Spirituality & Art - My Path

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► Plugins for Photoshop

► Traditional Medium
Paper ➔ Strathmore 400 Series Bristol Smooth
Sketchbook ➔ Moleskine Sketchbook

• 0.5 HB lead and very soft wood Pencils
• 14B Pitt Graphite Matte / Black Faber-Castell Polychromos colored Pencils
• Pilot Lucina fine point Fountain Pen
• Copic alcohol Markers.

► Digital Set ups
Tablet ➔ Huion Inspiroy WH1409 / Kamvas 24 Pro 4k

• Photoshop on a 2019 iMac
• Clip Studio / Procreate on iPad Pro 12 inch with Apple Pencil

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► Credits

[horizon]

Thank you for sharing Steven, something like this is very personal and irreplaceable and takes bravery or confidence.

[Shannaya]

Your videos are therapy for me, no matter the subject; glad I could hear a different topic and I love you even more now!

[tb]

I also grew up Catholic, and as a small child wondered, what are the chances this religion that i got from my parents is TRUE? It seemed an unlikely coincidence that's bothered me ever since. Recently I've been trying to read Heidegger and learned about the concept of Thrownness and realized that we dont get to determine our own individual worldview, we are given a reality from family/history and its up to us to accept or reject it later. But that first step in life, the place we started from, was a gift from something that came before you for better or worse. This is as true for religion as it is everything else we think about reality, the things that set us down the course of life were given to us by something or someone else. Great video and thanks for sharing the difficult stuff!

[arjunadeleu]

did the "tryst with the fabric of reality" impact and change your art ?

Thanks for talking about this 🙏

[SchmidtP]

Thank you for sharing this, Steven.
I'm very sorry to hear about your father. I can't image what it must be like to deal with.
At the same time, I'm very thankful that you choose to share your thoughts on these things, as I am often both inspired and humbled by what you have to say, which is true now as well. While I am not an artist myself, I am dealing with the task of creating my own pc game, which I've been writing/designing for two years in my spare time. Now it's a full time job with no pay, as I'm spending my life savings on it, which affords me two years of development time.
I'm 34 now, and these next two years feel like the make or break moment of my life, and I just want to say that your words really matter to me. They inspire me to do better and to *be* better, and gives me hope that I might be able to make it in the end.
Thank you again, Steven. I really appreciate your thoughts.

[suplexmess]

Glad I've crossed your path on mine. My dearest sympathy for your Father...

Stay true Steven

[covilderagnaros]

I've always dreamed of working in animation, comics and/or manga. During my years of depression, my notebook of ideas was the only thing keeping me alive, I finally decided what I wanted to do with my life, what worries me are the AIs that threaten our future. What do you think I should do? I intend to spend every drop of my essence on achieving my goal (11-12 hours of study a day + Healthy eating and exercise).

I was thinking that a professional artist like you could give me an answer that would help me decide my future. Should I write down my stories in a physical book and stop using OneNote? (I'm afraid it will be used by an A.I.)

[cynthiawhite]

I came to Buddhism through Thich Nhat Hanh.

[dreadwinter]

23:00 Oh, *that* experience. Its weird how spending a small eternity as some formless, purposeless meat-thing with no past or concept for the future, completely untethered, changes your perspective on things. Life-long depression and sense of non-belonging sort of just stayed behind when i uh... reconstituted. Sure, there was a year and a half of crippling anxiety afterwards, but that feels like a small price for being able to enjoy things and connect with people and nature.

[Avernalism]

Every one of these videos are right on time

[colingallagher]

Thanks for doing this and being so open about your life path and thanks for recommendation.
It's funny how the grand scale celestial stuff can have a serene effect
"the world shall die by seven suns"-Buddha
"everything which has a beginning in time has an end in time"-Plato

[cynthiawhite]

Thank you for sharing this. I know that suicide in the family is not easy to talk about.

[cristiangamesgames]

Did you use any reference for this piece?

[littlecurrybread]

love hearing your story. My personal path was Gary Weber on youtube and Ramana Maharshi, a sage from India a long time ago that practiced self-inquiry to delete the ego. Lot of interesting research that backs up these methods.

[visualvendetta]

do you spray your drawings with a fixative when you are done with them? if so can you recommend the brand?

[chadyonfire]

Steven you re a beast of an artist and you re fight over Ai for artists is really important, but these type of videos is why im here in the 1st place, u connected spirituality and art journey for me and i ll be forever grateful over that

[cynthiawhite]

In Catholicism, I also liked Thomas Merton and the tradition of the hermit monks.

[puckulence]

Beautiful video and beautiful art. I’m a blossoming Buddhist and picked up on that influence in your other videos I’ve watched. I can’t fully express how much this means to me right now, but I think it will be understood regardless.

A book I’d recommend is What the Buddha Taught. Excellent, and it got me through a very difficult time. Explains things well. It’s lovely.

The Diamond Sutra is one of my favorite things to listen to when I need the reminder and need to center myself. I’m not very good at the latter yet, but I suppose the point is that I try anyway.

Thank you for your content and sharing your beautiful art.

[reltcstone]

i loved the discussion. I think you'd really enjoy the trialogues of terrance mckenna, rupert sheldrake, and ralph abraham. only the first couple are on youtube but the rest are on sheldrake's website as audio logs. Some of the best conversations ive heard in some of the subjects i think you are most interested in. Also you'd love the rune soup podcast.

[cynthiawhite]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is also quite good.