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I drew every day for a year What's the
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progress as an artist kind of and
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someone who reacted to his video that he
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made a year ago I so excited to see his
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progress with this one so let's go wait
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because I was going to do a normal
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artist reacts video until I came across
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this post on Twitter that raised a lot
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of discourse like artists going through
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a crisis because they think PewDiePie is
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better than them after just one year of
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drawing and then some people saying that
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he can only do this because he's a
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millionaire and we're definitely going
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to discuss these a little bit more but I
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think in short the problem with
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PewDiePie's art Journey isn't innately
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anything wrong with him or his amazing
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progress in fact it's the well-known
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idea that comparison is the thief of Joy
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but let's give his video a quick watch
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nonetheless and just keep these points
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in mind people were so encouraging on
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the video and I really enjoyed picking
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up drawing so I kept going nice okay
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being here I have so many emotions I am
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happy honestly I totally get why he's
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laughing sometimes I think we find it
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silly to be happy about achievements
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like this and I don't think we should be
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like I'm kind of on this croissant
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baking journey and this batch turned out
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so good I was I was like why am I happy
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and on the topic of healthy habits I'm
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going to point out three things that I
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think Felix it's okay if I call him that
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right okay three things that Felix does
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very well in terms of navigating his art
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Journey sorry my nails honestly Sam I
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should probably cut mine here's when I
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started to look up tutorials and stuff
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online you think it'd be better but they
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all kind of look like they have some
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sort of allergy not even going to lie I
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feel like this is actually really good
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the chin is very big I probably would
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have made it something more like wonder
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if I can fix this I feel bad for future
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so all right first thing that he does
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well here is recognizing some mistakes
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that he may have made in his old art
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knowing how to adjust it and also having
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the awareness that you know it might not
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make some people happy and quite
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frequently people would say that they
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like the original version better than
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the updated version which sure you know
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everyone is entitled to their own
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opinion but as PewDiePie said it best
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that's totally fine everyone is entitled
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to their own opinion even though you're
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wrong no I'm just kidding but you know
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the most important thing is that you are
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proud of what you create but after 30
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days this was the progress of my first
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video I was so happy with it and I think
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and yeah I think I should be cuz the
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progress is definitely there yes love
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that because honestly seeing progress is
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one of the most satisfying things ever
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like look this was my first batch of
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croissants right yeah it's not good and
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I really think here's where I peeed I
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feel like this is like a universal
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feeling it's not even like an art or
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like content creation feeling just like
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life in general sometimes I'm just like
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did I Peak at this point in my life will
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I ever get to this level again it's
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rough yeah felt first of all don't do
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what I did I just kept drawing the same
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things yes once again another healthy
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art habit or life Habit in general wow
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art really does imitate life but doing
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the same thing over and over and over
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and over again is not necessarily good
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it can be in many ways but it also kind
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of pushes you in a box which is why I
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love experimenting with different art
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styles I literally even made a video on
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how to find your art styles in eight
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different ways because I feel like if I
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just stick to one thing and just keep
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doing that it's kind of like digging
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myself into a hole and I feel kind of
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obligated to do that one thing just
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because I've been doing it for so long
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so the fact that he kind of clocked into
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that and realized it just really shows
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his progress awareness anime girl anime
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girl too much anime I feel like me and
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Felix had like a parallel experience
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because I just kept drawing the same
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anime boys Anime boy Anime boy Anime boy
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Anime boy and like all the same ones I
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wanted to be more consistent I think
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that's why I kept doing this yeah to be
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fair I also tried to be consistent so I
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just kept drawing the same thing same
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character over and over again same head
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angle same everything now it's different
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for everyone but my reason for drawing
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was I just really liked this character
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so I just wanted to keep drawing him at
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this time I didn't really care about
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Improvement I just wanted to draw him
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however in Felix's case I think you can
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really tell that he's trying to improve
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his Anatomy his proportions
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experimenting with different things so
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yeah in that case I would definitely
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recommend like branching out you know
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try drawing other things not the same
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character I really wanted to draw more
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color but it takes so much time to do
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that and I really felt like I needed
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mileage more than anything so I just
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totally agree adding color is like a
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whole another story also by the way all
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these drawings are about like 5 years
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old now so please please don't judge so
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I wasn't really much of a traditional
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artist I just jumped straight into
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digital but I think the learning curve
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from like sketching to adding color is
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the same for traditional and digital
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they're both really hard like I don't
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know what it is about adding color
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because in my head I remember back then
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I was like oh it looks so good black and
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white I'm sure adding color is going to
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be pretty easy and make it look better I
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was very wrong because I was like why
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does this look so flat and bad also can
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I just point out that drawing is amazing
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like I that is so good finally I move on
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and I draw boys again I feel like we're
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having this parallel experience because
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I kept drawing like anime style guys
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like guys guys guys and I was like you
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know what I got to try drawing women
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think this was one of my first attempts
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but I was just so comfortable with
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drawing like anime boys anime boys that
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I just didn't really want to stop cuz I
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was kind of scared to see my progress
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kind of declined in a way but I'll be
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honest that kind of kept me going
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because while I was drawing anime guys
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still I was drawing a few girls here and
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there still a lot of anime guys cuz
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that's what I was comfortable with
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whatever but once in a while throw in a
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girl and I thought that I was getting
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quite you know it was getting better
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okay and as he's just flipping through
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his Sketchbook you can just tell how
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much he enjoys drawing I don't know like
