10 tips for starting your sketchbook - and keeping it going!
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We used to have to hand in our sketchbook monthly and we were graded on completely finished pieces - no room for unfinished, risky, wonky anything! You made me realize that being graded in the sketchbook has actually made me terrified to take risks and make mistakes in it now. Will work on this, thank you!
Thanks for the motivation, Danny. Just fixed my breakfast to eat as I listen to your video, but then stopped myself from eating it right away. Instead, I grabbed one of my least intimidating sketchbook and sketched that yogurt and fruit bowl. Now, that was even more satisfying than my breakie!
Perfect!
Am trying to build a "frankenplanner ", part bullet journal, part deep thinking , part commonnplace book, part schedule AND part sketching book- so I'm trying a mix of different papers and templates in my ring binder/ disc binder. Blending all the different ways of capturing information and experimenting about what works for me 😁
Never heard of a frankenplanner until i’ve read your comment. This sounds good for aspiring multipotentiolite/polymaths to organize their various interests and their life!
I agree, having my multiple subject journals got heavy. Now my inserts serve as the FRANKEN inventory. I can put them in their perspective journals at later date. I just love his videos
I don't worry about my bad art anymore. I use to want to throw it away, now I start again and fogure out whay I liked or didnt like snout it. It really lets you see your progress
You are a great motivational speaker. After I’ve listened to, or read, your thoughts on drawing/painting, I can’t wait to get started.
Amazing that some of us need reminders not to be afraid to make mistakes when it comes to art, but we do! I need that encouragement just to get started. Thanks, Danny! I’m glad to be here.
I’m glad you are!
Same 💯
Hi Danny. Thank you so much for your content. I've been in a kind of drawing hibernation for a few years, and full of self doubt. You're gradually breaking that down. It's like you're in my head. Got a couple of your books on the way, too. Both yourself and Koosje Koene have got me looking at the world with fresher eyes. I'm in my late 50s, and in a bit of a rut, so that means a lot! There's so much more than drawing to be taken from these videos. 😊
I follow all these points! Especially agree about drawing from life... once you start you can never go back to drawing from photos. The sketch from real life just has so much more emotional charge!
I sketch on subways. People are engrossed in their phones and don't notice me
I started a sketchbook habit four years ago and it gives me such delight to look back on the journey… it’s funny how each year is so very different from the years before… first one was more or less weekly, now it’s calling me daily. And the first one was very cartoony but colorful while this year is more writing and drawing. Who knows how I will see the world next?
I used to draw people from on the bus to wandering through the mall. I don't know why I got out of the habit. I still people watch. Maybe it's time I start sketching them again. I've learned so many things from people interacting and speaking to each other, like matching facial expressions and posture to moods.
That's amazing! People don't stand still. It's so hard when they move. I'd love to be bale to do that.
This is really pure genius worth listening to again and again. I only wish somebody had taught me this 30 years ago in art school. You're making a huge difference and I thank you ❤️
Wow, thank you!
yeahhhhh I agree with you, i wish i know this or at least somebody told me this maybe when i was a kid, but even i now not a kid anymore, i will start to do thiss. oh one more thing, and it is FREE lesson. :)
So glad I found you… I used to sketch at faculty meetings, mostly feet, legs, hands rather than faces as that felt too obvious. I’ve sketched at church, sitting in the back row & drawing profiles, backs of heads and people on the stage preaching, singing, praying. I’ve sketched musicians at small local events. I’m retired now and this reminded me how much I love to sketch people just doing their thing and wondering why I stopped. It just seems I got out of the habit. I started sketching people’s faces during zoom meetings a while ago, also just a few things around my home. Now I’m feeling a pull to sketch out in the world more. I take daily walks - next time I want to remember to bring my sketchbook and sit a bit before heading home. Instead of taking photos with my cell phone, sketch what I see. And I agree - I’ve told my students the more you draw the better you get at drawing (wasn’t an art teacher, but I always encouraged illustrating their work). It’s so true. Thank you, great appreciation for you!
Danny, I could not agree more. I always have some kind of notebook or sketchbook with me…”just in case.” Just in case an idea hits me. Just in case I want to scribble down a fragment of a scene or jot down a reminder. Just in case I have to wait around for an appointment or my plane or the rest of my friends haven’t yet arrived. And just in case I have to do something that drains my energy-I pull out my sketchbook (blank pages or lined notebook) and I entertain myself. All of your advice is spot on.
