Sketch Fearless: Loose Lines & No Apologies : 06-12-2026

In this 90‑minute YouTube livestream, Jason Nicholas of The Inkspired Life guides viewers through a relaxed, improvisational sketching session focused on architecture and personal creativity. He begins with a quick warm‑up in his Lockbee folio to loosen his hand and mindset, emphasizing the importance of shedding perfectionism and embracing imperfection. Jason then answers a viewer question about journal choices, providing a detailed show‑and‑tell of his favorite papers (Fabriano 1264 watercolor, Moleskine, Lockbee River Tomoe, Lectrum 1917) and their suitability for watercolor, ink, acrylic, and mixed‑media work. He introduces a new line of pocket‑size sketchbooks from Ugly Books, describing their colors, paper weight, and philosophy, which aligns with his “embrace imperfection” mantra. The core of the stream is a live sketch of Little Island in NYC, where he demonstrates line work, hatching, and the use of acrylic markers, gel pens, and highlighters, while narrating his thought process and architectural observations. Throughout, he promotes his upcoming 2027 calendar project, a weekly tutorial series using his S‑K‑E‑T‑C‑H‑T‑M framework, and a live workshop at Stationery Fest in Brooklyn on August 1. He engages the chat, acknowledges participants (DB, Emily, M), shares personal anecdotes about teaching, and repeatedly reinforces a positive, human‑centric creative mindset. The stream concludes with a quick kit rundown, travel packing plan, and a final call to “sketch with love and positivity.”
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Hey, happy, um, Friday, June— I gotta look at the date— June 12th, 2026. Hope you're having a great day. I'm Jason with the Inkspired Life, where I love sketching, especially architecture. It is just my jam. I gotta lower this a little bit. All right, cool. So, uh, join me tonight. I'm gonna— I'll be live sketching for, I don't know, maybe a half hour or longer. We'll see. And a couple of things I want to do tonight: I want to loosen up with a quick sketch here in my Lockbie folio, and then I have brand new paper, never ever used it before, just got it today. So we'll kind of review that together and give it a test run, and then hopefully we'll wind up sketching in my NYC. This has been like a passion project for me this year, NYC. I'm calling it the Calendar Sketchbook Print Sketchbook. So everything in this book I'm hoping will eventually make— well, let's say— let's not say eventually, let's speak positively and say this will be a 2027 calendar and other stuff. All right, so join me for this creative journey where I believe in imperfection. I am not here to create something amazingly technically precise. I'm here sketching from the heart, from the soul. Let's do this thing. All right, so, um, Blockbifolio, let's just open it up. I like to usually just do a quick sketch But sometimes these turn out to be the entire show, um, depending where I head. And that's one of the things I love about just coming online and sketching with you. It kind of— I want to give you a glimpse of, uh, what goes on inside my creative brain, you know, how wonky it is, how cray cray it can be. Um, I am human just like you guys. All right, I know I have my music on in the background. It might be too loud, and that's okay.
I'm stumbling, I'm rising, falling, realizing I'm changing, still fighting, still learning, still trying. No script, no plan, no perfect version. This is simply being human. This is simply being human.
