sometimes some drawing doesn’t feel fun I have 50+ pending drawings I’m trying to finish them one by one from this year and it feels a lot better now. I’m not drawing every single day as per your advice and feel fresh.

as respectfully as i can say it, its always super refreshing to see your linework up close and see that its loose and almost sketchy, i feel like im always tied down by making my line art water tight and as clean as possible which can take up a significant amount of time

I usually get so bummed out by people’s skill. But recently instead of telling myself. “Wow, they’re so much better than me” to : “I wonder how they drew like that!” That’s helped my mindset a little. Also deleting instagram really helped 😂 I am a hobbiest but I would love to be a famous comic book artist and story teller could be fun!

Hi Mark I've watched your videos for over 4 years now and I can't help but thank you for all the educational content that you make. Now I'm attending an art program in my local university and I watch your videos to supplement the lectures I get in school (in most cases marcs videos are more helpful haha). Hope you keep on making videos and I hope to see more in the future. Cheers 🎉

the speedpaint was so good! it still looks recognizable as one of marc's drawings but it's also got a wildly different style and i really like it :D

needed this video! I was only questioning my love for art a few days ago and this video came at the perfect time. Art has been my passion for as long as i could remember but ive been so burnt-out of it that its started feeling like a chore, or a race i cannot win against my peers in (im in school for 2d animation). This video will help me rekindle my passion for art, thank you!

I'm at a point where I can no longer enjoy "the process" because my mind just focuses on the "end result" therefore I end up frustrated and unmotivated 😢. And this happens automatically. My passion has burnt, due to so many hours working as an illustrator and a RU-vid Animator. The only thing that can "cure" now is just... Stop. I still LOVE to draw, but my mind needs to rest.

Marc, you give GREAT advice. Somewhat related, my father has a PhD and has always said that people should not treat college as a vocational experience. Too many people view higher education as some conveyor belt where they go to school, get a degree and get a job. He believes that people should go to college to learn and to improve themselves intellectually. Anyway, just like with art, the result shouldn't be the only thing an artist cares about. Its the process and journey is what we should cherish. And it shouldn't have to be arduous or painful. I'm also not really a fan of rigid, old school studies. I think you make a great point about how you can learn plenty of skills and fundamentals while drawing what you enjoy. One doesn't have to draw a bunch of cubes and circles to learn about perspective and line weight. They don't necessarily need to attend a formal figure drawing class in order to understand things like body proportions and effects like foreshortening. These things can be picked up in all sorts of ways. And your analogy regarding working out is 100% spot on. That's exactly how I explain art to my non-artist friends. It does require a lot of dedication and practice. But like working out, art also has its warm ups, cool downs and breaks. You don't want to burn yourself out physically, mentally or creatively. One shouldn't feel like they have to be doing art all the time. Balance, moderation and knowing when to stop are lessons some artists, even pros, forget.

Thank you marc. It was so ver insightful. I guess I can understand why I enjoyed art more back then, compared to now. You opened my eyes.

This is something ive struggled with for years, and almost made me quit art altogether, several times. I wish I had heard these tips years ago, but I'm still so glad to have heard them now!! Thank you

thank you for this video , and the background art is beautiful

Dude… you read my mind… just the video I needed to watch. Without realizing it I was starting to get tired of gesture drawing due to long daily sessions… thanks for the advice! These videos are a great complement to your course 👍

man, I felt the "studying the wrong way" hard. 9 years into this shit and only less than 2 years ago I only just started to feel like I began learning how to learn in the first place...

Wow! That has to be the most extraordinary and unique pose I have witnessed in a space setting. Excellent job on the overall execution of this artwork, which effectively conveys its ✨meaningful message✨ I have great respect for your talent. This art is truly beautiful.

I recently purchased Marc’s art school to improve and I am starting to see it. The difficult part is balancing practice vs your own passion. I agree that you must tweak your practice so it’s always in line with something you care about. That’s when you produce your greatest work as well so it’s a win-win

Thank you Marc this really helped, it made me feel more at ease to know what I'm doing wrong and what to change t9 keep my passion at art 💜

Thanks for the warnings, Marc. I’m twenty months into learning to draw and need work now. The pressure has been a bit demoralizing and now I’m going to reset, thank you!

Good advices sir ❤❤

Thanks, I've been looking for this tutorial for a long time

Damn, I'm in love with your drawing 😮

I did hear most of what you said but that drawing you did in this video was particularly stunning. I was amazed the whole time and had to go back a few times to catch the tips lmao

I've been into digital painting lately. Trying some different fruits and want to do some animals. It seems to help when I get to practicing gesture drawing a bit too much. Definitely breaks up practicing the same thing over and over and seeing minimal progress. Then when I go back to gesture/figure drawing I can more readily see the results. Great video this week.

I really needed this particular class. Especially positivity part, cause I did myself much harm on that field.

Thank you very much for your videos, Marc Brunet. I have been recovering from a horrible art burnout I suffered last year because I ended up doing practically half of the things mentioned in this episode (Studying but no fun, relating negative feelings to art, etc.) I've been doing my best to doodle just for fun now and your words of wisdom are a big help!

