I think everybody seems to forget that Felix actually did graphic design years a go. So he already has an eye for shapes, composition and colour usage. That experience definitely shows.

had a crisis of "wait he can do that in 100 days and I'm not at that level when I've been drawing for years?"....but then your "stop it" came at the right time. I'm not a professional, I'm just someone who enjoys drawing, maybe today even I'll pick up a pencil. Not everything needs to be monetized to enjoy it. That's the trap I fell into with art.

Seeing Pewdiepie drawing and recording himself drawing and feeling a bit insecure as to whether or not he’s recording it correctly is surreal, like, he’s doing it amazingly well!

I'm sorry but why is PewDiePie learning to draw oddly wholesome?

"you're not a fraud Pewdiepie, you're not Kooleen" 😂 Love it when they attack each other 😂💖

If pewdiepie, a literal father of children. Can learn to draw so late in life, there is honestly nothing stoppting anyone from learning and doing art 😊

I was shocked and happy to see how much he improved

I GUESS SO??? His progress was actually crazy though.

Seeing this makes me actually wanna commit to art for once. I’ve always liked the idea of being really good at art but I’ve never been able to commit because I’ve never drawn something that I’ve actually liked enough to keep going. I always put myself down for not being perfect on my first go and this is making me motivated to just do 30 days like pewdiepie and just see where it takes me. Perhaps afterwards I’ll do 100 and perhaps more. Wish me luck Edit: day 4 was today and I haven’t been able to put down my pencil. I’m so incredibly happy that I am not only sticking to it but having fun at the same time. I am also learning to live with the imperfections that come with learning to draw, and I am accepting that improvement comes time. More updates to come, and thank you wall for being so supportive, I wish you all the best. Edit 2: its been a while and what I would call the honeymoon phase of my art has worn off. I have hit a rough patch because while I am improving I am having trouble thinking of things to draw. Large amounts of art block and general unmotivation make it very hard to draw each day. I'm trying to go on and hoping that after getting through this phase it will clear the water and drawing will be fun and natural again. Wish me luck I definetly need it.

One of my favorite artists defined talent as , “when you like doing something, so you keep doing it”. Whether or not you think that’s “talent”, I think that applies to Pewdiepie and every passionate artist.

I feel obligated to mention Pedws has years of photoshop experience. I feel it truly pulls trough in his coloring process, his innate understanding of color composition. Adding color leveled his art up so much😍

Drawing your dad in the shower is crazy😭 Edit: stop fighting about it. I understand he was a kid and just thought drawing your father in the shower was funny. I didn’t mean it as “that’s weird” I meant “that’s crazy” as in “Lol that’s funny”. I’m not saying he committed a crime or that it was wrong. He was a kid and kids are curious, so quit commenting abt it💀

The progress is actually incredible.

He really improved a lot! I feel motivated to draw again :DD

I've found out drawings smiles and happy faces is what makes me enjoy art 09:56

I have seen a lot of people (on tiktok, his video etc) say that well he has time to draw. He is rich so he can afford lessons, and he has time etc. He is very busy, and he is also a father with other obligations. He is being very transparent with how his process was in the video, so it is not anything different from what your average person could do. He has a graphics design degree, which probably helped, and his time editing thumbnails/videos has probably given him an eye for how colors work. These things doesn't lessen the fact of what he accomplished. I think he should be very proud, and is a great example that anyone can do it if they set aside 10 minutes every day. Find the references/style you want to use, and just get drawing.

This ressonates so much to me and a lot of artist as I've been reading the comments. I recently went through such a breakdown, emotionally and mentally. I've drawed forever and even when I started to post things on the internet, the internet was still a fun place, I think, but the last few years it has drained me so much, the pressure of productivity and algorhitm and all that, my anxiety couldn't keep up, so I stagnated for MONTHS and it felt awful, because I wanted to learn things, but studying was just making it worse. Little by little I've been going back to it, and surely seeing PewDiePie, who I've been following for at least a decade, going on this journey, definitely got me feelings lol Thank you for your words and excitement over this! "Taking your time to draw what's fun to you" is something I had to learn a bad way, but I'm glad I'm here now.

