painting my ex wife from memory [WPfwn2gYmf0]

Hello, welcome back to a new episode of

Painting with Daniel. So it's been a while

since I got the paints out, and I decided

to use my acrylic paint set before I have

to leave Thailand because it'll be a waste

if I don't use all of my painting supplies

after I spent the money on buying them.

And I thought I'd paint a portrait of my

ex-wife Chihiro. It's gonna be her

birthday soon, and I thought it'd be a

nice way to honor her birthday by doing

this painting for her and just showing you

how my painting skills have kind of

improved. It's kind of weird because I

haven't really been practicing painting

much. I did a lot of painting maybe a

couple months ago last year, and I got

kind of fed up because my paintings, my

portraits look kind of rubbish. But this

weird thing happens with me where when I

quit doing something— for example,

drawing is another good example— when I

was younger, I was really wanting to be

good at drawing anime, and I drew every

day But I was kind of not really getting

anywhere. My drawings kind of sucked, so I

got fed up and I quit drawing, and I

didn't go back to drawing until maybe a

year later. And for some reason,

magically, my drawing skills just improved

even though I had quit drawing for about a

year. And the same thing seems to have

happened with my painting skills. The

previous portraits I was painting before

this one looked so much worse, and for

some reason I was able to make this

painting kind of look like Chihiro I like

to call it the law of reverse effort. So

usually most people think that to get good

at something, you have to practice it

every day. The more effort you put into

something, the better you're going to get

at it. But putting loads of effort into

something doesn't always result in you

getting better at it. Sometimes you try

and do this difficult thing over and over

again, and you just kind of get frustrated

because you're not making any progress.

You feel like you hit this ceiling, and

because you get frustrated at it, you

start to hate doing it. And because now

you hate doing it, you don't really get

good results, and then you end up

quitting. And you might think that's like

the worst-case scenario, but actually, in

some cases, it can be the best-case

scenario. Actually, it turns out that

taking a break, maybe a few months, maybe

half a year, or maybe even a year, ends up

resulting in better results than if you

just stuck at it even though you hate

doing it. Give yourself a break, come back

to it, and you might be surprised to find

that magically your skills have improved I

definitely feel like this portrait looks

way better than the portraits I was doing

before. I'll show a quick picture of the

last time I tried to paint someone's face,

and it didn't look anywhere near as good

as this. So somehow I magically improved

my painting skills by not actually

painting. I took a long break, maybe 4

months since I last did a painting, and it

is kind of weird. Maybe because I don't

hate painting anymore, I actually quite

enjoyed doing this painting because it's

been a while and I didn't really put

pressure on on myself, I wasn't really

stressed out to make a good painting. I

just did the painting for fun and didn't

really have any pressure or expectations

of a good result. And that can sometimes

in itself result in a good result when you

don't pressure yourself into producing

something decent. But anyway, hope you

enjoy the painting. And I wanna say thanks

to the viewer who liked the painting so

much, he actually offered me $150 to buy

it and I sent it to him yesterday. I mean,

if people are going to buy the paintings,

Which I wasn't expecting. Maybe I'll do

more paintings. It's funny because I did a

lot of drawings and digital paintings

using my iPad, and no one ever once

offered to buy the iPad drawings. I guess

they could just screenshot it off the

video. But I guess it's nice to have the

actual physical painting that's made out

of real materials— paper, paint— instead

of just like a digital painting, which

might look nice, but it's not really real.

It's just a bunch of pixels on a screen.

You can't hold and touch it. Unless,

well, I guess you could if you printed it

out, but it's not really the same as

something that was crafted from raw

materials in real life. So maybe I'll do

more paintings in the future if people are

interested in buying it. I might do a

self-portrait or might draw or paint some

other exes and people that have appeared

in my channel. Daniel, stop making videos

about me. Imagine I

just leave it. On her doorstep. That would

be so creepy. And I think I'll just hide

it, hide it under there for now.

And maybe I'll put it up there, up on

Don't tell my

girlfriend.