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I had a drawing teacher and he made us carry a sketchbook. We had to fill the book by the end of the semester. It was him that changed me to draw in my book. He passed away suddenly and he changed me.
You inspired me a while back and I started journaling. Now I have started drawing little pictures and coloring them with colored pencils. And I am watching drawing tutorials to improve my artistic endeavors. I'm almost halfway through my first journal. It is helping my memory and I quite enjoy my penmanship. It is nice to see little pops of color as I review my pages.
Thank you so much. Thank you one million times for this video. God Bless you 🙏 ❤I am in the beginning of something very important for me and it's going to change my life. 😊
❤I love this advice! My sister has always journaled, and she encouraged me to journal. I would always complain. I never knew what to write in a journal. Then three years ago, I had a ruptured aneurysm in my brain and had to be life flighted out of my state spent a month in ICU while they fixed it and found that I had two other aneurysms in my brain, which they also secured. After spending a month in ICU and coming back home, my sister stayed with me for the first few weeks while my husband worked out of town. Now she had me as her captive audience and she plopped in front of me a journal and said start journaling. With much skepticism I started, but continued every day that she was there. She said, just write down anything whatever you eat what you did. So I did now I journal every day. It doesn’t matter what you write. She has done the same thing with me with drawing and art. I have always wanted to make art of any kind but drawing and painting in particular. So now I try to make the time to do a little bit of drying every day. Sometimes it’s just a mushroom or a flower. Combining the two is such a sweet mixture of creativity. I’ve always loved illustrated journaling, and I thank you for encouraging to just start.
I started two days ago. I am so glad I found my authenticity by watching some of your videos. It gave me confidence, fearlessness in my own art. I drew and posted it on my WhatsApp status❤
I have started an everything notebook because when sketching and journaling are separate activities I never seem to do both as regularly as I want to. Now I combine them and it’s working. Loved this video. Amazing.
Been both drawing and journaling a long time. But for a period of time, I switched to drawing *and* writing about my own simple life. Rule #1: No pre-pencil sketch, just rule-free drawing. It could look as bad or stupid as it turned out. No pressure. After a bit I developed a cartoon of myself, and wrote and drew all sorts of stuff about my day. I used a medium point sharpie (the slender ones, very hard to find in medium point), and colored pencil. And I loved it. After a few months, I drifted away from the drawing, and went back to the writing again, while I took my art in yet another direction. Today, I think I'll grab a medium point sharpie, my box of colored pencils, and draw and write about the nothing really noteworthy that makes up my life. 🙂 Thanks for letting me share.
Oh my goodness! What an absolute GOLDMINE of a youtube channel. I am 35 and I cannot express how relevant and inspiring these videos are for me. A thousand thank-you's.
I have D.Price’s books and return to them regularly. Many years ago it was your own book Creative Licence that inspired me to keep an illustrated journal, of which I now have over 50. I too am so grateful to you for that and whenever someone sees me and asks, “are you an artist?” (Which happens a lot), I say, “I keep a sketchbook. I read a book my a man called Danny Gregory and since then I’ve been drawing.”
Such a fascinating story. Discovering D.Price's zine in a basement in a record store was meant to be. I have these moments with books in charity shops - as though they were calling me at that very moment and I was always meant to have read them! Thanks for sharing.
I now will forever regret not ever having known about the zines while Tower Records still existed. This one is truly a treasure; so much life contained on just a few pages. I’m 62yrs old and just discovered i can draw and began keeping my own sketch journal with drawings, various insect wings, my thoughts and so many discoveries, etc… even at this age! I’m so glad I found your video because I really enjoyed your expressing such appreciation for another’s “inside world”. It’s nice knowing we’re our own little community of people who’ve discovered we can do this! This zine, (or was it zeen?) is truly amazing.
After watching several of your videos, I began my journal two days ago. I can’t tell you how proud I am of it already and even though the sketches (a drawing of my paintbox, sketches of my daughters watching tv and a cartoon of me in my workshop) are far from perfect, I keep looking at them and thinking, “Wow! I drew that!” I’m already addicted and I’m starting to notice little things in my life more and want to draw them and record them. It’s a totally new adventure! Many, many thanks 😊
Hi Danny. I am RELISHING this video (although I love All your videos). But this particular video hits all the bases for me, the simple life, drawing, journaling and sharing. Mr. Price’s journal and story and your friendship with him are just so inspiring. I can’t tell you how much this means to me.. it has re-energized my art-soul and I can’t wait to get going on my journals today. Thank you so much. 🤗🤗
Thank you for your encouraging talks... I started daily drawings a few weeks ago, and yesterday I could say to myself... "It is not perfect, but it us authentic!" Drawing has bacome a happy healthy addiction now! ❤
Same! Danny has inspired me to draw everyday and I finally started doing it a few weeks ago. I love waking up inspired to draw! ❤ Thanks Danny, you're a gem! 💎
Thank you for changing my life 💞💞💞💞 I am grateful to have found your channel! You have inspired me in so many ways that you don’t have any idea about. Thank you 🙏🏻
I just drew and wrote in a page of a sketchbook that's gone unused for months because of this video, I'm going to try to continue using it as my own illustrated journal. I'm not sure why I never considered that I could both write and draw on the same page, before I always had a sketchbook for drawing and a journal for writing, but I love this style and can't wait to fill more pages. Thank you Danny :)
Started a blessings journey a few months back!! You’re right. The sketches are simple but oh so satisfying!! A great feeling to capture at least one good thing about the day!! Helps my life feel more positive when the world news can be so negative!! 😊
What a story. You just moved me to tears. You've actually inspired me to start months ago, but then a lot of things happened and I lost touch a bit. You just gave me a push to simplify my practice and make it doable. Thank you for sharing this. I wanted to tell you how it makes me feel when I do an illustrated journal: I feel it gives my stories way more depth than words alone could, I realised I express myself visually as well - I always found my "word" journals got carried away with words and got a bit cheesy - but when I draw, I manage to capture the essence, the atmosphere, the deeper feelings. When I look back at those entries I am instantly transported in time. I know exactly what happened and how it made me feel, I even remember smells and sounds. Generally it makes me remember everything way better and longer.
