Sketchbook Club 8: Obsessions 

Thank you Danny! Feeling a lot more comfortable with my 350 cat drawings! :-)

Thanks so much for showing the Gregory Blackstock book. Discovering his work has touched me profoundly, since I remember that as a teenager I'd obsessively draw detailed copies of fishing tackle from a catalogue. I suppose it gave me some sort of satisfaction and sense of order in my insecure world. When what I thought was my best friend saw these drawings he ridiculed me. I can now understand the internal purpose that they provided me at that time. By the way, I no longer collected things or continued doing these kind of drawings as an adult.

Gregory Blackstock; totally feeling him. I’m 51 and autistic. I started drawing at 50, I play 10 different instruments, I can play any song from memory and I am obsessive about my interests along with being incredibly organised.

That was an entire world I didn't know about. How wonderful.

I would love to see your tea cup sketch book.

Teapots. I’m going to draw teapots. You inspired me. :)

This gives me a lot of comfort. I thought I'd gone nutty because for the last three mornings I've drawing the same bush in our backyard. I've done about ten drawings of it so far. It's deceptively difficult to draw (for me) but it's teaching me a lot.

Sabot in French means a wooden shoe….ie Holland windmills…..good sense of humor. I liked the noodles…..HaHaHa….and of course my favorite…the pears. I had no idea these sketchbooks were out there. Thank you…….ps……I too obsess for periods of time. At the moment I’m in love with seed pods. Thank you for the education

There is something so fascinating seeing another artist do the same painting over and over again ..

I could listen to you talk for hours. You're a gifted communicator! Thanks for sharing this video

I love your Dad's self portraits! And the wash cloth studies are interesting as he used different techniques as backgrounds. Be proud of his achievements. How great that you have them ( or copies. .these looked like photocopies of his work? ) btw I have a mini obsession with that selfie you did with a green nose. I have done 3 of you so far as a practise to drawing myself which I find daunting. I am a Sketchbook Skool student btw

I can see in your eyes and demeanor a happy, warm, kind soul. 💗

The ones of your fathers self portraits are very cool!

I love the coffee sketchbook. I love coffee cups/mugs. I love coffee ❤️🥰

I can't thank you enough for the inspiration. Much Love and Aloha from Hawaii...

Really enjoyed this one in particular (I like them all). Watched it before I went to bed then the next day spent a good 4 hours drawing a list of... erm... serial killers and dictators. It just popped in there!

We all watch a variety of things on art but this really caught and held my attention. We all have comfort zones and thank you sharing these including some of your dads art. As a child, we lived on a block with lots of kids. It was great because we were outside playing not inside watching tv. We got in a habit of developing games. When yours was ready you would present it to the group and then we would vote on wether or not to play it. So thank you for bringing back that fond memory.

Thanks for this, interesting way to look at their methods. I think there is probably lots of examples of “obsession” driven artist that are maybe less obvious; Dali comes to mind. Perhaps not quite the same but Wacky Packages stickers were the first example of this I can remember coming across. As a kid I remember studying the artwork very closely and still appreciate the attention to detail, the consistency as well as the sheer number of products they poked fun of.

This series of your books has been terrifically inspiring and fascinating!

Danny Gregory thanks 🙏 for such an inspiration! Amazing 😻 teacher, creative as a planet going on crazy 😝 orbit

Cant thank you enough for these videos sir! Such inspirational look into various artist's life and art!

Your dads work is so consistent, love his portrait drawings! Like his use of line. Very good! This is such a useful subject! 3:45 😂😂 I absolutely love that! Clever 4:39 1) Healthy artist coffee desire +coffee inspiration+coffee creation = coffee art 2) The artist consumed by coffee coffee desire + coffee desire+ coffee desire = no creation and eventual death of art. 6:15 wooooh what a skill! 9:30 😂😂😂😂 I live next door to them! Love it, that's such a cool book!

the washcloth drawings are amazing. not sure why it fascinates me. On coffee drawings: the formulas are hilarious and stir something uncomfortable in me. I'm not brave enough to to look at my love for coffee afraid of what i will learn.

How interesting! I have an obsession with watercolor palettes but I think I would get bored doing the same thing over and over... :) Thanks for sharing Danny!

Fascinating, thank you Danny.

The washcloth thing was cool

This wonderful--thanks for introducing me to these artists!

This is a very interesting idea, thanks for sharing.

I should probably start drawing and painting food lol thank you for sharing these books. the background story about the artists is very much appreciated too ♥ I think I'm starting to grow an obsession with every facial gesture my cat makes, but that's kinda impossible, right? I should have like a camera to film her all day long etc. I wish I could draw every posture, every stare, yawn etc. Maybe when I get better at drawing I'll be faster and be able to capture more of her with the ink ... just another great idea I can´t pull off yet bc my skills aren´t so strong for that

Donald Evans! Very few people I've ever met know about him. I only know about him because I worked in a book store. That book you leaf through is rare. I covet my copy.

Thank you, Danny. This was very interesting. I love learning about others who draw. I started sketching when my Mom got sick, inspired by something I happened upon about your daily sketching, so I tried it. It gave me something to do in waiting rooms and inadvertently helped me in taking care of her. My Mom didn't have any interest in art but she liked my pages. Today, I see the richness in the time I spent with my Mom when I look back on those pages. This video reminds me that there's not only you, the one sketching, appearing on the page but there's a bit of undiscovered wonder in the journey (and I should take it up again). Thank you. --KateColors

Hi Dany I like a lot your vidéos "club" there are such an inspiration ! Thanks a lot

So interesting, my obsession is one of a kind greeting cards

I LOVED every minute of this video--how interesting and I gasped when you mentioned what happened to Donald Evans! How tragic but thankfully we have his amazing art.

great job guys xxx

Fascinating.

Wait…what? Who was the fellow on the back fly leaf? First of your videos I’ve watched, and very interesting. I like the idea of drawing the same thing over and over and watching the process evolve…but haven’t done it with any regularity. I may do this…fill a sketchbook with drawings of only one subject.

Very informative..... thanks

Thank you.

5:36 That device is called "Cezve" :D

*squeeeeeeeee!!!!!* I didn't know there was a club!!!!!

I’m surely going to appear crazy here with a third post…I just realized I bought your book An Illustrated Life a week ago-and just put 2+2 together. I bought the book (and one other of David Gentleman’s work) after artist Stephanie Kilgast reviewed and recommended them in her video. I’m enjoying the heck out of it. I have had time on my hands today-taking it easy after some eye surgery. 😁