Monday Night Sketching NYC

Hey, it's, uh, Monday, March 9th, 2026. Hope you're having a great day. I'm Jason with the Inkspired Life, um, where I love sketching architecture and just sketching in general whenever I can put What's in my brain onto paper, it's always a good thing. So I hope you're having an awesome day. Let me know where you're watching from and how is your day going. Hope it's going great. Um, tonight I, I'm gonna do, uh, some New York City inspired, or a New York City inspired sketch, probably St. Patrick's Cathedral. I've been thinking about it a lot. Um, lately. It's just one of my most favorite buildings in New York City, so I thought maybe we'd do a quick, uh, St. Patrick's-inspired sketch. I just want to add some— I was looking at this before the live stream. This was a sketch based on Little Island, so I just want to add a little bit more white gel pen to it to pop some things out. Let's do that. Let me just connect my camera here. It's being silly, it doesn't want to zoom and connect. So if I unplug it, we'll see what happens. Anyway, hey, hello, how are you? Good to see you on Instagram. Good to see you, Mrs. Cocoziello. Hope all's well. All right, so this is Little Island, and you could see It's a really cool place in New York City if you haven't been there. I love Little Island. It was an old wharf or pier area and they converted it into this cool park. So I was looking at this before I came on and I just want to add some lines to it just to pull out some of the shapes or some trees and landscaping going on. So let's do that just to get warmed up and then we'll do, um like I said, maybe a St. Patrick's Cathedral-inspired sketch. I think I'm gonna— something's up with this one camera and I can't zoom. I'm not sure why. Let me— we're gonna have a brief— if I detach the camera, hold on, bear with me. So we had a nice 70, like, degree day here in, uh, New Jersey. This weather is like overnight transformed, and it's crazy. It's insane how fast weather can change, right? But it was great to get out there, take a walk. In the park with my pup. Um, it's always just amazing to get outside in beautiful weather. The sun felt so nice. It's been a long, gray, gray, cold winter here. No complaints, it's just nice to have a change. Yeah, so what I'm trying to do is I'm just trying to pop out some of these lines a little bit more. I added kind of this like acrylic wash on top just to give it a different vibe. I was being playful to see what would happen. So there you go, you can see, right, by adding those white lines, things are reading better, which is Great. Just got to put a battery pack on my phone. Like, there we go. Let's see, what else do I want to add on here? That might be good for that, so I'll just hold it closer. Yeah, I like the way it's looking. So it's trying to create a one-point perspective, just kind of looking back into this archway, kind of bridge, uh, archway opening into the park. All right, I think we're gonna call this one done. Let me just write on here what it is. Feel free to say hello in the comments if you'd like. That would be awesome. It's always great to see who's out there watching. I always appreciate your time and hanging with me for a few minutes. It's so fun. So this is Little Island. That is— if you've watched the last 3 shows or so, you may have noticed that, um, I keep talking about the these Sharpies that just— I have a bunch of Sharpies that don't work and I just keep forgetting to throw them out. So let's try this one. This one works. Little Island NYC. Boom. And this was sketched this year in 2026. Awesome. All right, so put that one aside. This is a— this is an Empire State Building sketch I did maybe last week or the week before, and I actually added some more color onto it yesterday. It's kind of a fun piece. I like how— I like the background colors and how they make the, the building kind of pop out a little bit. So these are fluorescent— it's like fluorescent pink and fluorescent orange, I think, on here as well. And I don't know how it shows up on camera, but it's pretty vibrant in person. It's, it's a pretty fun sketch. Let me write— let's write on this one too. I'm very bad at like labeling my sketches and putting dates on them, and I I want to get into a really, a much better habit of labeling and dating. I almost wrote Little Island. This is not Little Island. This is the ESB. ESB. Empire State Building. Boom. Um, I sketched this this year, 2026. I'll put my name on it. I'm going to be posting a bunch of sketches on my, um, in my gallery. So if anybody's ever interested in original NYC sketches, let me know. My gallery is online. There's a link actually in the show description. Feel free to check it out. Let's tear this out. It's one of the cool things about these Fabriano sketchbooks I use. I love that the pages are perforated. It makes it so easy to tear them out. So that's one of the reasons I use these a lot. They're fairly inexpensive as well, and it's good paper. So it's— this is what I'm using: 1264 Fabriano watercolor, 140-pound, 7 by 10 inches. It's cold press paper, so it has a texture to it, which I like. So it's always fun. Cool. Yeah, so be looking for some updates on the gallery page. I'm going to add, uh, this might go— I, I think I have someone I want to give this one to. I think I will. Hey Gigi, great to see you in the house. Hope all's well. Hope you're doing well. Awesome to see you, Lori Jean 64. Great to see you also. Hope you're doing well. Thanks guys for popping on and watching. So Gigi, actually it's funny you popped on because I was just, um, talking about— I think this, I think this sketch is yours. I think I owe this one to you, so I'm going to hang on to it and not put it in the gallery for sale. So That's gonna be yours. And a little island. I'm gonna sketch in a different— on a different paper tonight. I'll show you guys. Little island, I think, will make its way to the Sketchbook Online gallery. All right, I need so much more room. Here's what I want to sketch in tonight. I've only sketched in this once. Um, It's— I don't know if you can see, it's called Lek. My lighting's a little wonky in here, I don't know why. Um, it's Lekter— how do you say this? Lek— sorry, company, I don't know how to say the name. Lekterman, maybe? I love the color of the