The artist's eye is always drawn right to that 1,437,256th line that went horribly *wrong*, but the audience sees the work as a whole.

I see Lavendertowne as the big sister of the young artist community. She's one of the few people who can critique things and make suggestions while being positive and encouraging.

A mindset that I developed and works well for me is: *"My art is pretty good. But it could also be better."* This won't make you talk down to yourself and at the same time it reminds you to improve more.

I love how the painting is like "rude! how DARE you disrespect what you created"

When I like my art I’m like *”Well not to brag or anything, but I think this thing I did is pretty good, IT’S NOT GREAT!! But it’s okay. Not to brag though I’m not trying to brag.”*

LavenderTowne: “I believe in you.” Me, who had been perfectly fine up until this moment: **eyes suddenly well up with tears**

You are so sweet. This is one of the only times I actually felt like a youtuber was talking to me with sincerity.

I seriously started tearing up when you said "I believe in you" because honestly I really needed to hear it.

"Loving something unconditionally doesn't mean you love it more; it just means you love it sadder." - Jenny Nicholson.

DUDE IM SO PROUD I LEARNED TO MAKE HANDS!!! LIKE DECENT LOOKING HANDS THAT KINDA GO ALONG WITH MY DRAWINGS!!!!

Me: Wow this is kinda bad. My Brain: Hey, no, don't say that! You tried, and that's what matters! There's always room for improvement! Me, talking about a different piece: Y'know, I kinda like this one! I'm proud of it! My Brain: *You narcissistic, self-absorbed BRAT! Learn to be humble, GEEZ!* Me: What the fu...I just...WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME??!

Lavendertowne: to improve your art, look at your inspirations, favourite artist etc Me: that's.... why I'm here...

Animated intro *+ 1 respecc*

THE LITTLE ANIMATION I CAN'T

I have a friend in my class. She's an artist too. I usually draw anime, comics, cartoons and doodles. She mostly draws realistic, plants, portrets and other stuff like this. We like exchanging opinions about our art and complain about it. Because we have different styles it's really big lesson for us. We're trying to make art that everyone will like even if they draw different things. Sorry for bad English (I'm from Poland)

Haylee: Look at your inspirations with a critical eye-- Me: *squinting a lavendertowne piece* Ummmmmm... nope, there are no faults...

The little animation in the beginning is so cute!

LavenderTowne: "I believe in you" Me: -starts to grossly sob-

"Welcome to my four-star restaurant" "Why not five stars?" "Because there's always room for improvement"

Anyone else remember in school when u said u liked somethin u did and u were seen as a show off, flexing weirdo..?

Not bashing my own art is harder than you think.

**tears up at the last one** i can't-- great video Haley!

"if you can't believe in yourself right now, then know that I believe in you" thank you so much you have no idea how much this means to me. I'm crying

When I’m down about my art, I remember that I’m barely a teenager. I have so much time to get better, and I’m pretty decent for my age. And even if my art *is* bad and I’m just being self absorbed, I still have lots of time before college to get better.

Attention: Sappiness warning, there is a sappy part at the end! I decided to subscribe when I saw this video. It was mostly because of the positive bit at the end. I am naturally a negative person, probably because of some metal health stuff I have going on, but hearing you be so positive about art in general made me feel like I can become a good artist. It's been my dream since I discovered manga and anime to become a manga/comic artist, whether it is a hobby or not. Before I even got a KZfaq channel, I've watched your videos. You seemed really nice, but someone who is an artist whose level I won't be able to reach. But now I'm gonna try to become better at drawing. Thank you for inspiring me. (Sorry that this was so long.)

THAT INTRO THO :O

LavenderTowne: look at your inspirations and analyse why you love it Me: * examines your art because you're one of my inspirations *

Even though I have my moments with my art, I always think “Hey that was actually pretty great, better than when I last drew something like that” and it makes me want to actually keep drawing.

AAAAAA The little animated bit at the beginning! I was sooo cuuute! (✪㉨✪)

ANIMATED INTRO A N I M A T E D I N T R O

8:57 I have that pen he's holding. Its black but when you press it the eyes light up (blue) and it meows

Brief summary: -Present your art in a positive way instead of telling everyone -Observe critically art you love -Be organized, able to work within a deadline. -Persist and don´t give up on your dreams. Success will come. -I forgot this one xD

I’m just after finding out about the whole Lavendertowne hate thing and I just wanted to say I still love your channel and I hope the hate dies down a bit soon❤️❤️

Nice animation!

