A Little Known Skill All Professional Artists Have

Hey guys, I'm Adam from Loosen Pixel and welcome back. Today's video is inspired by modern day James and if you're not familiar with his channel with his YouTube channel then you probably live a somewhat sheltered life, IMHO he's very big. The name on the platform interviews many great

artists

. I'll leave a link in the description below so you can check it out for yourself. An amazing channel that says the reason I mention it is because one of the most recent videos of it. kind of like an art talk very similar to what I'm doing now, I tapped on a topic that I notice is key for many of the more experienced

artists

, there are commonalities between them which is something I feel needs to be reinforced, so What if Anything considers today's art talk to be a reinforcement and extension of James' video, essentially, although I've heard this from many different sources in their own way, whether privately or on videos, and that's the point of speed and how the speed of art is very often a reflection. of modern influences and how to control that, how to manifest that to grow artistically and tempo and speed is something that not only

have

I experienced, it's misused in painting, in digital art and fantasy art and things like that, but in all arts.

I see this when playing musical instruments. I see I learned this at dance. It was a very important lesson for me in dance. I heard this when I was swing dancing or salsa dancing or stuff like that. Speed ​​was very often something ill-conceived. People very often misunderstand precision. execution, thoughtfulness and fullness of movement as speed because fluidity of movement, thoughtfulness and grounding is what makes movement feel sharper and more precise and can give off the illusion of being faster and with reference to dancing if I use the dance analogy, I remember. Before I started dancing salsa, I was still dancing swing and jive at that time and I remember one of the main dancers at a well-

known

dance school in Montreal called Swinging Air Force was called Baron and he talked about how one of the common ones of some of the Common habits that beginning dancers would

have

would be that they would dance, try to keep up with the music and make big movements and move very fast trying to keep up with the beat. the speed of the music and he said and said practically verbatim speed has nothing to do with how fast your limbs move, but rather how controlled those movements are and you move quickly towards something that I remember Bobby Chu mentioned in Probably Even I mentioned it in my art talks in the past where I talked about painting and the speed of painting and he said that speed has nothing to do with how fast your hand moves, but rather how much thought you put into each brush stroke and it happens. which um, just this week I was on a zoom call with bobby, we were talking about a bunch of different things and we were discussing his app, the magma studios app, which he is part of developing along with some developers from poland and we were playing together and yes, I know, I'm behind the curve, I'm a

little

bit behind the rest because I've been a

little

busy and I haven't been up to date with the trends, but he was introducing me. to magma studios for the first time and when he showed it to me my eyes lit up like christmas trees.

Now I'm not going to fully immerse myself in the experience because I'm actually planning a video for this coming soon, a full video, um. I'm really excited about that, but we were painting together, we were drawing together using this online app and it allowed us one of the things he mentioned when we were drawing together is that drawing in real time and sharing a canvas with another artist doesn't just give you the opportunity to teach live and on the same artwork and demonstrate on top of someone else's work in the act of drawing, but it also allows you to address things that are often more difficult to address from perspective. from a teacher that both bobby and I are and that is tempo the speed at which you draw the line slower think more it's not about drawing fast it's about precision one of the analogies that I use very often with my students regarding a like Very early in the first few weeks of my tutoring, I talk about drawing techniques and things like that and I reference a documentary on motion capture, where there was this British documentary where it talked about motion capture that could track eye movement. in three-dimensional space over time and demonstrate it to prove this.

One of the tests that they did with this motion capture was to connect to one and connect a um, a well-

known

famous life drawing professor, to another and they did that. an hour drawing session with a live model and in the end he being an amateur ended up producing garbage and she ended up producing a masterpiece and one of the comments he made was one of the curiosities he had was that he said obviously every The only one difference between her and me was the fact that it was something that was happening in her mind, it was a thought process because we had the same materials, at the same time, the same model, so the difference between us and our drawing, how we executed Our drawings had a lot to do with what was going on in our heads and when you look at the images, the difference between him and her immediately becomes evident.

