Oh hi!
I'm BogusRed from PaperDemon.com.
Today I'm gonna talk to you about why self-confidence is killing your
motivation and how to fix it.
I'm gonna tell you why self-confidence is
important to be a productive artist.
What the causes of poor self-confidence are.
And some solutions to help you build more self-confidence.
So why is self-confidence important for becoming a
better artist?
If you have low self-esteem it's going to impact your
motivation.
Your motivation to work on your art to get better to put in the
effort is going to be impacted.
When you work on your motivation and your
self-confidence together these two things feed off of each other.
Another reason to care about your
self-confidence is that the quality of your artwork will improve when you have
more self-confidence.
I don't know if you've noticed this but when I sit down
to draw if I'm feeling confident before I begin the quality of the artwork I
produce usually ends up being better than on days when I'm feeling really
crummy about myself.
Another reason you should care about your self-confidence is
it'll help you get better at art faster.
How does this work?
If you're more confident you'll create more art and the
more art you create the better you'll get faster.
It's all about practice we gotta practice practice practice and
then we get better.
So what are some causes?
What are the things that are making us feel shitty about ourselves?
Past failures is really one of them.
Like if you've had a lot of failure in your past, even if it doesn't have to do with
art like maybe it's with homework or schoolwork especially those of us with
ADHD have had many past failures in our lives and that impacts our
self-confidence in our ability to create more art.
so for example if you've started many projects in the past and
didn't finish many of them that's probably going to negatively impact your
self-confidence and then in turn prevent you from creating more art.
I don't know about you, but I've started a bajillion
projects and haven't finished most of them.
those are all failures.
another reason you may be struggling with self-confidence is because of your
mental health.
obviously if you've got ADHD, depression anxiety these types of
mental health challenges really do impact our self-confidence in a big way.
for example you may have a lot of negative thoughts in your head
about yourself, about your ability to work, about your ability to do schoolwork,
about your ability to take care of your home.
whatever it is those impact our self-confidence.
each one of those thoughts chips away at it.
another reason is "perfectonism".
I mean "perfectionism."
now some artists will tell you that perfectionism is a really good
thing to have, that it will help you produce better quality art. and maybe
that works for some people but I think for most of us who are in this audience
that struggle with mental health perfectionism is actually a bad thing.
here's an example of how perfectionism has stopped me in the past from creating
art.
I for a long time really wanted to create a pasta bowl for my husband like
paint it with my artwork on it because we eat a lot of pasta, although not so
much now because we're on a little carb diet but we still indulge every once in
a while.
so I've been wanting to create this for him for years and I never got
around to doing it and it wasn't because I didn't have the time it was more that
I figured it probably wasn't gonna come out the way that I wanted, so why even
bother creating it. and I finally realized hey that's perfectionism if you
think: "oh I'm not gonna do this thing because it's not gonna turn out perfect"
that's not helping you.
perfectionism is not helping you in that case, it's just preventing you from creating.
And I'm proud to say that I did finally last Christmas, I created this
wonderful pasta bowl for my husband with with some of my characters on it and
with Mario on it and "shit pickle".
like it turned out awesome: I'm really happy with
how this turned out and it's a shame that I didn't do it sooner because I
could have been creating a lot more of these sorts of things.
anyway I'm really proud of myself because I defeated my
perfectionism and created this awesome thing for my husband.
and another thing that holds us back is comparing
ourselves to others.
many of us do this where we see another artist who's so
much better than us and then we're like "why even bother trying like there's so
much better" and that's holding us back.
alright, so what are some solutions to these problems that I've outlined.
number one: if you do have a mental health
challenge please get treatment for it if you aren't already.
getting treatment for your mental health has a huge impact on your
self-confidence, so just doing that alone is going to be a huge start for you. and
I think it's hard for some of us to prioritize that because we think it's
not that important, but it really is, it affects every aspect of our lives and if
we are working hard on treating it we are more likely to be self-confident.
sometimes we just have to acknowledge that self-care will help us to help
other people better.
and your art really depends on it
your art depends on you taking care of yourself.
another solution is to change the metric of success.
what do I mean by this? so artists often will judge their
level of success based on how good the art is after they've completed it. and
that's one way to do it but the reality is we're gonna create a lot of crappy
drawings, we're gonna create a lot of crappy art not every art we create is
going to look good.
it just happens.
it's part of the process and if we're creating crappy art and we're using
quality as a measure of success our self-confidence is going to suffer.
so what we need to do is change with that
metric of successes.
for example, instead of judging success based on how good the
art is after you're done with it measure success as how frequently your drawing
or how many minutes of drawing or art you've gotten in or how many pieces of
artwork you've completed.
another way to help you with your self-confidence is to
celebrate your success.
so if you've changed your metric of success to say
drawing five times a week and you've actually completed that, will tell a
friend about it.
let your friends help you build your self-confidence!
let them be a means of encouraging you and helping, helping you with your
confidence.
another way to celebrate your success is to join a community.
actually with PaperDemon we have a community here of other artists who are
also trying to build more positive mindset. we have a discord server and we
even have a specific channel dedicated to celebrating success, where we each
share: "hey I did this thing or I did another thing and I did it". you know we
give each other positive encouragement and say "way to go, good job".
this may seem small but it actually has a positive effect; it's worth doing.
also we do have a monthly meetup where we all
meet live in real time and chat about our art.
we just had a meet-up this last weekend where we were all sharing
our success and celebrating our success with participating in inktober.
so we all had different metrics of success, you
know inktober is normally drawing every day for 31 days.
which is really difficult to do so many of us set
different expectations or metrics of success.
for me it was five drawings for the month and instead of 31. and then we
celebrated that and got you know encourage one another with the progress
that we've made.
our community is most active on our Discord server so check
it out there's a link in the description below I'd love it if you'd join us and
celebrate your success with us.
the fourth solution I'm gonna give you is to
rewire your mindset: to produce more positive thoughts to help you to feel
more confident about yourself and your artwork. and I'm gonna cover that in the
next video because this one's already getting kind of long and I know you
wanted to go back to watching your anime.
so what metric of success are you going to use for your art?
let me know in the comments below.
and do you know someone else is struggling with self-confidence with
their artwork, share this video with them.
and don't forget to Like and subscribe and all that jazz. and check out the
description below.
I've got more resources for you to help you with
your building yourself confidence.
thanks for watching, bye.

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