Hey everyone what's up?! This is Dea from DMPaints. Welcome back, and in this video, I
wanted to discuss a topic that I've been thinking about a lot lately and experiencing a lot in my
own art journey and that is self-doubt and lack of confidence. Doubting yourself consistently can be
so detrimental to the creation process, I mean i'm sure you've experienced as a creator that when you
overthink or doubt your abilities you spend so much more time worrying than just creating and
experimenting. But the real question is:why do we do it to ourselves? And i know it's not
just beginner artists that experience this feeling, I mean it's the human experience,
but how come specifically in the beginning do we lack so much confidence? Would you expect a baby
that's just learning to walk to not fall in the beginning stages or would you expect someone that
just graduated from teachers college to deliver amazing lessons? No you wouldn't, right? So why as
artists or why as creators or entrepreneurs do we put this immense pressure to create grand things,
amazing things, masterpieces without having a track record? Today we're going to talk a little
bit about skill set and I want to talk about consistency so let's backtrack a little bit and
talk about my our journey and my own experiences and why I've come to this realization that
consistency is just super key to your confidence. So if you've listened to my very first DM Paints
intro video, you'll know a little bit about my backstory how I've always kind of been into art
from pre-high school days, casually doodling always going back to art as a hobby or form of
boredom. But it's never been anything that i have decided to commit to until recently. Before i was
doing fluid art (which you can check out on my instagram page) I was really into digital art and
pulled in by fantasy art and animation i really tried to stick to the schedule of doing figure
drawings and faces and the different angles and you know all the foundational skills of art, but
I kept getting discouraged because i couldn't get it right on my first time and my practicing day
started to die down because nothing I made felt adequate for me. The truth is looking back i don't
really know what i was expecting with my lack of consistency. BUT ever since fluid art I could see
so much improvement in my work and that was simply because I was doing it daily. So i have more
confidence in my alcohol ink artworks for example because there's more consistency and there's more
skill behind it because i'm putting in that time right? But recently i've slowly started to return
to this desire that I guess never really went away, of wanting to learn to draw figures. And
i don't know if maybe I never had a strong enough pull or reason to want to be good at it before but
abstract art really gave me this way to express my emotions through colour and movement which i think
is super cool but because i feel so limited in my ability to draw I feel stuck and experience these
waves of doubt like "Will I ever be able to truly express what i want through my art if I can't fuse
these two styles?" blah blah. And of course it's different for everyone but in my personal journey
I know I can't fully communicate my message purely through abstract. So I'm sitting here like,
am I gonna let my lack of skills get in the way? Because that sounds super lame , right? So i'm
going back to square one, low foundational skills and drawing and I'm really having this desire to
put my thoughts on canvas (or digital canvas) so the only way I'm going to get to that goal
and truly love what I'm creating is by truly being consistent understand what my specific steps are
to get to the bigger goal and putting in that work each and every single day. DO not let the
self-doubt kick in. There's just no room in your brain for creativity and worry at the same time
and it's just so important to remember that. Reach out to people make that community you
can join facebook groups of people that are doing the same kind of art as you i know there's like
a ton of facebook groups and you can look up like the specific style of art you're doing.
Having a community of artists so helps on this journey because it can feel super lonely.
But remember the ultimate thing : consistency is that key to your confidence. YOU GOT THIS.
So picture that bigger goal and work towards it. Love you guys and I'll see you next week! Peace.
you