How I filled 100 sketchbooks. 

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Hey, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate everything you tell us. I'm 16 and I want to make art my life once I grow up and sometimes I don't pick up my sketchbook, because I think I'm too bad and that I'm wasting my time. But your words make me think totally different now. A sketchbook is not made to create perfect masterpieces but to just simply create art. Art that makes you happy, or that makes you think and much more. Thank you so much! I wish you the best life ever.

This felt like a TED talk, thank you so much, this motivated me in a time where I find it hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel

THIS GUY NEEDSSS HIS OWN PERSONAL RU-vid CHANNEL WHERE HE DOES DRAW WITH ME LIVESTREAMS AND STUFF, SIR I LOVE YOUR VIBE AND UR ENERGY IS SO SO INSPIRING he feels like the art teacher i never got to have :,)))))

Silencing that voice in the head is an important step indeed 😭😭

Your videos are so uplifting and inspiring :)

You have a voice excelent for a storyteller

Your story is so inspiring and motivating to me! I'm in my late 20s trying to get back into drawing. Especially with today's social media and seeing so many people younger than me, I often get caught up in thinking about where I could have been if I had just started earlier. Thanks so much for your wise words and reassuring reminders.

This was perfect timing for me! I'm just starting to draw/paint at the age of 60. I thought I would start with h a sketch book but that annoying little voice was trying to convince me I wasn't good enough SO I showed it your video and I sat down and made a start! Thank you 💕

" i just wanted to get back to drawing" 😢 I'm realizing that I'm afraid of failure and judgement and that's why I've been putting off drawing for 2 YEARS

We forget drawing is actually just a medium we all express ourselves in! Especially now that everyone is trying to make a living out of it i think its been commercialized to the point that we forget to enjoy it in the first place. With this video, you have surely managed to rekindle something i have been missing for a while. The sheer freedom of just drawing things that mean a lot to you. My heartfelt thank you to you sir. This has inspired me so much.

You said it, "i just started" sometimes that's the biggest problem, we just need to stop delaying and start🖤

Yeah, I look back on my sketchbooks and I can remember where my head was at then. I’m with you - I actually enjoy more working in my sketchbooks, than painting and making “finished” works of art.

Here we are in our late 20s, early 30s thinking where our lives are heading, "is starting something else going to work?", "is it already too late for me to learn to sketch, create films, etc?" and here is Danny, who started off(or picked up right where he left) in late 30s and now inspiring everyone. Thank you!! :)

As a 36 year old that is just now getting back into art since highschool, I appreciate this a lot.

I’m in tears lol I didn’t have a great day today at class and felt like my art was getting worse but your words really resonated with me, thank you ❤️ I will keep drawing!

This is the most inspiring ting I've seen lately about sketchbook...

I think the best thing about this video is that you aren't really challenging us or telling us what to do or in what way to do something. You're inspiring us and letting us know it's okay if we mess up. It's a concept I'm struggling with, that same voice in the head saying nah not today, what if I don't do well, what if I hate it, I'm not that great at this maybe I should procrastinate and watch more art videos (coincidently) lol... we all have this silly fear that every drawing or painting should be excellent when really just like our days (as you said) not all are great, most are just okay, and some will surprise us! I like that sentiment that drawings and paintings, whatever art you do... is about retelling your life, or your innerself and the things you find beauty or interest in. It doesn't matter how it turns out. Just do art , do it for yourself and no one else. Being a human enables us this gift, why not use it... it is never a waste to create, but it is a waste to sit there thinking you shouldn't or can't create. If you like it. Do it. Thanks for sharing this insight. It's a mantra I'm only just starting to practice and accept in myself.

Ah, the ‘why are you wasting time?’ voice. I think that voice and I talk more regularly than I do with any other entity. It’s really hard to justify doing something just because you enjoy it sometimes. I have my sketchbook out now (with the voice’s quiet toleration) because my washing is running and I can’t really ‘use this time to go earn money’. Thanks for the inspiration each time I watch one of your videos.

100 sketchbooks????? Even the title is insane haha. Can't wait! Hope I get to say the same some day ❤️

His sketchbook looks so beautiful. It's like a looking into his life.

The first 16 seconds was all i needed to hear, but i am glad to listen to the rest of it.

I am just starting my drawing journey at 50, so I appreciate your positivity and showing your own drawings (which are AMAZING, btw) and generally for the kick in the butt (and inspiration) that I needed to keep going. I appreciate you!

I could listen to Danny Gregory teach, for hours.

I love the comparison of drawing to going to the gym/being an olympian. Hit home. I suppose we can be rough on ourselves when we have the book to look back on. Lightbulb over my head. It's OK that it isn't a masterpiece, but the enjoyment is the key! Great reminder!!! Thank you.

This is the kind of guy who should be in our art education or should be giving talks to art teachers. There are plenty that can teach great technique, but not all of them can really get through and teach the right mentality and that’s crucial especially early in an artist’s development.

This might well be the best sketchbook video I’ve seen. Thank you so much for your gentle, well-illustrated encouragement.

