INKing Out Loud

Hey out there, if you're watching, hope you're having an awesome Thursday night. I'm on real quick, just working on a— I haven't done a sketch today, so I wanted to pop on, do a sketch before I headed off to bed. So hope you're doing well. This is a sketch. It's a continuous line sketch. If you were watching, you may have noticed I didn't pick up my pen as I was sketching this. And it's actually a picture— the reference picture I'm looking at is a view of a building and a bench here, some kind of grass, different grasses growing here. Some kind of stairs here, and we have a building, a really funky, really cool building in the background. I'll bring the image on screen so you can see what I'm looking at. Anyway, hope you're doing well. If you're watching, please say hello. It's always great to know who's watching so I can give you a shout out. Um, yeah, I haven't been on in a while. I've been pretty, pretty busy and pretty tired at night, so just haven't been on, but I'm glad to be here tonight. For a few minutes. Cool. Let's do another sketch. This one, let me bring the reference image on. You can kind of see what I was looking at here. So this is the reference image here. Sorry, it's too big. There we go. So it's very, very loosely, just continuous line sketch, just trying to capture the shapes that you see in that photograph. So it was fun, just a fun exercise to do. Close that image. Boom. I need to be sketching to this, it's awesome. All right, let's do another sketch. So this is actually the sketchbook I brought with me to New York City last Sunday. I traveled with a small sketchbook. I don't even know what size this thing is. What is it, 3.5 by 5.5? Let's measure this thing. 3.5 by 5.5, yeah. It's a Moleskine notebook. You can see some fingerprints from when I was eating my banana bread at Starbucks when I took a little break. In the city, so I got some fingerprints on it. But here's some sketches I did while I was there, trying to do just a quick— just really quick moments in time. Really quick, very loose sketches, as you can see. These are all sketched with my Pilot Precise Pen. A couple vertical images here as well. It's just inside the MoMA Museum staircase here, looking out the glass window. I love these quick, loose sketches that don't have a lot of detail. There's something about these that I— they're very skeletal, and I like that. This is a, this is a really, really fast Empire State Building sketch. I totally I did not nail the spire. It's— yeah, I did not. I did not nail it, but I tried. It was fast, quick. I mean, this is probably, I don't know, under 3 minutes for the sketch, maybe 2 and a half minutes. But the idea was I wanted to capture quick vignettes in time, quick snapshots. This was really quick. This is a sky bridge here. One day I'll do a photo, I'll do a little slide presentation for you guys. This is an art installation/occupiable art installation. Well, you can't actually go up in it anymore. It's called The Vessel. I just wanted to capture the shape of it. It almost looks like a pine cone shape. This is another building by The Vessel called The Shed. I love this building. This building actually— this slides and retracts so the building can open up. It's pretty cool. Um, I did add the blue marker when I came home. I didn't bring the marker with me. Here's a sketch I did of a water tower. This came out pretty cool. This is a sketch— I don't remember what the heck this one is. Oh, this was a sketch on the High Line. I was trying to sketch, doing a continuous line sketch of part of a garden that I had saw, had seen, saw. And here's another quick sketch I did of the Vessel. So here's the Vessel building, some skyscrapers in the background. You can't really tell if I did some shading, but this is actually the Shed building in the foreground. I may just add some gray marker on that to pull it out. Kinda looks like a weird tree, but it's not, it's a building. And here's the one I just did now. Cool. I love this sketchbook, it's really convenient, nice size, easy to carry around. So it's good, good stuff. Alright, let's see, maybe we'll do one more quick sketch. Hey, thank you for the thumbs up. I know some people are watching out there. I always appreciate you guys tuning in. Hopefully my music's not too loud. I'm just looking for another image. What do I want to sketch? I want to keep it really, really quick here because I'm beat. I have— I took over— I know I took a lot of photographs. 200 at least. So I'm just scrolling through here. I don't know, I don't know what I'm going to sketch here. This is fun. I'm sure you guys are enjoying this, watching, just watching me stare at my screen scrolling. I'm sorry about that. I am not prepared. I just kind of logged in quick here. Uh, let's do that. Uh, let's do this one. Oh, I don't know. Let's just do— all right, let's do this one. I'm just gonna pick this image and it is what it is. So I'm just going to sketch another building I had taken photographs of. I don't know the name of this building. I'm going to try to do another continuous line sketch. It's just a fun exercise. So there's a railing here. Let's kind of start with— I'm going to start with this railing and work my way up the page. Alright, we got kind of buildings kind of coming up here. Does this. Goes off my photo there. Kind of have a piece that comes like this. And we got a grid that does something like this. Boom. Another line here for that grid. We got another one here for that grid. Uh, kind of a wide brick pillar. This comes up. This is gonna be tricky because this kind of building kind of curves up. I lift my pen up. Building kind of curves there. That's all right, we're gonna keep going. Building kind of curves here. Same thing comes here. We can't see that curve, it goes off the page. And in these curved areas, this actually comes down here. Boom, like that. This railing continues here in the foreground. I'm gonna see if I can capture this. They're almost like barrel-shaped windows. It's a really interesting building. I kind of wish I knew more about it. I'll have to research it. These corners, the windows look like barrels, or like wine barrels or something, or lanterns. They kind of look like lantern shapes. That's what they're supposed to be, like these glass lanterns. Another one up here. Boom. Straight angles, comes back, angles, straight down. And here it kind of goes up, straight angles. Just do something like that. Capture it quick. So we have those windows kind of in the corner, and then all of these openings also have the barrel