In this informal livestream, the host (Jason Nicholas) greets regular viewers Patty and Becky, shares a recent sketch of the Sydney Opera House posted in a workshop group, and then proceeds to create a new ink drawing of a city street scene on Canson watercolor paper using a Lamy pen and aqua brush. He explains his workflow—starting with a perspective frame, allowing ink bleed, breaking the frame by extending elements beyond its borders, and deciding on compositional elements such as a dilapidated movie marquee, a clock, and a wrought‑iron fence while preserving white space. Throughout, he interacts with the chat, responds to questions about the paper condition, and comments on the music influencing his drawing. He mentions community platforms (the workshop group and Circle), encourages viewers to share their own sketches, and concludes with a playful “Whistling Cowboy” outro, reminding viewers of his upcoming school day. The session blends artistic technique, spontaneous decision‑making, and community engagement.
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Hey Patty, good to see you. Hope you're having a great, great, great night. Oh, thank you, thank you, at the Opera House. I appreciate that. Yeah, that was my first attempt at sketching the Opera House. I did put a video on our, in our workshop group, just showing showing me sketching it. They also have some tips on there as well, so be sure to check that out. Can't wait to see everybody else's. I saw Becky has hers up, it looks awesome. So thank you so much. Just popping on quick here tonight before I go to sleep. Felt like doing some sketching. Cool, definitely have to check it out. Yeah, definitely check that out. Hopefully, uh, hopefully it's useful and helpful. Always appreciate feedback from you guys, just let me know. Going through some old photos last night and found some NYC skyline photos that I took from the Empire State Building when I was about 12. Ooh, yeah, it would be awesome if you could share that. I'd love to see that. I never ever ever get bored or tired of looking at the New York City skyline. That would be so cool. Yeah, please share that when you get a chance. That would be awesome. Switch up the MUSIC. I'm not gonna be on too much longer. Um, is that paper folded, ripped a little? "Is that paper folded/ripped a little? It adds to the character of the paper." I'm not sure what paper, if you're talking about this or the Sydney Opera House sketch, but this paper is not ripped. Neither of them are ripped actually. Just my regular watercolor Canson paper that I use. But I started off with my typical perspective kind of frame here to start this sketch. I'm actually liking the way this is looking. It has an interesting vibe to it. Yes, this looks like it's got a scratch in it on the lower right side. Oh, here? That's interesting. Yeah, no, this is just ink down here. Nothing torn, nothing scratched, nothing folded. It's just the way the ink was bleeding. I guess it has that kind of effect to it. Lots of times when I do these kind of perspective and these framed sketches, I like to break the frame. So you'll notice I kind of crisscross. I'll go outside the frame with my, my artwork or my buildings. I kind of actually think I like where this one is for now. I don't know if I'm doing more to it. Come back to it another time. I like where it's headed though. Cool. Uh, right on the edge of the building on the right side of the window, not on the bottom. Right, right on the edge of the building on the right side of the window. Uh, right side of the building, right side of the window. I guess over— I think maybe we're talking about in here. Maybe this— is it this kind of curved line here? Maybe. I like it too, it looks like a movie marquee. Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I was sketching this. This was a— maybe an old movie marquee. It's kind of dilapidated. I didn't quite know the perspective I wanted this curve, but again, it's just a loose sketch. Yeah, so I was seeing movie marquee here. And then the choir music came on and I started sketching the door, windows, and I sketched the cross shape here. I was inspired by the music, the choir music. Yeah, I don't know, this is kind of maybe a dilapidated, narrow street, alleyway maybe. I have a clock. I like to show clocks on my sketches. So I have a clock here on the left. But I like it. I don't know what's going to happen in here yet, so maybe not anything right now. Actually, I'm thinking of maybe drawing a fence, some kind of wrought iron fence or something here. I don't think I want a building. I like the white space. So let me do that and then we'll wrap up. Make sure we also have a fence on that. Uh, I'm just gonna pick something random here. What am I gonna pick? Let's put on the quirky fun soundtrack. Let's put something on from here. Let's see, I'm just scrolling, just scrolling, just scrolling. We're gonna pick this song. I like the way your pen bleeds too, very cool. Hey, thank you. Yeah, I'm loving— I love the Lamy pen, the Lamy ink, and just using an aqua brush. It's, uh, really loving it. There's some kind of a fence happening here. Cool. I think I'm going to leave it at that for now. I just wanted to sketch something there. And then we'll see. Maybe I'll come back and add some other stuff in the future. Maybe some more texture on the buildings. Maybe indicate some kind of material. Some kind of brickwork happening here. So yeah, I'm gonna— my gut's saying stop this one for now. So that is just a quick sketch for tonight, sort of a perspective city scene. So thank you for watching. I'm gonna end up with the— let's do our whistling cowboy outro and head on out. Patty, appreciate you commenting and watching as always. You're awesome. Keep posting great stuff. I love your artwork. And I love your information and the details and the history you have. Your knowledge astounds me, so that's awesome. Yeah, good to see you also. Alright, let's do the Whistling Cowboy outro and head on out. I have school tomorrow. Yippee-ki-yay! Alright, where do we end off? We ended off somewhere. There you go. All right, you'll see it's just black and white. Stick with my Lambie pen. All right, it's, it's Whistling Cowboy time. Bum bum bum. Let's pick out one random track on here. "Got a Circle community question for you, but I'll post it over there." Sounds good. Yeah, I hope you're liking the Circle community. I'm actually really loving it. I'm seeing some engagement. I saw you guys posting some stuff on there today. I think it has a lot of potential, and I want to— I think it's going to grow. I have some future ideas and plans I'd like to do with it. Yeah, please post it over there, and I will definitely check it out. Thank you so much. Have a great, great night. Peace and live creatively. It is whistling cowboy time. Let's pick, I don't know, number 7 on the playlist. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Have a great, great night, everybody. Take care. Peace. Live creatively. See you soon.
