"Let yourself be bored..." OH SO THAT'S WHY I COME UP WITH GOOD IDEAS DURING MATH CLASS Update: after growing and maturing as a human, I now unleash my limited artistic talent during economics class. This is true character development

I've actually heard the "Let yourself be bored" a lot, if not my whole life. And I tend to forget it, because as an autistic person, I kind of "need" to be always occupied.

When you're depressed but inspired so you just lie in bed staring at the ceiling with your tablet just a few feet away like "Man, I'd love to draw right now..."

Her talking about clean work spaces: Me drawing in my unmade bed covered in stuffed animals:

me: goes to make comic me: loses motivation immediately my comic: *cries due to utter loneliness*

I start a painting really motivated and half way thru I just get lazy and finish it sloppily. Anyone else?

The triangle feels like one of those "choose two" things

Some things that help me are: -brushing/braiding my hair -staring at my ceiling -putting cute stickers on things -exercising (super beneficial for when I am not motivated)

my recommendations really woke up and chose to make fun of me...

I agree! Alot of people tend to blur the lines between art block and lack of motivation/inspiration. It's not the same guys!

"Have a organized work space" Me who draws on my messy bed: _Oh weel..._

The “and of course, leblehlebleh” at the end

*Just sit on the toilet and stare at a wall* * *Contemplates life decisions* *

The last part is so true. Sometimes, you’re just not gonna feel inspired or motivated that day, maybe you’re not gonna make the best drawing, but sometimes you just gotta sit down and force yourself to do it. I do this a lot when I have problems with motivation/inspiration/execution. I just force myself to do something bc I know that after this I will hopefully get better.

Lavendertowne: just take a break Me : okay I have been on this break for about 6 months

Whenever I'm uninspired, I just start researching stuff. Usually fashion history, art history or just history in general. Our world is filled with so many interesting things that if you start to look into it, you can find hundreds of inspiring things.

Some good tips here, thanks for sharing! I always get art ideas when I'm trying to fall asleep, so I write them down and then read it the next day when I'm not delirious and realize they were terrible 😅

It’s my birthday and lavendertowne posted! This is a really good day

I can seriously relate to the "inspiration + execution but no motivation" bit. So many ideas written down as notes on my phone, art competitions and challenges open in browser tabs, yet only 1% end up being brought to life. I'm always so terrified to start a new project, because what if it's not perfect? What if I'm a failure and an embarrassment to the concept of art itself? It takes so much energy to overcome that fear and I'm already drained from studying graphic design.

Hey, I know this will probably get lost in all the comments, but I just wanted to say that I've been following your videos for a long time, and you always manage to cheer me up after a long day. Your videos and your comic inspired me to start my own comic, too. You really have changed my life, in so many ways, and I just wanted you to know that you are appreciated by everyone who sees your videos. Thank you so much, and keep up the good work

THANKS! I needed this video! :´3 thanks!

"When you're not inspired the first thing you have to do is take a break" Tmw you take too much "breaks" due to online classes but it only drains your "creative tank" lol :''))

Lavender is such a life saver, I frequently do commissions and no words can express how thankful I am because she has truly bettered my small business dreams and just my art experience in general

Next up on lavendertowne: cat breeds as cute girls

"Have a neat space" Me: sitting in the middle of my room, on the floor, surrounded by a mess and having terrible posture... "Well, f@ck"

I needed this. Although I’ve been drawing, another hobby of mine is writing, which I have pushed off. I’ve had trouble getting myself to leave youtube to actually do something productive, but the lack of said productivity is killing me. I really needed to hear that sometimes being bored is how you get motivated and even somewhat inspired. I think I’ll try getting off of KZfaq for a little while and see what I can get done.

Lavendertowne: get bored Me: laughs in ADHD

When I finish a drawing I think it looks nice, but later when I look other people's art I start to think that my art is trash and it makes me sad.

I saw the Eevee pokemin collection and immediately went: I need this. Eevee is the best pokemon

When I don't have motivation and inspiration I usually turn to realism since I'm a mainly "semi realistic (idk rlly lol) artist" and doing realism can be good at those times bc I don't need to come up with my own ideas much.

Man I can’t wait for the day we can own a physical copies of Unfamiliar. Just thinking of seeing it on my shelf makes me so excited!

One thing that makes me unmotivated and lose inspiration is seeing artists who are so good but still underrated

Hey LavenderTowne, I have an idea for the next video: “Making Famous Horror Dolls into Cute Girls (+guys)” Ex: Chucky, Slappy, Annabelle, and Tiffany (Chucky’s wife) It’s just a suggestion, and you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to.

“Girl From the Other Side” actually sounds interesting, does anyone know what it’s about?

As a graphic design student, I completely understand the fact that keeping on doing work regardless of how you feel is essential. If I only worked on things when I was hit with inspiration or was super motivated, I'd get nothing done. I have discovered that sometimes just doing causes inspiration and then motivation picks up because you get excited about the idea.

I have a chronic case of "write it in my head, draft it in daydreams, practically act it out... and then completely disconnect or freeze up when trying to physically write / draw / commit it to paper" so I 110% needed this video. Thank you!!!

