How YOU can stop hating your art.

How can I hate my Arlecchino speedpaint? It looks great, doesn't it? But I really did hate it when it came out. Just like how you might hate the art that you make, no matter how good it is. This video is how you can stop hating your art, at least how I stopped and how i can help you too. "How do I stop hating my art" is something I see on social media so much. It's sad that we artists feel this way, but knowing how to navigate it is important. I hope this art advice was helpful to you in some way. More art advice, commentary, tutorials and speedpaints coming soon!

Music:
An Ending - Toby Fox
Chill - Toby Fox
Small Shock - Toby Fox
Here We Are - Toby Fox
Respite - Toby Fox
Premonition - Toby Fox
Don't Give Up! - Toby Fox
Le Souvenir avec le crepuscule - HOYO-MiX

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[fifty]

A small thing I appreciate about your editing - you put a lil 'boop' sound effect when you add text to the screen! This is really helpful to the audience to let them know that you added notes. It's much more common for people to just add text and it flashes by in a second and if someone is looking away from the screen, they would miss it, and have to rewind, and that's all fiddly. So a sound-effect is a very nice feature!

[fifty]

2:06 - I really appreciate hearing this!
I've been watching a lot of "YT artist content" recently, and it's a real yo-yo of encouraging, and discouraging. I am physically disabled, and while I still can create art that looks like what I did in high school, I can't create nearly as much, or as often, as I used to. I'm not able to draw huge amounts of studies to practice and improve specific things, like the "artist content people" often recommend.
And being disabled has taught me that accepting where you are right now, and being content in the moment, is of greater importance than improvement. If I physically cannot improve - or if I improve much, much slower than able-bodied artists - I wouldn't draw at all if I couldn't like and accept what I can produce in this moment.

You have a lovely voice, and your words are very gentle, and we all need that sometimes. I sub!

[bsoul]

Great video! One thing that helped me through the Horrors of secondary school when people would just randomly insult my art was being extremely self indulgent with what i create haha. Using techniques and motifs i really like ups the enjoyment of the final piece for me

[coltonjohnson]

This was a really great video that hit me deeply. I needed to hear this. Thank you for posting it.

It reminds me of body dysmorphia— people hate an imaginary version of their body. The problem isn’t my body, and no matter how much they hurt or starve or work their body, it will never solve the problem— because they see an imaginary version of their body that they hate. I think it’s the same with art— you need to fix your personal view of your art, not your artistic skill.

Anyways, thank you for posting this video.

[ViaraVT]

"I'm not really good at keeping my thoughts together" - they're just like me, fr fr!

Thank you for the great advice and awesome speedpaint!

[XO_]

This was much needed 😓😓I'm only just now learning that being relentlessly harsh to my art and skill doesn't make me a better artist. I think we treat ourselves so harshly under a guise of self-betterment, when really all it does is make you feel worse :((( HERE'S TO BEING PATIENT AND KIND TO YOURSELF!!🥂🥂

[Naailix]

i'm always happy with a result if you can see an improvement or if you've managed to do even a small part really well. i think you can draw good motivation from such small successes

[autumn.raider]

loved this video very much. i just have one thing to pick. you dont always have to improve every single time. progress is barely ever linear. comparing your current work too much to your old work can result in imposter syndrome which can further result in hating what you create. make sure you grow but also be aware that you can go down as well. its completely normal and you dont always have the control youd like to have.

[PReTTiPiNK]

Thank you for your words of wisdom! ❤Like most artists, fighting against my self-sabotaging perfectionism has been a continuous struggle; lately, I've been trying to get better at viewing each illustration as little markers in a long journey rather than the end-all-be-all and allowing myself to post sketches, unfinished, and/or "sloppy" artwork. I work almost entirely digitally, but something that has helped has been doing little, very casual, quick sketches of random people and things with a ballpoint pen because the permanence of the marks relinquishes my control over how much I can erase/undo mistakes and forces me to accept imperfections which in turn allows me to move on. 😊

[bee-patch]

I feel like ive improved a lot in a year. Since Ive met my online friends, ive gotten so much support and felt more confident in drawing what i wanted to draw, instead of only doing it so people like it, or because i have to. Especially recently ive started to genuinely enjoy drawing again :3 like the coloring process, its so relaxing to do it my hand.
Im grateful for the support ive gotten and i would never have gotten this far without it

[parfait]

Thakyou so much for the video. Hearing someone talking about the same things I went through is so comforting lol. I'll take your advice to heart, thankyou!

[Amiyuu]

i havent seen the full video yet but i saw some of the portraits you made (and the speedpaint) and i wanted to say i love your artstyleee omgg

(anddd your voice too i find it soothing :D)

[who]

people liking my art makes me hate it. i didn't hate drawing as much before i posted my works online and saw how easily people throw compliments around. if my art is already "amazing", "gorgeous", "incredible", "beautiful", "cool", "nice", "really good", "stunning", "underrated", "cute", "lovely" and even "perfect" to them (all adjectives taken from the comments i received), is there even a point in trying to improve? i feel bad for thinking this way, they probably genuinely like my art and want to cheer me up, but i don't want to be good enough, i want others to expect better from me.
sorry for the rant. i don't know what to do anymore, i deleted all the social media accounts i was sharing my drawings on but this feeling doesn't go away.

[niksliwka]

This is a great video! I've definitely had, and still have this problem of disliking and overly criticising my art, I have this weird relationship with my art, where I like it, but then I also don't like it at the same time. My style is simple, cel shaded, and quite cartoony in terms of detail (but still with rather realistic proportions), and on one hand, I like my simpler art style, I like how it looks, I like the process of making it, and I want to make comics and potentially an animated show in the future, so in that case a simpler style is definitely more practical, however, I've noticed that much more complex and detailed styles tend to get more recognition, and they just look better to me, and despite the fact that I enjoy drawing in a simpler style more than in a complex style, this still makes me dislike my art. My main problem is comparing my own art to much more complex and detailed art, even though that isn't the kind of style I'm trying to go for. What I really should be doing is comparing my art with other simpler styles and studying them to see how other artists draw in a less complex style while still managing to make it look interesting. I've began improving and experimenting with my art, adding in a bit more detail while still keeping it relatively simple, and I think I'm slowly starting to like my art more.

The main thing artists need to remember is that the most important thing is to draw what you enjoy, because what is the point of forcing myself to change my style to be more complex if I'm not gonna enjoy the process of making it? I need to learn that I can still appreciate highly detailed and complex art without hating my own simpler art. Thank you for this video, it will definitely help me on my journey to appreciate my art more while still putting in effort to improve it, and I have to say that you're art is really amazing!

[Bzkt]

This was very interesting, wise words indeed ❤

[shuraaki]

something about the way you talk gives me arlecchino vibes maybe im js reaching but you sound like a father somehow😭😭

[bonk]

Its about willpower. Accept that your art is garbage and keep working to make it better. Try as many times as it takes. Most artists are so sensitive, but sometimes you have to be harsh on yourself. Yeah that drawing you spent hours on is garbage. Do better next time. Dont settle for less just because you cant get it right. Within the realm of reason of course. If your art is objectively good but you hate it then thats when problems appear