Cringing at my Old Mons (100K Special)

Thank you for helping the channel achieve the 100K milestone!
In this video, I share past designs of several of my creatures from the STEMA as I share what I learned so far from my old drawings.
Video concept from: • Cringing at My Old Dra...
and • Roasting My Old Drawin...
Learn more through the links below:
Educational Simulations: phet.colorado.edu/
Molecule Viewer: molview.org/
Darwin's Finches: • Evolution by Natural S...
Conic Sections: • Conic Section 3D Anima...
We Become What We Behold: ncase.itch.io/wbwwb
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[@twistedmyth5860]

It's always fun to watch people go from "I'm not an artist" to "Wait, when did I become an artist???" It's just an inevitable when you do art that you become an artist. Also, it's very fun to watch people change and iterate on the designs they've made.

[@zettarin]

I honestly don’t do art enough. I commission a lot but I also want to make more designs

[@monkaeyes3417]

god you are so right about the communication parts of science reports. As someone with ADHD, I really struggle to read texts written in the passive voice. Its so boring it makes it so insanely difficult for me to focus or just simply comprehend words that i've read. As a student, being someone who has to take about 30 minutes to read just the abstract of a report, doing work is way more difficult for me than it should be. If papers were written in a way that was meant to be readable, id be much more functional.

[@kitsofthekats7040]

wait is that why I'm having trouble reading stuff

[@monkaeyes3417]

@@kitsofthekats7040 there's always a chance

[@RedParagonG]

"Designs are meant to be iterated. If the design caused a grievous misunderstanding? Change it! If you don't like how it looks? Change it!" "Communication is done through art. Whether it's spoken art, written art, or visual art. Often that art is ignored. Thought to be ancillary in straight of reporting numbers. But that's what makes them seem unapproachable. Gatekeeping it behind terminology." "Effective communication is an art. Using various media to effectively relay a point across the students, other educators, neighbors, and even officials. If you think art is just about pretty drawings from a cobbled collection of references? That's frankly a very shallow and shamefully incorrect view of a whole facet of being a social organism. There's more to you than your parts!" These are some powerful lessons I've picked up on in this video. And dang, it has helped you across your artistic journey! Congratulations on 100K subs, n0Rt!

[@greenapple9477]

Minter's old designs gave off serious "child's Sonic OC" vibes. 😂 I have my own creature taming project, and this gave me some insight on what style I want my creatures to be in. Thanks.

[@hubijohn7451]

Honestly, the old designs aren't even that bad. You're just so good now!

[@danielcornwall1585]

You managed to turn "toss out my cringe old art" into a "lessons learned/process" video. As well, you showed how you managed to break out of a more Pokemony style to start becoming a unique Stema style

[@ohcadin6590]

A possible idea if you were to redesign the snails... make them based on the sin, cos, and tan waves, with the design referring to how they act at 0... or on the range from [-π, π] ... you could possibly even make a reference to how tan is sin over cos in the final design (possibly by having the sin shell sit on top of the cos shell? Idk)

[@TauGeneration]

there 👏needs 👏to 👏be 👏a 👏STEMA 👏community 👏already👏

[@AWE-Nessy]

the background instuments for the music changing when talking about the conet line was perfect

[@childeofepickness]

“oh… that’s art of my old fakemon…”

[@fjdpaco]

Old Minter isn't THAT bad, but I get that it might look like those "human-like" mons that show up in weird places.

[@neversparky]

Honestly, a flatworm that can fold into a cube is a pretty fun idea!

[@Amphorde]

The thumbnail is gold

[@ZenecGD]

That thumbnail reminds me of that one SpongeBob scene where SpongeBob is in the toilet.

[@BritishManXD]

I think you gonna say skibidi toilet right??

[@ZenecGD]

@@BritishManXD nah that stuff sucks, I would never mention it, even for $10,000.

[@LitPinata]

I never realized they were flushing a plate of corn in that scene!

[@BritishManXD]

​@@ZenecGDFr!!

[@voch123]

CONGRTS ON 100K! This project is so cool, you deserve it!

[@waflefries]

I think a fun way to do a pseudo-science mon would be mimiku like mon or even ditto or zorua that could pretend to be a actual topic/other mon. Anyway cant wait to see where this project goes and congrats on 100k!

[@elliotmidgley]

Sihorn doesent just give magcargo vibes he gives the whole magcargo orchestra

[@ceresthestarspinner4609]

I remember so much of this old art…

[@RandomFolk]

If you look at your past and cringe, it just means you’ve improved from what you once were. Good work Nortis, I wish you luck with stema!

