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Danny’s Essays

Danny Gregory

Pep talks for creative people.

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What on Earth am I doing?

A few days ago, someone wrote in to our website to ask what it is I actually teach.

She wanted to know what the style is called because she has taken a lot of art lessons and they all apparently have labels that describe what it is, what s...

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Why So Sensitive?

Creativity is an incredible gift. But it’s also a heavy burden.

Like Peter Parker, whose spidey-sense makes him alert to any danger around him, we artists feel everything.

It’s our job.

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There's no fool like an old fool.

How many things do I know how to do?

I couldn’t begin to catalog them all. There are so many things I’ve learned in my life.

Some I learned in school, some from reading books, but most I learned by doing, by taking risks, by failing, iter...

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Of Teachers and Cheaters, Rules and Tools

When I was in middle school, I discovered a couple of magical drawing tools: tracing paper and using a grid to copy a photo.

Both of these techniques dramatically improved the kinds of drawings I could make, but they also carried a social...

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Why You Stop Getting Better at Drawing...

At some point in your drawing life — and it doesn’t matter whether you’ve been at it for six months or six years — you’re going to hit a wall.

And I don’t mean the wall where everything looks terrible and you want to quit. That one usually...

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    Danny Gregory is a bestselling author, founder of Sketchbook Skool, and host of a YouTube channel with 500k+ subscribers. His weekly essays reach 40k readers. He helps people embrace creativity and draw their lives. More at dannygregory.com.

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