Loose Style Architectural Sketching

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Hello Heather, are you on mute? Oh hey, yeah, I was on mute. Thanks for reminding me. I was on mute because I was coughing before. I have a cold or something and I've been coughing a lot, so I put put myself on mute so no one would have to hear the coughing. But Heather, thank you! Happy Thanksgiving Eve! It is so awesome. Thank you for, um, joining on YouTube. I hope all's well. So I am working on a practice piece of a commission. Someone asked me to do a garage sketch painting. They are designing a garage, going to be building it. So they wanted my kind of loose style, my whimsical style, uh, painting for their garage they're going to be building. So these are my imaginary colors. The shape is the shape of their, their garage they're creating. Um, but I'm just taking free rein right now with my colors and just playing around. So this will probably be a practice piece before I go on to, um, the final one. So Heather, thank you for that comment. Yeah, I was on— I was on mute. I can come off mute cuz I stopped coughing. So normally I would let this kind of dry now, come back, add another layer, right? So kind of like this has different layers on it, um, that's what I would do with this. But tonight I'm kind of adding and adding and adding, playing around with it. I think I'm gonna leave it here with the watercolor. Um, actually, I'm lying. I want to throw some orange. I'm going to grab some orange watercolor. I'm going to throw a lot of paint on here and not a lot of water because I want it thick. If it reads on there, if you can see that. And I just want to throw down some intense orange on top of this just so it pops a little bit. You can kind of see that there. We'll do some on here as well. I'm gonna grab some more of that Taxi Cab Yellow. I'm not sure what the real color name is, but I just call it Taxi Cab Yellow. Taxi Cab Yellow, which— this is it right here. Um, you're liking the blue mixing with red? Yeah, right, it's creating kind of an interesting purpley color, especially in here. That's cool. Thank you for your feedback, and thank you so much for watching live. I appreciate that. So you can see, I just intensified this yellow on these garage doors here. The man's going crazy, he's getting cray cray. It's all about having fun, throwing colors down, throwing some ink down. Let them go where they want to go. Let— just let them be. Let them paint in words of wisdom. Just let them be. All right, cool. I'm liking it. I'm going to leave a lot of that white space there. This is at a good point where I want the colors to dry, um, so I can come back in with my Sharpie. Ta-da! Either my Sharpie or marker, or sometimes I use my Sharpie S gel pen here. I also have a Pilot Precise pen here that I would use, come back in, just do one more sketching. Maybe add some planks, siding planks on here, show some of the metal roofing on here, maybe add some more details, cross-hatching. I've also been having a lot of fun playing with these Sharpie Creative Markers. These things are awesome, let me tell you. Love, love, love these. So actually, we're gonna let this dry dry. I'm gonna put it aside for now, and then, um, I'm just— I'm gonna hang out, do some more sketching. We'll pull out something else. I'll just start something random, I guess. You actually know what we're gonna do? I'm gonna play around. I have an old— some old sketches here. I just want to play around with them. Maybe I'll show you guys, um, we'll add some Sharpie Creative Markers on this Empire State Building sketch and just play around for a few minutes. Thank you guys for watching live. Let me know if you have any questions, comments. Feel free to say— feel free to say hello. Um, I'd love to know where you're watching from. Ta-da! So let's do a zoomy on this. You can see how it's drying before we switch to another thing. I love this right here. So Heather was saying that she loves the blue and the red mixing. Um, I love this. It's called a hard edge. You see how it's drying there? I love that hard edge. That is awesome. I live— yeah, I'm the nerd who lives to— who, uh, let's say start to— I love watching paint dry and seeing what happens. Hey Paula! Paula's in the house. Hey Paula, hope all's well. Thanks for watching. Um, that was a tongue twister. I love watching paint dry. It's just The paint, the ink, the way it mixes, it's just magical. It's kind of fun. Um, I love the colors on the roof here. So this is going to dry, and then I'll come back and I will add— just to give you guys a kind of a, um, an insight, you, you can see I'll come back and I'll add kind of lines like this for the roof. I'll do something for the siding. Maybe we'll, uh, maybe we'll do some stone on this. So that'll be the next step after it dries, coming in and adding some of that kind of detail on top of that. Cool. All right, I hope you guys want to stick around for a few, few more minutes. I'm gonna just play around with some old sketches. I'll break out some Sharpie Creative Markers and, uh, we'll just experiment. You guys can see how cool they are. I think they're pretty dang cool. I'm gonna move this and let it dry. Um, actually, let me pull this one back out. This is, this is one I kind of just wrapped up. So, um, let me zoom out so you can see it. Ta-da! So this is a fun sketch based in Brooklyn. There's a branch of the Brooklyn Library, bridge in the background. This is very loose and kind of sketchy style, and I really love it. And I was trying to capture just the idea of movement and motion with my lines here, so hopefully that comes across in this. And this is— This is really unique for me because, um, not a lot of Sharpie stuff on here. This was a lot of, um, what do you call these things, kind of these Art Graph chalks and chalk stick on here, watercolor stick as well. But I think it came out kind of cool, and I love the way it's cropped. Actually, I'm going to crop it like this. This is a fairly big piece. It's on 12— I think it's a 12 by 18 sheet of paper here, so it's pretty big. Pretty cool, right? All right, let's play around with this. All right, these are some old sketches here. By the way, I am working on creating a gallery, uh, a Shopify gallery where I'm going to be posting lots and lots of sketches for sale, so be on the lookout for that if you're interested in owning any of my original New York sketches or barn sketches, um, I'm gonna put them out there. So it's, it's taken a lot of time behind the scenes. I really wish I had a helper on it, but I'm trying to put that together just so I can get some stuff out, out to you guys. All right, so this is the Empire State Building, really quick sketch. I don't even remember when I did it, so obviously it's on scrap paper. So let's play around. I have these really cool Sharpie Creative Markers. I am loving these things. They have really fun colors. Let's take them out of here. And they dry really fast. That is a huge plus because I like to create on the go. I don't have time to wait for paint to dry a lot of times. I just want to keep going, going, going. Gowen. Um, here's an example.

