Sounds like you have a bunch of good ideas. I really don't have negative thoughts about my art. My teachers instilled in me that this is a growth process.. My father said, "We practice art everyday". It's about expressing who I am through art. I just have a damned good time. Life isn't long enough now that I am 65 years old. Thank you.

I appreciate your 'yammering', you have a calm way of communicating your thoughts. In the rat race of life we live in, I like to go to your channel and draw with you, I look forward to it. I can only speak for myself, but as I've been in this weird full life transition from a stable career as an art teacher for 20+ years to, um, something? I see you two together in that lovely space, with a great pup in a beautiful home. You're making it work, somehow. That's aspirational to me, to find a new way to do the best I can and find a way to share what I'm good at with others. I feel far too shy to ever go on camera on a channel, but I love the idea of talking to people or finding the valuable place for my yammering to connect again. Life changes are not easy. I appreciate you both and love your thoughts and insights. Thanks for making the time

I love listening to you Danny, it's like listening to a friend and you make so much sense, so please carry on! Thank you.😊

I draw and paint as an appreciation of life - nothing else matters- i only paint what I love

I always care about what Twiglet has to say as well 😉

I definitely would love to see more of your sketchbooks, and more sketchbook related books! those are some of my favourite videos of yours ♥️

I NEVER stop listening to music. You've changed my morning habit to rock and roll. Thanks. Now back to the Allman Brothers.

What you said about being anxious about doing art Not making one strive to be better, but making one Stop altogether, was an excellent point imo. Re memberships, more and more of the artists I love following are setting up these members only and patreon side channels. While I totally understand the need to have income, I myself am trying to get by on a very low income and while I would dearly love to join many, or even one, channel, I simply cannot afford it. I feel quite sad and upset by the youtubers that give me the hard sell and almost guilt trip me about not being a patreon/member. I always put a like, and frequently comment on videos I appreciate because I hope that at least I may be helping the algorithm to get their videos seen by more viewers. Love your content and hope my thoughts and feelings might be useful.

Love your “yammering”!! It is like a visit and I hope your essays are available for free. Since we are in the middle of having been laid off and it was our sole income with nothing else …nope not anything else … having access to my KZfaq creators free content has been so precious !!! 🤗🤗🤗 If there are things in membership, I have no doubt I will consider being a member when I can, however, I truly appreciate your wisdom, kind encouragement, experience (etc) that you share on your channel that I can access and have shared with others to go subscribe to your channel too 😊

Enjoy the journey...your journey! That truly is the way to win. Thank you for the reminder. We should be proud of our efforts, and of our progress on our path.

I like the soft but colorful background behind you. I enjoy your calm demeanor and voice. I appreciate your sketching activity and have shared it to my son who has anxiety and expressed an interest in drawing. Just wanted to let you know.

Keep "yammering". I learn something every time. Your Sketchbook tour is what got me (a non-artist) started on this journey last November. Now I'm "sketching " every week. My kids say it's becoming recognizable now. Lol More Sketchbook content would be amazing.

Competing against your former self is enough competition! 😉 We are told this often, but shown competing against others is truly the goal in this society. It does lead to anxiety and depression among other issues. We were truly designed to bring out the best in ourselves. You are the only you there will ever be. If you are competing against others, perhaps you are trying to be more like the ones you are competing against. Then the you who you were meant to be will not shine like you should have. My competitive streak came out as a new mom. I would watch the other babies progress where mine wasn't and ask what I was doing as a mom that apparently wasn't enough for my child. Each child has their own path. I was too young to understand that. Trying to be the mom I'm supposed to be is a daunting enough task! 😮

I love hearing your ideas on art. For me I struggle to it consistently and want to not care so much about the result but enjoying the process. That’s my challenge. Also I love the weekly essays. They are fun to read.

And I love your essays when they arrive in my email!!

Thanks so much for these comments. I appreciate your insights.

Love dogs, especially pugs she can cohost if you want...lol Danny, you don't need to change anything. Love the weekly drawing sessions

I love your videos. They really motivate me. Thanks

I love listening to you ‘yammering on’ - your conversations always make a lasting impression on me compared to 99% of other content creators who tend to ‘drone’. Always insightful, calming, creative and above all, inspirational. Thanks Danny 😊

I would love to see sketchbook tours!! You’ve put so much of yourself into them and offer so much inspiration. Homemade sketchbooks are another great idea that captures my attention. I also love how you touch on topics that connect to the mindset of artists. In addition I’ve signed up for your latest class on the illustrated life. Can’t wait for the fun to begin🎉

I would enjoy your essay recordings. As an author and an artist, i appreciate the visual aspect of an idea well communicated.

It became harder and harder to find people actually thinking. Useless to say about people sharing their thoughts! Rarest! I need to listen to someone honest and interesting. I'm hooked. Your essays are useful, insightful and fair. I like them. So. Thanks and... to many more! Adri

I've come to a KZfaq when i was 14, 8 years ago, and i was looking for answers. And after long 8 years i found you. Jorny was worth it. Thank you for your work. I'm thinking of starting scratching now when i get a job. And im very exited to dive into your written essays.. It's most authentic thing i saw here on KZfaq, and I've been here for w while

I listened to you while filling a page in my sketchbook with a non-challenging but charming flower. Not great art and not for comparison, just calming before bedtime. So keep doing what you are doing, be brave , be yourself. (And you have a really good voice for podcasting.) Looking forward to more insights.

This exact thought has held me back i think.