sketchbook, the yellow. I think that's the reason I bought it. Um, I love the format too, it's square. Which is awesome. It is, it's like 8.5, um, almost 9 by 9, we'll call it square, which is a cool format. Oh, you can see it better here, silly me. So this is what I'm sketching on, the Lecturm 1917. I don't know if that's the year the company was made. That sounds German. It looks like this is written in German. Although merci beaucoup is French. Oh, German. Sorry, German people, I'm not sure how to say it. Herzlichen Dank, thank you very much. Merci beaucoup. That's 3 different languages. It's a hot press paper, so it's very smooth. And I did— this is all I've done in it so far. This is a cool sketch of the, uh, the steel stacks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. So I thought it'd be fun just to break the sketchbook out. And, um, you can see it does bleed through a little bit with the Sharpies. That's okay. So let's sketch, uh, St. Patrick's Cathedral. Let's break out— let's see, a Sharpie. Actually, you know what, I kind of want to throw some color in the background, so let's do that first. We're going to do I'm gonna throw some blocks of color on there. Hey, DB's in the house! Great to see you on the Facebook. DB, so awesome to see you, and I'm so proud of you for, um, teaching some workshops at the senior— senior citizens center. That's awesome. You're awesome. Gigi says, I'm humbled. Yeah, I know. If, Gigi, if you like that one, let me know. I owe you a sketch. And I think you said you had liked that one. All right, let's just get playful and throw down some color, guys. I'm gonna— honestly, I'm just using what's in front of me. These are the colors I have, some acrylics. Let's do it. And then we'll sketch St. Patrick's on top of that. That'll be interesting. All right, so this paper is fairly thick. We'll see how it acrylic holds up. In no particular order, guys, I'm just throwing colors. My, my creative intention tonight is I just want to throw fun colors down. I got outside, beautiful weather, walked, did some walking today. And yeah, be on the lookout for a couple new walking videos I'll be posting soon. But yeah, I'm feeling vibrant, so we're just gonna throw colors on here. And I will guarantee to make a mess whenever I break out acrylic paints. It's always messy. I just hope this dries quick enough so I can— well, you know what, let's just play with the colors and see what happens. I may not even get to sketching, uh, St. Patrick's tonight, and that's okay. I hope everybody's week is off to a good start. I don't know about y'all, but did I just say y'all? I don't know about y'all, but, uh, my brain and body are not adjusted to the 1-hour time change yet. I should, I should know the history about daylight savings time. I don't— maybe I used to know it, but I don't know why we still do it, why we even do it. It's kind of crazy. I like what I'm seeing here, actually. Yeah, I hope— I'm going to zoom in. My zoom is not working, but if you guys look in this area here— where's my little frame? Right in this area here, there are some really cool, fun colors going on there. Wow. Like I said, I'm not sure if I'll even get to sketching St. Patrick's, or maybe we'll do like, let this dry, I'll do a different sketch. I really want to do on top of this when it dries, but we might just throw colors down, just have fun and talk. Hey, Jen's in the house! Great to see you. Hi y'all, farmers! We're all, we're all farmers in the house. Jen, good to see you, hope all's well. Sorry, I haven't— sorry, I haven't been seeing you guys on, uh, on CFOT's stream. I've just been The timing just hasn't been working for me, especially now at the time, the daylight savings, you know. I've been taking walks after dinner, but I'm going to join whenever I can. But I do miss you guys and the chat, so I'm going to just peel away some of this This is fun. Definitely want to throw some of this, uh, color, Bright Aqua. I have to set an alarm for tomorrow morning. I keep waking up late. GG, don't do that. Set that alarm. Make sure you set that alarm. Oh my gosh, that was a lot of paint that just came out. You guys are silly. Somewhere in here I have like these plastic palette knives. Do I have them handy? I haven't used them in a long time. I'll break them out another time. Check out this color. Who does not love this color? So I got really brave and throw down some fluorescent pink, fluorescent pink ink here, acrylic ink. And I might set this aside to dry and we'll do another quick sketch of something, uh, St. Patrick's. So these are fun colors. I'm gonna let it dry and let's, um, let's do a sketch and I'll come back at some point. Not today, I'll come back tomorrow during this week and we'll, we'll do a sketch on top of this. So we're going to let it dry. This is just our background. All right, uh, I think this sketchbook is done. By the way, here's a butterfly I just recently did. This came out really cool, a little different for me. I'm— I definitely want to do more butterfly and flower sketches this spring, so this is kind of a good start, some good inspo. So I got some good feedback, so thank you guys for the feedback on this on my, um, Instagram and TikTok and Facebook. Appreciate it. All right, let's do, uh, St. Patrick's. Just pull up a picture on my phone. So I'm heading to Italy and Spain. I'm so, so lucky and blessed. I'll be headed there end of the month. So why I'm saying that is I think I'm going to start doing some, uh, sketches now inspired by Italy and Spain. So stay tuned this week for my live sketching sessions, and we'll— I'll be visiting some different countries. It'll be fun. And here's, here's a picture of St. Patrick's that I took back in December, December 7th. So I'm going to use this as a reference and just base a quick sketch off of that. Cool, right? Let me check in the chat. Oh my gosh, don't mind me, just trying to put stuff here so it doesn't fall. Yes, I did it. All right, cool. What do we got going? Um, the latest is Kevin made me mad. