12:55 this part resonated with me a lot. I procrastinate so much to the point that starting feels like trying to push off a huge weight that's been dropped on me. I built up such a specific and impossible idea of how I want my art to look that I'm just bound to feel unsatisfied with anything I do. But you need to just do it and tune out the critic in your mind.

To suffer for art, is to put tape on a hairy arm to make a point

I loved it. Please do more videos like this ❤. Is there a video that you teaches how to paint the body?

Dear Kenzo ! while seeing your video, trying to understand ( my mother tongue is french...) your advices or commentary about drawing&painting, suddenly the idea to sketch you both appears in my mind. And what did I see first on the image on the right of my screen? All those little pink hearts painted on the long wall behind the bench on which you are sitted. Isn't it these feeling you are speaking about : a peacefull feeling provided by the simple connection to Heart & Love surrounding us in fact, but without the constant possibility for our mind to feel it? Aren't we all looking for these Presence of Love with a big L ? Nowadays it is exactly my purpose and questionning when thinking, beginning, doing and achieving my art's projects. In other words, do am I patient enough to do what I can do today without avoiding opening my eyes on those "little" opportunities of bright love my spirit's unique eye is so thirsty of? Thank you so much for these image, it is a GIFT, I will carefully place it as front page of my computer. It will be more than a simple remainder of 2 kind and smiling gentlemen, sketching 3 boats on a shinny river by a shinny weather, sitting on a bench, speaking with intelligence of art and human being difficulties, with hundred and hundred pink hearts behind them without perhaps (?) seeing, or feeling them completely, just because they are (the hearts...) so many ...Marianne from Nice, South of France

Thanks Love Life Drawing. Keep bringing your good intuition and dynamics to drawing.🧑‍🎨♾️✍️

This is so incredibly helpful! You've fixed about 70% of my drawing mistakes right there

Excellent. My puppy needs a lot more training. Terrific video on programing yourself to success in other areas as well as art.

Thanks for all the fantasic materials you create and publish, by far more useful than the info I have gotten from my in person group life classes.

Super interesting! I love the "train the puppy" analogy, have to remember that. To me, learning to tune into what's going on inside my brain, dealing with emotions, frustrations, motivation or lack thereof, feels roughly as important as the technical aspects of drawing. Maybe even more important, a prerequisite. And it's so paradoxical at times. When, say, I have high expectations when I'm starting to sketch, I need to realize that, and then completely let go of those expectations to actually meet them. If that makes sense :)

I have watched sooo many videos going over perspective and vanishing points, etc and yours was the most helpful video so far. You really have a talent for teaching these things . Thank you so much for this video!

lol I don't think the visitor found the drawing to be bad i think she was just making conversation and of course with art it is always easy to say the wrong things.

It’s always about the fundamentals and the reps. I would be suspicious of a teacher who doesn’t want to tell a student that.

Thank you Kenzo. Really appreciate your thoughts and input! Very helpful! Thanks again.

did that lady come up and call it shitty? thats so weird

Thanks. I'm trying to learn drawing after putting the pencil down for 20 years and I get anxiety often about drawing or painting and then often get frustrated that my drawing looks pretty terrible, especially faces.

Your pronunciation is just perfect for « la technique des trois crayons », merci for the video 😊

Thanks for creating and sharing this. Lovely to watch ❤

This was a breath of fresh air. Identified with every single part of this video. Thank you so much. 🤗

You have done a lot of good videos, Kenzo, but really this is one of the BEST EVER!

This was so good! Thank you so much - it's what I've been struggling with for decades and totally stunted my artistic attempts every time. I'm so encouraged by what you've shared.

Do you know…….that was really helpful and lovely to watch the two of you chat so easily about important things while drawing and painting. It’s left me with a good feeling and the advice to not wait for inspiration or the perfect moment was very useful. You did good today :)

Resonates! Thanks kenzo.

more then any other aspect of figure drawing, the issues you talked about in this video have been my biggest barrier to my progress i think. a lot of things to think about here!

I love this channel. Thanks so much!

i'm 26 and have been drawing for most of my life, but I still can barely finish a single drawing because of anxiety and ADHD. i'm probably too old at this point to get good enougb at art to make a career of it, but i still want to try to improve. i'm always going to regret my past failures to learn and grow through anxiety, and i don't think i will ever be able to stop hating myself for it, but i'll keep going. maybe someday i'll get somewhere. i don't know. i'm feeling very hopeless about it all and regret is eating me alive

