Thank you... im battling some dark depression. I stopped drawing for years now. Trying to get the joy back in my life. I miss who i used to be. And i miss art. .... hoping this will bring back some joy.
Read a book recently on the benefits of adding vitamin D and fish oil to the diet when you have depression, as well as cardio exercise - even if it’s just a 30 minute walk. Good luck friend. I’ve been there
This might help other people, I got a cheap a5 plain paper pad, tore the cover off and it sits next to my laptop, so when I'm listening to TH-cam I can doodle. also I've made it my mission this year to simply use up my ungodly amount of unused notebooks and years old pens even if I'm just scribbling. I think some artists think they need the ultimate art supplies and the most expensive paper but that means you're never truly ready to "ruin" or "waste" them and therefore never end up using them. If your mission is hey let's use up every page of this books or use up all the ink in this pen you'll find yourself drawing a hell of a lot more. Is most of it terrible? Yes lol but you're still practicing and improving even if you're just improving your doodle game
I should say that I tore the cover off the paper pad because of the mental barrier it creates, if a closed book is on my desk I'll leave it alone, if it's ready to go it's more tempting I guess, although maybe that's just me
Draw because you can, because you can use your eyes, your hands, your mind. When you cannot do these things, due to illness, or injury, or whatever reason, you will realise the value. Don't wait until it's too late. ❤❤❤
I've stopped drawing 12 years ago due to discouragement, loathing, verbal abuse. Now I can't even finish a wooden dummy drawing without ripping the page of paper off my sketch pad and throwing the whole thing away- pencils, erasers, sketch pad, pencil leads, retractable pencil, etc. I came from a clan of artists. It happens that my greatest detractors and ill-wishers are members of my very own family.
Keep going. I believe it sounds like jealousy that they act like that. Don’t be deceived by lies when you love what you’re doing. I’m sure your art is amazing!
I too almost gave up but I somehow managed to hang on. My greatest discouragement was from when I was starting out and one of my classmates made fun of the way I added boobs to the mother character. I felt ashamed. Another time I was older and this one substitute teacher made some awful remarks about the way I drew eyes. (Manga-Sailor moon style)
Thank you. I have been on the road back to my art since Fall 2021. I found TH-cam then. I have been doing Art since 1975. High School. I am now 65 years old. I am not done yet. It helps me with my Anxiety which I have been under a doctors care for along with resulting heart problems. I had been working with my art on and off over the years. This time I am growing. I found out I can finally draw people. Line draw with loose sketching. I knew how to line draw etc. in School. I just couldn't loose sketch people better than I did at the time. I am back to being myself where I want to try and I know it is possible. Thank you for inspiration.
I think I must have SAD. I just don't see anything inspiring me. I was drawing like a fiend and then one day just stopped. I hope it comes back to me in the spring.
I think this is true of any good habit. They are hard to form. It's much easier to continue with the bad habits or the "easier" things to do. "I'm too tired/busy/hurt, I'll do it later. Later often never comes. Thanks for the nudge. 🤗
I’m 30 and I have been drawing for the most time of my life. I have a ton of completed sketchbooks. For the last 3-4 years I couldn’t draw a thing. Nothing. A big and important part of my personality is just gone somewhere.
I took a drawing course years ago and really enjoyed it. I found drawing to be very meditative and calming! BUT it took me FOREVER to do a drawing! I was so SLOW! Finally I stopped for that reason.
then set a time limit. you seem to be aiming for perfection rather than the craft itself! you will never be perfect! just better than you previous self
I show up every day with a Zentangle pattern and it doesn’t trigger that judgment to diffuse my journaling. It’s taken me a couple of years to realize that gratitude in that pattern is helpful in journaling overall. Find something that you can draw and be appreciative of it is what I think Danny is saying…
Thank you so much ! I feel so lost, i wanna go back to the days i used to draw. Your video and the stories you tell are really moving , i will do my best to light up my day again, even if it is just a few minutes at first, you are right ! Thank you ! You are so nice !
I love this channel. EDIT: Just yesterday, I drew a sketch of box of pills that I have to take every day, so that my anxiety is better. I'm thankful I live in a time when such medicine is available. I celebrated that.
