❤ a little more practical appreciation. Thank you again

I like that you used the word "scribble" because I feel even "doodle" is now seen as something that produces a complete drawing.

I’ve never allowed myself before to do ugly art. It’s so freeing!! Not trying to always chase perfection is life changing

i’m so detached from the final product of my art that it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s “good” or “bad.” all i care about is the process and what kind of things i learned about myself, my medium or the world. we get very tied up in the idea that art needs to be perfect or something amazing. it just needs to be something for you. that’s all.

My biggest "fear" is "wasting" paper with bad art... it absolutely horrifies me! 😢😢😢

My journals and sketchbooks used to be so messy and free back when I was in High School, and I really miss that. I've started feeling like I don't have any hobbies because everything I pick up I'm so focused on getting good at that it becomes just another job. This was a great step for me in starting to find that joy of creation again

I've been living in the middle of an artist's block for the last 20 years. I'll try using this to get started. I went from drawing everywhere, on everything, all the time, all day long to absolutely nothing. It was supposed to become my source of income and now I'm left with the shambles of my plans and dreams. It's so hard, having to admit that you've lost skills not drawing, needing to relearn a lot if things, when your inner critic is on overdrive.

I’m a mental health counselor by career and an oil pastel artist since retirement. So this video for me is like coming home. Art is such an emotional , intuitive process and I don’t think artists talk enough about all the internal things behind their pieces. I finally started an on line art group to provide a space for personal discussions - internal orocess.

I am an accidental artist. I owned a cafe for 11 years and shut it down to move to the mountains. I started attending furniture making school and now i am in love with this obscure art form called marquetry. This is what i do every day now

This is exactly why I teach abstract art now instead of realism. It's so much more fun!

I bought a 'Wreck this Journal' journal a few years ago - you know, one of those books that has prompts like 'rip up this page', 'rub this in the dirt', 'scribble wildly with your eyes closed', on each page. I found it incredibly difficult at first - even my so-called destruction was very deliberate and compositionally aware. Ridiculous!! That book is really mangled now and I think these exercises might have a similar freeing affect. I'm going to have a go!

i watch this video repeatedly. Beyond the 'good vibes' and positive energy, it's like a walking cane and a lighthouse to me. "perfection" only happens when you're not trying

haha you even get a little tidbit of me clearing my throat/repeating my presentation of myself because I forgot to edit that out. hahahaha - this is a perfect example of including 'mistakes' in whatever it is that we create!! 😅 oops 🤣

My butt clenched at the idea of scribbling ugly art in my sketchbook 😂. I'm so glad I found you, I have much to learn. I actually recently started doodling in my 2022 planner that I forgot to use. It didn't get to fulfill it's purpose as a proper planner, but in a roundabout way has now become a creative planner where I pull it out to brainstorm ideas or thumbnail sketches. It's now my favorite "sketchbook" because it feels like a judgement free zone

The pornification of creating beautiful “art” on social Is a doubled edged sword: it is inspiring and limiting at the same time. It takes me a fair amount of ugly art to work through to create something I am satisfied with. There is a great book called Art and Fear. I highly recommend anyone interested in understanding themselves and “art practice” to read it. Marie, thanks for discussing this topic and providing a great resource to let inner demons sit on the page and out of our bodies which is where they belong 🥰

This is the kinda art channels I need more of on KZfaq. So many artists here put waaaaay too much emphasis on only presenting their perfect art pieces and even if they are aware of how harmful that can be for themselves and the art community they’re too afraid to just show their humble little scribbles. I can empathize with that fear, the internet can be an unforgiving place but we need relax, take ourselves less seriously and just enjoy making some stanky doodles to please our inner goblin child ❤️❤️ this video was exactly what I needed, thank you for sharing ❤️❤️

Gosh, aren't expectations awful. I mean REALLY awful. Seeing them illustrated really highlighted how destructive they actually are...

Thank you for this. Ever since I started art school I felt the need to please my professors and never being good enough. It created an unhealthy relationship where I equated my art as my value and worth as a person. Today is how I'll start healing.

to me the first "ugly" art piece looks so coooooool. my inner child loves it :D

I tried these exercise. The first one went great for me, thank you! On the second exercise, the first expectation i wrote was 'work must be completed and perfected in one sitting'. I had other expectations written as well, and so started drawing. I felt like it went well, until i noticed a collection of abstract shapes on the page from the first exercise. I expanded on it, added to it, and eventually tried to perfect it. Which of course made it worse. I didn't even realize until that moment that i had already succumbed to the first expectation!