I've been keeping a journal since I was 12.When I was like 25,my sister lent me a Cathy Johnson book about art journaling. I was so excited for the idea, but I was always bad at drawing. I tried, but didn't like any of my drawings and quit. After a year I tried again, gave up again. And then I found your channel with the inspiration and Koosje's tutorials. I've been keeping a visual diary ever since, it's been a couple years, and I love my drawings! Huge thanks to you and Koosje!
I just love listening to you! So inspiring! I feel free when you talk about how to draw! I listened to you and "read" some of your books in the end of the pandemic, I was very ill, but I could draw! Since then I NEED to draw very often! As a girl I was raised to draw and paint beautiful things, which I hated! Now I am 71 and I draw exactly as it suites me, thanks to you! Now I inspire other old ladies to paint and draw and that is inspiring too!
I'm an English student at university by watching your videos giving me a great ideas when it comes to note taking, it's really helpful thank you so much. I love you ❤
Ha! I thought I recognized the drawings so I started looking through my library for a book I purchased quite awhile ago entitled Radical Simplicity by Dan Price. It was an advance uncorrected proof and I fell in love with it. Made me think of the forts that we made as kids. I believe I have another similar journal somewhere. Your video has reawakened something in me. I'm surrounded by my art supplies but the spark just wasn't there. Now it is. Thank you!
I kept illustrated journals for years, since i was an architecture student. and then life got really dark and i gave up. I never thought i'd ever be starting again. Thank you for giving me that back. I already started a new journal.
Fantastic and inspiring video, Danny. What I love is that YOU have become the example and source of inspiration for so many others, including myself. Your book was one of the first I read that got me started on my own sketching journey and have always been so grateful for coming across that book in the library. Thank you for sharing this with us, for being you and thank you to your inspiration, Dan Price 🙂
What a treasure... thanks for posting. Wonderful message. I began to journal in my 40s and every so often, when I find myself in a slump, I reach for an old friend and see where I was years or weeks ago and I feel instantly better. I only wish I had begun when I was eight.
Just the inspiration I needed to start my year. I've been keeping journals for years but now I can make them so much more interesting, creative, and fun. Thank you. Can't draw worth a da..but I'm going to try.😊
Great video. I live in SW Oregon. Wish I could have met D. Price. I do draw, paint daily but not organized like his zine, but now I'm inspired to do that too. Thank you both!!
Loved this so much. I had done so in the past but the motivation faded away. However, when I saw that journal and the story behind it something inside me told me to do this again. I was drawing you as I listened to the video and I will do everything in my power to start my journal again.
Thank you for this video. It is very informative and instructive I have been drawing with my journal for so time now. Looking back in my journal, my drawings give me deeper insight j to myself. II have never seen anyone else create an illustrative journal before. You video gave me great ideas how to improve my journal and add more dimension to it. Thank you so much. I am truly learning from and enjoying your videos.
Yesssssss! Loved TOWER RECORDS. In the early 1980’s, I lived 3 hours away as a kid and my dad would drive my twin sister and i into Manhattan and we would run around Tower Records & Canal Jeans all day. Great great memories. Thanks for that flash back. Great channel.
I watched one of your sketchbook videos about a year ago when I was starting to sketch people. I use to do regular journaling for years but it got boring. I would look back over the years at my writing and it seemed like it was the same from year to year, but after seeing your videos I started sketching with ink and water paints in my sketchbooks. I might not have anything to say for the day, but I'll paint what's in my thoughts and I love it! Thank you for your videos! I got started in my sketch books because of you! :)
Thank you very much! You have changed my life for the better! I have started my own journal too, And not only I feel extremely happy about it, but also my interior voice has become quieter, because it always talked way too much to me all the time😀🤓 Thank you 🥰
Wow, thank you. It’s funny, yesterday I was thinking of doing an illustrated journal, then I serendipitously found your video. Thanks for the inspiration, I think I am now not going to second guess making this journal, I’m going to just do it!
