I come back for more of the content that you produce because: (1) you’re genuine (honest) and humble about yourself and your feelings and opinions, and (2) you’re gentle and kind towards others. Those may not be observations you would make about yourself in an essay but I can say them because they are important to me. I refuse to use my precious time to support anyone whose main reason for producing content (besides earning money) is to put their ego on display. You’re one of the people who makes the world a better place simply because you’re part of it.
I started my first sketchbook July 10, 2024 and titled it “Almost 80”. What a change in my morning routine. The second thought I have when I wake up is my sketchbook - coffee of course is first. Throughout my day of caring for my husband, quilting, gardening, weaving etc, ideas enter my mind for all kinds of drawings. Thank you for sharing your humanity with honesty and exuberance!
I'm a retired illustrator and creative director. You Tube serves me a lot of videos by self-taught people trying to make a business out of making art. You actually have something to offer. Kind of the visual Rick Beato.
I’ve been buying your books and reading / watching your stuff for many years. Never commented before. But you’re a big reason I keep a sketchbook today. Please keep these videos going, you and James Gurney are the special spirits.
If I don't ask the question or try the thing I can't say I tried. What's the worst thing that can happen anyway? Ask the question. Get the answer. Try that thing. It might come out better than we think. Right on with sticking with it and being consistent. Thank you. You inspire me to hang in there.
O my goodness. This was soo helpful and right on time. I am legally blind and I am an artist. I recently got the idea to make videos of my artwork and encourage other blind artists to keep doing art. I learned so much over the years about painting blind, and I want to share tips on how to create art with a visual impairment. I just started making my first video, but I don't love the piece that I recorded doing. I know that it is fine, but I think that I am making excuses because I am afraid to fail. I feel like I will be putting my vulnerabilities on display, and that is scary. But I am passionate about art, and I am passionate about helping others. Your words really hit home for me. I realize that I don't want to let blind people that I want to help down. Your video really helped me to readjust my thinking about all of this. Thank you so much for this video. This was truly helpful❤
Love to follow you on you tube, sketchbooks skool classes, your essays and your books. I have really resonated with you over the years but particularly over the past year your input, in particular your authenticity, care about encouraging creatives of all ages and abilities, just being YOU DANNY GREGORY is the best. Love your honesty and I learn from you all the time. Thank for being You!
i just hope more people find your youtube channel. just listening to your voice brings me comfort and that it's okay to not perfect everything that im learning and trying out new things. Thankyou so much!!!
Thank you Danny. You have impacted so many people and taken the sting out of fearing to fail. Basically we can’t fail unless we stop creating. You have seen some people through some difficult seasons (including me) so look forward to Draw With Me every week.
✍️🎨🖌️🖼️🎭🥋🫂 “You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing…Gesture [like all creative output] has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.” -Kimon Nicolaïdes
You are such an inspiring, authentic and likeable person, I think I would watch your videos even if I wouldn't be interested in creating art. They always leave me with a more positive outlook on life. Thank you and greetings from Hamburg, Germany!
Great points! It's hard to get started when your mind is quiet and you have no ideas. Writing ideas in a notebook when they pop up is well...a great idea. As you said I find if I just start drawing SOMETHING...the flow will happen eventually. But if I sit staring at the blank page forever...it's quite discouraging. Thankyou for the videos ❤
I have been enjoying your videos the past few weeks and they are helping me to revisit my art. I just finished this one and love your advice. Each point resonated with me. I’ll be watching it again. Thank you so much!
You are and have been one of the most inspiring elements of my life these past years that have been so terribly challenging. Thank you beyond words.❤🙏😊
Thanks for these great advises. You alway put your finger into The point. And I do love your art and the way you share it, eventhought i'm in my process to start and be consistent 😉
Hahaha RUclips timing is hilarious…. Just went you said “I have a sense, in my mind, of you”, RUclips chose that moment to show an advert with a woman getting excited about toilet paper!!! Hahaha! Thanks Danny! Hehehehe😂
Thank you! I have been waffling about subscribing to your emails and this made me do it. I really appreciate how much you have helped me with starting to draw. I'll never be an Artist, but I enjoy what I'm doing so much.