I have this huge block that I cannot get past, like rational me knows all these things, but then I paralyse myself with these other thoughts. If it’s not perfect, I don’t deserve to be doing it. If I can’t make good art, what right do I have. Mine will never be good enough, therefore how dare I think I can. I also just never know what to do. I get bouts of inspiration, and I’ll draw or paint a thing for a while, and then… Nothing else comes and I don’t draw or paint for another 6 months. The thing is I love the idea of making art, I love, love, love it. I have this deep seated lack of self belief. I know somewhat where it stems from, but I also think that’s just me making excuses. I truly feel like I have some talent, like 20% talent, but NO inspiration or creative ability. I cannot think of what and how to create. Ever. My mind is just blank. It’s so frustrating. I love this video though, and am going to cut myself some slack, and practice some of what you speak about in this video.

I used to think things about art like you mention “oh that looks like a child did it” or “that’s rubbish " even to my own artwork but now , I follow the Picasso quote which my artwork seems connected to without me even trying to »Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Most negative comments towards our artwork will most often be from non art people - I use your idea about cheap paper before using an expensive sketchbook because let’s face it, sketchbooks have all increased in prices lately even the art creations ones. In France anyway 😅 Using children’s fibre tip pens are a great way to loosen up too , they tend to have more durable tips for scribbling fun 🤩

As someone who feels so blocked, this exercise has helped me to open up a little bit my creativity and see for myself part of the things that are blocking me. It has been quite a cathartic experience.

i tend to think more and more that those fancy sketchbooks piled on instagram and tours in youtube are made deliberately to show off. i cant believe what they sell are sketchbooks

While doing this alot of sadness bubbled up, I feel like crying but no tears yet. But a little voice in the dephts of my sadness is asking me to go on and make more ugly art so that I can make the sadness feel welcome and safe to exist. So I will try my best to listen and grant that wish. Thank you for showing us (me and the sadness) the way. ❤🙏

It has therapy value, confronting yourself with your fears and not taking everything seriously is freeing 🌌🌌

I've watched a bunch of videos trying to spark my creativity back and once again, you're the one who really does it for me! Grabbed my old wax pastels and doodled something abstract and found that play factor again. I said this to you on many platforms but you really are awesome!

I just did these exercises. It was hard with the second one, because every time I started to draw something intuitively, I would start to analyze it logically, e.g., "oh, this looks like tears, so let me make it round and not square". So I would coninue down the logic path instead of intuitive, and had to interrupt myself and return myself to a more intuitive way. And secondly, I still think that your "ugly" drawing and also the second one are so beautiful :) , but I think mine are indead ugly. I know that's not the purpose to assess them, but just an interesting thing I noted. Also, I do have a sketchbook that I don't like, and now I symbolically called it "the ugly sketchbook", and it gave me a sense of release and play :)

It feels so good to see someone whose physical writing style/handwriting is so close to mine. I have been self-conscious in the past about the random missing letters and imperfect style of my handwriting. I also write so quickly and if I slow down, my mind sometimes blanks and the I focus too much about the writing being perfect and forget the point of it all.

" A sketchbook is a working tool." Well that just entirely changed my view on sketchbooks. Thanks! :D

I love doing layers over "less than wonderful" sketches or first attempts. As I get closer to resolving the imagery, I feel like I'm saving myself. A wonderful analogy for depression. There's usually a sense of calmness when the imagery is resolved or close to acceptable, to Me.

Therapy art! Just go for it! Do something…..even if you hate it. It’s like exercise on paper. At least if nothing else you’re learning about different mediums and how they work on a paper. I find this tutorial very helpful as I struggle with perfection. I’m going to start doing this loose and haphazard technique for a while and see what happens. Thank you!🦋

I used this as a way to feel past an anxiety attack. I am definitely feeling into this style for my sketchbooks, so I appreciate this video a lot. Thank you for sharing. From an artist who never believed in herself until I allowed myself to make bad art 🩷 bad art teaches skills and techniques you can carry over as you get better at making the art you want to create ❤️

I drew a lot when I was in school, but my studies and job have taken over my life. The past few months I have been diving back into art. I feel self conscious because I don't feel like I am at where I should be/where I was and get down on myself. Loved this video and cant wait to experiment with art this way. Thanks for the video!

Thank you for this video. I used to work with preschool-4th graders and found all their art to be beautiful, not ugly.

This is really calming... your voice, your art, whatever you're saying. I woke up in the middle of the night because of stomach cramps and watching your video made me feel at peace. Thank you so much for sharing this :)

"connect with the act of mark making" ....that hit deep. Thank you.