[@DeadEndFrog]

The grass starter and its concept is a masterpiece and could be a legit pokémon

[@Clockehwork]

The new Chippu is a huge improvement; I was never big on the old one, and the ears were a big part of why. Looking forward to whatever that therizinosaur is; huge dino nerd, & it's already one of my favorite STEMA designs.

[@mokshjain5956]

It's just a whole another level of fun when you see a creator that you watched from its beginnings has grown by alot , it was fun being here from the beginningalso keep growing man

[@finlay3849]

Tbh Tuchlea would be the first ever Fire-starter I would even consider using

[@FoxGalahArtStuff]

Ok. Here's my own art story. So anyways, my fursona (a fox/phoenix/galah hybrid) went through multiple revisions until she became what she is today. My fursona wasn't even this 3 animal hybrid mythical creature at the start. She was various animals such as a chicken, alicorn (because MLP) and purely a phoenix. In 2017 and 2018 she was Pokemon specieses like a Latias, Heliolisk and Latias/Lunala hybrid. The species of my fursona was finalised in 2019 when I learnt that galahs existed. However, her design wasn't finished yet. It went through lots of revisions. One that I want to talk about is about some skill issue. The proportions on one version (more specifically one made in 2020) were horrendous! The limbs were too short and the body was too long! This wasn't my fault as I followed a proportions guide a little bit too hard and didn't notice until 2021. Artwork of her final design with proper proportions was made in 2022. However, I noticed these off proportions in 2021 but didn't create the art until 2022 and used the horrible proportions version as a placeholder. Also don't forget my character has a protogen form and she used to have wings! Wings are illegal on protogens without consent. I tried to justify it but it was still breaking the protogen rules so I redesigned her in 2023 so she could have a jetpack to fly with instead.

[@j.jsamra]

Your growth in art over the last few years is one of the reasons I've decided to get back into drawing after giving up.

[@RoninCatholic]

One of my projects is a proof of concept that reusing the same zoological inspirations for multiple collectible/trainable creatures within a single project isn't a doomed prospect, a game where literally every thing you can get is based on a fox in some way. Some are based on mythical foxes like the kitsune, some are based on uncommonly talked about fox species like the cape fox and cross fox, some are based on idioms like the "foxy lady" fitting your obligatory feminine humanoid slot, some based on wordplay like a bat (flying fox), red squirrel (fox mouse), and red panda (fire fox). I'm determined to make it work even though I'm not as passionate about foxes as I am about rodents or mustelids, I just like them quite a bit.

[@thequagiestsire]

Honestly this video is so inspiring for my art, I’ve been seriously struggling with keeping up with it alongside things like high school and gender identity exploration, but this video helps me see that those feelings of “god this design sucked, I just want to completely replace it” is normal. You inspired me to make my own creature collector, being focused more on mythos and fantasy rather than STEM concepts, so things like my types are named in things like Greek or Latin (Ignis, Aqua, Silva, etc.) and my designs will be concepts from things like alchemy, mythology, and stuff commonly found in fantasy and maybe religion, not sure on the last one. My Silva/Grass starter is gonna be a kitsune or inu, minorly inspired by Ōkami alongside the fantasy concept of a sentient and raging forest, but every time I draw it, it looks meh and like I wasn’t able to make it look like a starter or like the concepts in question or too much literally like the concepts. It really helps to see that it’s expected to go through several attempts at a design, especially an important one like a starter.

[@tincat2347]

If you cringe at your old work; you have grown, and that’s a good thing

[@caldineescogroft8831]

Honestly the ornaith comcept sounds really cool, imagine a region where you get only one normal type starter but depending our there moves our evs they can evolve into a different middle evolution gaining the fire, grass our water type and for the final evolution they could each chose a secondary type

[@ack7]

I really thought that you were going to show us a design iteration based Stema at the end of this video

[@meeb_consumer]

I honestly really like the older grass starter-

[@achehex]

6:50 My god I love these designs so muuuuuuuuuuch. Even if you had to dip the star stages motif, I hope you get a chance to revisit those body plans and sillhouettes cus they are so good.

[@MANGONDRAS]

Me gusta escuhar a personas hablando de un tema mas que interesante especialmente cuando lo hacen cln pasion e intentan comunicar algo, el ver y escuchar como una persona me habla de como ha podido evolucionar y desarrollarse en un area que le apasiona me llena tanto que me hace mas que feliz. Tienes un nuevo subscriptor y muchas gracias 🎉

[@CoralReaper707]

Man, you've come a long way, haven't you?

[@_yarnzgaming_7012]

Some random thing, with my own pokemon like creatures. Ive made plenty. Like over 200 (i could seriously make my own region). But i started back when I was in grade 3 so the mons looked really bad and had terrible names but I kept using the same group of mons, over and over. Improving my art over the years while keeping to the original ideas. The stupid thing is that the names are the exact same. (THE FIRE STARTER WAS NAMED "FLAME'EM" AND WAS JUST A FIREBALL WITH A TAIL AND TINY STUB LEGS. Tho it looks really dope now).

