Live Sketching - Architecture and whatnot

Hey there, happy, um, Saturday, October 5th, 9:57 PM here in the Garden State. Hope you're doing well. I'm gonna do some sketching here for a little bit. So hope you're doing great. I'm just popping on very, very late here, but I wanted to do some sketching, so join me for a little bit. And I think, I don't know, fall is here, and when I think of fall, um, barns come to my mind. So I think we're gonna do a maybe a sketch of wonky barn tonight. So there you go. Let me know where you're watching from and if you have any questions or comments. It's always great being on here and seeing you guys. Hey, I see Linda is in the house! Linda, great to see you. Hope all is well. Hope all is well, my friend. So let's do a barn sketch here. I am sketching with my Sharpie, ta-da, and, uh, some watercolor, cold press watercolor paper. My brain's a little tired, so, uh, you might hear— you might hear my words are lagging, kind of slow. I got slow brain, slow mouth, but creativity's going. I'm just tired and I want to do some sketching before I went to bed tonight. Um, sketching just helps to kind of settle me down sometimes from a from a long day, a busy day. So it's just a great kind of a strategy for me to put myself in a different state of mind. I love the fall so much. Beautiful, beautiful weather here. We were pretty lucky here in New Jersey. My heart's— my heart goes out to all of those that were sadly impacted by Hurricane Helene. Very, very sad. That's why I taking everything one day at a time and appreciate what I have and how lucky I am. Hey, Jesco Studio, welcome to YouTube side of things! First time I've seen you in the chat. Man, I love your stuff. Hey, that is so cool! I appreciate that, that means a lot. Thank you for tuning in on YouTube and If you like this stuff, I would love for you to hit that thumbs up button. Let's get the stream out there to more people. Thank you. So it's so cool, loving you guys tune in on Facebook, on YouTube. It's always so, just so great for me to have people out there that like to sketch with me or get some kind of positivity out of what I'm doing, whether you're following along or just kind of chilling out picking up some tips, tools, techniques. Doesn't matter. I just want to make sure you're out there and just getting some positivity from my creativity. I'll be a little more careful than usual. You may have noticed sketching a little slow tonight, a little slower, and my lines are a little more cleaner. It's not as loose as I typically sketch. I am, I am looking at a reference tonight from a book. I'll show you the book in a second here. It's a very, very cool book. I've had this book for so many years and I need to pull it out more often. So I'll show you the book. Let me just kind of finish this outline here. All right, we've got a nice barn outline going. This is the book I'm looking at. It is called— I've, I've shown it before. Shown it? Showed it? That's why I sketch. That's why I teach architecture. I don't teach language arts because I don't know what the proper tense of the word is. Um, here it is: Old House Book of Barn Plans by Richard Rawson. I have had this book definitely since college, probably 1990-ish. Oh, there you go, it says right there, originally published 1950— or no, published 1990. So that's when I got this book, back in 1990. Very, very cool. Being an architect, being a sketcher, urban sketcher, um, I love— these are mostly technical precise type of drawings in here, which I absolutely love. Here, check out this kind of Victorian barn. Isn't that a gorgeous drawing? I'm very tempted this fall to do some technical drawings, livestream them. I know I've said that many times in the past, but I'm going to commit this fall if I have enough people interested. We'll break out the T-square, we'll break out a triangle, a pen, pencil Let's do some technical drawings. I'd love to show you guys not only my sketchy stuff I do, loose stuff, but maybe do some technical drawings. I love— I'm a huge fan of cross-section drawings. A cross-section, if you don't know what that is, imagine taking a birthday cake, slicing through the cake, and then kind of spreading the cake apart, and you see the layers. Inside. A section drawing is this— is a cut through a building looking inside and seeing the different layers inside. I find section drawings to be so beautiful. Cool. But anyway, this is, uh, this is the one I'm looking at here tonight. I'm doing a quick sketch on. Pretty dang cool, right? Oh hey, there I am, big on camera. How are you guys? Good to see everybody. That's what you call the book hitting the keyboard and switching to camera views. And no, I did not shave for tonight's show. That was awesome. Oh, you guys are funny. That's all I'm going to look at for that