Saturday Sketching

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Either way, Hello, it is, uh, April 11th, Saturday, April 11th, 2026. I'm Jason Nicholas Nicholas with the Inkspired Life. It's awesome to be here. Hope you're having a great, great Saturday. I, uh, yeah, I'm here. I, I have no idea what I'm gonna sketch. I just came on, uh, to do my daily sketching. I haven't done any drawing today, no artwork, no sketching. So I wanted to do something before I wrap up for the night. I, uh, I am tired. If I sound tired, I am tired. I think I have a cold. Who the heck knows? It's, uh, I think it's just one of those, those prices you pay when you travel, right? And it's a good price to pay, so no complaints. Just bear with me. I hope you're having a great, great day. If you don't know who I am, uh, my name is Jason Nicholas Nicholas. I love sketching, especially sketching architecture. It is something I just live to do. And we'll lower the music a little bit. All right, cool. All right, thanks for joining me. So tonight I have a couple sketchbooks out, some pens, markers, and I'm not sure what I'm sketching, so let's just do something. Um, I'm not sure, not sure. And that's kind of fun. Sometimes it's just a good challenge for me to come on, and oftentimes I'll just start and not know where I'm headed. So it's like the act of creating, the process of creating. So let's open up to a blank page and just start letting some ink fly here. I think I'm going to sketch with We'll just use a blue Sharpie. Feel free to say hello, ask questions, leave comments, all that fun social media stuff. All right, cool. Let's see, I think, I think I know what I'm going to sketch. I have an idea. I want to Uh, when I was away, I went to a really cool place in Spain called Toledo. Toledo is— I would describe it almost as like a medieval city. So let's do a little quick perspective. I'll put it on screen here. There you go. So this is, uh, one of the streets in, in Toledo or Toledo. Toledo is a kind of medieval city up in the hills. Um, let me pull up— actually, let me show another image, and I think we'll do a quick sketch inspired by this perspective street scene. I just want to give you an overview of what— let's pull this image up here. All right, so you can see it's, uh, kind of a hillside town. Really, really beautiful, really, really scenic. I love this place. Um, I went here back in high school when I was like 15 years old, and it was so cool to revisit this city again after all these years. Um, they're known for sword making, so A lot of the movie props where you see swords being used are manufactured right here in Toledo. And we did a quick tour of the town, and we did a little kind of a workshop tour of where they make swords. That was interesting. And I remember doing that same tour back in like 1989, so it was really interesting to relive those moments. So yeah, let's, uh, let's do a sketch inspired by this kind of street scene here.

Awesome.

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the perfect Hey Edie, great to see you. Hope all's well. Oh, I hope you're having an amazing Saturday. Thanks for popping on tonight, I appreciate it. Did you enjoy your walk? You got some nice fresh air. Oh yeah, did you see my live stream where I walked— was walking today? Uh, I did enjoy my walk, it was awesome. I love walking, it's one of my most favorite things to do. And as you could tell if you watched that, I was rambling and bumbling and fumbling, never planned what I'm going to talk about. So I always try to turn it into some kind of, uh, like motivational positivity mindset kind of walk. So thanks for tuning in, hope you enjoyed it. If you like those kinds of videos, I have a whole series. I've done a bunch of them and you can see them on Instagram or TikTok. And I am starting a new series called Simply Being Human. It's going to be a podcast and it's going to involve those kinds of topics. So stay tuned, more information That'll be a probably a summer release thing. Thanks for joining tonight. So if you're just joining me, I am sketching a street scene inspired, uh, from Toledo, Spain. This really cool hillside village. Town with narrow winding, uh, kind of reminds me of like medieval city vibes. Guys, let me know how your Saturday is going. Let me know what you're up to. What did you do today? How's your weekend? Any big plans? My big plans are, uh, paying taxes tomorrow and catching up on school grading. Yeah, it's all good. Sometimes you just got to do those adult things in life. Except next year I will not wait as long to do it. Please also let me know if the music is too loud, not loud enough, if it's annoying, not annoying. Always up for feedback. Is it doing anything? Is it adding to the experience or not adding? Let me know. It's been a slow Saturday, but the weather was nice. Oh yeah, I'm so glad that the weather was nice. Sometimes slow is good. I enjoy a slow, quiet Saturday. Saturday is my favorite day of the week. Thought it was a bridge of sights in Venice. Oh. Yeah, um, I wish it was Venice. I wish I went to Venice. Venice is my next bucket list city location. Yeah, this is Toledo, a bridge in Toledo, Spain. I need to drink some tea. I got some kind of cold or allergies. I don't know what the heck's going on. I do know there was some dude sneezing like crazy on the airplane, so it could be a cold. I love me some lemon ginger tea. All right, cool. Let's throw some other colors on here. I like, I like this, um, blue Sharpie pen color. I don't know what the name of the color is, but it's, it's like a light blue compared to the dark blue, but I love the light blue. But just for fun, let's throw some dark blue on too. And maybe we'll grab— maybe we'll use one of our, um, one of our Muji red pens here. This time of year, probably allergies, but I am not a doctor. Gotcha. I never used to get allergies until the past few years on Now they kick my butt.