Let me pull this out.

So here's an example of kind of a sketch I did of the Brooklyn Bridge using mostly the Sharpie Creative Markers. So I just kind of sketched these random colors in the background and did the bridge sketch on top of that. They're really vibrant, really bright, they pop. So, um, yeah, I love it. So let's just mess around, let's see what we could do to this Empire State Building thing. Hey, Chip's in the house! Chip, great to see you, we missed you as well. I love this, you guys are popping in, this is so fun. Feel free to share this if you're on YouTube. I would love for you to smash that like button, that good old thumbs up. It'll put it out to more people to see. Let's just spread the word. I appreciate you guys so much. All right, no, no plan here. We're just going to throw down some color on top of the color. We need something different so it contrasts. Well, actually, we're just going to intensify some of this. So this does have a transparency to it, which I like because it's not covering up the windows I have underneath. I mean, I can keep adding layers to cover it more and more if I wanted to. So I am super excited tomorrow for Thanksgiving. It is one of my favorite days of the year, um, not only as a reminder to be thankful to those you love and those things that we have in life, um, it's just a, it's just a chill kind of day, and I like chilling. Let's grab red. I'm gonna throw some red on here. Um, I also look forward to watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade, so I'm gonna give a shout out to my friend Sifat. Sifat has a— he's a YouTube streamer, streams from New York City. He is an incredible human being. He'll be streaming live from the parade tomorrow. And his YouTube name is The NYC Walking Show. The NYC Walking Show. So if you want to watch a live streamer at the parade, check Sifat out. I've had the, um, chance to meet him a couple of times, and I just love what he does. I love how he represents New York City. He's a— he's just a great guy. So I'll be watching his stream and I'll be sketching from my living room while I'm watching it. So you guys can see, just— I'm throwing on colors, right? Just grabbing and going. Let's throw some pink on here. Don't be afraid to add color. Um, I was afraid of adding color for many, many, many years, especially showing people people because I felt like what— whenever I added color to a building, especially an iconic building like the Empire State Building, um, I felt like the colors had to be realistic. Until one day I said to myself, you know what, that is why I have a camera on my phone or digital camera. I could take realistic pictures with the camera and capture the colors. Um, this sketching is a form of expression, freedom, creativity, just allowing me to be who I want to be in a very fun kind of way. So I kind of put that in my brain and it just allows me to add whatever colors I want to just based on what I'm feeling. I'm looking, I am looking for an orange. I have an orange one here somewhere.