the reference image, and the rest I'm just going to wing and make up my own stuff. I don't even want to know where the windows were, where anything else was on here. Let's just have fun. And now we're going to kind of morph it into my loosey-goosey style. Again, I'm just making this totally mine. I don't even remember where anything was on there. I love these kind of slit windows. I show them a lot on my sketches. Let's do a nice— do some kind of slit window here. I just like the proportions of it. There, you guys can see that better, I think. Barns definitely need doors, right? So let's do a barn door down here. Let's do a really— let's see. Maybe this is the barn door tracky thingy here. Let's do the barn door. Let's make kind of an opening here, and maybe we have the door panel over on the side. I don't know if I'm going to throw any ink down on this one yet. And what I mean, color ink or watercolors. Let's sketch, um, I imagine this to be a metal roof on here, so we're going to do— make it like a standing seam kind of metal roof happening here. If and when I need— well, I guess the question is when. Whenever I need to redo the roof at my house here, I would love to do a metal roof on it. Huge, huge fan. Definitely more expensive than a conventional asphalt shingle roof. I'm guessing at least 3 times the cost, maybe. But it'll last. It'll outlast me, outlive me. So hey, I see Laura Abbott's in the house. Laura, great to see you. It's been a while. Hope all's well. You're in, you're in the chilling out category. Awesome. I love that you're chilling out while you're watching me. That's so cool. Always great to see you. I always love seeing your artwork you're making. Good, good stuff. Linda says, yeah, these are beautiful. That book is super duper cool, right? Let's just do, uh, let's see, let's just do another bank of windows here, maybe a long narrow bank across here. Hey, DB's in the house! DB, so great to see you. I know, I know, DB, you were— I believe you live near the areas that were impacted by the hurricane, and I know you're doing okay, and that's awesome. Hopefully, hopefully any friends or family are doing well also. All right, I think we have a good outline on here. I feel like throwing down some ink, some colors tonight. I kind of messed this up a little, but you know what, we embrace it, right? We go with the flow when we're sketching here. I like to use markers, and that way I'm not worried about erasing anything and being a perfectionist. Perfectionism can lead to procrastination, which can lead to stagnation and not doing anything. Just have fun, go for it, embrace what you're doing. And I'm sticking to it. I'm just gonna— let's do some hatch lines here under that roof overhang. I'm gonna keep this pretty scribbly there. All right, awesome. What color should we use? Of course, barns usually equal red, and usually when I use red, I like to use the Pilot Precise pens. I also have red watercolor, but I'll typically use the Pilot pen. I'm thinking here I might have to scoot over to my shelf. I think I might have a red ink. Is this red ink? It's called Streetcar. Let's, let's see what it looks like. Streetcar. We're just gonna— we're gonna put it on there. If I remember, it's a reddish color. If not, oh well, it's okay, it's all good. We're just gonna go with it. I am gonna prop— I like to prop my work area up at a little angle, so I'm just putting this watercolor palette underneath here. I like the water to run down, the inks to run down, watercolors to run down. It just kind of goes with the aesthetic. I like having things puddle up and pool up. So, uh, I am unprepared because I don't have any paper towel. I guess I do. I am prepared. I got a napkin here. I was looking for a paper towel to wipe off the brush, and I'm working with dirty water. As always, or at least 90% of time, I always keep the dirty water and keep working with it until it has weird stuff growing in it. Hey, I see Tony Fox is over on Facebook. Hi, Tony Fox, great to see you. Awesome, welcome. I don't think I've seen your name before. Welcome to the live stream. Jesco Studio says, very true words. Hey, thanks, Jessica. This is fun. I've seen some new, new names on here. Paula Loves Art. Hey, Paula! Hello from Missouri. Great to see you and welcome back. DB says we are fine, thank you for asking. I am so glad you are fine. I am— yeah, my hearts really go out to everybody that was impacted by Hurricane Helene. I actually, I'm actually want to do a fundraiser, and maybe I'll do it tonight, start it tonight. I want to sell some sketches and donate a portion of the proceeds to, um, Habitat for Humanity, which is one of my favorite groups I like to give to. And, and I don't know if I can target the hurricane areas, but I'd like to just donate some money, uh, from sketch sales