I'm just being extra scribbly tonight. I'm just trying to get loosened up a little bit. I'm coming a little bit, uh, tight here, so I want to loosen up, um, not only— not only my, um, my mindset is kind of tight right now, I want to loosen up my hand as well. I'm feeling, I don't know, kind of locked in. I don't know why, but locked in, meaning I'm not kind of free enough. So sometimes I'll do really fast, quick scribbly kind of strokes in here just to loosen up my brain, loosen up my hand. Again, I'm not trying to create anything beautiful or amazing. It's just getting something out of my head onto paper. We'll throw some color down as well, and we'll, we'll see where it goes. I'll spend maybe 10 minutes on this kind of quick warm-up sketch. I'm going to put some music on here in my ears, which you won't be able to hear because it's all copyrighted. But if you heard that first song, that is called Simply Being Human. It's the intro, uh, or the theme song for my podcast, which I have one episode out for. Um, check it out on you— on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Simply Being Human. Um, yeah, I just love that song. There's a good message behind it. All right, so we got some kind of quick, loose, fast lines down. Let's just throw color down. We're having fun. Again, mindset, mindset. A lot of— I think a lot of things that stop us from sketching— and you can apply— when I say sketching, you can apply to any— anything, anything creative, anything you like doing. So one of the things I think that can stop us is, um, just having a closed mindset, a mindset that is not ready to get into the groove, right? To get into throwing lines on paper. And we need to train to transform our state of mind, maybe from, uh, you know, for example, me, I, you know, school all day and dinner tonight and yard work. Not complaining, it's just normal life stuff. But sometimes my brain is not ready to shift into this here, the creative flow. So this is just a really cool warm-up exercise for me to get into that, to change that state of being, to kind of unlock the locked goodness, whatever that means. DB, I see you in the house! How are you, DB? Always great seeing you. And, um, feel free to leave questions, comments, please, for me. I love answering questions. I love engaging and talking to you. My first question tonight is Where do you get your journals? Are they good for watercolors? Great question. Um, yes, let me— let's do a— we'll do a little paper segment. And I love that you asked because I have brand new paper I've never used right here. So, um, yeah, so DB, I will— we'll go through, we'll do a little demo, a little show and tell of some of the papers I like to use. So, uh, stick around for another minute and then we'll— I'll switch gears and we'll talk about that. Love that question. So good. So, so good. I'll just throw on a little more color and then we're gonna— I love show and tell, so this will be so fun. Let me know if you are watching tonight. Are you following along? Are you sketching with me? Are you doing your own thing? Are you just watching? I'd love to know. Uh, I'm gonna start focusing on one livestream a week where it's going to be more of a tutorial walkthrough, almost— I don't want to use the word lesson, but almost like a lesson we'll call it like a mini workshop for maybe a half hour where you guys— I'll try to get you into my brain and my process a little bit more. We'll use my sketch framework, S-K-E-T-C-H-T-M, after that trademark, um, Sketch Trademark, um, and we'll talk about that. All right, let me throw down some more lines on here, and then we're going to talk We're gonna do some show and tell. It's a little zoomed out on this, guys. Let me zoom in a little bit more. Sorry. There you go. Again, this is just scribbly fun. This is not calendar sketches here. These will not go in the calendar. This is just warm-up. Again, it's a tool to change my state of mind from home, everyday home chore life, to let's get sketching mode. Music helps with that transformation as well, as I'm listening to music while talking to you. No, am I out of— I can't be out of ink in this one, no way. Why did it stop writing? Looks like there's ink in there. No, that's okay. All right, so one more color and then we're gonna switch to show and tell. It's like a cliffhanger TV show. I'm— I keep mentioning the show and tell but haven't gotten there yet. I feel like I need some yellow on here just to— actually, I was going to use the Creative Marker, but my brain says highlighter. Let me grab a highlighter, which is right here. Cool. All right, I'm all warmed up. Quick, fun, loosey-goosey sketch. Let's do some paper show and tell. All right, this is unplanned, so I'm gonna grab— let's see, I'm gonna grab what I have here in front of me, a few different things. Um, and let me grab one thing over here. All right, all right, here we go. Let's do some paper show and tell. I'm glad, DB, you mentioned watercolor because I want to start doing some watercolor live again. I haven't done it in a while, um, so maybe next time we'll do that. All right, here's, here's, um, let me zoom out the first So you mentioned watercolor. My go-to sketching paper slash, um, I guess journal if I'm going to do full-out watercolors. Um, I personally like the Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper, and I like it because it's a very good price point. I like this one because of the spiral binding, I can lay pages flat. You'll see a lot of mix— you'll see some mixed media in here. I don't even know what's in this one. Um, this is 140-pound cold press paper, says it right there. So cold press, it has a texture to it. It is— this is meant for watercolor. So if I'm gonna do strictly watercolor or throw down a lot, a lot, a lot of water, whether it's an ink, um, wash, or watercolor painting, I like to go with the Fabriano. And my go-to size, I love this. So this is my first go-to size, which is 7x10. It— maybe it's not my first because I've been using this size much, much more Um, this is, uh, what is this, 4x8? Same paper, just 4x8 format. And I love the landscape kind of format of this, especially for my