This is wildly motivating for artists who have been in slumps, HE DID SO WELL. Edit: I say this because I’m an artist who hasn’t drawn seriously in like a year due to being busy. I personally don’t see how his fast progress is demotivating as stated by some of the replies, but to each their own.

I like how this was dropped after 1000 art-tubers already did their reactions and commentary for this video, but I am still watching. There's a lot of value hearing various insights from different hobbyists, professionals and the such on general concepts of narrowness of scope, improvement, enjoyment, mediums etc when it comes to the early art improvement journey :)

I love your commentaries on Felix’s art journey! I was one of those people inspired by him to start drawing everyday and I think it would be awesome if you could make a video breaking down how he did things, how to draw in that style with the proper per portions, and give more pointers. Thank you and loved this vid ❤️

man, i might pick up drawing after seeing pwed's progress-

for a beginner this is literally insane! im glad hes into drawing and hope he grows

Honestly this was really inspiring to see. I have always enjoyed drawing, but I haven't really committed to learning and improving. After seeing this, it makes me really want to commit to practicing and hopefully get somewhere :)

God I was waiting for this reaction ❤ thank you

I've been waiting for you to react to this since it came out, this is great!

This whole thing with Pewdiepie made me inspired to attempt this myself. Been wanting to try drawing for a couple years now and just always talked myself out of trying.

that end comment really hit, it's so easy to get caught up in following certain ways of doing stuff that it's easy to forget why YOU enjoy it. I definitely needed to hear that. :)

I need to see the two of you collaborate and you teach him your drawing techniques

Sam has this permanent proud smile this whole video! Ahh...I have many people to thank for good motivation. Thank you!

The kooleen callout 😂 but damn PewDiePie's video, it's so inspiring 😊

Watching him remind me of my old self, I was there not knowing anything about drawing and has no talent whatsoever and the only drive I have is the admiration towards a friend who can draw like a God despite being my age. It just took me 3 months with dedication to grasp how to draw something that actually will look good. God I really love that feeling of "is this real?" , I can really relate to pewd's story of hitting the gym. It doesn't matter when you start it, the only thing that matter is starting and dedication.

bruh how did u get here so fast? oh my days, thats actually amazing. i- "art is a wonderful lifelong pursuit of pain" too real

I love how encouraging you are and I am very unforgiving on myself to practice but .. I just wanna commit and have fun with it! Not for a career but for something I can keep improving on

seeing the guy from my childhood start learning to draw is so inspiring and it makes me think i'm gonna improve as much as him

This might genuinely make me cry. I just gave a bunch of entrance exams to get into college for animation and I have been burnt out. I keep noting new ideas and new designs, but I stay away from drawing. The last time I tried to draw left me feeling even worse because of how much I had deteriorated, and seeing someone get better in just a few days of practice hurt me and inspired me at the same time. I knew the biggest problem I had was not letting myself express my ideas even during the exams. I wasn't having FUN. They really just wanted what I could offer but I restricted myself to give answers that I thought they wanted. It's going to take a while to pick up my pencil again and feel confident about it, but I hope I can do it soon. I have so many ideas that I want to put down.

I've been trying to push myself back into learning how to draw properly. I used to enjoy it a lot when I was a kid - and I was pretty decent for my age. It's a struggle - to maintain the discipline, and consistency required to just have that natural progression. It's a struggle to know what I should be studying, whether I should be studying or simply just practicing. It's a struggle to even remember to draw. A big issue for me, I think, is that I'm not sure what i want to draw, nor how I can directly improve. I've spent too much time playing video games, where the path forward is always clear cut, where progress is measured out and quantified, and your goal is always easy to envision. Anyway, thanks for the video Sam. While this was a pretty depressing cry for attention, ultimately, I do want to draw. In general. I want to be able to put pen pencil to paper and be proud of what I've made. I want to create something for the pleasure of creating it. I DO want to draw. Back to the grind. Thanks for the reminder to keep up with my daily routine.

always love seeing people commit to art 🥰

"Draw what you love and make it fun" is probably the best advice. I was trying to draw for a while, barely making progress. I was getting frustrated at the pace i was improving. One day i just decided, im just going to draw portraits of kpop idols. I made so much progress after that. It became fun and i was enjoying myself. I have about 20-30 minutes a day to practice if im lucky, but the progress is apparent, and i dont feel like im wasting my free time because im loving what im doing.

