Reframing Failure 

Everyone can make masterpieces in their mind, but only the persistent can bring them to life.

As long as one has a healthy attitude towards failing one could turn it into artistic growth hormone.

I don’t remember who said it but: “If you’re not failing, you aren’t trying”.

"It didn't look like what I wanted it to look like" yeah, huge mood!

Thanks for sharing your experience, Astri

Don’t listen to other people, you give the best advice that you could give based off your experience. It’s on them how they take it. You just keep doing you, you made it this far doing that and if they struggle that’s ultimately because their actions. There’s no need to justify or explain yourself to their Ignorance, it just hinders your energy. Much love and support ❤️

As someone who stopped drawing when I was 16 because I judhed myself as being ''too bad'' at it but have recently gotten into 3d art this video was very humbling and enlightening, knowing that even established industry people like you go through this, Great video!

I really needed this, ive been having so much imposter syndrom for a while now and been feelong so ummotivated, thankyou

Your videos are very uplifting, and it's nice to listen to you while I draw. Keep up the good work!

Thank you, I'm really stressed with online college, I needed this

I was failing at something while I listened to thi, and I started getting defensive about it. But then when you mentioned how you became defensive, I immidietly took a step back and tried to be more objective about it. I already feel better :) I can see my flaw properly and I know how to improve upon it!

This video had me start drawign hands from imagination and after the initial one which was garbage, the rest were far better than any I have done from imagination since last time I tried. By no means I'd show them to anyone, but still. So thank you.

First of all, thank you very much for this video. The topic that you're touching here is definitely something that we all need to consider. I'm pretty sure that I, probably just like many of the people from this comment section, went through this "impostor syndrome" where the doubt of our own abilities is strong enough for thoughts of giving up to appear. I'm actually going through this syndrome at this very moment, so, the idea that you proposed here, of thinking about failure as if it's just another death in Hades is very interesting. Again, thanks a lot for highlighting this topic for us. To those that feel the same thing that I do, please, contact me. I'd love to have somebody to help me go through this, and of course, I want to be helpful as well. Astri is the artist that I look up to for quite some time, and if you're like me, you're probably trying to get the same success that she has. So... lets try that together :) Having somebody to critique my art is actually getting me excited to paint, so, really, let's build a small team of losers that shoot for the stars! Thank you for you attention. Please, have a great day and good luck!

I really needed this. :D For some reason, I have this status in mind that if you are finally at your job, that you won't or are not allowed to fail because you reached a certain amount of success. I am scared to not be good enough or prepared enough to "not fail" at the job I wished for. But still, we all are human and you will fail eventually at anything and learn from them. It is so obvious and still, it is scary whenever I think about it. How you said, fail, understand, learn and move on. Thank you for the video ❤

I can see situations where one needs to check their ego.. but that's not always the case. Failure isn't always failure. It just didn't meet expectations. So many times I get feedback at work that is entirely subjective and I'm so tired of having to follow through on somebody else's ideas. Our own ideas have value too and I don't want to wait another 10 years before someone will take them seriously. I'm not sitting at work to be a slave, it's creative work after all. It's so frustrating at times..

Didn't know that you're a full-time senior artist, that's so cool! But also this fact made me feel too old to aspire to something :(

You feel really authentic when talking about how you feel and think about your own failures, a lot of channels who give artists advice feel like the are shilling self help or something. Really inspiring work, thanks!

Videos like these are such a blessing. Thank you very much, Astri!

Thank you for sharing this with us, even when knowing even professionals fails it is always me to accept that failing is really okay, it will never stop

me: that's my secret, im always a failure

I’d like to echo all the thank yous people are giving you for this video! It’s definitely hard to feel like your work will never live up to the standards you’ve set for it. I’ve definitely let that get in the way of me posting anything online. Liked the parts about discomfort and failing opening up the path for growth, especially.

You're so inspirational, thank you so much for helping us out. We love you and your art

I appreciate the return to the old format. The monologue seems far more genuine, personal.

Your videos always inspire me. I've been drawing for a year now and sometimes I just can't deal with the final results of my drawings. But whenever I'm feeling down, I watch your videos about how hard art is, and that it's ok to be bad sometimes. You really helped me going through a lot and I am very greatful. I love your work and I hope you'll keep doing more!! Thank you for everything :)

Thank you for this. I always try and learn from failure to do better. It's difficult to get things going and to push through all the 'starting out' failures that are inevitable. It's super difficult to not copy others who are super successful in what you want to do. I was forced to stop drawing 12 years ago and am just now starting to try and get it all going again. Failure is so hard to deal with.