As a fellow anxiety sufferer, I can understand how you feel. But don’t you know, it’s the very world that we live in that is often at the root of our anxiety? Big pharma cash in on that big time $$$
This video hits hard, I use to draw and paint so much till about 5 years ago now my stuff just sits there I gave away a lot of still kept some I want to draw I want to paint but I just don’t I enjoyed it so much and I want to get back at it again but I keep pushing it back I bought new paints 2 months ago and they are just sitting there I think I’m just scared to start because of disappointment. Seeing all these videos and pictures of great artists 😕 I always compare hopefully one day I can try again
I never finish anything. I grew up drawing, since I was 6 years old. I'd say it came naturally to me. When I was around 16, my aunt did something with my notebook full of drawings and lost it. That really bummed me out. Did a few drawings after that, some unfinished. Afraid to mess them up, and afraid to start new ones because I might find out I'm not as good as I thought I was or could be. I've had depression for years now as well. It's difficult to do many things. I would love to start drawing again ✊
Thank you. You inspired me to start a sketchbook journal, but it's been difficult to find things to put in it. I do try to draw every day, even if it's something that I've already drawn loads of times. The ladies in my choir always ask what I've drawn each week at choir practice, but it's always the same old corbel, trying to catch the way the shadows work. I can see that it's a better drawing this month than it was in February, which is great.
Thank you so much Dear Danny🙏🏻🥰I wish I could explain my deep gratitude for your inspirational and motivational videos and how SKETCHBOOK SKOOL has changed my mindset and then my life🥹❤️ Of course I could say my words better in my own language, “Farsi”. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Shiva from TEHRAN, IRAN ❤❤❤
wow, thanks. just came out of a session with my therapist about how i want to gain the dessire to draw again, and after a good crying and thinking about it, your words were exactly what i needed to hear. thanks from the bottom of my heart (i just strated drawing the second the video stopped and i feel as i made peace with my sketchbook
Life is Short. Art is long!! Very well said. Danny, you are an inspiration. You are so real and so authentic with your expression. More power to you :)
Very true. I spent a few years studying art through various online classes and art books (one of them was The Creative License!). I got to where I was very proud of my work. Then my situation changed. I didn't have as much time to devotw to art. It got away from me. Now I feel like I've lost all of that skill. Though I know I can get it back, I find myself wrestling with time constraints and my inner critic. Maybe I just need to focus on the small time I do find to draw (even if it's "terrible") and be happy that the fire is still within me. I WILL get there again! Thank you for all of your encouragement over the years.
i just started crying at some point in the video 😂 i’ve been passionate about art since im a human being, but a certain day along the way i stopped. it’s not like i “fell out of love” for art itself, i just fell out of love for my own art. thinking it doesn’t look good enough, it’s not worthy to be in someone’s wall.. i didn’t want to draw if it was going to end up being bad, you know? your video helped me so much 🥹 thank you. 💗
your words are very true. It's just that it feels like anyone who sais something like that then displays the most amazing, artistic sketchbooks. And even if you know better, that is discouraging at times when your own is nothing like that. I stopped sketching because it was exhausting only wanting high standard mini drawings and paintings in it. I feel like only one is messed up, it dishonours the good ones in it.
Thanks a million, your humble charm is encouraging. I’ve done my 5th day of drawing in my journal and I can see improvement already, though that is not exactly my goal, it’s fun to see.I love beauty and you’re encouragement is bringing it out in many. ❤
I started drawing in September last year and stopped in January. Why? Because I got frustrated. In my own opinion I didn't make any progress during that time. Also, it's very hard to draw for me, because I always expect nothing less than nearly perfect from myself. Of course that's a way to get frustrated easily. But I refuse to say I gave up! Because I know, I'm gonna start drawing again, I'm just not sure yet when that will be. Currently I'm working on being more patient and less of a perfectionist. Maybe I should also consider drawing less often in the future. I tried to follow your advice and draw every day. But perhaps that's not for me, because if you draw every day and don't see any progress in your skills it gets very frustrating.
Needed to hear this, sir! This very day! The brief meditation idea resonates. I’ll keep returning to it, drawing & art, until it no longer HaS to be returning…until it’s Two steps forward (instead of one forward, two back!) Much Thanks…again!
Since when I was little i enjoyed drawing but things were happening in my life and i lost joy and lost joy in the things i loved , it's been like that for 8yrs
Thank you Danny! ❤I am going for it! I am on my way, and I have never been so complete and satisfied. I understand exactly what you mean. Celebrate all the moments of your life, good and bad, then life is short, and We can surely be a lot happier with art through it. Another important thing: Since I’ve discovered you and sketchskool and started Drawing/painting Almost every day I don’t feel in the hamster wheel anymore, as I used to be somehow. ❤ Thank you very much! Glad I discovered you and your courses.
I started drawing when i was very young. Mostly drew anime characters i loved in my youth. At around 21, life stuff happened, school became a struggle as i was close to getting my diploma and around age 22 i quit drawing completely. For some reason i never picked it up again till the end of last year. Im 31 now. I have started from the basics AND even started painting! And i love it. Im so glad something just clicked in me last year that made me go back to it. And now i'm taking it a lot more serious. Your videos help me so much in getting insight on how our creative brain works, which helps me to learn faster and in a better way. Thank you!
