Maidith
February 17th, 2008, 03:27 PM
EDIT: This has been resolved.
Here's the transcription:
Free Digital Painting Video - Happy New Year!
Hi and welcome to another edition of my podcast. I’m Bobby Chiu and uh… we’re podcast, videocast—whatever you’d like to call it… anyways…I am back. I’m back. End of the year I figured it’s a good time to do a podcast--no matter how much work I have--so I decide to shove the work aside for today and just take a little time out to do something that I should have done a while back, which is to do another podcast because it’s time to—you know—talk about all the great things that have happened and all the great things that will happen for next year. For all of us. That’s how we should take life anyways—is to always be optimistic. A person that believes has the chance to achieve. The person that doesn’t believe—you know—their chances of achieving is much less. Much, much less. And belief, it doesn’t involve skill. It doesn’t involve anything it’s just your mindset. Right? So, what better opportunity to talk about beliefs and changes and all this good stuff—great things that will change your life for the better—what better opportunity to talk about all this stuff than… than doing it during New Years? It’s strange, the whole New Years thing. It’s just another day. Its just another day off the calendar, but it’s a day that gives us all a sense of hope, you know--a lot of us anyways. One year has gone past and no matter what happened during that year, now you’re starting off with a clean slate. And anything is possible for this next new year. And of course, you know, I’m gonna say that it doesn’t matter what day it is to make your changes. It doesn’t matter at all. You know…it… but New Years is a great excuse, so why not take this opportunity now to make some resolutions for yourself? Or even if it isn’t new years, you just call it whatever day you need to call it to get yourself motivated enough to make some changes for yourself. To give yourself a better life. Because just about every one of us, we know what we need to do to better our lives. Its just finding a good enough excuse to do it. Its like anyone can quit smoking. The hard part is finding a good enough excuse to do it. Now, usually people don’t have a good enough excuse. They look at it like ‘yeah it’s bad’, but it’s not that bad. But if somebody, let’s say, kidnapped their dog and said you better quit smoking in three months or I’m never gonna give you your dog back, then all of the sudden, that person has a good enough excuse. The other thing is that when we try to quit things or we try to change our lives, what we do most of the time is try to resist—resisting the urge to eat sweets, resisting the urge to play video games—or, you’re forcing yourself to do something. For example, forcing yourself to go to the gym, forcing yourself to draw in the morning—to do those extra late nights. There is a trick to it. The trick is to not resist and to not force yourself to do things. What you want to do is convince yourself that you want to do things, and to do things that you want to do. Say it’s quit smoking, say it’s to stop eating top much, say its to go to the gym more, say its to have better drawing habits—to go to life drawing every week—and so on and so forth. There is a great reason in there for you to want to do that. It’s just the road is bumpy and its paved with frustration, but the road to success is always paved with frustration. Its always gonna be a frustrating time. That’s when you know that you are on to something and you’re just about to break through to that next level of learning. Whether or not that’s true or not, that’s a whole ‘nother story. But if you thought that belief, what could it hurt? It’ll make you continue on. You might not continue on that same path but, you might say, while this isn’t working, it must be like this and change it. What I like to do is, when ever I need to do something I don’t want to do I take some time and sit there, think and visualize the end results if I do this thing right. What would the end result be if I got up right now even if I went to bed late—you know what would be the end result of me getting up right now, going, doing more work. Getting it done, getting it out of the way would result in me having more time on my hands—more time to do my own drawings (more time to do all sorts of stuff)—and just sit there and just visualize clear as day in colour, smell, sounds—everything. You know, all the five senses and really see it and magnify that little reason ten fold and tell that reason what ever you want to do is so so great that you’d have to be crazy to not get up and do it. That’s the whole trick. So if it was sleeping in, then you’d have to think about the successful version of myself [yourself] getting up early—this is just an example, but this is my example. The successful version of Bobby Chiu, what would he be doing? Let’s think. Would he be sleeping in or would he be up at the crack of dawn trying to better his life—trying to do as much as he can to better his life, better the lives of his friends, his family and all of that and stuff. Once you start talking about real things, that really strike a chord really mean something to you, then you can get yourself to want to do it. You don’t wanna concentrate on the things that you are trying to resist. You’re trying to change your mind about whatever it is that’s holding you back and change it into something positive—change it to a mind state where you want to go out and you want to make your life better. You want to do whatever it is that you know would make your life better. That’s the