to Habitat. So if you guys are down for that, let me know, or maybe I'll put some pieces out there for auction over the weekend and next week. Uh, the first piece I think I'm going to auction off is right here. I have a St. Patrick's Cathedral sketch that I did last week live. So this would be the first piece I'm going to put out there for, for bids, but we'll see. All right, so this is that streetcar color. It's kind of— it looks more, uh, San Francisco orangey. It reminds me of like the Golden Gate Bridge color, maybe. That's cool. I'm not gonna get too crazy, so I'm gonna stop there with that ink. Hey, Chip's in the house! Chip, great to see you, hope all is well. We have Judy Morgan, great to see you also. One day I'll start at the beginning. The beginning is a great place to start. But what if we started at the end? Or what if we start with the end in mind, right? There's a quote about that, starting with the end in mind. Um, let's talk about this for a second. I'm going to riff on that. So tonight I actually knew I wanted to sketch a barn, so I knew what my, my beginning point was, a barn. And I found it, you know, that book I showed you Um, but I didn't— I did not, or I am not planning the outcome. I don't know what colors I'm using. I didn't know— I don't know where this is headed after that basic beginning outline I threw down. So that's probably— that's sometimes a really good place to start, is with a basic outline but not having an expectation of what the final what your sketch or painting is going to look like. Um, for me, when I don't know the exact outcome, it allows me to be more flexible, more playful. I'm not trying to create something with these exact colors, or— I don't know if that makes sense. I just knew the subject, barn. The rest was kind of blank. That's my tired mind riffing, by the way. I don't know if that made any sense, but it was fun to say. All right, I'm throwing down some turquoise watercolor here. I have Miami Dolphin colored barn going. It will transform, you have to trust me, it will transform. I'm just kind of trusting in the, the process. This is just an initial coat. Layer, I should say. This will probably end up having, after this dries, another layer of color and some ink, and then another layer where I probably add some details with either my Sharpie or Pilot Precise Pen. So most of these sketches are 2, I say 2 to 3 layers. It is fall here, so I do have kind of fall colors on my brain. This is a lemon yellow, but when it mixes with some turquoise, you get a cool green color. I'm talking way too much because I'm excited. I'm picking up some green watercolor right now. I definitely want some stone on there, so let's just— let me throw down some green there. I don't, I don't mind the colors blending together. Running down, bleeding. That's all good. Have any questions, feel free to throw them in the chat. I, I'll take a look at them, or any comments. I'll take a look in a few. I eventually want this to have a weathered kind of look to it. Um, I love the way this section is drying here. Let me zoom in for a sec. I'm loving what's happening right up in here. Uh, it's turned out to have really nice colors going on. I even like the way this is drying here as well. That might be enough color for now. I think— I feel like I want to add some, a little bit more line, um, maybe some, maybe some like siding on the barn. So Sharpie markers don't like to work on wet areas too much. Which this is. So I'm going to— I have a Sharpie, um, gel pen right here. We're going to use that on some of the wet areas. It's going to be the brightest weathered barn ever, Judy says. Oh, Judy, I would agree with you. The way it looks right now, I agree. But you'll see, we're going to— this thing will tone down And we'll get some weathering on here. That all goes back to the whole layering idea. I love that. I love that you had that, that you said that. Still kind of wet there also. All right, I'm going to change gears up. I'm going to let it dry a little bit before I throw some of those details on there. Let's break out the red. So this is a mixed media sketch. I'm going to have some— I have ink, watercolor. Um, you will most likely be seeing some colored pencil on here as well. Here's that red Pilot Precise pen. Just gonna bleed a little bit of that on there. My stuff dries so quickly. I guess it's because I'm mostly using really cheap sketchbook paper. Um, Interesting. I don't know, it depends on the paper, the temperature, the humidity in the room you're working in as well. This is 140-pound. I'll show you the COVID It's gonna— let's see. So this is Fabriano 1264 watercolor, 140-pound paper. So this is still fairly wet. Some of it's a little bit drier. So this is kind of dry in this area. I also have a little heater thing going on back