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Is that a, um, is that a mod thing? Is that a moderator thing? It's the only Kevin I could think of. Oh boy, gotcha. Oh boy. Beautiful, beautiful day today and tomorrow. We needed this. Yes, we so need the, the weather to get better. I agree. This has been a long winter, guys. This, this little bit of sunshine has— I don't know about you, but it's really lifted my, my soul. The weather has lifted my soul. All right, we're gonna sketch kind of quick, loose St. Patrick's Cathedral inspired. Remember, I never try to replicate and duplicate detail. That's not my style. My style is quick, fast, loose, capture the idea and the vibe of the building. So I'm trying to hold the marker towards this end so I have more flexibility and I can wiggle and jiggle my wrist. That was— that is not technical. Um, but nothing's technical on this show. This is— we're sketching from the heart, creating from the heart, on the fly, on the go, unrehearsed. No, not professional. And I just want to show that imperfection is perfection, right? Imperfection. I am perfection. Remember that. I am perfection. No matter how you sketch, draw, paint, dance, cook, Bake, sew, walk, talk. Just be you. Do you bring yourself to the table? Bring your heart, your spirit, the best vibes you possibly can. And no, it's not always easy. We all have days where we— they're just not good. But you know what? We have each other out there. There's always someone you can connect to and talk to. But just bring yourself to the table the best that you can, because I think sometimes we feel like we need to be perfect. And like I'm saying, my, uh, thing this year, my saying this year is, I am perfect, like imperfect. Don't strive for perfection, strive to be you. And some days we don't know what the you are, what we are, right? Who we are, where we are. It's It's called life, and that's just part of simply being human. But we can do this adventure together. See, like, I am really off the charts here, like not even close to St. Patrick's, but I am having so much fun sketching these pointy, jaggedy shapes. And that's what matters. And I'm here sketching with you guys in a nice community, and heck, things can't get better than that, guys. Thank you for your online support and just overall positive vibes. I appreciate y'all. I just, I just went down a riffing. I don't even know what was I just riffing about. Did you ever just say things sometimes you're like, what, what did I just say? So I'm just trying to get cathedral-ish type vibes. Um, you can sell by the— sell? Tell by the spires. Awesome. Agreed. I agree with that comment about Jen being a mod. Jen spread— spreads positive vibes 100%. DB, are you going to Europe again? Hey DB, yeah, um, I am leading a group tour with 7 students and 7 adults. Um, I'm the group leader, but we're going through a tour company and we're headed to Spain and Italy end of the month. So I'll be headed to Rome, um, let's see, Rome, Florence, Madrid, Rome, Florence, Madrid, Toledo, and I feel like I'm free. Oh, I have to say, uh, the only place I have been to Madrid when I was in high school many years ago, so I'm looking forward to going back. Rome I've never been to, I'm excited. But the thing, the place I'm most, most excited to go to, the location is Barcelona. Barcelona has been on my bucket list for so many years. So I'm blessed to be able to go on this trip. So I'm just kind of the group leader. Um, we will have a full-time tour guide with us the entire trip, so I'm just a guy that's kind of there making sure everything's running smoothly with my group. Um, I have a chaperone from our school, he's going as well, and it's going to be a really, really fun trip. We're going to be there 10 days covering a lot in 10 days. So I don't know how much actual sketching I'll get to do. I will have a sketchbook with me, and I'm going to give the kids— I'm going to give everybody a sketchbook, and if they want to use it, they can. Um, but I'm going to take a lot of pictures, and then I will go back again when I have just on a sketching excursion. All right, cool. Are you guys getting St. Patrick vibes from this? Let me know, all my New Yorkers there. Can you see it? Can you see the vision of a Gothic cathedral happening? And I hope, I hope some of you guys want to join me, meet with me at Rock Center. And even if you don't sketch, we'll get together and we'll sketch. We'll So let's sketch like St. Patrick's and some of the places in that area just for fun, hang out. Um, it'll give me practice because I want to lead some urban sketching workshops, especially in the summer. I'd love to hold 2 or 3 workshops, like paid, paid things, but to get my feet wet, I would love to meet up with a few people and just give it a try, see if I can lead some sketching in the city. I think this would be a cool location. All right, cool, I'm liking it. Let's, uh, let's throw some watercolor on this tonight. My nose is itchy. I think— is it possible the pollen and all that's starting to come out? I got an itchy nose today. I'm gonna— whenever I watercolor or do ink washes, I like to tilt my paper at an angle so that all the ink and stuff— it might be too steep of an angle, but everything runs down. I love the way it looks. Sorry, I can't zoom closer, guys. My zoom thing's not working. But here's my watercolor palette, Winsor Newton. Love this. This is— I've had this for many years. Fits in my pocket. Well loved, well used. I I wish I could just frame this because it looks so cool. And, uh, my favorite brush— I love using this bamboo brush. So cool. So let's dip in, add some colors. And sorry, I'm moving this around a lot, guys. I can tend to move my paper around a lot, but I want you guys to see that. And that— let's just add some color. Hey, Chip's in the house! Great to see you, Chip. Love it, love it. Gigi says, I like that quote, imperfection is perfection. Yes, yeah, I'm trying to use that as my new quote for this year. So I am perfection in perfection. That's what my sketching is about, guys. I wanted to relay the message that we don't need to be perfect to, to sketch things. Sometimes we feel like we have to throw everything down in precision and exactitude that's a good word, I guess, exactitude. And that is— that's wrong. We don't need to do that. Embrace the wonky lines, the sketchy loose lines. I mean, just let your heart come out, your soul come out. Let it flow through the brush, the water, the colors, the ink. That's the perfection of it all— the creation, the creativity, the journey. Guys, for me, that is perfection. The gift and the ability