Humans are born to compete (against others and ourselves) its how we assure our survival. You are right, of course, that the competition is often counterproductive to our individual/collective survival. There needs to be room for growth that is absent from competition. In my experience this is when I succeed the most.

I needed this message today… well for a while actually. The sketchbooks have breathed life back into my enthusiasm and your videos are a driving force that keeps me going. So appreciative of you.

Sinclair McKay made the point that “Alan Turing was not especially good at chess.” In Bletchley Park Brainteasers. I wonder if sometimes we make progress in every loss. We regress to progress. The iteration is the lesson. In a world of page rank where “Best” has lost meaning [thank you SEO gurus]. The downstream revision cracks the code [Thank you Alan] and encodes something good enough.

I like your channel and all that you talk about. I also enjoy drawing with you and JJ. Hope that continues. What you say is so encouraging and keeps me drawing and making art. Thanks so much. 🙋🏼‍♀️🌻🇨🇦

I wanna thank you. A few years back, I stumbled upon a sketchbook video of yours and like in your video, my life was changed by starting a sketchbook. Just completely redirected. It doesn't matter. Do you, while we learn how to do us. Much respect.

One thing that came across to me as an exciting opportunity is for you to share the art in your sketchbooks and tell us a bit of the story around the work, how you may have been feeling etc. I’d find that interesting and worth watching.

You are one of the few artists I enjoy listening to. Yammering as you call it. Usually, my brain is saying, "Get on with it. Stop talking. Paint already." But not you. Don't change the yammering. It keeps me sane. It got me through a scattered arm during the pandemic. All those sleepless nights were put to good use. Never stop yammering. 🙂

I don't have a competitive bone in my body. When I started making art for myself and not to impress others, I found the joy in creating.

Danny, I enjoyed hearing your essay today. Thank you. Keep doing what you do x

@DannyGregory thank you for this video and your transparency. I find your chats like a Daily Devotion of sorts for artist and I love them. Keep on keeping on!

I've a paralyzing fear when starting on my art journey in warhammer 40k. Forcefully i overcome that fear & start to draw again. Right now i have completed 3 out 5 drawings of a squad of battle sisters 🙂

Danny, you are a gem.🎶🌟🙏

I really love everything you share! Thank you!

Hi Danny! I think what I love about your videos, is that you are very down-to-earth and real. I would like to have the time to read your essays and comment and have that dialogue but I just can’t squeeze that into my current schedule. It becomes part of my to do list rather than just enjoying it. I usually watch your videos when I’m doing lunch at work so the 15 minute segments where I learn something are my favorites. I’m not a big fan of looking through sketchbooks. I don’t mind if it’s in reference to something That I’m then going to do. It’s fun to see some, but just not a lot I guess. I’m not sure why I would do a membership. Membership sounds like commitment and there again time is an issue right now. Mostly I like your insights and your encouragement about doing it whether it’s good or bad or Just creating what’s inside you rather than for any other reason. Thanks a lot, Danny! You inspire good thinking.

I think I would enjoy hearing you yammering on, talking about art. I often respond verbally to things you say in your videos, like I'm talking with a friend, I don't write comments often because, well, I have no idea why. I should do that more. Anyway, wanted to let you know I like the idea of a more conversational and fluid presentation Not sure I could swing a membership, though Fixed income and all that.

I here you.... great conversation

I like your thoughts on the microphone being in shot. Seems to be a common but unnecessary thing.

I think your desire for conversation is a reflection of what many of us are feeling as the pendulum in the digital space is swinging back to the desire for personal interaction and real relationships. But what does that community look like in the digital world???

I love getting the notification fo tou videos, watching your videos always puts me in the mind set of want to create. Over the years of come to relize that most people dont like their own artwork. We all compare ourselves to others and see how great others artwork is. We don't relize the people who look at our stuff and wish they could draw like thag. I think the best person to compare your artwork to is yourself. You can see what you've improved on what still needs work and what styles or things stay the same even after growing as an artist.

Your way with words, my friend 😍, thank you for sharing it with the world.

I use to carry a sketchpad and pen with me everywhere and I’ve been trying to form the about again. If you’re a sports fan you will have noticed that people are often more concerned with the guarantee result of a match than the experience, missing the point of it there too. Seems to be the zeitgeist.

I find your insights really interesting and helpful Danny. Definitely here for more videos like this. 👍🏻 I sadly can't afford the Spark courses, but if you did decide to create a members only area for 'bonus content' on KZfaq, I'd certainly subscribe. Many thanks, Maxine from Norfolk, UK!

I don't know how to win at art, but I know how to lose at art. Because I did lost in my art. I've wasted years now trying to learn how to draw and yet my skill level is similar to a chimpanzee with crayons :( And I'm not exaggerating a bit, I even have some bite marks on my wooden pencils, because I bite them out of frustration. I've tried make it better on my own and I've failed. I've asked many talented artists for help, and I haven't receive any. Now I'm tired of this, I've hit the wall too many times and I'm about to quit art for good, burning my drawings and sell out my art stuff. I failed even with something such obvious like a hand writing, which literally nobody (except me) can read. I am a failure. And I am tired of it.

Thanks for the interesting insights! Like and subscribed! Anastazja

Do it . 😊

I’d love for you to do live classes on zoom for a fee

Interestingly (and strangely) Miss Betsi was just talking about the same thing.

Great content. I found you on ConvertKit’s channel. I enjoyed your essay. Liked and sub’d.