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Are there Sharpie gel pens? This is a— this is a Muji. I'm sorry, it's not coming out clear. I have to— excuse me, sorry about that. Um, so this pen is a Muji pen from the Muji store, an A Muji store. I really, really like it a lot. It's so cool. And then these are just regular Sharpie markers I'm using here. We're going to keep this palette simple. I think I'm just going to stick with these. And I have another— let's pull out, let's see. I can just find the color. Yeah, I don't know if you're able to— brown, like a brown Sarasa. These are zebra pens, zebra Sarasa pens. I love these. Hey, Gigi's in the house! Gigi, great to see you, hope all's well. I'm gonna pull out this darker Sharpie. I'm gonna use it just to make some shadows, give a little more depth to what I'm sketching here. So if you're just joining me, I am sketching, um, an alleyway scene in Toledo, Spain. I'll pull up, I'll pull up a couple images and you can see this really cool city. Let's see, let me turn this one on. Um, so Toledo is a hillside city. In Spain. You can see here's a really cool overview of the city. This is just a small portion of it. Let's turn that one off. And then here, another scene. I think it'll be fun on a live stream to actually do like a cityscape sketch. Maybe I'll do that sometime. And then this is the, uh, street, the scene that I'm sketching right now. What is— what is it that you're sketching? Looks inviting. Oh yeah, I just answered it. Yeah, yeah, I was— I didn't even see the comment. I was in your brain, Gigi. I knew it. I knew you were gonna ask. I am a mind reader. I can— I know what you guys are thinking right now. I'm reading your minds. Oh, I was just reminded, I don't know if I have it in here. I'm looking at my bookshelf. I have a cool book somewhere. It's called Italian Hill Towns. I got years ago. Years and years ago. I don't know if it's in here or on my other bookshelves. I don't see it here. I'll have to pull it out sometime. It's, uh, it's a really, really cool book. I wonder if Toledo— well, that's in Italy, this is Spain here. But, uh, one of the cool things about the countryside and driving along the highways and riding in the train is just seeing the, the countrysides of Italy and Spain and all these cool hill towns. Really fascinating to see some old farms. It was really a beautiful way to see part of these countries just by traveling on bus and train.

All right, let's throw some brown on there.