Thanks for this video. You're an amazing artist and talker, your videos motivates me to keep pushing forward.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. It is very inspiring.

that's such a good attitude, but soo hard to maintain - at least for me :D also, great video^^

This is a wonderful video. Thank you Astri, I hope you are super successful and hope the game studio you are working with has a successful future, your art is so wonderful to look at and I hope one day I will be able to be an artist like you. Your insights are really eye opening and inspiring, thank you! 😁

This is a fact. I always afraid of failing so I never try doing it. Thank you, I am so happy to hear this. Art is competitive, but hey we all are in this together.

thank you for talking about this :) i learnt what you've said myself a few months ago at a time when i failed when it was important but it made me realize where my weak points are and made me get back up and work on them while also learning what not to do next time. like you said this isn't talked about enough even tho it's really important

I feel so lucky that I discovered your channel. I know I will learn A LOT watching your videos

You say that when your piece, drawing, etc. doesn't look the way you had planned or expected that it feels like a failure. I agree! You also said that now it doesn't feel like *you're* a failure, but rather that you simply failed that one time in that one instance and you can ask "what went wrong?". 1) I have a REALLY hard time not getting extremely frustrated at myself when I'm consistently failing and thus looking at a failure as an isolated instance instead of *me* being a failure. 2) What do you do when you can't spot what went wrong? I run into that sometimes where let's say I'm doing a figure study and it's a pretty crazy pose. I'll try drawing it a few times, get incredibly frustrated with myself that it's not turning out right, try to ask "why isn't it working" and come up with nothing...as if I know it's wrong, but can't quite figure out why. Those times seem to only add fuel to the "self-loathing" fire. Especially since I don't have art friends or instructors to help me see.

Like she said: Your mistakes don’t make who you are. Failure is not an end - it’s a beginning ❤️

I'm really struggling with this failure is horrible mindset with writing more than visual art, but this is still really applicable. Thank you.

Thank you so much for this video, Astri! I was so afraid of drawing for almost 20 years, even if that's what I enjoy the most on life. You were the one that inspired me, since wow is my favorite game and I was totally impressed and inspired by the fanart you did. I'm there, almost 2 years after, I had to learn from scratch, but I can say that failure only makes me keep trying, today I'm not able to draw the way I would like to, but I will keep trying and studying until that day comes.

Just hear your voice makes me happy!

Very inspirational words, thank you!

Love the Artwork, Love the game and you are a great artist thx for your well made vids and really open mindset you show us ;) Also you are great! just to say it onence more ^^ i whish you a great day! ^^

I'm going through what you described in this very moment, with a commission. I'll treasure your words, thank you.

i found it funny when you made the analogy and were like "oh now that i said out loud i hate it" in this vid about failing lol but i thought it was a good analogy and understand what you meant overall, failing can be helpfull, if you take it as problem solving.

Thanks for sharing! Failing is good and we can learn from it.

Beautiful!!! If you dont mind me asking, could you possibly do a video on painting over line art? I don't mind if not, your art and talent itself is a blessing within itself! ❤️ Thank you Astri!!!

Great video and reminder

I've failed so much that I don't try anymore.

Thank you for showing the not so pretty side of concept art. Im on my last year of uni, studing concept art and I can relate a lot to you. When i get stuck in a concept for a character I usually ask the person next to me to take a quick look, and because its fresh to them, they can see it with more clarity and they can give me some feedback and details that i may have failed to see because I have been working with this concept for a week and nothing more. Maybe you can do something similar?

I will be watching your career with great interest. no but really, i remember you from your crazy good warcraft commissions and fanart posted on r/wow and it's really cool to see that you're working with a studio, i'm really curious about what you folks at Vela will come out with. i used to want to have a career in this direction a few years ago, but it ended up seeming to stressful and difficult that I didn't feel it anymore. i don't think i even really liked drawing/painting, it was just bored procrastination-sketching taken too far. but failure applies to many fields, maybe I'll find myself failing upwards in another one soon

great advice :)

Thank you for your words. It matters.

This video came at such right time for me. Thanks. And sorry if something is misspelled. I'm not really good at English yet.

Wow you are amazing Please tell me how much time it took to complete this masterpiece??? Please please reply me I am your big fan wanna be just like you and I am highly inspired by you please reply 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I feel so very bad because i didnt draw for MONTHS and currently i dont have any interest in drawing, and have an art block. I know I'll get into it again eventually but.. It's been months and I have three more commissions to finish!

This is beautiful! When will be the next paint-over video?

Jeg heier på deg Astri 👩‍🎨

Don't worry 1 solution cannot fix all. If I disagress I just don't follow it and might politley state my opnion without disrespect the content maker. I failed to the point many people stated that I'm failed at life LOL!

" One More"

People with less technical ability and understanding of drawing get at least a hundred followers on their media while I get none. Seems to me I'm failing and I don't understand why. So can't even improve on it.

I know you probably get this way to much. But do you have a brush set to use?

What is gum road?

How is your art skill ever going to be failure though?

im the 666th like heh

I hope you do some face reveal. 😍

naa art too hard i just dont get it 5 years is enough for me time to move on, not gonna a have a 10 year show me up

"Reframing". So you're not being succesful or better, you're just intelectualizing- in other words, making excuses- your failure trying to see something good in it. News flash: failing is not good.