I have a limitless supply of imagination, but my motivation has run dry as hell

This came at just the right time. Cuz its happening to me

I have a drawing Challenge: Drawing high School Stereotypes as elders

Most of my art inspiration is from the Netflix cartoon Hilda. I’m also aware that there is a graphic novel series, I actually have the first book. Most of my technique comes from the show. I learned a lot just from doing fan art about anatomy and such. That’s how I came up with my art style.

As a perfectionist and a beginner at art is that it’s so hard especially when it comes to execution so now I yell at literally all my art

I was literally thinking about this as I was trying to find time to do some hand-drawn sketches that I keep delaying until tomorrow. But hey, I'm not going to let time get in the way you of practicing my sketching skill. Have a great night to you all!! Edit: I draw a bunch of stuff, from Screenshots of Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel, to anything that Interesting to me. And again, Have a Good night you guys!!

As soon as I don't feel motivated lavendertown posted something about it.

My problem lies in execution. I don't feel like I am where I should be and for the longest time, and I mean for years, I didn't draw anything. This in turn took a toll in my motivation because whenever I had an idea I would be too scared to execute it because it wouldn't look good in the end. This year I want to work on this and something that helps me personally is going to my favorite artists' social media and looking at their techniques and the creative process behind their art. I hope this helps anyone out there who has the same issue. Thank you for the tips, Haley! Also your work area is super cute!

That triangle with the execution motivation and inspiration looked like the triforce

Lavender Towne: Take a bath and don't take you're phone in Me: (taking a moment to realize what she said, and just realizing it) wait people take a bath with their phones??

how dare this waddle into my notifications while im procrastinating on storyboarding my next animation

Something that's helped me in the past when I was just sitting at my tablet all 'head empty no thoughts' was to pull up some old artwork I was really proud of making in the past and redraw it. It can be as little as 6 months old or as much as 6 years, but it gives me something to do that puts me in that headspace to draw and gives me a sense of direction. Some of my favorite drawings have been redraws of my old stuff because I could feel proud of finally feeling like I was able to present it the way I envisioned in my mind when I wasn't skilled enough at the time to execute it.

I just watch sketch with me videos and then BOOM Sketchbook overload

One of the things that helps me is drawing fanart! I mostly work on character designs and just drawing my OCs in general, but when I’m completely lost for motivation and inspiration, I just let myself have a break by drawing fanart of something I love. ^^

Every single one of my friends have motivation lost at the moment mine is in a coma this will be really helpful thank you :)

As a kid, I would always get motivation at bedtime because that was when I wasn't allowed to really do much, so I would always draw in bed, and now I find that this made me naturally "Trained" to be motivated in a comfy spot.

Me: sees vid Also me: HOW DID YOU KNOW!?!?

Great video! Sometimes you just have to start drawing even when you don’t feel initial motivation. Usually when you start doing instead of overthinking, you get motivation and inspiration. It’s easy to think about drawing but a lot harder to start, but once you start the motivation will kick in. Other times you might be burnt out which is a whole different thing and you need to step away. Don’t give up! 😃

That “girl from the other side” comic has panels that gave me what I needed to finish a drawing I got stuck on. Wow, I know that is random but I’m so glad you shared it! What wonderful lineart. Great advice, too!

How to get motivated; Watch lavender towne and her beautifulness

Me, A webtoon artist, has til Monday to submit my comic-hasn’t even started the chapter-🤜🏻puts it off for another week

So many people are struggling lately, sending my positive vibes. ✨

I have this swing in my garden and for some reason any time I ride it I instantly start getting a bunch of art and story ideas

me: *feels uninspired or unmotivated* aight time to go watch some lavendertowne-

this is great timing, because i just spent around 6 - 7 hours of drawing, and then i started to loose motivation. im not surprised, but i still wanted to keep going TvT

I like never watch videos this early after they come out, this is a true milestone

I was sort of hoping this video would address what i can do if i hate literally everything I try to draw... I can't even look at my own art while I'm drawing it, it makes me feel terrible. It's ugly and gross and i used to be able to like what i drew, but i can't anymore.

Why do artists get Lazy: 1. *They're like me*

This is so needed rn! Thank you so much!

I'm so glad I saw the Mario Odyssey artbook at the store. It feels, I don't know... justifying(?) seeing the squiggly, goofy drawings on sticky notes.

Bruh I literally was dealing lack of motivation and inspiration for almost a week, and was rock bottom, and I was just hand knitting a bunch a hats, then this vid pops up, tysm!❤️

Fantastic video! Honestly, I also experience a huge lack of motivation most times which really depresses me, because I want to become a professional animator. Every time I try to draw to improve my drawing skills, I feel like I´m not passionate and creative enough for this field, but I try to handle that. Wish you all a great time!

Overall great tips (Especially the 'boredom'-one) but I have to hard disagree with the last tip. I used to be in that mindset of "I HAVE to get this done, no matter how inspired/motivated I am" for a few months back in Summer, because I was doing weekly webcomic releases, which not only led to some of the worst art I had ever made, but also to a 3 month long art block and near burnout. No project is worth sacrificing your mental health for is the biggest lesson I took from that. I know you said that this tip doesn't apply to everyone, however I personally had no idea how harmful this mindset was for me until it was already too late. So imo if you want to try out this kind of workflow, do it for a week. Then look at your art, check your mental health, and really evaluate if this is worth it.