Thank you so much, for bringing this topic to my attention. I am one of those to feel terrified to approach my sketchbook, ❤ now I know someone there encourages me not to be afraid of.😊

i would love a video on how to practice working by your intuition. thank sm this was so nice

It was really nice to open my sketchbook that I'd been carrying around all day to never open it... and to join you in this activity.feels really good to just begin.

I once took a screenshot of someone calling my doodles ugly and posted it to social media to see what sort of reaction it got. I noticed that the two dudes who "liked" the mean post were both set designers who made surrealistic, psychedelic, abstract set designs for things like music festivals and big open air events. Basically what I'd like to be doing if I could get my ideas onto a bigger scale and bigger mode of production. And it occurred to me that these guys are basically my competition, which made me feel really sad. Artists are rare and we're supposed to support each other. We have a hard enough time surviving in the world as it is. And besides all that, artists tend to be left-leaning, more empathetic, more sensitive individuals. And so it really broke my heart that so many of them would band together to bully me. It's like the opposite spirit of creativity. And maybe I'm overthinking their reaction, but I don't think so, since they didn't "like" any of my other posts... only this one critical post. And they weren't subscribed to my page as "followers" and my post had no tags where it would come up in a public search, which means that they were lurkers. Apparently lurking in the background but not saying anything for a very long time. And so I guess that's one of the big themes or ideas I'm tapping into. The darkest parts of the human mind and heart.

Thank you for this video! I find it really difficult to let go of the idea that once I sit down to draw I need to produce a finished piece, lest my time be "wasted". I also have a constant anxiety about "saving" my materials for my "good" drawings. As such I have several sets of paints, markers, pastels, colored pencils, etc. that I'm "afraid" to use. I am going to try this technique to try to break that cycle.

This was very cathartic for me, especially as someone who feels like everything they do must be perfect even before they have given it a try. I didn’t expect the thoughts or feelings or emotions to come up the way they did. I was skeptical but I went along with the video and I am still shook. I love the idea of the space to make bad art. I feel like I can breathe!

i just try ur exercise and i love my "ugly art" i found a liberty which make me happy and so fun to do , so thank u

Great video! I've more or less rejected the beauty of polished portraiture in favour of the raw energy of spontaneity. It's so incredibly freeing, and this video is a great explainer of why. It's helped me fill in some gaps in my thinking, so thank you 🙏

I'm not an artist but I found this very therapeutic in giving permission to confront parts of myself that I've been scared of. Thank you

I really appreciate you taking the time to record this, I never share my art with anyone because I’m always told it’s “too weird/different” and this makes me feel better about the colors and styles I use.

The second exercise reminds me of an exercise from the book No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz! Basically the book is about Internal Family System which in a nutshell means all of us have different "parts" whom have different roles. One of them, of course, the inner-critic. The exercise I'm talking about is meant to "map out" your parts on paper by feeling and intuition as well. I definitely loved your version however as it simplifies it for me. Instead of having to wait and see what comes up in my body and thoughts, writing down the general expectations I have for myself will make it so much easier for me to start mapping it all out. Thank you for this!

You know, i think the exercise of addressing expectations would be great for anyone struggling with feelings of lack of self worth in any field. It’s therapeutic to look those kinds of thoughts head on and to physically manifest them and get them out of one’s head for sure. I suppose this ventures into the territory of art therapy!

Crude art like this is like lofi film, purposefully flawed and low effort, all feelings. It's personally my favorite style funny enough

Thank you for this video. Made me open my sketchbook mid video because watching you made me excited to create again. Almost in a childlike approach. I love it. Love that you covered the psyche on not taking creating too serious, to the point you have anxiety. Anxiety to create perfection. Would love more tips on this.

I totally thought of a flower just right before you started drawing it!! Intuition on point 🤭

I absolutely love your emotions in the process, you are laughing and having fun and this is a real creation. Amazing, thank you ❤

Sometimes ugly is exactly the point. I love the concept designs and creatures in "Stranger Things". Maybe monsters don't appeal to everyone, but it can appeal to the right audience at the right time.

this was such a fun experience, i really needed to let that shit go

I feel like best way to deal with the inner critic is to warm its heart ❤️ therapeutic art practices for the win!

Thank you so much for this! I'm a writer who dabbles in drawing to help free my creativity, but even that sours at times, and this was just lovely to bring me back to my own unique centre.

I do NOT believe there is such a thing as ugly art! Art is subjective and just because a piece doesn’t appeal to ME doesn’t mean it’s ugly.

