MY MINIMALIST COLOR PENCIL RANT - Stop buying art supplies and START drawing! 

Drawing isn't really my hobby. My REAL hobby is buying art supplies. Drawing is just a little something I do on the side.

This is the best video I have seen in a long time.......I realized recently that I have gone way down the art supply rabbit hole with art supplies. Your message is a great one........find the joy in doing the work. I have recently started a NO ART SUPPLY BUY or at least I am trying to. I need to get my dopamine hit from making more art. I paint with oils and watercolor, and recently have been trying colored pencils, I really like them. Its easy to watch a review video and buy something. I also try to buy used art supplies on Facebook and in a local arts and craft thrift shop where I live. great video and great message. thank you for the wake up call

That was fucking wild. I love it. I also reached that point. i use six cheap whiteboard markers for the fast shitty sketch in whatever notebook that i have. (i use one for toughts, and one for working). Everything else is still waiting to be used, and will be used at some moment, but finally i see stuff getting done, and i don't have to think about materials in a looong long time

I come back to this video all the time because I love that drawing. I wish you sold prints of it.

I feel called out 😂

Thanks. I am looking for videos like this to help me with my mindset about art supplies. I definitely have too many and my art has not improved because them. On the contrary, when I forced myself to sit down and have a 30 min sketchbook session this morning, I could barely produce something. Totally unhappy with my work and felt even worse than before starting, to the point I am wondering if I actually love making art.

Boy, did I need this kick in the butt! So guilty of everything you said! I have so many supplies and hardly any work to show for it. Will determine to use what I have til it's gone.

Thank you for speaking about this more people can draw with limited items for art

I'm guilty of this, I used to do more drawing when I just had a 12 set of colored pencils, a set of drawing pencils, and ballpoint pens. Now I have a room full of supplies, and I haven't done anything substantial in a while

Guilty! Thank you!,

WOW! Thanks for calling me out ! I needed to hear someone tell me this 😄

I… WANT to draw, but I can’t even draw a stickman… But I still NEED to buy all the $upplie$… ‘Cos if I’m honest….that’s my actual talent 😜

Well said.

Too many materials = choice paralysis for me, every time