Your authenticity and generosity of heart and spirit are what come across to me, in every video and essay I’ve watched and read. You don’t talk down to your audience and you don’t make us feel inferior. You want all of us to find our creative souls, to let them fly free, like you have done. I am honoured to be a member of your audience and will always be here to support you, like you support me..❤️❤️
Thanks for being genuine - it does come though and it feels human - something that’s lost in our ‘connected and disconnected’ World. To quote Shakespeare ‘this, above all things, to thine own self be true’
To show up simply and authentically is far far ahead of being perfect... Your videos have been a great inspiration for me when I started six months back.. when I look back now I have improved a lot just by being consistent in my sketching and 🖌️🎨... Thank you so much sir..❤
Wonderful, authentic advice - show up and just keep going..thinking about other people and doing your best for them. That’s why I keep making my videos. I’m getting better and hopefully spreading some joy at the same time. Thank you 🙏
Thank You Danny. Your essays help me to clear my mind and then focus on my drawing... my creating... and try different approaches to how I begin. Teaching me to be ok with mistakes and creating something new out of those mistakes. The way you think and speak on all the different ways to look at things which is so incredibly helpful, from one creative, artistic soul to another. Again, Thank You immensely. 🌻🙂
Thank you for this! Been dealing with a project for way longer than i should be doing! For 4 months now 😭 Deadlines for self are crucial, I have learnt!
I started extrapolating what you said to my painting and my relationship to galleries and clients. So you hit on something with much wider possibilities .😊
Thank you! All your videos are, at worst, interesting, but like many of them, this one really resonated with me. Particularly, I’ve been “planning” a long term project for many many months but it’s so huge a task and one that I don’t know where or how to begin, so I’ve been procrastinating, even though I dearly want to be right in the middle of it, long term. Your first tip caught my attention, the others kept it, and now I have a process to begin following. My project? Playing with over 60 years of prolific photography, its history, all its mediums, to memory keep, organize, declutter and, the biggest item- etcétera! Blessing!
I enjoy your content because you are (as you said) consistent. Also honest and funny. I love your attitude and advice to try, even if it's not perfect. I appreciate your encouragement that over time our efforts will improve if we persist and keep an open mind. It's true! This keeps me coming back.
Danny's shortcomings, at this point maybe limited to underestimating his 'properties'? (And selfishly, probably me too & maybe others have this problem - nobody tells them what they are/ could be great at.) Imho this voice is top class podcast radio audio quality, the message too - but that could be numerous other subjects. Production quality is seamless too. Thinking of Garrison Keillor spoken book... Probably said this before, amnesiac...
Thanks a Lot for your inspiring videos. From Argentina I want to create an spanish language course on drawing learning a little bit good as looks yours.
Reading samlpes of your essays: Are there 2 or 3 typical essays on your webside? I'd like to read them bevor I decide to book weekly free essays. And thanks for your Videos. Greating from Germany 🥰
Love your videos, Danny. Does any of your courses work with soft pastels? I started by myself and am stuck🙂 On your website, I find great courses, but can't make out whether they work with soft pastels... Thank you!
@@SketchBookSkool Thank you, Danny - agree - pastels are messy in a sketchbook! Anyhow, I registered for the No-Talent-Required Beginners class and will see how things go from there. Thanks again
I come back for more of the content that you produce because: (1) you’re genuine (honest) and humble about yourself and your feelings and opinions, and (2) you’re gentle and kind towards others. Those may not be observations you would make about yourself in an essay but I can say them because they are important to me. I refuse to use my precious time to support anyone whose main reason for producing content (besides earning money) is to put their ego on display. You’re one of the people who makes the world a better place simply because you’re part of it.
You’re so nice!
100% agree
Yes 🙌 Hands down Danny is amazing! ❤
Absolutely this. 💯
Here here 👍
Your humility, humor and humanity are just a few of the reasons I continue to recommend your page to folks all the time. Thank you for all you do.🎉🎉🎉🎉
I appreciate that!
I started my first sketchbook July 10, 2024 and titled it “Almost 80”. What a change in my morning routine. The second thought I have when I wake up is my sketchbook - coffee of course is first. Throughout my day of caring for my husband, quilting, gardening, weaving etc, ideas enter my mind for all kinds of drawings. Thank you for sharing your humanity with honesty and exuberance!
Danny, I'm so glad you are here. Thank you.
“You have not failed, unless you fail to try”
"If you trip or stumble, it doesn't matter. It's behind you." ❤ Absolutely love this. Great reminder to keep looking ahead.
I'm a retired illustrator and creative director. You Tube serves me a lot of videos by self-taught people trying to make a business out of making art. You actually have something to offer. Kind of the visual Rick Beato.