Where is it?

Wah wah wah. I can't find the orange. It's because I used it the other day. Oh, here it is. I got the orange. Orange. Um, I also have Posca paint pens. Very similar to the Sharpies. I feel like the Sharpies dry better. I like the colors of the Sharpies. I also like the fact that I can open these Sharpies up, they're ready to go. Um, the Posca paint pens, which are awesome quality, you have to shake, shake, and then you got to depress the tip, push, push, push, and then takes a little bit for the ink to come out. And sometimes I'm not patient enough, so switching to these really has worked well for me. Again, my intention, guys, is I'm just having fun with this sketch here, just messing around with colors. And while I'm waiting for the other sketch to dry, the one we just did before this, All right, let's break out, uh, let's add some— pull out some of this with maybe black. I have a black one of these somewhere. Oh, it must be 10 o'clock, my light went off behind me. All right, uh, maybe in this bin. Maybe not. That's okay. I can't find, um, if I can't find it— we got purple. That's right, I'll just grab a Sharpie. I just want to pull out the, uh, outline of the top of the Empire Building— Empire State Building here a little bit more. Grabbing a good old Sharpie. Please let me know if you have any questions. I'm more than happy to answer questions or any comments or feedback. I'll check out the chat in a minute or so. I have missed you guys. I've missed sketching live. Frankly, I've been so tired and exhausted at night. I haven't come online. Like, I could push myself, but my body was telling me I needed just to kind of rest. But whenever I'm on, I just, I just love this so much. And I'm sorry if I keep saying that. I'm just really blessed and thankful for you guys who keep encouraging me. So thank you so much. I'm also, I'm also really thankful that I have found something I love to do, which is, is sketching architecture. So I don't take that lightly by any means, and that's why I like to share whatever I'm doing, whatever I'm thinking, and just pass it on to you guys. Hopefully it helps in some, at least some small way. Even if you're just watching to fall asleep to my voice, which I've heard that before, that's okay. Whatever purpose this is serving for you, if it's a positive thing, I'm here for you guys. Cool. So you can see if I just kind of come back with that Sharpie going on top, I was able to pull some of this out a little bit more, right? Love it. Uh, Linda. Hey, Linda's in the house. Linda, how are you? Just your favorite holiday. You're still recovering from surgery. I'll have a video call with the kids. Oh, well, aren't we so lucky to live in a day and age where we have like FaceTime or Zoom? Um, love that. Linda, positive thoughts your way for your, um, your, your surgery, your recovery. With your, with your knee. Hopefully it's going well. I think about you a lot, and I love your post. I think it was from today or yesterday, and I forget what it's called. I apologize, but the wheel with all of those paintings on it, um, absolutely incredible. Love it, love it. Again, I'm so sorry I forget get what those types of paintings are called. Great stuff. Hey, Paul says this is so awesome. Hey, thank you, Paula. Thank you so much. You know what we're gonna do with this since we're just playing around? Let's add a background. So I'm gonna show you guys one of my favorite ways to add— actually, do I want to do that or do I not want to do it? All right, let's, let's do it for part of it. We can always go over it. One of my favorite quick ways to add a background, and I'm gonna go with the— I'm gonna go with blue on this. I could have gone gray or orange or pink. Let's just go blue. I have it here. Here's a kind of a quick fast tip of how I like to add background washes like skies. I have a Winsor Newton watercolor marker. Ta-da! And I can need a brush and some water. So I got a brush, I have water. It's okay if it's dirty, I don't mind. What I'm going to do is I'm going to add this blue here. But not directly. If you see my mat here, you might see some of that blue. I like to take the watercolor marker, throw it down on this artboard kind of like this. Guys, I picked some interesting music tonight, or what? Oh, just wanted something different. All right, got my brush, my brush. I'm gonna throw some water