Drawing became such a task for me recently. I usually did draw a lot for online currency, I never finished the commissions on time or even at all sometimes because my commisioners gave me such boring ideas that I never wanted to do them. I gave up on doing commisions since I just hated it. Also because of my art teacher not liking my character design drawings which is what I like doing the most. I usually hated art class whenever we'd get a project because my teacher barely gave me any freedom in it. She even said one of my drawings that I liked was a waste of my talent.

When I start to draw as a kid, I find it fun and wonderful, because it cheering me up and let my fantasies became true like a cute monsters or animals or characters But after grew up, having a depression, I cant draw so cheerful as I was a kid. You looking to your own art and thinking how bad it is, when other artists became more and more good and enjoy every work. You know that a lot of study needed, but don't have a mental or physical strength for it while working for non-art profession or half of it. Thanks for the video, I will take this tips to make my passion burn again inside.

THANK YOU !

how did you know i needed this

I am absolutely INSPIRED for the first time in... Years. I started drawing as a kid because it was fun, and I did it for fun years after that. I still do it for fun but I also want to make money. It has been feeling like a chore because I feel like I can't put my imagination onto the page. But your words have changed my perspective on some things. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ^^

9:12 I never really practice a lot but at the same time I realize I’m improving slowly because I observe

Thank you for this video these are actually so helpful and it has inspired to try to do your course again. I bought it last year after graduating college with the mindset of “I need to finish this course in a couple months so I can get a job” and it completely killed my motivation and I stopped doing it even though I was learning from it. I think I will set the more realistic goal of watching the lessons through this year and applying them and practicing them in shorter intervals as this video suggests. Ty again for these videos! I’ve been watching your channel since I started to learn how to draw as a passion over a decade ago ❤

Loved it Marc, as you have been giving back hope for me and my art path with your videos! Could you make a video or just some tips how to get back your passion if you have managed *successfully* kill it?

Will do art forever n the next life n the next💪

Thank you Mark! You are an inspiration for me, and wellp what can I say, I did improved my ways in art after watching your videos!!

Loved the video Marc, definetly important to keep that spark alive. I will say though, on regards to that first point, It's motly about avoiding unreasonable goals and setting shorter, more reasonable goals, this is incredibly true, since many people will want to do huge things and get stuck in planning for a long time, until the proyect eventually dies out, hence, the importance of shorter more achievable goals. However, it's ALSO important to have long term goals, they just need to be reasonable, and broken down in milestones that you can achieve in the short term, which is where most people stumble. For example, "living of art by next year" might not be reasonable, but "living of my art, and here are the milestones per month/year to eventually get me there" is more reasonable. I mention it because having that long term vision can also help fuel your passion and see long term progress. As another example, Marc's own course has an end goal of completing the course and becoming a "certified artist", but it's broken down in terms and the companion guide also provides daily or weekly goals to achieve as you work towards completing the whole course.

Thank you ❤

no doubt this video with a more realistic reflection on taking this path seriously, as a software developer, I have had this passion to develop as a digital artist and given the circumstances and how expensive it is, IT was an affordable option and to date I live from it, maybe it's a hobby and do not take it as seriously study art as taking a course, and that the worst frustration is if I decide to devote myself to drawing and have no work in a few months and as a disappointment, return to software development.

Thank you for this video, I finally killed it. Been trying for years.

Recently, I've found a small trick that helps me leave a practice session on a positive note. After doing a handful of sketches in pencil, if there's one sketch that stands out positively, I take a pen and ink it. Now, It's more fun to grab my stack of papers and flip through it.

I like this composition

yo marc, I feel like your hairflow in this video share the same vibe like the japanese illustrator "Rolua". Really appreciate it if you do art studies on more Japanese illustrators cuz their methods are just too godly

Waaay ahead of ya

THANK YOU

I quit art yesterday, deleted all my Instagram and I got this recommended today. I think I'll take a break rather than quit. I valued my art based on likes and the haters really got to me

what a nice video.. when I got serious abt art 10 yrs ago, I was often discouraged due to vids & teachers saying that there were certain "right" and "wrong" ways to do [start] things.. constantly shaming, rather than giving constructive criticism. while there are good and preferred things considering properties/structure, anatomy, etc.. beginner artists with new passion shouldn't be told this!! they should be given help-meaning everything this video went over! like how to start their journey in studying art in a way that's fun, suitable to you, and tips on how to pace oneself, and so on! what got me going, was remembering that I'm doing this for me. for fun, and for everything else. I always try to keep myself encouraged and going! I love art.. 💗

Used to draw everyday and practice like there was no tomorrow but my goals were to high I burned out in frustration this video was much needed ty ❤

The lesson this video was good, BUT THE ART IS WAYY BETTER, favorite thumbnail of 2024 so far❤

"How to recover your passion for drawing" would be a good follow-up for this video.

Great video ✨

I had fun drawing in highschool and the art projects in class were fun. After that I discovered twitter and all the artists there, which were pro and already put so much work and time in their skill. Seemed stupid to try to ever get to that level, so I just dropped drawing all together. I would have never had the determination to to that, now its already 8 years since then.

The tips are great, but I just wanted to say that the drawing is AMAZING

ok now please make a tutorial on reviving the passion