I'm 34 years old. I went to college for animation because I thought that's what I wanted to do. As time went on, I realized I wanted to focus more on character designs, concept, illustrations, anything that wasn't the actual animation, because I also discovered I didn't have the insane levels of focus animators needed to get into the field. So I started focusing on those things, however, I was also dealing with some serious mental and self-doubt issues, which got so bad I think it really hindered me to really push myself further. After college I got into freelancing and I worked on doing kids books (for other people) for five years. It was fine at first, but as time went the one thing I never wanted to happen started to happen; I began to hate drawing. I began to hate it because I was pouring so much time and energy for other people and their projects that I never had the time or energy for myself afterwards. I struggle with anxiety, depression, and having ADHD, so I can be easily overwhelmed, and couple that with dealing with difficult clients, deadlines, inconsistent pay, and I wasn't just ready to quit, I was ready to flat out give up on life. I did quit, and ended up taking two part time retail jobs, thinking I was never good enough to really make art my form of income. That was roughly two years ago. However, I've slowly been drawing again for myself, and after what seemed like eternity, I'm loving it again, and thanks to therapy and better medication for my ADHD, my focus, my outlook on things have improved. Then I found your channel, Lavender. And I wish I had someone like you to give me all the advice and tips I've seen in your videos, because I feel like that was what I really needed back during school, back when I tried freelancing, back when I was so unsure of myself. In this video, when you got to the part about self-doubt and not giving up, it hit me really hard. I do love art; it's something that has helped me get out of a lot of tough spots mentally while growing up. I would even go as far as to say it's sacred to me. As someone that's in their 30s though I just started to assume that I missed that window of opportunity to make something of myself with art. But after finding your channel and watching your videos I feel like that isn't really true, and I could still try and make something of it. I still have time. I was one of those people that was so scared of failure that when it did happen I was too scared to try again. But I feel like I've gotten better, and I now know that when something doesn't work out that doesn't mean you have to give up. You can get back on that horse again. Thank you for existing.

Whenever I heard someone in my primary school say they are bad at art, I would always say they're great. All I do is give the same respect I give to everyone who also support me

Some really great points here, especially the one about being confident in your own work. My friends have had to nag me about negativity towards my own art to the point where I get a telling off every time I mention in a group chat that I don't like something I made. And it's worked, because now I try to see the things I learnt from each piece instead of just the stuff I feel I messed up. I really like the art in this too especially the expressions and the animated intro looks awesome!

i don't know why, but i never disliked my art. it doesn't have to be perfect or amazing, if it makes me happy, that's all it matters.

"I believe in you" *Me and my friend fighting cause we don't know who you believe in*

I've always been in self-doubt, I don't even show my hand-drawn things anymore. I used to draw&show my work all the time (I still draw at least 10 times a day), but then I went into depression and though that everybody was lying about liking my drawings (the only time I was bad was when I was three. I looked back and thought a Giraffe was like a tube of some sort, thank goodness I labeled it). I still kept drawing, though. I went out of depression and I am now still working up to when I creat something my brain wants me to show people! (Definitely not fire yet, I'm still practicing that)

I love the new intro! :) I will definitely use these tips in my “art” life

I love the A+ in the girl's eyes. Thats just adorable.

My dad: *keeps telling me that I can't do art as a job and trying to make me his "perfect little girl"* LavenderTowne: *sips her tea* we don't do that here

Normal ppl: uhhh I don’t draw *hides art* Me: LOOK AT DIS I MADE >:3

That "I believe in you" hit me hard. That's what I need right now. Thank you so much! You're definitely one of my inspirations and honestly I hope to get there one day. Thanks for believing in me.

the intro is so (excuse my language) KAWAII!

my friend criticized my work and then he realized i did it and he was like “ oh sorry, it’s just too edgy “

we love you, haley!! that ending was so cute and sweet, i almost cried lol

The intro caught me off guard but I love it

SCREAM THE INTO IS SO GOOD IM PROUD OF YOU ART MOM

I literally. Cried. WHen you said you believe in me. I'm so happy right now, even though it's just a generic "I believe in you" for everyone, I appreciate it :')

Just watching you, and listening to this video gave me more hope to my dream. Im in my 30's and feel like I am not where I should be, and seeing all these "kids" [no offense at all] do art on their iPads with their fingers and their quality is much much much higher than mine is with a tablet and pen, I felt discouraged and lied to. Oh you have talent, it will carry you to success. Thank you, this video is very helpful, very nice way of saying things that need to be said. Watching you draw your cute characters was enjoyable as well, just wish I could navigate photoshop as easily as you!

