If you'd like to learn how to draw, watch my free tutorials on this channel. Here's the playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLINz5dTN9-0tS0FEA3UhAB4NVg7oiD6Iy.html
All I want to do is simply illustrate my journals. Nothing fancy, just want to feel happiness at being able to draw something recognisable. I think the difference between you, and all the other teachers here, is they want to demonstrate how good they are, which is fine, but you want to encourage and help people feel good while they're doing it. Different goal.
Why do I want to draw? There's an inner urge, a need that is satisfied when I do it. Only the perfectionist self-critic can stop me before I begin. Self-critic says I need to watch some more tutorials before I pick up a pen or pencil. Your video helps me consider that I can learn by drawing.
I right there with you. Add a medical thing that I’m going through that makes me tired all the time. Frida used no excuse though and so that will be my motivation to at least draw the salt shaker in front me every morning when I have my coffee.
Needed this today…I have (and keep buying more) art supplies and realize its been a way of procrastinating “making art”. I spent more time looking and ordering online than just doing it. Time to pick up a pen and paper and do something every day. Thank you Danny! Y
I fell into that trap too. I thought buying supplies were a way to be doing art. Stopped buying. I got enough. I gotta discipline myself and create. Practice. Practice to get skill.
I'm laughing here. That is me also, and yes, all the online browsing and buying, it's procrastination because I'm afraid I won't succeed at something I want so badly to do. And then there's the organizing of the supplies. I've finally gotten started though.
I started drawing a month ago as a form of therapy, and it's worked so well that I feel it's changed my life. Tomorrow, I return to work after two months' recovery from surgery, with posters for my class (I'm a teacher) that I'm quite proud of. Thank you for your inspiring videos and thoughts.
Slumping over a laptop, avoiding even looking at my sketchbook for a week, I still can't resist watching another Danny Pep Talk. Then, suddenly, drawing seems possible again and life worth living. Rescued!
Thanks for showing that Van Gogh drawing at the end, that´s typically the kind of things that gives me hope for improving. I had the "comparing syndrome" and that actually made me stop doing art for over 10 years, because I genuinely thought I needed some special gift to do beautiful art. Now, I came back to it and I know what I have to do to be better: Draw, draw, and draw. :)
portraits indistinguishable from photographs- Danny mimicking drawing on his photo😅 hilarious the 3 facts to write inside your sketchbook are SO spot on your early drawings are zero indication of what you will achieve in time. Repeat for the ones in the back-zero❤️ how you manage to squeeze so much good advice in a no bullshit clear approach yet remaining kind and empathetic to the struggles of anyone trying to follow this passion it’s very inspiring thank you!
You started in your late thirties!? Finding your channel has given me such hope. I felt like I was too old because I'm in my early thirties just starting from scratch (literally, I couldn't even draw stick figures confidently lol!) .. I have been practicing geometic shapes in different perspectivs (1, 2, 3 point) and shading them sometimes too. I took your advice from another video and just draw random things here and there as well. Seeing someone with such a powerfully cultivated talent like yours, who started around my age, really gives me the hope I needed. I was worried it was just too late for me. Thank you.
I’m almost 20 and I’ve been drawing since I could hold a pen. And I’m still learning so much about art!! My advice is to try all kinds of art, when you find the one that fits you, work on your skill everyday. Because art is the soul of the human being
I’ve been practicing sketching people in parks or restaurants etc. Some of them are realllllly awful. The beauty of being able to close the journal and/or turn the page! Thank you for the encouragement ❤️
Honestly, thank you very much. I was grinning as a little child the entire video, have given up on drawing 3 times in my life, and it was rather recently I went back to art fully determined to improve. I drew everyday, to the point I even developed the habit of drawing, which definitely counts as a victory. Your advices have been a life-saver, this much I can tell. Despite how many times I had my confidence crushed by my incopetence, my passion was what drove me to continue, I stopped relying on feeble emotions in order to start any activity, and that changed my life for the better. I feel more determined now than ever to reach the level I aspire to reach, you've earned one more sub, teacher.
I have a great art corner i made. But there it sits. I draw nature with ink, i love what i do. But i procrastinate...and before i know it..its been months, or a year and my art supplies are dusty. I started watching your videos yesterday. I dont feel so intimidated anymore. I needed this video. Im going to clean my dusty treasures, and start a sketch book next week. ❤
There is a traditional Japanese flute called a shakuhachi. There are shakuhachi teachers who direct their students to play one note (the low one) for a year. One note.
I’m so happy I found your channel….so many things (negative thoughts) have been keeping me from drawing and painting for the last several weeks. Feeling inadequate and like I’ll never be good enough. I started this journey as a way to relax, and just as a hobby to do something fun, but the anxiety has stolen that from me. Your words really helped put things back in perspective. Thank you so much. :-)
This is the most motivating art video ever. I'm gonna start my lower bar than ever and start from below. Just as you've mentioned. I was expecting things too high. Patience. Learning is patience and persistence.