Jason knows all of— I know all of your secrets, just saying. Um, You've been to Toledo? Yeah, I was in Toledo on this past trip. It was incredible. We were there just for a day-ish. Day-ish. Beautiful, beautiful, amazing old, old hillside. Um, I'm sorry, I don't know if you call it a town or a city. Spectacular, spectacular place. Actually, our tour guide, uh, that was with us 24/7 on our trip Javi, that's where he's from. He's from Toledo, so we got to go to his home, hometown. It was so cool. And Toledo is, um, one of the things it's— one of the things it is known for is its sword making. So any of the movies you've seen where they're using swords, like, uh I'm gonna say Lord of the Rings, maybe Pirates of the Caribbean. They, they get their swords made, uh, in Toledo. So just a little fact about it. I also believe there's a Toledo in Ohio. That is not the one I went to. Part of my sniffles, guys. So springtime is here. I had a nice walk outdoors today. I am dying to get to NYC to see the cherry blossoms. I hope I'm not too late, so maybe next weekend I can get, get into maybe Central Park and check it out. But if I'm too late, I'm too late. It's okay. I like the way this is looking. I need some more tea. I wonder how they get swords through customs. Oh, it's funny you said that. So, um, the one of the last things we did in Toledo is we took a little tour of where they make swords. We didn't really see like the factory factory, but We got a little peek at some of their techniques and had a gift shop with letter openers, knives, and swords. And believe it or not, some of the students— not my students, um, some of the students bought swords. So you're able to get them through customs. There's a process. They have to be I'm trying to remember, uh, declared. They have to be wrapped. They have to be like in your luggage or attached to your luggage that goes in the plane. Can't be in the carry-on. They have to be wrapped a certain way. So it is possible to get swords through customs. Interesting fact. I love, I love lemon ginger tea with honey. I also love— check out the color of this. See if it— can you see it? Yeah, maybe. I love the color of the tea in here. Um, I love it so much. Let's— you know what, He's doing it. This, this sketch will stay with me. It's not going to go out anywhere. So I'm actually going to dip into the tea and we're going to paint with it. I'm done drinking it, so we're gonna, we're gonna put some tea on here, guys. Again, I'm not gonna drink from it. If I was selling the sketch, I would not be painting with tea I drink out of. This is just for me, my personal use. I do like painting with coffee, so I've painted with coffee espresso before. I think I had to show and tell one time on here, or a couple times maybe. But this has a, this has a nice color to it. I'm just giving a little light wash. This paper is really thin. It's not really meant for doing heavy ink washes or watercolor washes. There we go. Try painting with tea. GG, I told you I am— I'm in your brain tonight. I'm in your brain tonight. Um, that's funny. Try peppermint tea, that one stains. Oh, I wish. I do have peppermint tea in the kitchen. I'll definitely try that sometime. Now your drawing will smell lemony fresh. Yes! Let's smell it. Yes, lemony fresh. Just like, just like Pledge. It's lemony fresh. Do they still sell Pledge? I don't even know. This is cool. All right, maybe we'll put this aside, let it dry. We'll do one other quick sketch tonight. Thank you guys for joining. I hope you're having a great, great day today. Let's put this one aside, we'll let it dry. But yeah, it's kind of a quick, loosey-goosey perspective sketch. Oh yeah, well, this time I Read your mind. That is true, you read my mind. You guys are in my brain. Can you tell me what am I thinking now? I'm going to concentrate. All right, what am I thinking?

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All right, all right, I'm thinking here. Let's do an NYC sketch on this page for tonight. Last one, sketch for tonight. And just looking at some pictures. You guys have any ideas? Give me an NYC building maybe that I can sketch now. I'm kind of running out of— I have a blank brain, so I'm open for suggestions. Let me know if there's something you want to see me sketch. I'm just scrolling through some NYC pictures, and if you hear squeaking, it's my dog playing. This is kind of an interesting view of Grand Central Terminal. I like this photograph. Maybe I'll sketch this. We'll see. This will be my backup if I don't get any suggestions. We'll do that sketch. Better put on your aluminum foil hat, the only way to block out the mind control rays. Yes, I will do that. I will. That brings— that reminds me of the weird L. Song. Um, what is the name of the song? It's called Foil. There's a video with Weird Al, video where he, um, does something with like a foil hat and talks about alien conspiracies. And yeah, I think this— I think it's a parody song from— was it the Royal song? I think he does something about foil. Yes, I just, I just went down the Weird Al path, sorry. I like him, he's creative. All right, all right, let's sketch. Do I want to do it on that one, or let's do it on this one? Yeah, this is a really interesting— I really love this photograph. I love the angles on here. This, we got this, some curves happening, a lot of fun geometry. Um, it's also cool because the Chrysler Building is lurking in the background. We have a lurker here, right there. See the Chrysler Building? One of the cool things when you go to New York City or any city, look up, look up, especially in NYC with the tall skyscrapers. When you look up, you can see this really, uh, cool geometries and views that you otherwise would just overlook. So I love to look up and take pictures looking up between buildings or at buildings.

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Let me see if I can sketch a little Chrysler back here. And I'm going to add some other colors to pull some shapes out, so just stay tuned and you can help, uh, help me by— help me, I guess you can help me— help me by watching this transform. Yeah, tired brain equals tired words. But thanks for sticking with me, guys. I appreciate you so, so much. All right, let's pull out— I'm loving purple on these sketches. Bonde, ask me purple. Where is my purple? Huh, my purple's not in here. Uh, we'll pull out some other colors. Let's see, red.

