The difference between good artists and great artists

[@josephhall5136]

This is my favourite channel. It never fails to blow my mind. I enjoy the conversation too.

[@brandonmalone6708]

I decided to pursue art as a student during the pandemic. Since then ive gone through bouts of depression which let to serious inconsistencies. Even so I’ve improved by a LARGE margin. Listening to this video is another reminder of the journey I’ve had and what is to come and I appreciate your videos as a new viewer !

[@passionworksbodyshop9738]

I do this for a living as well.. Art and airbrush bikes. I promise it gets easier. My experience is that the difference between great and good is just not giving up on the piece. They all go through an ugly stage and just keep pushing. I still learn stuff every day. Cross train between mediums really helped me.

[@belle42]

I appreciate the tough love in this video. I'm guilty of giving up too easily when a piece of art isn't going the way I wanted. And especially guilty of not doing art when I'm "not in the mood". I have had a fear of failure. But trying and failing is better than not trying. And eventually with practicing our craft we will get better and better. Even great.

[@TonySwaby]

Great artists are driven to make art whether they want to or not is irrelevant. All artists are great except for those who think they're not. Style is the result of making work, it will find you.

[@teezabee]

Thank you - I found your video to be very encouraging and informative. I really think this will help me buckle down and get to it! Have had a really hard time with just doing it. Thanks again!

[@sdl1195]

Amazing advice! I am that artist that jumps all over the place. Portraits are what I find easiest so I think I will stick to only them from now on to develop. I’ve always know it but avoided it for some reason 🙏

[@JasonAksiL]

1000's upon 1000's of hours and then more. You definitely need to push yourself. Great message and wonderful work.

[@Jeannine754]

Like your work, love your message, on this one. Blessings to you and your family. J

[@alit.theghost5156]

Love you’re speech and you’re advices appreciate that bro ❤🙏

[@2coolartsmusicmom572]

I really appreciate you sharing.

[@edgarallanpoe1822]

Charcoal is versatile and spontaneous it gives a great sense of realism and luminosity to your work there is nothing called overdoing in it because it accepts correction readily

[@luannedimaggio7025]

I love your videos, I have been in a funk. But today I am inspired always by your work.some of my best art has been what I have learned from you. Thanks from this old grandm

[@heraclitus6100]

Watching you work is very calming. Thank you for sharing. You are very good.

[@Kizzy-t9i]

Dear Josh, thank you for your fantastic summary how to become great.

[@katdakota9467]

Thanks for sharing your artwork, perspective, suggestions and inspiration (and faith!) Love your work! And yes I need to practice more and create when I may not be in the mood or feel I don't have the energy to start a new piece. I get overwhelmed at times trying to decided what to do and what to focus on I lock up and create nothing. That only creates more nervousness and self doubt. Crazy - it's a cycle I must break to become the artists I believe I could become - with the work! Thank you again.

[@albertocavagna8575]

Realmente asombroso! Cuanto desearia iniciarme en tal arte.

[@PeterGerhard-f9j]

Crazy work, I would love a charcoal 7:02 7:06 portrait of my partner, happy to pay your commission fees and return postage to Australia. Cheers

[@davidbell5017]

Where were you 50 yrs ago, if I had heard that at 5 yrs old. I’ve left interests all my life (55 yrs) started with paint,through clays and mashes, sculpting sketches ❤ all art, thanks for sharing

[@CathyHuyghe-dv1oe]

Love love love the art and your advice.............

[@drk6587]

Thank you for this timely and appropriate video.

[@tracynielsen844]

you have mad skills. dont have to get rich on your art, few do. just be thankful for your talents and share with your freinds, family, whoever. love that medium charcoals.

[@wizzardofpaws2420]

I paint every day,. But I am retired so I can. I just want to get better. Every thing you said is spot on.

[@albertocavagna8575]

Tal logro es unico!

[@crystalnam-rangel]

Thank you for sharing, this definitely helps.

[@ARNOLDKEITHDIXON]

I relish your direct talking and fully agree that people should say things of my art how it is. I have recently returned to charcoal drawing and welcome your videos.

[@sgleorna1627]

IM COMPETING MYSELF A LOT I LOVE TO TEST MY FULL POTENTIAL

[@una2150]

Could you post some links to the artists you mention in video?

[@steves835]

*@MadCharcoal* do you do custom portraits?

[@jacksoniancook6397]

i Know you probs won’t answer but what is the paper you use For your charcoal drawings because I’m realy into it and been going at if for a good month or 2 rn but don’t feel like I’m getting better I feel like it’s my paper my paper ain’t the best I’m useing the gecko type but you are my inspiration before I was even doing doing wat I do Thnaks and please get back to me 🙏🏽

[@TonyQuinn-Art]

He's mentioned in some videos the different types of paper he uses. One of them was Strathmore 400 drawing paper.

[@paulah317]

He also mentioned BFK Rives paper.

