I found the autobiography of comedian Kevin Hart, “I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons” full of ideas on how to deal with life’s set-backs. So I asked Copilot to use the key takeaways from this book and apply it to being an artist. Kevin Hart's grind-to-glory story is a goldmine for anyone learning visual art from the ground up. 🎨 Let’s break down how his life lessons can fuel your artistic development—especially if you're just getting started or trying to level up: 💥 1. Use Your Pain as Material • Don’t wait until you’re “skilled enough” to express something real. • Pour your struggles, identity, and perspective into your practice—even your messy first drafts are worth creating. The truth behind the brushstroke always outshines perfect technique. 🚀 2. Resilience > Talent • You will make bad art. You’ll burn out. People might not get it. Hart bombed sets for years. • What matters is that you keep showing up—to the sketchpad, to tutorials, to critiques. Growth lives on the other side of persistence. 🧠 3. Life Is About Interpretation • The same still-life can be painted 1,000 ways. Your life experiences shape how you see and re-imagine the world. • Trust your eye and voice—even if you’re still finding it. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 4. Build a Strong Team • Join art collectives, attend workshops, connect on forums. Hart had his “Plastic Cup Boyz”—you need your people too. • Feedback + accountability = artistic acceleration. 🎯 5. Bet on Yourself • Don’t wait for an invitation. Start sharing your work online, entering local shows, creating a portfolio. • Hart self-funded his comedy special. You can self-initiate your learning and exposure. 🔑 6. Stay Authentic • Copying styles while learning is fine—but ultimately, make it yours. • Audiences (and you) respond to honesty. Paint what matters to you. 📉 7. Learn from Failure • Didn’t nail that composition? Got tough critique? Good. • Dissect what didn’t work. That’s a stepping stone, not a step back. 🧘 8. Balance Ambition with Self-Awareness • Push your creative boundaries, but also rest and reflect. • Burnout kills art. Feed your mind with books, walks, conversations—that’s part of learning too. Visual art is a long game—just like comedy. If Hart’s story teaches anything, it’s that the way forward isn’t glamorous... but it is transformational.

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Don't get discouraged, your work has progressed a lot! Go back and look at your first pieces, and compare them to now. It takes a lot of time and input, but you'll continue see your improvement. Here's a relevant Proko video where Stan looks back through some of his first sketch books. Hope this helps! https://www.proko.com/lesson/you-dont-need-talent-ill-prove-it

Heyo, its entirely possible you might have Adhd or something else blocking your way outside of the course (that was the case for me so pardon my projection). Taking care of yourself and making sure you are enjoying the steps along the way are the only way to get better. It could also be that proko's teaching methods arent for you - though its not popular to admit, proko's methods ALONE doesnt work for a lot of people. Regardless of the reasons for that, Sinix design and others have helped me get the most out of proko's lessons by giving me permission to work in ways I find more intuitive and motivating. Heads up and enjoy the little steps. Art can and should be fun, regardless of your goals (IMO) . As for talent. I think talent is learning/knowledge we dont understand yet. A lot of it boils down to developing intuitive kenetic memory and confident mark placement so that you dont have to think about the lines as you make them, and you can spend more mental resources on designing, understanding and learning. Good news is that that sort of stuff can be learned! but its a personal journey. I cant help you feel your own body and manage your mental resources efficiently. Sincerely, someone who has been there for far longer than you have, suffering from a similar angst, and got better (: p.s. good luck!

i would like to say i am sry for my behavior. This post is kinda childish and just wrong. I am a very negative person and constantly clank down on myself and tbh i dont want to give upp but i am just frustrated with my lack of growth. I know i am not the only one that feels this way. And its tough for everyone not just me. I will not make this kind of post again. I dont know if i will continue to strive for improvement. once again i am sry for this post. from now on. if i am to post it will be to ask for feedback.

In my personal opinion, you’re hitting the point of burnout and you need to focus on taking a short break or doing something fun. Your comparisons are apples-to-oranges right now. If you’re going to compare you need to do it with similar mediums. Digital, especially finished work, isn’t going to compare to pencil and paper. Digital inking is going to be cleaner and look better than pencil on paper will in real life. I’d also be wary when you don’t see what references another artist is using for their pictures. Gesture is just a spoke in the wheel for creating better drawings. From what I see, your gesture is great. It’s fluid, expressive, and structural enough to get across the figure. But gesture alone isn’t going to compare one-to-one against finished digital work. If you’re going to compare your gesture to those videos, make sure you pause at the right time and compare your gesture to the under-drawing before the inking starts. From the shorts and videos I’ve watched, the under-drawings are messy with numerous overlapping lines and scribbled sections. Compared to that, your gesture is much better. But it won’t compare to the finished product at the end of the video. I found myself missing the forest for the trees and hyper focused on one thing at times. Missing the bigger picture that I wasn’t progressing because I was stuck in a rut when I needed to branch out. My advice would be to clear your head. Take a short rest. Reflect on why you decided to take up drawing to start with and what you want to accomplish.