Where the heck's my purple?

That's sad. Here it is. All right, and I saw white. I want to pull out white as Purple. I'm going do this in purple. What? What the heck is he doing?

This guy's going crazy. He's throwing purple down here.

I think, Gigi, I think that'll be next time I sketch. I think we'll hit that. I think we'll hit the arch. That'd be a fun one to do. And if you happen to be watching that day, just remind me. I would love a little heads up about it.

There's purple.

I'm going to do this in purple. What? What the heck is he doing? This guy's going crazy. He's throwing purple down here. By the way, I got some really, really good feedback on the Guggenheim sketch that was— we did the other day, um, which was really fun. I wasn't really sure about it, and I got some nice feedback. So you never know with your artwork, you never know. Just put it out there. But the most important thing is have fun creating it. Some people may like it, some people may hate it, some people may not care. That's why you need to have fun. Embrace the journey, embrace the process. Remember, enjoy the points between A and Z. Enjoy all those other letters. That is the journey. Hey, JLM's in the house! Good to see you, hope all's well. Thanks for joining in.

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Cool. I gotta— I have a plan for the purple. I'm gonna bring some purple here as well. This is the, uh, Pan Am building. Aka, sorry, is now the MetLife Building. Used to be the Pan Am Building. I love Grand Central Terminal. It is a beautiful Architectural masterpiece. Beaux-Arts style building you could get lost in. Building that makes you feel like you're a Smurf, you're so small because of the scale of it. It is It is incredible, it is beautiful, it's a hubbub of activity and, you know, a flurry of people. Um, it's a crossroads of people getting to their destinations, coming from their destinations. So anytime I can hang out in GCT, Grand Central Terminal, is always just so much fun. And of course, I just love sitting in there and— well, actually standing in there and sketching. Not really a place to sit unless you're down in the food court area. All right, use some purple again. Um, NYC's 1,084,954 buildings across all 5 boroughs weigh 1.68 trillion pounds and are pressing the city down by 1 to 2 millimeters per year. Those are some fun facts right there. Wow, thanks for those facts. That's interesting. What, what amazes me is who actually sits there and calculates all that stuff. Who comes up with those numbers, right? I really should continue this down here more. That's right, you get the idea. All right, so there's a purple down. We're gonna throw some lines, add detail, and we'll wrap up in a few. I appreciate you guys tuning in tonight. Thank you so, so much. It's always fun popping on, hanging out, reading your minds. Whatever. What am I thinking? What am I thinking?

Right now.

Can anybody guess what I'm thinking? Throw in some windows here. There we go. I have a wee little Chrysler building. It's hard to see. We'll pop it out a little bit somehow. I'm not sure yet what I want to do. Thinking red. Instead of thinking red, let's just do it. There we go. There we go. So I'm going to pop a little Chrysler building in the background there.

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All right, this is cool. I like the way it's headed. It's looking kind of fun. Uh, it looks like— it looks like it's just you and me tonight, Jason. We have some lurkers out there. I know, I see lurkers. And GG's in the house, JLM's in the house. I appreciate you guys for watching. I know it's late. Thank you for listening. If I'm in the background, that's cool. Just appreciate the opportunity to be in your ears, not in a creepy kind of way. All right, I like this. Let's draw some— let's draw the railing. I have a railing across here. Let's just stick with this pen I have right here.

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Yeah, this is a kind of a hard— this is a hard angle, hard perspective to sketch. I'm not cray-cray about— I might end up redoing this at some point, underside of that bridge.

Let's see.

Wait, can Edie see us? Oh no, or are we blocked? Oh, weird. I don't know. I— yeah, I didn't block anybody, so that's kind of whack. I have no idea what happened. Sorry if you guys couldn't see each other. I have no idea how that even could have happened. That's so weird. Yeah, I'm just going over this with white in some places just to pull out. You can see this better now, right?

These shapes.

