Hope you enjoyed the video! As mentioned, you can check out the free anime study guide here - oridays.com/animestudy 📝 P.S. I wasn't able to fit this into the video but wanted to share it anyway: Upon reading some of my old notes I found out that I thought about quitting multiple times throughout the journey. It was bizzare since I didn't remember at all until I read those notes again. I heard someone say before "you're not an artist until you've thought about quitting at least once." So we're definitely not alone in how difficult the journey can be. And probably the biggest 'secret' to art is sticking to it, and pushing through all the hard times. Keep at it gang 💪
Bro pls make ur vtuber character a male bro PLEASE i've been watching u for a long time i barely managed to imagine ur voice with a face- ( and cat ears ofc ) DO A COMMUNTIY VOTE ( I'll fight for this fr )
Hey uhm great video but did you do research about betterhelp? I havent done much research myself but well Im not getting sponsered here and I have heard some bad stuff about it
This video doesn’t just give us an artist’s perspective, it’s like a therapist guiding us through life’s journey and a successful mindset. I truly enjoyed your story, and I’m so glad that I found your channel. Thank you, Ori!
When I was in grade school I used to draw super well but due to struggles in life, I stopped all my hobbies and lost interest in most things I loved doing. Now in high school, I started drawing again but I noticed all my drawings sucked unlike before. I practiced for about 2 weeks and I drew a character for about 3-5ish hours I was proud of it, and I showed it to my "friends", and they said my drawing was... bad. After that I never drew once, but... this video gave me hope! Thank you for this video Ori! To anyone who reads this, I hope you have a nice day
I was in a similar situation too, but I was a complete beginner, and after a month of daily practice, I created one piece of art that I thought was really cool, but they just said it was total garbage and laughed. Maybe the drawing really was terrible, but at that moment I felt like complete shit. Although I didn't lose my motivation to draw after that, I just don't want to show my art to anyone anymore, because people who have never drawn or picked up a pencil don't understand how difficult it is for a beginner to create anything at all.
oh no!! i’m guessing you’re calling them “friends” because you dumped them? if so, that good! i’m glad to hear you’re better now! i may not know you, but please don’t let “friends” discourage you! ❤
If you only stopped for that, it just means you didn't want to draw and improve that bad atm. Real men just keep playing the game to improve their performances methodically
same, but I was smaller and my brother ripped up my art piece. I got upset (of course), but my mother told me it wasn't good enough to begin with. I don't blame them though. It's my fault that I quit and stopped practicing. It is irresponsible to blame them for stunting my growth (i.e. "oh, I would've totally mastered that if it weren't for your words, and so I stopped"). I just couldn't be bothered/didn't have the time to. Now I'm beginning to take it up again, just for fun
As someone who taught violin for 22 years, I realised that the 10,000 hour rule works better if the learner is mindful, is aware of one's ultimate goal and does research on how to get there. Illustration wise, playing Azur Lane helped me to improve a lot as I observe their artwork from various points like anatomy, proportions, and inking.
@@madhuripendam4650 It was explained throughout the video. Basically, taking the different rpg-like "skills" he mentioned, you choose which elements to focus on and then practice by creating works yourself which you analyze for points of improvement, or study the anatomy of subjects that allign with the element of your interest. Yes, you can just keep drawing non-stop for thousands of hours without doing anything else, but the speed at which you'll actually improve will be greater if you factored in research, studies, and generally be very analytical of not only your own works but others too. Understanding is important. This can be applied to any skill, really. Even something entirely different like programming...
Thank you very much di/bhaiya through this video I learnt how lazy I was being without any consistency , efforts and complained to myself not being able to do anything. I'm loser the worst all that but the dialogue by Ori's ex made realise that I was dreaming all the time
Another tip for any aspiring artists that I picked up from Marc Brunet Observation haki(Just look at your favourite artists drawings)... Not just look but look hard and thoroughly for a few minutes without drawing but just imagining the process you would follow while drawing that subject matter... Do it enough times with all your focus and you'll start seeing lines float in your head(the amount time is obviously different for everyone)
Brunet is the only teacher who REALLY gets thru to me in a digustable way. I dont think he is "the best", per sey, but his teaching method is the only one that really helped me, even tho i understood from others. I love his teaching so much
Hearing how much you struggled in the beginning gives me some hope again! On the internet you usually you just see the success of the people and never the path that lead to the success so this video is really helping me understand that I am not a slow learner but just need to stay consistent. Thank you ori!
