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By Danny Gregory

An ongoing attempt to keep a record of when, what, and how I'm drawing (and/or experiencing art).

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    The Sketching Forum has an interesting post on how to get the most out of a moleskine..

    It would be enormously helpful for my new book if you and your pals could post reviews and ratings of the book on Amazon.
    The more the merrier. Seriously.
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    Your pal,
    Danny Gregory

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    On January 1, 2009 Suana said, “A wonderful idea! I wish you much creativity and inspiration!” in A plan.

    On December 31, 2008 4ojos said, “5 years is quite a long time. Keep on drawing/posting, Danny” in A plan.

    On December 30, 2008 Thomasina said, “This news makes me sad, but you are a wise man to make this decision. Good luck!” in A plan.

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    I stumbled upon this video on YouTube. The creator, a young Brazilian named Marcos, draws other people who appear on YouTube or send him online videos. His drawing style is interesting and it certainly gives me ideas of how to work on my portrait drawing when it's far too freezing to draw strangers in the street. Give it a whirl. P.S. The same artist also rigged a machine that would simultaneously paint on a canvas and punch him in the face. I'm not sure I recommend this particular idea.
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    I’ve always enjoyed drawing series of things. It’s so interesting to see variations on a theme, to explore connections between things, and to expand specifics into generalities and vice versa. I learn a lot by doing drawings of similar things, going deeper into the familiar and seeking out variation. The subject itself is fairly irrelevant; the patterns and changes are what inform.
    They are interesting to look at too. The eyes like rhythm. And repetition and pattern are made more interesting by variation. This is the basis of music, the

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    Gill McCowen of Journal Craft Inspiration has published an interview I did with her recently.

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    "An Illustrated Life has been picked by Amazon as one of the seven best books of the month! Yay!

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    A nice way to support Barack Obama. Drawings are submitted, auctioned, and the proceeds contributed. A few of us in NY discussed a similar idea but were too disorganized to pull it off. Fortunately these guys did. Some of the participants are also contributors to my new book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers

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    Past Matters

    I have bound many of my journals myself. I learned how at a fantastic place called The Center for Book Arts, here in Manhattan. It was a lifelong dream come true, learning to make my own hard cover books.

    I would like to show you the basic steps for making a thin, one signature book.

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    First of all, thanks for your note and, secondly sorry, for the delay in my response. Your words were quite important and I wanted to give them some time to think of proper response.

    I have looked for God for many years. When I was small, I had only the foggiest sense of what God was.

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    A record of my exploration into all aspects of drawing, illustrated journaling, creativity, and the inspiring aspects of art. By the author of "Everyday Matters," "The Creative License", and "An Illustrated Life" and other books.


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    I've just marked five years of keeping this blog. The milestone prompted me to think about how much time blogging, corresponding, promoting, writing,self-justifying and so on have absorbed of my free time. It has been a wonderful experience, but the very thing that started me on this road has suffered the most -- namely, time for my own drawing.
    So I have decided, for an indeterminate period, to take a break from scanning and posting and uploading and monitoring and responding (and I've been pretty lax at even at doing that recently). I will be using that time instead to draw and paint and write and think and learn and be.
    I shall keep a bit of a record of how that's progressing on the right hand side of this site, a mini blog within a slumbering blog where I can ruminate on what I am doing and learning with no intention to make a mark on anything but the pages of my journal.
    Eventually, I shall probably return, recharged, refreshed, and newly resolved.
    In the meantime, feel free to read the 842 posts that precede this one or any of these books. Or better yet, join me in getting off the computer and doing some drawing instead.
    Until we meet again, I remain,
    your pal,
    Danny Gregory

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