Well, I'm glad you could all see each other. That's a good thing. What's, what's really interesting is I have no one on, um, no one on Instagram, which is weird because usually there are at least 2 or 3 people that at least pop in and out, but I have seen nobody, so I don't even know if I'm streaming If it's streaming to Instagram tonight. Also Facebook. I'm streaming on Facebook. If anybody out there is watching in Facebook land, just say hi in the chat. Just curious to see if Facebook is actually working. And if you're watching and you're shy, that's okay.

You don't have to say anything.

I get it. What do you guys think? You like this? You guys liking this view? I kind of like it. It's interesting. It's very different. I love that you guys are becoming friends in the chat. Hey, Gigi, thanks for checking Insta. It's working. I appreciate it. It's working. Hi, I'm new. Are you? Are you new? Are you tricking me? Are you tricking me? Are you messing with my mind? It's ST. It is. It's working. It looks abstract. Yeah, I like the abstractness of it. I'm gonna make up a word. The abstractnessity of it. The abstractness— abstractnessity.

I just made that up.

Thank you for checking, I appreciate that. I just want to throw a little bit of detail, scratch some lines on this building, maybe. I likey likey. I feel like I need a little bit of yellow on this one to wrap it up. I know this isn't yellow. I will throw some yellow down. I just want to add a little bit more red to— since I have red here, here, throw a little bit more red on. Let's pull out some yellow, some zesty freshness, some lemon freshness. I wish I had a lemon yellow Sharpie creative marker, kind of like this color here. My favorite yellow watercolor color, one of them right here. I call it lemon zest yellow. Lemon zest yellow. This one's a little too bright, but you know what, we're gonna live on the edge and use it. Yes, we are. Sorry that my Blockbee discount code has been covering up the image. Yes, abstractnessity. Thank you so much. Thank you for spelling what I was trying to say. I believe I made that up. I don't know if it's a real word. If anybody wants to fact-check it, it just sounded cool when I was saying it, which is rare because I don't usually say cool things. Ask my students. My students, it was funny on Friday, my students are trying to, uh, keep me up with the lingo, and they were giving me a lesson. So I have not mastered it by any means, but I'm always asking them, hey, like, I want to know what they're saying, what this stuff means, and you So I'm always interested, so it was fun. Yeah, this is what I want to do— pop out some of these windows here. That's, that's more fun, right? I knew we needed that pop of freshness. There we go. I'm liking this better with this yellow on here. I gotta be careful not to overdo it. I think that's good. Let's throw a frame around it. Hey, Lori Jean, great to see you. I checked, uh, Facebook. You didn't have a live going there. Loving the lime green tonight. Hey, thank you. Really? My Facebook's not working. I don't know. So on Facebook, I think I'm streaming to my personal page, my Jason Nicholas page, not my Inspired Life page. That could be the dealio. Thank you for telling me. There's no law in English except usage. Abstractness city will be in the dictionary as soon as people start using it. All right, abstractness, abstracticity, let's get it out there. Um, yep, I made one up a while back. Trag— tragedious, tragedious, tragedious. My response to negative news, tragedious. Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna talk any news. Here, but I get where the word comes from. All right, here you go, here's a close-up. Let's put a frame around it. I think this looks cool, guys. I like it. I'm gonna do one more round of white on here and then we'll put a frame on it. Thank you again for the Facebook update. I appreciate it. Thank you, Gigi, for heading over to Instagram and checking. I appreciate that as well. What a team, guys! We make a great team. Let's give it up, give it up for the team.

All right, cool. All right.

By the way, I found out these art crayons are watercolor— I'm sorry, water-soluble. So they're like watercolor art crayons. Um, haven't tested that yet. Maybe we'll do it another time. But yeah, because I wanted to go order more on Amazon, I'm like, oh, they're watercolor. It even says on here they're watercolor crayons. So I was looking to buy more and I'm like, oh, these are so cool. I did not buy them though. Not yet.

All right, all right, cool.