I've been going through a very bad mental state that made me quit all of my hobbies, including drawing. Now I'm still somewhat not in the greatest mental state, but I don't want that to stop me from drawing anymore. Thank you for this video
I used to draw A LOT when I was a kid! Even as a kid I would be amazed at how perfectly I was able to replicate a picture into my paper. Draw pictures of a picture but never from imagination or perception of real time objects or something like that. But one day I STOPPED! Idk why! And I have been wondering about that for the past 2 weeks and this urge to take my pencil and just scribble something has been on my mind! THIS video feels like you just read my mind♥️ Thanks for this♥️ . . . . . . . 12th March, 2024 @12:21 pm, Tuesday
I stopped drawing because all my free time was taken away by others in my life. Every time i tried to step away to focus on drawing like i used to, i couldnt, id be interrupted and drawn away from my inspiration. So i stopped for the past seven years. The inspiration for drawing has never stopped, but now ive lost the routine of drawing and yes im disappointed with the quality of my work. I used to be satisfied with the level of my work. Only an artist can understand the crushing feeling of having inspiration and not being able to express it.
I chose to watch your video, because you are an elder/older person. You have more experience and that's why I'm more inspired to draw more. Hope I didn't insult or offend anyone. I just needed the inspiration to go on. Been drawing since I was old enough to do so. Writing and drawing is my life! Thank you!
I know this is 6 months old but I am balling. When my oldest cousin who is like my sister died back in 2017 I think I didn’t (and still haven’t) let myself grieve. I pushed all my emotions in and everything that reminds me of her or triggers me I avoid it because I hate crying and being in such a low state. When she died I changed a lot. I don’t game like I use to - thanks to my husband I’m finding that joy again and every time I saw I am going to draw something it’s like a cringe and then I just randomly compare myself to other artists and I don’t see the point. Thank you for this video. It’s been 7 years since I drew something so I think I need to take this moment to heal and draw ❤
"Celebrate your life" brought me to tears. Wow. I'm going through a crisis and I can't let myself draw something and finish it. Even though I have a whole book to illustrate, I have it all planned in my head, it seems like what I had been doing effortlessly 10 years ago is now just an unworthy skill. But I need it right now. Ya know... I want to tap in again but it feels like a waste of time. I have to be very specific with what I want to draw, and I can't show anyone anything before it's done. I want to be able to at least make something for myself and for friends. But it feels like every thing is just worthless. My country is at war and it's overwhelming just to be creative. I have to allow myself to make something not just for someone but to celebrate life. That's an excellent advice. Thank you, sir.
I've been drawing for years since it was my greatest passion, but ever since I moved to a new place, I slowly lost inspiration that made me comfortable. I hardly touched my drawing tablet for 4 years and it still bothers me today that I wanna get back to drawing again. and yet my own mind tells me that what if I mess up, what if others don't like my drawing and yet what if I'm not good like they were. cause I'm so focused on trying to make the drawing perfect then just let my imagination go free. I've been suffering from high anxiety, ADD, and depression that I'm trying to find ways to get back for what I have lost those years ago. but today, it feels like the same thing over and over again that my own mind say " I'll do it tomorrow " but once that came, nothing happened, as if my own anxiety is stopping me from feeling happy. but I really love how you put it that way on how others are suffering with a lose of inspiration and even finding a way to get it back. this video really tells that I lost so much in so much years and wishing to get back to what I love most. this is really touching.
I used to be like that, carrying my sketchbook with me all around. And then something happened and I just stopped. I kept taking a sketchbook with me for another couple of years, but never actually drew in it. My drawings were very good, I enjoy looking through them. I just feel sooo lazy to be precise and accurate, and if I'm not, I don't enjoy the result. I guess I just have to start again.
i have no ideas on what to draw, except to just copy other peoples art, which is actually a method to improve your art, i just dont want to feel like a copy cat. i want to create unique things.
Ik the feels but instead of feeling like its a copy cat imagine it as your inspiration to create your unique style its okay to feel like but they are the ingredients and maybe eventually having your style im actually didnt know where to start because everything is just hard to copy most likely the hair but keep it up im actually starting again even tho ik it will be down or up on my journey its fine (sorry about the long text)
A little technical tip: you might wanna disable automatic gain control in your camera and set the audio levels manually, so that your audio doesn't cut out when you stop talking :)
I stop drawing because I don't see any progress... I was drawing the same cup everyday but there was a point where I was doing the same and didn't know how to improve. Your drawings of mundane things are are so wonderful!! Mine look like 5 year old drawings.