there. So a lot of it depends on how much water you're throwing down, you know, what is the temperature, the humidity of the space you're working in. I kind of wish this was drying a little faster, actually, so I can— I'd be able to get more stuff on tonight. All right, this is looking cool. Let me zoom out. So I just— I'm just throwing down some red here on the door panels. Notice I'm not bringing the panels all the way down. Um, the planks, I could bring them like this. They're not solid lines, they're kind of broken lines. It adds to the loose sketchy look. If these were straight continuous, it would be too clean looking for me. So that's why I like to do these kind of Morse code lines or dash dot lines or broken lines. You can kind of see here, right? I love the way this is drying here. This is puddling up. This is gonna look so cool when it's done. Paula says, loves, love these colors. Thanks, Paula. It's the base, the base layer for our Weathered fall barn. One thing I've been doing lately on my sketches is, um, I've been doing like a continuous line somewhere on the sketch, typically on the outline of a building. So I just did this here, this red, and there's something about it. I— for me, it kind of just ties things together. Um, in a visual way. I don't know if that makes sense or not. I'm just going to change this. I have some Spotify music playing here. It's got to change up the list a little bit here. Cool. Let's sketch in some stone. I'm going to zoom in so you can kind of see how I like to throw stone down. Oh yeah, it's too wet. Alright, so we'll break out the gel pen. I treat— I like to treat stonework as almost like a continuous line. I'm not drawing each stone separately. So I'll do it over here again. You can kind of see it over in here. I'll do it Let's bring a little bit of stone across here maybe also. And then we'll do it across here too, just to connect it. All right, there we go. So we just kind of threw a stone base across there. I need to— I need a nap, but you're such an inspo, I'm getting up for another go at Inktober inking. Hey, that's so cool, Judy! Enjoy Inktober and have a great nap. Inktober is so cool. Um, I have to be honest, I haven't done Inktober in a few years. I wasn't disciplined enough to do a different sketch every day on a different theme, but I love that you're doing it. It's a great way to practice your sketching, develop habits as well. That's so cool. Happy Inktober sketching! So this week I'll be putting out an announcement. If you're on my email list, you'll be getting it as well for an upcoming online workshop. And I think we're going to be doing— DB, if you're out there, and Linda, you guys may have been there for this idea, you may have helped to inspire it, but I think we might be doing like wonky garden cottages or garden sheds. So I think that might be a fun topic for a, um, an online sketching workshop. So wonky garden sheds, that could be kind of cool. Or maybe we'll do barns. We can combine them, I guess. I just have to finish putting the inter— my website stuff together to get it out there, um, the shopping cart and all that fun stuff. I just haven't had time. I've— I haven't made the time, I should say. I've been grading schoolwork. We're almost at our halfway our midpoint marking period, or marking period midpoint for the first marking period. That was a tongue twister. I'm just coloring some of these gaps between the stones kind of black just so they— some of them pop out a little bit. Yeah, I'm liking this. So when this dries, I'm going to come back on top of it with some colored pencil, or I might actually break these out. I haven't used these probably in a month or so. Let me see if I can grab them. These, um, they're actually watercolor pencils in here. There's some really fun colors, so I might use some of these to come back and Go over the orange, tone it down a little bit. This is going to be a great color. Let's try it. Instead of talking about, I'm just going to try it. Um, I like this color. This is calling my name. This is called Rusty Hinge. Rusty Hinge, that's a cool name for like a— some kind of character in a book. Rusty Hinge. So these are watercolor pencils. I'm going to just try it dry on here, see what it looks like before I add some water. Let's kind of go up on the roof area here. You can see how it's toning down the blue a little bit. It's just a little too damp to add stuff to. Well, actually, I'm going to dip— I'm dipping the watercolor pencil in some water, see what it does on this orange. And this is an example of just being playful, experimenting, not knowing what's going to happen. May look cool, may look stinky. But you don't know until you do it, right? Now this is what's fun for me, is just messing around and seeing what happens. I think it's going to look