I have been drawing most of my adult life. I have done murals--commissions--different media--This very simple process you describe is the very thing that started me on this trip over decades ago. Now I can put in pictures what you eloquent put into words, thank you.

This was so inspiring. And your sketchbooks are such a joy to watch. Thank you very much.

This just popped up on my RU-vid as a recommendation. So I took your challenge, sat down at the kitchen table, put my phone down, picked up the nearest pen and tried to draw my phone. It worked! I love it! A simple sketch of a phone! I'm so proud of myself! Let's see where this takes me. I can't tell you how excited I feel right now! Thank you 🇦🇺

"All worth doing" love it. Reminds me of the Flylady cleaning system "bad cleaning still blesses your home" perfection will try to convince not to engage in life and the issues that result are sometimes more than we realize.

Nobody has ever moved me like you do sir! I have filled the first page of my first sketchbook and I really want to share my beginning with you.

Your last sentence nailed it……..”a great way to spend the rest of your time on earth,…….making art!”. Well said Sir

I have been creative all my life. I’ve painted portraits, ceramics and everything else that stood still. I craft a lot doing crochet, making wreaths, painting glass and doing calligraphy. You get the idea. Even though sketching and painting is my first love and the first thing I think about every morning when I wake up, I always managed to lose my way even with every conceivable art supply imaginable in my arsenal. After I read Shut Your Monkey and listening to Danny I discovered a new way of thinking and a better attitude about what I create and I’ve managed to get back to what I love starting with my sketchbooks. I sketch everyday and paint in watercolor too all because of Danny. Now as someone in their mid-seventies, I am finally on my way to becoming the artist I always wanted to be. I can attest to the fact that…its NEVER to late to be what you might have been. Create with no reservations.

Found SBS about 3 years ago, and am on sketchbook #16 and #17 (for some reason I have two on the go 😂) thank you for the inspiration as always, Danny 🙌🏼

Danny, you are a very humble fellow. Just the few glimpses I caught of some of your journal pages amazed me. I absolutely felt intrigued and in awe by the breadth of subject matter, the style and excellence in your drawings...to my way of thinking these journals are filled with artistic treasure. I do not think you should just shelve them away to await your untimely demise...before the public can have the pleasure and privilege of enjoying their brilliance and beauty while learning from all the thought and work that has gone into producing them. I am so glad to have crossed your path and am now trying to follow along... such an adventure.

That was awesome. As a 52 year old, thinking about just beginning the “visual art” journey, i too have that nagging thought “why waste your time.”. This was so encouraging and meaningful. Thanks so much :-)

Hi. And I was 17 I moved to Pittsburgh to go to art School and I was a fairly talented yet not dedicated enough artist I was really gifted a sculpture of photography but I had drawn since I was a child and everybody said my drawings were good. A lot of things happen when I lived there and my school closed and I didn't go to another and I stopped drawing. Many years later I did several paintings and, I think they are pretty amazing. I still have them but I don't draw. I found you probably 3 days ago here on RU-vid, and I bought a SketchBook at the hobby store and it's 2:00 in the morning and I'm sitting here watching your video and I got it out of the package and I'm going to draw something. I really like what you said about your first drawings weren't very good and then you got better and better and you realize you could draw anything and also about how they can take you to any point in your life at any time you open one and how they really are documenting your life. I like your style Danny Gregory with these videos and I like when you flip through your sketchbooks, I like the kinds of things that you put in them. so I'm here in my living room and I'm going to draw what's right in front of me on the first page of my little new sketchbook. I hope you see this because it's my way of saying thank you. I know my drawings won't be very good at first and I really don't care. I just feel like I should use what you're saying and just draw. 🙂🙏🤍

Thank you for the reminder. I used to draw a lot growing up up until college.

There needs to be sketchbook repositories and museums. Cuz what happens when we die? What happens to our sketchbooks? I have no children, no one to inherit my many sketchbooks. What if there were sketchbooks libraries? Sketchbook collectors?

this was so inspirational and touching, i appreciate all you have shared and i felt a great feeling which i can't express well.. this video might be the start point of making my dreams become true, thanks a lot!

I love the philosophy you’ve laid out in this video. I think I’m in the position you were in back then. Young kid. Wife. Job that takes a lot out of me. I’m trying to make art that I love.

He started drawing in his 30s. It inspires us that even if you're old, you can do something you love for instance drawing gymnastics etc

Your videos are so incredibly inspiring! Wow, 100 sketchbooks. You’ve earned a fan…. Probably thousands

This is possably my favourite ‘art’ video. You have such a lovely way about you, a really connecting story and friendly face. I loved looking at your sketchbooks, they are beautiful ! And a lovely representation of your life- you have written the story of your life in pictures. Thankyou for sharing them, I love my sketchbooks also and have learnt from seeing yours , how I could do things better. X

Thank you, Danny, for the inspiration. I’ve always loved drawing but have slowly let it fall away. I’m picking up a pen and notebook after I type this and drawing before I go to sleep.

I’m in my early 50s and want to draw more. Thanks for the video. You’re an inspiration.

This inspires me too much that I am going to fill 100 sketchbooks no matter how many years I need. Thank you so much 💓

New challenge!! : go to a different place ecery day, and every time you spin around yourself a few times, eyes closed, then standing still and the first object/ thing your eyes meet when your view gets sharp, this is what you'll draw.

