Wow, Danny! My jaw just kept dropping as I scrolled down the page. This is a treasure trove of wonderful stuff.

The duotones are surprisingly effective--looking forward to more of those!

Awesome and so inspiring!!! I just adore your drawings........

Danny, I've followed your emails over the years, and I wonder what books you could dream up with these drawings.
I, too, admire the necklace, and I like your work overall.

This was so much fun! I'm having a difficult day--wanted to paint but the day and the energy got away from me. I was feeling discouraged, hurting physically and psychically. Looked at your pages and smiled, then laughed out loud (several times, but especially at "Things that bother me about the front of my head"), then sat in stillness drinking in the images.

Beautiful work. It's so honest.

Thank you!

Danny, I've followed your emails over the years, and I wonder what books you could dream up with these drawings.
I, too, admire the necklace, and I like your work overall.

I'm not drawing enough these days, but I am creating: lots of words (4 new books) and rearranging my studio. I have touched every book and opened almost every box. It's a treasure hunt and Christmas all rolled into one.

Danny, thanks for all your new drawigns. Very inspiring, whimsical, and I want to meet all those people. I'll bring more olives.

What a great read. Thanks for posting all of these - I'll be back to savor some more. Best, K.

man, i loved these... :)

All I can say is wow! True inspiration!

Danny, these are beautiful. Please, please, please post more frequently. All of this fantastic stuff at once brought tears to my eyes. You, your drawings, and your books mean a lot to me.

Thank you!!!

One hell of a long post, but most certainly worth it. When it artistically rains it artistically pours.

wow, i love browsing people's sketchbooks. someone should collect a bunch of them into a book someday.

p.s., the tommy kane portraits were especially cool. i love how one person can look so different but still be him.

Danny...

Your drawings are wonderful, and always reflective of whatever is going on with you. I especially like the portraits. Makes me want to do just portraits, if ever I learn how. I know--practise.

I am SO inspired! :D
I realized that I started drawing faces / portraits / people because I admired your style. And now after seeing all of these I remember why, and I am quite seriously considering getting some water colors and trying that too (I use my oil pastels in a similar way, but I imagine watercolors to be somewhat easier to use)..

Thank you!

Wow! I would say your exercises are both prolific and profound. I am rather awestruck by the quantity of what you have produced as well as its beauty. I confess I've missed more regular posts from you here but there is so much you've just shared to explore and review. Welcome back!

I love the various formats of what you're sharing with us. And yes, it's inspirational as well as informational and wonderful, into the bargain. The black and whites are very pleasing, the color came as a sort of breathtaking surprise. And your head is fine......try to come to terms with it (if you will, so will I, in regard to my own) Keep on keeping on.......and then sharing.

I really enjoyed the exercises... quite inspiring, I almost didn't finish to grab my journal. Loved the duo tones and the brush drawing!

Wow! No wonder there have been no posts for awhile. You've been amazingly productive. They're all terrific, but I especially like the watercolors illustrating your daily life. They're so FULL of life!
Thanks for the visual feast.

love it, very inspiring Danny. I took a new route today, the back way home to shake up my routine and tune in to the things around me that I never seem to notice. A great exercise in stimulating your senses and inspiring me to get out my sketch book to record what I see. Always a pleasure to see what you are up to. cheers from Oz, Georgia

Thanks for the fantastic look-see! Hey, you were a cute kid!

I especially enjoy your ink washes--as in Manny Kivovitz's shirt, and the color sketches. Thanks for the update, and the reminder that a little bit done every day adds up to lots of wonderful work!

What is a dip pen? A nib in a holder that you dip into the ink well or some new version? Thanks!

Danny, I really really LOVE your portraits - I find myself going back and looking at them over and over again on your website. Any chance you would publish a book of your portraits someday? I've gotten much better at drawing "stuff"... but drawing people is still a challenge for me. I find your portrait work very inspring. :)

I think you are a creative machine. How do you do all of this, plus a creative job? When I worked as a designer I never wanted to do anything 2D when I got home. I put all my extra-curicular creative energies into gardening.

Have you seen these Library of Congress photos?

http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/

I keep going back to look at more. :)

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OMG !
These are the most wonderful things I have ever seen from you.
Incredibly exciting to see this leap.
I am inspired.

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Thanx Danny for sharing your work, been waiting for the next update and this one was worth the wait - great inspirational boost to start my day. Cheers.

Thanx Danny for sharing your work, been waiting for the next update and this one was worth the wait - great inspirational boost to start my day. Cheers. Matt in Switzerland.

Fabulous stuff Danny. Especially like the drawing of hands from a life drawing class (hands always fox me!), the spectacular sweet peas and peonies, and the drawing of the screenwriters strike - the latter makes the strike seem so much more real to someone like me on the far side of the Atlantic than any number of newspaper stories.