whole problem with quitting things like smoking—smoking seems to be such a hard thing for so many people to quit. And uh tobacco is known to be addictive. And all these things—you must know someone who’s tried to quit smoking but has not been successful. Its because the whole entire time, they try to quit by resisting. Okay I’m going to resist all of today—all of the urges that I have to go smoke and I’m gonna resist all today and not do it. And the next day comes (same thing)—I’m gonna resist all of today and not do it. You know, that might be very hard for a lot of people. As these days go on, it gets harder to find a good enough, strong enough excuse to resist anymore. Sooner or later, because you keep resisting, you’re gonna give in at some time. You have to change that mindset of resisting and change it into concentrating on the things that—reasons why you want to change in the first place. So instead of constantly thinking of resisting these urges, you change it around to think about those reasons why you want to change in the first place. So if it was smoking, you would think about what it is about not smoking that you are attracted to. Think back to when—may be you have to think back thirty, forty years—you were ten years old, running through a field with your dog, playing catch, playing with your friends on the swings or riding your bike as hard as you can and really taking in all of that beautiful, clean air to your lungs and breathing it out. Just feeling great. Those are the images that you want to concentrate on. If it’s getting up drawing in the morning, getting up extra early to draw in the mornings, then you wanna think about this—you know if I keep doing this, picture yourself at that desk, getting up in the morning it’s a great beautiful day, golden sunlight coming in, its just the crack of dawn and you are there and happy and you’re drawing. Put some soft lighting in there, just a great and beautiful image and you’re drawing away and that is going in your book, you know your biography of how you became successful, you know the days you get up early to draw before going to your crappy job, whatever it is—whatever you don’t like. You’re picturing yourself, watching yourself, visualizing yourself as this great person that’s getting up in the morning, doing they’re thing and striving after their goals, and down the road from that, you’re this other person now which is very successful because of all that hard work you put in—signing autographs, doing whatever you’re doing that’s the ideal result of all this hard work. And you magnify—magnify¬—that image—ten, twenty, one hundred fold over. Try and see it. Try and close your eyes and visualize as clear as day—smell the smells around you, see the colors, hear the sound. You start to do that, start to, you know, visualize people really appreciating your art and respecting your art—;perhaps you were one of those people that was lower end of the stick when you graduated or if you’re in school right now, and people kinda just look past you and not really think that you’re one of the top people. You wanna visualize yourself as the person that came out of no where and everybody has they’re attention on you now. Where did this person come from? How did they get this good? Visualize yourself walking down the hall of your school—the teachers greeting you nicely, with your stuff on the walls and everyone sees your artwork as they go through the halls of your school, and that great sense of achievement and let it grow. Let it grow. And as you’re sitting there, lying there in your bed, (or whatever it is) sitting at your desk, listening to this, you keep that image in your head and you let it grow. Let it grow nice and healthy and three seconds later, turn that brain off, and just get that pencil out and just start drawing. Don’t think about anything else—don’t think about any excuses that might take you away from achieving your goals. Just kind of zombie-like, turn the switch on and start doing whatever it is that you want to change—what you want to do. Because I can tell you right now with all honesty that I don’t believe in talent. I believe that all talent can be developed. I don’t believe that some people are just, they just naturally just have it. Not in art. They have to work towards it. They might have a good head start on you, but everybody has to work towards it. They might be—somebody else maybe a better drawer than you, but that’s only because they’ve been doing it seriously for a lot more time than you. I think that without a doubt that everybody can be a very good artist. Some can become absolutely genius—an amazing artist, but the main thing is, everybody can be good. Everybody can be successful as long as they believe, as long as they put in the effort, and finally as long as they use some common sense. Sometimes I talk about stories about when I was working and then I quit everything to start up my own studio. That didn’t mean I didn’t have some common sense to get it done. I needed the common sense of saving up enough money, of thinking of how am I going to achieve this and how am I going to be successful, instead of just taking a deep breath and just holding your breath in and just charging in and doing it. That’s not the right way to do things. You have to do it with some common sense. You have to know that you’re going to be okay, that your family is going to be okay and that situation’s taken care of first, and then you make your move. And when you go off and you make that move to better your life, you gotta know that it’s paved with frustration. It’s paved with problems. It’s not a smooth road. It’s really