torches. So this is my go-to for watercolor. I use it for mixed media and ink as well, so I can use a lot of different things on it. All right, so number 1 is Fabriano 1264. And this is no particular order, just grabbing and going. If I am out and about sketching, um, my next go-to paper is going to be Moleskine. I love the Moleskine journals. So, uh, this is my— this is my favorite journal. If I have— all right, I'm picking a favorite. This is my favorite journal. This is Moleskine, uh, this is watercolor paper. See if there's more info. I don't have any specs on it. I mean, here's like a QR code. So Moleskine, um, So this is watercolor, so it's thick. I think it's 140-pound. Um, I haven't done a lot— I haven't done any watercolor in this one, but it's definitely friendly for watercolor. And this I love because it fits in my pocket, so easy to carry around. So this is Moleskine. I've heard people say Moleskine or Moleskine. I don't know, I don't know the right pronunciation. Uh, this is another Moleskine as well. Uh, this is not watercolor paper, but it is a thick paper and you could do light washes of color on it. So Moleskine are my— if I guess if I could only buy one journal, official journal with a hard cover, it would be Moleskine. I just like sketching on their stuff. So with the Moleskine, this one, uh, this is the lot— this is Lokbi River Tomoe paper. Hopefully I'm saying that right. Lokbi. This is very thin, so it's not really meant for watercolor, but you can do washes, like light, uh, light ink washes, light water washes in here. The paper will buckle. You can see it buckling here a little bit, so it's not meant for watercolor, but you can do light, light washes in here. And I, I do love this paper because it fits perfectly in the Lockbie Folio. And the last paper I'm using currently is, uh, how do you say this, Lecter? I'm going to say this, Lecter Lecturm, Lecturm, 1917. I'm going to say this is mixed media, not specifically watercolor paper. Are there specs on this one? I don't know the specs or the paper weight on it. Sorry, it's thin. Maybe 65-pound. But I'm doing acrylic painting on this, and it's actually holding really well for acrylic paints. But I don't think I can do watercolor washes in here. I haven't tried, but I will try. So this has been fun for my calendar sketching. Cool. All right, sorry, that, that's a long response. I don't even know if I answered the question. Um, if you're looking for strictly watercolor Try the Fabriano, the Fabriano 1264, uh, for inexpensive, fairly inexpensive, just watercolor paper. Something very similar to this, which I used to use all the time, is the— oh my gosh, Strathmore? Canson. The Canson— I'm looking over at my shelf— the Canson watercolor sketchbooks. But I kind of like— I like Fabriano better. So hopefully that helps. All right, speaking of paper, let's go to a new segment here. This segment is, well, not new, but new for tonight. I have— I just got these today in the mail. I ordered them. Check these out. So this is not sponsored. I saw them online, purchased them myself. And I wanted to try them out tonight with you guys. So let's break one open. Um, this is— these are from a company called Ugly Books, uglybooks.com. This is a sticker that was on the plastic packaging. I took the sticker off and put it on the book. They actually come like this without a sticker, so I threw the sticker on. Um, what I love about it is it's, uh, This is a cool size. I love it that they have really fun color paper, thick paper. So we're going to play around with this in a minute. And, uh, it's just cool. I just— I kind of love their philosophy. It goes with my whole embrace imperfection. That's my thing. That's my— what I'm jamming on this year, embrace imperfection. Um, and this is like, uh, beauty has no rules. So I love that. I think we jive, we're on the same page with that. So And I think Ugly Books— I think these are made in New York, so kudos to that. So it's like a win-win-win. Uh, Ugly Books, if you're listening or watching this, let's give this a try for the first time. And again, they didn't send these, I bought these. So, uh, fun colors. Check these out. So this is like a cool blue cover, red paper. Boom. Orange cover. This has like a green, maybe chartreuse interior. And I have red with a— what would you call that color? I don't know, I'm bad with color names. Mustard. We're gonna call it mustard color. And my light is not doing it justice. So let's just pick one and, uh, let's try the red one here. So they come in this size. There's a bigger size as well. I wanted to try the smaller kind of pocket size here. And let's zoom in and we'll try it out together. Where do I— oh, where do I get my journals? I didn't answer. Uh, depends. So journals, um, amazon.com. If you go to my website, I'll put a link. Go to my website you should be able to see my stuff on there. So I'm going to drop that in for you. So I'm just going to go here. Let's go to Tools. Let me copy and paste. All right, cool. I just pasted. I don't know if it's showing on Facebook or not, but if you go to the Inkspired— Inkspired Life .com. Wait, I can add it to the broadcast, silly me. There we go. So if you're looking to get, uh, see what tools I'm using nowadays, go to my website here, inspiredlife.com/tools, and it'll have links to all my fave Lockbee stuff. You can use my Lockbee discount code INKspired, I-N-Kspired, get a discount on Lockbee stuff. Um, I'm a Lockbee ambassador, so I do get a little small percentage or commission. So that's so cool. I promote it because I love, love, love it. Um, also on my— you'll see links to my favorite things, my Amazon links. So check those out, doesn't cost you more if you buy anything from my Amazon link. I might get like a couple of cents literally from it. But, uh, just it's more a convenience thing for you guys to see what I'm using. Cool. All right, we're gonna have fun and do some sketching in here. I'm just gonna play some music for a minute or two. And, uh, let me see, I'm gonna play my playlist. You can hear this one. This is my music. And let's do it. I'm— I— right here, I know what I'm going to sketch. Let's try it.