to just create something from nothing, whether it's on a sheet of paper or it's a ham sandwich, or— I'm always talking about food, but you know what I mean. I hope you know what I mean. You know, is St. Patrick these colors? No, it is not. Am I using these colors? Yeah, because I want to. Why not? I'm not trying to sound sassy or snarky. I just— I, I don't know. I just hear so many people say And this applies to architect as well, being an architect. I hear so many people say, ah, I'm not creative, I, I can't draw, I can't paint, I can't sketch. Um, I hear the same thing about architecture, like, I've always wanted to be an architect, but you need to be perfect, and I don't know, there's so much math involved. And we always make these excuses to not do things. I shouldn't say we. Let me talk from my part, my personal point of view. I have always made excuses, and I still do, to not do things. And those roadblocks, those mental blocks that we throw up there, can stop us from even getting started in expressing ourselves in ways we never thought possible. And you're kind of just bottling yourself up by doing that. I'm gonna— I'm on a run, not a rampage, I don't know what the word is, but I want everybody to believe in themselves, believe we all have a gift, we believe we can all do something special, we have something to offer. I don't care if it's a simple hello to someone or a nod or a smile in someone's direction. There's something positive we can offer and bring to the world. Am I an amazing artist? No. Am I an amazing sketcher? No. But that's not my goal. I want to spread just a moment of joy through the act of creating. And if that joy is connecting with you guys online, or you guys connecting with each other online, or bringing a smile to your face on a color I'm using or something we're talking about, then I'm doing— I'm serving. I'm serving in the way I need to serve. Wow. Who's out there like, I didn't sign up for this tonight, guys? I'm just speaking from the heart tonight. Maybe it's the beautiful sunshine that got me fired up. Um, DB's been to Scotland. All right, you guys is awesome. I'm gonna just catch some of the Chris is in the house. I see someone says hello, Chris. Hello, Chris, hope you're doing well. GG says hopefully you'll share your pics. Yes, I will, I will share my photos. We'll do a little online meet and greet and we'll do like a photo tour of my trip. I'd love to share that with you guys, 100%. I'm dipping in. I want some really— I want to pop up pop up some of this orange. I can't talk tonight, guys. But here's what I was talking about, like the colors running down. This is why I like to do at an angle. You can see the color is kind of dripping and puddling, which is what I really, really like. Hello, JLM Rocks! Hope you're doing great, watching from Houston. Hope all's well in Houston. Um, yeah, I'm gonna throw down some pink acrylic on here. Yeah, we're just grabbing and going. We'll check in a couple minutes on the acrylic thing I did earlier, see how that's drying. Hopefully you've, uh— I've been to Scotland, Ireland. Oh, you've painted two castles that he visited? DB, I'm jealous. That's awesome. So if I do another one of these group, group, uh, tour trip thingies, yeah, those are my two destinations I want to do next. We would do like a, an Ireland and Scotland tour. So I'll have to talk to you more about it sometime. That's exciting. Um, you sketched in Princeton, so you'll be great at leading a class in NYC. Hey, thank you, Chip. You're amazing, man. I'd love to talk to you sometime soon. I'd love to come down, uh, North Carolina this summer. I sent a message and I was going to talk to you. I don't know if any of you guys are around at all this summer. It'd be cool to come down and check in for a few days. Yeah, Chip, I have to say, that was one of the highlights of, uh, it's one of the highlights of my life, man, meeting you in person and in Princeton. That was, uh, I'm smiling, man. That was such a great time, and I'll never forget you carrying that loaf of bread around the entire day. This is awesome. That was awesome. Princeton is a spectacular place. If anybody has not been there, I— check out Princeton, New Jersey. It is a beautiful town. The university is spectacular. And, and they just opened— I didn't go there, but it looks like an incredible art museum. I don't know how much money it costs, but it looks like it's pretty dang expensive. So, all right, I need some green on here. You're perfect just the way you are. Thank you, Billy Joel. Wait, isn't that Billy Joel song? Jen, I love that you put that in there. That's awesome. This is what I mean. This is such a great community. Thank you, guys. All right, this started off inspired by St. Patrick's, and that's okay because I never know where these sketches are going. I just felt like throwing some green on here. We're literally just playing right now. JLM, you just got in from class? That's cool. I hope you had a good class today. Love it, love it. All right, we're gonna pop some freshness on here with my favorite lemon yellow. So, uh, I am listening to Coldplay, in case you're listening. I got Coldplay on right now. It's my usual playlist. I have it on shuffle tonight. This will be fun when it dries to come back and pull out some colors, some hatch lines, add some shading, some depth to it. It does need purple. Let's break out some creative markers, guys. So I packed my last video, I think I did a little segment showing you guys what I was taking to the city to go sketching. I never made it to the city on Saturday and Sunday. I was exhausted on Saturday. I stayed home. I didn't go Sunday, I had too much adulting work to do. But anyway, I put my creative markers in this cool Lockbee thing and they fit really, really nicely in here. And this fit in my backpack nicely. So this is just a pro tip if you're looking for a good way to carry around markers. Boom, Lockbee. Use my discount code bottom left. Oh, it's not on the screen. What the heck? I have my— I don't have my discount thing on. It's in the show notes, the comments. Hold on, I'm going to turn on— is it there? No, no. Oh, that's okay. Um, I'm tired of trying to be perfect and pleasing people. I'm shedding slowly though. GG. Yeah, let me put that on screen for a second. Do you mind if I share that on