I think the one thing that gave me a great boost in motivation was, as cocky as it sounds, going back through one of my favourite artist's art and looking at the earlier art work and being like 'i can do better than that.' It makes you realize that these people are literally just like you, they just worked to improve so if you work as well, you'll get there eventually.
AI it's so much better. I could do this with just a few prompts. In Japan, Loli it's a pretty common thing and being graped by one of your family members it's also a pretty common thing. I just watched a lot of Hs, and everyone should to watch and swipe up and down his 🐓 while watching H or 👧🏼s You can insult me, I Do Not Read Replies, and of course, you will get more likes than me.
@@Murimz Just a bad product in general. The therapy they offer is done by unlicensed therapists. It's digital, so if the client ever wants to meet up, they can't. And since the client is "already in therapy", it lessens the chance of the seeking other therapists, which is a completely normal step to do since therapy is very personal and you need to find the therapist that vibes with you.
@@xaf15001 Lmao I had a friend who told her better help "therapist" how she was abused as a kid and doesn't want to have kids and they told her "Why would you not want children, they're the gift God gave to you as a woman, you should be having kids." LMAO
This is honestly the best, most condensed video on art I've watched. It feels like this is the only video anyone would ever need to learn art, besides some fundamentals videos. Great work!
I've been trying to learn anime style art for the past 4 years but i never met any major improvement or breakthrough, and for a while I just did the cycle of doing it again and just quitting, I felt like I was stuck in this beginner's hell. That was until i found some of your tutorials recently when i actually started to improve. I'm still very VERY BAD at drawing anime style art, but after watching your videos and my Japanese friend motivating me recently, finally after 4 years of quitting I finally started to improve even if it's just that minor 0.1% improvement, it felt like a very MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH and I couldn't thank you enough! I still have a long way to go but having your tutorials makes it easier. Thank you from Indonesia!
Really happy to hear that! The small steps and bits of progress are definitely things to be proud of since that's what builds up to big improvements over time :) Good luck and keep at it!
@@qqwweeww2468 its in indonesian rupees, which is around 2 dollars in aud, idk which currency you use but you can convert it on google. but money had different worth in different countries, so the conversion won't be 100% accurate. and i think youtube doesn't allow big donations so 2k would be hard to give on here lol.
As an artist who drew for more than 10 000 hours and still feel like I'm unable to break the bottleneck, it's inspiring yet making me anxious as my artist friends don't give me helpful feedbacks and grinding isn't enough to make me past that level You're amazing
This did so much for my mental health. I am currently at around 400 hours and I kept on judging myself for not being as good as I expected myself to be. It is nice to see that someone whos art I appreciate (ori) took a long amount of time and I might just need more time. It kinda made me realise that I am not bad, I just didnt spend enough time on it yet
As beginner myself... I... actually overwhelmed just by watching this vid... the amount of experience,knowledge,wisdom and struggle you went through is... simply beyond my comprehension... as if i appraisal a god-lvl playerXD I hope you make video about you actually "learn" during your beginner days... im pretty lost at what should I do...
Well I'm not them but here my two cents advices: All the experiences, knowledge come with time. 0. all artists are maso and in a love/hate relationship with their arts XD 1. as a beginner, set your goal that you are thriving right NOW. It can and will possibly change but that may affect how and how much you will draw: you will not do the same thing, will not check the same tutorials if you are a hobbyist, a futur animator, a futur illustrator etc. (but you can be more than one thing!). You don't know? Well go for hobby, try new things, have fun and Pass to the next: 2. Learn to love to draw and draw for you: enjoy the beginner phase! Let not the "how to do right/draw more/draw everyday" bring down your love for it. Enjoy the phase when you don't have to think of all the stuff so far. And if you love it, try to built a habit, a routine that'll help you draw constantly without much of an effort. 3. Don't hesitate to draw (like a crazy mad fan) something that drive you: it could OC, ship/OTP, animal, meca, etc Everything works. I have a friend a pro concept/background artist that draw her fav chara in a lot of situations for nearly 2 years now! She learned a lot with fun (and some masochism XD) because she was driven by them! They gave her inspiration and motivation. 4. Observe life and Don't hesitate to take reference: art, photos of people photo of you, figurines, and more when you draw! Set a little time to draw new things (it can be as a chill study session or a new challenging piece!): like, "today I will draw hands/do live studies!", "today I will try this new tutorial I saved" etc last work: one way of working can not work on you, so if try what fell the best for you! Good luck!