on here, just quick. Boom. Now I'm going to take my brush, it still has water on it, throw it down on top of this cerulean blue. We're going to put it on here. Yeah, I could have done it with watercolor paint. I just happen to like this color, uh, cerulean blue. So literally grabbing it off the board, throwing it on here. You're going to see pockets of white. I'm going to leave white here almost to represent clouds. Kind of cool. Um, here's, here's why I put it— this marker on the board and then bring it here. If I take this marker, and you guys might have pro tips for me and I throw this marker here, it's very intense, which is cool. But when I go— let me zoom in— when I go to add water and move it around, do you see what happens? It stained the paper where I threw the marker, so I have a big kind of stain happening there. So in order to prevent the stain, that's why I would rather throw down the water. Can I take this marker after I throw down water? Yeah, let's do this side. You could also do it this way if you want and move it around. So that's another way to do it if the paper is wet. But for me, I just find this way is quicker and faster and just looser for me. And I can kind of reload the palette and I can just grab and go. So a lot of my creating is— I like to call it grab and go creativity. I'm not thinking too much, just picking up, moving forward. So if I zoom out, you can see we have that background happening. Awesome. Oh, hey, um, what is the background music? I like it. So I use a music service called Epidemic Sound that I subscribe to, so I pay to use this music. Um, it's just random music I picked from that site, Epidemic Sound. I don't know the exact names of the tracks. I put it in a playlist that I call Whistling Cowboy. I'm glad you like the music, that's so cool. And then you can come back and add layers instead of— don't think you have to always brush your colors on. So if you look, I'm not actually brushing, I'm kind of just dabbing. I'm kind of dabbing the color, moving it around a little bit, and by dabbing it, I just get interesting shapes happening on top of shapes. I can come back and move around more if I want. Um, I just don't want it to be too tight, and I feel like if I'm sitting here doing brush strokes, it's going to be way too tight. So by dabbing it, it's keeping it loose. It's letting it flow with the water and the other colors around it. So I really love what's happening here. Let's zoom in. So I really love what's happening in this area here. So that's kind of what it's looking like. Linda, um, Hey, thank you so much, Linda. I love your kind words. Oh, it's called a phenology wheel. Sue Kane introduced me. Awesome. Sue is another amazingly gifted artist for sure, and I am honored to know you and all of you guys out there. Cool, a phenology wheel. Oh, I'm gonna have to Google that up. Wait, was this purple? Was this color here before? This purple? Or does that just like randomly appear? Hmm. All right, so this was the, um, Winsor Newton watercolor marker. They last a long time. This has lasted a while for me. I really like these markers. I have a bunch of different colors. I have sepia as well, so we'll let this kind of dry. You can see actually here, this is the sepia watercolor marker I did on this sketch. So that's the cerulean blue background, and we got a sepia background as well. Sepia watercolor marker. Pretty cool. Love this. And then, um, again, the creative markers— I like the vibrancy of the— do a zoom up here. Zoom up, that's a technical term. Close-up zoom. Um, you can just see the colors kind of move it so the light shows it more. I like, I like this. This is fun. I gotta be— I gotta sketch to this song. This is good sketching music right here. I am missing an opportunity. Let's come back to the barn. Oh, it's the garage. It's a garage in my wonky barn style. Um, again, so practicing. This is a commission. This kind of a practice for the next— the piece I'm going to do next, unless this turns out cool. But I feel like breaking out some color Sharpie. Um, let's bring out some of these Sharpies. This might be my favorite song on the track so far. I'm just going over that orange I threw down to create the idea of, uh, some lines going on there, some metal roofing happening. The man's going crazy, he's going cray-cray over here. I love this color, this color Water is magic. What