Are You Scared Of Sharing Art Online

Hey guys, I'm Adam Fusa Pixel and welcome back. Something I've discussed at length on my channel more than once is this big, scary

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world of social media making a name for yourself, gaining popularity, etc., and all the good, the bad, and the ugly. That goes with it both professionally and psychologically, for most of us we want to learn more or at least come to understand social media and

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popularity because we're trying to earn it, we're trying to get more of it. we want to be more popular, receive more praise, attract more employment, etc., and that is something we have to understand and it is something we have to mentally understand because if we don't, we won't be able to make the best of it and we won't let it consume us. because it's something that can happen very easily and you can check out my video library.

I'm sure there are many who will cover multiple topics on the topic. For most of us we are trying to gain popularity For most of us we want to make a name for ourselves, but what if that's the problem? What if every time you get praised every time the opportunity for some kind of online growth presents itself more? You gain traction publicly the more you start to feel like you are losing traction personally and creatively, this is a bigger problem than you might think and when it comes to making a name for yourself artistically you need to keep in mind that we, artists in particular, often we can be very introverted, we spend 95% of our time in our little bubbles listening to youtubers and we just stay in our little bubble and do our thing and as long as we're in our little private world, we can be ourselves.

We can express ourselves in the way that is most comfortable for us, without fear of being judged, without fear of public ridicule. This is a much bigger problem than you think and it's something I think almost all artists are facing. have to face if we ever want to win and make a name for ourselves online and artists in particular nowadays we have a little bit of extra pressure we have there is a little more pressure that we have to deal with and we have to come face to face certain realities as professionals , but I don't think artists have had to deal with so many things in the past, but not to this point.

The reason I'm having this conversation with you today, this is a very important conversation, is because I started with a new student this week, of course, I'll keep it totally private, but we just met for the first time and we got along. very good, we both have a background in animation, she is a very skilled artist and you could see from the beginning that she knows what she is doing, she really is a very solid artist and she was the one who brought this topic up, she was the one who told me that One of the things that really scares her and really throws her off balance is when she starts to get nervous when people start to notice her and people start praising her and you could tell she didn't say it herself, but by looking at her things you could tell. saying that people would gravitate towards her work very easily as if she gained a lot of popularity very quickly for the type of things she produces, particularly since she is not only good at the art but also has a great diversity of skills, but regardless every time he felt that people would start to like him. things and she started to recognize things about her, she started to get

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or started to feel like she was losing her balance, she would lose her balance and concentration, it would start to stunt her ability to create and one of the reasons why she approached me. first of all it was because this is something that I needed to understand, I needed to be able to navigate around this and this is an important topic and from my experience and what I've seen, there are many different reasons why you might feel this way, but with slight variations, so I want to share with you some experiences that I have had both in my own life and with other people and tried to help you mentally and emotionally to overcome this obstacle and understand it. what is it and why what could be causing your fear of coming out your fear of being known artistically the first scenario is personal when I was young one of the things I really loved and had a bit of an affinity for was music and it wasn't long before I started to develop this real interest in playing the piano when I was in grade 1, grade 2 and I ended up taking piano lessons and at first, for the first time, I did extremely well, my teacher said of piano.

You know you definitely have a lot of potential and I ended up going to more advanced lessons and things like that a little bit ahead of my age and I always found that Dandy did a couple of piano recitals and practiced every day until he was a little bit older and my mother had gone back to school to get her degree in computer science and my grandmother took care of us during certain days of the week and every day she practiced a little and one day my grandmother decided she was getting too into my business, which she did all the time, and Adam told me, if you want to grow artistically, if you want to be good at the piano, you have to practice, practice, practice every day, practice morning, afternoon and night. you go to school and then you come home, you have dinner and then you practice, practice, practice and then you wake up and practice, and she pushed me so hard to grow and perform that it took her very little time to start feeling it. like I was completely losing control, it stopped being mine, it started to become this obligation, this obligation that completely eclipsed my already existing passion.