I came here for drawing advice, i didn't expect a lesson on stoicism. True stoicism built on appreciation for all things instead of repression. I thought i had a rock and instead i found a geode.
Its strange many times i think of everything in the world to draw just my imagination running wild, i have adhd so my mind constantly feels like its on the gi but when i open my sketch book its like this duanting feeling like fear to start a new page or just anxious but i still want to draw but get disappointed because i always do whar i want so i feel i just dont structure so my book looks boring then i dont want to draw
I havent draw since middle school days ,,,and I tried it again but my art worse than ever lmao ,,,,,and I didnt have the passion like I had back then ........ Tried to comeback but whatever it been almost 10 year
Hi Danny, I have a practical question. What sketchbook do you use? I live in a small town, very limited art supplies. Amazon is hit and miss. Looking for something that I can use watercolors AND ink. It looks like you have a sketchbook that is good for both! Hoping this question will help others too.❤☮️
There are many great sketchbook manufacturers, all available on Amazon: Canson, Hahnemuhle, Fabriano, Moleskine. Mixed-media books are good because you can use wet media, and they don't have a rough texture that makes it hard to draw with a pen. Don't buy the cheap ones. A good sketchbook will cost less than $20 and last for months if you draw regularly. Need pen advice? th-cam.com/video/6psVzMUJbNY/w-d-xo.html
That's really inspiring but what if your goal is to actually illustrate a story or if you want to copy a character. Like i've started to draw manga and it's hard to make it special. It's more about studying and trying to get the right thing, but often i don't know if what i'm doing is right or not.
I like the idea of drawing to appreciate a moment and to preserve it. But... when I look at my old drawings, I usually don't remember the moment at all. Like, OK, I drew this sneaker lying on the floor, or this flower, or this croissant, but so what? Even two years later, it's devoid of any context or meaning. I think, Danny, that your accompanying *notes* have MUCH more intrinsic value as mementos. Or at least, that the combo of drawing + note is far more effective than simply drawing. So I'm not sure why you put so much more emphasis on the drawing part. The written text is what makes the sneaker unique and meaningful to you. Anyone can draw a shoe and then forget why they drew it, only you drew THAT shoe with THAT story attached to it.
Thank you... im battling some dark depression. I stopped drawing for years now. Trying to get the joy back in my life. I miss who i used to be. And i miss art. .... hoping this will bring back some joy.
May you find abundant joy and allow yourself to delight in small blessings.
Start with just 1 small drawing in the morning.
I wish you all the best, and the strength to do small things that will bring joy back into your life.
Read a book recently on the benefits of adding vitamin D and fish oil to the diet when you have depression, as well as cardio exercise - even if it’s just a 30 minute walk. Good luck friend. I’ve been there
It will. Guaranteed.
This might help other people, I got a cheap a5 plain paper pad, tore the cover off and it sits next to my laptop, so when I'm listening to TH-cam I can doodle. also I've made it my mission this year to simply use up my ungodly amount of unused notebooks and years old pens even if I'm just scribbling. I think some artists think they need the ultimate art supplies and the most expensive paper but that means you're never truly ready to "ruin" or "waste" them and therefore never end up using them. If your mission is hey let's use up every page of this books or use up all the ink in this pen you'll find yourself drawing a hell of a lot more. Is most of it terrible? Yes lol but you're still practicing and improving even if you're just improving your doodle game
I should say that I tore the cover off the paper pad because of the mental barrier it creates, if a closed book is on my desk I'll leave it alone, if it's ready to go it's more tempting I guess, although maybe that's just me
Thanks for the motivation! I saw myself in your words! I too have alot of drawing items, just too worried about using them cuz they're 'too nice'.
Draw because you can, because you can use your eyes, your hands, your mind. When you cannot do these things, due to illness, or injury, or whatever reason, you will realise the value. Don't wait until it's too late. ❤❤❤
Thank you!
I've stopped drawing 12 years ago due to discouragement, loathing, verbal abuse. Now I can't even finish a wooden dummy drawing without ripping the page of paper off my sketch pad and throwing the whole thing away- pencils, erasers, sketch pad, pencil leads, retractable pencil, etc. I came from a clan of artists. It happens that my greatest detractors and ill-wishers are members of my very own family.
Keep going. I believe it sounds like jealousy that they act like that. Don’t be deceived by lies when you love what you’re doing. I’m sure your art is amazing!