What a lovely tale...I've tried to keep an illustrated journal for years, but I always get intimidated and go back to text only. I loved seeing D. Price's work and hearing your perspectives...it helps to remember that it doesn't have to be anything epic or impressive to be worth recording about. Stoked to have found your channel!
Thankyou so much. I never knew how to label what I’ve been doing for quite sometime now. My journals are a little different but the idea is the same and it brings me such pleasure each day working in it. It’s such a mixture of stuff from poems I’ve read and their impact ( in words or illustrations) to song lyrics that are on repeat in my brain that day to memories that for what ever reason just jump into my mind. I do small art pics or I collage pictures that are hanging round the house from my past. I just never could tell people what I’m doing without a lengthy wordy explanation...such as done here. Lol. But, thankyou
Thank you for all your wonderful sharing. I’ve started sketching after watching one of your videos recently and I love it so much. You are such an inspiration, thank you.
Holy Moly! I’ve been in Sketchbook school since the very beginning and have only just made the connection between your D. Price and the same individual who is known to be in a completely different context (he plays the handpan). How cool is that?! Such a small world. He really is an inspiring individual.… As are you! Can’t believe it’s nearly 10 years!
So many of your videos have inspired me to study the work of other sketch artists. Love how you link to their books; I now have quite a collection of these books and here's one more.
Hi Danny, thank you for your classic “The Creative Licence” which I bought in 2010. It changed my life. I am the writer and illustrator of over 17 published works now. My own graphic memoir was published in 2019 and although I am still working as a professional actress … my life is richer and more creative, less at the mercy of outside forces because of your beautiful advice on the elements of creative freedom. ❤
Thank you for this Dan loved it. ❤ I’ve been watching you so long now I think of you as someone I actually know. I’m forwarding this video to a friend who I am encouraging to start journaling. I had a couple of your books even before I found you on TH-cam and Sketchbook Skool. I love listening to you talking about sketching.
I keep a written journal since about 4 or 5 years. To my own astonishment i kept it up. I've seen your illustrated diaries before, and think they are fantastic. The only thing keeping me from illustrating mine is that I'm a bit apprehensive about the time factor. Maybe I should stop worrying and start inserting a drawing here and there...
I love your videos especially your origin video here about what inspired you to start having a sketch Journal I've started my own sketch journal and I'm on my fifth entry today so it's very new. My journal is all about little things in my day that are tiny in themselves and yet I really enjoy focusing on those little things thank you so much for the inspiration you've given me and so many others
Thank you, Danny! I am watching and drawing just about every day. I started my illustrated journal (very little color so far - mostly ink) and I write most days too along with it…even just a quote. I a so very thankful for finding you and for your personality, encouragement and style. I felt a little lost today as I realized I did not write or sketch in my journal yesterday. I started 2•22•24 and am more than 3/4 of the way through. I love it! I feel free(I didn’t expect that at all). I an enjoying going back through and looking at each page too. Plus I have the joy of many pages that are a collaboration with my 7 year old daughter and her drawings with me. Thank you for the inspiration!
I'm so glad that you shared this, I had been following you for years and appreciate all of the inspiration that you have provided. its always interesting to see what inspired a person that inspires others. That is totally awesome 😍
Loved hearing today about who inspired you! You have inspired me to sketch in the morning while waiting for my tea to brew. I've added a haiku as well to jump start my brain, rather than doing wordle or the spelling bee. My drawings have gotten better and my artistic eye has developed. Thank you too, for being vulnerable and sharing that D. Price was your inspiration. Your voice is like a warm hug which lures me to embrace my creative self. Thanks for sharing!
I have been keeping these zines for a few years, but I call them art journals. I use sketchbook and travelers notebooks. Love this thank you for posting!!!!
Fascinating story. Really inspiring. Thank you for sharing. I started my illustrated journal few months ago, it’s really a joy. The words “ illustrated journal “ just makes me happy. ❤
I ran across this back in the 90's I think and I was just thinking about Moonlight Chronicles yesterday. It seems like I even gave my daughter a copy. It had a huge influence on my art journey. I think I should go back to my roots and take it up again.
This video is incredibly inspiring. I have been contemplating doing something like this for some time. You have given me the inspiration to pick up pen and journal and begin. Thank you so much for sharing. I am ready to start a new chapter in my creative life!
I love this thought-provoking wonderful video on keeping your personalized sketch journal of your everyday life. I gleaned so much information from this and I am excited to start my own journal and most likely will turn it into a picture book. Thank you so much!❤
Thank you so much for this inspirational video. I have a couple of YOUR books, which are fabulous. I appreciated this lovely look at your friend's book which began as a zine. I am journaling, drawing just a little, and hope to draw more. Love all the lettering!
What a nice story! I better take a very speedy course since I am teaching a clase on Art Journaling for senior citizens. Totally took myself by surprise, the people liked the first class. Half of them are younger than me, last week we were also dancing to the 50's. Bought the Creative License years ago and still no license but class #2 is this Friday so I'm in a rush now. (Not kidding!)