What you could see she was doing was trying to beat the clock she was trying to do at a time when she was master of her time and her space. He knew that she didn't need to wave her hands at full speed to reach the goal. For her, it was about the precision of what she accomplished. She knew she had all the time in the world, there was no rush, and as such, it strengthened her ability to visualize, slowed her down, gave her the opportunity to think before each move, and in the end, well, the end justified it. the media.

They finished their drawing in an hour, but hers was done masterfully and his was not masterfully done, of course, that didn't affect his ego because the point of the exercise was to compare himself as a non-artist with a

professional

, now put this. In the context of drawing, you put this in the context of what James, the modern James, what he was talking about and what I've seen Bobby Chu talk about and very much what's hidden in the philosophy of my artistic conversations and the type. of the art that I produce or if you watch Anthony Jones draw or pay attention to how Clint clearly produces something, watch Tyler Edlund draw and suddenly you start to notice that if you really open your mind to it, you suddenly notice that nothing is being rushed.

I mean Anthony Jones, a perfect example, someone famous who is like the grandfather of efficient execution of art, who can make a beautiful design in 15 to 20 minutes, if you see him draw, he is in no hurry at all and that is one . one of the main reasons why he has that unique talent of being able to design something and have a complete and thoughtful dialogue at the same time because he doesn't rush his brain and his words at the same time, he takes his time with both, he owns his time. he owns his space, if you incorporate that into the philosophy of what you're hearing me do right now, my art talks, if you look back a couple of years ago, to my art talks, let's say three, four years ago , you'll notice that I was more concerned with the entertainment value of my content, where I was, how I was, how I was, the lighting, all that kind of stuff.

I was really focused on a lot of these different facets of my video production because I hadn't logged in yet. my artist self, my YouTuber self, my video producer self and at the beginning of 2019 I had an epiphany and realized that that same philosophy that helped me become the artist I intended to be was not something I was applying to the Philosophy of producing. videos for artists, which is exactly what this is my video that I'm producing now is a video by an artist for an artist and I realized that the YouTube algorithm realized that you know the analytics on audience retention. and all that garbage was completely and utterly irrelevant.

I never paid much attention to it in the first place, but at that moment I made a very definite point to abandon expectations of any external force and speak directly from me to you from a person. artist to another and I realized that for me the most effective way to uphold this philosophy of taking and owning your own space artistically was to create an environment that was conducive to that type of behavior if I wanted to create a video that was conducive to that kind of artistic creation, so I needed to speak and communicate and create a mood and atmosphere that reflected that now, of course, if I were to make a painting that reflected that.

Then the video would end up being 16 hours long because it takes me a long time to paint, but that's how I do it in time lapses, but I produce these videos knowing and with the expectation that you don't spend the whole time looking at the screen. you are much more likely and would do it. I'm even happier knowing that my videos didn't inspire you to look at my art, but instead inspired you to create your own. This is for the same reason I have spoken so often. about the type of youtubers the type of content I like to listen to when I'm producing videos like vata video for example, it's calming, it's reflective, it's moody, it's inspiring, it's textured with words that inspire my imagination and take me to the adequate mental space for artists.

What I love to see and that gets me into the right headspace are artists like Darken, who by the way hasn't posted any content in a while. You're probably busy, as you might be as an artist. I miss his videos, um, but his pace was slow. It was repaired I would go over a painting I would fix it I would erase something I would redraw it He beautifully demonstrated how to paint and create fantasy art It is not a flawless and convenient execution It is like a sculptor It is moving It is pushing It is pulling It is extruding It is cutting from its deformation until eventually takes the form that you are looking for and you can hear in his voice in his dialogue and you can see in his brushstroke how he is an absolute, he has completely owned his space in the sense that he has no obligation to meet a deadline, this is his moment and its creation, you must also realize the same and the reason why I felt compelled to reinforce and reinforce James' message and, by the way, if not directly, then indirectly, Bobby Choo's message, the message from Anthony Jones and the message from Clint Kearley. and the message from the cynics, all these messages from different artists to slow down is because without knowing your own speed without recognizing your own tempo without owning your own space you become a punching bag for everyone else's suggestions , whether or not other people are intentional to infringe on your space to push you in a certain direction or not because of the pace of social media because of the amount of content you can see other people posting, you lose a sense of yourself and nothing is more harmful, nothing is more dangerous from artistic creation to creative expression than not owning your own space, especially today in the age of kovid, where we are for those of us who long to have friends and go out and be sociable and you feel locked in your own spaces trying to stay busy trying to stay productive feeling like you're not wasting your life, especially for those of you who may still be studying and who may be taking a break from school and have absolutely nothing to do with its time one of the things that might have disconcerted you is that your rhythm has been altered, hasn't it?

