The Secret That Makes My Drawings Look Better Than They Are.

My drawing skills took years to improve. My sketchbook pages started looking better almost overnight. When I came back to drawing in my late 30s, after twenty years away, I picked up right where I'd left off in high school — stiff drawings floating in the middle of the page, and me, frustrated with all of them. Then I made a discovery that changed what a sketchbook even was: I could treat it like a magazine. A magazine about my life, with a circulation of one. This is the story of that discovery — the high school sketchbook where the whole thing started, the thirty-year design education I didn't realize I was getting, how I steal layouts from magazines and cereal boxes, and why good-looking pages gave me the cover I needed to keep drawing until my drawing caught up. Want 16 layouts you can borrow? Watch this next: https://youtu.be/kbEOo4i-dgU 🟥 Become a channel member and get perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnwAvNKzdoFgRyvXEBJBv0Q/join More from Danny Gregory: 💌 My (free) weekly essays: https://dannysessays.com/ 🎨 My newest course: Quick Draw: https://sketch.tiny.us/quick ✏️ My most popular course: How to Draw Without Talent: https://sketch.tiny.us/WIthoutTalent 🎓 My other courses: https://SketchbookSkool.com 📚 My books: https://sketch.tiny.us/books ❤️ My favorite art supplies ❤️ 🖊️Drawing pen: https://geni.us/Fudenosuke 🖌️ Brush pen: https://geni.us/NIJP ⛲️ Fountain pen: https://geni.us/2L44mQ ✒️ Dip pen: https://geni.us/AzWOBZT 🖌️ Watercolor brush: https://geni.us/WNSix 👉 Nib: https://geni.us/ZebraGNib 📓 Sketchbook: https://geni.us/venezia 🌈 Colored Pencils: https://geni.us/Inktense ✏️ Colored-pencil sharpener: https://geni.us/VLhfnO3 🖍️ Tempera sticks: https://geni.us/tempera Note: There are affiliate links on this page – this means that if you click through and order anything through them, I will earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. These commissions help me continue creating the free content I share, and I greatly appreciate the support!