Hi Danny, I found out about Dan Price and his Moonlight Chronicles many years ago. In fact, I have a yellow wooden box under my bed with the first 55 small Moonlight Chronicles publications in it. After watching your video just now, I think it is time to start that journey again into his world. Thank you for sharing your side of Dan Price's Story.
OMG the moment you showed the moonlight chronicles, I immediately recognised it because I have his other book, which is called "how to make a journal of your life", its brilliant!! I highly recommend it
I honestly can't remember if I found you or D. Price first. I still have the little Moonlight Chronicles I ordered from him, and your books. Both of you had a style, that was so personal, and I thought I could do that too! I'd always drawn from the time I was little, but inspired by your first book, at some point when my daughter and son were in high school, I bought a sketchbook and decided to draw every day. I drew every day for a long time! My kids are now in their mid thirties, and drawing is still a big part of my life. Eventually I started illustrating for other people as well as drawing for my own enjoyment. I have you and D. Price to thank for adding so much pleasure to my life. So thank you, Danny!
6:58 … that’s how I stumbled into archaeological illustration … I was watching the dig artist work on an excavation in Israel in 2006 and thought “hmmmm, I bet I could do that!” and in 2012 I started as the dig artist for an excavation (also in Israel) and continued until it wrapped up this year!!
Love this. Thank you for sharing. I have wanted to do something like this for a long time and finally bought a small watercolour book. I am not an artist, far from it really, but I am drawn to want to be creative in this manner. All I have to do now is overcome the intimidation of the first blank page.
Hello. I used to live in New York City. I was raised in Brooklyn. When I was a teen I used to go to tower records to look at the new vinyl cover arts. I also looked around that section you spoke about too. There was so much to look at. The whole city seemed to be so colorful then. I went out with my camera, and shot some real nice photos back then. I know what you mean. I like your journals. I use my art work to create journals on amazon. I also create cover art for my music as well. I have always enjoyed art, and photography. This is why I self publish my books on amazon, and also self publish my music as well with my art covers. Being an artist has opened many doors for me. I really love all the possibilities of art, and photography.
I am going to start illustrated journaling too. I'm going to journal everyday life, scenes of my dreams, quotes from books etc! Makes me excited just thinking about it!
What charming zines! You are blessed to have been able to inspire each other. His influence on you is obvious. Thanks for sharing this lovely story, Danny. I’m inspired to be more intentional with my own sketchbook now. Interestingly, I recently discovered zines and have brought the concept into my second grade classroom. They love it! ❤
I saw your video and immediately bought the moonlight chronicles as e-book and a tiny sketchbook to first copy the Dan Price style. So impressed I am! Thank you very much for sharing this treasure, dear @DannyGregory ❤❤❤
..I'm just watching this video for 1st time although I have some of your books..BUT I found the Moonlight Chronicles also! Still look at them..love them..I keep a running sketchbook also..I'm leaving them to family members..at least they don't have to hang them on the wall! Enjoy your channel 🎉
Big thanks for your knowledge and wisdom. I was constantly drawing as child/teenager and was pretty good at it. Now I'm beginning again at the age of 64 :D Did my first journal spread just now and although it doesn't look that good, I'm happy I've started the journey. But I feel I have to hurry doing them and I don't know why. I've been watching the „How to draw“ episodes and they are great :)
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You are not only a great artist, but a wonderful storyteller as well!
I had a drawing teacher and he made us carry a sketchbook. We had to fill the book by the end of the semester. It was him that changed me to draw in my book. He passed away suddenly and he changed me.
In a time when everything is high tech and highly polished you can see why something so human can appeal.
You inspired me a while back and I started journaling. Now I have started drawing little pictures and coloring them with colored pencils. And I am watching drawing tutorials to improve my artistic endeavors. I'm almost halfway through my first journal. It is helping my memory and I quite enjoy my penmanship. It is nice to see little pops of color as I review my pages.
Thank you so much. Thank you one million times for this video. God Bless you 🙏 ❤I am in the beginning of something very important for me and it's going to change my life. 😊
❤I love this advice! My sister has always journaled, and she encouraged me to journal. I would always complain. I never knew what to write in a journal. Then three years ago, I had a ruptured aneurysm in my brain and had to be life flighted out of my state spent a month in ICU while they fixed it and found that I had two other aneurysms in my brain, which they also secured. After spending a month in ICU and coming back home, my sister stayed with me for the first few weeks while my husband worked out of town. Now she had me as her captive audience and she plopped in front of me a journal and said start journaling. With much skepticism I started, but continued every day that she was there. She said, just write down anything whatever you eat what you did. So I did now I journal every day. It doesn’t matter what you write. She has done the same thing with me with drawing and art. I have always wanted to make art of any kind but drawing and painting in particular. So now I try to make the time to do a little bit of drying every day. Sometimes it’s just a mushroom or a flower. Combining the two is such a sweet mixture of creativity. I’ve always loved illustrated journaling, and I thank you for encouraging to just start.
