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Homemade Art Tutorials Turn Struggling Artist Into YouTube Star

A struggling painter and sculptor uploads a drawing video to YouTube and discovers a massive audience for tutorials on hand-drawing, generating over 50 million views in 6 years.

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Episode 2993

In today’s story…

A lesson in persistence and tweaking. So important!

It’s also an artist success story… a major one. Specially, it’s about a Mexican artist who was a struggling painter and sculptor, but then becomes a YouTube Superstar with more than 50 million views.

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