I´ve been drawing in a sketchbook for the last two weeks and try to do it every day. I always wanted to get into physical art, but to be fair i was always afraid because i told myself i can´t do it. But a few weeks ago that changed and i committed to it. I´ve seen so much progress in even the smallest things but still sometimes think that i´m not at the stage i want to be yet or whatever. This video really helped and encouraged me to just keep goin, thanks a lot! Gonna pick up the sketchbook right now! :D
I am now binge-watching your videos as a new subscriber. Here's the thing. I don't want the money or accolades; never did. I just want to be good enough in my own eyes, to achieve what i set out to achieve. I also don't think VanGogh's early works were so awful. There is an honesty to one's early work that is often lost when one gets better at draftsmanship. I always grieve that loss. Maybe I'm just a weirdo but these are my thoughts as I watch your video. I loved when you showed us your self portraits - they were great - they had feeling and emotion. THAT is what i look for in art - does it move me to feel something? What you said about not comparing with others who you WISH you could be, but comparing yourself to yourself... that is golden. That is what I needed to hear today. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you so much. I have such a deep deep desire to draw/sketch but yet have not one iota of ability. You've helped me to see that there is "hope for me." I feel very happy right now.
Day 9 of sketching... 8 pages filled so far. Warming up to Inktober. Using a fine-tip Lamy Safari fountain pen with the package's blue ink. Still life of my pen and sketchbook, koi, my son's Sacher Torte birthday cake, Edward Hopper's empty room, and an acquaintance's Edward Hopperisch photo of Denny's booth, a photo of a bowl of ramen I made for my kids that have received 1,249 upvotes (likes), a blueberry cake sample we tried for my upcoming birthday with swatches from a Sakura brush pen set I hoarded years ago now, and today a landscape of Mt Fuji with a swatch from another set of brush pens from the hoard.
This is a great great chat! Thank you so much! Never before have I felt the ‘wanting to start’ like I do now after hearing your message here. I now W a n t to sketch every day and the fear is not as gripping. Bless you!
this is fantastic. Ive put off drawing for years because i felt it was a natural ability. I want to create my own animated kids show, specifically just for my kids to watch, laugh and enjoy, but always felt held back by the art side of it. (animating already existing art im improving on, but its not my own!) thanks for this!
I Been drawing on and off most of my life, sadly less and less as the years go by. I own iPad, Cintiq 22, oil, watercolour etc. everytime I want to create I cling to buying something cause I get so much anxiety of not knowing what to create. I don’t know why I come back to art, each time I battle through anxiety to get started. Today I started to draw beans in my sketchbook I haven’t touched for years. I then started to draw eyes on the beans. Drawing is an expression of life, and it’s a very hard thing to look at life closely but the best thing we can do. Your perspective on drawing really is an inspiration
Dan, thank you! I really enjoy your reels. Your voice is so soothing with a definite ASMR satisfaction. I am 61 and I do love to draw and create. I have had an artist block now for ten years. I remember the 1st week of my block, and thinking OMG, I've gone too long. Then a year, then 5 years....etc. I am so inspired by you. I dusted off all my old sketch books and I feel ready. I too, like another viewer of yours, felt like I was making progress by buying more art supplies. 🙁 I'm going to get back in the game! I feel so inspired! You're the best! Thx
Thankyou. I stopped all my creativity about 2 years ago. And it's my passion so I thank the universe for finding this for me to watch when I really wasn't looking. You've inspired me once again and that's priceless. THANKYOU
I came onto this video asking the question "is it really too late for me to draw?" I am 21, and technically no, but I feel like I should've started even sooner like some artists. Like why am I not good at 21 compared to other artists, but this video answered the question that wasn't even asked. I'll work on learning to draw in a new perspective. Thank you!
Thank you for being kind enough to explain, encourage and so honest!! It's so ridiculous for us all to be expected to run before we can walk!! Thank you for the writing things down, and motivational advice, I am having to learn how to draw with my left hand, and it's terrifying!! Andrea, Jasper and George the Pigeon. XxX 💞🙋♀️🐕🦺🕊️💞XxX
Thank you, Danny. I'm looking at various tutorials online, but you are it for me when I need inspiration to draw. I'm doing it. I also like to write, and I'm enjoying your essays.
I think deep down we all want be great at what we do. I also think we know deep down what it requires. You mentioned that for a year you worked with one pen and/or one subject. Getting the basics down (the music scales til your fingers bleed, the free throws long after practice is over, a chef working on one dish over and over, etc.). After this video, I will put a long term plan in place. A year or two on the basics. Simple objects. One medium. I’m 59 now. Maybe by age 70 I’ll start to make some progress. Maybe by 80 I’ll see my work on others walls. Thank you for the honest and inspiring content here on UA-cam. New subscriber.