Fallin', realizin', I'm changin'. Still fightin', still learnin', still tryin'. No script, no plan, no perfect version. This is simply bein' human. This is simply bein' human. This is simply being human. I'm not here to be flawless. I'm not here to pretend. I'm here to keep moving again and again. I'm here to keep choosing a life I can stand it. A life that's my own. I'm still becoming. I'm still becoming. I'm stumbling, I'm rising, falling, realizing. I'm changing, still fighting. Still learning, still trying. No script, no plan, no perfect version. This is simply being human. This is simply being human.
Alright, so, um, first impressions. Let's do it. So, um, I'm sketching Little Island, NYC. So that's what you see here. New favorite thing right here, guys. I love this dot end on this brush. Uh, on that— this brush on this marker. Yeah, love it, love it. Let's throw some dots on here like trees. Yes, it's just a little part of Little Island, NYC. There's actually a sketch meetup there tomorrow. I, I want to go, but I don't know if I can. I have work I need to do. Sunday I'm doing something really, really cool, which I'll talk about. At some point. Yeah. So anyway, let's talk this paper. First of all, this paper, I like that it's nice and thick. It has a good feel to it. It's not bleeding through, which is awesome. That's a win-win. Um, I like the feel of it. It has a little— it's, it's mostly smooth. It has a little bit of a texture, a little smidge of a texture to it. I like the size, really easily— easy to format— format— easy, really. Oh my God, I can't talk. Easy to carry. I knew I can get it out. It has a, like, a crease here, so it has an area meant where you can fold it. So you can see I'm kind of folding it. I like— I prefer sketchbooks that lay flat when you open them. So I guess if I kind of crease it you know, it's not going to be— so it's not going to lay flat like I would love it to, and that's okay. So if I had to pick anything negative, it's the fact that it's not laying flat. Um, but so far it's a winner in my book. I love the pre-colored background, so that's gonna be really fun. And these are gonna be so fun to try, these colors too. I'm really excited to try the kind of almost like a lime green color there. Just a little more in here. And this warm-up sketch I did is what I want to do next in my calendar sketchbook. I want to do a little island sketch. And here, here's a sketch I did back in 2023 that I'm using kind of for my inspo tonight. Yeah, it's just kind of— Little Island is an amazing park in NYC, um, kind of rehabbed from, I think, a wharf pier kind of area, turns this beautiful sculptural park with these tulip-like shaped structures from— made of concrete here. I love this place so much. This is also a very, very popular area for joggers. You have to You gotta watch when you're crossing the road because you might get hit by a jogger. I'm not even kidding, there's so many people jogging this area, and it's fun. It adds to the old— the overall vibe. All right, let's just add some more kind of hatch lines, a little bit of shading. Um, no, I think I want to stick with the gel pen. I want thinner lines, so we're just going to do some hatch lines. There we go. Do a little texture, a little bit depth to it. If I go tomorrow, I'm going to try to shoot some video, but I don't— my heart wants to go, but my brain says don't go. Because you need to work on a project and make and pay bills. Um, sometimes you gotta do the things in life that, um, we don't always like doing. I mean, I love working, I love the project I'm working on, but it's the bill, the bill part. I guess it's called priorities, right? That's why I try to make at least 15 minutes to 20 minutes a day just sketching something. And when I come online, it's a great way for me to connect, sketch, share, and just celebrate life with you guys. Cool. Sorry, I'm sketching off camera a lot. I do, I do tend to sketch at an angle a lot like this. So that's just real. Maybe it's because I'm left-handed. I kind of like to tilt. Could also be the way just my body is positioned here in front of the paper. So I give a little texture here and then we'll call this bad boy done. There we go. So I think we have a cool little quick sketch of Little Island. And I'm gonna put the date. I'm so bad at putting dates on sketches. What is this? Uh, at least the month. At least I like to put the month and the year. So, 06/26. We'll do that. 06/26. And I should write down what the heck it is, so we'll just put a little Island. There we go. Ta-da! All right, so that's my quick first test of these ugly books, sketchbooks. So far so good. I'm really loving them and I will continue to use them. Um, I might even spend some money and get the next size up as well. Very, very cool. If you want to sketch with me live in a workshop Uh, come sketch with me in Brooklyn August 