I’ve been buying your books and reading / watching your stuff for many years. Never commented before. But you’re a big reason I keep a sketchbook today. Please keep these videos going, you and James Gurney are the special spirits.
Consistency over perfectionism ❤❤❤ I'm gonna take that one to heart. Thanks for this great advice list .
It's refreshing that you are you and sharing your talent.
If I don't ask the question or try the thing I can't say I tried. What's the worst thing that can happen anyway? Ask the question. Get the answer. Try that thing. It might come out better than we think. Right on with sticking with it and being consistent. Thank you. You inspire me to hang in there.
O my goodness. This was soo helpful and right on time. I am legally blind and I am an artist. I recently got the idea to make videos of my artwork and encourage other blind artists to keep doing art. I learned so much over the years about painting blind, and I want to share tips on how to create art with a visual impairment. I just started making my first video, but I don't love the piece that I recorded doing. I know that it is fine, but I think that I am making excuses because I am afraid to fail. I feel like I will be putting my vulnerabilities on display, and that is scary. But I am passionate about art, and I am passionate about helping others. Your words really hit home for me. I realize that I don't want to let blind people that I want to help down. Your video really helped me to readjust my thinking about all of this. Thank you so much for this video. This was truly helpful❤
'Essay.' Good word.
I am struggling getting started with my Chanel again, thank you for this video great advice 👍
You can do it!
Your videos are very inspiring to me.
I'm so glad!
Love to follow you on you tube, sketchbooks skool classes, your essays and your books. I have really resonated with you over the years but particularly over the past year your input, in particular your authenticity, care about encouraging creatives of all ages and abilities, just being YOU DANNY GREGORY is the best. Love your honesty and I learn from you all the time. Thank for being You!
i just hope more people find your youtube channel. just listening to your voice brings me comfort and that it's okay to not perfect everything that im learning and trying out new things. Thankyou so much!!!
Wow, thank you
I really appreciate your videos and your essays. Thank you for being so genuine about your approach.
I hear your voice whenever I don’t want to sit down to “art”. You and Seth Godin. My heroes.
Do you have a thing for the hairless?
@@SketchBookSkool 😂 I didn’t even notice that.
Thank you Danny. You have impacted so many people and taken the sting out of fearing to fail. Basically we can’t fail unless we stop creating. You have seen some people through some difficult seasons (including me) so look forward to Draw With Me every week.
Thank you for making videos and always great advices! If you don’t try, you will never know!
So true!
Thank you for all you’ve shared over the years. I have truly enjoyed these wonderful posts. Thank you Danny❤
I have a blog that I need to return to. Thanks for the motivation to get back to it. I appreciate your tips!
✍️🎨🖌️🖼️🎭🥋🫂
“You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing…Gesture [like all creative output] has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.” -Kimon Nicolaïdes
Every one of your videos is inspiring. Thanks for the regular encouragement 😊
You are such an inspiring, authentic and likeable person, I think I would watch your videos even if I wouldn't be interested in creating art. They always leave me with a more positive outlook on life. Thank you and greetings from Hamburg, Germany!
Danny thank you,
You are a gem,
So wonderful , you keep inspiring us and don't give up!!!
Thank you 😊🙏😊
Great points! It's hard to get started when your mind is quiet and you have no ideas. Writing ideas in a notebook when they pop up is well...a great idea. As you said I find if I just start drawing SOMETHING...the flow will happen eventually. But if I sit staring at the blank page forever...it's quite discouraging. Thankyou for the videos ❤
I have been enjoying your videos the past few weeks and they are helping me to revisit my art. I just finished this one and love your advice. Each point resonated with me. I’ll be watching it again. Thank you so much!
You are and have been one of the most inspiring elements of my life these past years that have been so terribly challenging. Thank you beyond words.❤🙏😊
Thanks for these great advises.
You alway put your finger into The point.
And I do love your art and the way you share it, eventhought i'm in my process to start and be consistent 😉
Hahaha RUclips timing is hilarious…. Just went you said “I have a sense, in my mind, of you”, RUclips chose that moment to show an advert with a woman getting excited about toilet paper!!! Hahaha! Thanks Danny! Hehehehe😂
Thank you! I have been waffling about subscribing to your emails and this made me do it. I really appreciate how much you have helped me with starting to draw. I'll never be an Artist, but I enjoy what I'm doing so much.
My essays are as tasty as waffles. Enjoy!
