Hello everyone, I hope you're doing amazing. Happy November 1st. I can't believe we're all in November. Really, I don't know where this ear has been. But I thank you so much for being here today and joining me in this video. For this time, I wanted to do something a little bit different. I feel like in the past videos, I've been showing you a lot of my process and my painting process. And for this one, I have been just, I stepped back and I was thinking to myself, what will be helpful, not just for you, but also for me, and if you're starting or if you're also struggling, I guess like every artist just struggles with something realist. But these were just a few things that I would think would be nice to know before. And they're a little bit random, but just so you don't. I've been building my own canvases on my own panel, no panels, no supports. And even though it sounds so silly, but even the process is so nice because you sort of feel like you're building yourself and you take pride in it and you take care more of your materials. Basically getting to know your materials is very, very important when you are starting to work in the art field. And I've been enjoying it very, very much, especially for my commissions. But I adore by the way, there were two top pieces that were adorable. I really, really enjoy making those. But I would as well as the biggest commission that I've done until now. So the thing that I would say would be to, I guess, try to find or try to see the beauty everything, even this more little thing. Sometimes this happens to me a lot. When I am in my apartment and I'm complaining to myself, I'm like, oh, I don't want to paint, I don't have nothing beautiful to paint. And then into the beauty is just everywhere around us. So it's all up to you to how you perceive things because even the smallest of us can change across the world. I stole that from Galadriel, what she said to Frodo. But this little guy was in my upstairs and I picked him up and I painted him or her in a, in a locket. But really it's just everywhere. It's all about how you choose to see things. Another thing that I would tell myself is to paint things that you like and things that you don't like paint a lot. And every time that you paint, always try your best and always give your best try. Even if you're thinking, oh, this is just a study. It doesn't matter. It matters that you always always give your best. And I had to remind myself this sometimes because when I'm doing small studies for example, I'm thinking, oh, this doesn't matter. This just will study. But no, you always have to focus and you always have to concentrate. I know the thing that I would tell myself is to of course paint from life as much as you can. Here I'm just painting this beautiful beautiful roses which I love but they're so hard to paint. You're not expressed enough how amazing it's to paint from life and how much you learn from life. And it really doesn't matter what you're painting but how you painted and how you express it. And this just, when I started painting life, which was way way later in my art career, I suppose, it was such a huge difference and you just, within one painting, I feel like you learned so many more lessons because you can take a really close look and it's just, I don't know, I'm sure that you know this too if you've ever tried it. We tried it also in college to paint from life but I have not done it until very recently that I started to do it again and it's just so amazing but so hard to paint from life as aWhy chicken I think that I have been struggling with and I still struggle very often is the imposter syndrome that I think every artist has at some point or has their whole life basically you are your worst enemy and you doubt a lot of your things you doubt a lot of your abilities and not it doesn't happen as often as before but it is true that sometimes I just I don't know I crumble and it really sucks because because you are in your mind and in your body and and if you don't value or not appreciate your art it's just is draining and there's no moving forward so I will just tell myself to believe that you can that there's always a place to learn but that you should just also be proud of your accomplishments there's nothing wrong on being proud of them and I think for example when I opened my store I felt like I felt such a shame like oh nobody's gonna buy my art and just putting all this pressure on other people when I should be myself who is bringing myself up and being fair with my work but this I think is a good time you'll learn you learn to to say different perspectives and I'm in a very happy place in that sense that I I can trust my own judgment in my work and my abilities and that's why sometimes I was so hesitant to take a mission just because I thought it is never going to be good or that I better like it or just the silly pressure that we put ourselves in so enjoying every step of the way and just embracing it and knowing that you can that you can always improve and there's always room for improvement you finding your own personal style in your art is complicated sometimes but it's it's important I think and it takes time and I think it's mostly through practice and through that practice you're going to find it so don't worry too much about it because you will come naturally but I took this class that I wanted to talk a little bit about is how to find your own style as an artist by Laurie Ann González and she explains very nicely she's a painter herself of course even though she paints with acrylic but that doesn't really matter but she explains how she found it and also the comparison between her old style and her current style and also she says a lot of a lot about copying the masters which is something that I encourage all of you and myself and it's something that wasn't doing as often as I should have and how her by copying the master she found just a lot of resources and inspiration but she also points out that you just can't copy someone's style basically but with in that process of copying and comparing that's when you learn and you absorb a lot of the knowledge because even the masters used to copy the other masters too so it's nothing new but she does point out that you should copy someone that is basically not currently alive I suppose and I also I always think that copying the old master is just the best way to to learn and I'm doing it all the time and every time I do it I get just I don't know very you refresh so I highly recommend it so this is a class that I found really really interesting and as always this is the Skillshare so I'm going to leave my link in my description box so just so you know if you click on it the first thousand people you're going to get one month of free Skillshare trial and I hope this class and this topic is helpful because it's not that easy to find your own style and it's something that it can go for quite a while so and I would conclude my little list of advice I hope you enjoyed this video really I hope that this was a little bit refreshing and that it was helpful somehow and oh my goodness a coach joke but yes thank you so so much for the support and for just being here and watching this it's um you are all wonderful and thank you so so much for watching bye bye