You’re actually the best guidance for me here on youtube, you actually know how to tell and make people listen. It’s so entertaining to listen and watch who has the same dream as mine and listen to their journey. Thank you Ori.
I don't know if this is just the usual "3am motivation" thing going through my head right now, but I saw a reflection of myself right now from the 6 years of you before Depressed. Lost. Frustrated. All of the wisdom you've shared in this video weighs gold for me right now, despite being apathetic and lethargic for the past 2 years. If I were to see this video before, I may have just gave it a listen and give up on it because I just simply don't see a future in me. But somehow, right now, I feel like I've been given a chance by someone whom I don't know and doesn't know me either. I would use the word 不思議 to perfectly describe this moment. Maybe this IS the wake up call. Maybe I DO have a chance. Maybe I can BE someone that my parents could be proud of. If you are reading this, might be a stranger or Oridays themself, we are lucky that fate lead us to this miraculous moment, that because Oridays made this video that it could just be that one thing to be a catalyst for someone to start something fresh and anew, despite life treating them horribly. I would like to end this somewhat melancholic comment in a happy note. It's a blessing that these types of encounters are now possible because we live in this current age. Ultimately, it's up to us what to do with this information. But I guess we should complain after we travel through the first "10000 hours" first 😊
This reminds me of a video i watched for school about growth mindsets. At the time, i just brushed it off because for some reason whenever school tries to do things for mental positivity, it feels like it won't work. But this is a great example of not letting your obstacles discouraging you and viewing everything with the opportunity to grow. It makes me think, maybe this growth mindset thing isnt a sham after all xD
I'm old enough to have taken this kind of journey through programming, and then I decided I wanted to do it again with drawing and comics - and along the way I gradually narrowed that to traditional, mostly black and white inks. While I'm probably not at the 10,000 hour mark, it takes less time when you're doing the new game plus, and that's mostly because of learned patience, access to resources, and selective focus 😅 I would say this about the skills, though. Most narrow/deep skills can be successfully introduced at between 10 and 100 hours, which is much less intimidating than "10,000 to mastery". That's the level where, if you're doing something for a class, that level of effort will give you a major breakthrough and let you pass a test, even if it's not with a perfect grade. The biggest difficulty in the early phases of drawing is that there are actually a lot of ways to narrow things down, but each one takes you away from the language and initial motivations: "draw this character" has to be broken down to a bunch of technical things about how to compose a scene and making use of reference and applying perspective and so on. Those barriers are overcome by telling yourself to immerse yourself in each of these fragments of language for a while so that you can bring them out fluidly when you return back to "draw this character". The hardest part is always in that early committment of going from hour 1 to hour 2. It's not going from hour 999 to hour 1000 that's hard. Thus my current study project is to work through each page of Bridgman's "100 hands" book, just copying and doing some breakdowns a few different ways. Instead of counting hours, I count pages. I've done this with anatomy, animal drawing, and composition already. At the 80% mark, my hand drawing has definitely improved, although my success rate when working from imagination remains mixed.