This is the coolest story. I don’t hear many people having experiences like this anymore!
I started two days ago. I am so glad I found my authenticity by watching some of your videos. It gave me confidence, fearlessness in my own art. I drew and posted it on my WhatsApp status❤
I have started an everything notebook because when sketching and journaling are separate activities I never seem to do both as regularly as I want to. Now I combine them and it’s working. Loved this video. Amazing.
Been both drawing and journaling a long time. But for a period of time, I switched to drawing *and* writing about my own simple life. Rule #1: No pre-pencil sketch, just rule-free drawing. It could look as bad or stupid as it turned out. No pressure.
After a bit I developed a cartoon of myself, and wrote and drew all sorts of stuff about my day. I used a medium point sharpie (the slender ones, very hard to find in medium point), and colored pencil. And I loved it. After a few months, I drifted away from the drawing, and went back to the writing again, while I took my art in yet another direction.
Today, I think I'll grab a medium point sharpie, my box of colored pencils, and draw and write about the nothing really noteworthy that makes up my life. 🙂 Thanks for letting me share.
Oh my goodness! What an absolute GOLDMINE of a youtube channel. I am 35 and I cannot express how relevant and inspiring these videos are for me. A thousand thank-you's.
I have D.Price’s books and return to them regularly. Many years ago it was your own book Creative Licence that inspired me to keep an illustrated journal, of which I now have over 50. I too am so grateful to you for that and whenever someone sees me and asks, “are you an artist?” (Which happens a lot), I say, “I keep a sketchbook. I read a book my a man called Danny Gregory and since then I’ve been drawing.”
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
Such a fascinating story. Discovering D.Price's zine in a basement in a record store was meant to be. I have these moments with books in charity shops - as though they were calling me at that very moment and I was always meant to have read them! Thanks for sharing.
I now will forever regret not ever having known about the zines while Tower Records still existed. This one is truly a treasure; so much life contained on just a few pages. I’m 62yrs old and just discovered i can draw and began keeping my own sketch journal with drawings, various insect wings, my thoughts and so many discoveries, etc… even at this age! I’m so glad I found your video because I really enjoyed your expressing such appreciation for another’s “inside world”. It’s nice knowing we’re our own little community of people who’ve discovered we can do this! This zine, (or was it zeen?) is truly amazing.
After watching several of your videos, I began my journal two days ago. I can’t tell you how proud I am of it already and even though the sketches (a drawing of my paintbox, sketches of my daughters watching tv and a cartoon of me in my workshop) are far from perfect, I keep looking at them and thinking, “Wow! I drew that!” I’m already addicted and I’m starting to notice little things in my life more and want to draw them and record them. It’s a totally new adventure! Many, many thanks 😊
Welcome to a wonderful habit!
Hi Danny. I am RELISHING this video (although I love All your videos). But this particular video hits all the bases for me, the simple life, drawing, journaling and sharing. Mr. Price’s journal and story and your friendship with him are just so inspiring. I can’t tell you how much this means to me.. it has re-energized my art-soul and I can’t wait to get going on my journals today. Thank you so much. 🤗🤗
Thank you for your encouraging talks... I started daily drawings a few weeks ago, and yesterday I could say to myself... "It is not perfect, but it us authentic!" Drawing has bacome a happy healthy addiction now! ❤
Same! Danny has inspired me to draw everyday and I finally started doing it a few weeks ago. I love waking up inspired to draw! ❤ Thanks Danny, you're a gem! 💎
I love the look of writing coupled with drawings. Great video, thanks!
Thank you for changing my life 💞💞💞💞 I am grateful to have found your channel! You have inspired me in so many ways that you don’t have any idea about. Thank you 🙏🏻
I’m glad to hear it!
I just drew and wrote in a page of a sketchbook that's gone unused for months because of this video, I'm going to try to continue using it as my own illustrated journal. I'm not sure why I never considered that I could both write and draw on the same page, before I always had a sketchbook for drawing and a journal for writing, but I love this style and can't wait to fill more pages. Thank you Danny :)
Started a blessings journey a few months back!! You’re right. The sketches are simple but oh so satisfying!! A great feeling to capture at least one good thing about the day!! Helps my life feel more positive when the world news can be so negative!! 😊
What a story. You just moved me to tears. You've actually inspired me to start months ago, but then a lot of things happened and I lost touch a bit. You just gave me a push to simplify my practice and make it doable. Thank you for sharing this. I wanted to tell you how it makes me feel when I do an illustrated journal: I feel it gives my stories way more depth than words alone could, I realised I express myself visually as well - I always found my "word" journals got carried away with words and got a bit cheesy - but when I draw, I manage to capture the essence, the atmosphere, the deeper feelings. When I look back at those entries I am instantly transported in time. I know exactly what happened and how it made me feel, I even remember smells and sounds. Generally it makes me remember everything way better and longer.