@@SketchBookSkool yes! That journey for me has brought me home to help my parents enjoy their remaining years. I’m trying to remember the “drawing rabbit hole”. Pandemic, parents, stop watching the news, go to Hobby Lobby and find a hobby, pencil drawing looks like fun and it’s cheaper than collecting most things, etc.
great advice! great for needlework and sewing, also. I tend to compare myself to my mother, who was an excellent needleworker. My reason to want to draw.... I've wanted to since I was a child. I never could please myself, though. Never could figure out how to make things look the way I imagined them to look.
Thank you for this. I just want to draw and paint all the time. But find that every time i get started he seems like people always need something. It feels like sabotage. Your voice is so soothing and calm. Thank you.
I just sat down after do something on my watercolor painting , feeling awful about it, when i saw this video.. came in the righttttt moment! Thank you so much!
Thank you for your videos, I suffer so much with comparing myself to others that in the end I stop painting, now I am back again and trying not to compare and self sabotage every day
Thanks man. you helped me now to not get frutraded at what im doing. i hope that in the future i (as a good artist i imagine) look at here and see how much i improved. THANKS
I started sketching this week after seeing one of your videos. It helps me be present and aware, for sure. Photography also works for me, but carrying a sketchbook in the car is more convenient than an expensive camera. Thanks.
Thank you so much. I am taking a landscape design. I wouldn’t have taken it if I had realized how much drawing was involved. One night before class I actually panicked because we had to share our drawings. Some were great most were just about like mine. I lived another week to share and you are correct, they are getting better. Thank you!
''Thank you'' covers nothing of the value you of your talk, always.. I really get back on the track every time i listen to you. Big Respect! a Great coach :)
You provide an awesome perspective not only on art but on anything you are trying that is new. I'm buying How to Draw without Talent. Looking forward to the challenge but also enjoying the journey. Thanks for all the effort you put into creating and publishing your content. It is greatly appreciated.
This video helped me so much. Two days ago, I threw my paintings, both rock and canvas in the trash because I was so angry with myself. I kept putting myself down, telling myself that I may as well hang it up because I just "don't have it." I just discovered your channel and wow! I needed to hear this today! I heard a similar video of yours yesterday but THIS ONE was more specific to what I've been feeling. You all, I confess, I broke down into tears! I'm going to try this method and I will report back once I've done a few sketches. Thank you so much for this encouraging video! I'm so clueless right now!
You know, i've learned more from your videos in 2 days, than art school in 2 years. You explain everything so well. I love drawing but keep putting it off by saying, I just need to buy this certain art product then i'll start. It arrives and my brain wants another and another, because it is too scared to do any. I'm pretty ill, so i don't have the energy to as much, but it's this weird fear, that puts road blocks in the way. Then, it's choosing the subject. Your videos have just been so accurate. Thankyou firstly for understanding our issues and secondly, for offering advice and help. Now i need to see if you have a video on finding your own personal style, because most people have one and I just don't.
This video really helped me today. I just don’t know “what” to draw. Being an event, caricatures artist it is sometimes frustrating that I am the entertainment for the party. I have been trying to get away from this. And I have been turning down events left and right. My girlfriend told me I don’t have to answer to anyone. So now I’m going to take some time for myself and just draw objects around my house and from the backyard. Thanks for the video.
I have had drawing and painting classes in college and learned nothing. Your videos are renewing my desire to learn and grow in art. I just wanted to say thank you
Thank you very much for this video , it gave me a bit more confidence to draw again , I couldn’t accept all my misshapen drawings or feeling it’s just not good enough! I will start tomorrow & try my best but, I won’t worry I’ll make a mistake because thats how I’ll learn to keep trying & I know I will because I’ve achieved other things in my life too !! Thanks again for you encouragement ! Helen Kirrage xxx
Facebook dredged up a painting I did seven years ago. What went through my mind was "Aaaaaaagh! What was I thinking!!!" I could see what I did wrong and what I would do differently now. So, if you keep up the work, you will definitely see improvement.
Thank you very much🙏🏻the very motivation and thoughts i needed at the moment as a beginner. To focus on the process and my progress, not to compare myself on others who are already pros. 🙏🏻
Just starting and came across your content. You, sir, are wonderful. I’ve binged so many of your videos - while drawing! You take the overwhelm out of the process. Keep making great content!
I don’t know why I don’t apply “compare myself to I” when it comes to creative pursuits. I have been adhering to this principle for most of my adult life, comparing changes from year to year. As long as I have done something new, making progress in something, or having new insight about myself, I feel a sense of accomplishment. I don’t know why when it comes to creating I completely freeze seeing that headlight. I discount everything I have tried, feeling frustrated and defeated. I feel like I have no talent at all just seeing ppl’s work for sale on Etsy.