This video gave me a lot more motivation for my music career. I originally wanted to be a professional bass player, but i realized that i can’t do it without a teacher, and the music school i got accepted to is super expensive on campus, which really demotivated me. Then i realized that i have another talent for making music, i listen to Jpop/rock/anime music for 5-6 years, i know how to make anime music from the experience i have from listening to them every single day. Which made me decided to switch to online music school and focus on music production, where i can fully focus on making music, and getting better on bass as a side hobby for the moment. Everything here i can relate to you, music is a very long journey, just like art. Before you can find yourself, you have to be inspired by the music you love, and slowly mix in your own music taste into something that resembles you.
this video has given me so much hope. I have been drawing for 2 years now and I still cant say that "I'M PROUD" of what I'm doing, it feels like I have just wasted so many hours of my life, I am in the brink of "giving up" Since these past 2 years I feel I havent seen much progress at all. so this video gave me new hope
Nice video! I have a feeling that this channel will become very important for a lot of artists in the future, especially as a bridge to Japanese-Stylized Art. I think your unique journey can really illustrate this well.
your journey motivates me, my progress over 3-4 years has been slow but it has been there, your video has made me think about what I am doing wrong, thank you so much, I promise myself that soon we will see each other as pro artists just wait!!!!!
I just wanna thank you for talking about the social media part especially... I have been drawing for about 8 years now but since I started really young, the improvement doesn't really feel like that at all, and seeing all these other people that know more than I do in less time is taunting, but I've always tried to keep up. But for people like me, when you post something and it doesn't do well, it's so... frustrating doesn't describe it, I'd say. Cause you can't say you're a beginner but you're also not a pro either, maybe a intermediate, but more of a limbo where you just... fall. But what you talked about counting the hours to get motivation really stuck with me and I think I might try it! So thank you so much. Also I talk a lot, don't I? Sorry😅
Waking up, being able to do what you love, having enough passion to follow your dreams are the most wonderful things ever! I can work for 10 hours straight with a happy face for my loved job. Whatever it is, whatever people say, don't give up on it!
Man I'm so relatable to you. Ignoring my artistic dream, trying to get good grades and satisfying the social standards... until I decided to end all of my sufferings to do what I've always wanted to and now I'm here watching this video and feeling so proud of myself for making that decision 😭 Still practising at my own pace knowing that one day I'll achieve my dream of being an illustrator. The fact is that I found out your channel during my darkest days and honestly it was life-changing. Thank you so much for sharing your story and becoming an inspiration for others 😊 Also I love that you mention about the importance of handling our mental health while trying to progress with our goals. Totally got it 🙌
I feel motivated and demotivated at the same time, when I left high school I remember saying I wanted to learn to draw. Now it's been 7 years and it's a bit frustrating knowing how much I could have progressed and that time is never coming back
Same. I spent 8 years being depressed and unable to draw and create, and now i regret all the wasted time every single day, but i believe that as long as we feel this passion for art, everything is possible, since it isn't a skill (passion). It's going to be hard to stop thinking about the past, but always possible!
Honestly one of the best anime art videos I've seen. I myself am dogshit at drawing and are sort of in the position you were when starting of not being motivated enough, so this was pretty inspiring.
I've been doing art for about 10 years and was somewhat following along until you said "you eventually get followers and commissions" which I never have. I definitely suck and haven't improved enough for that, nor know what I'm doing enough to get there, but I've been stuck for such an indescribable amount of time with literally nothing to show for it. No support structure or any real dopamine from it either. The last two years in particular have really been the worst. I don't even know how it's possible to physically get anyone to even see my art for any feedback, let alone improve when it happens. Am I just fucked?
This is genuinely one of the most inspiring videos I've seen on this platform. You did such an amazing job on this video and it makes me want to pursue a goal, I just don't know what i want. I wish I had something like this
I think you’re amazing and really inspiring. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. Your advice deeply resonated with me. I think this quote “When you have a calling to be a creator and you ignore it, everything just feels wrong, and it just kinda eats at you on the inside.” is my favorite.
@@onedoORmoa0305 its not a good organization at all they have unlicensed therapists etc it's been talked about for years im not the best at explaining so if you're interested best to go down the rabbit hole yourself
@@onedoORmoa0305as a few other comments said. It's like Uber. You might get a good therapist or a really bad one. And you kinda don't wanna gamble on mental health.... Just seeking out therapists people recomend you and trying them out is better
@@onedoORmoa0305 it was proven to be an immoral scam with fake therapists a few years back. Now youtubes forgot (or swept it under a rug) and take sponsorships from it again.