Oh, man...
Your drawings are great! And the color usage too! Please post them more often!

Cheers,
jb

Oh Danny these are simply gorgeous, so much to look at!

OMG OMG OMG!

This is all amazing stuff, it's like you've dumped 40 or so blog entries on us at one time. The nitpicking of the face page hits home--that's what I'm about these days.

!!!!!
Danny, you've outdone yourself!
The black and whites are amazing. And then the splash of color on the dinner plate was all the more intense. I'm so glad I was able to see this. I'll add my kudos and join my voice to the chorus of people who see you as an inspiration.
!!!!!

I've always liked your portraits, and these are especially good. Great to see so many pages at once.

Inspiring as always! I liked
Captain Roald Amundsen. Thanks for the update!

This is freakin' amazing. Seriously. Can't wait to see more!

These are really beautiful pages. A friend and I have been trading emails back and forth (and phone calls -- he's a neighbor) waiting for you to post new work. The wait was definitely worth it.
Gorgeous sweet peas and the Tim portrait's fantastic. Thanks for sharing these. Got to start posting more of my own now.

oh my gawd! what a abundance of gorgeous drawings! And all at once! (was your scanner broken? :-) Just absolutely gorgeous and inspiring. Ah Danny, just when I think you're down for the count, you rise up again, brand new, with drawings more gorgeous than ever. (well, except for that head drawing...so many things wrong...hahah)
SOOOO glad to see this post!!
xoxo

I'm at work and planning on running out to my truck to grab my sketchbook. I knew you weren't sitting on your hands all this time. Glad you plugged back into the www. You make us remember to stay on track to the fun of drawing. Welcome back Danny.
Andy

Oh, Danny! You've inspired me yet again. Today is SO going to be the day I start my new drawing book. Enough about me, though- you are so right about the dip pens! Are you using new watercolors? It seems like you've changed your palate- the colors look so bright and springy! And where did Patty get that amazing necklace? Gorgeous, gorgeous stuff.

Oh, you were so diligent!!! Fantastic drawings, especially the black-and-white ones!

Wow! I LOVE your new black and white work. Exciting and inspiring. Thanks for sharing it with us.

I am thoroughly impressed, inspired and awed. Your work has such a fluency and cohesiveness that I've not seen before. I agree that these mediums and styles are working for you: Love love love the duotones!
I want to LIVE in the sunshine, watercolour and gouache painting! I so much love the brightness of color. And, to sound not a little like some art school profs, all your work shows "good economy of line". Nothing is wasted, and the gestures in the portraits are wonderful. Gotta love a tenderly studied pup portrait too!
Keep it up! Thanks so much for kickin my butt, wordlessly! I've not drawn in ages... this makes me want to.

You always inspire, after all we are your EDMers - thanks for posting all of these, I look forward to MORE!

Danny, this is the most inspiring collection of pages I've seen in a long time!

Your entry prompted me to haul my arse and my much-neglected sketchbook to a coffee shop this afternoon, where I sketched in black & white. Thanks for sharing these.

Wow what awesome entries and artwork! Thanks for sharing your life with us.

Danny this is a real visual feast. I'm especially glad to see all the dogs! Wonderful.
Roz

Wow! Awesome amount of material here. I loved the idea of drawing from a yearbook and your drawings fromt the life drawing class were wonderful...a model with shoes and socks?

these pages are so fantastic! beautiful to look at and so inspiring they just have me itching like crazy to immediately grab some paper and draw, it's something about your line work that makes them look like they were such fun to do.

Prodigious!! love the layouts, b/w, washes and watercolors. On my monitor the colors are so exuberant. Any special brand you are using? Are you using markers, too? Looks mostly like non water soluble ink. Is that right? I'll understand if you refuse to give away your "secrets"... because everybody HAS to do their own practice!

the duotone pictures are phanatstic (the others to). they do look great and like many others i immediately thought of what a great book they would make.

I can't even begin to state how beautiful all of these sketches are, but I am so into these. Quite breathtaking.

I can't even begin to state how beautiful all of these sketches are, but I am so into these. Quite breathtaking.

Danny, thanks for a glimpse into your work here. I'm sure you've heard this a million times before, but I'm truly inspired by these! If I wasn't stuck here at work right now, I'd soon be opening my book and sketching away. Love the loose quality of some of these too. The "things I don't like about my head" has to be my favorite, since I could very well think of many things I too don't like about mine! Some of these sketches remind me a bit of some work featured in a recently released book called "The Sweeter Side of Robert Crumb", or something to that extent, though I much prefer the looser quality in your sketches to Crumb's. Great post and glad to see you back!