screen? Is it showing? It's not showing. Why aren't my comments showing today? But yeah, I get it. Um, it takes a lot of energy, right? If we're always trying to be perfect and pleasing people, it takes a lot, a lot of energy to do that. It's draining. It's very, very draining. And you have to remember, I learned this the hard way, guys. Yeah, it's color while I'm talking here. I learned this the hard way. Um, uh, this happened a few times over during the course of my life, but my, my nature is to be a people pleaser, so always putting people first. Um, It's a good thing and bad thing. It— obviously we know the good reasons, but here's the bad thing for me. When I was doing that, I was not putting my— I wasn't taking care of myself, right? I'd let myself kind of get just run down, always worrying about other people's thoughts or helping them or making sure they're okay. Um, I love serving, but we need to serve ourselves, I believe, first. Take care of ourselves and our health. First, right? If we don't have that, how can we help other people? Um, and I've learned that the hard way for sure. So please always take the time, guys, to take care of yourselves. Make sure you're healthy and strong and the best you can be. And I know it's easy for me to be saying this Um, but yeah, we got to take care of ourselves first, and it's not a selfish thing, I don't think. I know we're all over the place tonight. Um, there's something really, really small in here that I absolutely love. I'm going to bring it up since my Zoom thing's not working. Hopefully the light— where's my frame thing? Check this out. I hopefully you can see. I'm going to put this on top. There is something that happened when I put this purple over that orangey-brown color. I love how that color is peeking through next to the purple and the yellow. I love the colors that are happening in that really small area. Okay, so it's magic moments, it's little, little, um, specks, blips, little blips of of creativity, those little kind of unexpected blips that happen that really fire me. And it's what I love about just doing this fun random stuff. You don't know what's going to happen. I love this color, these colors here too. And this is just all from being playful, just throwing things down, um, and not worrying about being perfect. I guess that's our theme tonight. I mean, is it easier for me to throw down color than some other people? Maybe because I've been doing it a while. But the point is, you just have to do it. Try it. Or say, don't be afraid. So that purple really kind of adds a little bit of depth happening. Um, let's see. A rant worth having. Thanks, JLM. Yeah, I'm trying not to rant. I don't— I'm just talking from the heart tonight, guys. I hope that's okay. I hope that's okay. And part of this is the sketching part, and I could definitely teach sketching and technique and the lines I do and why I do the things I do. But sometimes I think it's really important to know not the how to create a sketch, but the where does. Where does this come from, right? Where do these lines come from? Where do the colors come from? Where do the shapes come from? For me, they just all come from in inside my brain and my heart, and I'm just trying to get what's in my head and in my heart out on the paper. And really, that is kind of the technique, the technique quote unquote, that I'm trying to share. Mostly in these streams. Oh yeah, this is looking— I'm loving this yellow. Thank you, thank you Sharpie for making these creative markers. You, you have definitely upped my, my love of color. I need some red. Let's break out my favorite way to add red with a Pilot Precise Pen. This is a V-ball. I also like their just regular Precise Pens, unless it's the same thing and they just made a new version. I don't know. And I'll hold this up closer so you guys can see more of the line work on here. That's cool. We got almost like a flower thing kind of happening there. Um, Jason, you are a therapist. Therapist, appreciate you, my friend. Thanks. I am not a professional therapist, psychiatrist. I'm not a professional anything-ist. Um, not a lawyer, can't give legal counsel, no financial advice. I'm just giving human, human advice. I'm just being a human. Um, it was a beautiful— yeah, DB, I'm glad you had a beautiful day. That's awesome. Very, very cool, guys. I'm loving the chat tonight. You guys are really active. So fun. Keep that stuff, keep that stuff going in the chat. Jason Nicholas Nicholas: Oh, there's a Winsor Watercolor Oswald Gray that apparently works with any color to shade. Really? Winsor Watercolor Oswald Gray, that's a cool name. I will check that out. Thank you for the pro tip. Um, we have, we have DB. DB, Donna Buckley, is an awesome artist, great soul. Love her. She's on Facebook right now. And DB is known for her use of Payne's Gray. That's her favorite color. She is Payne's Gray. So JLM, uh, JLM's talking about Oswald Gray. So we should compare them sometime. So fun. QQQ DB has says, what's a good white marker? Oh, I'm loving that question. All right. Let's do it, guys. Let's talk white. Let's talk white markers and white color. Let's talk that. You just got me all fired up. Let me see, let me see. I'm gonna do a demo. Uh, let's— is this dry? Maybe we can do it in here. I will try. Here's the abstract thing I was— did earlier when we first started. I wish I could zoom in. Ah, you know what, I could— I can try to lower this camera. Ah, you know what, never mind. All right, DB, here's your answer. For me, whenever I add white, I like to do— to use a few different things. 1, 2, Buckle my shoe. 3, 4. I need more. 5, 6. Should we watch Netflix? 