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If your goals for this year isn't anything like I want to work at Netflix,
I want to get 10,000 followers on Instagram
or I want to draw every single day this year,
hopefully none of you commented because those are pretty bad goals to make
for not only this year, but any year going forward.
Hey everyone, this is ergo, Josh and happy New Year.
Welcome to 2022 if I haven't told you already.
And in this video, we're going to talk about three art goals
that I want to steer you all away from because they are going to be very negative
to your growth this year.
So the first one is going to be setting any type of goals
that can only be determined by one random external party or person
or the algorithm itself of any type online.
These are bad goals to set because when someone else basically tells
you, you know, it's over and that's it, and you can easily feel like all of
your hard work has gone to nothing.
So this looks like making your goal.
I want to work at Netflix.
I want to work at 40 Studio Blizzard Riot Games.
I want to work at Disney, Pixar, whatever you name it.
Saying that you want to work at one specific high brow studio
is setting yourself up for failure because at the end of the day,
all it takes
is for your resume to just get lost or for someone to get brought in internally
before applications or even seen for your entire goal to just fail.
And then the algorithm side, you can be doing all the work.
You can be posting amazing work regularly.
All it takes is for them to change the algorithm on Instagram or YouTube
just one day and all of your working just go to waste.
So instead, the affirmative version of this is I want you guys to set
goals that are determinable by you and you alone.
What is this look like?
Let's say you're applying for jobs.
Well, this looks like making a portfolio, right, getting those pieces strong.
This looks like creating unique portfolios and tailoring them
to the different companies or firms that you want to work for.
This looks like going out to network in person and online with different firms.
Let's say you want to set a goal of five to ten different people
to represent five to different ten different companies you want to work for.
Those are all goals that are hard work that you put in for yourself
and can only make you better and can only push you closer
to your ultimate goal of probably just working in animation,
working in Triple-A games, working on high end movies.
Those are the things that your goal should be focused and serving towards,
not necessarily one specific firm or studio.
You might be able to work there one day.
You might actually get it right out the first bat,
but you want to focus on the things that are more fundamental to you.
And let's say you want to be more successful,
and the platform will focus on the things that you need to do.
Instagram post artwork network with people same thing on YouTube or a video
platform, post videos network with different creators
and network with the people that are actually part of your community.
Engage them more, create more engaging content
research, set goals that are related to all of those things.
They're going to help you know what to do this year,
and then you're going to feel successful.
You're going to feel fulfilled when you reach them because they're all
credit to you and not someone else, and nobody can take away your effort.
I realize this very early on when I was applying to scholarships
to try to get into college because I got fed up with putting in
so much effort for one person to decide not picking this person, right?
Some of you may think that's just childish, but I put in a lot of work
to those things, and I decided I was going to put in work where either
I was the person who decided how valuable it would be or so many
people would decide to wear.
It basically was either correct or wrong, and I didn't have to worry about it.
So in the case of YouTube, it looks like 600,000 of you deciding to subscribe
instead of just one person deciding that, Oh, OK, your videos are good.
I'm going to pay you money to make those videos.
I'll give you a job working here in education.
I didn't have to worry about that.
Millions of you have watched my videos.
Millions of you have decided that it's not worth subscribing.
Millions of you have decided it's not that great.
You're not watching these videos.
So I don't know who I'm talking to,
but hundreds of thousands of you have decided it is worthwhile.
And the effort I put in gets almost directly given back to me
because all of you are able to vote for your own,
you know, unique perspective, and it works out that way.
So if you can do something like that, I encourage you to look for ways
to put in work for the rest of 2020 to so that a massive amount of people
or only you can actually determine how valuable it's going to be.
So the second goal that I really want to caution
you all not to make is setting goals that are impossible to measure.
So this is basically saying that I want to be a master at anatomy
or I just want to get better at drawing or get better at color.
I have no idea how you measure becoming a master at something, and
I think a lot of people will agree with me in saying that it's simply impossible.
There's no master level people decided you're a master or not
after you die, right?
And just just get better at something is just too ambiguous to make a goal.
So what you should do instead is set specific things and actions
that you know, are going to be involved in that goal and create a number of them
or a certain amount of time that you're going to be doing these things
so that you can continue to.
Add to them as the year goes by. Right.
So this might look like, OK, you want to get better at painting,
you want to get better at color.
Make ten different colored
paintings, maybe a different colored painting every single month of the year.
Maybe you alternate between traditional and digital to really
build your skills in a very holistic manner
so that you can learn from different people.
Maybe you want to take several different courses
so that you can learn from different people
and then do your own work on the side.
Maybe you want to create
a certain amount of projects that you want to be able
to do again to maybe create a portfolio similar to the first goal.
These are measurable goals.
And another great tip is to make them measurable
by other people easily so that they can hold you accountable.