bumpy—it can get very bumpy, but there can be smooth parts, but there will always be bumps in roads. And once you’ve accepted that fact, and you think about these bumps as kind of like knots in a long rope—that rope is your road to success—you start form one end and you get to the other. Every time you get to a bump, every time you get to one of these knots in the rope, you’ve gotta think to yourself ‘once I get past this, then that’s one less knot on my rope to success’. There can only be so many little knots in the rope before you get to the end. Before you become successful, so when you come to another frustrating part in your life, what ever it might be, that you have got to just adopt that belief that this means that you’re coming to another milestone towards your road of success. No matter how bad it might be, no matter, you know, how much it might seem to set you back, you would never be that successful version of yourself unless you met this obstacle head on, beat it and moved on. It’s just like a way of fate asking you do you want to go on. Do you want to really become a successful artist, because if so, you’re gonna look this frustration in the eye and you’re gonna get through it. You have to keep going on and you’re gonna get through it because if you do, the bigger the frustration, as long as you are putting your heart and soul into what you’re doing, the better the reward is going to be in the end when you defeat this obstacle. It’s just fate testing you. Who cares it this is right or wrong. You adopt this belief and nothing is going to stop you anymore. Nothing’s gonna stop you. That’s the kind of mindset I put myself on every time. The whole belief that nothing is going to stop me, it’s just a matter of time—if it doesn’t happen now, then that doesn’t mean its never gonna happen. It just means it’s not happening right now. It will happen—you watch and see. Now that’s the kind of belief that you want to adopt. Now, on your road to success, the other thing that we want to do is to really kinda break any limitations that we have—any kind of misconceptions that we have about ourselves, our skills and we have to believe that we can do anything. We might not be able to do it next week, but if anything, we can do it twenty years from now. You know, anything is possible—you have to have a bunch of different goals, a bunch of different milestones. Just like all those people say on TV, you know ‘You have to have your five year plan, your one year plan, your six month plans’ and so on. Break them all down. Stick them on your desk. Try to achieve them. Once you can’t achieve them, try as hard as you can and once you can achieve them, then you cross them off the list. That is gonna be a great sense if achievement, because you can physically see it. You can see it right there on your list that it’s been crossed off, that it’s been done. Not setting limitations for ourselves is an extremely important thing because once you feel that the possibilities are endless, then that’s when you are truly able to do anything. If you do believe there are limitations, the chance of you breaking those limitations is close to zero. You have to change your mindset. That’s what I teach in my life drawing class. I share in college with the animation students there. I teach them not just life drawing, but I teach them the things I feel have really helped me to succeed in life. And it’s been great for them because the one that believe have been showing a tremendous amount of improvement. There’s been a couple that don’t show as much, but I can say without a doubt that everybody improved in that course—except for one. That one person I really didn’t see in my class at all, so when that kind of thing happens, it’s definitely gonna be hard. So that person, I had to fail. I’m just telling them that they failed themselves. That’s what my failing mark means. It doesn’t mean that I failed you, it means that you failed yourself and I’m supposed to judge whether or not you failed yourself. I don’t fully blame that person either because when you’re in school, you’re in a program and a lot of the time you have to take certain courses even if you aren’t that interested in them and this person just isn’t interested in becoming a better drawer. Unfortunately, that’s what you need to do to pass my course, so I have to work with him on that one. It does help, though to have the people that influence your life—have them in person, talking to you. It’s very important, I find because you could hear this on YouTube and off my website or whatever it is and you could adopt these beliefs, but it’s different when you’re sitting with the person right there in front of you and the person’s talking to you right there face to face. You see it, you hear it—it make a great difference. So I think part of that is having me be there in front of the students and telling them ‘Hey, I’m not much of anything either, but it’s only because I worked hard to achieve what I wanted to get done that I believed that I could do it.’ A lot of times I’ll tell them about the really good things that have happened in my life and in the studio and everything and all the great things I’ve been experiencing because I’m trying to inspire them. I try to tell them I’m not much of anything either. I’m just a normal person that really goes after what I want in life. It’s not because I’m naturally talented or anything. So I’m trying to instill in them that anyone can do it and the whole thing is, I know anybody can do it. I know for a fact. I’m just trying to convince them and make them believe in themselves as much as I believe in them. That’s the harder part. So I try to inspire them and I try to tell them how I started, how I am now. Most people get it, but some people of course think that this guy is really name dropping and what’s the deal with all this? You’re just telling us all the great things that have happened to you—stop showing off. So sometimes it rubbed the wrong way, but if that happened—if it happened any time during this podcast, I need to apologize. It was not my intent. My intent is to tell you that I really don’t feel like I’m some sort of natural, truly talented person. I really do feel like I’m just a normal person who’s worked hard and that is something that anybody can do. Anybody can work hard. And if you do, you will become successful. That is my point. When you believe you can do something, everything becomes so much better. In the beginning it’s like you’re a little trout trying to swim up stream, trying to get over the rapids and it’s so hard, but life is supposed to be hard. It’s one of the things that make life great. Sometimes it’s hard to achieve those things. So if you keep trying, one day—even if it takes two thousand or one hundred tries—you’re gonna get across that river. And when you do, it’s gonna be calm. It’s gonna be beautiful. Everything gets better. Once you become successful, everything becomes so much better. So what am I asking you to do? I’m asking you to join me on the other side. And keep going. And if you’re listening to this and you don’t know me, just imagine for a second that I am talking to you. Specifically. Because what I’m saying right now, it really is meant for you. It’s meant for anybody. This applies to all people. If you believe, try your hardest and you don’t just close your eyes and run straight through the woods towards your goal. This means to use some common sense as you travel towards your goal. You’re going to be—you will be—successful. I truly do believe that for anybody. What I want you to do today is think to yourself what your ultimate goal is. Where would you want to be ideally? Write it down. Where would you want to be ideally in your whole entire life? No matter how many years it is from now. Write it down. Use your common sense. Don’t write down like I want to find the cure for death.
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Hello :)
Straight to the point: I would love to have a transcription of what Bobby Chiu says in his supposedly totally awesome podcast:
http://www.imaginismstudios.com/journalism/2008/01/free-digital-painting-video-happy-new.html
Why?
Because I'm born deaf. I can hear a bit, but understand nothing but gibberish. A friend picked and transcribed a few lines for me already, but I would like to enjoy the full wisdom and inspiration of Bobby Chiu talking about art.
If anyone would take the time to help me appreciate his words, I'd be eternally grateful! :)
Cheers,
Kristina
Here's the transcription:
Free Digital Painting Video - Happy New Year!
Hi and welcome to another edition of my podcast. I’m Bobby Chiu and uh… we’re podcast, videocast—whatever you’d like to call it… anyways…I am back. I’m back. End of the year I figured it’s a good time to do a podcast--no matter how much work I have--so I decide to shove the work aside for today and just take a little time out to do something that I should have done a while back, which is to do another podcast because it’s time to—you know—talk about all the great things that have happened and all the great things that will happen for next year. For all of us. That’s how we should take life anyways—is to always be optimistic. A person that believes has the chance to achieve. The person that doesn’t believe—you know—their chances of achieving is much less. Much, much less. And belief, it doesn’t involve skill. It doesn’t involve anything it’s just your mindset. Right? So, what better opportunity to talk about beliefs and changes and all this good stuff—great things that will change your life for the better—what better opportunity to talk about all this stuff than… than doing it during New Years? It’s strange, the whole New Years thing. It’s just another day. Its just another day off the calendar, but it’s a day that gives us all a sense of hope, you know--a lot of us anyways. One year has gone past and no matter what happened during that year, now you’re starting off with a clean slate. And anything is possible for this next new year. And of course, you know, I’m gonna say that it doesn’t matter what day it is to make your changes. It doesn’t matter at all. You know…it… but New Years is a great excuse, so why not take this opportunity now to make some resolutions for yourself? Or even if it isn’t new years, you just call it whatever day you need to call it to get yourself motivated enough to make some changes for yourself. To give yourself a better life. Because just about every one of us, we know what we need to do to better our lives. Its just finding a good enough excuse to do it. Its like anyone can quit smoking. The hard part is finding a good enough excuse to do it. Now, usually people don’t have a good enough excuse. They look at it like ‘yeah it’s bad’, but it’s not that bad. But if somebody, let’s say, kidnapped their dog and said you better quit smoking in three months or I’m never gonna give you your dog back, then all of the sudden, that person has a good enough excuse. The other thing is that when we try to quit things or we try to change our lives, what we do most of the time is try to resist—resisting the urge to eat sweets, resisting the urge to play video games—or, you’re forcing yourself to do something. For example, forcing yourself to go to the gym, forcing yourself to