7, 8. Because it was hungry. I don't know what that meant. All right, here we go, DB. White. So when I like to throw white down, I'll do it right on kind of here. Sorry, it's small. I'll hold it up. A couple things. One, Sharpie Creative Markers. They have, uh, this is white, so let's throw a little bit on here. You know what, if I— here, I'll show you. This might be the one that's dying. I have another one that's more in it. Yeah, that's the, um, I gotta throw that one out. Here's the new one. There we go. See how it pops? Let's get a little lighthouse or something. All right, so this is one way to add white. Sharpie Creative Markers. I'll hold it closer. Um, gel pens. We'll do a little gel pen. I'm turning this into a lighthouse. So here's two different methods. We have the Sharpie marker, and then we have a white gel pen. The gel pen is a Gelly Roll. This is my favorite way to add white as far as pens go, by Sakura. Um, shoot, there's another white. Does anybody know the other white gel pen? I'm drawing a blank. I can picture it. There's another company that makes a white gel pen that's pretty good also, but this is my favorite. And then Sharpie Creative Marker. And I have one more way I like to add white— well, white colored pencil, but also This is kind of cool. This is an art crayon. I got this as a sample, maybe to a workshop I went to. But check this out, this stuff glides on paper like butter on a pancake. Um, so I'll just kind of color this in here. This is— I just love the way that feels going on. It's just so waxy and just kind of bleeds. And I also just love the texture. So if you're looking for texture, I love this white kind of crayon. There you go. Hopefully that helped you. That was fun. Next. You deserve happiness, @GG. Yes, agreed. We all deserve happiness. Yep, gotta put the oxygen mask on yourself first. Yes, that's a good way to say it. Um, check this out, this is actually drying kind of cool. Just— I like how there's some texture on here. I— if you watched earlier, I was kind of lifting some of that paint off with a paper towel. It's kind of fun. I'll be revisiting that maybe on tomorrow night's sketch session. Let's finish up St. Patrick's and we'll wrap up for the night. Um, I have learned that people saving is like budgeting. Always give yourself time, space, fun times, and love. Ooh, I love that. That's really good. That's really, um, a cool way to put it. Awesome, Jen. Mercury retrograde effects. You guys are fun. I love the chat. All right, so let's add something else. Let's, um, I want to start popping out some shapes on here. So let's just take our Sharpie. We'll do some hatching on here. Bring some lines to life, see how it goes. And I'm going to hold it up here and sketch. Let me try one thing, give me a sec. Pardon my, um, you're going to see my shirt and stomach and all that. I want to move this camera down if I can. I'm physically just moving this down because I want to get closer. How's that? Can you guys see that? I was just physically moving the whole camera down. All right, I think that's better. I just couldn't zoom with the software, so we'll just manually bring it down. That's so much better. Should I redo the whole live stream and go back? Zoomed in this close. What was I thinking? I am thinking this Sharpie— let's see, there we go. So honestly, I'm not even looking at the sketch— I— the photograph anymore. I'm on my own. I'm on my own road on the map here. I'll do that a lot. I'll just— I'll look at a photograph maybe to start a sketch, and I'll just totally go kind of off course and just make my own thing. Actually, this would be a good— this would be a good spot to add some of that white we were talking about. I think I'm going to pull this triangular roof pediment shape out. That is the old one. So, any volunteers that want to come on, come to my studio and, um, throw out my old stuff for me, like my old Sharpies? There we go. So you can see how that white just kind of popped that triangle out a little bit. All right, so let's create like a roof overhang. I'm going to add some hatch lines. I know my hand's in the way. Darn lefty, that darn lefty, his hand's always in the way. Do we have any lefties out there? Let me see in the chat, do we have any lefties watching? How many lefties watching? So guys, when I, uh, I played baseball all the way from when I was like 5 up until, um, high school. So I tried out for the high school team and they said, um They said, we have— if you want to play on the team, we have one position open just for you. So I tried out and I'm like, okay. And they said, okay, if you want to play, here's the position. So the position they offered to me to play was, um, was left out. Yeah, left out. So if you watch baseball, that'd be like outfield. I'm trying to make a joke. So you get it, I got to play left out. No, I didn't play on the baseball— high school team baseball. High school baseball team. Oh my gosh, I can't talk. All right, all right, cool. This is looking good. I'm having fun with this one. So these hatch lines are giving just a little bit of depth on here. Let's do some in here as well, some in here as well. St. Patrick. I know we have some stairs going on, so let's just do our own kind of stairs happening. Let's show some slate tiles on the roof, maybe. So it's just adding a little bit of detail. Cool. Let's throw maybe some kind of a base on the bottom of the building, and maybe we got some growies happening here. Get some growies kind of shrubs or something along the base of our cathedral. Yeah, let's add some peeps. Let's throw some just to give a sense of scale. How big is this building? Well, let's just say a person's going to be maybe this big. Let's draw a few. Maybe we'll pop them out with some color. It's always cool to show people on sketches like this. Gives a sense of scale and, you know, how tall is the building compared to a person. Maybe some people chatting there, hanging out. What time is it? Is it really 9:36? Wowzers, wowzers, where did that time go? Whenever I go into this, this sketching creative world, the time flies. By so flipping fast. It's crazy. So cray cray. All right, let's add some color to those Peeps. Sorry, you can see the Peeps down there. I'll hold it closer, kind of see the scale. You're welcome, DB. Pentel White Brush Pen. Thank you, JLM, for the feedback. Derwent China White Drawing Pencil. Holbein White Pencil. Dr. Martin's White Ink. Golden High Flow Acrylic Paint Secure. JLM has a whole amazing list of, um, these cool white colors. So I know, DB, you're on Facebook. I'll try to get that list to you. I'll see if I can copy and paste it. Normally I could show things. Hold on, let me— guys, bear with me, I'm going to change my scene here. I don't think it's going to mess up the camera. Aha! Can I do it now? Hold on. Oh, it's not showing the text. What the heck? And now the computer's hung up, and now I just— I don't know what it's doing. What was I thinking? All right, I can't add things to the