color is this? Some kind of aqua, I guess. Teal, teal maybe. All right, let's break out the red. And look how fast these dry. Look, have I done a whistling cowboy sketch lately? No, I haven't. Great question. You guys hang with me, I'll do, um, yeah, let's end this, let's end the night with a whistling cowboy sketch. I haven't done one in a long time, so I would do whistling cowboy sketches. This is a quick way to practice my perspectives, so we'll do that. Maybe we'll even We'll do the— I'll have you guys randomly give me a number when I'm ready to do that, and then we'll just pick one of these songs out and sketch to it. So I'm thinking— I am thinking too much right now about what I'm doing here, so I'm going to move on to the next section. Let's pull this roof dormer out a little bit. If I find myself thinking too much, I have to move on. Because if I'm sitting here planning and thinking, I'm shutting myself down. I think I was saying it earlier, it's kind of counterintuitive. I can't think too much. I just got to go and do it. And it's— that's why it's hard for me to sometimes explain what, what I'm doing, because I'm just— I got to do it first, because if I'm planning it's just slowing down my flow, and it does— it just doesn't work for me that way. But that's just a me thing, right? We all have different ways of creating and moving forward, and sometimes we want to do something precise and very technical. But that's what my architecture work is for, my architectural drawings, um, you know, my designs for clients, the technical blueprint drawings This is my other— the other side of my architecture creativity where I can just be loose and wild. I'm using purple. I'm going to use a purple to help create the idea of a depth for the overhangs, almost like a shadow kind of line. We do the same thing here. I'm actually liking this purple. I'm going to pull out the garage doors a little bit with that purple. My lines are loose, wavy, kind of really wonky looking, and that's intentional. I don't want technical, clean, crisp lines. I want loose, wonky, wavy lines. This is good music tonight. And I used to say I don't like country music, but I'm actually digging this. This is country music, right guys? Any country music fans out there? Let me know. Let's add some details for the garage doors. Maybe we'll draw some windows. Sketch windows. For someone— for me, there's a difference between the word sketch and drawing, and this is just a me thing, it's not a dictionary thing. Sketching for me implies loose. When I hear the word draw, drawing for me means more precise and technical. Maybe because of architectural school, we did architecture architectural drawings, and those were precise drawings. Again, that's just kind of how I see the words. So that was our Sharpie that doesn't work. Actually, let's try something different. We're gonna use the Sharpie gel pen. Try some windows in these doors. Windows in the doors. That was an interesting juxtaposition of architectural words. Ding ding ding, 10 points! I just used the word juxtaposition in a sentence. Now, if we were only playing Scrabble triple word score, I think I would have won the game. All right, so, uh, we gotta do our— we gotta do our crisscrosses here, our X's. So you can see how this is about layers, and this is just an example of adding layers. I'm just coming back and adding a layer of more detail on top, right? And it's just pulling things out a little bit more. You know, some kind of windows up here. I'm not even counting them. I don't even know if they're equal. I just want to indicate the idea that, hey, we got windows. Um, we have a door here with a window. We'll just throw a line across here where the siding ends. I think I'm going to sketch stone on here. I don't know if they're actually doing stone on their real barn. I didn't think that one through. That's okay, we can have the stone step down. I think that was the last song on that track. All right, let's go back to this one. It's called a holiday song list. This song, actually, I made this first song here. I created this song on GarageBand. So you're hearing kind of a song that I made. And I am not a songwriter by any means, so bear with me on it. I was just having fun with GarageBand one day. I don't know if there's any windows. Um, should I make a window? No, you know, I'm going to sketch a window here.