I love just how genuinely happy you are for his progress! I may not draw, but I write and many of the same ideas apply. Especially practice. I look back at what I wrote a few years ago or even last year and can actually see the progress I've made. Plus I find a lot of what you say can apply to other areas in life in general. I always love when you upload a new video, and you've honestly helped me feel much better about the things I do. Maybe one day I'll try drawing again, between you and Bob Ross it looks like so much fun.

It's crazy how quickly one can improve when you do it a little bit every day and stick with it. I started taking drawing "seriously" around September 2016. I saw a super fast time-lapse video process of one of Kuvshinov's pieces, and that prompted me to download the video and watch it frame by frame to study his process and layer effects and apply that to one of my drawings. After that, I drew almost daily (sometimes once a week) for 2 years. I eventually started doing commissions after posting on Artstation. :)

Now this is making me want to get back into drawing I remember I used to be so into learning to draw but got unmotivated but maybe it’s time to get back

This was so awesome and encouraging. Made my whole day too!

thanks a lot sam always love your advice...motivatws me to draw again...i stopped because i stopped enjoying...but that reminder is really needed...im gonna make sure to drill it in my brain

Sam, i know this video is about pewdiepie, but seeing your art (and definitely not because i wasnt seeing improvement) i have decided to move to digital drawing from 6 months of traditional drawing, you motivated me, and I just wanna say thanks!

Hi SamDoesArts, i just want to say that I have been watching your videos for a couple of years and when I see them I am always inspired to draw something. Thank you so much. 👍😊

It’s soo sweet because he reminds me of myself a few years ago and thanks to you Sam I’ve really learned how to be super confident in my art and constantly improve and improve:))

He is why I started learning, I started when I saw his second drawing video and now I'm trying to learn as well.

Was waiting for this reaction video!! His improvement is Insane

this is so awesome!! i absolutely love seeing people pick up art, stick with it and see so much improvement. i’m so proud

Thank you Sam, I really love drawing birds and animals but it always seems like unless I can draw people I’m not good at art but your talk at the end really made me feel proud of my abilities.

I was also as surprised when I watched the vid he was consistent and I loved that as someone who lacks consistency I was so amazed and Sam u also make our days in case u didn't know thank you

I was waiting for exactly THAT video! Thanks :D

Been drawing everyday for 4 years now and it is like I caught up on time lost and improved so much. Great video, love seeing this!

Man I’m so proud of Felix. He’s brought me so much happiness and still does. So it makes me happy to see him doing something he genuinely enjoys. and as someone also studying art, it makes me even prouder to see his progress! I also wanted to mention this to people that are feeling down at his progress. you have to keep in mind, Felix is basically retired. He has TONS of time to practice. It’s unfair to compare yourself to him really. But also..some people just learn and retain information better than others. That’s just a fact. so, please don’t be discouraged. Just keep drawing if it makes you happy. ❤

Good stuff! Never stop arting!! Everyone! That means you!! ^^

Saw that he released a video but haven't watched it yet. Now I can watch 2 creators I like at the same time.

The fact he is actually developing his own style already and it’s just the cutest!!!

I really love your Videos. Always get so inspiried and get fired up to do more art and keep going. Its so wholesome. Without this kind of content being an artist would be so much darker and frustrating and Lonely. So thank you :3!

I was actually waiting for this video

i saw this comment in another vids One insight on his coloring, he studied graphic design for a couple years and he used to participate in photoshop contests iirc, he is very good with it so i'm sure that's where he was instantly good and understood shade and lighting. Some people do have a natural instinct and understanding from consuming a lot of media too, but pewds has a little bit of background at stuff like coloring

You smiling the entire reaction was so cute, amazing video Sam 🥰 and congrats to PewDiePie! 🥳

his art journey has brought my motivation back to improve as someone whose been drawing for ages but just havent been improving in a solid few years, it made me quit as i just felt like it was pointless but his video genuinelly inspired me to pick up a pencil again

you ever get it when you lose motivation for a drawing? well, as soon as i watch Sam i swear my motivation 📈

bruh ive been drawing for LITERALLY my whole entire life and PewDiePie, a frickin youtuber who started drawing like not even 4 months ago rlly just started drawing better than me- all jokes aside tho, SLAYY FELIX!!! that is so frickin cool, you definitely have talent and the art community is proud of ya!