draw in the morning—to do those extra late nights. There is a trick to it. The trick is to not resist and to not force yourself to do things. What you want to do is convince yourself that you want to do things, and to do things that you want to do. Say it’s quit smoking, say it’s to stop eating top much, say its to go to the gym more, say its to have better drawing habits—to go to life drawing every week—and so on and so forth. There is a great reason in there for you to want to do that. It’s just the road is bumpy and its paved with frustration, but the road to success is always paved with frustration. Its always gonna be a frustrating time. That’s when you know that you are on to something and you’re just about to break through to that next level of learning. Whether or not that’s true or not, that’s a whole ‘nother story. But if you thought that belief, what could it hurt? It’ll make you continue on. You might not continue on that same path but, you might say, while this isn’t working, it must be like this and change it. What I like to do is, when ever I need to do something I don’t want to do I take some time and sit there, think and visualize the end results if I do this thing right. What would the end result be if I got up right now even if I went to bed late—you know what would be the end result of me getting up right now, going, doing more work. Getting it done, getting it out of the way would result in me having more time on my hands—more time to do my own drawings (more time to do all sorts of stuff)—and just sit there and just visualize clear as day in colour, smell, sounds—everything. You know, all the five senses and really see it and magnify that little reason ten fold and tell that reason what ever you want to do is so so great that you’d have to be crazy to not get up and do it. That’s the whole trick. So if it was sleeping in, then you’d have to think about the successful version of myself [yourself] getting up early—this is just an example, but this is my example. The successful version of Bobby Chiu, what would he be doing? Let’s think. Would he be sleeping in or would he be up at the crack of dawn trying to better his life—trying to do as much as he can to better his life, better the lives of his friends, his family and all of that and stuff. Once you start talking about real things, that really strike a chord really mean something to you, then you can get yourself to want to do it. You don’t wanna concentrate on the things that you are trying to resist. You’re trying to change your mind about whatever it is that’s holding you back and change it into something positive—change it to a mind state where you want to go out and you want to make your life better. You want to do whatever it is that you know would make your life better. That’s the whole problem with quitting things like smoking—smoking seems to be such a hard thing for so many people to quit. And uh tobacco is known to be addictive. And all these things—you must know someone who’s tried to quit smoking but has not been successful. Its because the whole entire time, they try to quit by resisting. Okay I’m going to resist all of today—all of the urges that I have to go smoke and I’m gonna resist all today and not do it. And the next day comes (same thing)—I’m gonna resist all of today and not do it. You know, that might be very hard for a lot of people. As these days go on, it gets harder to find a good enough, strong enough excuse to resist anymore. Sooner or later, because you keep resisting, you’re gonna give in at some time. You have to change that mindset of resisting and change it into concentrating on the things that—reasons why you want to change in the first place. So instead of constantly thinking of resisting these urges, you change it around to think about those reasons why you want to change in the first place. So if it was smoking, you would think about what it is about not smoking that you are attracted to. Think back to when—may be you have to think back thirty, forty years—you were ten years old, running through a field with your dog, playing catch, playing with your friends on the swings or riding your bike as hard as you can and really taking in all of that beautiful, clean air to your lungs and breathing it out. Just feeling great. Those are the images that you want to concentrate on. If it’s getting up drawing in the morning, getting up extra early to draw in the mornings, then you wanna think about this—you know if I keep doing this, picture yourself at that desk, getting up in the morning it’s a great beautiful day, golden sunlight coming in, its just the crack of dawn and you are there and happy and you’re drawing. Put some soft lighting in there, just a great and beautiful image and you’re drawing away and that is going in your book, you know your biography of how you became successful, you know the days you get up early to draw before going to your crappy job, whatever it is—whatever you don’t like. You’re picturing yourself, watching yourself, visualizing yourself as this great person that’s getting up in the morning, doing they’re thing and striving after their goals, and down the road from that, you’re this other person now which is very successful because of all that hard work you put in—signing autographs, doing whatever you’re doing that’s the ideal result of all this hard work. And you magnify—magnify¬—that image—ten, twenty, one hundred fold over. Try and see it. Try and close your eyes and visualize as clear as day—smell the smells around you, see the colors, hear the sound. You start to do that, start to, you know, visualize people really appreciating your art and