I've been keeping a journal since I was 12.When I was like 25,my sister lent me a Cathy Johnson book about art journaling. I was so excited for the idea, but I was always bad at drawing. I tried, but didn't like any of my drawings and quit. After a year I tried again, gave up again. And then I found your channel with the inspiration and Koosje's tutorials. I've been keeping a visual diary ever since, it's been a couple years, and I love my drawings! Huge thanks to you and Koosje!
Stumbled upon this video today. Wow! Loaded with inspiration! Thank you for the amazing share. Looking forward to experimenting with this!
I like to hike and draw the hike with notes and illustrations. I now want to do this more. Thanks for the inspiration
I just love listening to you! So inspiring! I feel free when you talk about how to draw! I listened to you and "read" some of your books in the end of the pandemic, I was very ill, but I could draw! Since then I NEED to draw very often! As a girl I was raised to draw and paint beautiful things, which I hated! Now I am 71 and I draw exactly as it suites me, thanks to you! Now I inspire other old ladies to paint and draw and that is inspiring too!
I'm an English student at university by watching your videos giving me a great ideas when it comes to note taking, it's really helpful thank you so much. I love you ❤
Ha! I thought I recognized the drawings so I started looking through my library for a book I purchased quite awhile ago entitled Radical Simplicity by Dan Price. It was an advance uncorrected proof and I fell in love with it. Made me think of the forts that we made as kids. I believe I have another similar journal somewhere. Your video has reawakened something in me. I'm surrounded by my art supplies but the spark just wasn't there. Now it is. Thank you!
I find your videos somehow moving. They encourage me to try and articulate my hearts longing. Thank you.
Wonderful!
What a stunning video - thank you so much for sharing this beautiful story of creativity. So inspiring!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I kept illustrated journals for years, since i was an architecture student. and then life got really dark and i gave up. I never thought i'd ever be starting again. Thank you for giving me that back. I already started a new journal.
That is wonderful to hear!
Fantastic and inspiring video, Danny. What I love is that YOU have become the example and source of inspiration for so many others, including myself. Your book was one of the first I read that got me started on my own sketching journey and have always been so grateful for coming across that book in the library. Thank you for sharing this with us, for being you and thank you to your inspiration, Dan Price 🙂
What a treasure... thanks for posting. Wonderful message. I began to journal in my 40s and every so often, when I find myself in a slump, I reach for an old friend and see where I was years or weeks ago and I feel instantly better. I only wish I had begun when I was eight.
You are so welcome!
Just the inspiration I needed to start my year. I've been keeping journals for years but now I can make them so much more interesting, creative, and fun. Thank you. Can't draw worth a da..but I'm going to try.😊
Thank you Danny. Very inspiring words and so encouraging. The hardest thing for me is to start. I'll get there.
Great video. I live in SW Oregon. Wish I could have met D. Price. I do draw, paint daily but not organized like his zine, but now I'm inspired to do that too. Thank you both!!
I so much enjoyed your video. I have been keeping a journal for two years, and it is a great pleasure. As you say, it helps one value one's life.
Loved this so much. I had done so in the past but the motivation faded away. However, when I saw that journal and the story behind it something inside me told me to do this again. I was drawing you as I listened to the video and I will do everything in my power to start my journal again.
Wonderful!
Thank you for this video. It is very informative and instructive I have been drawing with my journal for so time now. Looking back in my journal, my drawings give me deeper insight j to myself. II have never seen anyone else create an illustrative journal before. You video gave me great ideas how to improve my journal and add more dimension to it. Thank you so much. I am truly learning from and enjoying your videos.
Yesssssss! Loved TOWER RECORDS. In the early 1980’s, I lived 3 hours away as a kid and my dad would drive my twin sister and i into Manhattan and we would run around Tower Records & Canal Jeans all day. Great great memories. Thanks for that flash back. Great channel.
I watched one of your sketchbook videos about a year ago when I was starting to sketch people. I use to do regular journaling for years but it got boring. I would look back over the years at my writing and it seemed like it was the same from year to year, but after seeing your videos I started sketching with ink and water paints in my sketchbooks. I might not have anything to say for the day, but I'll paint what's in my thoughts and I love it! Thank you for your videos! I got started in my sketch books because of you! :)
Im so glad!
Thank you very much! You have changed my life for the better! I have started my own journal too, And not only I feel extremely happy about it, but also my interior voice has become quieter, because it always talked way too much to me all the time😀🤓 Thank you 🥰
Wow, thank you. It’s funny, yesterday I was thinking of doing an illustrated journal, then I serendipitously found your video. Thanks for the inspiration, I think I am now not going to second guess making this journal, I’m going to just do it!
What a lovely tale...I've tried to keep an illustrated journal for years, but I always get intimidated and go back to text only. I loved seeing D. Price's work and hearing your perspectives...it helps to remember that it doesn't have to be anything epic or impressive to be worth recording about. Stoked to have found your channel!