Thank you for making this video - I needed to hear this. Like you, I'm also teaching myself. I've just reached the stage where I can see where I've made 'mistakes' in some areas & I'm making notes on that page, but in other areas, I can't see where the mistakes are - I just know that it doesn't look right. I know that I'll get to being able to see where those mistakes are, probably sooner than I think.
My first assignment from a college art and design professor to an architecture student that hadn't taken an art class since middle school was: Draw your hand every day and no two drawings can be the same. Every once in a while he would add a new restriction. You can't pick up your pen. Now you can't look at the drawing. He also told us we could only ask one question for the whole semester. If you asked him a question about an assignment, his response was always "Is that going to be your one question?" At the time I don't think i really understood. its sort of funny seeing similar advice and instruction coming from a different source.
This is great advice. I had hardly drawn in the 35+ years since leaving school then a year or so ago I got really into copying doodles I saw here on a couple of UA-cam channels. You may think: Doodles, what has that got to do with real art? Well because they were in bite size chunks it was way easier to motivate myself to regularly practice - in fact I didn’t even do it that regularly. But in the shortest time I found my lines getting more confident and found myself actually tackling a whole picture rather than a single doodle (and feeling motivated to do it). I treated myself to some markers and copied a landscape photo from Pinterest to practice colouring in. I got a heap of compliments but the best one for me was from someone who wasn’t expecting much but when I showed them they just went “woah” 😂 So if practising every day even sounds too daunting, then just remember that you can progress just by doodling here and there now and then. Of course dedicated practice is even better, but some of us have ADHD and can’t reach that level of commitment. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
A fourth item to write in the front of your sketchbook: YOUR CONTACT INFO! After all the drawing you’ve done, you don’t want to loose it. Good point about not comparing yourself. At Urban Sketchers throw down at the end of the outing, new sketchers compare their work to others. I now know to help them change the self talk. I give them some perspective. “She’s an international prize winning architectural illustrator who’s taught at Parsons for heaven’s sake. Give yourself a break”. I have to say that to myself sometimes, too. :)
Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️ You don't know how much your videos inspired me since I discovered them (yesterday). Just the right words✨ Saludos🇦🇷
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All I want to do is simply illustrate my journals. Nothing fancy, just want to feel happiness at being able to draw something recognisable. I think the difference between you, and all the other teachers here, is they want to demonstrate how good they are, which is fine, but you want to encourage and help people feel good while they're doing it. Different goal.
Why do I want to draw? There's an inner urge, a need that is satisfied when I do it. Only the perfectionist self-critic can stop me before I begin. Self-critic says I need to watch some more tutorials before I pick up a pen or pencil. Your video helps me consider that I can learn by drawing.
You got it! 💛
this is sooooooooooo relatable
THIS IS ME!
❤
I right there with you. Add a medical thing that I’m going through that makes me tired all the time. Frida used no excuse though and so that will be my motivation to at least draw the salt shaker in front me every morning when I have my coffee.
Needed this today…I have (and keep buying more) art supplies and realize its been a way of procrastinating “making art”. I spent more time looking and ordering online than just doing it. Time to pick up a pen and paper and do something every day. Thank you Danny! Y
Another one here with the same thing!
I fell into that trap too. I thought buying supplies were a way to be doing art. Stopped buying. I got enough. I gotta discipline myself and create. Practice. Practice to get skill.
I'm laughing here. That is me also, and yes, all the online browsing and buying, it's procrastination because I'm afraid I won't succeed at something I want so badly to do. And then there's the organizing of the supplies. I've finally gotten started though.
Same here but with music.
Me too!
I started drawing a month ago as a form of therapy, and it's worked so well that I feel it's changed my life. Tomorrow, I return to work after two months' recovery from surgery, with posters for my class (I'm a teacher) that I'm quite proud of. Thank you for your inspiring videos and thoughts.
Slumping over a laptop, avoiding even looking at my sketchbook for a week, I still can't resist watching another Danny Pep Talk. Then, suddenly, drawing seems possible again and life worth living. Rescued!
😀Galinda.
Thanks for showing that Van Gogh drawing at the end, that´s typically the kind of things that gives me hope for improving. I had the "comparing syndrome" and that actually made me stop doing art for over 10 years, because I genuinely thought I needed some special gift to do beautiful art. Now, I came back to it and I know what I have to do to be better: Draw, draw, and draw. :)
portraits indistinguishable from photographs- Danny mimicking drawing on his photo😅 hilarious
the 3 facts to write inside your sketchbook are SO spot on
your early drawings are zero indication of what you will achieve in time. Repeat for the ones in the back-zero❤️
how you manage to squeeze so much good advice in a no bullshit clear approach yet remaining kind and empathetic to the struggles of anyone trying to follow this passion it’s very inspiring
thank you!