respecting your art—;perhaps you were one of those people that was lower end of the stick when you graduated or if you’re in school right now, and people kinda just look past you and not really think that you’re one of the top people. You wanna visualize yourself as the person that came out of no where and everybody has they’re attention on you now. Where did this person come from? How did they get this good? Visualize yourself walking down the hall of your school—the teachers greeting you nicely, with your stuff on the walls and everyone sees your artwork as they go through the halls of your school, and that great sense of achievement and let it grow. Let it grow. And as you’re sitting there, lying there in your bed, (or whatever it is) sitting at your desk, listening to this, you keep that image in your head and you let it grow. Let it grow nice and healthy and three seconds later, turn that brain off, and just get that pencil out and just start drawing. Don’t think about anything else—don’t think about any excuses that might take you away from achieving your goals. Just kind of zombie-like, turn the switch on and start doing whatever it is that you want to change—what you want to do. Because I can tell you right now with all honesty that I don’t believe in talent. I believe that all talent can be developed. I don’t believe that some people are just, they just naturally just have it. Not in art. They have to work towards it. They might have a good head start on you, but everybody has to work towards it. They might be—somebody else maybe a better drawer than you, but that’s only because they’ve been doing it seriously for a lot more time than you. I think that without a doubt that everybody can be a very good artist. Some can become absolutely genius—an amazing artist, but the main thing is, everybody can be good. Everybody can be successful as long as they believe, as long as they put in the effort, and finally as long as they use some common sense. Sometimes I talk about stories about when I was working and then I quit everything to start up my own studio. That didn’t mean I didn’t have some common sense to get it done. I needed the common sense of saving up enough money, of thinking of how am I going to achieve this and how am I going to be successful, instead of just taking a deep breath and just holding your breath in and just charging in and doing it. That’s not the right way to do things. You have to do it with some common sense. You have to know that you’re going to be okay, that your family is going to be okay and that situation’s taken care of first, and then you make your move. And when you go off and you make that move to better your life, you gotta know that it’s paved with frustration. It’s paved with problems. It’s not a smooth road. It’s really bumpy—it can get very bumpy, but there can be smooth parts, but there will always be bumps in roads. And once you’ve accepted that fact, and you think about these bumps as kind of like knots in a long rope—that rope is your road to success—you start form one end and you get to the other. Every time you get to a bump, every time you get to one of these knots in the rope, you’ve gotta think to yourself ‘once I get past this, then that’s one less knot on my rope to success’. There can only be so many little knots in the rope before you get to the end. Before you become successful, so when you come to another frustrating part in your life, what ever it might be, that you have got to just adopt that belief that this means that you’re coming to another milestone towards your road of success. No matter how bad it might be, no matter, you know, how much it might seem to set you back, you would never be that successful version of yourself unless you met this obstacle head on, beat it and moved on. It’s just like a way of fate asking you do you want to go on. Do you want to really become a successful artist, because if so, you’re gonna look this frustration in the eye and you’re gonna get through it. You have to keep going on and you’re gonna get through it because if you do, the bigger the frustration, as long as you are putting your heart and soul into what you’re doing, the better the reward is going to be in the end when you defeat this obstacle. It’s just fate testing you. Who cares it this is right or wrong. You adopt this belief and nothing is going to stop you anymore. Nothing’s gonna stop you. That’s the kind of mindset I put myself on every time. The whole belief that nothing is going to stop me, it’s just a matter of time—if it doesn’t happen now, then that doesn’t mean its never gonna happen. It just means it’s not happening right now. It will happen—you watch and see. Now that’s the kind of belief that you want to adopt. Now, on your road to success, the other thing that we want to do is to really kinda break any limitations that we have—any kind of misconceptions that we have about ourselves, our skills and we have to believe that we can do anything. We might not be able to do it next week, but if anything, we can do it twenty years from now. You know, anything is possible—you have to have a bunch of different goals, a bunch of different milestones. Just like all those people say on TV, you know ‘You have to have your five year plan, your one year plan, your six month plans’ and so on. Break them all down. Stick them on your desk. Try to achieve them. Once you can’t achieve them, try as hard as you can and once you can achieve them, then you cross them off the list. That is gonna be a great sense if achievement, because you can physically see it. You can see it right there on your list that it’s been crossed off, that