Thank you for sharing Kenzo some of your story. The more detailed a picture , the more interesting it can be. Interesting to hear the chat with Mark. Waiting for the right feelings in order to do art is a BIG point. Just do it ! Oh yes….so simple…..so simple…(without all the over analysis …waiting for ….the right energy…the right mindset…the right clarity of thought….the right preparation of art materials…the right sharpened pencil ….the right time of day…..the right light……….the right mood…..) How to get yourself to do stuff?? Turn off the Brain and just Be with the pencil….let the pencil do its thing and turn off the emotions and reactions to what we are drawing…..we all struggle with the same stuff…..it’s comforting to know this. I know that I have improved my attitude to drawing by training myself to not care….and though i still procrastinate daily i am better than before because of this . babbling here….but hey…i don’t care…i know someone will relate out there…maybe only the puppies….or the walruses or aliens….but that’s ok with me.😂

Really really one of my favourite videos you've made Kenzo. The frank and open way that you discussed your experiences was really poignant, and I think that your works speaks for itself as testament to how you have overcome things. Also want to echo what someone else commented - giving your attention to the here and now and not the end result is the best approach to all of life, not jusy drawing. Living that takes practice and rewiring of the brain too though! Cannot recommend the lovelifedrawing study group enough, thanks for all that you do 😊

"my wife got untaped talent" i thought talent wasnt real... hmm...

short amount of time = talent change my mind ^^ i have drawn for 7 months for 4 to 6 hours aday and i still cant to anything right xD. But then we got people like dd mark that just got good in 2 years xD cmon man. Also this idea of "just practise" its toxic because if you just mindlessly draw without any direction you will get noware fast! And if your doing this by yourself with no money, no teacher, no mentor and your just winging it. You will fail forever. Sad but true.

why have you changed the title though?)

Man who the fuck was that woman, I can’t believe she said that, 😂😢 that’s my worst nightmare!!

Great video! I echo all these ideas with my own therapy and i wish you the best of luck along your journey.

Thanks for this video, I really like the comparison to a puppy 😁 it helped me a lot. (and the woman, like wtf? 🙈)

So helpful, thank you!

not to be contrarian, but the initial "brain's version" of Kenzo was beautiful.

Why doesn't this vid have much attention? It's really good

❤😂10:34 love it. I was in London last week with my wife and kids. Spent two nights at Holiday Inn near Hammersmith station. Spent the two nights just drawing in the hotel’s foyer/slash dining area. People would walk past and peek. I ignored them and kept going no matter how my art looked. Then one guy stopped and stared a long time and I made the error of looking up. He had this big grin on his face and I just squirmed and stopped. Never look up! 🤣

Thank you 😊

10:32 Srry gotta speak my mind on this one, she had to nerve to say that really? She probably cant handle criticism very well soshe puts other people down.

ugh, I started to learn to draw so many times and soooo many times I failed that I'm tired of even thinking about scribbling again... the interesting fact is that I had some results of my practices that I REALLY liked... And yet it wasn't enough to keep me going for more. but... I have anxiety problems - maybe this is connected to my drawing problems...

I really wish the 'motivation is a unicorn fart' title hadn't hooked me, but I admit it did.

Very sad times now especially with Meta using Insta data for AI scraping :( As a professional artist, I can only hope for the best

10:32 "oh can I look? oh thats shit" 😂she probably from new york

Big thanks to Mark for explaining why Motivation is a Unicorn Fart. Links to his stuff are in the description :)

Favorite quote: "Motivation is a unicorn fart." There's a much needed kick.

I've really changed the way I approach art. I've had to give up on the idea of learning how to draw. Now the goal is the process itself. If I can turn off the part of my brain that is telling me I'm doing it wrong, and just focus on shapes like you said, I consider that a successful session of drawing. It doesn't matter if my people look like aliens and every animal I draw looks like a walrus, if I focused on seeing it was a success.

Heyy that's crazy! I've been following you both for years 😄(Going to Mark's workshop on sunday😊) So cool!

hairy armpits 😔

I am 68 years old. When I was 10 years old, my mother bought me a cartoon comic that I loved. I wanted to draw that way, but did not know "how to". So I searched for "how to draw" books and stumbled on the book "Drawing on the Right Side of your Brain" from the Author Betty Edwards. It was a disaster! Why? Because she told her readers that they SHOULD stop drawing cartoons because cartoons have to many symbols and lines and "reality" doesn't have any lines! She told her readers that they SHOULD draw in a realistic way, because that is what children of 10 years old "want to do"!!! I wanted to learn how to draw cartoons that I liked " from memory", she wanted me to copy realistic portraits, that I didn't care about! She didn't tell her readers that her Approach was called "Observational Drawing" but gave her readers the impression that this was the ONLY way to learn to draw. It took me years before I learned from Glenn Villpu that there is another Approach to drawing and learning to draw called "Analytical or Constructive Drawing". His slogan was: "You don't copy the model you analyse it". I lost so much time, listening to people, who didn't have any clue to what I really wanted!

0:50 could you please give the name of this book 🙏🙏