Your Creative Push

Ahmed Aldoori is a digital painter and illustrator who has worked on a range of projects from movies, theme parks and video games. He also has a popular YouTube channel where he shares tutorials, sketchbook tours, critiques and original artwork videos to his 200,000+ subscribers. Ahmed also has a bustling community on his Patreon page, where he not only shares his art, but also assignments for his patrons. In this episode, Ahmed discusses: -How he went to school for Computer Science and quickly realized that art was too big of an obsession. -Wishing that he hadn’t taken the “safe path” and researching the fact that there actually was a path for him to pursue art from the start. -Whether or not you should go to art school. -The moment that made him realize how he needed to structure his Patreon community. -The way that his Patreon supporters and Discord chat mimic the university scenario of going to war with your friends. -The camaraderie that he shares with his community when he lets his guard down and share