Thanks for your annotations!
Thanks! I thought the drawing/photo was real!!!
You started in your late thirties!? Finding your channel has given me such hope. I felt like I was too old because I'm in my early thirties just starting from scratch (literally, I couldn't even draw stick figures confidently lol!) .. I have been practicing geometic shapes in different perspectivs (1, 2, 3 point) and shading them sometimes too. I took your advice from another video and just draw random things here and there as well.
Seeing someone with such a powerfully cultivated talent like yours, who started around my age, really gives me the hope I needed. I was worried it was just too late for me.
Thank you.
Starting to draw in late 40's here... it's only too late when you're dead. 😉 Hope you've been keeping at it!
@@freyartz 68 and just started. I love it.
Hows your drawing now
I’m almost 20 and I’ve been drawing since I could hold a pen. And I’m still learning so much about art!! My advice is to try all kinds of art, when you find the one that fits you, work on your skill everyday. Because art is the soul of the human being
Great advice!
સુંદર માગૅદશૅન, અનુભવ અને સ્કેચિગં સાતત્યતા
I’ve been practicing sketching people in parks or restaurants etc. Some of them are realllllly awful. The beauty of being able to close the journal and/or turn the page! Thank you for the encouragement ❤️
Of course!
You are a wonderful teacher and inspiration. Thank you.
Thank you! 😊
Honestly, thank you very much. I was grinning as a little child the entire video, have given up on drawing 3 times in my life, and it was rather recently I went back to art fully determined to improve. I drew everyday, to the point I even developed the habit of drawing, which definitely counts as a victory.
Your advices have been a life-saver, this much I can tell. Despite how many times I had my confidence crushed by my incopetence, my passion was what drove me to continue, I stopped relying on feeble emotions in order to start any activity, and that changed my life for the better. I feel more determined now than ever to reach the level I aspire to reach, you've earned one more sub, teacher.
I love your voice and calmness its so peaceful to listen to you and I love your little jokes
I have a great art corner i made. But there it sits. I draw nature with ink, i love what i do. But i procrastinate...and before i know it..its been months, or a year and my art supplies are dusty. I started watching your videos yesterday. I dont feel so intimidated anymore. I needed this video. Im going to clean my dusty treasures, and start a sketch book next week. ❤
Thank you! For your kind words and leading :-)
Always feel so positive and upbeat after watching and listening to your advice. You keep it simple and it makes so much sense. 🤙
You are so amazing!! Every word you say gets to me!!!
You are one of the the most inspirational teachers I have ever had the privilege to come across . I sincerely hope you achieve your ambitions.
Thank you!
There is a traditional Japanese flute called a shakuhachi. There are shakuhachi teachers who direct their students to play one note (the low one) for a year. One note.
I’m so happy I found your channel….so many things (negative thoughts) have been keeping me from drawing and painting for the last several weeks. Feeling inadequate and like I’ll never be good enough. I started this journey as a way to relax, and just as a hobby to do something fun, but the anxiety has stolen that from me. Your words really helped put things back in perspective. Thank you so much. :-)
This is the most motivating art video ever.
I'm gonna start my lower bar than ever and start from below.
Just as you've mentioned.
I was expecting things too high.
Patience. Learning is patience and persistence.
Huge motivational speech for me. Everything I needed to hear to stop feeling intimidated and just draw. Thank you for the inspiration!! 🙂.
You got this!
I´ve been drawing in a sketchbook for the last two weeks and try to do it every day. I always wanted to get into physical art, but to be fair i was always afraid because i told myself i can´t do it. But a few weeks ago that changed and i committed to it. I´ve seen so much progress in even the smallest things but still sometimes think that i´m not at the stage i want to be yet or whatever. This video really helped and encouraged me to just keep goin, thanks a lot! Gonna pick up the sketchbook right now! :D
Thank you for this video! Your optimism and kindness is very motivating to grab that pen and start drawing. Wish me luck!
You can do it!
I am now binge-watching your videos as a new subscriber. Here's the thing. I don't want the money or accolades; never did. I just want to be good enough in my own eyes, to achieve what i set out to achieve. I also don't think VanGogh's early works were so awful. There is an honesty to one's early work that is often lost when one gets better at draftsmanship. I always grieve that loss. Maybe I'm just a weirdo but these are my thoughts as I watch your video. I loved when you showed us your self portraits - they were great - they had feeling and emotion. THAT is what i look for in art - does it move me to feel something? What you said about not comparing with others who you WISH you could be, but comparing yourself to yourself... that is golden. That is what I needed to hear today. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you so much. I have such a deep deep desire to draw/sketch but yet have not one iota of ability. You've helped me to see that there is "hope for me." I feel very happy right now.
