Artist Jason Nicholas sketches a wonky barn with a Sharpie, using asymmetrical placement and mixed siding to add character. He's hosting a virtual workshop October 26 where you can sketch barns together, and he's 120 subscribers short of 1,000 by his birthday month.
Hello, happy Thursday, October 17th, 9:48 PM. I had to look on my screen because I forgot the day and time. Um, hope you're doing well. It's great to be on for a few minutes here tonight. I'm sketching another barn. I'm loving sketching barns. Here are the past 3 I did, um, last week or so. Pretty cool. And ta-da! Awesome. So that we do another one, I'm going to be on very briefly, just about 10 minutes tonight, and I will just get some lines down here on paper using a Sharpie. And I am sketching on a 140-pound cold press watercolor paper. And you might hear my puppy in the background. Sounds like they're out running around in the hallways playing. All right, hope you guys are doing well. Let's see, let's see, let's see. This is all coming from here, um, so I have nothing pre-planned. Let's do a horizontal kind of layout. One of the reasons I love sketching kind of old wonky Barnes is because it's just— there's a lot of freedom because I'm not looking to make or sketch precise, crisp, technical lines. They can be wavy and wonky and fun and loose. And my Sharpies are not cooperating. What the heck? Wow, I need another one. See, I have another one here. I have a bunch of backups. See if this one's gonna work. Yeah, there we go. The other two were kind of needing some loving. Let's see, we're gonna do the roof here. Let's do a— me, the roof has a whole hole in it there. And I'll zoom in a little bit. There you go, see it closer. Let's see, let's do a nice barn door. And just to make it a little wonkier, I'm actually gonna make the door— let's make it off-center. So this is kind of asymmetrical. I don't have the door right in the middle, and I by just shifting it to the left a little bit, that can make it, um, have even kind of a wonkier feel to it. You know, if something is symmetrical, perfectly bound, balanced on the left and right, it feels kind of static. Whereas if you shift things and make them asymmetrical, you get kind of a feeling of motion, energy, distortion, a little more whimsy. We have a door here that's, uh, let's— maybe we'll say it's closed over the opening. You know what we're gonna do? We're gonna change— we're gonna make the ground kind of drop. Let's go here, and I'm going to make the ground kind of just drop on that side of the barn. And let's do some— we're gonna have a stone base here, and then that base is going to continue across in here. We'll kind of bring this down. It just, um, adds a little bit of interest so the ground's not flat, it's sloping down a little bit. Maybe this is, uh, some kind of a stable. That is one thing that sketching does for me. It makes me stable. Yep, the dad jokes come out 24/7. I tell my students, that's, uh, that's one of the things that keeps me going in the day— dad jokes. I get a bunch of groans, I get a lot of rolling eyes in class, but you know what, once in a while I'll get a smile and a laugh. Actually, let's do— I've been doing a lot of metal roofs, maybe we'll do a— let's do a shingle roof on here. So we have a wavy shingle roof happening on here. We'll draw some shingles as well. And I'm randomly just going to put some slanted or angled lines. The angled lines are roughly following the kind of this line of the roof. Very cool. So we have a stone kind of base happening across here. Let's do some boards. So I had a horizontal siding here. Let's do a vertical on here just to make it a little even more mismatched. Already, I think this one is done for now. I kind of like it black and white. I'm not sure if I'll add color or not. I probably will. But yeah, so that was just a quick kind of barn sketch. If you are interested and you like these wonky barns and you want to sketch some, uh, feel free to join me on my virtual workshop that we're having on October 26th. Um, I think it's a Saturday night from 8 o'clock PM to 10 o'clock PM. Um, there's a link or a website you can go to and visit, a link in the chat, and also on the bottom left of the screen you can see the website. Feel free to check it out, um, and see if it's something you're interested in. I'd love to have you join us. We have about, I think, 7 people now that are a part of it, and it's going to be a lot of fun. It'll be Zoom. We'll sketch a couple of wonky barns, we'll throw some color down. It'll allow you guys to get kind of more of a, more of an inside glimpse or more detail of what actually goes on inside my brain as I'm sketching and creating these things. I'll try to lay out my process for you in a bit of a more organized manner. Um, yeah. But thanks so much, appreciate you guys watching. Hope you enjoyed this. Feel free to leave me any questions or comments in the chat. And if you're on YouTube, I would love for you to give me that thumbs up and, um, share it out there with people. We're up to 800— 880 subscribers. Love it, love it. My goal— my goal is to get to 1,000 by the end of October. This is my birthday month, so if I could hit 1,000 YouTube subscribers That would be awesome. All right guys, keep using your creativity for positivity. I really appreciate all so, so much. Um, if you want to sketch architecture, you can just take it one line at a time. All right, peace out. We'll see you guys soon. Take care. Peace and live creatively.