I've been learning how to draw for over a year now, I've found it relaxing and therapeutic to draw out how I feel/felt at that moment though as of recently I've kinda put it off since i went to college. I will probably get back at it at my last year since I'd have more free time by then and I'd probably be rusty again... that's the fun of it for me I guess, the feeling you get when you know you improved on something you were bad at is really amazing! I hope everyone here will have a wonderful day!!❤❤

this helped me to remind myself to enjoy art more, and also made me to really pick up my pen and draw. However it’s late here so i’ll have to take a go at it tomorrow and we’ll see where i end up. It’s really about time to have fun with art and not just nitpicking myself and putting me down all of the time, thank you and pewdiepie for reminding me of this

It is so true: you need to enjoy art to find your style and improve. And he's doing just that. I experienced it first hand, because I was a child of an artist, and showed interest, that when people try to push you to monetize it, it becomes a chore, a burden and you will never be good enough. I was pushed to the same school my mom went to, pushed to be an artists and that killed the joy. After a few years of hiatus I started up again with the sole purpose of creating for myself. I still have that feeling of "make it perfect" so now I'm practicing having just sketches.

Im so surprised at how much he improved and also no jumpscare in the outro??!!

It kinda hurt ngl seeing just how fast he got to this level since it took me about 5 years to reach a presentable level but at the same time it motivates me to push further and keep going

Was never a PDP fan, but grats to him branching out and trying new things. I wish him the best of luck.

Holy HOWWWW. Bro took 100 days and got SO FREAKING GOOD and is WAY BETTER THAN ME I’ve been drawing for like- *3* *YEARS* WHAT Also HWO DOES HE COLOR WITH MARKERS!?

I would say I'm an intermediate drawer, after 3 years of drawing at lest once a week. The only thing I don't like is faces but I LOVE doing dragond and I've gotten really good at them. I want to eventually become a proffesional and make art my job but I only dre=aw for fun right now.

Thank you for advice about not "loading" to much learning information so it can give apportunity to be opened to the drawing work flow. That resonatet with me.

I’m learning how to dance and your advice was so helpful for me In terms of learning the technical side of things but also remembering why I wanted to dance in the first place

So for someone who needs a bit of hand holding... are there resources or guides I could follow? I have a few sketchpads filled with drawabox exercises but I have no idea how to apply any of that or how to move on. I tried copying everything from TACO's books but its just not sticking... I feel like I need to start from 0 but I have no idea where or how to start. I feel like I need structured exercises as sometimes I just dont know what to practice. Any help would be appreciated.

Pewdie drawing for under a 100 days and better than me who has been drawing for 4 years💀

Been following you on the gram for a while! This is the first video of you ive seen, your voice is so soothing!

Why people are suprise?Art never was about talent but about skills.Thats it.If you learn about anatomy,shadows,objects and perspective then it should be easy.And he draw daily so his memory skills are better then people who draw just once in week.

“Ofcurse you can draw you’re not a fraud PewDiePie, your not Koolen” 💀

I got motivated to study somehow. WHAAAT?

Yeah for me i want to work as an animator and make my own characters, and you have really inspired me to draw in animations and i really love your work its really inspiring🥹🥹

I think the main things that are not talked about and have hand in making his (pretty simple) drawings look good that fast are two things you might not have if you are struggling: confidence (it makes incredible difference) and being an enterntainer (thinking about what will look cool, not just sitting and drawing absent-mindely). The rest is good feedback, and working towards a goal. And also all of the grown-ups I've taught learned a lot faster than kids, but it might have been my bubble. My husband was able to grasp in two hours what took me months back in middle school. I was self-taught from deviantArt back then, and he had a teacher in me, but still. I was really serious back then, while he was just humouring me. I strongly believe that just drawing everyday can do more bad than good, esp if you do not know what you're doing, just like any other form of exercise, and I'm afraid people will get the wrong lesson out of this story. And end up burned out with their mistakes deepened to muscle memory, possibly with lowered self esteem. Why? I've done it multiple times myself, because I'm addicted to creating. It took years of drawing and about 16 semesters of formal art education (and one mental hospital visit) before I've gotten a system that doesn't make it worse for me.