Let's put a frame on it. I think this one's done. I don't know if this one will make the calendar or not. We have our 12 for the calendar, and we were talking about having a bonus one maybe, or bonus 2 more. Here's my frame. You guys can see it framed up. Uh, how about drawing Radio City Music Hall? Yeah, that's— that'll be a, um, that's one to add to the list for sure. So Radio City Music Hall will be, um, something I've— I can sketch. I have sketched it in the past, but we'll sketch it again. Sorry, give me a sec here. There we go. All right, yeah, definitely I'm game for sketching that. So we got the big frame, and I always like throw a little small frame, pull out some smaller pieces with it— of it. I'm very bad at using prepositions. I'll mix my width and whatever prepositions. Yeah, this frame is way too small, but I just want to see just for fun if I crop some of it out. I kind of wish I had a square— a square matte opening. I like this, I really do actually. This is— this could be a calendar contender, a CC calendar contender, not a GG, that's, that's totally different. All right guys, let's see how the one we did first tonight, how that dried with the T on it. Um, we're gonna call this one done. So this is our Grand Central Terminal. Pershing— is this called Pershing Avenue? Oh, Pershing Bridge. I forget what this bridge is called. GG says vertical. Yep, looks like a winner. Yeah, vertical. Try this one vertical. I kind of, I kind of like this. If I was to clip it small, I don't mind clipping it like this. Or I should say, I should say cropping, cropping it like this. It's kind of cool. That's boring that way. That's boring. I like— I like this. Sweet. All right, let's look at the other one we started, and then we're gonna wrap. Thank you guys for sticking with me on this Saturday night. Would you like me to recite a poem before we leave? I don't know why I said that. I would have to find a poem to read because I don't know any. Um, here you go. You can see how the tea dried. Like, here's that color. I love that. What color would you call it? Tan? That kind of tannish color. I think the light's washing it out a little bit. Let me angle it up. Jason, get a larger white matte frame and cut that— cut the diagonal so you have 2 pieces, and then you can expand or contract the frame for different areas. Yeah, I think I know what you mean. So I basically would make 2 L shapes, right? Can I do this with my fingers? Wait, L, L. I'm not that coordinated, but yeah, I would have two L shapes that we can kind of— I'm with you, I'm with you. I can't model it, my brain's dead right now. Yeah, I get what you're saying. Thank you for that pro tip. All right, cool. And here's how this one would look, a little frame around. Even, even this cool little sketch looks fun framed, right? Not bad. I want to do one last thing. Sorry guys, if you want to, if you want to bail, I get it. I keep— I always seem to end and it takes me an hour to end. I want to, I want to put a sky back here. I feel like I need some kind of blue. Um, I don't want to put back there. Grab and go, right? Grab and go. I'm looking for just a pale light, kind of light blue. Maybe I won't do it. Um, color pencils here. All right, I got, I got my option right here.

Boom.

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All right, I think this one's done. I like the sky. I wanted to throw some yellow on here. Again, I love yellow, just that pop of freshness, brightness, and lifting the mood a little bit. On this. And let's throw that frame around it. This is a cool little piece. I like it a lot. Awesome. GG says, I love that, looks like a place to escape. I love that you said that. If that's like That's amazing. If you can put yourself in a scene that I'm sketching, um, I'm doing my job. I'm doing my job. That's awesome. I love that you're imagining being here. Thank you for saying that. So cool. Edie, have a great night. Take care. Good to see you again. All right, we're out of here in a minute, guys. So Gigi says, I love that, looks like a place to escape. Thank you so much, love that. You might like a blender pencil as well as blender markers for time to time for effects. Love that pro tip, we'll definitely consider that for sure. Uh, odorless mineral spirits and a blending stump for colored pencils. Yeah, there's so much— there's so many fun art supplies and tools and mediums to play with out there. So I always love the suggestions, so thank you so much. And then, uh, that's it. And if you guys— if you guys have any final questions or comments, put them in the chat because we're going to wrap up. This has been a really, really fun night sketching a little me write on here before I forget. Toledo scene. Let's put on here Toledo, Spain. I should put España. Toledo, España. Uh, what's today? The, uh, April 11th. There we go. Toledo, Spain. Great fun sketch tonight. Let's put our little marker in there. Let's close our lock B folio up. And then, and then we wrapped with— and we did the Grand Central sketch. It's been a productive night. Thank you so much, um, guys. Thank you so much for watching. I appreciate you, your time, your energy, your positivity, and just, yeah, just, just appreciate you for being you. I'm gonna wrap up for tonight. Um, I'll try to be on tomorrow night as well. Until we meet again, guys, until we meet again, sketch boldly, live creatively, and inspire endlessly.