[@CreationFromtheTable]

I don't understand why people were getting so upset by what you had to say... Must be mad at themselves for not taking themselves more seriously is all I can say!! I am a total unnatural hobbyist of fluid art and I love it and I practice it everyday but I know I'm never going to be a great artist and I'm okay with that!! But you on the other hand are amazingly talented and I love that you are not going to give up on yourself and are going to keep pushing to get your art out there in the world because you're amazingly talented!!

[@surantodwisaputra]

Great art👍

[@daizzer]

I want to buy a piece of art broh, could you make a piece to sell or just for yourself. I would like to have a drawing hanging on the wall

[@ineskveder2129]

THANK YOU !!!

[@mytvsettowatch]

I'm aiming to be a great Artist... but I only work when I feel like I want to... I feel SO scolded right now, haha... 😅 Thank you for that... I need to paint more often. Congratulations!

[@marksummers1700]

that is a wonderful talent you have...

[@stevenbryant4718]

I'm only doing charcoal..... yeah, yeah that's what Van Gogh started at, then water colors, then.... But if you did sailboats racing I would buy it.

[@belindared3389]

❤❤❤❤

[@BoilingDietCoke]

To see art, I sometimes close 1 eye lid, and cross my eyes to see. (I can blur or sharpen my eye)

[@BoilingDietCoke]

Practice makes perfect. Yes sir. (Yeap...html, php, css, database, security, cost)

[@lindacsmith13]

very good advice to all.

[@Godswillmpofu]

What type of paper are you using

[@giacomonencioni3170]

Art is expression, its value doesn't belong to the judgement of any kind of public. Judgements are cultural influenced and they change from time to time. You are an artist when you are free to express your concepts in any way and form you want to achieve (meaning you can use any medium you want to use, at your will). You are not an artist because someone says so, you are an artist because at the end of the day you resolved that urge you had, in any way you did. The main difference is that non artists are satisfied when at the end of the day they made what they had to, they don't need to expand theirselves. Sorry for my english

[@giacomonencioni3170]

All that stuff about limiting, using, styling, choosing etc etc, in my opinion, huge bunch of crap

[@MadCharcoal]

I agree, as long as you would like your art to be a hobby and not a career you are correct.

[@CallumLomax]

Can you practice in this style with normal pencils

[@АлександрВикторович-ю4т]

I dont understend well what you say my man... i feel you say something needed an important that people may see help for them... would someone tell main theses of this vid? I love you guys< thanks

[@mesnorim]

Thanks ❤

[@NailGlam24.7]

Do you do work for ppl from photos? Charcoal? I'm captivated❤

[@K.ART_vlog]

so nice 💖💖💖

[@dundeedolphin]

At which moment in the evolution of this drawing did you like it most? For me it was quite early.

[@bobbyulili]

Do you spray fixatif to seal the piece

[@MadCharcoal]

Yes sir

[@rahulmistry5787]

Great ❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️

[@667hodge]

So where does that put you?

[@kh7794]

Btw, your porportions are off on the left side, were from the beginning. Maybe you intended it but maybe you didn't but seeing how you were preaching on anatomy...

[@PsulOrtiz]

This picture at one time was a white guy, a black guy, a middle eastern person, an elf, a creature with ears high up on his head-- like Pan, or an american colonist. And that was just in the first 17 minutes! But you lost me when you made him ' more aggressive'. Not because aggression bothers me but because the person got lost in the cloud of charcoal. It became too abstract. I like abstract art, i guess i don't like realism, narrative, representational art mixed with abstract impressionist elements. I kept seeing a large yellow horizontal number 10 behind and to the left of the guy's face. No idea why but it would punch the picture up some. And inject just a bit of color. What are your thoughts on a subsequent owner modifying a piece of art? Whether it is cutting it down or changing/adding to the background, making into a collage, etc. Havevyou ever fone any engraving work. Seems copper plates would be a logical place for your method of art.

[@opendoor494]

Dude, Has someone taken over your facebook page, it's posting AI every day.

[@rogerbrookes3515]

The left hand side of your work seems to always be the weaker side. Try and see ACROSS the piece as you are making marks and developing character.

[@paulah317]

I think it's intentional.

[@johntaylor6211]

Agreed he can't do it That's why he made a mess of it on that side. Because he hasn't used any proportion methods at all.

[@rogerbrookes3515]

And he has the gall to give us a lecture on what is or is not 'great art' typical American entitlement.@@johntaylor6211

[@Patrickkind78]

Afew things: you really are that great so please don't sell yourself short. Also, the only people qualified to speak about religion are pastors , priests , rabbit's, and theologians .

[@leonienolan511]

😮 wrong

[@Patrickkind78]

@@leonienolan511 no I'm pretty sure I'm right

[@Sanderly1820]

Ex pupil of the university Andrew Tate. This woukd be so much better, if you just shut up and turn this into asmr

[@harm97]

Till 7:05 it was decent,then u made it worse. Not good at all,sorry

[@tkgray9980]

i dont agree with all you said, i draw in charcoal, pencil,color pencils, oil paint and more. your advice saying stick with one medium or stay as a portrait artist or a landscape is terrible advice. if alls you want to be is a artist that only uses one medium that good advice for a good artist, a great one will master as much as they can to create the art at a level they want. its not hard for talented artists, hobbyists or part timers can still be great artists. you should say the difference between a broke artist and ones that make the living most artists achieve. your a good artist not great, i can do what you do in same amount of time but my style is dark but making what people want is when my real skills come out. im a artist, my charcoal drawings are also oil paint using a dry brush to do portraits takes good artist to great artist because learning a new skill is hard. boost people up don't restrict them. Deadman Art Studio

[@tkgray9980]

your range is lacking. getting reconciliation isnt what makes you a great artist. i have my commission art and my art and public art. i paint wine glasses and draw dead woman and skulls along with horses in charcoal. why does it matter if someone cant identify one artwork from another, a great artist creates masterpieces. and the definition of that is.....