1st at Stationery Fest. I have a workshop going there. Um, we're gonna be sketching some New York City stuff. I'm gonna walk you through my sketch framework and show you kind of— look inside my brain about loose lines. How do I sketch architecture in New York City, uh, or any architecture? How do I sketch quick, loose, just make it fun. So check it out, there's a link in the notes if you want to check out the Stationery Fest. I think, I think just over half the tickets are sold, so there I have 15 spaces. I think I'm at 8 tickets sold right now. I'd love to sell out and get another workshop going. So, uh, if you're not interested, feel free to share the link with someone you know. I'd love for you to get the word out. Let's get people. I just want to meet people and sketch. And I'm so excited. Nervous. I'm nervous too about this workshop, but nervous in a good way. And sometimes being nervous will translate into sketches, making them even more wonkier. And that's what we're about. Cool. Dries quickly in this book, this sketchbook. So yes, it dried quickly. So these are acrylic— it's acrylic marker that dried really quickly, and gel pens. So it dries very quickly in here. I didn't try my fave Creative Markers in here, so DB just gave me an idea. Let's just throw a Creative Marker on here for fun. And, uh, we've got a blue cover. Let's grab blue and let's see, let's see, uh, see how the Creative Markers work on here. Yeah, let's throw some blue on here. Where do I want to— do I want to do like a blue sky? Maybe. No, you know where I want to do blue? Actually, I don't want to do a blue sky. I'm gonna go over these lines. Let's throw down blue. I might go back over these lines again with white. So these will be like our kind of shadowy lines here. We'll go back over it again. So thank you, DB, for making me, um, kind of stopping me a little bit and getting me to throw down some Creative Marker, because as you guys know, I love these as well. Alright, cool. So we got some blue on there. I'm gonna let it— so acrylic markers, these dry really quick. Great for urban sketching. I kind of stopped bringing watercolor to urban sketching and just started using these because sometimes for me, in my rapid sketching, the watercolor takes too long to dry. So I need a quicker, faster solution. All right, so we got the acrylic marker on there. Did it go through? Um, no, there's a little bit of buckling. You can see there's a little bit of buckling. You can kind of see that blue through there. So this is probably not good for any wash, light washes. But here, now let's just sketch on top of acrylic pen— gel pen, I mean. Where is my— I'm not trying to sound like a commercial tonight. If I am, I'm sorry, but I, I really want to say how much I just love this, the Lockbee Quattro. I mean, I fit— this is so awesome to carry my markers, and it has the pocket. I can throw more in the front, so I've been throwing these and gel pens. Like, if I just need to pick up, grab and go with one thing, I can just literally take this. Well, it's not complete without a Sharpie, so I can literally take this and I could take these two things right here and I'm good to go. Yeah, you know, or I grab my Lochbie folio, boom, which I have pens in there as well, but I grab these two things and I'm good to go. So I'm all about simple packing, grab-and-go creativity. Alright, let's throw down some lines. I don't think we're gonna do our calendar sketch tonight in this book, and that's okay because we're having fun testing this paper. Alright, let's break out the pen. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or comments in the chat before we wrap up. If you're a ninja watching, feel free to say hello. Don't be embarrassed, don't be afraid. My ninja watchers out there, I do appreciate you as well. If you don't know what a ninja watcher is, it's someone kind of lurking in the background watching and not commenting, and that is cool. That is no problem. There we go. So actually, I love that. I love the blue with the white lines. It just gives a little contrast. We got a little red, white, and blue. So there we go. Just pull out some of these lines a little again, these edges. There you go. Alrighty, let's put these here. And then when I go to do the little island sketch, I have a page. Oh, I know what we're going to wrap up with tonight. There's something I need to add. We're going to do the little island sketch, I think, over here. I have a page background kind of laid out, and I think we'll just throw a little island here. But I want it— I need to add There's some structural, uh, support I didn't add on this. Shout out to my friend Mel who sent me a video, a Neil Tyson deGrasse video talking about water towers. And water towers have these bands, these kind of steel hoops or bands that wrap around to help. These are wood, wood structure, and the bands are like