It's calming to here you speak man, you have a nice voice to listen to. I've been getting less and less free time to enjoy things I like, very relatable. Wt 21:48 I can confirm that this was a very therapeutic experience and i feel more motivated to improve with what little time i have left and look for flaws and improvement on my own. I will definitely stand on the shoulder of giants and find myself✊
the point of finding what success means to you is so incredibly important. i used to draw all the time. good or bad, it didn’t matter to me. then made the choice of going to art school, as i wanted to get into game dev as a character artist. it ruined my mentality and motivation due to lack of support and barely any resources for what i wanted to do. if you weren’t a god at hard surface 3d modeling, you pretty much got the short end of the support stick. those 4 years genuine broke my spirit and i ended up hating my art. i barely drew for years after that, seeing myself as a failure. i slowly picked back up again but couldn’t ever get past the sketch phase. i finally sat down asked just asked myself: why do i want to draw? not what someone else thinks i should be doing, but ME. it finally clicked that i just wanted to make art that made me happy and find a style i could resonate with. i didn’t care about social media following or anything like that (and still don’t. if i get found by someone other than bot accounts, then cool lol). i just wanted to make finished pieces i could look back on and be proud of. i still have a very long way to go, and a lot of negative thoughts to face, but i finally feel ready to try in earnest again. once you figure out what it is you really want, so much falls into place.
Been drawing for 10 yrs at this point and I’m JUST starting to feel a personal breakthrough of my own art. I have a lot to go still but I’m happy where I’m at now
18:37 I would love a video where you would explain every individual skill and how you practiced them! I feel like by optimizing individual skills and by outputting like 3 finished drawings everytime you leveled up every stat by one you could improve very very quickly!
mann i got burned out in art for like a year, only started drawing again last week....got pretty rusty, relearning everything again from scratch pretty hard tbh😔😔 but i won't let that discourage me....working out proved to me that by being consistent you can see changes it might not be immediate but there will be changes
Love the video and always love seeing improvement of other peoples art. I've been working improving my art a lot lately I've made a lot of improvement from where I used to be but am still very early in the journey. It's hard not to get frustrated with trying to learn some of the other types of skills that will help improve overall but gonna keep going!
I noticed I've improved when I did reference, showed it to a friend and she told me it looked really alike to the original. Made me smile and it shows I can improve, especially since I've been drawing without references for years, until this year.
Wow, I didn’t know who you were before clicking on this video, but I just realized that you’re the one whose art I’ve saved a lot of on my PC. Love your work, and great video!
Thank you so much for documenting your journey and making all these videos of what you've learned and how the journey kinda feels like. I feel like I'm following the same kind of path in terms of art skills and all the roadblocks and issues that pop up along the way. It makes me feel a lot better and motivated to continue to grow. And! I really love your art! I hope I can reach a similar point in the next 3-4 years.
5:31 this is so relatable. Same thing with me when it comes to animation, I've been animating for like five years and I barely made it across the starting line. In an artist's term, this is what is known as being a useless, worse printer.
I think, I just found my purpose in life from this video, we will meet again maybe in a few years and I hope, you are still there to see me grow, or still the same as now, very thank you ❤
1:59 pure gold quote, it took me many years (graduated university this year) what felt like consistent existential crisis and it also resonates with me when after one breakthrough point it starts to feel like overwhelming rollercoaster ride when you start to enjoy and have fun with whatever you’re doing (actually it could be used with almost everything creative). TYSM for this video, it was very inspiring to watch❤ P.S. English isn’t my native sorry if there’re few mistakes
I found this video at a perfect time. I've been identyfying with being an artist for a few years now, yet, recently I learned... I'm actually not that good. I didnt practice nearly enough and just sticked to imagining what I could do instead of actually doing it. I suddenly felt so left behind and like all those years were wasted, but listening to your expiriance gave me a lot of hope that I still can improve so someday hopefully I would be able to think of myself as an actuall artist
Wow. This is massive. You started from scratch(almost), and you tracked everything you did, it's incredible! Now I'm more compelled to do my own learning journey. A Huge thanks to you.