He was already someone who practiced quite obsessively. When I love something, I dedicate myself fully to it, but at the moment she started. forcing myself to do it, the moment had started to become an obligation, I lost possession of it and after a year I stopped my piano lessons because she wouldn't budge, she wouldn't leave me alone about it, so I just stopped. I stopped liking him the same. What I liked the most was sports when I was young. I loved playing soccer and hockey. I was always very athletic as a kid until I discovered art, but I did very well.

You know, I had a lot of fun. I did really well with my soccer and hockey teams that played intercity, all that kind of stuff that kids do and my teammates really appreciated my contributions to the team, trying not to sound like I'm bragging here, but all that kind of stuff. until it again became this obligation. Going to practice four days a week was, you know, I have, you have to train, you have to train, you have to train every day, every day, every day and I started to lose ownership of it, however, to Despite all these side hobbies I had, I had a passion and I ended up quitting for one reason or another.

There was one thing in my life. An element in my life that no one bothered me about. They just let me do it and then left me alone, probably because they thought I would never do it. making a living doing this in the first place, it wasn't a serious endeavor and that was art, no one forced me to draw, no one forced me to paint, they just let me do it, it was my little thing and I did it on my own time and there's no need say well Here I am tutoring art with an art YouTube channel with over 20 years of art experience in games and movies and all that kind of fun stuff, what this taught me as an artist and what it teaches me.

As a teacher and also as a parent of artists, if someone has a passion for something, leave it alone and when it comes to my own passion, when it comes to my own drive, unless I seek help, guidance or seek a Push from someone else Leave me alone I need to feel like I own my passion and this is something I had to fight for I had to fight for this because if you don't stand up for the things that matter to you if too many people try to come and try to take ownership of your dedication forcing you to do it or making you feel obligated to do it or trying to take it away from you and telling you that it will never be worth it, you have to do it. fight for it you have to fight for the things that matter to you think about how many artists there are singers musicians artists dancers who had families or friends who put too much pressure on them or tried to discourage them from doing it in the first place and when something really matters to you, you have to stand up for it with your life because if the only thing in the world you never want to lose is your passion in your drive to do the things you love to do and you have to own that space and you have to own that energy and you have to own that drive , even well-intentioned people when they start to pressure you you need to do it this way you have to do it that way you have to compassionately remind them if you can gently if you can, this belongs to me, if you want to see me grow and succeed, I have to be able to forge this path myself, however this doesn't apply to everyone, some people really thrive in situations where someone kicks their butt. some people need me to not kick my ass, always get out of the boat, not further into the boat, so you have to recognize yourself and recognize what is keeping you moving forward in your art and if you are already doing it well. on your own, then my opinion is that you should probably continue doing it on your own.

Another very important factor that can come between you and your desire to make a name for yourself online or your desire to get attention for your work is your ego and what I mean by ego I don't mean your vanity, I mean your sense of self and how your sense of self and your self-awareness can be very distracting and very damaging to how you present yourself publicly and how you react and respond. to praise and attention from the public, good or bad, and this is what I feel is unique to us artists today, but it is something that I did not learn or realize in painting or at least I did not do this association at the beginning.

I realized something and learned something very important in dance, which is generally more of a performance where you have a live audience in front of you, where you rehearse and practice for months to perform a choreography in front of a live audience and do it. The first thing you notice when you're when you start performing is how terrifying it is to hear the DJ downstairs announcing your partner or your group or your company or whatever and calling you on stage and everyone is dressed up and made up and ready to go on stage and doing your performance and months of practice come down to this moment where you walk out on stage in front of these lights in front of a group of strangers who are waiting for you to entertain them and you assign yourself this monumental task of making them enjoy your performance.