[@sosasees]

i used to plan making a rhythm game, which i abandoned because i couldn't get enough level ideas. maybe i _can_ make that game someday because this video inspired me to try a new approach for coming up with level ideas: instead of trying to fit my levels around random cartoon scenarios i could base my levels on music theory concepts and create the cartoon afterwards - maybe with each level's description having an "inspirations" tab that lists or explains the level's most important inspirations. this doesn't mean i _will_ get enough level ideas but now i have a place to look 🙂

[@caracaracat2958]

Congrats on 100k!! I love your current creature designs and hope you keep improving for many more months :]

[@Greul.]

Bro, we need to thank you, for showing us your beautiful drawings and your incredible knowledge of art and scientific topics with these interesting little monsters. Really you work is wonderful.

[@LittleTimmy2016]

8:50 Sir, the second milimit has hit the towers

[@Scribbables]

Constantly wishing I could leave more than one like on your videos! Thank you for sharing your journey with us! I love STEMA!!!

[@astick5249]

What i find most funny is that none of these old designs are even necessarily bad. Its just that the new stuff is even better

[@EOS62035]

the retrospect was awesome, and the speech at the end reached my heart. i'm happy you've grown to be comfortable of your works enough to share it with all of us, and give us advice from your experience! thank you and great video!

[@sam_the_yeen]

YOOOO Congrats on 100k! I am so happy to see you come such a long way, I remember subscribing at around 5-6k IIRC, so seeing you slowly grow was so exciting

[@thisorthat2497]

CONGRATS ON 100K!!!!

[@gorritoconperro9077]

be kind on yourself this are also pretty good , you are a great artist and its great to see the evolution

[@mattu53]

Congrats, so happy for you. Been following you since I left FDS years ago, so impressed with your commitment and success. Keep it up!

[@BonnyJohn]

congrats to you my guy! love how you can put yourself out there and watch yourself grow, the quality of your work is night and day, but i think we're all proud that you're able to see your missteps and recalculate from there. keep it up as we continue to root for you!

[@carloseliasmartinez6221]

Congrats on your 100k! Your channel was such a great discovery and as a Pokemon fan and Science and Maths teacher I'm really looking forward to the STEMa region release! And who knows, maybe in a years we'll have a sequel on the arts theme :D

[@user-gi5gq6lp3d]

What a lovely journey you had

[@davinogarcia5665]

This video was fantastic!! Very inspiring too

[@ficmatagaea7813]

Ngl I would love to watch your drawing process!

[@redopal9796]

Ahh,,, ,,m,,.. the Conet... part entirely, was AGONIZING for me. The trumpet VST playing through the entire section was piercing for my ears, just absolutely painful and also, there is SO MUCH math in music. I have no clue how you would integrate it for a fakemon, but music is simply ratios. look into microtonality (xenharmonic wiki might be a source)- if you want to peer more into the abyss of ways to attempt to approximate those ratios, with people using matrices and geometries and the zeta function as they obsess with prime numbers.

[@EzraTheHomie]

Love the design of Conet, it's really cute. Could be a nice lil gimmicky single stage, like a Pincurchin or Pyukumuku. The red or silver designs are both really cute

[@superspider64]

I think you could still rework minter's first form as a sort of mint-like seed maybe, give it a little curly plant stem like baby hair and waddly goomba feet or something

[@nightmonsirecactus5929]

Ok I unironically love tuchlea, I would be interested in seeing a redesign/concept inspired by it Planeray is adorable and wedgish looks neat. On design alone, I love them.

[@zalkarkazakbaev6691]

Velomu and accelerwary, they look like a regional form for your posishum line 9:07

[@dispenser996]

I love the videos as always, especially the engagement in philosophy. Good job on 100K, you earned it! Also I think it would be funny if there was a Stema-mon that looked like the Eye of Sauron lol.

[@ExlhkA]

I forgot how much I love nortist videos man keep it up Chears to 100k

[@mrpigglyboy2249]

Congrats on 100k

[@michaelolympus5994]

Your wordings always gets me to watch your video more

[@user-fn8xi1jg4g]

Dude love your work this is really funny but next i think it'll be fun to revisit your better works that got you hear

[@Camo1177]

Even though they don’t fit with the current aesthetic of the Stema project, I love the OG Minter line and I want them as plushies

[@ekekelanapoleon2550]

congrats on 100k n0rt!

[@robinsuva9367]

CONGRATS! First time catching a video in under an hour aswell.