Love your channel. Awesome tips, I've returned to Art after a long hiatus and I'm loving it Been getting back into my pencil drawings, and enjoying the process of learning again. Thanks for sharing and keep creating and inspiring us. Have a fantastic day 🙏🌈📕🎨📜
I’ve always been interested in drawing but gave up in an early age. Now I want to start again and this time I’m more serious about it. While searching for videos about drawing I found your channel and wow it’s absolutely what I needed, your videos are wonderful and I enjoy watching them one by one
Thanks Danny
You can do it!
Here's another tip: set the stove timer while sketching and cooking! I keep burning/over cooking meals! Ah haha or better yet, maybe I should sketch the thing I'm cooking 😅
Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration Danny, always look forward to your posts 😊
Love that!
14:38 ...THERE'S NO !!!!
Thanks, that takes the pressure off, I think.
Going back to childhood, a kid will produce the most abstract scrawl and present it to a parent as a gift...
Absorbed in the moment & beaming with pride of the magic of expression & creation, of mastering the tools (in their perception).
Not a flicker of performance anxiety or shame of failure or competitive anguish...
Then 5mins later they are doing something totally different, moved on to new experiences & sensations.
Art should feel like that.
Totally. All kids are born artists but criticism kills that talent as we get older
Thank you so much Danny🫶🏻🙏🏻 I love your videos and watch each of them many times! They inspire me and help me act whenever I lose my confidence! Thank you again and again …😍🙏🏻🍃🌸
Absolutely agree
I've only done one sketch, outdoors, sitting at a cafe on vacation. But, you know what?, it was one of the most memorable artistic sketchbook moments I've had. What's stopping me? Fear of not being good enough, producing a crappy drawing...who cares! Thanks for the motivation Danny, as always.
Hi, thanks so much for your videos. I have a middleage crisis and drawing is bringing me so much peace and also like a pathway to move on. Does this makes sense? I recently found your videos, thanks so much it’s really inspiring 😊❤ sending you love from Mexico City
So true and so motivating!
Loved the tips! Thank you!
Thank you Danny. I have to tell myself that my art is first, for me. If someone sees it, thats fine. But it is a journey for me. I am expressing myself.
Thank you for this inspiring advice.
Great collection of advice. Thank you
Thanks Danny .... all your tips and suggestions are motivating!!
Always inspiring to hear you! Thank you!
So inspirational. Thank you.
Thank you for the motivation, inspiration and encouragement!!!!!
Awesome video, thanks Danny
This is one of my favorites of your UA-cam videos, Danny. Great content and I love your sketches.
Thank you Danny, you are such a great support, your enthusiasm and tips are very helpful!
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Luv looking at your sketchbooks Danny! Thanks for all the inspiration ❤👏
Great tips. So inspiring. I love using sketchbooks.
Thanks for this video...Inspiring
Awesome tips and motivation ❤
Thank you for all the reminders not to aim for perfection and to embrace the mistakes. Recovering perfectionist over here and I’ve been feeling the creative itch for so long, but every time I sit down to make something, I just go blank…and then get in my head about it and don’t end up doing anything. I started watching some videos for beginners because I thought it might help kick me in the booty and I found your video very motivating. Thank you!
Love it! Thanks!
Thankyou for all that inspiration, and good advice, you have encouraged me to draw in my sketchbook.
This is my favorite video from you. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for sharing all these tips, you inspire us. ❤
So much motivation. Feeling little stuck nowadays - this is exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks, Danny❤😎😃
Great advice Danny
I love listening to you and your advice. You are an excellent speaker. I look forward to restarting my drawing again. Thank you.
So awesome, thank you so much.
Thank you 💕 Tomorrow morning m'y sketchbook Will be in my bag😊
I love to listen to you talk about sketching. You make it alive and exciting. Thanks!!
Glad you enjoy it!
Excellent and very motivational! Thank you for the great tips, Danny!
Thanks for the pep talk! I needed this today!
Any time!