better after this dries and I can add some texture. But yeah, I'll definitely, I'll definitely be playing around with these more after this dries on here. Do your students get points for attending these lives? That's a great question. They, they don't. I've never done anything like that, but that might be worth considering. Yeah, if I schedule these regularly, you know what, you know what, I like that idea a lot. I know some of them follow me. Thanks for putting that out there. I'm gonna— I probably should have moved this down a little bit. I'm gonna put that out there, um, I think we'll see what happens. That's a cool idea. They do have weekly sketchbook assignments. They've been sketching iconic buildings. Last week was the Colosseum building. Could be kind of cool if they attend a live. Maybe I do these weekly and they attend the live and they could follow me sketching one of those buildings. That is definitely food for thought. Thank you. Some of my students haven't— have an amazing gifts for, for drawing, which is cool. And the ones that don't have amazing gifts, they're still pretty awesome because they're— they are awesome because they're trying. And I always emphasize in class that I'm not comparing Johnny— Johnny's sketches to Kathy's sketches. I'm comparing Johnny's sketches to Johnny's sketches every week because I want to see Johnny, see if he's improving. Um, sometimes there's that fear factor where they're comparing themselves— the comparison trap, I call it. They're comparing themselves with their classmates and they're afraid to do anything. So I'm really working hard to, to get it to ingrain that I am not comparing them to each other but to themselves. Um, and I think it's working. This is kind of cool. I just— let me see, let's just mess around with that. I don't know how well it's going to show up on camera. I was messing around with the watercolor pencil and just— you can kind of see, you can kind of see how it's starting to look, at least in person here, it's starting to look more distressed. I don't know how well the camera is picking up the colors. Um, let's see, maybe down here you can see. Down in here you can kind of see how it's kind of transforming a little bit. And we should do that with ourselves, guys. I mean, it's great to look at other people's work, but don't compare yourself in a way that's going to shut you down. You know, if you're going to compare yourself to another artist out there, instead of comparing yourself, I would look at another artist's work and be like, oh, I like this technique that they're doing, or, or I like this color. Be inspired. By others, don't compare and say, I'm not good enough, I, I just can't do what they're doing, um, and let it shut you down. If it's going to motivate you and push you to work harder, that's different. But most of the times, the comparison trap shut— totally shuts us down to not do anything. And that, that's just unfortunate, right? I'm going to add some blue on here. I feel like digging into this blue. 10:34. I'm going to wrap in a minute or two. I have to get— I have an early start to tomorrow. I'm just throwing some blue down maybe to help start create the idea of shadows. Um, And I'll come back after this dries and throw down some hatch lines to kind of bring out that shadow even more. Let's darken some of these windows up. Again, this is just the blue watercolor paint. I thought I set these songs to, uh certain play order, but I guess I didn't. Let's even do like a shadow line under the kind of where the sliding barn door hardware slides under that piece, right? Yikes. What is— what is the kid saying? What's he trying to say? Ask my 10:30 PM brain, what am I trying to say? Because I don't know. I'm just dabbing the brush down here. I like the way— I like that shadow. That's looking kind of cool there. Um, I've been wanting to do a wonky urban Old English cottage. I've got the reference photos, I just keep getting sidetracked. Laura, that sounds so cool! Awesome, I'd love to see your reference photos if you ever want to share it. Be cool, it sounds like something totally up my alley. Yep, 2024 is my undoing of Comparanoia. I love that, Judy. Stop comparing. A lot of, a lot of, for me, a lot of creativity, um, is mindset. So I'm always trying to work on creative mindset ideas, tips, tricks, techniques. And one of those that goes in that toolbox is the comparison trap. And not falling into it. I think we had a— we had a window here. I was gonna pull out some panes there. You know, I feel like doing— I feel like actually dripping some of this, some of this blue paint kind of down on the— these doors. Not sure why, but It's kind of what my brain was saying. Let's throw some more green on here. I know Linda— if Linda S is still out there, Linda S is our green lady. She