broadcast. I'm sorry, usually I can add comments. But yeah, DB, I'll copy and paste to make sure you get that list. Thank you for sharing. Uniball, that's what I was thinking of, the Uniball Signs white gel pen. Uni-ball was the one I was thinking of. Typos are all perfect. Lefty, we got a lefty in the house. JLM, awesome. Jen, you're moving in 2 weeks? No way! I hope, uh, I'm gonna say congrats. That's awesome. I hope it's a good thing. I know moving's tons of work, but I hope you're excited and you're, you're moving somewhere awesome. Good for you, that is so cool. Love that. Are you moving closer to New York City? I know you're— I know you're in Canada, right? All right, let's throw some— let's make some Aqua people. Let's do— maybe we'll do Aqua and, uh, Should we do some red? I don't know. All right, the next thing to do to wrap this up tonight, I'm going to just break out some colored pencils, I think. Color pencils, and I just want to pull the outline of the spires out a little bit. So, um, I just happen to have a red marker in my hand, so I'm gonna actually just use red. This will be fun. I'm going to outline this in red. Wish me luck, I'm going in. Uh, just note again that I'm holding this far away from the tip. If I hold it down here, I'm going to want to grab it tight, be really precise and technical, and, uh, like, uh, grind the lines out. I'm holding it further away so it's loosey-goosey and I can be more flexible and keep that loose look I like. I almost think of your marker just kind of dancing a little bit. I'm listening to music, so I'm just gonna kind of just dance with the music. Where's that aqua marker? Is that the name of a band, the Aqua Markers? I could be totally making that up. Oh yeah, I'm loving that color combo there. Um, All right, let's break out some color pencils. Oh, they are under here. All right, cool. So yeah, this is how it's looking. Let's throw, um, some color pencils on there and we'll— we're in the home, home stretch. Let me know if you have any, you know, final questions, comments out there that I can answer as we wrap this up. I like the way this is looking. I'll throw a— after I add color pencil, we'll throw a black matte around it and see what it looks like. It's actually kind of cool, kind of cool. All right, let's do it. So I'm just gonna dig in. I have my colored pencils in here. I've been feeling like I need some neon pink on here. Let's grab my favorite, my Fab Four. So this is my Fab Four colored pencil. Quartet that I like using the most. So we have light aqua, neon pink, neon yellow, and chartreuse, which is one of my favorite words. I love saying chartreuse. Chartreuse. Chartreuse. I can say it, but I don't— I can't spell it. Who could spell chartreuse in the chat? Chartruse. All right, let's throw down some neon pink here, and I'm actually kind of adding it over some areas. I just want to pop it out a little bit, highlight it. I don't want to add too much of this because it'll take over the whole sketch. It's pretty powerful. So you got to be kind of— reserve yourself a little bit as you— if you use neon pink and you don't want it to dominate. And we have some Tom Petty playing, some Tom Petty going on. Great Wide Open. I love this song. I won't sing it. I won't sing it, but I, I like to mimic Tom Petty's voice when I sing. It's so fun. That might be enough of the pink for this one. Awesome. Let's break out some neon yellow and grab a drink. I'm drinking, I'm drinking some chocolate milk. I don't usually drink like chocolate milk so late at night. Yes, good luck with your, good luck with your move. We'll miss you in the chat. Um, yes, JLM put chartreuse. Thank you for spelling that in the chat. 10 points. Ding ding ding ding. C-H-R-T-R-E-U-S-E. Chartreuse. Is that French? Is that a French word? All right. Yes, that looks so cool. I love neon yellow. Okay, that might be enough neon yellow. Check out how the neon yellow just kind of Just pops things, right? Like, got some here, here. Well, you can see where it is. Um, it just lights up stuff. It's so fun. All right, since we said chartreuse, since JLM spelled it on the chat for us, let's use some chartreuse. Wouldn't it be funny if this isn't chartreuse? Oh man, I can't— can anybody read that? I can't read that. It is. It looks like it says chartreuse. Let's throw some chartreuse down on the landscape here. Oh, it's jumping out of my hand. Yeah, look at that. I would describe chartreuse as like a green with some yellow in it. Maybe that's what I feel like. I feel like it's a green and it has a bit of yellow in it, which I really like. All right, what else? That might be Almost a wrap. Just going to throw some hatch lines here. All right, let's throw some frames on it. We'll wrap up. So we'll start with kind of a big frame here, see what it looks like. I think the background needs some color. I don't like just all white background on this, um, not— I'm not on the big version at least, so I think I would do a sepia background on this. Um, and let's see, smaller frame. Isn't that funny? I went to buy frames at Michael's the other day, and why did I buy— I already bought a size I have. That was silly of me. So let's crop this out. Let's see, can you guys see that? Yeah, so we can, you know, crop it out a little bit. Maybe crop it out here. I like it. I like— I kind of like it this way. Maybe, maybe crop it out there. I wish the opening was a little taller. Let's do horizontal actually. What does this look like? Yes, it is French. Pronunciation is different too. Oh, Chartreuse. How do you say in French? It's an herbal tincture from the 1700s. Oh, that's cool. Thank you for the history, guys. How would we say Chartreuse in French? Chartois? Chartreuse? Chartois? I haven't— I took Spanish for 5 years. I took 2 years in middle school. I'm lying. 