I don’t comment on videos often, but the question at the end regarding curiosity had me thinking. I’ve been doing stop motion for over 5 years now, and I love how many mediums it encompasses. However, it’s only in the past year that I started feeling like I put myself in a box as “the stop motion guy.” To combat it, I started teaching myself digital painting, 2D and 3D animation, and even made an automaton toy. For me as an artist, I realized I thrive being curious about anything creative. There’s something exciting about learning new mediums, techniques, and styles.

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

Oh man that “im the this person” element is pretty interesting, it has a chance to conflict with that curiosity and growth at times!

Godzilla holding the mic is so powerful

I think if you have commissions or are working for someone else, you can enjoy it more by trying to "make it your own," rather than thinking it's just someone else's job. I personally make fanarts and also drawings of my characters, without caring about the views or likes. Nowadays where it seems that only online interaction matters, sometimes we forget that we have to enjoy drawing!

I am one of the people who finds genuine joy and excitement in creating fanart. I was always told it wouldn’t get me any success, but I didn’t care. Then, something amazing happened! I drew a fan comic, it got noticed by the creator of the original source, and now I might even be getting a job working for/with him. It’s unreal lol

The topic of this video ties in with a realization I recently had about myself and something I've been doing wrong with my creative process. Many years ago, I used to be motivated by curiosity in my drawing and creative writing attempts. But then something happened. A situation involving university and mental health issues made it impossible for me to do any programming, which used to be my main hobby at the time, and something I defined a big part of my identity around. Ever since then, I can't program, because it just makes me feel sick when I try. (The mental health issues have also wrecked my focus and energy overall, which is a debuff to any and every activity I do, but that's not the main point of this comment.) Faced with a sudden open gap in my hobbies and my sense of self, I gradually began to use drawing and writing to fill the void that programming left behind. But what I didn't realize until recently was that in doing so, I also started going into art with a programmer's mindset. I started seeing art as a problem to be solved, rather than a territory to explore. Instead of enjoying the process itself, I was just thinking about the end-results. The result has been years of trying to make stuff, and quickly abandoning every project I start. It was only recently that I realized this had been the case, and I'm now taking a break from art, trying to rest up and reframe my thinking, so I can come back into it with a better mindset. Trying to recapture that curiosity I used to have.

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

That’s huge! Im glad you were able to start to figure things out. Appreciate you sharing!

I started my first industry job a couple of years ago, and have had a crisis of creativity probably once a month ever since. While I enjoy it, it can certainly be hard to maintain motivation when a project isn't your own. You really have to be humble, open to learn, and accept your part in a much larger project. Maintaining personal projects along side the day job is so important for keeping the flame alive

For the past two weeks I've been drawing everyday, not as a challenge but as a desire to grow my online platform and skills. The thing I've noticed is that what drives me to create as of late is sadness and melancholy feeling. Im often inspired to make fanart but it doesn't seem to catch more views, still I'm happy with what I create because I'm tapping into making my art more expressive. I think that is what I've lacked when I've tried drawing in the past, and I'm happier noticing I'm pushing myself to achieve that kind of expression and mood in my art. I may not get the views now but someday as I get better at my craft, I think it'll resonate with more people.

I distinctly remember when I realized my character drawings were flat, and wanted to start making them more dynamic and foreshortened. I had drawn, what I thought was a pretty good, Spider-Man, swinging across the page. I noticed each limb was the same length, and I felt like it was missing something. There was zero perspective. More recently, while my poses have gotten better, my facial expressions are mostly growls and grimaces, being mostly comic book-styled characters. So now, on the next part of my journey, I am planning to do more emotion and expression studies, to improve that aspect of my art.

OBJECT MIC IS BACK! I love this gag 🤣

It's pretty scary putting something up there.. Always worried it won't be good enough

@smm855

9 ай бұрын

What if it's amazing though? 😊 What if what you put out there is exactly what someone was looking for? 🤗

This is something I’ve really struggled with for quite a while. I can easily make something for someone else, but it’s really hard for me to make something for myself. I really appreciate that you address this challenge and I think you’ve helped me to see that something I make can be for both me and for others.