I hope you understand just how much of a positive impact your videos have.

me: i draw as hobby. *draws* me:OMG WTF IS THIS GROW UP ME me:I NEED TO IMPROVE im torn between "its a hobby" and "this is ugly as fffffff i need to grow up"

You are such and inspiration to me, I was about to give up on a comic I worked on for a long time but watching your video's gets me out of my funk! Thank you so much! ❤

I am also an aspiring artist, chasing my dream of making all types of pieces. I usually use other artists as my inspirations, especially you LavenderTowne! I doubt myself a lot, but I remind myself I can do better! I used to tell others my art was bad, but then I watched this video. And now I tell other younger artist the same thing. But now I’m learning so much from you! A lot of people wave me off as an artist, especially at school. People love to remind me that there are better artist than me, but I know that I can never be the best. But I’ve always still worked hard to achieve this goal of mine, and watching your videos helps me so much! Thank you!

13:23 ok I was not ready for that I'm crying now thanks

"I believe in you" WHY ARE YOU SO SWEET??? OH MY GOD, THAT MADE ME FEEL SO MUCH BETTER WITH MYSELF-

My brain: **thinks of good art** My brain: hey I should draw that My arms: *we don’t do that here*

the intro got me shook!! :o

I gave up on art as a career, I’ve been told that I’m not going to be able too make a career as an artist or that I’m gonna be poor. So I thought that I should be something else something more “realistic”. It was heartbreaking to be told that the thing I wanted the most was impossible. It’s been like this for months, I felt like I had to give up on the one thing that made me happy, I even stopped drawing. But you actually made me think I could be an artist, you made me think it was possible. For the first time in months I’m motivated to draw and too try and pursue a career as an artist, I want to thank you. I believe you are the reason I might be an artist, I just thought I should thank you for that. Ps ilysm

She’s so positive and sweet. She gives me so much motivation to do more art.

“You don’t have to make money to be a professional” Me: “t-that’s what it means to be professional”. *cries into my dictionary*

I was not expecting the animation, but it was an extremely pleasant surprise! Very adorable! Your art style is so nice, I look up to you, a lot. ♡

I LOVED THE ANIMATION AT THE BEGINNING

Tbh I love this so much I love to draw, but I always feel down when I make a mistake this told me to ignore all the facts and see beauty in things instead of the mistakes

Anytime I realize an aspect of my own art that I don't like, I try to either start looking for a bunch of tutorials related to it or search through a bunch of my favorite artists and try to see what they do about it and try to learn from them. Although at one point I was feeling kinda down about my entire art style in general, like I don't think it was _bad_ but it just wasn't what I _wanted_ and it was demotivating me from doing anymore art. I kept comparing it to other artists I loved and feeling like it didn't have that spark I wanted. Soooo I made a decision: look through the artists I admired and find out what specific aspects of their art I loved the most and was interested in trying (ie. I like this artist's lineart, I like this artist's eye-shape style, I like the way this artist shades, and sometimes even more specific details), and then merged them all together to try to create my own new art style. I made my first drawing in that hybrid art style and felt totally revitalized and motivated again, because it just had all of my favorite things. So I guess basically, when I started feeling down about my art, I tried to stop being mad at myself about it, I tried to _do something_ about it. I had a lot of fun just experimenting with new things and learning from those experiments!

Did anyone just spend 2 minutes looking at the animated intro or was it just me

*_She did this at 2 AM_*

The last part really up lifted me because when I look at my art I feel the need to compare myself to other art of people. When I show it to my family or friends I feel like they just taking pity on me, so they say it's good even though it's not. Thank you LavenderTowne, you made my day.

Thank you. Thank you for your words at the end there. I’ve been trying to get inspiration to draw again for myself to improve for a while now, and that bit at the end really lifted me up. Thank you so so much!! 💜🤍🖤💟🖤🤍💜

I hate how people are like your art isn't art because they think you can't draw limbs I've went back to her old video's she can draw limb's just fine and then they think you make fun of anime.the video was really helpful so thanks

*D A T A N I M A T I O N*

dude thank you so much. i've been in an art slump for quite some time now, and during my break ive returned to your videos! they're so motivational and i think i'll be going back to drawing again soon!

