Everyone, this is ergo, Josh, and today I just wanted to share
a little thought I had on my mind for a few weeks now
while you guys just watch this simple time lapse painting I did recently.
So there's a way of thinking that separates
the people who stay in the same place versus grow really quickly.
And this can apply to just a few years of art school or art
classes in public school all the way to your entire career.
It's basically the concept of reverse engineering, right
where you look at your goal
and then you try to figure out the steps necessary to get there on your own.
But it's a little bit bigger and more important than that, really.
What people who advance significantly in anything in life
are able to do is that they constantly evaluate themselves
and they have a really good skill, a really good sense of critical thinking.
So instead of relying on other people to give you an idea of what direction
to take for every single step of the way you spend most of your time
asking yourself what you want, what you need, what your goal is,
what you need to get there, exactly who you might need
to get it from and where you might need to go.
Look to get it if you don't even know what you need.
I see in the art community, everyone is really always asking
what is the best way to learn this or practice this?
What's the best practice to get better at like perspective or anatomy or something?
And a lot of times I hear myself and other artists
get frustrated because there is no best one.
You have to do all of them at some point, and you have to constantly be evaluating
which one is helping you the best with what you need right now.
And if it's not working, why is it not working?
What could be better?
Who could I ask?
And what could I ask them?
That could help me get the answer that I personally need and not a generic one.
This is really important because guess who has the absolute
most power to influence your growth in art?
It's going to be you.
I mean, think about it.
Who cares the most about your career?
Who cares the most about whatever you're doing?
It's going to be you.
Your friends and family kind of care a little bit,
but they really care about what they're doing, what they've got going on.
And that's pretty much how everyone lives life.
The only person who cares the most
about what you're going to do and who you're going to be is you.
This is why it is really dangerous.
And unfortunately, it's really popular to be overly negative and critical
about yourself with whatever you're doing, regardless of if it's art or not,
because you can very, very easily, slowly
get into a very deep level of subconscious sabotage.
And let me be clear, it's really not even close how significant
your ability to help yourself grow in anything you want is.
Anyone else's influence is very, very little.
It's still significant.
But I want to be clear that again, it doesn't matter because
the second most important person?
Let me see if you can guess who it would be.
It's not going to be the best artist in the world.
It's not your favorite artist.
It's actually going to be your closest loved ones,
the people who matter most to you.
And this tends to be the people you love and respect the most,
and it's probably going to end up being your parents.
And then third is, again, people who are not really directly
related to you in terms of family who you love and respect the most.
And sometimes this is where other artists, their friends, special people come in.
Yeah, I want to be honest here.
A lot of people don't actually
get the support of their parents or their friends and family.
A lot of people get put down and this sucks because it is real.
These people can sometimes take you out of the slump you're in.
These people can push you through something where
you're not even trusting yourself and you're doubting yourself.
But the good side to all of this is that again, because your ability
to help yourself is so much more powerful, it allows a lot of people to rise up
beyond what their friends or family or even parents might have said.
That's a negative and still achieve their dreams and do it incredibly well.
And I also want to be clear that I'm not saying guidance is something
to be ashamed of, like, Oh, you got to figure it out all on your own.
Or else you're never going to make it?
No, absolutely not.
What I am saying, though, is that you should be quick to realize
that when you do need guidance, because that is exactly a result.
And one of the questions I asked in the beginning
that you should be thinking of when you're having these critical thoughts.
Maybe I don't know what I need to get here.
Maybe I should ask someone, maybe you know what, with how I am, how
I think I need someone to just show me the ropes and hold my hand
and just give me a curriculum for a little bit.
And those people go to art school or they go to get a course
or they go get a mentorship.
Whatever they decide is best for them, they go get it and then they don't really
wait in between there.
And that is an excellent decision and something that if you can do rapid.
And decide on quickly, you can grow really, really fast.
And again, this is why guidance is really, really powerful
and people pay a lot for it, right?
It's really something I've realized is people aren't really paying
for the specific information in art school these days.
It's really just the guidance and the structure.
The information is out there.
It's it's 2022.
There's everything is out here already.
In the few short years that people have been sharing artwork online,
all the art information is out here and all that's left is really,
how do you, you know, find all the pieces that you need for your particular journey
so that you can start to work and create the things you want to make?
So that's it.
That's all I wanted to share for this video for this week.
I hope it touches you in some way.
I hope it encourages you or helps give you some guidance.
And I'll just leave the rest of the
painting here for you to watch with some, some music, some nice tunes.
And let me know what you think
in the comments and I will see you all in the next one piece.
Also, look out for a few weeks from now.
I'm going to be releasing some
pretty cool stuff here on the channel, updating you guys on some stuff.
You might have heard a little bit about it on my Instagram page.
You should follow me on Instagram
if you're not already checking out my stories there.
And I also posted this painting at the time of uploading this video.
So if you want to give me like over there as well as on this video,
that would be a great help.
And yeah, bye. Enjoy the video.