Your authenticity and generosity of heart and spirit are what come across to me, in every video and essay I’ve watched and read. You don’t talk down to your audience and you don’t make us feel inferior. You want all of us to find our creative souls, to let them fly free, like you have done. I am honoured to be a member of your audience and will always be here to support you, like you support me..❤️❤️
Thanks for being genuine - it does come though and it feels human - something that’s lost in our ‘connected and disconnected’ World. To quote Shakespeare ‘this, above all things, to thine own self be true’
Would love a walk through of your notion and other platforms and your experience of building your system!
Thanks for all the content 😊
Noted!
To show up simply and authentically is far far ahead of being perfect... Your videos have been a great inspiration for me when I started six months back.. when I look back now I have improved a lot just by being consistent in my sketching and 🖌️🎨... Thank you so much sir..❤
Wonderful, authentic advice - show up and just keep going..thinking about other people and doing your best for them. That’s why I keep making my videos. I’m getting better and hopefully spreading some joy at the same time. Thank you 🙏
1,127 videos. Thank you, sir.
Wow. Danny. Congratulations! That's an incredible amount of work, and what you do is so appreciated by so many. Thank you! 💕
Thank You Danny. Your essays help me to clear my mind and then focus on my drawing... my creating... and try different approaches to how I begin. Teaching me to be ok with mistakes and creating something new out of those mistakes. The way you think and speak on all the different ways to look at things which is so incredibly helpful, from one creative, artistic soul to another. Again, Thank You immensely. 🌻🙂
Thank you for this! Been dealing with a project for way longer than i should be doing! For 4 months now 😭 Deadlines for self are crucial, I have learnt!
You are not the only one!
Thank you, Danny; I'm working on an initial group of articles for a blog.
I am painting you while you are talking, a good training :-)
Thank you for your videos Danny🎉
Danny, l love your videos. You inspired me to start my drawing journey. Keep up with your good work.
I started extrapolating what you said to my painting and my relationship to galleries and clients. So you hit on something with much wider possibilities .😊
Thank you Danny
I like that. Thanks for sharing your advice! ❤
Thank you! All your videos are, at worst, interesting, but like many of them, this one really resonated with me. Particularly, I’ve been “planning” a long term project for many many months but it’s so huge a task and one that I don’t know where or how to begin, so I’ve been procrastinating, even though I dearly want to be right in the middle of it, long term. Your first tip caught my attention, the others kept it, and now I have a process to begin following. My project? Playing with over 60 years of prolific photography, its history, all its mediums, to memory keep, organize, declutter and, the biggest item- etcétera! Blessing!
Always inspiring!
Thanks for this video! Very inspiring 😊
Thank you for your insights. Your content is always honest and encouraging.
I enjoy your content because you are (as you said) consistent. Also honest and funny. I love your attitude and advice to try, even if it's not perfect. I appreciate your encouragement that over time our efforts will improve if we persist and keep an open mind. It's true! This keeps me coming back.
Thanks, Danny! I needed this today.
You are so welcome!
I like this talk, after some time of listening I forgot that I watched RUclips not podcast
Thank you for the great advice!
You are so welcome!
Great tips thanks 🌷
Thank you
Danny's shortcomings, at this point maybe limited to underestimating his 'properties'? (And selfishly, probably me too & maybe others have this problem - nobody tells them what they are/ could be great at.)
Imho this voice is top class podcast radio audio quality, the message too - but that could be numerous other subjects. Production quality is seamless too.
Thinking of Garrison Keillor spoken book...
Probably said this before, amnesiac...
Thanks a Lot for your inspiring videos. From Argentina I want to create an spanish language course on drawing learning a little bit good as looks yours.
Go for it!
Reading samlpes of your essays: Are there 2 or 3 typical essays on your webside? I'd like to read them bevor I decide to book weekly free essays. And thanks for your Videos. Greating from Germany 🥰
Yes! You will find an example on the library page. If you don’t like it you can unsubscribe with a single click
Love your videos, Danny. Does any of your courses work with soft pastels? I started by myself and am stuck🙂 On your website, I find great courses, but can't make out whether they work with soft pastels... Thank you!
I don’t use soft pastels much because i find them pretty messy in sketchbooks. Our focus is usually not on specific media
@@SketchBookSkool Thank you, Danny - agree - pastels are messy in a sketchbook! Anyhow, I registered for the No-Talent-Required Beginners class and will see how things go from there. Thanks again
I want to go to a dinner party with you 😂