Want to love drawing? Try this.
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Thanks, @Danny! Such a scaredy cat senior, here. Definitely afraid of drawring ugly. I'ma get out my big fat magic pencil, turn my inner kindergartner loose, and try your suggestion for a month. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Thank you for this! When I was a kid I would take a big black marker and draw coloring pages for myself--mainly pictures of my cats and dogs and flowers--and yes, they looked like they were drawn by a kid. Then I'd take my 164 Crayola crayons and color them. I didn't care that they looked like a really childish coloring book. I had fun. I had so much fun that I went to art school when I grew up. Playtime was over. I had to "get serious." So I did. I did well in school, but I carried the seriousness around with me for the next several decades and forgot how to have fun drawing. I'm learning to be a beginner all over again.
I love that!
Thank you. I'll try to remember play; to not worry about "doing a drawing," but just to draw for the fun of the process, not for the end result.
I found out that going through the pages of "An Illustrated Life" its making it easier to me to actually draw. We get this idea that we have to draw perfection, but not even the experts' drawings are perfect all the time. I realize I have been too hard on myself. Glad I bought it.
I pulled out my watercolor crayons the other night and just drew a bunch of flowers. Then wet it all and filled the page in. Looks like a five year old did it, but boy was it ever fun! 😊
What helped me love nearly any drawing or painting I do is to find one section, one little stroke, one colour mix in the piece I made that I just love. It can be just a well-placed tiny dot, a single line in it, just anything that went well. Just something of the whole picture that I like and want to repeat if I would draw the same thing again. This not only helps to boost confidence because I started looking for things I like and not hate, but it also encourages me to try it again, maybe from a different angle.
Thats so lovely
Drawing. Not having drawn. Golden. Thanks Danny.
Indeed...
Play time! Being in the moment and not focusing on a hard outcome. Great advice.
You got this!
Awesome advice! I’m reminded of when I was a kid, many decades ago, how happy I was to get my hands on some scratch paper and a big fat “Magic Marker!” I’d draw ‘til the marker ran out, and go hunting for another in my dad’s big desk. Later, as a professional designer, I learned to make concept thumbnails with a fat sharpie to avoid getting tangled in the details while generating ideas. Time to get out the Sharpies again!
i like to take my drawings and outline the parts i know i wont or dont want to change with marker, i fix the lines i dont want to outline and eventually it looks more solid, and im a little proud of them
Fat lines, fat juicy marker, Gotcha! I'm going to try this for sure. Thank you for all your magnificently inspiring videos!!! Love your drawing style so much! 😍
A few days ago I drew a mouse riding a duck that's riding a huge wave in a river. Why do I love it? Because it's fun to me. I'm not trying to impress anyone, not even myself. My inner child loves these silly drawings we do. And that's enough. Coloring them in is a blast!
I'd love to know the story behind that scene 😊
@@Eovielle Haha yea there's not much of a story to it, I just draw imagery that makes me laugh. My Husband often will make up a back story to my art though! 😊
Very helpful. I used to be quite good at art at school, but that was 43 years age and I've not drawn since so I'm going to try your suggestions. I did draw along with your dinosaur class and my stegosaurus wasn't bad. Guess I need to believe in myself a bit more.
You can do it! What else have you stopped for 43 years and expected to be instantly good at?
Such great advice thank you Danny when I was a little kid I would draw... and I would draw... and I wasn't thinking about whether it was gorgeous or not. I was having fun. That's really what drawing is about...it is about having fun and discovering that little kid in me again. Thanks so much. I enjoy all your videos but especially those that teach me how to rediscover the little kid in me, the little girl who loves to draw.
An excellent idea! I have tried this a couple of times without really knowing what I am doing! Very freeing! Many thanks for the great suggestion.
You're very welcome!
Danny, you are without a doubt an incredible coach 🎨💖 THANK YOU❣️
You are so welcome
I was just using a black Micron Brush Pen last night. I was drawing some gestural figures. It's a great way to loosen up.
Great , Danny , I think this may be your MOST motivational vid yet! So well said , and sage advise . Big thanks to you AND Suzie . 🙂
Enjoy the process! You said it. 🙂🙂 I wanted to start drawing but have not been able to do so, owing to the fear of them being ugly. Your words have power, thank you so much. 👍
Oh this is a great idea!! I’m starting tomorrow-or maybe now before bed!
Brilliant.
Great piece of advice.
Awesome, you make me smile. Just gotta feel the fear and do it any way! Anyway thanks I’m off to procrastinate 😊
As always, you're so right. Thanks Danny!
Think of it that way: if we learn a new language, we give ourselves time, because we know it will take a while to understand grammar, learn words and practice how to form everything into sentences. We need the same time to learn to make drawing we like. It needs to be practiced and we need to make mistakes and "ugly" paintings because that's all part of how we learn.