Thankyou so much. I never knew how to label what I’ve been doing for quite sometime now. My journals are a little different but the idea is the same and it brings me such pleasure each day working in it. It’s such a mixture of stuff from poems I’ve read and their impact ( in words or illustrations) to song lyrics that are on repeat in my brain that day to memories that for what ever reason just jump into my mind. I do small art pics or I collage pictures that are hanging round the house from my past. I just never could tell people what I’m doing without a lengthy wordy explanation...such as done here. Lol. But, thankyou
Thank you for all your wonderful sharing. I’ve started sketching after watching one of your videos recently and I love it so much. You are such an inspiration, thank you.
Thank you for sharing this heartwarming story! It was a pleasure to watch the pages Full of collected treasures in everydays life 💝
I started a sketchbook on 11th Jan this year. It makes me feel happy, like I'm on the cusp of an important self-discovery.
Holy Moly! I’ve been in Sketchbook school since the very beginning and have only just made the connection between your D. Price and the same individual who is known to be in a completely different context (he plays the handpan). How cool is that?! Such a small world. He really is an inspiring individual.… As are you! Can’t believe it’s nearly 10 years!
i love dan price and hearing moonlight chronicles mentioned here was suprising. amazing!!!
i saw kirsten dirksen's video about him and his home. super charming and definitely changed my outlook on life
So many of your videos have inspired me to study the work of other sketch artists. Love how you link to their books; I now have quite a collection of these books and here's one more.
I always kept a journal and then stopped. This is a brilliant idea to let two birds free with one turn of the page.
Hi Danny, thank you for your classic “The Creative Licence” which I bought in 2010. It changed my life. I am the writer and illustrator of over 17 published works now. My own graphic memoir was published in 2019 and although I am still working as a professional actress … my life is richer and more creative, less at the mercy of outside forces because of your beautiful advice on the elements of creative freedom. ❤
I’m so glad!
That is fantastic! I am definitely inspired!!Thanks for sharing!!!🤗🎨🖌🖋📓
I loved this story so much. Thank you for sharing it with everyone.
Thank you for this Dan loved it. ❤ I’ve been watching you so long now I think of you as someone I actually know. I’m forwarding this video to a friend who I am encouraging to start journaling. I had a couple of your books even before I found you on TH-cam and Sketchbook Skool. I love listening to you talking about sketching.
I keep a written journal since about 4 or 5 years. To my own astonishment i kept it up.
I've seen your illustrated diaries before, and think they are fantastic. The only thing keeping me from illustrating mine is that I'm a bit apprehensive about the time factor. Maybe I should stop worrying and start inserting a drawing here and there...
Thank you for this emotive, beautiful and inspiring story.
I love your videos especially your origin video here about what inspired you to start having a sketch Journal I've started my own sketch journal and I'm on my fifth entry today so it's very new. My journal is all about little things in my day that are tiny in themselves and yet I really enjoy focusing on those little things thank you so much for the inspiration you've given me and so many others
Thank you, Danny! I am watching and drawing just about every day. I started my illustrated journal (very little color so far - mostly ink) and I write most days too along with it…even just a quote. I a so very thankful for finding you and for your personality, encouragement and style. I felt a little lost today as I realized I did not write or sketch in my journal yesterday. I started 2•22•24 and am more than 3/4 of the way through. I love it! I feel free(I didn’t expect that at all). I an enjoying going back through and looking at each page too. Plus I have the joy of many pages that are a collaboration with my 7 year old daughter and her drawings with me. Thank you for the inspiration!
Keep going and have a wonderful time!
I'm so glad that you shared this, I had been following you for years and appreciate all of the inspiration that you have provided. its always interesting to see what inspired a person that inspires others. That is totally awesome 😍
I can’t wait to get started. Thank you
Loved hearing today about who inspired you! You have inspired me to sketch in the morning while waiting for my tea to brew. I've added a haiku as well to jump start my brain, rather than doing wordle or the spelling bee. My drawings have gotten better and my artistic eye has developed. Thank you too, for being vulnerable and sharing that D. Price was your inspiration. Your voice is like a warm hug which lures me to embrace my creative self. Thanks for sharing!
I have been keeping these zines for a few years, but I call them art journals. I use sketchbook and travelers notebooks. Love this thank you for posting!!!!
I love this very lovely story. More of this in the world please.
What a wonderful story. Thank you
Fascinating story. Really inspiring. Thank you for sharing. I started my illustrated journal few months ago, it’s really a joy. The words “ illustrated journal “ just makes me happy. ❤
I ran across this back in the 90's I think and I was just thinking about Moonlight Chronicles yesterday. It seems like I even gave my daughter a copy. It had a huge influence on my art journey. I think I should go back to my roots and take it up again.
This video is incredibly inspiring. I have been contemplating doing something like this for some time. You have given me the inspiration to pick up pen and journal and begin. Thank you so much for sharing. I am ready to start a new chapter in my creative life!
Go for it!
What an amazing story and inspiration
I love this thought-provoking wonderful video on keeping your personalized sketch journal of your everyday life. I gleaned so much information from this and I am excited to start my own journal and most likely will turn it into a picture book. Thank you so much!❤
Thank you so much for this inspirational video. I have a couple of YOUR books, which are fabulous. I appreciated this lovely look at your friend's book which began as a zine. I am journaling, drawing just a little, and hope to draw more. Love all the lettering!