You were used to getting up and going out with your friends and hanging out and going to school and playing pranks with your friends at school. or go out with your friends and do silly things and go out and find ways to find inspiration and now you're locked in your space, you've gone off your pace, you've gone off your speed for those of us who are already loners and Introverts, it's a blessing. I know a lot of people who have it and who are actually probably happier in this Covid era because it's actively discouraging distraction from outside forces, but for many of us it's slowing us down at a pace we're not used to and that can be difficult. , it can be depressing, it can be discouraging, but I would like to encourage you to do it, especially now that we are forced to take this position, quite possibly against our will. as an opportunity to, instead of longing and waiting for the pace to pick up again, use it as an opportunity to slow down your mind and expose yourself to artists, musicians, and any kind of creators, or speakers, or philosophers, or any of those. people who slow your heart rate, who allow you to concentrate, who allow you to visualize a couple of wonderful suggestions, although you may not speak a word of Polish, I don't, although I have a Polish family, but I've already mentioned it.

This in the past seeing behind the scenes of the creation of Jesús Bexinsky's diary. I'm going to link it too in the description below where he just uses a camcorder and records himself painting videos and you can see how sometimes he'll paint for five minutes, sometimes he'll paint all day, asometimes he will have two or three canvases at the same time, sometimes only one, sometimes because it is communist Poland that he had in communist Poland and he had to go get food stamps. and he would have arguments with his wife about you know how much light he had in the studio and all these different kinds of little quirks that a lot of people might take for granted and what is he, he's not speeding up, he just turns the camera on, he videotapes himself, There is a bit of dialogue. a little bit of his life and it brings you I love watching it even though I have no idea what he's saying if it weren't for the subtitles just having it playing in the background it's influenced by bexinsky's tempo it's influenced by his energy it's influenced for their freedom of expression.

I don't think there could be a more positive influence on an artist, take your time. He not only does that, but the other thing that Bikshinsky did that I'll add to this as a kind of The advantage is sometimes particularly when you're working on your own unique work, sometimes we get too encouraged or too influenced by the desire to to do something literal, the desire to do something that is based on a known reality and one of the things again, something I talked about with a student of mine very recently. Something that I have seen and witnessed quite often in his work as someone who follows these things quite a bit is that he did not title his work, he did not.

No one likes him, eh, he didn't like to force an interpretation on anyone. He painted feeling that he was an expressionist and in that sense, when he simply painted feeling that he painted the mood, he was capturing something through what came to him and there is something very liberating about that. about removing a definition from your artwork, you don't have to define yourself all the time and it's quite funny what ended up in a sense helping me define my own artistic style and my own artistic creations is not in executing the literal but in allowing myself to not be literal just creating just allowing myself to sit observe what I do objectively in terms of color and value and texture and mood and atmosphere and all these different things expressing myself abstractly allows me to distance myself from literal interpretations of form and space and perspective and it allows me to be truly emotionally creative and expressive now, of course, the technicality has to be there first, you have to have those fundamentals, but you have to be able to let it go and in this bubble you end up start to create for yourself this emotional bubble where you can pace yourself. where you can control your content where you can control how literal or non-literal your art can be you begin to understand the importance of being yourself you begin to understand realize that in your purest form as an artist there is a lot of value in that and you begin to truly discover yourself yourself, it's not until artists let go of this influence that we very often end up discovering ourselves artistically, something you know if you've done it.

I listened to any of my videos in the past. I am a great defender. I'm going to add one last important ingredient to all of this and this is something I teach my students. It's a kind of philosophy that I teach my students. when it comes to color and expressing yourself through color, at least the more romantic side of color, not the more practical side of teaching, and it's a quote, I quote Marco Bucci, where in one of his videos he said no there is no form of self. -purer expression than with color, which is a very important quote that not only relates to color but relates to art in general in the sense that you literally can't hear yourself, you can't hear yourself same when you speak.