These type of things require a lot more thought and planning,
and this is the skill and is absolutely imperative
that all of you should start learning and growing.
That's going to help you for the rest of your life.
Now, the third type of goal is going to be setting goals that can be easily
destroyed by just one mistake and then the entire year is ruined.
So this basically looks like setting
every day type of goals saying that you're going to draw every single day
that you're going to draw for this amount of time, every single day
that you're going to draw something new every day, whatever it is, paint something
every day.
Create a new thing in 3-D every single day.
That is not a goal. Good goal to set.
Now the reason for that is life.
Life will humble you. Life will throw you curveballs this year.
It has, for me, do not set those type of goals because
they will make you feel worthless and your motivation will be ruined, right?
If you're trying to draw every single day to get better at anatomy, for example,
and something happens on March third, what are you going to do?
You still have the rest of the year, but now you feel terrible
because you're not going to be able to reach your goal anymore in March.
That's already been decided.
That's that's not right.
Your goal should be decided at the very end of the year,
not by something that happened in the middle of it .
Unless you reach your goal by then, that's great.
Those are always good.
So instead, I will train you again towards the concept of time and setting goals
that aren't really any more dense than just one week.
So let's say you want to draw 44 8:16, 40 hours a week.
Those are different numbers that will work for different people
that are flexible that you can work towards, right,
that you can build up towards, and maybe you can do even more
and that are going to build healthy, balanced lifestyles around the art goals
that you want to have and the jobs that you want to do later on in the year.
And even setting goals
that are determined at the end of the year can be risky sometimes.
But they're usually still good because just because you didn't really quite
hit it by the end of the year, let's say it's a monetary goal.
You want to make a certain money
from your prints, for example, or certain money from conventions.
Just because you don't hit that
certain number doesn't mean all the money you earned is gone, right?
So I encourage you to look at those type of goals that cannot be ruined
until you get to the very end and then you tally everything up.
Those are always good ones as well.
So I wanted to end this video by sharing some of my goals that I have
for the end of this year
in case they might resonate with you and give you some ideas.
So most of these are going to revolve around getting better at my brand
and getting that tighter and more clear invisible for you all, especially
with the more public facing side and the artistic side.
So on the artistic side, I want to create more finished work this year.
That's more identifiable basically to be able to create a portfolio
for myself that I might use to make my website better or ideally
to be able to sell at conventions and see some of you guys.
Another goal I have is just to travel more.
I want to see more of the friends that I have made last year
and to see men make more new friends this year in person and to see you guys.
So this is going to look like traveling to a few different states.
This is going to look like going to at least two conventions this year.
I have made that number with myself like it has to be at least two,
and that is going to be really, really, I think, extremely helpful for me.
I am fortunately able to not have to worry too much about the pandemic
as much as others, but I'm not going to let that stop me.
This is
something that is incredibly important to me, and I'm looking forward to it.
I'm excited for seeing you guys and meeting people
who are also super passionate about art this year.
I'm also working on my health, you know, in case you know, maybe
what is it called
up Optimus Prime, Arbitron, all Macron.
Whatever comes and gets me, I want to be prepared for it.
I am trying to not live a sedentary lifestyle anymore.
I am regularly doing cardio and I'm already seeing some really,
really great results.
So I am working on my physical health this year a lot.
So that is something that is very important to me.
Honestly, if any of you are out there, please do not go two to three years
without ever letting your heart rate go up unless you run up a flight of stairs.
It's not good.
I've done that.
I look fit is I look super fit, but my heart, I'm sure, just looks terrible.
And I recently found out it was pretty bad.
So now I'm in a much better place just by being able to run a little bit,
you know, get your hundred and 50 minutes in per week and you'll be able to bounce
back really quickly, but start slow because you don't want to.
Nearly puke in the shower like I did after my first run.
All right,
another thing I've learned is
I don't have to
approach everything in life like I approach my art, just take it easier,
you know, let some part of your life be chill.
And one of the last goals I have for this year
as part of my brand is to connect more with you all.
So stay tuned.
I think we're going to do a roast pretty soon here on the channel.
It's going to be anatomy focused, so keep that in mind.
I am probably going to I don't know where I'll announce it
if it's going to be only on Discord or on Discord and YouTube,
but it's going to be coming up pretty soon this month.
So keep an eye out for that.
But yeah, it's going to be focused on anatomy.
So make some make some drawings if you haven't already.
It's going to be is going to be a fun one because I've learned a thing or two.
And I think we need I think I need to come back and show, show
everybody how to really do a roast here on this platform because
I think
people have been going a little too easy on you guys and I think you guys need it.
All right, so that's going to be it for me.
Share your goals for this year.
Down in the comments.
I'd love to read them and I think everyone would benefit from seeing them.
And it feel like, you know, a team effort, you know, support each other
in the Discord link will be in the description
for my public discord and I will see you all in the next one piece.
Keep drawing and stay positive.