Ooooh! You did inspire me! I did a ilustrated journal in my last trip, I was thinking about doing It again, now I'm sure I'll try again!!
What a nice story! I better take a very speedy course since I am teaching a clase on Art Journaling for senior citizens. Totally took myself by surprise, the people liked the first class. Half of them are younger than me, last week we were also dancing to the 50's. Bought the Creative License years ago and still no license but class #2 is this Friday so I'm in a rush now. (Not kidding!)
I loved listening to this story. Thank you for your inspirational videos.
I strive to be able to journal. I love sketching but filling it out as a journal is still a goal of mine. Love hearing your journey.
I love the kindness of your voice and the hope of this story. Thank you.
That was so so inspiring!! I have always wanted to do illustrated journaling but I am horrible at drawing. Maybe I will try so thank you!!!!
Hi Danny, I found out about Dan Price and his Moonlight Chronicles many years ago. In fact, I have a yellow wooden box under my bed with the first 55 small Moonlight Chronicles publications in it. After watching your video just now, I think it is time to start that journey again into his world. Thank you for sharing your side of Dan Price's Story.
What a treasure!
Looks lovely. So much love put into it. 😊
OMG the moment you showed the moonlight chronicles, I immediately recognised it because I have his other book, which is called "how to make a journal of your life", its brilliant!! I highly recommend it
what a story to make your day!
That's so interesting,I love how there's a mix of everything in the journal. That's so cool that you find the zin and everyting started your journey😊
I honestly can't remember if I found you or D. Price first. I still have the little Moonlight Chronicles I ordered from him, and your books. Both of you had a style, that was so personal, and I thought I could do that too! I'd always drawn from the time I was little, but inspired by your first book, at some point when my daughter and son were in high school, I bought a sketchbook and decided to draw every day. I drew every day for a long time! My kids are now in their mid thirties, and drawing is still a big part of my life. Eventually I started illustrating for other people as well as drawing for my own enjoyment. I have you and D. Price to thank for adding so much pleasure to my life. So thank you, Danny!
Always so interesting listening to you
I started doing this a couple of years ago and it’s so much to read back through them!!
6:58 … that’s how I stumbled into archaeological illustration … I was watching the dig artist work on an excavation in Israel in 2006 and thought “hmmmm, I bet I could do that!” and in 2012 I started as the dig artist for an excavation (also in Israel) and continued until it wrapped up this year!!
Love this. Thank you for sharing. I have wanted to do something like this for a long time and finally bought a small watercolour book. I am not an artist, far from it really, but I am drawn to want to be creative in this manner. All I have to do now is overcome the intimidation of the first blank page.
I read Dan Price's Moonlight Chronicles several decades ago, and subscribed to his zine. Also bought back issues. Loved them!
Love your videos, they are so inspiring ❤. Thank you 😊
Oh my gosh. Thank you so so much. This was just the inspiration I need right now. (PS great voice and great presentation)
Hello. I used to live in New York City. I was raised in Brooklyn. When I was a teen I used to go to tower records to look at the new vinyl cover arts. I also looked around that section you spoke about too. There was so much to look at. The whole city seemed to be so colorful then. I went out with my camera, and shot some real nice photos back then. I know what you mean. I like your journals. I use my art work to create journals on amazon. I also create cover art for my music as well. I have always enjoyed art, and photography. This is why I self publish my books on amazon, and also self publish my music as well with my art covers. Being an artist has opened many doors for me. I really love all the possibilities of art, and photography.
Inspiring and beautiful video! love it!
I am going to start illustrated journaling too. I'm going to journal everyday life, scenes of my dreams, quotes from books etc! Makes me excited just thinking about it!
What charming zines! You are blessed to have been able to inspire each other. His influence on you is obvious. Thanks for sharing this lovely story, Danny. I’m inspired to be more intentional with my own sketchbook now. Interestingly, I recently discovered zines and have brought the concept into my second grade classroom. They love it! ❤
i LOVE this 💕 thank you for sharing your inspiration
…i also wanted to ad that the illustration ‘Don’t think just draw’ really resonated.
I saw your video and immediately bought the moonlight chronicles as e-book and a tiny sketchbook to first copy the Dan Price style. So impressed I am! Thank you very much for sharing this treasure, dear @DannyGregory ❤❤❤
Hope you enjoy it!
..I'm just watching this video for 1st time although I have some of your books..BUT I found the Moonlight Chronicles also! Still look at them..love them..I keep a running sketchbook also..I'm leaving them to family members..at least they don't have to hang them on the wall! Enjoy your channel 🎉
Big thanks for your knowledge and wisdom. I was constantly drawing as child/teenager and was pretty good at it. Now I'm beginning again at the age of 64 :D Did my first journal spread just now and although it doesn't look that good, I'm happy I've started the journey. But I feel I have to hurry doing them and I don't know why. I've been watching the „How to draw“ episodes and they are great :)