It's very stressful and if you ever get a chance to see behind the scenes, the artists backstage prepare for the performance and the nerves and the anxiety and the nausea and the fainting and the fights and all this excitement that happens behind the scenes before you get on that stage, especially for people who are new to this, it's palpable and it's almost comical how emotional things get, but then you get on that stage at any performance and the first few times you do it at least that. It was like that for me and it's like that for most of the people I performed with.

You're going to ruin something. You're going to mess up somewhere. You're going to trip. You're going to forget your steps. You're going to lose focus. You're going to do something terrible. You can fall on your face. They are. There's a lot of physical things going on and you're going to be devastated you may or may not completely lock yourself in and have no idea what to do next and completely lose your place and feel like a complete idiot or you could take a couple of seconds to get your bearings, finish the show, smile and take a bow and then walk off stage and then just cry for half an hour about what you are and a complete idiot you made of yourself. because it took you six months to prepare a choreography of three and a half minutes or less and you fell on your ass despite all that practice and you feel complete, you feel like an idiot, you are laudably humiliated and then a couple of days later you get the DVD or whatever the recording is and you put it on your computer and you watch the video of this enormous humiliation that is going to destroy your life and destroy your reputation and you watch the video and you look at that moment where you made a mistake and you see yourself objectively. you see or see that actually for the first time in your life you see yourself being a public performer from the perspective of an audience member and nine times out of ten it wasn't that bad the actual mistake wasn't even noticed because it didn't Don't forget the majority of your audience unless they were in the group with you or unless they are your teacher and you don't know the choreography so people might notice that you stumbled but they don't really care but in your head it was monumental in your head your pants fell to your ankles and you fell with your ass in the air and you acted like a complete idiot in front of 500 people, but to an audience member it's no big deal, but you know what people If you react to the expression of your Face, a mistake is amplified a hundred times when you show it on your face and the reason you show it on your face is because you were humiliated.

If you fall on your ass, no one will. I care, but people will care how absolutely devastated you look on your face, they are reacting to your emotion, people look at the human face to see how people feel and if it doesn't show on your face, no one will care. It matters, let's move forward five sixyears. and he had done multiple performances at that time. What was the main difference? Why was I able to walk on stage five years later and feel completely at home? Feeling completely comfortable and acting in a way that I felt really connected with people compared to when I started well five years later. when I go on that stage I don't give a damn what people think of me it's not about me anymore, it's about the performance my performance was me taking my feelings and

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them with my audience I had to let go of my ego to perform and when you let go of your ego, whether you're a singer, dancer or actor, whatever the case may be, when you let go of your ego and focus on your performance, you focus on the emotion, you focus on the story. and that's what you're conveying to your audience on a one to one level, it doesn't matter if you fall, you'll just get up and keep dancing and the reason no one will care is because it won't show on your face, you'll get back up.

Get up and you will continue telling your story as if nothing had happened. There is a very good example of this. You can go online to YouTube and there is a video of Lady Gaga if I haven't seen her in this video, she is stepping off a grand piano onto the piano stool and as she does so the piano stool flips over and she rolls onto it. back with his ass in the air under the piano with the microphone on. Her hand was still singing, did she stand up, cry and apologize with a red face? No, in fact, if you closed your eyes and watched the video and didn't see the actual video, you would barely know she fell, just her.

Her voice did not falter, she got back up and continued singing without any sign of humiliation on her face and as such it did not become a devastating moment in her life, she fell, got up, continued singing. and when you see someone. That's how you handle a moment like that and when you connect that to who she is as a person in real life, she's probably one of the most selfless people I've ever met in my life. She is warm. she is kind when she sings, she is completely involved in her performance, whether it is love, hate, jealousy or whatever message she shares with her audience, she is completely genuine and completely, she is completely dedicated and involved in what she does and when she sings there is no nothing. she is just the song, she is just the music, she is just the feeling and you feel it as a result of that, you notice that it is that lack of egocentrism, the lack of awareness that there is a camera watching her when she acts, her whole face and body become places.

