Why Most Artists Stay Stuck

[@TylerEdlin84]

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[@JohannesSkolaude]

This is named Just Sequenz 1 03 for me. Just saying😮

[@sovanima]

great advices, thank you! The reason being stuck as an artist is the same being stuck as a person, individual. It is per person based on variety of choices and circumstances and the good news are there is always something to be done. I have always remind myself sometimes reaching the top peak I need to go up and down following the markers or experiment and go freeride.

[@dailydoodle42]

Audio is a bit lower than normal no?

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@dailydoodle42 I didn’t think it was

[@swgman]

@@TylerEdlin84 I'm pretty sure it is

[@lukasluan10]

Yeah. It is here too.

[@Gashren]

@@TylerEdlin84 It definitely is. Sorry, but I wasn't able to hear pretty much anything you've said due to very low volume of the audio.

[@jenakin_skywalker]

I thought my headphones were busted first xD

[@Badartist888]

I think learning to give yourself projects in a manner a client would, then doing it all the way through is a great learning technique.

[@ironcockroach]

My biggest struggle is always practising, never producing. Filling an A4 page with a single picture seems impossible; I can only sketch small.

[@zinzolin14]

Stuck in a more personal sense, as someone who's trying to break into the industry but having a hard time trying to balance getting to the level of being employable and wanting to showcase my own vision.

[@ArchOfficial]

You're not going to showcase your own vision at entry level, you're going to be doing practical tasks. You're probably not going to be showcasing your own vision for most, if not all, of your career. Guys at the very top still do what they're told and have to reject good ideas all the time. Ultimately, you probably have to do your own thing if you want a high amount of your own vision in it.

[@zinzolin14]

​@@ArchOfficial so i guess the answer is to just get better and show that i can do the work

[@ArchOfficial]

@@zinzolin14 That's the minimum, yes.

[@zinzolin14]

@@ArchOfficial Least I have a better sense of direction now

[@Smieska_13]

problem is, you can take all the skillshare online courses and practice all you want, but one thing i find youtubers like you don't mention is how not only are these jobs being merged: Where it would normally take 3 artists to do is now expected of ONE person (in the same amount of time no less); but also how the entertainment industry especially in animation and gaming has a massive turnover rate, where its a revolving door of young 20 somethings that get used up and burned out and deposed of by the time they hit their 30s. It's rare to see anyone over the age of 40 in any kind of "dream job" positions that don't actually exist, they're not meant to suport people who want families or have other obligations (unless your S/O has the more stable job) LUCK is a giant factor too that I find no one talks about or don't want to acknowledge. A lot of it is out of your control as an artist, so as much as its nice to see you talk about all the technicalities, that's not the reason why most artists are stuck. Its not a moral failing on their part or they're not doing the right thing.

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@Smieska_13 I have many videos on all those points. I agree with everything you said just wasn’t a video focused on that.

[@dwlosins2663]

Your video motivated me a lot. With a new job we still in the process of adaptation to the workflow and methods. After I got a really hard critic at my artworks I was super stressed that I can't do it right. Then I found your video and it totally opened my eyes. Now I feel like I have a better understanding of process and what I can do better next time. Really, REALLY thank you for guidelines, and good tips you are sharing

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@dwlosins2663 thanks for watching glad it helped

[@golem_xiv8840]

Merry Christmas and happy new year Edlin! You are right about the topic and I think the same way about it.

[@Luuzy6]

Great video! For me, the amount of things one should be capable of and all the aspects that are important are sometimes a little overwhelming. My school was only 2 years long, and I feel like I am still lacking in terms of efficiency and some fundamentals. I am very grateful to be one of the lucky few who actually landed a job right away, but I hope I manage to improve a lot throughout the next year and build some confidence in my workflow c: I love how there is always room to grow in this field, I just hope it starts to feel more manageable one day Happy new year everyone!

[@astrea555]

not enough demand.

[@inquizitive1]

Thanks for the video. I get a decent amount of work freelancing on the side and also in-house illustrating on a salary but I feel the work is not as rewarding as it once was and I know being able to focus on personal projects would be nice, but I’m stuck as I have a family to feed. I always pursued art as a job hoping that I’d move up some ladder and I think that’s from growing up poorish and a need to prove something but now that I’ve been a working illustrator for 20 years I wish I spent my 20s making my own shit. But enough moaning 😅 as I hit my forties I’m focussed on 2025 being the year of just making the art I always wanted to get paid to work on. All the best for the new year dude 🤙🏾

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@inquizitive1 thanks man !

[@swgman]

My biggest struggle is shapes and lines probably, I just can't really do those subtle curves on the stomach or arms

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@swgman I need to work on that too

[@goblincomic4522]

You can used 3d model to help guid . I use clip studio paint and i used 3d model to made sure it correct

[@swgman]

@goblincomic4522 Nah, it's not really about that. It's more about line confidence I think

[@joespadaford8736]

I need to do this too in my own work, but what I have learned is that once you spot a thing you are not good at… stop and set up a plan to isolate that one area for study over the course of one week. For 30 mins a day draw nothing but it. By day 7 you will be greatly improved. The problem is we all have so much of these short comings that we get overwhelmed and don’t lock down any one of them. But there are 52 weeks in a year. If you can master just 25 shortcomings a year it will be like a solid year in art school

[@__se7entin__]

coming from a poor country, my biggest struggles is having to study at uni (with many aweful subjects) and not having any social life tbh. I'm trying to be more productive but burnouts after burnouts

[@NickRoyOfficial]

Audio is kinda low. Have the volume all the way up on youtube and PC and can barely hear it.