I too almost gave up but I somehow managed to hang on. My greatest discouragement was from when I was starting out and one of my classmates made fun of the way I added boobs to the mother character. I felt ashamed. Another time I was older and this one substitute teacher made some awful remarks about the way I drew eyes. (Manga-Sailor moon style)
Thank you. I have been on the road back to my art since Fall 2021. I found TH-cam then. I have been doing Art since 1975. High School. I am now 65 years old. I am not done yet. It helps me with my Anxiety which I have been under a doctors care for along with resulting heart problems. I had been working with my art on and off over the years. This time I am growing. I found out I can finally draw people. Line draw with loose sketching. I knew how to line draw etc. in School. I just couldn't loose sketch people better than I did at the time. I am back to being myself where I want to try and I know it is possible. Thank you for inspiration.
Trying to climb over the fence of fear to start learning to draw. Thank you
You can do it! Or just use the door and come on in!
I think I must have SAD. I just don't see anything inspiring me. I was drawing like a fiend and then one day just stopped. I hope it comes back to me in the spring.
It's normal! It will come to you again. Reach out to different hobbies or forms of art. I like writing or reading for example. It will come back
Taking vitamin D3 and K2 (from fermented foods) really improved my mood in the winter. Might want to give that a try.
I have also found that summer is more exciting to sketch in. because I can be in nature longer and I like drawing that more.
Don't wait! Ask your SAD what it wants. Talk to it - be curious and it will help you to grow on your Journey! ❤
I think this is true of any good habit. They are hard to form. It's much easier to continue with the bad habits or the "easier" things to do. "I'm too tired/busy/hurt, I'll do it later. Later often never comes. Thanks for the nudge. 🤗
I’m 30 and I have been drawing for the most time of my life. I have a ton of completed sketchbooks.
For the last 3-4 years I couldn’t draw a thing. Nothing. A big and important part of my personality is just gone somewhere.
I can relate to this so much, sending love
I took a drawing course years ago and really enjoyed it. I found drawing to be very meditative and calming! BUT it took me FOREVER to do a drawing! I was so SLOW! Finally I stopped for that reason.
then set a time limit. you seem to be aiming for perfection rather than the craft itself! you will never be perfect! just better than you previous self
@@shreevas6160 Ah yes! I WAS a perfectionist back then.
Honestly, this was perfectly timed. Thank you ❤
I show up every day with a Zentangle pattern and it doesn’t trigger that judgment to diffuse my journaling. It’s taken me a couple of years to realize that gratitude in that pattern is helpful in journaling overall. Find something that you can draw and be appreciative of it is what I think Danny is saying…
Thank you so much ! I feel so lost, i wanna go back to the days i used to draw. Your video and the stories you tell are really moving , i will do my best to light up my day again, even if it is just a few minutes at first, you are right ! Thank you ! You are so nice !
You can do it!
I love this channel. EDIT: Just yesterday, I drew a sketch of box of pills that I have to take every day, so that my anxiety is better. I'm thankful I live in a time when such medicine is available. I celebrated that.
As a fellow anxiety sufferer, I can understand how you feel. But don’t you know, it’s the very world that we live in that is often at the root of our anxiety? Big pharma cash in on that big time $$$
This video hits hard, I use to draw and paint so much till about 5 years ago now my stuff just sits there I gave away a lot of still kept some I want to draw I want to paint but I just don’t I enjoyed it so much and I want to get back at it again but I keep pushing it back I bought new paints 2 months ago and they are just sitting there I think I’m just scared to start because of disappointment. Seeing all these videos and pictures of great artists 😕 I always compare hopefully one day I can try again
I never finish anything. I grew up drawing, since I was 6 years old. I'd say it came naturally to me. When I was around 16, my aunt did something with my notebook full of drawings and lost it. That really bummed me out. Did a few drawings after that, some unfinished. Afraid to mess them up, and afraid to start new ones because I might find out I'm not as good as I thought I was or could be. I've had depression for years now as well. It's difficult to do many things. I would love to start drawing again ✊
Thank you. You inspired me to start a sketchbook journal, but it's been difficult to find things to put in it. I do try to draw every day, even if it's something that I've already drawn loads of times. The ladies in my choir always ask what I've drawn each week at choir practice, but it's always the same old corbel, trying to catch the way the shadows work. I can see that it's a better drawing this month than it was in February, which is great.
You might find this video helpful: What should you draw? Tips on subject matter for beginners
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@@SketchBookSkool Thank you.