Day 9 of sketching... 8 pages filled so far. Warming up to Inktober. Using a fine-tip Lamy Safari fountain pen with the package's blue ink. Still life of my pen and sketchbook, koi, my son's Sacher Torte birthday cake, Edward Hopper's empty room, and an acquaintance's Edward Hopperisch photo of Denny's booth, a photo of a bowl of ramen I made for my kids that have received 1,249 upvotes (likes), a blueberry cake sample we tried for my upcoming birthday with swatches from a Sakura brush pen set I hoarded years ago now, and today a landscape of Mt Fuji with a swatch from another set of brush pens from the hoard.
This is a great great chat! Thank you so much! Never before have I felt the ‘wanting to start’ like I do now after hearing your message here. I now W a n t to sketch every day and the fear is not as gripping. Bless you!
this is fantastic. Ive put off drawing for years because i felt it was a natural ability. I want to create my own animated kids show, specifically just for my kids to watch, laugh and enjoy, but always felt held back by the art side of it. (animating already existing art im improving on, but its not my own!)
thanks for this!
I Been drawing on and off most of my life, sadly less and less as the years go by. I own iPad, Cintiq 22, oil, watercolour etc. everytime I want to create I cling to buying something cause I get so much anxiety of not knowing what to create.
I don’t know why I come back to art, each time I battle through anxiety to get started.
Today I started to draw beans in my sketchbook I haven’t touched for years. I then started to draw eyes on the beans.
Drawing is an expression of life, and it’s a very hard thing to look at life closely but the best thing we can do.
Your perspective on drawing really is an inspiration
Dan, thank you! I really enjoy your reels. Your voice is so soothing with a definite ASMR satisfaction. I am 61 and I do love to draw and create. I have had an artist block now for ten years. I remember the 1st week of my block, and thinking OMG, I've gone too long. Then a year, then 5 years....etc. I am so inspired by you. I dusted off all my old sketch books and I feel ready. I too, like another viewer of yours, felt like I was making progress by buying more art supplies. 🙁
I'm going to get back in the game! I feel so inspired! You're the best! Thx
Thankyou.
I stopped all my creativity about 2 years ago. And it's my passion so I thank the universe for finding this for me to watch when I really wasn't looking.
You've inspired me once again and that's priceless. THANKYOU
Greetings from Brazil!
I love your videos, thank you!
Danny is spot on. Thanks!
I came onto this video asking the question "is it really too late for me to draw?" I am 21, and technically no, but I feel like I should've started even sooner like some artists. Like why am I not good at 21 compared to other artists, but this video answered the question that wasn't even asked. I'll work on learning to draw in a new perspective. Thank you!
Hit every nail on the head. Have you been hiding somewhere in my head, witnessing everything I had gone thru?
No solo voy a aprender a dibujar sino también practico mi inglés... Hablas muy claro! Me encanta❤❤😊
Always really encouraging. Thanks Danny
Glad to hear it!
Thank you for this! solid suggestions and I'm putting all these into my journal, and the cover of my brand new sketchbook arriving tonite!
Wonderful. Hope you enjoy that new sketchbook!
Thank you for being kind enough to explain, encourage and so honest!!
It's so ridiculous for us all to be expected to run before we can walk!!
Thank you for the writing things down, and motivational advice, I am having to learn how to draw with my left hand, and it's terrifying!!
Andrea, Jasper and George the Pigeon. XxX 💞🙋♀️🐕🦺🕊️💞XxX
Enjoy the walk, you'll get there! 💛
Thank you, Danny. I'm looking at various tutorials online, but you are it for me when I need inspiration to draw. I'm doing it. I also like to write, and I'm enjoying your essays.
Thank you so much! As an inspiring artist, your kind words helped me to feel encouraged to pursue drawing again
I think deep down we all want be great at what we do. I also think we know deep down what it requires. You mentioned that for a year you worked with one pen and/or one subject. Getting the basics down (the music scales til your fingers bleed, the free throws long after practice is over, a chef working on one dish over and over, etc.). After this video, I will put a long term plan in place. A year or two on the basics. Simple objects. One medium. I’m 59 now. Maybe by age 70 I’ll start to make some progress. Maybe by 80 I’ll see my work on others walls. Thank you for the honest and inspiring content here on UA-cam. New subscriber.
The destination matters but so does enjoying the journey. Imagine how great it will be to spend the rest of your life doing something you enjoy!
@@SketchBookSkool yes! That journey for me has brought me home to help my parents enjoy their remaining years. I’m trying to remember the “drawing rabbit hole”. Pandemic, parents, stop watching the news, go to Hobby Lobby and find a hobby, pencil drawing looks like fun and it’s cheaper than collecting most things, etc.
great advice! great for needlework and sewing, also. I tend to compare myself to my mother, who was an excellent needleworker.