You remain such a huge inspiration Danny! Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do to keep us all drawing in our sketchbooks :D

I'm glad you didn't heed that voice in your head but kept drawing! Your sketchbook pages are immensely enjoyable!

I love listening to you. It’s so calming and at the same time inspiring.

Hugely inspirational. Thank you! I need to learn to let go, and just roll with it

This is such a inspiring video, I know I will come back and watch it again and again. I love your drawings and style.

such a wonderful perspective and reminder of what is it all about! thank you for creating this nice video and sharing your experience💓

Your sketchbooks have so much personality; I just love it. Thank you for your inspirational posts.

I can say nothing more profound than a simple thank you. You gave me back the magic. Thank you 🧡

I’ve been drawing every day since I was 13 years old. I never really felt like I could improve. I could never come up with anything that was my own, and I was always just drawing what I saw on Pinterest. I never stopped though. I know art won’t be my career because I don’t want to taint something I love so much with work stress, but it really is therapy. I recently went through a breakup and haven’t stopped drawing all week. It’s really hard but art is everything to me and so many others. Thank you for your inspiring words. I know I for one really needed them.

This was so inspiring to watch, thank you, loved it!

Interesting, inspiring and amazing. This is one of the best RU-vid videos out there. Thank you for sharing your experience!

I'm on 104 but I started at 16 and I've worked in animation. I've been drawing considerably less, maybe because being in the world creates a sort of anxiety. And staying at home creates less anxiety.

You are always an inspirational source Danny! Thanks for sharing that much.

What a wonderful story! I’m inspired. Thanks for sharing.

oh my god, I just want to see more and more sketchbooks of yours!! Also, such a sincere and authentic video, you kept me focused. Thanks for making it!!!

The result of consistency is amazing!

Wow! This is amazing. There is hope for me. What you have done is great for your family to look at and could be a teaching tool as I am sure you are sharing with your students. You have a legacy.

Thank you for creating this video. It's very encouraging!

Your sketch books are fantastic! I love looking through peoples sketches!

Absolutely beautiful, inspiring sketchbook!! I love that you just filled the pages and kept filling pages. So inspiring!

I was watching this while I was doing a little painting in my journal. Tears started streaming down my face, what a wonderful video and message, thank you!

I totally resonate with your starting point and really needed this message to get me going again on my art journey. Thank you!

Love your drawings! It must be so rewarding to look at all those full shelves!

Love this narration!! I so enjoy my “sketchbooks” and journals. Your stuff looks terrific.

Love how you kept it real, down to earth. Thank you for sharing it 😊

I love that you drew so many different things with different mediums! Your sketchbooks do indeed look very exciting 🌿

So inspiring but what makes it ten times better is his soothing voice and nature😊

I love this. Would live to see all your sketchbooks😍trank you for encouraging us!

Words can’t explain how happy I am to have discovered this channel. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Thank you for this video!! This is so inspiring. Life is indeed learning and growing every single day. 💓

Just brilliant to flip through

I'm about to start my "10 hours a day drawing practice for 3 years" next month after i get done with my university entrance exam, so that i can get better at art. Your video reminded me to not forget to have fun when i do all that, Which is very very important, and i sometimes forget it out of anxiety(fear of not improving and not being good). So thank you very much. I just wanted to let you know how much i appreciate the video you made. I'm going to thank you again 3 years later. Hope you have a great day every day.

I love Danny Gregory…art everyday. Sketching your everyday.

Thank you for sharing! Great lesson in letting go and just go and do something!

Thank you! You are truly an inspiration!

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing your artistic journey with us!

Absolutely loved your process - natural, as it should be! Definitely taking some tips :)

Sir, your wisdom about art makes me feel at ease. Thank you so much sharing your experiences with us!

Thank you so much for this- for your sharing of your journey and bits of life! 🤗 Sooo inspiring!!! ❤👍

THIS IS AMAZING!!!! My life feels changed just from watching this and I’m so grateful 😭🙏🏼

I loved seeing your art, your style is so unique and nice

Thanks. It's a great story. Very inspiring.

So inspiring. Thank you so much.

You are inspiring! Thank you for sharing your drawing journey with us. 😍

Just found this channel & im loving it sm!

this was such a comforting video :)

This is so inspiring! Thank you for sharing this with us. I never thought of simply drawing what's around me. I am going to try. And your drawings are amazing, they have a lot of personality. I found very interesting the part you talked about the voice that got in the way of your progress and how you handled it. Drawing is having persistence and practicing constantly. And you are proof of that.

Thanks, Danny. I needed that.

Ur like the Mr Rogers of art I love it

I adore your drawings....thanks for transmitting your energy! :)

Loved this video ❤️ I always forget that a sketchbook isn’t even meant for perfect or even finished pieces. They’re not something that I have to show to anyone. It’s just something to practise with, express myself, or get out ideas for a future project. It’s so easy to think that making a sketch should be perfect - why can’t I just see if something works or not? I can! It’s taken me years to figure out such a simple concept.