Reframing Failure

[@Boowaluu]

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

[@gurulaghima6518]

Holy shit, this is a good line

[@MiasBirch]

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

[@RubyDianArts]

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

[@Mijuki]

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

[@tristynk.wimbish9062]

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 ❤️

[@spiderham1907]

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

[@pedrofernandez5137]

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!

[@Celessam]

Thanks for sharing your experience, Astri

[@Staladus]

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

[@WisperArt]

Same! Look, I'm actually going through this syndrom as well, so, if you'd like, we could try to help each other through this. I'd love to have somebody to give me critique of my art and to give it back. If you're interested, please, contact me :) Have a great day!

[@Staladus]

@@WisperArt :vv i mean do u have an insta or twitter?

[@WisperArt]

@@Staladus Sorry for the slow reply, turns out that sometimes comments with links are getting automaticly deleted by youtube. I'm on instagram as wisper.art (If you'll see paintings with a bunch of 4 handed characters - that's me :D ) . I hope I'm not too late with this, but I'm very excited to start chatting with you about art!

[@Staladus]

@@WisperArt Oh bruh, your art is amazing lol. Im vortex.drawing on instagram :)

[@pacocastaneda525]

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

[@bobz637]

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

[@Thesamurai1999]

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!

[@forkykitty1888]

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.

[@Nostale2984]

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

[@andremercante8451]

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 :)

[@FellightC]

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

[@Jahsee65]

True, true

[@lucielle_inactive]

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 ❤

[@vukbo7859]

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

[@abckakadu2]

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

[@christinekoper2407]

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.

[@anna7illust41]

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

[@tristankruger1504]

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! 😁

[@WisperArt]

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!

[@quetevalgavergaaa]

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.

[@ImHELLBERG]

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!

[@msvideogame]

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

[@axelpoetzschz6054]

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! ^^

[@sensational4772]

Just hear your voice makes me happy!

[@adekaiwamisou]

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.

[@gray_rain]

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.

[@Shagz2149]

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

[@robinellefsen4275]

Very inspirational words, thank you!

[@DayronDesmet]

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

[@MaddieThePancake]

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

[@sensenart7652]

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.

[@TerkanTyr]

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

[@hgzmatt]

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..

[@darknessetfolly]

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

[@mizukikatsuart]

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 :(

[@mxserendipity3719]

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!!!

[@Feyrerei]

Great video and reminder

[@Dana_Art]

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?

[@nerrisheyelerx6046]

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 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Creed329]

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

[@alexandremacan5304]

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.

[@hamza92m]

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

[@kmoonforest9445]

great advice :)

[@OleksiiChernik]

Thank you for your words. It matters.

[@gustav0santos]

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

[@Iamrooq]

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

[@riotfist9747]

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

[@pepiart1413]

What is gum road?

[@accountforart5574]

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!

[@thatguy-un1yy]

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

[@Boowaluu]

You've only truly failed when you stop trying

[@Gugi0606]

Jeg heier på deg Astri 👩‍🎨

[@Wernimations]

" One More"

[@AlekThunder47]

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.

[@jamieohjamie]

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

[@nukuniku318]

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!

[@unknown-sn5ss]

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

[@hazedays3584]

im the 666th like heh

[@musecub]

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

[@sorashiro2359]

I hope you do some face reveal. 😍

[@TheDarkOne9942]

"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.

[@mimipeahes5848]

There is no one that mastered a craft on their first try.

[@quetevalgavergaaa]

Failing is good, since it's the only way you can realize that what you are doing wrong and that you should keep studying and practicing. Even the old masters failed, A LOT. That's just the way it is.

[@TheDarkOne9942]

@@mimipeahes5848 Not an excuse; you have the internet. There is no excuse today for not knowing something and failing; you fail, because you suck or are lazy.

[@TheDarkOne9942]

@@quetevalgavergaaa No, that’s how you want it to be. Try failing at a job and you’ll see how “good” your boss is gonna treat you.

[@quetevalgavergaaa]

@@TheDarkOne9942 You are delusional, failure is a fundamental part of life. I've failed at a lot of things, and that's actually what made me realize that I was wrong, otherwise I would have never noticed it, that's what made me progress. So you can shut up about the whole "fail at a job" part, it's just stupid.