Keep the adventure growing within ✨

Thank you soooo much!! Your video saved me, I was in a spiral of rejecting my own art, and now, thanks to you, I was able to return on drawing and making art on an almost daily basis! And whenever I feel I’m stuck again, I always return to this video! 😊❤

i almost scrolled past this video but i’m really glad i clicked it. honestly really insightful and will be trying this

The intended basis of the lesson was good. But what i found striking to a distracting extent, was the quality of these art materials. Such vivid colours and laydown.

I’m excited to try these exercises for myself as i’ve related to the anxiety and some of the expectations you’ve mentioned. Thanks so much for this! 😁

I never thought of such a way to create some balance in my art and life. Thank You.

I love how universal art is. I can take all these thoughts and apply it to music. I often find myself coming up with ugly music which I first think is good because they come out as a response to a feeling or a thought. Then I go an elaborate on it - I record it, maybe I add parts to it - then I put it on the shelf (actually in a folder on a hard drive lol). And when later I go back and listen to it I recognise it's awful and it doesn't lead anywhere. But it's ok. It was a part of a journey that is not to be remembered but it was necessary to get to a point that is significant and memorable.

I get so insecure about my art because I’ve never had any formal training. I barely know color theory, I don’t know how to do shading, shadows…it makes me feel super self conscious. I appreciate you

What a wonderful exercise!!! I need this and wish I had seen this years ago. Will go for it!! Thankyou!!

It was so cool to watch the intuition exercise and agree with everything you drew relating to the feeling. I was like yes! Sad blob! Chaos flower!

Thank for this video. I used to have a numbing feeling about my sketchbooks, afraid to put something unprofessionally looking there. But recently I allowed it to be just a work area where anything as acceptable. Beautiful art doesn't have to be "beautiful" in common understanding. It just should carry some creative energy to be brought to the audince.

hi I did this exercise in order to give myself space to create whatever. normally i do my best to create something very nice/beautiful, but as i am not feeling to well and i do like to create something, i did this. it learned me that creating is creating, no matter what the idea about it is. so i created something i will not share with anyone, like i normally do. its for me only and thats ok.

Yep, yep, not only that ... if you look at it long enough, you start seeing abstract scenes. I've gone back to what some would label catastrophic "ugly" sketches and turned them into scenes that looked better than if I had planned them. Besides, doodle "messes" are sooo much fun. 👍

Thank you! This is super helpful and i'm delighted that i found your channel. I want to try this now and also see how i can translate that into other areas that frustrate or "scare me" - i feel like this could be an amazing meditation/grounding practice

i’m so grateful this came up on my algorithm! this is exactly what i needed, thank you so much!

Thank You! Super helpful exercise that allowed me to get out of my own way! The energy I got to express, personified itself which allowed it to simply be and exist right in front of me. Woof, moving forward with less fear and anxiety! Cheers!

Thank you a lot! I will definitely try both of those exercises. Watching your video, I just felt kindness and a strong desire to help people. Thank you for that, too!

I love this! I’ve run a craft based Etsy shop for a few years and I’m feeling very stagnant creatively. I’ve recently felt a pull to go back to drawing and painting which I’ve not done in years; running a shop meant that everything I produced had to be perfect and sellable, and I want that freedom to make ugly art without expectation. Will definitely be trying this!

Whenever I watched a sketchbook video, I felt like I was missing something or doing something wrong, but this video reminded me that there are no rules to this. Thank you, always draw like yourself and share it! Love share and learn 💖

This is awesome! Your free flowing examples turned out to be so “beautiful” and I’d rather look at these and be inspired then some realistic looking illustrations any day. Very glad to come up on your channel/video and quite interesting that I did after I’ve intuitively been practicing this free flowing “ugly” art making for some months now :) thank you❤

I have a lovely sketchbook I bought last year with thick, black paper and some white ink gel pens because I was convinced that I would be able to break my drawing slump if I could detach it enough from my normal associations with art. That didn't really work, and it has been sitting off to the side for almost a year now just waiting for me to feel like I had something worthy to put in it. These exercises made for a perfect first couple pages, I hope I can keep pulling that energy forward 💜

Love this! Thank you so much for sharing, I was doodling alongside you and it was a mild therapy for me. Need to do this more.

Thank you! I love that what you made and to be honest many art pieces are ugly and they hang in museums seen by millions of people.

This is refreshing as I have struggle with perfectionism. I believe this can be liberating for all people. As we all have the inner child or the struggling mature perfectionist. Thank you.

Thank you Marie, your video was so helpful to me because to be honest I have struggled with my art the last couple of weeks. Like you said we all have certain expectations (and this can extend to others too outside of ourselves). Perfection is my nemesis...always was unfortunately. I will definitely try this exercise tomorrow.