Thank you so much Dear Danny🙏🏻🥰I wish I could explain my deep gratitude for your inspirational and motivational videos and how SKETCHBOOK SKOOL has changed my mindset and then my life🥹❤️
Of course I could say my words better in my own language, “Farsi”.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Shiva
from TEHRAN, IRAN
❤❤❤
wow, thanks. just came out of a session with my therapist about how i want to gain the dessire to draw again, and after a good crying and thinking about it, your words were exactly what i needed to hear. thanks from the bottom of my heart (i just strated drawing the second the video stopped and i feel as i made peace with my sketchbook
Life is Short. Art is long!! Very well said. Danny, you are an inspiration. You are so real and so authentic with your expression. More power to you :)
Very true. I spent a few years studying art through various online classes and art books (one of them was The Creative License!). I got to where I was very proud of my work. Then my situation changed. I didn't have as much time to devotw to art. It got away from me. Now I feel like I've lost all of that skill. Though I know I can get it back, I find myself wrestling with time constraints and my inner critic. Maybe I just need to focus on the small time I do find to draw (even if it's "terrible") and be happy that the fire is still within me. I WILL get there again! Thank you for all of your encouragement over the years.
i just started crying at some point in the video 😂 i’ve been passionate about art since im a human being, but a certain day along the way i stopped. it’s not like i “fell out of love” for art itself, i just fell out of love for my own art. thinking it doesn’t look good enough, it’s not worthy to be in someone’s wall.. i didn’t want to draw if it was going to end up being bad, you know? your video helped me so much 🥹 thank you. 💗
your words are very true. It's just that it feels like anyone who sais something like that then displays the most amazing, artistic sketchbooks. And even if you know better, that is discouraging at times when your own is nothing like that. I stopped sketching because it was exhausting only wanting high standard mini drawings and paintings in it. I feel like only one is messed up, it dishonours the good ones in it.
Thanks a million, your humble charm is encouraging.
I’ve done my 5th day of drawing in my journal and I can see improvement already, though that is not exactly my goal, it’s fun to see.I love beauty and you’re encouragement is bringing it out in many.
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I started drawing in September last year and stopped in January. Why? Because I got frustrated. In my own opinion I didn't make any progress during that time. Also, it's very hard to draw for me, because I always expect nothing less than nearly perfect from myself. Of course that's a way to get frustrated easily.
But I refuse to say I gave up! Because I know, I'm gonna start drawing again, I'm just not sure yet when that will be. Currently I'm working on being more patient and less of a perfectionist. Maybe I should also consider drawing less often in the future. I tried to follow your advice and draw every day. But perhaps that's not for me, because if you draw every day and don't see any progress in your skills it gets very frustrating.
Needed to hear this, sir! This very day! The brief meditation idea resonates. I’ll keep returning to it, drawing & art, until it no longer HaS to be returning…until it’s Two steps forward (instead of one forward, two back!) Much Thanks…again!
Since when I was little i enjoyed drawing but things were happening in my life and i lost joy and lost joy in the things i loved , it's been like that for 8yrs
Thank you! Very inspiring! Now if I would just do it...and not wait for an obstacle. Life is short indeed!
Thank you Danny! ❤I am going for it! I am on my way, and I have never been so complete and satisfied. I understand exactly what you mean. Celebrate all the moments of your life, good and bad, then life is short, and We can surely be a lot happier with art through it. Another important thing: Since I’ve discovered you and sketchskool and started Drawing/painting Almost every day I don’t feel in the hamster wheel anymore, as I used to be somehow. ❤ Thank you very much! Glad I discovered you and your courses.
I need another 10-Days Challenge, dear Danny! ✍ -- This is a bit out of context, but I just enjoyed the creative buzz with the community so much.🎨
I started drawing when i was very young. Mostly drew anime characters i loved in my youth. At around 21, life stuff happened, school became a struggle as i was close to getting my diploma and around age 22 i quit drawing completely. For some reason i never picked it up again till the end of last year. Im 31 now. I have started from the basics AND even started painting! And i love it. Im so glad something just clicked in me last year that made me go back to it. And now i'm taking it a lot more serious. Your videos help me so much in getting insight on how our creative brain works, which helps me to learn faster and in a better way. Thank you!
Its true, I miss drawing again, and I'm ready to go back again. Thank you for this video❤
Glad you're ready to give it another try!
This is so inspiring. Thanks for the encouragement 🥹💛
I've been going through a very bad mental state that made me quit all of my hobbies, including drawing. Now I'm still somewhat not in the greatest mental state, but I don't want that to stop me from drawing anymore.
Thank you for this video
I used to draw A LOT when I was a kid! Even as a kid I would be amazed at how perfectly I was able to replicate a picture into my paper. Draw pictures of a picture but never from imagination or perception of real time objects or something like that. But one day I STOPPED! Idk why!
And I have been wondering about that for the past 2 weeks and this urge to take my pencil and just scribble something has been on my mind! THIS video feels like you just read my mind♥️ Thanks for this♥️
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12th March, 2024
@12:21 pm, Tuesday
You sound like me. Definitely get back into it. Don't wait for decades like I did!