This is a really inspiring video with a lot of great advice :) what really resonated with me is when you said that the early days is all just grinding and putting in blind effort with little to no reward. I feel it’s easy to get discouraged when you don’t see the fruit of your efforts but knowing that it’s going somewhere is reassuring
This is your best video yet. I think I'll be coming back to it every now and then. Reaching this first quality threshold is really the most difficult, it's when people quit. The video really boosted my confidence, thank you! ❤
thank you so much for this self-learning tips and guideline. I am also learning art and want to become an illustrator. this video do answer me a lot of questions i have. appreciate it! I really do feel nervous about my process and goal and everything. after watching this video, my tension is less stressful now. 😁
This video is really relatable because I've been going through a lot of what you've been going through the past couple of years and man...has it been hard to do any art and me being Neurodivergent, makes it even hard but I love how motivational and helpful this video is!
This was an incredibly inspiring video. Your humility contrasted by your sheer determination and will to be better is inspiring and I feel as though this video not only pushed me as an aspiring artist but individually in every pursuit I have in life. Thank you for sharing your journey and I'm incredibly excited to see your progress at 20,000 hours ❤
1:29 Dude, I feel you so much! I'm on the same track as you were back then... I can't find a job, and although my Japanese isn't bad today, studying in Japan is too expensive. Furthermore, my nation (Israel) is committing genocide, and just being here makes my head explode. I really want to be in a place where people appreciate my ideals and how I think. Right now, I'm trying to find ways to save money for studying in China (Japan is still too expensive for me) I wish I had more skills except just being trilingual. Many of my Japanese friends tell me that it's ok to only be good at Japanese, but I feel it's not helping me the way I thought it would... I also have ASD and struggling to work 8 hours...
By far the best video thats really inspiring to learn from. I find the 'how?' the most daunting task in learning art, I know the fundamental "what's" I would need to learn to understand and grasp to get through the bottleneck (learning anatomy, understanding rendering techniques), but with either having no access to those things or the 'how' to gain that knowledge has kept me stuck in a loop of mindlessly doing things, doodling away without a purpose than the love of creating, It feels like I am walking but with no destination if that makes any sense. Hopefully someday I might be able to see the metaphorical road, this video has helped me understand that it has to be somewhere, I just need to keep looking.
I'm a full-time arts department student in HS. I've been drawing since I had the motor skills to hold a pencil (although my first drawing definitely showed that with a cat whose face wasn't even on the head, lol.) Your videos always motivate me to pick up a pencil again despite my perfectionism and burn out. I'm commenting in hopes to help boost the algorithm. Good work, man
Writing this as I watch, cause I'm literally getting everything you are describing yourself as when you were a beginner, as its where I'm at. I want to climb the skill tree, but seeing that you spend 2700+ hours in a year is very overwhelming, thats like. 7.5 hours a day. Also, I feel like I am in the position you were in during college. I'm currently pursuing a degree that'll lead to a stable job, and while I'll live, I do want to learn more art, get into content creation, etc. It just sounds enjoyable, but lack of motivation and bad time allocation is really brutal. I'm definitely not in any state of depression, but I feel as though Im following a path that I won't like. In terms of art, I started taking drawing more seriously these past two months, and I've learned a lot. I think i'm making good progress, and I've taken a lot of lessons from various art creators on yt to heart. I get that theres a lot to learn, and I'm taking every notable step needed to get there. But theres still so much time I need to allocate. I got one close friend of mine thats honestly keeping me very motivated, which has kept me going.
This video has a lot of great advice, and it has been quite interesting to see your art journey throughout the years. Thanks for putting this all into a video, I hope I can use some of your advice and really improve with my art as well. Again, thank you for doing this
Seeing the part at around the 18 minute mark where you realized you had to level up different skills in art/drawing makes me wonder if you ever found the Draftsmen podcast with Stan Prokopenko and Marshall Vandruff. If you haven't, I highly recommend listening to the podcast while you're doing art. They talk about many aspects of the journey and sometimes have guests from the videogame and film industries that give their insights on art and the jobs in the field.
thanks for sharing your journey! doing some kind of work with Watame is basically my dream goal as an illustrator, since she is my kamioshi, and seeing you make it is actually really inspiring.
