By Danny Gregory

Book of the Month!

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

A card from Seamus

"An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers" now shipping from Amazon! Click to play...

Dear Danny, I've been looking through your book. over the past several days and it's a gem. It's a delight. I had great fun checking out the various ways artists approach those blank, bound sheets of paper. My three...

Cindy

Cindy Woods has long been one of my favorite sketchbook artists. I love the quality of her line, the clarity of her observation. And she is a strong exemplar of the fact that no matter what one's situation, drawing...

Catching up

The very first copy of my new book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers finally arrived and it is gorgeous. First off, it is ridiculously thick, 266 pages jam-packed with journal...

Me Time

As I described in my last post, I have just completed a project called 'Me Time', which is an attempt to find an opportunity to pursue the many things, small and large, that my normal waking hours just don't...

Tick-tock

My grandfather died last winter at 98 so I’m not even half his age yet. Maybe I’m only approaching the midpoint of my life, or maybe I’ll have massive heart attack and keel over at my desk this afternoon....

An Illustrated Life Podcast 013:
Christine Castro Hughes

My editor tell me that in a week or two, I will be getting the first advanced copy of my new book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers. As you can...

Mattias Rocks

Everyone in my new book is mad inspiring. Here's a terrific example. Mattias Adolfson, a very Swedish fellow, draws with enormous clarity, accuracy, and humor. His line is so distinctive and takes him from letter perfect landscapes to silly...

The Old Man Mad About Drawing

Here's an inspiring little film by Tony White for anyone who worries that they are too old to start drawing or frustrated that they have yet to achieve the perfect approach to drawing. Katsushika Hokusai was the most extraordinary...

A surprise book: Bad to the Bone

Maybe it's because of my initials, but when I was little, I was determined to become a vet when I grew up. In fact, I got my first job at the age of 11, working for a vet at...

Facing facts

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake - Auguries of Innocence I have been reading...

An Illustrated Life preview in HOW

The August 08 issue of HOW magazine has a healthy preview of my upcoming book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers. You'll find sketchbooks and interviews with seven contributors as well...

An Illustrated Life Podcast 004: Kurt D. Hollomon (Part I)

Time for another in my series of podcast interviews with cool sketchbook keepers. Are you enjoying them? I first encountered Kurt Hollomon's work when Dan Price sent me an outdoor gear catalog from Royal Robbins which Kurt had illustrated....

An Illustrated Life: the Podcast

One of the most exciting aspects of working on my upcoming book, "An Illustrated Life: drawing inspiration form the private sketchbooks of artists, illustrators and designers" has been the chance to get in touch with the many artists whose...

Ex Libris Video

Click To Play This is a little video with vague reviews of some new books I've gotten and quite liked. If you'd like to get copies of any of the books I mention in this video and rebutt my...

School for Evil - exploratory

Toward the end of Fall semester of my sophomore year, I found a small reading room deep within the bowels of my college library. It was called "The Somebody or Other Memorial Hunting and Fishing Library" and was almost...

An Illustrated Life

Amanda Kavanagh's workspace. From my new book, "An Illustrated Life". I apologize for how long it has been since I last wrote any sort of decent blog entry. It’s not that I’ve been sitting around paring my toenails and...

Idol effort

It was very nice to come back to the Arctic tundra formally known as New York City. My family survived my absence though my dogs did need a good bath yesterday. As you may know, I am a big...

EDM in Paperback! Wahoo!

We just got the very first brand-spanking new edition of my book, Everyday Matters. It is so damned cute in paperback! It will be officially available on January 9th, just in time for early 2007 Xmas shoppers. Get it...

Groceries

Harry Kalmer of Johannesburg invited me (and lots of talented artists including EDMers Michael Nobbs, Nancy Ghandi, and Trevor Romain) to contribute illustrations for his new book, Groceries: 56 Stories Oor Huishopudelike Produkte. (If that title seems a little...

HOW on newstands

I am very excited by the new issue of How magazine. The cover I designed looks great in print (and actually features my name - a first) and I am pleased with the 8 page article I wrote and...

EDM in paperback

Hyperion will be publishing my book, Everyday Matters, in paperback in January, '06. It will have a nice simplified cover that I painted this Spring....

Oh, yeah, I wrote a book

This ad ran this week. I had the odd experience of being art director, illustrator, copywriter, mechanical artists, account executive, and product manager on the ad. Fortunately, my publisher placed and paid for the media. I wonder if it...

Nice email

Danny, I am a 43 year-old Special Ed. teacher in IN. I have always been an art fanatic and took many lessons way back in my teen years. Since then I have just "dabbled". I had to take a "leave"...

Everyday Matters now available every day

It seems that Everyday Matters, my second book, is finally freshly available again ... and for less than ten bucks. It went back on press recently and Amazon is now shipping it in 24 hours. If you get it, do...

Two Sundays

Last Sunday I was the guest on Louden Clear, Jennifer Louden's show on the Martha Stewart Living Network on Sirius 112. It was a great talk, about drawing, meditation, and various aspects of my books and art work. Jennifer...

Fuh-ree-key!

This afternoon, Patti called me at work to tell me, "It's here!". And when I got home, there, sure enough, it was. We immediately started drawing parallels. Jack reminded me that Homer Simpson had found a box of Japanese...

TCL: Supplementary Material, IV: Andrea

I first met Andrea Scher through her blog, Superhero Journal. Within days of roaming through her posts, I was hooked. Being hooked meant more than just loving her photos and learning so much from her wisdom and compassion. It...

TCL: Supplementary Material, III: Richard

As readers of this site probably know by now, Richard Bell is an extraordinary nature illustrator who, despite the many miles and water between us, is one of my very best pals and a major influence and teacher. When...

R.Bell on C.License

R.Bell just wrote the most extremely nice thing on his site. Read it while I blush....

TCL: Supplementary Material, I: Roz

The first installment of a series on "Stuff that didn't make it into The Creative License"

Peanut (complete)

Read, Peanut, my memoir of fatherhood entirely for free and online. Each chapter is linked below: Introduction Plan Nine (September) Dead Rabbit and Beyond (November) Dead Rabbit and Beyond (November) Part II Cup-a-Soup and Candy Canes (December) Mad Dog...