In that you can't help but be moved by what she does, it makes no difference if there are millions of people watching her or if there is one person watching her, the performance is within her soul and that is how she presents it. I'm going to take the exact same message, I'm going to take the exact same feeling and I'm going to realize that when you present your artwork to the public, the reason you might be losing ownership of that feeling is because you get out of yourself and start to in Actually, putting on an artist's hat when you're in your own little bubble in your own little head, you can be private, you can feel the feelings you want to feel and use that time in space the way you want, but the moment you You present it to someone else, now you're trying to share those feelings, share those experiences, share those images with someone else and when you share it with someone else, there's a vulnerability.

Are they going to feel what I want them to feel? Judge my artwork if it looks good enough it is technically good enough how did I draw my hands well enough? what about the colors? what about the composition? what about the expression? There are so many things that you are aware of and because you are aware of the reaction and not aware of what you are giving, the actual act of generosity, which is the art, you are vulnerable to judgment, you were vulnerable to the humiliation of not being recognized, not having a piece of art that looks the way you want, in fact.

One of the most devastating things American artists can deal with, at least if that's where your head is at, is not lost on many of us. We want people. We want a lot of people to hit the like button. We want a lot of people to write comments. and say how much they love your stuff, we want a lot of people to share your stuff and make a name for themselves and invite you to do interviews and all that kind of interesting stuff for other people. It's the polar opposite because we are creators and being creators means that for many of us, not all of us, we are not just presenting a drawing, we are presenting an emotional side of ourselves, we are presenting it to others and we share it with other people of all backgrounds. skills and when we do it, if it's not received in the right way or if it's received at all, we are throwing ourselves at the Lions in a sense and it feels like that, so my advice to you is that when you share yourself online when you are producing works of art for the purpose of presentation. for people be ready and willing to make mistakes be ready and willing to be a vulnerable human and present works of art to people and present a side of yourself that is imperfect is in your desire to be a perfect artist be a perfect presenter have perfect Colors have a perfect technicality that makes you vulnerable, but when you can make your vulnerability, when you can make your lack of technical superiority part of your artistic process, when you share that vulnerability with other people, you are actually making friends because you do. what are you doing.

What you're doing is making connections through your artwork on a very authentic, very human level that you possess and that makes sense to you rather than trying to one-up them. It's no longer about you being better, it's about being like them and the commonalities. What do you have with them? Think about these art talks that I share with you every week. In them, I am trying to share with you that I am better than you, that I am smarter than you, that I know more than you. I am not doing the opposite. I let you know that I am as pathetic as you.

You're fine, Zak. I'm such a loser. I have as little confidence as you. Three out of four draws or complete failures. Me and I work with what I have and I even had to share publicly that I needed the guide. I needed the example of other artists that I admire, who had that integrity and that strength to say that I had to paint these five. moments like going dark or borrowing Dante, right? I had to see them. I had to see his trial and error approach to his artwork to give myself emotional permission to say that's great Adam, no not every painting you show to the public has to be a masterpiece sometimes it will be fantastic and mind blowing and revolutionary and sometimes Sometimes they will be men and that's okay to show people that they can do it too because if you don't you're trying to present yourself in an unrealistic way and I'm like you and that's the wavelength I want to share with you because otherwise it's devastatingly difficult and stressful and I lose ownership of my artwork and my process and I feel like I get lost creatively but I always try to be perfect all the time because I just can't so my friend if you're sitting in your little and quiet solitary place drawing, dreaming that one day you are good enough to show him your artwork.

The advice I give to the public today is that the fact that your artwork is not perfect is what makes it perfect for

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because people not only want to see your perfect art, but they also want to experience you and that is much more moving and meaningful to others. people who just witness the best, okay, with that being said, I hope I've shared a little bit of knowledge with you today. I hope I have helped enlighten you and of course I love you all with all my heart and happy painting, take care of you.