Love how you always meet people where they are while also still having a positive twist! ❤️
this gotta be the simplest, yet greatest philosophy video
I stopped drawing because all my free time was taken away by others in my life. Every time i tried to step away to focus on drawing like i used to, i couldnt, id be interrupted and drawn away from my inspiration. So i stopped for the past seven years. The inspiration for drawing has never stopped, but now ive lost the routine of drawing and yes im disappointed with the quality of my work. I used to be satisfied with the level of my work. Only an artist can understand the crushing feeling of having inspiration and not being able to express it.
I chose to watch your video, because you are an elder/older person. You have more experience and that's why I'm more inspired to draw more. Hope I didn't insult or offend anyone. I just needed the inspiration to go on. Been drawing since I was old enough to do so. Writing and drawing is my life! Thank you!
I know this is 6 months old but I am balling. When my oldest cousin who is like my sister died back in 2017 I think I didn’t (and still haven’t) let myself grieve. I pushed all my emotions in and everything that reminds me of her or triggers me I avoid it because I hate crying and being in such a low state. When she died I changed a lot. I don’t game like I use to - thanks to my husband I’m finding that joy again and every time I saw I am going to draw something it’s like a cringe and then I just randomly compare myself to other artists and I don’t see the point.
Thank you for this video. It’s been 7 years since I drew something so I think I need to take this moment to heal and draw ❤
"Celebrate your life" brought me to tears. Wow. I'm going through a crisis and I can't let myself draw something and finish it. Even though I have a whole book to illustrate, I have it all planned in my head, it seems like what I had been doing effortlessly 10 years ago is now just an unworthy skill. But I need it right now. Ya know... I want to tap in again but it feels like a waste of time. I have to be very specific with what I want to draw, and I can't show anyone anything before it's done. I want to be able to at least make something for myself and for friends. But it feels like every thing is just worthless. My country is at war and it's overwhelming just to be creative. I have to allow myself to make something not just for someone but to celebrate life. That's an excellent advice. Thank you, sir.
I've been drawing for years since it was my greatest passion, but ever since I moved to a new place, I slowly lost inspiration that made me comfortable. I hardly touched my drawing tablet for 4 years and it still bothers me today that I wanna get back to drawing again. and yet my own mind tells me that what if I mess up, what if others don't like my drawing and yet what if I'm not good like they were. cause I'm so focused on trying to make the drawing perfect then just let my imagination go free. I've been suffering from high anxiety, ADD, and depression that I'm trying to find ways to get back for what I have lost those years ago. but today, it feels like the same thing over and over again that my own mind say " I'll do it tomorrow " but once that came, nothing happened, as if my own anxiety is stopping me from feeling happy.
but I really love how you put it that way on how others are suffering with a lose of inspiration and even finding a way to get it back. this video really tells that I lost so much in so much years and wishing to get back to what I love most. this is really touching.
Thank you. Very inspiring. It helps me on my own personal journey of self-expression.
Hank you so much for this advice. God bless you as you help us.
I stopped drawing for a while after a friendship ended and my ongoing depression has made it hard to get back into it.
this was beautiful ❤
Thank you. I get your essays too. Thank you for those too.
Thanks this was very encouraging. It made me look for my sketchbook.😊
This was really beautiful.
This reminded me of the latin saying: Ars longa, vita brevis
Art is long, life is short
Thank you for sharing, I needed this reminder :)
An odd thing to say, but you are very wise much like the priests at my church. We are Anglican Catholics. Cheers I appreciate you and your gifts
you motivated me a lot!! I choose to celebrate life and all the things through art :)
Thank u for this video, ur positive outlook is so wonderful. Love all ur videos have a wonderful day.
Used to be so good at drawing but that was 2 years ago i can barley draw simple shapes now 😭🙏🏼
Sooo real. I feel so stuck
This made me more hopeful, in many ways- thank you for sharing and thank you for being a good human. ☮️❤🕊️
You are so welcome
I have not drawn in 7 months . I gave up ,,, thanks for this vid .
Thank you, this is the nudge that I needed!
I used to be like that, carrying my sketchbook with me all around. And then something happened and I just stopped. I kept taking a sketchbook with me for another couple of years, but never actually drew in it. My drawings were very good, I enjoy looking through them. I just feel sooo lazy to be precise and accurate, and if I'm not, I don't enjoy the result. I guess I just have to start again.
I stopped because i thought “ im not improving “ and thanks dopamine addiction like doom scrolling and playing hours of video games.
damn u just like me frl
i have no ideas on what to draw, except to just copy other peoples art, which is actually a method to improve your art, i just dont want to feel like a copy cat. i want to create unique things.
