Oh this is very, very cool! Thank you for such a great little insight into your process!!

The video was wonderful!
Thank you so much for sharing.

I get no response clicking your "Click to play" Link. I really would love to see your process.
Matt

Great demonstration! I have enjoyed seeing your portraits for some time. To see your "method" was very interesting. Would it be possible to see the old photographs you draw these from?

Thank you for your demonstration - it was interesting.

thanks danny for showing us your process. it helps tremendously! cindy

Oh danny, that was great! It was fascinating to watch you draw (upside down, no less) and actually do one eye completely, then move to the other. I've just seen Betty Edwards lecture. She's author of "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" A seminal book from 1979, and she recommends drawing upside down also.
And it was great watching you with the ink. wow, darks first huh? Okay, I'll give it a try! Please do another video of your drawings with watercolor. love it. so helpful.

That rocked...I would love to see you do one in color!!!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You Danny for this!
Short, effective vid and very good to see another approach!
You can't drive home the point enough about doing art often and having results to look back on; building skills through the act of doing.
That flip-through of your portrait book at the end was good to see just for those very points.

danny, i did NOT have time today to watch this video, but I watched it anyway. lol. I was only going to just peek. Instead i watched the whole fascinating video. I agree with Jane -- won't you please post more of these videos? It's great to watch your process (I'm not a watercolorist or painter -- well, maybe just a little) and I would love to see more. thanks for posting this. I loved it as well.

Wow! I agree--*please* do some more of these! Nothing teaches quite like showing.

When I embarked on this whole new endeavor, I read that book, Jane, and was amazed at how well I drew when I wasn't even trying...just drawing some ol' thing upsidedown. Astounding!

Danny, it's so surprising that you're doing this regularly now. I can't wait to go home now and try that technique again.

I thought that maybe drawing *with* some kind of emotional perspective would be a good thing, as we'd bring our interpretation to a subject, but it occurs to me that either upside down or straight on, we're still interpreting, and I actually like the idea of abstracting.

Extremely cool. Wish I was more computer savvy with video and whatnot. But if I'm not myself, glad you are! :)

The web just gets better and better for painters. What a great time to be a visual artist.

Did you take the photos yourself? Do you ask strangers if you can? How do you get so many faces! Maybe you have lots of friends?Lovely work.

Thanx for sharing this step-by-step process,Danny. It really is inspiring. I want to try it myself now! Only I'll be away in town for the rest of the day. Oh well,...gotta find the time later. Lovely sketches there!

Fabulous! It is great being able to see how you work. Would love to see more. Thanks!
deborah

I'd tune in every day to see a video of you doing your magical stuff! And maybe some of your friends and guest artists. It would be so much FUN. As well as enlightening, educational and just plain interesting and inspirational. I like to know the pens you are using and even the paper. Please, Danny, do many more video's.

Thank you so much Danny! That was a heaping helping of awesome. I'm all fired up and inspired now.

I particularly liked the following:

1) The camera angle was just right.

2) The commentary was wonderful. I loved hearing your thought process.

3) The time lapse was well done. The timing was just right to allow the picture to develop gradually while still making a succinct video.

4) It was great to see you flip through your moleskine of portraits. How beautiful!

Enough gushing, I have work to do!

Hi, Danny. I visit your site regularly and am always inspired by your drawings and posts. This one is exceptional, though. Thank you so much for sharing it. And thank you for all of the time and effort you spend on the site!

This was so great - it's wonderful to see you actually making the picture. Your method of drawing upside down was a surprise. I have trouble with sumi ink's darkness - never thought of putting in the darkest tones first - duh. Thanks so much, and please do one (or many) in colour!

Great - thanks for sharing Danny.

Now this is brilliant!
I absolutely love your work, have done over the years since I found you randomly online, and to see you at it is a treat Danny.
Well done.
Good to hear a little of the English accent still in there somewhere too ;)

Very cool! Thanks for doing the video for us. Did you use iMovie to make that time lapse?

I lurk on this blog quite a fair bit - and just have to say thank you so much for sharing your process, so insightful!

Fab! What more can I say.....

WICKED AWESOME!! For those of us in the "not an artist by education or job" ... SEEING HOW is unbelievably useful and demystifying. This video is incredibly helpful *and* inspiring (in that at the end of the day ... anyone can do this!).

You rock in technicolour!
Cheers!

Fabulous Demo. Was inspired to run and make one of my own immediately.

Very insightful and interesting to see your process! It kind of reminded me of the movie "The Mystery of Picasso," but even better because you add your own commentary so we can understand your motivation.

Thanks for taking the time to share. :-)

WHOA....what a perfect antidote to the cancellation of an inspirational brunch with my fave-3-createurs! Awesome....I flu right over to my supplies and began painting!
Your video is at The Top Of My Most Wanted List!

Wow, how bout one of these every day! Watching an artists's process is the way to learn. We each evolve our own way of using a brush or pen and I wonder sometimes if we get in a rut. Watching how you do it feeds my hand and I know next time I draw my hand will remember!

what a wonderful video. would love to be able to have your skills. i´ve just started with arts too and maybe i´ll once be able to do something as great as your artwork.
i received your book today and just started reading everyday matters. it´s great, beautiful and very inspiring! thanks for that.

I feel like I just went to a short class! Thanks. BTW, is that picture you (a few years ago)? Something about the eyes looks like you.

Danny Gregory you are one sexy man!

I've been lurking for a while, enjoying you everyday sketches, loving your travel sketches and feeling guilty that I haven't yet bought your book. I found your little video terrific. It is ages since I have sketched upside down but I immediately did one and the proportions were much better than my normal eyeballing. Please Sir, may we have some more?

Danny, I loved this video of you drawing. I have only one complaint. I enjoyed the drawing so much that I just wish you had held it up for a few more seconds at the end. The whole book you flipped through looks fabulous. What a fun collection of faces!

Roz

Hello Danny. What a great little video! Watching an artist create an image before your eyes is a completely addictive activity (passivity??).

You wrote something a while back about drawing from photo references, and how it differs from (and is inferior to) drawing from life. I notice that you do a lot of sketchbook work from faces in newspapers/magazine photos, and wonder if it's because they appeal to you in a different way, somehow, from other subjects?

Having immense fun in the EDM group! E-J

Thank you! That was fascinating, and it added a layer of depth to my interest in your art.

I love this site.

Betty Edwards (also) uses drawing upside-down to help people SEE more clearly what is there, rather then seeing and drawing symbolically. I return to it sometimes when I'm drawing from photos.

Thanks Danny! You always share such great stuff! I love your portrait work wiht sumi ink! Really rich.

Danny -- Excellent video! As mentioned in other comments, the timing is perfect. The stop action is just quick enough, and the story you tell over it was illuminating. Any chance you could do another one of these with colors?

Now I've got to pop over to the shop and pick up your book!

Wow - that's amazing. I loved seeing this develop before my eyes. I instantly noticed you were working upside down, too. Fascinating. You are just too cool. What an amazing Moleskine of portraits you flipped through, too!

HELO! 'N WOTTA FUN TIME I HAD WATCHING UPSIDE DOWN! WOULD NOT HAVE MISSED IT FOR ANYTHIN! YOUR NEW FRIEND, PAMI FAT FACE!