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Sometimes ADHD makes that true for me as well.

I literally just started animating, just for fun and to cut loose from my normal Webcomic. It was so much fun. I appreciate all your advice and tips.

Ohh this one hits rly hard for me!! Ive been trying to reconnect to my art lately and this puts a lot of good words to it. Also curiositystream brookes crossover when???? 🤔🤔

Oh hey great vid Brookes! And thanks for the call out :)

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for helping inspire it!

Interesting video! Love the drawings. I think the thing that keeps me the most curious will always be nature and fantasy books/games. Just makes me want to create my own world!

Best add fakeout hahha that was perfect!

In regards to the fanart trap, I used to follow two different artists who did a lot of fanart for two different games, and both of them at some point made posts talking about how they were upset and frustrated that people only cared about their fanart, which would get hundreds, thousands of likes, while their originals would always get less than 10. They even talked about wanting to give up on art because of that... I have no idea how things went for those two creators, since I haven't been using social media for years now, but I remember their art being really good, I hope they're doing well...

I have a project I love, been working on it since 2018, but this past year i've been feeling not good about it, just as if i had lost the initial spark. And i know a lot of artists just want to angrily scream at me a bunch of "keep pushing!!! If you give up when things get hard you're going nowhere!! Bla, bla, bla". But it is really hard to force yourself to be curious. And even harder when you love so so much this project that you feel so hurt inside as to why suddenly you can't do it with the emotion and sincereness you felt in the beggining. I don't know where to find curiosity in this project no more, but i cannot leave it like that, unfinished, as if i didn't care about it with my whole heart. I sometimes wonder if i'm just not destined to be an artist. if being curious was a thing of my teen years, and now that im slowly becoming an adult, my head just decided to let the spark fade away. Do you have any advice as to how to combat this feeling? I really want to finish my project, its my whole life, i just don't understand why i cant seem to connect to it no more...

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

Oh man i can actually relate to this a lot- usually it accompanies burnout/stress, where there isnt enough input of either rest, recovery, or new experiences to refuel. The way that things were as a kid/teenager are harder to access due to being hunkered down- It’s ok to go through mundane parts of a project, they’re inevitable and sometimes years long depending on the scope of it. Once your needs are being met re:stress/burnout, try to find what part of the project you can get excited about next- or, interrogate why it’s so intimidating. All the best to you!

@iamluyu

9 ай бұрын

@@CharacterDesignForge Thank you so much!😭 I really hope it's just a phase and not a complete artistic burnout. Have a good day!

This advice applies to life as much as it does art.

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

I think there’s probably a lot of places it does, for sure!

Thank u for sharing your knowledge. Rly interesting ❤

Yay, new video :>

I think the word "selfish" and the phrasing "value to others" are some things that are tied into what's tripping me up personally. I may be trying to shift my focus from fanart to original work, but I feel selfish and overly self-indulgent for doing so, and I wonder if my self-doubt and lack of confidence in the positivity/hope I want to bring is actually somehow showing through in my work resulting in it not having that "oomph" and not being noticed ... * inhales * I'm *curious* to hear what others do when it comes to that. With fanart I think what's also difficult is that there are trends and headcanons within the fanart circles. So if you're not pandering to those, your work can be surprisingly glossed over even if it's a popular character - since it doesn't fit with the popular imagined image of them. Man, I really wanna say something positive/hopeful to wrap this up. There's gotta be some way to get your foot in the door of the internet viewing system and finally get an audience.

I'm using my personal account to avoid backlash (also since I follow you here) but i think you really hit the nail here For me I'm both a vtuber clipper and a vtuber myself, the issue stems with the clips generating so much engagement and income in contrast with my own stuff that barely get anything so I can relate hard...

I have been struguling to even touch my drawing suplies because I've been struggling financially and mentally. I'm so stessed about money I haven't been able to think about my art with out seeing it as just a way to make money and it makes me not want to draw at all. At the nery least I've been wrighting down the information about my characters world, I just haven't been drawing much.