His intros keep on getting better each time😂😂

Practice helps but damn he's a natural

5:11 "We have the same pencil by the way". THANK YOU!! I've been trying to find that same pen thingymagiggy for so long!

I like how you said join the dark side as a digital artist😂. I am really bad at making prefect clean line artwork. The first time I was able to use a Wacom drawing pad, I never draw on paper ever again as I don't need to keep wasting time to erase pencil lines and destroy the paper.

seing pewdiepie being better than me in 100 days than me in 13 months of drawing everyday just make me want to go to sleep and never touch a pencil again

Damn sam chill 😎

THIS IS good, as he has lots of followers, people will be more into art :)

I love how he returned the favour and inspired others at the end of his video, he seemed to be really touched by the encouragement from the community 😢❤

This is f*cking sick and twisted. He is better at art then i ever will be 😭

No "kooleen" was harmed in the video

I got the "fraud" feeling too. I even had a breakdown last year. I spent almost a year from drawing, especially portraits because i wanted to focus on studies. Pass my exam but it was then difficult to get back into art. I couldn’t even freely draw portraits like I used to, techniques i developed, gone. It was very frustrating. Like I used to draw portraits every day or every orher day. . I cried to myself, questioning if I'm really an artist or a fraud. So i started over. I took a break from big portraits and got a sketchbook and focused on small scale art to get back into the art mindset. Focus on head angles and facial features because im self taught and used to just focus on just finishing and copying the portraits references. So now im practicing sketching facial features, head angles, body poses,

I’m fearful of the day when pewdiepie gets better than Sam.

Is it just me or a lot of the of gamers/youtubers are turning in to artists?! Lol

I've been drawing... maybe 20 years now. I think I'm pretty good. But I definitely have no idea what I'm doing, or any light, color, etc rules. Even though I've tried to watch stuff and study, nothing ever sticks. I just keep forgetting. It makes me deeply upset and frustrated. Being consistent etc is also just really tough for me (I assume my adhd is not helping at all either). So while I like most stuff I make, I don't feel capable at all of creating scenes I truly want to or bringing to life the things I want in the ways I want (like making comics for my OCs or small animations). Even worse, I feel incapable of learning how to get there, of the learning itself, because of how I forget and feel lost constantly as I draw. All these methods, ways to learn from references, how-to's, using color, simplify, adding detail, etc etc etc. It makes me feel dumb and hopeless and it sucks. It just makes me sad. 'you learn how you learn, it's not a race, just have fun' and other similar sentiments don't help. I feel like an outlier, I don't get why nothing sticks or makes sense when other people seem to find SOMETHING. I know I can't be alone in the feeling though, no matter for what someone feels such a way there's always someone else who feels similarly. Looking at older stuff, I have for sure improved, but I don't get how. Just doing gets you better I think, but not UNDERSTANDING what I'm doing or how I got there, or even how to explain it to people can frustrate me to the point of crying. I wonder if any of yall feel this way. And enough with the sad party, I just wanted a preface, because Pewd's vid sent me over the moon. So happy for the guy. To see someone just get better, even if they upset themselves sometimes was so uplifting. Especially having watched him a lot so long ago. As someone who's done art most of my life, seeing this gamer guy I used to watch just get started and love learning one of my favorite things that's a foundation of my life was super neat. Really really happy for him.

I absolutely love to see other people have the same reaction I had watching PewDiePie's drawing video - pure clean old time happiness, it makes you smile genuinely and this is someting a lot of us need in this world right now, just a genuine smile and a little bit of pure old happiness, a morning to be made. or a week. or a month :)

Dude this was only three minutes ago and almost 500 views 😭

Hard to call a 34 year old man an art baby.

Sam is like that proud dad who supports you in what you’re pursuing