shapes happening as well. I really think they're supposed to be lanterns though. Kind of losing a little bit of geometry, but— Ooh, I really lost on that one. This is fun. Like, I'm just kind of making it up. Then same thing here, we have more of those shapes happening. Angle, see, kind of angles out, up, back, cross, angle, straight, angle. This would make more sense if I shade in kind of the areas around here to pull out this grid of brick. My hand is cramping up a little bit, which is telling me I'm holding the pen maybe too tight. Oh yeah, I'm feeling it in my hand right now. I'm gonna loosen the grip up a little bit. Let's do that, let's do that, let's do that. Cool. So we're going to come back down here, we'll work our way to the railing. We have some grasses and shrubbery, kind of spiky branchy things happening here. We have some more branches kind of popping up down here. I'm sure these will be beautiful when they bloom, whatever they are. That's more spiky things here. Here, some branches hanging out. There is a grid on this railing. See if I can kind of capture that in here. Some metalwork happening, some rivets. Done. So there's a quick continuous line sketch. Hey, Sally says, can you pull the image down a bit? It's off camera. Ooh, sorry about that. Hey Sally, how are you? There you go. Sometimes I lose control when I'm sketching, so thank you for telling me. Um, so I'll pull the image on screen so you can see what I was trying to capture with this continuous line sketch. I actually like the sketch. Um, I didn't capture the lantern windows as nicely as I wanted to, but But again, I'm just practicing and I was actually looking— I feel like I was looking more at the image than the actual sketch. So, it's a great way just to kind of train your hand and what you're looking at to kind of do quick sketching. Yeah. Let me show you the image that I was looking at here. So, this is the— I was really just sketching from this corner to the left. So I was trying to capture this area here, and you can see these are really cool. Look at the shape of these windows. Sally— Sally Ann Smith says you did already. Yes, I got it! I'm glad I was able to lower it for you to see better. So these are the windows. I think they're supposed to be lanterns. I'm going to Google it, find out more about this building. Um, I should have put some of the brick texture, and I think that would have helped. And darken some of the shadowy areas. Again, I'm not trying to capture this exactly, just having fun playing around. I kind of like it, actually. So that was neat. Again, that was pretty quick. I didn't time it, but it was probably, I don't know, maybe 7 minutes on this one. I think I'm going to add some shading to pull out the shed building on this, and then we'll wrap up. I'm going to actually just use a gray marker. Let's, um, let me put a piece of paper underneath in case it bleeds through. So let's put this underneath here, and let's just take— I have some Tombow markers here. Mm, which one do I want to do? Let's just try maybe this one here. So I'm going to pull out this shed building in the foreground. It's a little darker than I wanted. Let's try this one. And that's a little lighter. Look back to this one. Very cool. So I just added some gray there. I wanted to pull out the edge of that. This is called the shed right here. I'll see if I can find the photograph or a photograph of what this view is loosely capturing so you guys can see it. Let me just scroll through here. And, um, yeah, I know I— let's see, I got tons and tons of pictures of this. Just gotta scroll back. Which one? Um, let's pull up the this one. So here's a photograph. This is— this pinecone-looking structure is called the Vessel. It's basically an art installation. It was open for a while where you could actually walk up the stairs to the top of this. They've closed it since, so you're not able to wander to to walk up to the top of it. And then this building in the foreground on the left is called the Shed Building. It's kind of that gray color area. So that's what my sketch— again, this was a quick sketch on site just to capture the feeling of what was there. And I wanted to color this gray just so, just so it stood apart from the vessel behind it. It. So there you go. Sally says— Sally Ann Smith says, loved it, thank you. I cannot talk after 10:00 PM. Oh boy, I knew this would be awesome, so pleased you were able to get there. Hey Deborah, yeah, thank you. I, I, I can't— I'm so thinking about it, I'm so excited. Um, I just, I loved, I had, I spent the whole, most of the day last Sunday in the city and I loved it. I walked, man, I walked how many miles? I think it was like 12 or 15 miles, maybe more. I just walked and walked and took pictures. It was really a great, great and inspirational day. So sometimes we all need to get out and recharge our creative brains, you know, just get out. And if you can't travel, that's cool. We can still get out by virtually going online and looking up different places, Google things. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. So definitely it's always great to change your state of mind and, or, you know, get some creative infusion. Cool guys. Hey, uh, thank you guys for watching. I'm gonna wrap up. I just wanted to pop on quick and, uh, just do a sketch. I actually did two tonight, and I kind of like this one. It's kind of fun. Hope you guys have a great rest of your evening. Um, tomorrow's Friday. I might try to pop on Friday night, tomorrow night. Saturday I'm supposed to go back into the city and do some more sketching. Um, actually with a workshop that I signed up for. So hopefully I can do that. I may have to skip it because I actually have a lot of work I need to do at home, so I'd hate to miss that event, but we'll see. We'll see how much I can get done tomorrow. Um, you guys are awesome. Thank you, Deborah, for tuning in and commenting. I appreciate that. Sally, you too. I appreciate you watching and commenting. You guys are awesome. If you guys are watching the replay, thank you also for that. Thank you for liking and sharing, and I will be back on soon. Keep on putting good stuff out there, guys. Peace, and live creatively. I'll see you soon. Again, I really appreciate you guys. Sorry I'm leaving so quick, but I am tired. Have a good night. We'll see you. I don't even know where's the camera. There's the camera. Good night, guys. Where's, where's the off button? Oh my gosh, my screen's a mess. I have so many windows open. There we go. All right, good night guys, take care. We'll see you soon.