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@NickRoyOfficial thanks for your feedback I’ll try harder next time.

[@Houdini_Bob]

I am not in the industry (art is a hobby) and I hope I don't throw cold water on someone, but I wonder, even if you have the necessary skills how much of getting your foot in the door or even hired is by pure chance - being in the right place and the right time and with right person? edit: also, if a studio gets 500 applications do they go through all 500 before making hiring decision or if they come across one the tenth applicant which meets all check boxes they stop looking? I thought the audio was a bit lower than normal as well.

[@firos_kofi6608]

Don't get me wrong. This is absolute what is needed to get into the industry, But sometimes I think i'll be easier for most of us if we get technically good and we teach. Or start your personal brand art related and build a community to sell them products. It looks that nowadays it's not enough being a technical expert, that in itself takes years.

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@firos_kofi6608 I agree and thats what I preach about in most videos.

[@prestonowens4594]

Hmm, I think I lack all three. Although I studied studio art in college. I just have no clue where I’d even fit into the commercial art world. I was attracted to realist painting. Now I’m almost 30, working as a janitor in a factory for the past 5 years, and haven’t picked up a brush since 2021. I just didn’t see the point in developing my skills with no end goals in mind. I don’t know where I’d fit in. But I feel this aching desire to become a great painter that is always simmering away in me. But I don’t have any direction.

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@prestonowens4594 that’s part of the biggest scam with art schools. They provide zero direction. But it’s also something most of us need to discover on our own. Like even right out of art school if you would have asked me what my path forward was I’d have no idea. And I still don’t most days. But I’m constantly trying and iterating on doing new things from a business perspective. The creative side is just half that equation the business side of it just as important and another tog g they don’t teach in regular art schools. I have seen mediocre artists still thrive if they are really good at business

[@prestonowens4594]

@ well, I wouldn’t say I went to an art school. I just majored in art at a private liberal arts college. Specifically I studied at the School of Creative Arts at the Univeristy of Saint Francis. I went in wanting to work in animation or illustration, but the only good work I saw from a technical standpoint was coming out of the fine art majors. So I went that route thinking I could wrangle some kind of creative career. Unfortunately I was dead wrong, and now my life is the stereotype everyone imagines when they think of an art major. I feel very much like my life is over before it really began.

[@432hecnsketch]

This was great. I will be joining in the email list for sure!!!!!

[@jakkdlaw]

I am not a good artist but when I get there I will not be applying for entry level jobs bcos I worked way too hard to get good. Making art is not easy lol

[@ilgiallo0]

I saw a lot of artist criticizing the work of the naughty fog artis about EVE ... You watch their job in is always giants tits and big eyes ... I mean anybody draw how best they can do it , but at the same time very few people actually try new styles ... Before i watch the video for me that i do completely another work, that's the way for success or at least to become famous . If you ever use 1 style you will get your community / gallery but not a job . Same for my work , i started as a painter then got to make drawings, then basic builder , plumber electrician, now i do small renovations at 33 , next goal to renovate the colosseum 🎉😂 (i can aim even a bit lower but still not by much)

[@dailydoodle42]

Wait you worked on Fortnite?

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@dailydoodle42 yeah for many years

[@dailydoodle42]

@@TylerEdlin84 Cool!

[@skyhavender]

Soo talent is a Requirement got it.

[@EliasPauloDaSilva]

You video is too much focus on the idea of "getting a job om studio"! Is this you only concept Success? You never considered that some of us don't need, nor want to be an employee of a studio? Your video should be entitled "how to be good enough to get a job on a studio" ... and you are so focus on getting a jobe thing that it goes to slow and no useful tips to really improve the skill up to 7min.... where i lost patience with your video!

[@TylerEdlin84]

@@EliasPauloDaSilva you made a lot of assumptions and probably not have watched any other videos here. Do you comment on all videos you watch with such ignorance and entitlement?

[@inquizitive1]

@@TylerEdlin84I think you owe this man a refund 😂

[@EliasPauloDaSilva]

@@TylerEdlin84 Dear guv, you can be as frustrated as you want, but it's not going to change the fact that your video has 17 minutes and it's entitled "Why Most Artists Stay Stuck" and half of it you spell more the half of it given tips “how to be good enough to get a job on studio”. Yeah, maybe it's me the stupid one who thought that could be learning something that match with the title… But If you had been there "drawing hard for the money, so hard for it honey, drawing hard for the money and not being treated, all right,” you would know that is not the dream that people see from outside and far to be the best thing that can ever happen to an artist, be there taking orders from people who know nothing and give a damn about art. yes, I've watched other of your videos, usually on speed 1.5 because it always goes so slow and you love to patronize the viewer, like we were all very stupid people who have never ever heard anything about digital art and we don't have Google.

[@EliasPauloDaSilva]

@@inquizitive1 yeahhh I know... everything worth what we pay for!! lol I ll be good on the refunding!