You’re so helpful!
Love this. Thanks Danny! ❤
I’m going to play today. ❤ Thanks.
I've been studying in an art school for 5 years and now I have this pressure to apply my skills and finally make some money with it, but it always seems like my skills are lacking and I can't even do some to make a good portfolio because I don't have actual works apart from my study works, and I know that it's my fault, like I should try more and do some personal work, but there were depression, covid, money problems and I just made nothing. And now I even start to wonder if I like making art, it seems I got into art for all the wrong reasons, I wanted to tell stories, visual stories because I'm a visual thinker, but you have to learn so much to make a good visual story, it's overwhelming. Or maybe I just don't like the process in itself, like I surely don't hate it, but I don't remember did I ever liked it, was it ever a game for me, or just about getting results? That's so hard to untangle, and so scary because what if you just wasted so many years and effort and money on something you don't even like doing??? I'm absolutely lost here...
I love that you called it "play"! I've been thinking about art all wrong!! I really appreciate this message :))
Glad it was helpful!
Great ideas, it really does work.
Great tips! Thank you!
Thank you for the wonderful advice!
Love this!
Great growing encouragement!
Great suggestion!!
THANK YOU!
! Many many thanks 🙏
Great idea 😊
👍🏻👍🏻Thanks!
Before I even continue with this video (I am 57 seconds in) I have to tell you what got me here. I just now decided to come to your most recent video and make a comment and ask you the question that has been swirling in my head for the last month.
Would it be as effective to just watch, and double watch... and participate, and double participate... on UA-cam as it could be at Sketchbook school?
Now mind you,
I am 60 years old.
I have achieved everything I ever set my mind to except weightless and drawing...seriously.
You, Danny , I found years ago and bought your books, loved your style, and then dropped everything like a hot potato...because...ugh, I suck!
You, Danny, introduced me to Jack Law and I went down the rabbit trail for a couple of years with him and Marley before depression made my nature journaling look like it sucked too...another couple of years and here I am again...missing Sketchbook school on YT and have been drawing daily again. I know why I want to draw...its the way I feel while I am doing it...and when I look at it and remember doing it. I have gained skill and confidence during my pause since being obsessed with Nature Journaling.
Back to the question...I am on disability...oh yes, retired midwife, genetically predispositioned to have Congestive Heart Failure...but I am not in failure, but with a weak hear an on cal life style is impossible.
I know when I taught childbirth classes as an intern years ago, it was much deeper than what I taught to the patients in their appointments. So much guess is I know the answer but part of me is struggling thinking there is something wrong with me and when it doesn't happen for me fast enough I run away until I want to try again so bad! I love watercolors and shading but never had the courage to take a class as an adult and somehow was not encouraged as a child even though I remember enjoying any kind of drawing in art classes even as far a 8th grade.
Perhaps this is outside your scope as an art teacher or a skills teacher. But I would love at least some feedback if your time even allows it.Regardless I will continue to make my way through all your videos here on YT.
Thanks for reading this comment?essay!
LOL
Anji Church
I’d urge you to come back to the Skool Yard and be part of our supportive community. You’ll find people facing similar challenges and they will help you though this. If you need help getting in, email us at info@sketchbookskool.com.
This reminds us much appreciated. I'll just out my thick brush pen and play.
Try drawing with your non dominant hand with your eyes closed….you might surprise yourself. Be free.
I love all my artwork, found my art again 3 weeks before I retired. I do crappy stuff too. I just did a terrible mint leaves tutorial. Some of the leaves turned out good. There were difficult parts I just messed up. But I love my painting. The more you do the better you get. You have to keep doing. I do cuz my hands want to draw and paint, may not be great all the time. But I love it all. And Sketchbook Skool is awesome to draw with. Stuff I would never consider. I look forward to Thursdays all the time.
🙀I love the 64 color crayon boxes with the eraser….we could never afford them when I was young.
Guess who’s going to the store tomorrow 🙋🏻♀️
Danny thank you teaching us to just start drawing….get out of our heads and start drawing
Thanks! I really needed this shift in perspective.
Glad it was helpful!
Aaah fantastic!! And you are adorable!!!
Oh thank you!
Hi am eagerly waiting for ur
Perspective of art,
Art is in every humans heart but they masked it with earning their livelihood
❤
My personal problem is when I finish my project and a mistake suddenly happens that's when I get so disappointed 😢 then I ask myself how can I save the project after so much work
We are our worst critic!
Amazing, it sounds logical. From crapy to almost good, depending on how old you are and the rest of your life expectancy. LOL
Love this!