The drawing advice that changed my life

"Thinking about stuff is not doing stuff" hit me like a brick

I feel really called out by this advice

“Using thinking as procrastination” is EXACTLY what I do. This is a great video, thank you for all your content! Inspiring.

"Motivation doesn't lead to action, action leads to motivation" - Mind BLOWN 🤯

There was this quote I once saw that fits here really well: "If you commit to nothing, you will be distracted by everything."

"Action comes before motivation" - I need to glue this to my freakin wall.

As a creative person who suffers from too many hobbies, this hit home really, really hard. Thanks for sharing!

"Act, THEN get inspired" holy shit I think THIS is my life changing advice. Most of my writing comes from a place of inspiration, which I tend to get often, but with ADHD, I never worked on the same thing. My one drawing a day is going to be a cat, I think. I'm gonna draw my cat, Bebop, every day for a year. I will try to update this comment every week or so :)

“I am not afraid of a person who has practiced 10000 kicks, but I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.” - Bruce Lee

So basically "I can do anything, but I can't do everything. And that's okay"

I'm on drawing day 359 thanks to your advice. Just checking back to let you know I just moved into my very own studio space. Your advice has changed everything for me. Thank you. Sending LOTS OF LOVE!

Oh my gosh, this is spot on!!! I used to have an art room (spare room of house) and I had every art supply known to man…but I would go in there and sit at my desk and literally be paralyzed!! I did not know what I wanted to do!! One thing I knew I was good at and that was hoarding art supplies 🤦🏼‍♀️

When you came here for lil drawing advice and heck now it feels like Ive figured everything in my life.

"don't half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing" -Ron Swanson, Parks and recreation

I am learning music production, vocal engineering, programming, drawing and animation at the same time. When he talked about laying bricks and expecting a mansion.. IT HIT ME HARD

As someone who just started drawing from scratch with 30, the thinking is not doing part is really what I caught myself doing a lot (and am doing even now). I have spend the last 5 days looking up the best way to learn drawing, what to focus on, I have watched 70 tutorials on youtube about what to start first and how to progress from there. But do you know what I haven't done for these past 5 days? DRAW.

“Thinking is a form of procrastination...” that’s a sentence I needed to hear👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Every now and then YouTube recommends a real gem to me.

4 years after you posted this and I stumble across it in the middle of a deep life altering depression and it resonated like nothing on You tube has before. Needless to say i did subscribe because of it.

As a guy who has worked towards becoming an established artist for over 30 years now, this situation is basically the very epitome of my own personal struggle. A jack of all trades but a master of none. I can't believe I used to actually take pride in being able to say that to people when referring to my varied skill sets and many mediums I worked in. The problem was I was truly just mediocre at all of these things and never truly efficient or really good at any of them. I painted, I sculpted, I did leather work, artistic metal fabrication, wood work, pottery and the list goes on. And out of all these crafts, I was equally horrible at each and every one. It wasn't until I reined myself in, and really narrowed my focus that I began to truly improve myself as an artist. Still have a long way to go. Thank you for this insightful video.