it’s been done. Not setting limitations for ourselves is an extremely important thing because once you feel that the possibilities are endless, then that’s when you are truly able to do anything. If you do believe there are limitations, the chance of you breaking those limitations is close to zero. You have to change your mindset. That’s what I teach in my life drawing class. I share in college with the animation students there. I teach them not just life drawing, but I teach them the things I feel have really helped me to succeed in life. And it’s been great for them because the one that believe have been showing a tremendous amount of improvement. There’s been a couple that don’t show as much, but I can say without a doubt that everybody improved in that course—except for one. That one person I really didn’t see in my class at all, so when that kind of thing happens, it’s definitely gonna be hard. So that person, I had to fail. I’m just telling them that they failed themselves. That’s what my failing mark means. It doesn’t mean that I failed you, it means that you failed yourself and I’m supposed to judge whether or not you failed yourself. I don’t fully blame that person either because when you’re in school, you’re in a program and a lot of the time you have to take certain courses even if you aren’t that interested in them and this person just isn’t interested in becoming a better drawer. Unfortunately, that’s what you need to do to pass my course, so I have to work with him on that one. It does help, though to have the people that influence your life—have them in person, talking to you. It’s very important, I find because you could hear this on YouTube and off my website or whatever it is and you could adopt these beliefs, but it’s different when you’re sitting with the person right there in front of you and the person’s talking to you right there face to face. You see it, you hear it—it make a great difference. So I think part of that is having me be there in front of the students and telling them ‘Hey, I’m not much of anything either, but it’s only because I worked hard to achieve what I wanted to get done that I believed that I could do it.’ A lot of times I’ll tell them about the really good things that have happened in my life and in the studio and everything and all the great things I’ve been experiencing because I’m trying to inspire them. I try to tell them I’m not much of anything either. I’m just a normal person that really goes after what I want in life. It’s not because I’m naturally talented or anything. So I’m trying to instill in them that anyone can do it and the whole thing is, I know anybody can do it. I know for a fact. I’m just trying to convince them and make them believe in themselves as much as I believe in them. That’s the harder part. So I try to inspire them and I try to tell them how I started, how I am now. Most people get it, but some people of course think that this guy is really name dropping and what’s the deal with all this? You’re just telling us all the great things that have happened to you—stop showing off. So sometimes it rubbed the wrong way, but if that happened—if it happened any time during this podcast, I need to apologize. It was not my intent. My intent is to tell you that I really don’t feel like I’m some sort of natural, truly talented person. I really do feel like I’m just a normal person who’s worked hard and that is something that anybody can do. Anybody can work hard. And if you do, you will become successful. That is my point. When you believe you can do something, everything becomes so much better. In the beginning it’s like you’re a little trout trying to swim up stream, trying to get over the rapids and it’s so hard, but life is supposed to be hard. It’s one of the things that make life great. Sometimes it’s hard to achieve those things. So if you keep trying, one day—even if it takes two thousand or one hundred tries—you’re gonna get across that river. And when you do, it’s gonna be calm. It’s gonna be beautiful. Everything gets better. Once you become successful, everything becomes so much better. So what am I asking you to do? I’m asking you to join me on the other side. And keep going. And if you’re listening to this and you don’t know me, just imagine for a second that I am talking to you. Specifically. Because what I’m saying right now, it really is meant for you. It’s meant for anybody. This applies to all people. If you believe, try your hardest and you don’t just close your eyes and run straight through the woods towards your goal. This means to use some common sense as you travel towards your goal. You’re going to be—you will be—successful. I truly do believe that for anybody. What I want you to do today is think to yourself what your ultimate goal is. Where would you want to be ideally? Write it down. Where would you want to be ideally in your whole entire life? No matter how many years it is from now. Write it down. Use your common sense. Don’t write down like I want to find the cure for death.
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Hello :)
Straight to the point: I would love to have a transcription of what Bobby Chiu says in his supposedly totally awesome podcast:
http://www.imaginismstudios.com/journalism/2008/01/free-digital-painting-video-happy-new.html
Why?
Because I'm born deaf. I can hear a bit, but understand nothing but gibberish. A friend picked and transcribed a few lines for me already, but I would like to enjoy the full wisdom and inspiration of Bobby Chiu talking about art.
If anyone would take the time to help me appreciate his words, I'd be eternally grateful! :)
Cheers,
Kristina