My reason to want to draw.... I've wanted to since I was a child. I never could please myself, though. Never could figure out how to make things look the way I imagined them to look.
Thank you for this. I just want to draw and paint all the time. But find that every time i get started he seems like people always need something. It feels like sabotage. Your voice is so soothing and calm. Thank you.
I just sat down after do something on my watercolor painting , feeling awful about it, when i saw this video.. came in the righttttt moment! Thank you so much!
One More time, thanks Danny! Regards from Buenos Aires ❤
Thank you for your videos, I suffer so much with comparing myself to others that in the end I stop painting, now I am back again and trying not to compare and self sabotage every day
Thanks man. you helped me now to not get frutraded at what im doing. i hope that in the future i (as a good artist i imagine) look at here and see how much i improved.
THANKS
Best of luck!
I started sketching this week after seeing one of your videos. It helps me be present and aware, for sure. Photography also works for me, but carrying a sketchbook in the car is more convenient than an expensive camera. Thanks.
Thank you so much. I am taking a landscape design. I wouldn’t have taken it if I had realized how much drawing was involved. One night before class I actually panicked because we had to share our drawings. Some were great most were just about like mine. I lived another week to share and you are correct, they are getting better. Thank you!
I REALLY needed to hear all this, Thanks!!! Love from Argentina!
''Thank you'' covers nothing of the value you of your talk, always.. I really get back on the track every time i listen to you. Big Respect! a Great coach :)
You provide an awesome perspective not only on art but on anything you are trying that is new. I'm buying How to Draw without Talent. Looking forward to the challenge but also enjoying the journey. Thanks for all the effort you put into creating and publishing your content. It is greatly appreciated.
This video helped me so much. Two days ago, I threw my paintings, both rock and canvas in the trash because I was so angry with myself. I kept putting myself down, telling myself that I may as well hang it up because I just "don't have it." I just discovered your channel and wow! I needed to hear this today! I heard a similar video of yours yesterday but THIS ONE was more specific to what I've been feeling. You all, I confess, I broke down into tears! I'm going to try this method and I will report back once I've done a few sketches. Thank you so much for this encouraging video! I'm so clueless right now!
I just signed up for your essays and misspelled my email address, Danny. 🤦🏼♀️
I'm resending my request with the correct email address.
I'll send it you onFriday. Dyannah. Thanks for signing up.
I love these helpful videos.
I'm so glad it was helpful, Decopainterandtea!
You know, i've learned more from your videos in 2 days, than art school in 2 years. You explain everything so well. I love drawing but keep putting it off by saying, I just need to buy this certain art product then i'll start. It arrives and my brain wants another and another, because it is too scared to do any. I'm pretty ill, so i don't have the energy to as much, but it's this weird fear, that puts road blocks in the way. Then, it's choosing the subject. Your videos have just been so accurate. Thankyou firstly for understanding our issues and secondly, for offering advice and help. Now i need to see if you have a video on finding your own personal style, because most people have one and I just don't.
I wish you lived in town. I'd take art lessons from you. You are so inspiring. Thank you.
Oh my gosh … he’s describing my situation … thank you for this video. I needed this advice.
never expect an outcome. never set yourself goals, never want to be like someone else. BE YOURSELF. if you have the urge to create then follow that.
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I really appreciate your continued positive reinforcement. It really keeps me moving forward and I can apply it more than art.
I'm so glad my words are helpful, Bill Heckman
Great and inspiring suggestions. Thank you so much!
Thanks!
This video really helped me today. I just don’t know “what” to draw. Being an event, caricatures artist it is sometimes frustrating that I am the entertainment for the party. I have been trying to get away from this. And I have been turning down events left and right. My girlfriend told me I don’t have to answer to anyone. So now I’m going to take some time for myself and just draw objects around my house and from the backyard. Thanks for the video.
I have had drawing and painting classes in college and learned nothing. Your videos are renewing my desire to learn and grow in art. I just wanted to say thank you
My pleasure 😊
Wish I knew of you when I was going to art classes . I feel you would have been on my side.
Thank you very much for this video , it gave me a bit more confidence to draw again , I couldn’t accept all my misshapen drawings or feeling it’s just not good enough! I will start tomorrow & try my best but, I won’t worry I’ll make a mistake because thats how I’ll learn to keep trying & I know I will because I’ve achieved other things in my life too !! Thanks again for you encouragement ! Helen Kirrage xxx
Thank u for the advice
Glad you stopped by!
good illustration of the Atomic Habits methodology. It works !
Thank you Sir for sharing your wisdom.
Wow this was timely thank you for sharing this
Glad it was helpful!
