Why you stopped drawing. And how to start again.
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- čas přidán 10. 03. 2024
- Maybe you stopped drawing when you were a kid. Maybe you stopped last year. And there are so many reasons we give up. But stopping isn’t forever. You can start again, and find you really love to draw - I’ll tell you how.
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Thank you... im battling some dark depression. I stopped drawing for years noe. 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 CZcams 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. ❤❤❤
Thank you. I have been on the road back to my art since Fall 2021. I found CZcams 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.
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! ❤
Honestly, this was perfectly timed. Thank you ❤
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. 🤗
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 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…
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 $$$
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.
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!
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
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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!
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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Love your work Danny! Go Mary Beth from Nebraska! What a champion 💓
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 :)
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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!
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.
Thank you! Very inspiring! Now if I would just do it...and not wait for an obstacle. Life is short indeed!
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
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You sound like me. Definitely get back into it. Don't wait for decades like I did!
Hank you so much for this advice. God bless you as you help us.
This is so inspiring. Thanks for the encouragement 🥹💛
You're my favourite art creator on CZcams.
Wow, thank you!
this was beautiful ❤
Love how you always meet people where they are while also still having a positive twist! ❤️
This made me more hopeful, in many ways- thank you for sharing and thank you for being a good human. ☮️❤🕊️
You are so welcome
This was brilliant! Thank you!
Some good words ! Thanks 🌷
❤THANK YOU DANNY!
❤Thank you!🙏
I think I needed this video, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Wonderful thanks ❤
Thank you. I get your essays too. Thank you for those too.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Well said, Danny! 💕🎨
Thanks, Danny.
Thank you ❤
Thank you. Very inspiring. It helps me on my own personal journey of self-expression.
This was really beautiful.
Thanks this was very encouraging. It made me look for my sketchbook.😊
Thank you Danny! You are truly an inspiration ❤
Thank you.
Thank u for this video, ur positive outlook is so wonderful. Love all ur videos have a wonderful day.
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 very much
Glad it helped
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 :)
This is the video I needed. I drew my newborn baby a year ago (after a decade of not drawing), then I didn’t draw more after that.
I like your drawings do much that they motivate me to draw. They are not as intimidating as mona Lisa
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This is very true. Art is a product of appreciation and contentment.
Our art, maybe not technically perfect, is an extension of our gratitude.
I just started. I'm really slow though. And terrified. I guess this video found me.
I couldn't hear anything after '.. And then they used my sketchbook as a coaster' 😅😵💫
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. czcams.com/play/PLINz5dTN9-0tS0FEA3UhAB4NVg7oiD6Iy.html
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? czcams.com/video/6psVzMUJbNY/video.html
@@SketchBookSkool thanks!
Did Sketchbook Skool Spark program shut down?
Yes. We ended it last month.
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!