Maybe we'll just—

I'm doing vertical, kind of vertical barn board siding here.

Ding ding ding ding!

Of course, we have some windows in these, in these, uh, dormers, these roof dormers.

Cool.

Let's add some hatch lines here. These hatch lines will just create the idea of depth for the overhang. I actually want to make, make these overhangs pop a little bit, so I'm going to hatch there. Let's do some hatching here. Yeah, let's just show some window grills happening. I will pull these dormers out towards the end. I'll probably use a Sharpie and just kind of pull these shapes out a little bit more. They're not popping out quite the way I want them to. I am liking the way this is turning out, so that's a good sign. You know what, guys, this might actually be— this might not even be a practice one. I might even end up giving this one to the, um, I'll crop it out though. I may end up giving this one to, um, my customer, my friend, because I'm liking the way it's turning out. There you go, pretty cool. Let's throw a mat around this and just see what it looks like after I grab a quick drink here.

All right, um, where the heck are they?

Here. Yes! Ooh, that actually fits! I got so lucky! Holy moly, dang, I got so lucky! I was not planning on the barn fitting in here, but it fits. I said barn, it It's really a garage. Um, wowzers. Let's zoom in on it so you can see it closer. Push it up a little bit here.

There we go.

Yeah, I'm kind of liking this one. I think, um, it does definitely need to pop out the edges here a little bit darker, bring the dormers out, pop out the roof. Uh, let's see, what else should I— let me, let me, um, what do you guys think? Should I color in the background or leave it white? And if I do shade it or color it in, I could do— here, my two first choices would be— two first choices, is that a real thing? My top two choices? I don't know. Um, I could do the blue or I could do a sepia on there. What do you guys think? Should I keep the background white or should I do a blue or sepia background on it. Curious. One thing I definitely want to do is I want to— there's a kind of a dormer back here. I just want to kind of scribble in some shadow because it's on the back side of that roof. And I want to shade in some of this shadow in For my roof— for my windows, I like to color in some of the window panes. Not all of them, just some random ones, just to give them some character. We'll do the same thing here. I'll just kind of scribble in some of these here. Do that window here, and that just adds a little bit more depth. And we'll do the same thing here, maybe. I don't think I'm 100% done with the color on this yet, but it's at a point where I might just let it stay overnight and revisit it tomorrow and see what else I'd add. You just kind of pull out the bottom of these doors a little a little bit here. There we go. Kind of cool. Hey Heather, que sos, looks great! Thank you Heather, I appreciate that. Love the turquoise and some of the spots in the green yard. Awesome. How it dried— you like how it dried? Yeah, right? Let's zoom in. Yeah, it's so cool. I, I like what's happening here. It could have just been a straight flat kind of green, sap green, but, um, as I was sketching this, I think I pulled in maybe some of the, um, what colors I pull into this, maybe some of the orange and some of the orange. I don't know what other colors I pulled into it to get that. I don't remember. I'm drawing a blank. But yeah, I I'm glad you noticed that, Linda. Actually, let's pull out this roof while we're looking at it. What do I want to use? All right, I think I'm going to use— let's use a, um, one of these bad boys. Maybe I'm going to pull out the edges on this. I'm going to try to hold this marker loose, so I get some kind of wonky type of lines happening on the edge. I don't want to be really clean, so I'm gonna intentionally wonky up the lines and not— I'm talking too much. Um, let's just do it. So I do have a light touch here, light grasp on it. Right, so just by adding this marker, you can see how it's pulling the edge out. I do want to pull the edge out of the dormer roof here. You're going to pull this out a little bit here. I have a broken line here, it's not continuous. That's intentional. To keep it loose looking. So it's broken from here to here. Um, let's kind of pull this out here like this. Let me kind of just do this, maybe a light touch here as well. And I think— all right, put this down. I think that's good. So I think that really just helped to pull out the edge a little bit more. Um, ask your customer which they would prefer. For me, I would do a light bit of the cerulean blue. Yeah, let's put that frame back on it. Um, you know what, no, I'm, I'm not even gonna ask Gum, Linda, I'm gonna throw the blue on right now. A couple of reasons. One, I was leaning towards the blue, so I'm glad you said that, so it confirmed what I was leaning to. Um, two, and this is gonna sound kind of weird, but if I start showing my artwork, if I start showing this to a customer— yes, they're paying for it, I get it— but if I start showing this to them and saying, should I add this color, then I'm going to start getting feedback possibly about other, other colors or changing things they're seeing on what I did already. And once those changes start happening, it's going I'm gonna lose my personal touch on it. Does that make sense? Um, and these people I know are amazing, amazing, incredible people, and I, I know they, they're gonna trust me. Um, but think about that, right? So if we are creating work for others, it's tricky. Of course they have to be happy 100%, but is there a point in time where you lose your artistic— you lose your artistic expression if they start changing things on you. So it's just something to think about. So I honestly don't really do any— a lot of commissions for this type of work. I do what I love doing and putting it out there. Is it a good business model? I'm not sure. I've not sold tons of sketches, but I'm happy creating them. And that's my end goal, is I want to be happy creating what I love to create.

Cool.