Danny..every update on Your website is like tasting a fresh fruit that I've never had before...;-))). AMAZING DRAWINGS!!! I am encouraged and so blessed that I've found YOU! I'm sure everybody agrees that we're waiting for another BOOK!! Having these drawings in a book, looking at them, getting this inspiration in my bag..will be most wonderful.
Yes, one of Your books is always with me ;-). ALWAYS!
Congrats, because You are such a great artist!Better, and better every day! kisses and hugs for EVERYBODY!

Bravo, Danny!

i am big fan of yours. you have brought me to many blank pages to rollerblade ink on my own. thanks. this post is a treasure to see many drawings all at once.. and many pictures in one drawing all at once.. i love the spontaneity of the dip pen too. posts like these are definitely worth the wait! cheers and an awesome year ahead.

What an incredible treasure!

Ahhh, excellent. Such a joy to look at. And so worth the wait.

Oh my God Danny! I am right in the middle of a huge project for work. Working weekends and overtime to meet the deadline. Took a break to look at your new post while waiting for some video to render, and for the first time in 5 days I felt myself exhale. Thank you soooo much for sharing this post. Your work is beautiful, inspiring, and transformative - everything a body needs.

Hey Danny, I've been checking in regularly and wondered where you were. This post sure makes up for all the times I looked in just to see the post from Christmas. Amazing, wonderful, and inspiring. I'll be back here over and over again to take these in. Thanks! It was worth the wait!

Things that bother you about the front of your head? What a hoot! You've just opened a up a wealth of potential sketching ideas for me that begin with: Things that bother me about________.

I am still chuckling....

Hi Danny
I'm new to this blogging lark, but your drawings are so inspiring, lively and joyful. They make me want to draw even more.
Regards
Lorraine

Hey Danny,

Been patiently awaiting your return. What a treat to view all of these spreads. Worth the wait. Love the handlettering as always.

Best, Kurt D.H.
Lake Oswego, OR

Hey Danny,

Been patiently awaiting your return. What a treat to view all of these spreads. Worth the wait. Love the handlettering as always.

Best, Kurt D.H.
Lake Oswego, OR

You made me jump out of bed, run into my studio, and search through my shelf of journals to unearth the one I started in pen and ink. I spent the next satisfying hour drawing from a photo of my grandmother and great-grandmother.

Danny, they are all brilliant, and I particular love the full page portraits - they are so alive!

Fantastic collection! Thanks for the continued inspiration!
Leigh

It was a wonderful treat to see what you've been into. And the quantity? Like getting another book - for free. Thanks for a much needed kick in the pants.

Danny, truly inspirational stuff! Are you still drawing the portraits upside down?

Wow. I must go and find my yearbook, or the newspaper! Thanks for sharing.

This was a real treat to find after a long dry spell of Danny G (from this side - definitely not on yours - you've been incredibly busy!)I will also be digging my sketch journals out again - thanks!

I need to tell you that these drawings are so wonderful...I know you hear that all the time but I think the dip pen really shines in your hand...I just bought one a month ago and I am starting to play with it but its taking me a while to get used to how the ink pulls. I absolutely love the peonies and sweat peas, close to my favorite drawing...tough decision but im a colorphile...
Can't thank you enough...
Im glad you put the drawings of Tommy Kane in there, Im pleased to have a face to put with such a generous and nice person! He sent some prints from his journal to me for a class/show I arranged! Hes great too!

Sincerely,

Carma

What always strikes me, is that true good drawings appear so simple once done.
Amazing when you think how much you can sweat on some times.
Really impressive, whether your drawings are in pure black & white or coloured.
just curious, what kind of paper are you using in your book ?
Thks a lot for your inspiring drawings. Taking adavantage of the week-end and good weather in Paris, i'm back to my sketchbook
Jean-christophe

Fabulous, fabulous. The black and whites and family photos...especially those of you when you were a child, bottom left corner of page 4. Now what were you thinking? :) And the person with their head in the basket, do tell?

Inspiring indeed! A pleasure to go through your sketches as always. Now I want to grab my ink pen and watercolors...which I am going to do!

Danny.... ;-)
every day I am opening Your website to take a look at Your drawings..
YOU are such a bless for me, and I started drawing again.
with pleasure;-)
with trust;-)
I have a fun again!
Thank YOU soooooo much!!!
totally awaiting your new book.TOTALLY!

Danny...well, for sure, you are keeping true to drawing everything. My favorites are the closeup portraits, one on the page. Also the addition of color. I love that you like working with pens. So do I.

I have to say, I love the b&w's, but when i see the color I just go "ahhhhhh." I've started drawing again and it feels GREAT. ^__^

Danny, I really enjoy your drawings. Thanks for sharing.

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You continue to amaze me after all these years - and inspire - thank you.

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