This is a fantastic video showing your very real journey through art! Thank you so much for doing that experiment of recording your hours and sharing it in one concise video because it truly shows what it takes to learn art, or really any skill for that matter. This is one of those kinds of videos that I'll probably end up watching again in a year just to keep track of where I'm at and keep a solid guide on where I'm going. There are so many things I took away from this video, like focusing on primarily one thing at first, logging your hours, and really how long it takes before you can start expecting success from the time you've put in. Again, thank you so much for sharing this, I think it truly will help me change my life as I am currently going through a similar journey but with learning music!
This video just taught me something I already suspected: you truly need to be a special person to be an amazing top-level creator. The amount of dedication needed to be able to endure this much work for so long is something many people (myself included) just don't have.
I really appreciate this video! I've been drawing casually for 4 years now and I'm at the point where I want to get more serious but also I'm looking up at that mountain like you said and getting overwhelmed with how many different skills there are to learn and improve on. Your video and the long time horizon really helped put things into perspective. I think with a lot of this stuff it's like, deep down you know what you need to focus on to improve, you just don't want to face it sometimes, and this video is a great kick in the butt to go and do some deliberate practice on the things I know I should work on next. As a side note it's kinda crazy to me that you had the presence of mind to start tracking your hours from basically the beginning. Probably very cool to be able to look back on.
Thankyou very much ori... I am from Indonesia. I feel the same thing what you said, i am very bad inside... No matter what other think ( except art ) im achieve... I feel so bad inside... My life is so suck... I was wrong to choose the school wasn't relateable to my art journey... And many years back then its so difficult to have a job and so difficult to for continuing to learn drawing
Thanks for making this video. I love progress videos that summarize 1000s of hours of effort. And to see the examples, all the way from where you started to where you are now, hammers in both how much improvement is possible plus the time investment required to achieve it.
Great video bad sponsor… do hope they pay you for the advertising as lots of the creators that did sponsorship with them since 2020 still haven’t received a dime.
i want to say thank you. i watched your video because this year i getting less and less drawing because i am too focused on my work and my drawing tablet is broken. i tried to regain my energy to draw, but one day i saw your video and all of it made me want to stand up and back to draw. finally, I got XP PEN 22 PLUS and right now I keep practicing my drawing and i hope my skill will come back and improve. again thank you oridays.
"But the thing is... when you have a calling to be a creator and you ignore it.. everything just feels wrong and it kind of eats on you on the inside" REAL.
This is extremely inspirational :) I’m already an artist, but I want to try this 10 thousand hour rule, as it might help me focus on certain goals in my art and work on those points that I desperately want to improve on. Your style is absolutely lovely 😭💗💗
I have the problem of wanting to learn too much. I get myself into rabbit holes like playing guitar, programming, math, sketching, street art and singing. Sadly I don't have 60.000 hours laying around in my freetime, so I try to get "ok" on everything. My grades are still dropping to an all time low but my A levels are gonna catch me up. And with social shit and family this entire life of a teenager gets pretty confusing pretty fast. I love this video. I've seen a lot of your art online but I didn't really notice your kinda all surrounding presence. Keep up the work. def gon sub
I also started tracking my hours from the very beginning, also since around 2018. Due to annoying neck issues I have developped during the first 6 months (basically not taking care of my body and sitting in a shitty position for 6-8 hours a day) I had to take an early "set-back", like cutting down the daily hours drastically. For the past 4 years I have been able to continuously draw/paint for about 4-5 hour a day (+reference gathering). Due to this, I am a bit behind you, I think I currently have about 8000 hours. Only during the end of last year thanks to an online class whoose teacher really helped me a lot, and having started to spent more time in analyzing, studying to apply those studies to my next original work, I guess I have finally understood how I can effectively learn art. I had so many artists giving me bad advise on how and what I should learn that I was in a constant learning limbo without doing original work, mostly mindless studies... I hope within the next 1 or 2 years I will also finally make a jump/breakthrough to a more professional level Out of interest... it seems to me that you have been mostly focusing on characters, so I guess you still need to learn more about environments,right? Being an artist is like a never ending grinding game. xD And, did you finally do your manga? Sorry if you answered somethign like this but I don't have time to watch the whole video atm >_