loves greens. DB loves her Payne's Gray, and I love that you guys all have something that you love about what you create. We all have our favorite things we like to kind of bring into all of our sketches or paintings or cooking, baking, doesn't matter. For me, if I bake something, I'm always— I always want to work in espresso powder somewhere into whatever I'm baking, whether it's a chocolate chip cookie or banana bread. Espresso powder always works its way in. Maybe because I just like to espresso myself with my creativity. Yes, I can, I can hear people groaning through the interwebs here. I did hear some groaning here. I'm going to do something really fun here. Uh, let's get my straw. We're going to make some growies. I'm going to zoom in, going to move this over. I'm going to make sure this is wet here. I'm going to make some growies on the side of the hill. So I'm just adding some water to that watercolor paint, taking a straw, and here we go, there we go. We've got some growies kind of coming up on the side there. Do the other side here too. Growies are like tall grasses, or they can be weeds growing, could be flowers. We'll do it on this side. So I'm just I have the green paint. I'm just throwing down a little extra water on top. You know, throw a little bit more green paint in there. There we go. And we're just gonna take the straw and— whoa, that one went crazy! That's okay. Lots of times I'll even just go like this. It's just a fun way to get like growies kind of happening on your scene. There you go, you can see that there. Um, I like to show like these growies on the sides of buildings or in front of the building foundations. It's kind of a good way just to anchor the building to the ground. Beautiful sketch. Hey, thank you, Linda, I appreciate that so much. Yes, don't be paralyzed by comparison. Exactly. Now it looks weathered. The shadows transform it. Oh, that's so cool. I love that you said that. Thanks, Judy. Love the green, and some growies might be nice. There you go, ta-da, we got the growies happening. Um, smiley faces, yay growies! I love that. Thank you guys, you're awesome. Um, here's another way it's starting to look weathered too. So if you look what's happening up in here— where's my little— where are my little frames? Never leave home without them. Here we go. I'll be sad when I— if I ever lose this one. It took me a very long time to cut out a square, um, but if you look in here, you see what's happening there? It's, it's starting to have a weathered look to it. Just throwing some water down, some ink on top of ink, some watercolor on top of that. It's really getting that kind of a weathered effect to it. At least I think so. 10:41. Let me, let me know if you guys have any final, any final questions or comments. I appreciate y'all so much for watching. This is not done yet. It will need some more time, probably another, let's say, 15 minutes to wrap up. But I want it to dry. I think it's at a good stopping point. Where is the cap? I'm always losing— do you guys lose the caps to your pens? I literally just took it off before I started. What the heck? Oh, look what I— here's— look what I did. See, I told you I'm tired. This cap goes here. And I don't think this pen had a cap to start with. This one does. Ay, Chihuahua. Um, Linda says the middle, middle of the roof is absolutely gorgeous. The greenish and brownish is beautiful. Yeah, I, I know you're talking about this area here. Yeah, I'm loving— I'm loving this. Let's zoom in. Looks pretty rad, right? Did I just say rad? My gosh, I'm going back to the '80s, which is a good place to go back to. I loved the '80s. That looks really cool. Yeah, why don't we, why don't we wrap this up? We'll just look at some areas of this, kind of pan around. The cupolas here definitely need some more work. They're not to, um, to a point where I think they're done. I could have said it's totally gnarly too. Rad, gnarly, gag me with a spoon, all those great saying. Uh, let's just check this area out in here. Gosh, I really hope the camera's picking this up as well as it is in person. It's looking much brighter on my screen than it is in person. I just— actually, probably a setting I could change for that. I'll have to look for it. But yeah, this on my screen, this is intense, intense orangey It's more pale here and it looks more weathered. I'm gonna— I'll take a picture and post it. So I don't think it's coming across on camera as awesome as it should— as it's awesome as it is in person. Um, it's like copper patina. Yes, I am— you know me, Linda, I am a huge fan of copper on my paintings and sketches. So I'm so glad you said that. That makes me so happy. I actually have those watercolor pencils I showed you. There is one in here that has— is called patina. Where is it? Here. This is called Salvaged