[@EduSolsa]

Thanks for sharing those old desings

[@guse7688]

Great vid, snort! Excited for the next

[@steevie9423]

Dude needs to chill with these thumbnails

[@sam_the_yeen]

Nah let him cook 👀

[@user-rs8jg1ev8q]

@@sam_the_yeen protpgen

[@bobsterjnr4850]

Wait 15 hours ago, yet this was uploaded 1 hour ago???

[@kingdragon3122]

@@bobsterjnr4850probably a member or a patreon supporter who get videos earlier.

[@Poptomist]

Skibidi

[@ianzhou7010]

100K... I remember watching you since 30K. You've grown a lot...

[@gkgeze]

Congrats!!

[@josh8901]

Smokes and Conet are really cool design on their own :D. One thing I noticed about your water starter is the fact that the feet of the first two stages feel not connectedness the body. Maybe it would be possible to add the kind of feed design of the last stage of the water starter?

[@lilylunamoonyt]

imho the minter line is kinda cool tbh, i kinda dig humanoid creature designs if i'm honest

[@GoatGuy36]

It’s incredible how fast you channel has grown, it feels like you only had 1000 subscribers last week

[@FantomMind]

I cannot wait till this is playable. Keep at it!

[@emolgaisourlordandsavior]

13:06, did anyone else notice the glitch when he said not Really? 🤔

[@luukthegamer]

The old Behavian design is soooo cute i love it so much!!! Sad that its not gonna be used New design is still better tho

[@firelolbit]

Thank u for giving people like me a better understanding of art and stem topics also ,mind if I ask, but I would love if ur outro theme song was accessable cause it's a banger nlg

[@ilyatepeyolotich6459]

Having a ditto pseudoscience mon sounds fun. Or more like zoroark. Like it may look like anything but in battle its pretty weak.

[@samuelbushway1054]

CONGRATULATIONS

[@ekekelanapoleon2550]

great video👏

[@thebigcat2940]

congrats on at least 3 subs

[@adphoenix600]

Bro I always love this music

[@cedwardcutts5797]

I just want Conet. Not either of the Evos. Just Conet as a standalone.

[@konakg8174]

While they redesigns look amazing, make sure you don't get stuck in development hell. Good talk on the art part. There's still a ways to go when it comes to incorporating art in stem, but it's at least acknowledged now. I pretty much guessed you were a chem major as well because of how you approach the sciences. It's a field that demands a lot of abstraction for the sake of understanding.

[@----S.]

Oh...its gore, its gore of my comfort character

[@Blowter]

*”oh, that’s real nice.”*

[@okeanos317]

I mean your designs were awesome before,and still awesome after the redesign for the most part

[@miguelautistic7409]

The time you showed me those unused fakemon, i laughed by how stupid and goofy it looks! 9:31 especially this one and i laughed so hard on that thing.

[@kensizhang5398]

Hey there! I’ve been watching you for a bit and I’ve noticed that I prefer your lineless style much for than the Pokemon replica style. Your designs don’t really conform to Pokemon either so I think it would be awesome if you leaned into more of the lineless with your eventual game. They look great! Keep it up!

[@meow-gk8gz]

how dare you!! those are good designs

[@doublex8012]

Congrats on 100K, you’re going to post more often? Right?

[@oliverdavies4748]

Let him cook, let him cook

[@Dunbit]

AAAAAAAHHHHH I LOVE YOUR CONTENT AAAAAAAHHHHHH

[@takenname8053]

Congrat on 100K! Maybe I can be an artist too! :)

[@MNovikmec]

WE ARE MAKING A GAME WITH THIS ONE🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯

[@azzahnoble]

I HATE trying to add art to turn STEM into STEAM. Not cos art is lesser or easier than science, tech, engineering or maths, but because I feel art genuinely doesn’t fit in amongst them. It’s too different. I get trying to remove the whole science vs. art antagonistic dichotomy, but implying they’re the same is an over correction. I like the metaphor of a plate of food. STEM can be the food and art can be the plate. Both are important for a nutritious diet. After all, the most amazing food in the world looks unappealing if served badly, or even becomes dangerous if served unhygienically. Doesn’t mean we need to add crockery to the food pyramid.

[@Vell0102]

I love the steam project I can’t wait to see more of your amazing creatures! ❤❤❤❤

[@The7thLysineinyourDNA]

I called it (Also 9:58 he pulled a Meowscarada)

[@moof1224]

Ngl conet is adorable, I kinda love him

[@Unknown-rz6vi]

Secondly HOW THE HECK DID YOU NOT HAVE AT LEAT 500k AT THIS POINT?!?!

[@JessTheSeal]

13:41 nice