Everyday Matters

This is an amazing, creative book. I am enjoying it and yes, it does inspire you to draw more and really look at everything around you with fresh eyes.

I found it to be an enjoyable and thought provoking read. Maybe you need help with depth, shading or perspective in your drawings...this book may help you with gaining a NEW perspective. I enjoyed his artwork and what he shared with his readers. Thank you. Looking forward to reading & seeing other works by this author/artist. Thank you.

First time I read "Everyday matters", thought "i know it, but I want to learn something useful to start journaling myself everyday". It may not sound as a great goal in life, but actually it was my thinking that time. Once I began to read it... I felt a bit ashamed, I am complete, at least in the outside, but life sometimes turns up everything, and you must change or get stuck in pain, hate, self pity, you name it. It requires a strong will to live beyond that ominous adversities, and get the right meaning of all these matters. I should say to Danny Gregory: "I am very proud of you,as a fellow human being", and to all future readers, well, you will find a reminder of how fragile our comfortable existence is, and how much effort it takes to overcome a personal loss, but overall you'll find a beautiful and true tale of reencounter with yourself and your significant others, in love and courage to find new ways to live a good, exciting and meaningful life. Trough the healing power of love, drawing is a tool of great use to find those ways. After all, an artists search around to see beyond conventions and find new paths to understand the world and themselves. Journaling, drawing, living an illustrated life, that is in few words what "Everyday matters" is to me. Thanks again Mr. Gregory!

I was not expecting anything when I started this book...frankly, I'm not sure I remember ordering it. In any event, the parallels between this graphic memoir and my own life make this book read more like an answered prayer than merely another memoir. I take that last part back. It's not just that the author's experiences mirror my own life that makes this book notable. Rather, it's that Gregory manages to capture his own HUMANITY...without resorting to irony or the manufactured self-deprecation that seems to plague the modern memoir that makes this book so notable. I mean, finally!, someone has managed to write an HONEST memoir, one that does not require an attorney's Release of the Facts as a prologue. "Everyday Matters" reads like a private journal, without the pretention that comes when the author knows other folks'll be reading it. Gregory's sketches are likewise uninhibited and imperfect; together, the text and illustrations create a personal, intimate environment for the reader that is inviting and judgment-free; none of the "You shouldn't have looked (though I knew you would, so I gave you my best side)" business that is the meta-text of so many memoirs, but instead offers a reassuring, "Well, that's me, hair and all...what do you think?" A thoughtful, generous gift from Gregory to his readers.

I absolutely love this book. Go through it fast because you want to take in aol the awesome drawings and colors that Danny Gregory puts in this book.then, go througgh it much slower. Savor each page, take in the tiny details, the way he portrays colors so fluidly, how he relies on a loos sketch form that just adds full heart into his work- and the best part, is Danny draws everyday things. There truly is beauty in the most ordinary thing. And Danny shows us that through his eyes his life around him is beautiful. I only gave it 4 stars was because I had hoped that there was more of the book in general, but more on his beginnings. He said that he had only recently started drawing, but his "rudimentary" skills are far more better than mine. But, he's been at this old drawing thing for longer than me. Just keep on keepin on!

Although this is a book telling Danny Gregory's story of his wife and their son Jack, it's also his story about what prompted Danny to teach himself to draw. If you're a seasoned artist, or just beginning to dabble, quickly run to your computer and order any of Danny Gregory's books. He is one of my favorite authors! He is so inspiring and sensitive. I took one of his online "Sketchbook Skool" classes and was immediately hooked. He's down to earth, humorous, and captures your heart with his life stories and his incredible way of urging anyone to draw, because it's really not about drawing, it's about seeing. Danny's books have helped me have fun drawing and painting things like my breakfast in the mornings, and if I'm really stumped as to what to draw, I've been known to take off my shoe and try to draw my foot. It's not perfect, it's fun! And, if you're looking for a perfect rendition of a subject or object, get out your camera and take a picture, but it won't be as much fun!

Can't complain. Got a good book in decent condition for a good price.

I enjoyed this book a fair bit more than I expected too. It's a little autobiographical and a little sketchbooky. And he has a forthright way of viewing the world and stepping outside his experiences that gavew something to ponder about my own. No spoilers here. But things you don't expect help you into his world and you find yourself along for the ride, including unexpected moments of light that one might not expect to easily find at times. Read it in a few hours and it was a satisfying evening spent.