I resonate with this video on a deep level. Thank you for sharing these exercises with us! ❤

This was golden ❤️Thank you so much! I was so in tune with the choices you made to connect to those statements! It was as if your hands expressed how I also felt about them. You went for the exact shapes I had in mind! I will definitely try this kind of fun liberating exercise ! Thank you for sharing 🤗❤️❤️❤️

It's always wonderful to see different ways to confront our perfectionism in our art making. I'm a long time watercolorist with a tight, illustrative painting style, and I need to occasionally do messy art without a goal, as well as experiments just to see what happens from time to time. I like the idea of writing down the constricting thoughts and painting the underlying feelings, something I would like to add to my practice for further loosen up.

I watched your video while doing a painting, but i just had to come back and do the exercise as described... it's just such a beautiful concept that i plan on trying multiple times. I really felt myself connecting with my inner child and even noticed myself holding my instruments with a fist... one word of warning is that this can definitely bring up some trauma and painful feelings, in my case such a welcome and beautiful thing to allow myself to experience. thank you

Thank you for this. I’ve been working with a sketchbook this year more than I have, in a long time. What an insightful practice. I think when we dive deep into the mindset behind our art, we free up a lot of our lives. I really really enjoyed this 💗

Love love love this video and your message! About a year or so ago I created the goal for myself to simply "make bad art", and this has completely transformed my relationship with creating. It's good to have more reminders of that message, so this is definitely a video I will come back to. I'm intrigued to know more about the intuitive process you mentioned, it sounds like a way of doing art therapy, which I love too. Excited to follow along on your creative journey and see what you share with us next! 💖

Best art video I’ve seen

I just love this video! I start feeling better by just watching you. the last Weeks I think about a really big and important project of art i want to make... and think and think and never started because i am so afraid to mess it up... in my head are the perfect versions and i know it will not be like this if i do it...😟 Maybe i really need to start with some ugly art to get started with something ❤ so thank you!

thank you so much for this guided exercise! it made me shake loose some of the tightness i had going on, made me see the subject i'm currently working on in a very different light.

You are such an angel ❤ i love the..idea of drawing and painting, yet anytime i try to learn basics..i get so so angry..or cry. Which is very strange because it is not an important thing for me. I believe i always wanted to explore and express myself through drawing and painting, but i've never been encouraged by my teachers and very discouraged by other colleagues at school that seemed natural talents. Many times throughout my life i bought paint,pencils, sketchbooks, canvas..and just feel stuck to even start and when i start i feel angry and frustrated. This video was a revelation for me and a confirmation: i shouldn't start Learning..i should just start drawing and painting as a child because i never had that in the first place...i should enjoy it as a child and go with the flow. I feel stuck and a huge bkockage and fear in learning..but i felt joy doing what i did together with you. I thank you for your guidance and i appreciate the algorhitm that brought you on my youtube😂 Much blessings from my ❤ to yours ❤ P.s. update: i've been drawing every single day since I watched this video. I want to emphasise how big this is for me...and I don't know how you had such impact on me, but you did. Sometimes my drawing got nowhere and was ugly and I could let go of that and continue or move on to another thing. Normally, i would stop for the next 6 months and then I would feel the desire to come back. I always come back to drawing and painting, but those huge breaks and blockages were so painful. Thank you so so much! You and this video were the unlocking key for me ❤

First time drawing and painting after months of thinking about it, thank you very much

Awesome. The title sent me off on a journey and then the vid was a helpful voice behind me. Thank you 😊

Very inspirational. I started making an ugly sketch with this in mind with some aquarelle sticks and some oil paints in a sketchbook, but actually turned out to be pretty awesome IMO! Completely unintentionally, definitely going to do more of this!

I am by no means an artist, but I’m trying to get into drawing and I really enjoyed this!! I’ve noticed I get really anxious about doing hobby activities, and I think incorporating exercises like this would really help me in the future. Thank you!

This was so inspiring to watch! Thank you for sharing these exercises 🙏🏽

Such videos like yours helped me overcome my "sketchbook fear" - I always was embaressed because my sketchbook didn't look as neat and tidy as many others, full of wonderful drawings. I even left many pages out and there were many white spaces. Than I saw some videos on youtube, were people talked about this and that this is not what a sketchbook is here for. What also blew my mind because I have never thought about it: You can paint over things you don't like or glue something onto it AND you can come back weeks, months or even years later into a sketchbook and fill out blank pages or redraw stuff if you wish to. This is such a great idea I never thought of and I want to incoorperate into my sketchbooks. :) thank you for your great video! It is really needed.

Thank you for this video, it's like a comforting hug in a visual sense :) I haven't drawn in years but I'm going to pick up a pencil again soon!