Most people who look at art, don't know a thing about art, don't see the mistakes, and are pretty much just looking at it in awe that anyone was even able to make art at all. Most people are looking at your art and thinking "I can't do anything anywhere close to that good." That's worth keeping in mind every time you show off a piece. Personally, I made the decision a couple years back that I should just share everything I make (assuming it's actually completed and not abandoned, although I try to complete everything I start now too) and just expose myself to as much public embarrassment as I could until I got over it. The fact is, I received so much enthusiastic support and praise, including from other artists I know and trust, that rather than being a series of embarrassments, it was actually a big confidence booster and the quality of my art jumped just from that confidence alone. I know what my mistakes are, I'm always my own worst critic, but I can keep working on getting better. I compare myself to last year, not yesterday, and I don't compare myself to anyone else. As long as I see incremental improvement year after year, and I'm having fun with it, I have the motivation to constantly challenge myself, experiment, and yes, keep showing off what I've done. I do choose my audiences somewhat carefully. I know some art isn't for some audiences, but I have different people and groups I share with, through different means, and I try to make sure everything I do finds at least one other person to take a look at. Getting over that fear of criticism or embarrassment is an essential first step to finding your own creative voice and creating art you're truly passionate about. Whether amateur or pro, it's a lot better to be doing your own thing and loving it than being scared and inhibited.

how can you draw without sketching first?!??

Excellent video. I have Autism (which causes me to have trouble with fine motor skills), ADHD (which causes me to get distracted easily), and Bipolar Disorder (which causes me a lot of anxiety), so I struggle with whether or not my art is “good enough” or not and whether or not I can have a successful career as an artist.

Hey Lavender Towne, just a quick note. I absolutely love your art style, you inspire me so much! You’re literally the reason I first wanted to become an artist. I always get sad when I get to the end of your videos. So I’m just saying, thank you. For everything you’ve done for all of your subscribers. Xx

This is really helpful as I really want to go to art school but I was always scared that I wouldn't be able to get a good enough job to provide for myself but now I think I have the confidence to try

*only watches intro over and over*

I loved that tiny little animation at the beginning!

You are not the only one. I am super disorganized with personal works. I needed this...

I appreciate how kindly you speak about all these things. So many people who try to instruct others in how to be "successful" are very strict or pushy, and that never sits well with me. So thanks for this.

I love how none of these actually have nothing to do with the actual artistic skill.

LavenderTowne haters: *falls off a bike* GODDAMNIT, HALEY ahhh why tf ppl hate her so damn much for no reason?

I clicked on this video hoping to fix everything"wrong" with my art style, but instead I got life advice I actually needed. Thank you so much.

I don’t usually cry from videos, but that ending of the video almost set me into a sobbing fit. Loved the video so much. I can’t thank you enough!

Awe! I like your intro, but I wished you made it longer. If this is your first time animations then you did great!!

The last part surprised me and me tear up ;____; you haven't even seen my work but I really needed to hear that. I see I typically lose interest in things but I keep going back to doing art because of something no matter how long ago I last did art. I appreciate hearing someone believing in me even if I know it sounds sappy.

That last one about not doubting yourself was so motivating and inspiring! Thank you!

this was really motivating and helpful information especially that positive message u gave at the end, thank you for making this vid! Hearing about successful people at they're worst but seeing where they are now was probably the most motivating of all, once again thank you.

The intro animation scared me holy crAP I love it

I love your videos Lavender

That last monologue making me cry in the club rn. I look up to you, thank you for making this. I feel motivated and confident. I'm gonna save this because i know that one day I'm gonna feel like I can't do it but I'll come back and watch this so that I can. Thank you again

I'm new in your channel and i don't think you would read this but thank you so much for this video, it's exactly what i needed in this moment of my life where everything seems to be falling apart for a lot of different reasons. I almost cry because I was just thinking that the career wasn't for me so thank you, I really appreciate this and I see myself whatching this again for motivation. You're an incredible artist, keep doing what you are doing because it's amazing.

I love your videos❤️, thank you for your hard work ❤️❤️

ngl the end almost made me cry i really needed to hear that

I really needed to hear that last one especially. Thank you 💗

hte intro was so cutee

thank you so much for this. I really needed this video to encourage me. Recently I haven’t had time at all to draw because of school, and I’m always jealous of my friends who constantly have spare time to do whatever they want while I’m stuck here trying to find a quote in a book. My dad is someone who keeps telling me I should be a doctor, classic Asian parent, but he told me I can do whatever I want after that. You really inspire me to keep going in my work. Thank you, again. I love your art and your channel. Please keep going! ❤️