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is that just me like I feel like you can
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really tell that there's the passion
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there there's the interest there and he
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just genuinely wants to get better he's
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not doing it for the video like oh I
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drew every day for 365 days like drawing
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is something that he genuinely is
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passionate about and he just happened to
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make a video on it so yes I love that I
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love that for him and I told myself I
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was going to force myself to use this
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pen I was going to really like I'm going
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to use S Pen I need to learn how to draw
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without without the whole circle thing
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again so he mentioned that he doesn't
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like doing the the guideline thing which
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totally understandable but wao look look
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at that chin yeah totally understandable
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sometimes you just want to like you just
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want to draw the face and then you just
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want to get straight into it obviously
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it's not cheating in any way if you want
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to use these lines or you don't want to
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use these lines it's really up to you I
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used these for about like a year and a
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half and I was like you know what
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sometimes I want to wing it sometimes I
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don't want to wing it you see that is
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why art is so fun cuz you know you
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literally you can just do whatever you
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want I have sketched so much and I still
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I
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it feels embarrassing to admit this but
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like everyone was so amazed by my 100
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one that I felt like okay well my year
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one has to be really good right like but
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progress isn't a straight line like I
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think I was being too hard on myself
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where I was getting close to a year and
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I'm like I don't I don't have anything
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to show for it I H drew a full body one
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and I'm like comparing it to my 80 day
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one and I'm like the 80 one it's still
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better so now we're going to get into
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the first Topic at hand that I said in
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the beginning which is the I've been
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drawing for over like 4 years and he's
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been drawing for one and he's already
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infinitely better than me mindset so
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again what is the problem with
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PewDiePie's art Journey the problem is
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that people who see his rapid growth
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will immediately begin to compare with
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their own art progress I'm not going to
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lie I did that too but there's two
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outcomes to this you can either see it
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as a way to kind of tear yourself down
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and doubt your abilities and work which
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I don't recommend or you can see it as
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somewhat inspiring or a motivator to
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keep you going cuz it just makes you
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think well you know if he can do it why
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can't I which leads to the second
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problem where some people on Twitter
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raise the point that you know he can
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only achieve this because he's rich now
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I can't really speak on his behalf
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because obviously I'm not a millionaire
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but I don't really see how art
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Improvement on this scale can be
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attributed with wealth sure he does have
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the financial capabilities to buy an
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iPad and try digital art without burning
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a hole in his pocket and yeah can I just
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say I did compare my own digital art
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Journey with his I was like wow this is
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infinitely better than mine after like a
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month also Felix if you're watching this
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I see you are using procreate love that
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app me too may I recommend the glossy
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jelly brush set or the dreamy sketch
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brush set truly my favorite I've been
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using them everyday for like 5 years
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straight super good for anime manga you
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can download it in the description give
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it a world let me know what you think
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but yeah back to the millionaire thing
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in terms of progress I don't think he
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took longer than like an hour to
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practice every day like I drew every day
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for about 5 years right sorry I said
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that like five times now but I'm nowhere
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near millionaire status trust me yet I
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think it's possible if you really do
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have a passion with art to take a few
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minutes out of your day to just draw and
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practice a bit sure money does give you
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the free time but if we're just talking
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like 10 20 minutes of sketching I don't
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think that him being a millionaire is
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really a huge solid sound argument I
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don't know that's just my two cents take
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it with a grain of salt I'd love to hear
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your side of it as well as your journey
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with any creative Endeavor that you're
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currently going through like knitting
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crocheting I don't know Pottery if you
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remember I talked about my croissant
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baking Journey so yeah feel free to
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share your thoughts as well and let's
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just please keep it civil thank
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you hello welcome to vora's secret after
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school club where I just you know talk a
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little bit unfiltered at the end of a
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video by the way my grandma made these
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aren't these so cute she also made these
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pandas so cute anyways I know this is
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not like my typical type of video I like
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to kind of just you know stay in my
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bubble and just do my own random
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delusional things but I think I just
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wanted to throw my opinion out there
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because as someone who has been drawing
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every today for several years now I'm
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sorry you're probably sick of me saying
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that I still find it super disheartening
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to see people you know compare their art
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Journey or just any creative Journey
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with others so I guess what I'm trying
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to say is as hard as it is we really
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just have to like hammer it in our
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psyche that everyone is is different
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like everyone's progress will advance at
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different rates we're just we're all
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different people sorry I got really
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passionate there but I just hope whoever
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is watching this and if you're still
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watching up to this point uh you're
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awesome you're a real one thank you I
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love you here is your secret message if
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you don't know I hide secret messages in
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all my videos I think this is the first
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time I'm hiding it way at the end but if
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you hear the secret message please feel
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free to comment something that you're
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most proud of recently let's let's keep
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it recent all right let's think of our
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recent proud things mine was probably
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the croissant because I just want to see
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people you know being being positive and
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I just want to congratulate you but yeah
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I just hope whoever is watching this I
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hope you are happy and content and
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passionate with whatever Journey you're
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going through you know life life is too
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short to be hating on yourself sorry I
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just hit my microphone but yeah also can
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I just say I'm sorry if my um title was
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a little bit clickbaity and like the
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problem with his art Journey I'm sorry
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if that came across a little bit hateful
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and controversial that was not my
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intention I just wanted people to you
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know see that the problem really is just
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comparing yourself so please do not
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compare yourself you are awesome so keep
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going and okay I'm actually going to go
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now bye