Thank you so much for this great reminder! 💕Have piles of all sizes of sketchbooks, pads and asstd blank paper which I intend to use for sketching whatever artworks……but they have remained blank all these years, except for a few pages. Listening to you has motivated me to move and finally fill up those pages . “ God bless you”! 🌸🌿🔥
Great presentation. Loved the tips. You have inspired me to start drawing again.
This was sooo inspiring.🌠 Thankyouuu Danny 😄
You are such an encourager ❤ Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much, you are an inspiration for me today, I just subscribed I just discovered you💕🙏
THANK YOU 🙏🏾
I’m so thankful I watched your video ☺️ I needed to be reminded to just art . So encouraged getting a smaller sketchbook no excuses. Thank you
I'm so glad!
i have made myself so many art journals ,i just paint at my kitchen table everyday
Love the advice. Thank you for the motivation. ❤👏👏
You are so welcome!🤗
Thank you so much for this inspiring talk! Everything you said is very motivating and longs to be put into practice. I learned some important mindsets that I have to adopt when I work in my sketchbooks. 💜
You got this!
REALLY helpful! Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you! This helps me a lot.
Glad it helped!
I completely loved this video, thank you so much. New subscriber, i just picked one of my sketch books out, wish i knew what ink pen you sketch with, is it waterproof so you can watercolor on it? Thank you 💕
You rock. Great tips. I have started so many sketch books. Not a daily habit yet!
You can do it!
Hello,
I’ve been inspired by your podcasts, and refreshed by your relaxed demeanor for almost a year now. I live in central Wisconsin, and am an artist rediscovering the joys of drawing.
Your podcasts have been invaluable to me, and I probably owe you the same dollar amount that I paid my alma-mater as an art major ; because your empathetic approach to keeping people motivated and cultivating a safe online atmosphere to explore artistic mediums is remarkable. Hats off to you for that !
Please keep doing what you're doing ; and please don’t stop, because thousands of people depend on you for the reasons mentioned above.
I don’t make very much money, but I’d like to donate just a little bit. What site do I go on to do this? I don’t see a “Donate” button anywhere.
Take good care, and thank you again.
Joe Arts
Danny
Do you have a sketchbook that you gravitate to the most?
And why?
I’m also curious how often you refer back to them. You have so many.
Merci beaucoup, vous êtes très motivant, chaleureux, positif, merci de partager, il faut faire face à la vie quand c’est difficile, avancer, le dessin est un moteur, merci, et belle journée à vous 😀 Christiane, de France.
4:07 Message is inline with The Artist's Way workbook and messaging from Rick Rubin. Certainly something I've been focused on implementing. Gotta take action on those ideas as they come or they'll find another vessel to be materialized.
Liz Gilbert has a similar belief. Very inspiring
@@toshabeans I will look her up. Thanks for the reply!
I'm relatively new to drawing and watching your video has inspired me to get out that scary empty sketchbook and try some drawing. I noticed all the writing in your sketchbooks as you flipped through the pages. Do you use them as a sort of journal or do you write about the item you're drawing?
Hi there:) I do feel there's a lot of depth in what you say and a lot of wisdom about life, too! That's why I really very much enjoyed listening to your explanation of each tip and how you talk from profound experience. Great thanks as well for taking so much care to give tips that will keep up the fun plus help improve one's skills at the same time. Best wishes and greetings from Germany!
Thanks for sharing!!
What brand of sketch book do you recommend....I like to paint watercolor and ink
Thank you, I needed this. I am very new to this and i get a little frustrated.
Excellent ideas! And thank you for sharing this with us. It has been so encouraging and inspirational. Though I do need some help, the problem is there is too much around me and I need help focusing in on specific things. Are you able to do like a 12 month prompting video? each week you choose a prom for 52 weeks something like that? Or each month have a different prompt to focus on. That would be super helpful because I just don’t know what to choose. I get so distracted and overwhelmed by that.
I really love your lettering. That is a syle you created, right? Do you have any videos or classes on how to letter or create a similar lettering style. Thanks, Danny!
thanks
Dear Danny
I learn and get inspired by you so much. I do have a question. Although you mostly draw from observation of live people, things and places, do you also draw from pictures? Because I was looking at some of your drawings in your sketchbooks in this video, for instance the frogs, or faces of people that you drew really large that take the whole page and almost seems that they might be pictures of famous people, or some of your very detailed drawings of places and things. Are these sometimes from pictures?