1 year middle school and 4 years in high school. I really am not— I can't speak French. Oui, oui, mademoiselle. Um, I'll have to look that up. Do you guys think— do you guys like this one? You can be honest. I'm curious, what's your feedback for me? What kind of feedback do you have on tonight's cathedral-inspired sketch? Is there something you like about it, something you don't like about it? I'm open for comments and feedback. As a creative, as an artist, as an architect, as a teacher, as a human, We need to have thick skins when we, you know, people give us feedback. Um, hopefully it's delivered in a kind, courteous, polite way and positive kind of way. But in architecture school, I've told this story before, but in architecture school, um, I had some feedback that was really rude and nasty during a presentation in front of about 100 kids in the architecture studio. And, um, It was a fellow student, and this guy was so rude to me, um, and then followed up by a professor who was very rude to me with his comments. And I literally cried in front of 100 and whatever something people, 120 people. Um, I did not have a thick skin. I don't always have one now, but we need to sometimes have a thick skin. Um, it does— it did turn out though that the professor that was really hard on me I ended up— he ended up being my favorite professor in college. Um, we got along really, really well. And he told me one day in his, uh, his office, he's like, I was really hard on you. And he explained why. He said, I was really hard on you because you reminded me of a younger version of me. Um, which is really interesting. So I reminded him of himself when he was a college kid and He took that to heart and he kind of took me under his wing, um, throughout college. And his name was Jan, or Jan, Jan Hoxtim, Jan Hoxtim, J-A-N Hoxtim, H-A-H-O-C-H-S-T-I-M. Anyway, Jan has passed away. Um, um, yeah, I'm thinking about him. Amazing, man. So sometimes some people are hard on you and they have really good intentions, even though it may not be the best delivery. So keep that in mind. Cool. Let's look at the comments. Chartreuse. Chartreuse. You guys, I'm sorry, I'm butchering the French. I do like french fries. I like Paris. I mean, I like France. I just can't speak. Chartreuse. Chartreuse. Thank you, Gigi, for putting the phonetics on there for me. Yes, I really like this. The yellow in the one window pops out to me and gives it depth. Oh, thank you. Yeah, hold it closer, guys. So cool. I, I, um, I'll look at the other comments. One of the aesthetics I like with sketching is I like the background colors and then the loose Sharpie sketches on top, like this area. It's just a fun way to add detail over the color. There's just something fun for me about that kind of aesthetic here in that where those roof tiles are. Um, hard to explain. Google the sound. Thank you, JLM. Yeah, I've got to Google it. Love the shapes, how the colors enhance shape and move the eye around. Oh, thank you. I'm glad. Um, I love to hear that. It's one of the reasons I like to leave white space in drawings. Um, not everything's filled with detail. It leaves the, the viewer, you guys, it leaves your imagination to kind of come in, look at this, and fill in the blanks. Chip says, I think when you frame it, it needs to include the top of the spires. Yeah, Chip, 100%. I like— I mean, obviously this frame works the best. For that. It would— I would have to do something with the background. There's too much white there. I agree. If I could crop it, I would crop it here. And but definitely the frame would extend, the opening would extend to have the spires. Actually, let's just look at the spires by themselves. If we, you know, let's keep that there. If we just frame the spires There's nothing that says we can't crop out a building at the top. We don't have to show the whole thing. We don't have to show it from the bottom, right? This turned out to be a really fun sketch tonight. Gigi says, I love the vertical position, focuses on the people entering the church. Oh yeah, I love that. That's kind of cool. You're kind of creating a story in your imagination about about these people. I love that. Yeah, usually when learning and— when learning and the teacher is hard on you, they see the potential in you more than you do. Yeah, Chip, that's exactly what happened in college. And, um, like I said, I, I was blessed to have known him. He really inspired me, encouraged me on my, my journey. Yeah. I, I have to say, I am not like that in high school with my kids. Um, I'm a very hype, upbeat, hype, pump you with confidence and enthusiasm type of person. Um, when I believe in someone, they know it, and maybe I let them know it way too much sometimes. Like, I'm repetitive about it. But yeah, there's different ways to encourage people, and that was definitely his technique. Um, so when you sell your sketches, do you frame them before selling or sell them like that? Gigi, uh, that's a, that's a really good question. No one has ever asked. So I have typically, I would just sell my sketches like this, you know, just with no frame. But if anybody's ever interested, I could definitely frame it We could talk about that. I need to add a bunch of more sketches to, to my online gallery. Love that question. Do you think people— let me ask you guys one question before I wrap. Do you think people would prefer to buy sketches with a frame? Let me know. I'll— that's something I can consider. Yeah, I think this one could sell. I think a lot of— yeah, I like this one. And my light turned off behind me, so I know that means it's 10 o'clock. All right, so, um, I want to thank you guys for watching tonight and listening to me. Um, go down some paths, and there were paths from the heart, paths of encouragement. And just want to share you guys my journey, what I'm thinking, how I'm feeling as well, because I think that's really important to know where this creativity comes from. Um, hopefully it helps. I think framed, but it's nice if you talk with your customers first. Yeah, so I could put an option on the website. That's a good idea, Gigi. Um, you have a lot of really great marketing ideas. I, I would definitely love to pick your brain more about marketing and selling things. You have some really good ideas. I like the idea of clear frames to enhance the light and colors. Yeah, I— that's really That's good feedback too. Yeah, when you say clear— I'm sorry, when you say clear, you mean the— you mean, um, the clear opening in the frame or the color clear? Yeah, but you guys are awesome. So until we meet again, be well, be safe, stay positive, and, um, just keep putting good vibes out there no matter how you can do it. Remember to take care of yourself first and make the best of each day. Until we meet again, sketch boldly. Live creatively and inspire endlessly.