Thank you! Im currently working on my digital drawing by making short page comics

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely! That’s a good small project to improve skills for sure. Comics helped me a lot early on

For myself, one of the things I find interesting is currently becoming disliked by a chunk of the online community: speech synthesis. It's a very wide domain, with any number of possible implementations, but because there are so many scam artists abusing the technology, it's expected people will not take to it as well as other safer subjects. Or, in the off chance I or someone else brings a new successful method to the table that wasn't previously widely known, it's possible making videos about it actually worsens the scamming situation.

Curiosity: the foundation of human ideas and the No.1 predator of the species Felidae. Jokes aside, I prefer to draw my own custom designs, but its been hard to progress with it because people seem to like it, but I never get criticism, which is what I'm looking for to improve.

Oh wait...I forgot about the 90 days of art stuffs...Um...Teacher, I am sorry. Also, let me think about the curious stuffs...Well, I am not sure what. I guess I like listening to some science stuffs and nature...I really do love learning about some science stuffs, like microbiology. It is crazy how small stuffs can be...I am not sure what I am curious about, but science stuffs is amazing, and think ''Would it be amazing if there was a character like that? Or a unique world with those many types of nature, like marine, and small to many types of creatures. I wish I been on a camping trip and thought, ''Nature is so amazing''

Till this day, I am trying to find a way to easily approach the complexity that is drawing living organisms... mostly HUMANS. Background art is fun. It lets me revisit stuff I thought was "too complicated", only to end up something like a good ol' original landscape. Landscape study is a good wandering session of art. But it also reminds you that THE DANG LINES are important. Brush experiments are also cool, even if I had to find other brushes that give at least the same effect. And I am still alive with an XP Pen.

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

Can feel your passion just in the way you wrote this! 😄

9:10 cUrIOuSiTinG

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Double down on the lapel mic. Get a toy microphone and clip it to that. Clip it to the loud end of a bullhorn. Make the haters suffer!

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

Of all the things people can and do get mad at, it’s incredibly harmless, I just find it super funny 😂

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this guy is good

@CharacterDesignForge

8 ай бұрын

Hehe thats so kind

Hello Brookes My Birthday March 29 2024 Is In 6 Months

I am sorry to have been distracted from your interesting words, but your microphone seemed angry....

0:31 LOL 1:32 XD every time u crack me up lol 4:21 oh...yeah i need to work on that. i kinda forget to enjoy the prosses sometimes :/ 5:09 oh i love that guy! i didn't u were buddys :D 8:17 well i'm not sure if this is what u mean but when i stared drawing i would draw a lot of steven universe fanart, but now i like never draw any of there character anymore. but i have stared getting in to this other fandom and have been drawing there characters a bit, but i still draw a lot of my OC's. 9:00 i wish i could get those but i'm kinda scaryed to ask my mom😅i'm only a little girl lol

Though I don’t often find issue with your videos i actually disagree with this curiosity theory. Curiosity does not drive me in the way you are implying, it doesn’t influence my work in such an extreme way as to dictate what I decided to do. I was told a long time ago write what you know, to create with a purpose, I believe creating with the purpose of being curious leads to the end of a project, curiosity is such a fleeting emotion you can’t rely on it to help you continue a project of any sort. Yes in a way curiosity can be helpful but there is a difference between using it as a tool and it using you.

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

Would you say you aren't driven by any sort of passion, challenge, or discovery, or intrigue of any kind in your work?

@partyofnone159

9 ай бұрын

@@CharacterDesignForge What drives me is a want to teach others and my desire to make others smile, I want to hold their interest with something good in various ways, I make precise decisions to achieve the goal which doesn’t always include emotion but at the same time it doesn’t sacrifice my views and likes/dislikes. You can have excitement for your work and you can have things that you are curious about, I’m not saying that’s a bad thing I just disagree with the level of influence that is implied that curiosity plays such a massive part, curiosity can lead you into a trap of only doing things that interest others, your interest and curiosity in others liking your stuff becomes a dangerous obsession. I care yes but I don’t rely on curiosity to determine what I care about if that makes sense?

@CharacterDesignForge

9 ай бұрын

@@partyofnone159 I dont believe any part of the video insinuated that someone need be controlled by curiosity, or be solely guided by it.