Facebook dredged up a painting I did seven years ago. What went through my mind was "Aaaaaaagh! What was I thinking!!!" I could see what I did wrong and what I would do differently now. So, if you keep up the work, you will definitely see improvement.
I grew up reading comics and comic strips and loved them so much and wanted to create my own and be part of the world I loved so much
Thank you so much!!!
I would like to hug you! 🥲
Thank you for helping 💖💖💖
You know me!!! 😂
Your words and videos are inspiring! Thank you for your sharing your advice. 🤗
Thank you for all positive thoughts you teaching me... you are the best.
Happy to help!
This is one of your best videos ever! Thanks!
Glad you think so!
I was drawing Danny as I was watching this. Great advice!
Thank you very much🙏🏻the very motivation and thoughts i needed at the moment as a beginner. To focus on the process and my progress, not to compare myself on others who are already pros. 🙏🏻
Wonderful!
Just starting and came across your content. You, sir, are wonderful. I’ve binged so many of your videos - while drawing! You take the overwhelm out of the process. Keep making great content!
Awesome, thank you!
I don’t know why I don’t apply “compare myself to I” when it comes to creative pursuits. I have been adhering to this principle for most of my adult life, comparing changes from year to year. As long as I have done something new, making progress in something, or having new insight about myself, I feel a sense of accomplishment. I don’t know why when it comes to creating I completely freeze seeing that headlight. I discount everything I have tried, feeling frustrated and defeated. I feel like I have no talent at all just seeing ppl’s work for sale on Etsy.
LOL, I liked that Van Gough drawing
Thank you for this solid advice, I really needed this. You already motivated me to get into a sketchbook and I'll love it. What can I say, in a fan
So patient. You are a good teacher. Thank you for the tips/ advice.If you were living close to me I would have surely been your student. 😊
Thank you!
His talking to me. I see how in point his being. When one actually analyzes your own work.
Thank you for making this video - I needed to hear this. Like you, I'm also teaching myself. I've just reached the stage where I can see where I've made 'mistakes' in some areas & I'm making notes on that page, but in other areas, I can't see where the mistakes are - I just know that it doesn't look right. I know that I'll get to being able to see where those mistakes are, probably sooner than I think.
This is the video that I desperately needed. I have this desire to create art and sketch but I dont know where to start..
My first assignment from a college art and design professor to an architecture student that hadn't taken an art class since middle school was:
Draw your hand every day and no two drawings can be the same. Every once in a while he would add a new restriction. You can't pick up your pen. Now you can't look at the drawing.
He also told us we could only ask one question for the whole semester. If you asked him a question about an assignment, his response was always "Is that going to be your one question?"
At the time I don't think i really understood.
its sort of funny seeing similar advice and instruction coming from a different source.
Thank u for this video. I'm only learning to draw and I believe I can be better and better in this and will get joy of it
You're welcome 😊
This is great advice. I had hardly drawn in the 35+ years since leaving school then a year or so ago I got really into copying doodles I saw here on a couple of UA-cam channels. You may think: Doodles, what has that got to do with real art? Well because they were in bite size chunks it was way easier to motivate myself to regularly practice - in fact I didn’t even do it that regularly. But in the shortest time I found my lines getting more confident and found myself actually tackling a whole picture rather than a single doodle (and feeling motivated to do it). I treated myself to some markers and copied a landscape photo from Pinterest to practice colouring in. I got a heap of compliments but the best one for me was from someone who wasn’t expecting much but when I showed them they just went “woah” 😂 So if practising every day even sounds too daunting, then just remember that you can progress just by doodling here and there now and then. Of course dedicated practice is even better, but some of us have ADHD and can’t reach that level of commitment. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Thank you! I definitely needed to see this. Your voice is very soothing too!
Glad it was helpful!
This was a very eye opening lesson. Thank you for your talent and patience to teach
This is such à great video and i love your person - greetings from a french girl living in germany- i follow you with great intérest
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the video, very encouraging.
What a master class
Wonderful, exciting advise. Thank you.
A fourth item to write in the front of your sketchbook: YOUR CONTACT INFO! After all the drawing you’ve done, you don’t want to loose it.
Good point about not comparing yourself. At Urban Sketchers throw down at the end of the outing, new sketchers compare their work to others. I now know to help them change the self talk. I give them some perspective. “She’s an international prize winning architectural illustrator who’s taught at Parsons for heaven’s sake. Give yourself a break”. I have to say that to myself sometimes, too. :)
Yes to all of the above! 🙌
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Thank you so much! That was very helpful!
You're welcome!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️ You don't know how much your videos inspired me since I discovered them (yesterday). Just the right words✨ Saludos🇦🇷
You are so welcome!
Hi. I'm an aspiring artist. You are really inspiring may I just say!