Sometimes also if you are with friends or family and you see something or someone you would like to draw but you can’t stop and do it, do you photograph that and then draw it later from the picture you took?
Also does drawing people that you are looking at on your TV or some other kind of screen, is that comparable to drawing people that are around you in real time?
Thanks. I am just trying to draw people from real life but sometimes there is nobody around me in the house or even outside on my street and around where I live and I don’t want to necessarily drive somewhere to do it.
Thank you again for all of the inspiration you give to everyone.❤
Thank you! You always inspire me!
I'm so glad!
I got all kinds of supplies I just suck at drawing I don't even write that will because I'm blind in one eye and I'm going through cancer so my hands shake constantly I drew a little bit when I was a kid and enjoyed it but it's getting harder and harder
My job is cleaning homes and I see a lot of art by kids. I've taken many pictures of their art for inspo because kids are all over the place, outside the lines, crazy colors BUT amazing nevertheless! You don't have to be amazing, just do what you do. If you can put pen to paper, some paint, then YOU are an artist :)
Which sketchbooks do you use?
I wish I could draw so much. I try! But I suck at it. 😢 I keep trying.
I admire your discipline
Sheets of paper half filled sketch books drawings on newspapers
There's got to be a publisher who'd print your sketch books
Brilliant and inspirational
Mesuline we promise not to draw you
Wonderful
My problem is that some days I’m brilliant and other days it seems like it’s the first day of learning to draw. Not sure how to get past that
My sketchbooks are a mess. Now I prefer working on single papers this way I only keep what I like and throw the rest 😅.
Every sketch has something to teach me. One important lesson is that i don't have to draw everything I can see. And related to that is, i dont have to put color on everything i draw.
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Easy to say when you're an artist...
What if you don’t sketch that good.
Try not to see your sketches as something to be judged at all… not good, not bad, but a wonderful practice in finding peace within the chaos of Life… Keep doing it, and the most amazing thing will happen - you will notice that your skills will improve over time…. 😊
All the advice about making mistakes…. Damn I wish you were my dad
Hmmm as someone who is a waiter, please don't draw people without permission- the idea of someone observing and drawing me sends me into an anxiety attack! As a women I Definitely don't want that type of attention either
An artist can get discrete in his sketching and remain unobtrusive with skill
I didn't consider this when live sketching in public. I appreciate you sharing this. The number of likes on this comment seems to indicate this is a shared opinion.
As an artist, you want what you're drawing as natural as possible. If you were to ask someone if you could draw them, you'd get a different version of them - more posed, rigid, unnatural.
Certainly is a balancing act between observing and staring. I try to capture the general vibe of a person and their pose in a gesture, then go about my business filling in the details as I remember them or imagine them. I'm not staring to get every detail and proportion true to the source.
Do you have a suggestion on how to approach this, or is this a strict "Don't do it" for you?
Are there Observation Police out there? I think sketching someone or groups of someones is less threatening than photographing someone… and I’m not using those sketches to make money…
@@SandyBanks-vk5dlThere are people who are willing to be drawn, and others who are just trying to go about their day. The problem isn't someone making money off of my likeness (although that could also crop up I guess), but the idea of someone staring at me for who knows how long, all the while they're trying to keep it secretive and discrete - it gets to be feeling weird. Of course from an artist's standpoint, sketching from life is the best, especially moving life. But we also owe other people in the world their own semblence of privacy. Please do continue to draw folks in public if you want, but I think this point of view should at least be considered while you do it. Especially because if ever confronted by a person, going "I was using you as an art study" isn't always going to cut it as an excuse.
If you’re out in public and in full view of everyone, then it shouldn’t matter if someone is sketching you. You can’t control what their brains are thinking about you, what their voices are saying about you, or what their hands are writing / drawing. We can’t control other people to that extent.
I thought this was going to be learning by doing, pfff
I can’t do the tips for you, Guillermo. That’s up to you.
Lots of good advice but...we know youve written books and we know youve travelled the world. Very innocent Im sure but, I dont need reminders youre successful and moneyed.
I make art about my life. I’m not “moneyed” whatever that means.
Jealous much? Lame
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