All right, the man's rambling, so let's throw down some Cerulean and wrap this one off. All right, so we're gonna go back to the technique we used before. I'm gonna throw down the Cerulean onto the mat, and I'm gonna lift it and paint it on here. Linda says, makes sense. Thanks, Linda, I appreciate your feedback. You know I respect you so, so much, and thank you for, for just being out there and supporting and helping, encouraging all the time. Means so much. Taking water, let's throw some water on here. I do want to tilt this at an angle. It looks like some of my blue mixed with some graphite on the board, and I kind of like it. It's adding a little bit of mood to the, uh, sky. That was not planned, but we're going with it. And we're going to throw some more on top. Sorry, it's off. I might be off screen a little bit there. And I'm just dabbing that blue on top, not really painting, just dabbing to create a layer, kind of a separation. Instead of blending what's there already, I want to create a layer on top. Just by dabbing on top, it helps that, um, separation.

All right, cool.

Yeah, yeah, I'm liking that. We'll, um, I'll put the mat on it in a minute or two. We can see what it looks like. It'll be the almost final version. Thank you guys for watching. This is so fun, watch me create kind of a live commission here, going walking through my kind of bring process with you. I'm gonna blot this out. I don't like what's happening there. I'm just gonna pull that back a little bit. See, so I forgot that you— the Tombow marker I use for the outline is bleeding, right? Because I added water, it's bleeding. Um, and that's, that's the reason I like to use Sharpies, because it won't bleed. I didn't really want the black to bleed there, but I can come back and just re-add it.

Cool.

All right, let's get the mat out, see what it looks like. I like this soundtrack. It's a holiday playlist. I mean, this is fun. I don't know if this is so much holiday, but we'll take it. Well, actually, it's called Santa Is in a Hurry, so I guess it is. All right, let's throw the black on here so you can see what it looks like, and then I'm going to peace out. Um, I do see a couple things I will add. I want to definitely come add a pop of freshness, which means adding some lemon yellow. I'll come back, throw some lemon yellow in places on this just to pop some of it out. And I have to throw some of my, uh, my neon pink colored pencil on there somewhere. All right, let's get that frame. Here we go. So the light is washing out a lot of that cerulean blue, so it, it definitely looks different in person than on camera. I don't mind if I even crop some of that off. Or do I want to fit it? No, I'll fit it. I'll fit the whole barn in. So maybe something like that. Straighten it out a little bit. All right, there you guys, there it is. Let me know what you think. So it's about 98% done, a couple final touches, and I think I'm gonna roll roll with this one. I think I'm gonna roll with this one, and this is the one I'm gonna give to them. I think it's gonna be fine with the final touches on it. And I know if I try to go back and recreate this, then I'm going to be thinking it has to be different, more perfect, more precise, and I'm going to lose some of that creative edge by trying to recreate a loose sketch that I already did once. Um, so That's kind of a lesson for me tonight. I could already— I'm already predicting if I went back and tried to redo this, I'm going to be worrying about it too much. Here it was loose, fun, on the whim— on the whim? Of the whim, of the moment, creativity. And that's when I am me, and that's when I produce, for me, the most sketching. Alright guys, let me know if you have any final questions and we're gonna head out. While we're doing that, I do want to thank everybody again so much for your encouragement. Thank you on the YouTube side of things for liking this, subscribing, and sharing, commenting. Facebook side, same thing. Thank you guys for liking these videos and joining in on the conversations. I am really thankful to be able to, um, be a part of your community with you guys and just creating and sharing. Um, I really appreciate that. Thank you guys for all you do. Thank you for your support. Thank you most importantly for just being you. Enjoy your Thanksgiving with your family, or even if you're having a quiet day alone, enjoy that. Enjoy moment. Keep using your creativity for positivity all year round, but just use this holiday season as a special reminder. Maybe just step out a little bit more and be a little more encouraging and positive in your own special way. Thank you guys so much, I really appreciate you. I probably will— that's not true, I might be on sketching tomorrow, we'll see. Thank Thank you guys so much. I appreciate you so much. Have a great, great Thanksgiving. Um, peace and live creatively. This is Jason with the Ink Inspired Life. See you guys real soon. Take care.