wow this blew up 💀 anyway me and y'all need therapy like asap

As an artist I relate to Ena so much. There are so many times where I'll think my art improved a lot, but then I'll look at other's pieces and then realize that I didn't improve one bit. Watching this makes me want to get a paper and keep practicing.

Off topic, but Empty Sekai is like free therapy for the Nightcore members

i remember a teacher once held up something i drew and told the class "this is how NOT to draw this" and this reminded me of it, criticism is good but some of this is just plain harsh 😭 enanan too relatable

As an artist, Ena has always felt relatable to me, but this time she felt the most relatable. My art teacher would always shower other students with praise but for me she would only point out the mistakes. Criticism is very important but at the same time only getting the mistakes point it out made me feel less talented, so yeah, relatable

Shinonome's stories are fascinating to read.

Yoooo it's literally Blue Period,but more seriously poor Ena the girl doesn't have any adults's (her teacher and father) support,I know that to be an artist is hard but to discourage someone's dream is heartbreaking

the more Niigo got more story, the more i kinda feel happy for Kanade and the other Niigo to cover for each other. Kanade appreciates Ena's Arts, Mafuyu helped ease Kanade's burdened of overworking herself before Ena and Mizuki joined, Ena waiting for Mizuki to finally open up and Mizuki for always being there to ease up any tension any the them has. they're all troubled to an extreme degree but they stood up for each other. i knew it was the right decision to pick them as my starting group

I swear, Niigo has the most relatable stories sometimes. I felt this all too hard-

Ena's dad looks so out of place style-wise.

ena's eyes turning Mafuyu-like gave me the chills... she n all of 25ji needs all the hugs

as someone with rsd (rejection sensitive dysphoria) i really felt this, not gonna lie. getting criticized and feeling like it's a death sentence? yeah, BIG mood

"What starts with the letter o, ends with nions and makes you cry?"

this is...exactly why I avoided art school. It seems like professional art is focused on improvement above all else, like it's the only thing that matters, wether you hate drawing because nothing you make feels meaningful be damned, it doesn't matter progress above all else. You have to force yourself to push through and put yourself through the ringer to improve even if that makes you regret ever drawing in the first place. It's...disgusting demoralizing filthy stupid meaningless, why do a thing you hate? Why make yourself hate a hobby you love just cuz some old fart says it's not good enough? Why do they think people have to be broken first to improve? Why don't they realize that if a person has no support, no one who says they're good no one who says they're enough, they can't handle criticism? People weren't meant to have their confidence torn to shreds with no one vouching for them, people can't brush off rude comments if no one ever tells them they did a good job. Are there really this many "professionals" that suck at giving good feedback and critique. Do they really hate their jobs this much, they love talking about how hard and terrible and lonely the art world is, why the hell are you still in it then? Get out if you hate it so much, it's not your damn right to make other people hate it as much as you do.

When you are young they praise you for drawing shapes prettily

Why do i feel like ena isn’t doing it just for the sake of the compliments existing but because the compliments make her feel better about her art

i relate to ena very strongly, i'm also an artist who has gotten a lot of praise in the past but has lately had a hard time and hearing less positive comments about my art, it's a horrible feeling and then you start to subconsciously compare yourself to others and it just makes it worse, i almost even quit at art entirely but luckily i have a good support system that helped me push through, i feel like i've lived in this exact 5 minutes of ena's storyline and its so strange to relate to a character's story so much

Reading all these comments about peoples experiences in art classes from around the world really got me thinking, art classes here in Australia are really weird. You don't get overly harsh criticism from teachers trying to shove you into a box, instead they don't really do anything at all. They don't critique, they don't assign, they don't help. It's all "self-directed" which means that the student has to chose and plan what you're doing themselves, and even if the teacher wanted to give criticism or help you, they can't cuz they dont know what you're doing. This sounds good, but in practice it means that you feel like you havn't learned or achieved anything, because there's no one guiding you; the teacher is just there to make sure you don't shove a crayon up your nose. It really is the bad opposite to what I've seen in most parts of the world.

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no cus like ena is so relatable for me a bit TOO relatable. ena is one of the reasons i started crying at the 25ji main story and just this 5min video made me cry as well☹️☹️☹️