[@BoilingDietCoke]

You fail at being an art critic. You don't have a clue.

[@tkgray9980]

@@BoilingDietCoke thats because im not a critic im a artist.

[@greenjeans7]

This seems gay, is that the point?

[@Buy.YouTub.Views.783]

This deserves more views

[@brucedunston625]

This is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to the average fun time artist. I am 75 and I use pencil, ink and charcoal and i ENJOY using EACH ONE EVERY WEEK. Art is not for anyone but THEMSELVES!! "Art Experts" are like wine snobs, alway spitting out crap.

[@JJ-xt2dq]

*Irrelevant

[@brucedunston625]

I stand corrected on my spelling, but stand by my statement. @@JJ-xt2dq

[@kh7794]

He comes off soooo 'I made it, I know everything' but dude, I never heard of you! It took literally YEARS for you to come up on my feed and that was because I was watching dozens of shorts. About 3 dozen in after watching tons of other artists you showed up so I came to the site, which I do if I'm intriqued. There are hundreds upon hundreds of artists that have followed different paths. Just as there are amazing natural singers that could blow past 99% of the recorded artists without 1 voice lesson and never use their gift, so there are also artists of every othere genre. He shows his youth and ignorance by saying he knows, you REALLY know when you can honestly say that there is no one answer or that you don't know. Life taught me that. Just comes off so pretentious, the kind that seeps in 'high' art galleries. I guess some people like that talking alot without saying crap and the snobbiness that many like to relay. You know the kind, they'd drown standing in the rain. I think that's why so many love Banksy and silent videos. I won't be back. I may skip to the end of a short of yours or I probably will just swipe past it. I see a ton of what others have done, the fade out, the 1 peice of color in a peice, loads of other stuff. Sorry, not so original. I'm sad I listened to this video, it ruined your art for me.

[@MadCharcoal]

If you watch the video you notice that I mention this content being irrelevant if you are a hobbiest. Please be informed prior to making poor judgement.

[@utubeaccount3666]

You might think this until you realize that oenologist aren't just talking crap and can actually tell you everything about a wine, to the weather of the the year the vines were cultivated, just by tasting it. I dont know much about art, but I don't think that just because experts are a bit to arrogant means what they say holds no value.

[@vernonsteinkamp1088]

I'm a retired billboard artist ( when they were hand painted). I don't depend on income from my work now. I do it for the love of it, and when I finish one, I start another one. My work is hanging all over our house, lol. I work in oils. I thoroughly enjoy watching you work. I believe Rockwell used a lot of different references within one piece.

[@markbarrera6807]

LOVE sign art! Near me there was a beautiful Canadian Mounty on a brick wall- circa 1945-1960..? But new owners PAINTED over it. Always appreciate good sign work. Truck driver here.

[@BoilingDietCoke]

Keep it up, I know I have seen wonderful billboards in which I thought "hot damn".

[@BoilingDietCoke]

↑ By which I mean, that wasn't a print.

[@BoilingDietCoke]

My mom 1949, has THE BOOK of Norman. (Lol) She has a hardcopy OG book of Norman Rockwell. That man was a f*****g genuine genius.

[@PoppinPortraits]

That’s the result of watching you for week Josh, learning how to hold and move charcoal around and now I’ve finished a first piece. Can’t wait to be more experienced with it. I’ll be following many more of you’re, stunning pieces!❤ I’m not an artist I love drawing though.

[@AnnaBurgard]

Hi Josh...I have a potential book cover opportunity for you through Johns Hopkins University, but can't find an email address for you to tell you about it?

[@EricPierce-wapcaplet]

I can definitely relate to your comments about artists who do good work, but haven’t developed their own distinctive style - that’s me for sure, I don’t know what my style is even after 40 years. I think it’s because until recently, I’ve approached drawing only as a part-time hobby, not a serious effort to study and learn. Your channel and charcoal drawings have been a good source of inspiration!

[@salt6831]

I would love to hear about your faith in another video.

[@BoilingDietCoke]

I was thinking Thomas Jefferson with the start of the lips and nose...then you made a beard, I saw...then I saw Jesus...? So many amazing differences with tiny differences. Could you for me, charcoal Pablo Picasso?

[@MegadoseTheOutsiderArtist]

If I could just be GOOD that would be GREAT! 🤪

[@noahlovell8691]

“If you seek you will find.” Yessir!

[@BoilingDietCoke]

You are beyond great. You are gifted.