Patina. So this color will be going back down on this, so you'll, you'll see that being used. Laura says it's like— oh, Laura said it's like copper patina. Did I say Linda? I'm not sure who I said, but you're all awesome. Um, far out, groovy. Am I showing my age? Um, I used to love The Brady Bunch. I know that. I know Greg Brady used to say groovy a lot. Far out, you guys are funny. I love that. All right guys, let's zoom out. We can see this. I'm going to throw a quick frame around it again. It's not done to where I want it to be done. I'll probably wrap it up tomorrow at some point. I'm just going to bring a frame out. We'll see what it looks like. So again, yeah, be looking for an announcement for a workshop coming up. It'll be towards the end of October, and I think we're going to be sketching, um, I'm not sure now if I want to do barns or some kind of garden sheds, garden cottages, kind of with fall settings. Maybe with garden cottages. Where's my bigger frame? Looking for my bigger black frame. Here it is. This is what I'm looking for. Let's see what this looks like. The frame's too small, but get an idea if I— if I just crop out some of it, you know. Even if this is just cropped out, this section here Play around with it a little bit more. I kind of like the ground here. I like the way the ground came out. The grass is looking pretty cool, you know. Even if we cropped this out, might be a little crooked on screen, something like that. Laura says no worries. Thanks, Laura, I appreciate that. You guys are awesome. Thanks for sticking, sticking it out with me here, hanging out with me, right? Do you guys like the way that looks? You can— we can shift the composition so it's more like this if I wanted to work with this matte I have. We can even just frame a vertical part out also. I'm not digging that. No, I'm not digging it. I'm really thinking this way was kind of like in this— what's more white on the bottom? Maybe, yeah, maybe something like that. Yeah, Linda says keep Sue K in your prayers. She's recovering from her second knee replacement. I have my second October 31st. We are knee buddies. Yes, guys, please, positive thoughts and prayers go out for our friend Sue. Um, thank you, Linda, for that reminder. I appreciate that so much. We are knee buddies. Buddies. We all need buddies in our life. We all need buddies in our lives. Judy says keep a bigger frame, the hole is too nice. All right, I'll go— I'll take you up on that one. First, I don't think I have a bigger mat here, but I, I kind of agree with you. I kind of like the whole thing also. And then I guess one other question I'll have for myself— I'm not going to answer it now— but do I do the background or not? And when I do fall kind of sketches, I like to do sepia, sepia grayish backgrounds for my buildings. I love gray fall days, gray fall rainy days. I'm a rainy day person. I love rainy days. Um, just like I did with— which one? I did one last week. I don't know if it's here. I did one last week with a kind of a gray background. I don't know where it went, but we'll see. This kind of has like that gray background I was talking about, kind of grayish. Sepia background. I think that would look kind of cool on this sketch, so maybe, maybe we'll end up doing that. Greed, bigger frame. I love the entire sketch painting, you guys are awesome. Dre says it was— I was reminded to use ink backgrounds. Was reminded to use ink backgrounds. Yeah, you don't be afraid to use back ink backgrounds. So what this was actually created with— I have a sepia watercolor marker that I love to use for my skies. I don't have it handy right here, but it's, um, I think it's a Winsor Newton sepia watercolor marker. So I'll be showing you guys that soon. I love fall rainy days too, they're comforting. They are. There's something very comforting about that. I agree with that. All right guys, this is how it's drying. I'm gonna head out. I love the shadow line under here, how that's actually drying. It's looking pretty cool. And I hear my pup outside my door. She knows it's bedtime. Ta-da! Thank you guys so much. I appreciate you hanging out with me tonight for a little bit. Love the comments in the chat, um, love the inspiration and the motivation. You guys are the best. I appreciate your time so much. Remember, keep using your creativity for positivity. Definitely could use it out there right now, and what's, what's, uh, what's going on. And I will be back soon. Maybe I'll finish this one live tomorrow night. That could be fun. Thanks again, guys. Appreciate you all so, so much. Um, peace and live creatively. I'll see you guys real soon. Remember, if you can scribble, if you can sketch lines, you can sketch architecture. This is Jason with The Inspired Life. Until next time, keep on sketching, guys. We'll see ya.