I just got my stuff open in the background and haven't actually touched it in hours

A trick of mine is to keep a long list of stuff I would find really interesting to draw that I make when I do have ideas and whenever I feel like idk what to draw I just tell my phone to pick a number and do whatever my phone picks according to the listed number next to it and I find that really useful and it works for me

One thing I've found helps me focus on my art is listening to music, heck I have a 2 hour long playlist just for drawing.

Hey! I was thinking if you ever done this: have you ever drew Mushrooms as people? Like how you draw food as people lol maybe you could do poisonous mushrooms and the once that are edible

I NEED THIS! My motivation hasn’t been the same since 2021 started 😭

Oh my god! The advice about making yourself bored makes so much sense. I would doodle like full ink pictures during my classes all of the time, like to the point i would have to block out where my notes were, because I would be so bored sometimes.

Comparing myself to other artists and seeing where I fall short,really gets me drawing

I constantly have inspiration and motivation, but not the execution. "Oooh thats a great idea! Let me draw it noww... wait I can't draw o-o" Fun times.

it's only been 5 days and i already missed you!! so happy you're updating so rapidly your videos just give me that serotonin i so desperately need!!

thank you for giving me motivation today. I suffer from drepresion a lot and this manifests in lack of motivation mainly... but now I really feel like getting up, brush my teeth und hair and start drawing again. Thank you alot, you are a great atist and content creator.

This is so scary, like EVERYTIME I need an art question answered a video of yours comes out soon after that answers the question 😂😂❤️❤️

Me: ready to draw 10 fan arts School work: *no*

I wish I had room to draw with my tablet. I think the tiny, cluttered trailer I'm living in is definitely stagnating my motivation.

Whenever I'm trying to draw but I'm dealing with one of these problems I just watch one of your videos. That always does the trick no matter what I'm lacking somehow

So I was watching/listening to this while I was working on my bujo, and I looked up and gasped because we have the EXACT SAME MARKER/PEN BAG!!!! I bought it because the design is genius and exactly what I needed after having traditional pencil bags for so long. It's even sitting on my desk right now in basically the same spot as yours lol!

Thank you so much this actually helped me I am an animator and every single time I try to animate I always think it’s a literal garbage but now you have inspired me to try my best and do all the work I can to get a good animation thank you 😊

My problem is whenever I try to look for inspiration from books I end up just copying what’s in it instead of coming up with something myself (and of course can’t execute what I want to make just frustrating me)

I uselly when not having inspiration look for a podcast, video,stream on any media and listen to ideas they've created or passionate about or just spark joy ,which also motivates me if the reason I'm not getting up and just start drawing is because of a random occurrence of sadness.

This is what I needed! I've been thinking of redesigning my main character, bc he's a bit on the boring side, and I've been lazy with it, and I ACTUALLY changed some things while watching this! Like his concept is looking better all ready! THANK YOU SO MUCH, like this is what inspired me to finally change the design.

Literally everyone who’s early: Quick think of something funny!

Well sometimes I look at something and I get "too inspired". Like to the point where I just want to draw a slightly different version of "the thing" and when I do draw it, it might be different, but sometimes I'd compared it to "the thing" and feel like my drawing is a lesser version of it. Like, sometimes when I try to do Lavendertown's cute girl series I end up feeling like a worse and less experienced version of Lavendertowne. Which, I guess it makes sense since she probably does have more experience than me. Also, this is nothing against Lavendertowne or any other artists I get "too inspired" by. This is just kind of my own problem.

Having a goal is great for motivation. Earlier this year I made my goal to just draw [thing that I like] every day and my record has been consistent for the past month. And I hit 1k on instagram so yay! Don’t be afraid to draw fandom content. Turning a study into a labor of love is great for motivation.

The advice about just sitting in the bath is 100% what I do! Twice a week, just an hour yet if I scroll through my Tumblr at least half my favourite ideas have come from this time lol.

I also hate it when the execution is being outpaced by inspiration. When your ideas take a long to make, but while your materializing the idea you end up getting inspiration for something else. So you want to make something calm and depressing, but your in the process of doing something more energetic.

ngl lavender town was the reason I wanted to draw xD

The being bored principle you mentioned is my biggest downfall. I was an art making MACHINE all through school. The second I finished highschool, it all fell away. I barely make art, and when I do, it's as low effort as possible. Art has become a chore rather than a passion and it's been eating me up inside for years that a core identity trait of mine has crumbled away so easily..

Ok but can we talk about how genuinely helpful all of her videos are? Like, they're all full of really good tips and ideas

THE GIRL FROM THE OTHER SIDE YES ITS SO HECKING GOOD OOF

I think it would be fun to make Disney Princess into magical Girls -repost if like

I really needed this video! Today I’ve just been so exhausted and uninspired, witch led to me feeling unmotivated. Hearing someone else talk about it is very helpful.

Watching Lavendertowne helps me get inspired and motivated to draw something!