Ik the feels but instead of feeling like its a copy cat imagine it as your inspiration to create your unique style its okay to feel like but they are the ingredients and maybe eventually having your style im actually didnt know where to start because everything is just hard to copy most likely the hair but keep it up im actually starting again even tho ik it will be down or up on my journey its fine (sorry about the long text)
You're my favourite art creator on TH-cam.
Wow, thank you!
A little technical tip: you might wanna disable automatic gain control in your camera and set the audio levels manually, so that your audio doesn't cut out when you stop talking :)
I stop drawing because I don't see any progress... I was drawing the same cup everyday but there was a point where I was doing the same and didn't know how to improve. Your drawings of mundane things are are so wonderful!! Mine look like 5 year old drawings.
I suggest you work through my tutorials and suspend self-criticism till you finish. th-cam.com/play/PLINz5dTN9-0tS0FEA3UhAB4NVg7oiD6Iy.html
These reflections are so nurishing, so many thank yous 🌷😊
Thank you so much for this! Your video popped up at the right time, I will be picking up my pencil today!! 🙏 ❤
❤THANK YOU DANNY!
I think I needed this video, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Thank you ❤
Thanks, Danny.
Thank you... I needed that..
Wonderful thanks ❤
Thank you Danny! You are truly an inspiration ❤
Thanks for sharing 👍
Well said, Danny! 💕🎨
This was brilliant! Thank you!
I came here for drawing advice, i didn't expect a lesson on stoicism. True stoicism built on appreciation for all things instead of repression.
I thought i had a rock and instead i found a geode.
Thank you.
Some good words ! Thanks 🌷
Thank you so much for this video!
Its strange many times i think of everything in the world to draw just my imagination running wild, i have adhd so my mind constantly feels like its on the gi but when i open my sketch book its like this duanting feeling like fear to start a new page or just anxious but i still want to draw but get disappointed because i always do whar i want so i feel i just dont structure so my book looks boring then i dont want to draw
thank you
Thank you
This is very true. Art is a product of appreciation and contentment.
Our art, maybe not technically perfect, is an extension of our gratitude.
thank you so much
❤Thank you!🙏
I havent draw since middle school days ,,,and I tried it again but my art worse than ever lmao ,,,,,and I didnt have the passion like I had back then ........ Tried to comeback but whatever it been almost 10 year
I just started. I'm really slow though. And terrified. I guess this video found me.
I like your drawings do much that they motivate me to draw. They are not as intimidating as mona Lisa
Whenever I draw a anime character I always find a way to nitpick it and that’s why I just quit for a while it’s hard to get back into
Thank You very much
Glad it helped
Maybe art was always JUST a hobby 😔
I wanna draw but idk why I just don't
Hi Danny, I have a practical question. What sketchbook do you use? I live in a small town, very limited art supplies. Amazon is hit and miss. Looking for something that I can use watercolors AND ink. It looks like you have a sketchbook that is good for both! Hoping this question will help others too.❤☮️
There are many great sketchbook manufacturers, all available on Amazon: Canson, Hahnemuhle, Fabriano, Moleskine. Mixed-media books are good because you can use wet media, and they don't have a rough texture that makes it hard to draw with a pen. Don't buy the cheap ones. A good sketchbook will cost less than $20 and last for months if you draw regularly. Need pen advice? th-cam.com/video/6psVzMUJbNY/w-d-xo.html
@@SketchBookSkool thanks!
I couldn't hear anything after '.. And then they used my sketchbook as a coaster' 😅😵💫
That's really inspiring but what if your goal is to actually illustrate a story or if you want to copy a character. Like i've started to draw manga and it's hard to make it special. It's more about studying and trying to get the right thing, but often i don't know if what i'm doing is right or not.
I stopped drawing recenlty because i got so good at it it wasnt fun anymore. Compared to doom scrolling
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I like the idea of drawing to appreciate a moment and to preserve it. But... when I look at my old drawings, I usually don't remember the moment at all. Like, OK, I drew this sneaker lying on the floor, or this flower, or this croissant, but so what? Even two years later, it's devoid of any context or meaning. I think, Danny, that your accompanying *notes* have MUCH more intrinsic value as mementos. Or at least, that the combo of drawing + note is far more effective than simply drawing. So I'm not sure why you put so much more emphasis on the drawing part. The written text is what makes the sneaker unique and meaningful to you. Anyone can draw a shoe and then forget why they drew it, only you drew THAT shoe with THAT story attached to it.
by abuse. so when can i go back? LMK!