Believe it or not, the reason is that your brain, the part of your brain that formulates speech, is the same part of your brain that you need to use to listen and you cannot use that same part of your brain simultaneously for both tasks. When you're talking, if you're actually saying something, you can't hear yourself at the same time because you're too busy conceptualizing words, phrases and thoughts, it's only if you play back if you're listening to a recording. of yourself that you can really listen to yourself and hear yourself, but there is something else that you have spent every moment of your life from when you were born until now and for the rest of your life without you, so everything that makes up who you are . they are what you see what you smell what you taste what you hear what you think what you feel how you express how you sound all those things are what each individual considers as their default state you are the epitome of neutral for you you are your reference point for the rest of humanity and the reason it's important to highlight that is because it's so easy to take your own unique rhythm and form of self-expression for granted because, by definition, it's you.

You are conditioned by nature not to react to yourself because your senses are always one step ahead of your emotional reaction, your mental digestion of your experiences is a default state, so when I hear myself speak, if I listen to a video of myself, I sound completely unremarkable I don't even hear myself in that sense I don't recognize my own voice because for me it's like it's a neutral color I don't notice it but to you it may sound more interesting than it seems that way to me because I don't speak like you and because The thoughts I have were not preconceived by you, so that information comes to you as unique, different, interesting and unexpected, which is why other people do.

It may seem more interesting than what you do because it is unique and we like unique things, we were created particularly as artists, we are always very sensitive people to the evolution of growth and when we listen to ourselves, we are not evolving. We simply live in the same soup that we have lived in our entire lives, so we tend to take each other for granted and what I encourage you to do in light of everything I have shared with you today is to understand and reinterpret who you are and what you are. your expression because, from that point of view, it's very easy for you to consider yourself ordinary and think that your unique way of expression is not as interesting as someone else's and one of the things that I had to learn as a YouTuber and as someone who produces a lot of stuff for you for a public audience I shouldn't assume that things I think are very uninteresting about me could be valuable to someone else, so I'm literally dating. of my own ego to be able to say that no one else could benefit from these thoughts from these experiences, so even if you think they don't mean anything, if you think they're yesterday's news, they might not be news to someone else. someone can benefit from it so don't take it for granted, share it even if you don't think it will be life changing when I need to learn new things and I need to explore new things when I feel the need to do so. expand I don't listen to my videos I listen to everyone else's videos I listen to James' videos I listen to Bobby's videos I listened to Tyler's videos I listened to Istabrax's videos I listened to Loish's videos those are the people who touched me those are the people who opened me up eyes to new concepts.

I can honestly say that some of the deepest and most meaningful things that I have learned and that I teach in my tutoring are things that I learned from artists like Carla Ortiz, she was watching her schooling workshop. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Seeing her workshop along with many other great artists in the schooling workshop was fundamental in my life. She helped me unlock parts of my art that she didn't even know about. were locked in the first place, she solved mysteries that I didn't even ask her to solve in a two-hour presentation.

I can't emphasize this enough and I've said it a million times on my channel before when covid lifts and schooling starts to do so. live workshops around the world I don't care if you need to beg, steal or borrow money to go and see them because I have attended two in my life and they were both absolutely transformative experiences and if you ever get the chance to see them carl ortiz live, run , don't walk, she is revolutionary as an artist for me, she opened my eyes to things that I never thought I didn't even realize were things I needed to know.

All of these artists have the same thing in common. They own her space. They know themselves, they are very connected to who they are, what works for them and what doesn't, and it is a gift that you must cultivate, it is a gift, it is a talent that you must train, that you must foster, because it is very easy in the present. society must be influenced away from yourself and they are artists like that I want you to pay attention to those qualities because it is equality that you may not even know they possess pay attention keep your eyes open to that because it is going to be a revolution, it will revolutionize you and, in Ultimately it is what it is I'm going to take you to find your true voice okay and with that being said as always I love you all with all my heart and happy painting take care of yourselves do it.