belts to kind of hold the structure together. So I didn't— I forgot to draw those. Yeah, that's unusual for me. So let's throw them on. Nice little piece of art. Thank you so much. Um, M is on Insta. What's up, M? So good to see you. So good to see you. DB says nice little piece of art. Yeah, thank you. It's fun. It's a quick sketch. I'm all about the size of this 4x5. How does that compare to— so here's that Moleskine journal I was talking about. They're almost the same size. What's up? The ceiling is up. Yes, it is. Emily, um, you're so silly. So these are about the same size, just for comparison. Emily is silly, silly. All right, let's do some bands on here. Um, yeah, we'll try this. And these bands are actually going to act as contours as well, so contour lines will give a little bit of curvature. And it's interesting, the design of these bands is that they're— the spacings, there are more at the bottom than the top. So that was a cool video that, uh, my friend Mel shared. I'll try to find a link of it and post it. In the show after. So right, so now we have those bands across there. So I'm so excited. Summer is around the corner. School is out next Friday. We are in the home stretch. Yes. I love teaching. You guys know I love teaching. It is my favorite, favorite thing. I love, love, love it, but summer is good too. It's always good to get a break, well-needed break. It's been a really nice school year. I've had some really amazing, amazing students in class, some are graduating that I will miss, but hopefully stay in touch with. And yeah, I want to I want to do some more on this actually, now that I started. But it's been a pretty, pretty good school year, and I am blessed to have some, like I said, some amazing students, and they're blessed to have an amazing teacher. No, I'm kidding, that was a joke. I don't I don't— I am not egotistical. There we go, there we go. I'm just trying to give it more rounded effect. I have a suggestion for my next sketch. Let me grab some— I'm drinking some lemonade. I love lemonade with a lot of ice in it. Um, I know M says, I know you should sketch next. You should do the Dove Building, also known as the Oculus Building, that represents peace. Yeah, Emily remembers about the Oculus Building. So Emily, check this out if you're still on. Give me a sec, we're going to zoom out. I'm going to show you something. So Emily's saying the Oculus Building. I love that you remember that, so that's awesome. And then here it is, actually. I've sketched it in this one. You can see, you can see in the sketchbook. So it will be on the calendar, the 2027 calendar. Here's the Oculus. Move this over. So there is the Oculus building, and Emily is right. She remembers that it represents a dove, which symbolizes peace. For, um, for September 11th. This is in the World Trade Center area, and it's basically a train hub with a big giant mall. So shout out to you for remembering that. That's so awesome. I am so thirsty. I'm probably thirsty because I ate barbecue potato chips before I live streamed. All right, cool. Emily, shout out to you. Yeah, I will definitely sketch the Oculus again. It's a shopping mall. Yeah, there's a shopping mall. If you go down these doors, you go down, there's a huge, huge, huge shopping mall underneath here. It's incredible. I love this structure. I know some people don't like it. I actually love it. I find it very sculptural, very modern inside. OMG, this would be— this would be a cool future field trip or a meetup place for sketching. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. All right, back to our water tower. So I like that I added these bands, these hoops. It looks more curved now. Will this be in the 2027 calendar? I don't know. I am liking it though. All right, this is a fun book. Awesome. I think I'm going to wrap in a minute, so if you have any final questions, please let me know. Any thoughts? Love to hear, hear from you as we come to an end for tonight. And I decided in my brain, am I going? I could always go. I could always go in, sketch, and then just leave and come home. And I don't know, I don't know, I gotta see what the weather is supposed to be tomorrow. And if I go to NYC, I'll travel light with— I'll try my minimal sketching stuff. I'll probably bring this. All right, here's how we're going to wrap. I'll show you guys my kit, my sketch kit. If I'm going to go tomorrow, this is what I'll bring. Emily says the Oculus— the architect of the Oculus was Santiago Calatrava. That's right. 100%. Santiago. Karlo Čava, really interesting architect engineer. Alright, so if I go tomorrow to NYC, here's what I will bring. I want to pack minimal, minimal. Why? Because I'm going to bring my camera. Let me show you this. Boom. I think I want to do some vlogging tomorrow, so shoot some video if I go, so I'll bring my camera. I'm not going to bring the yellow book, that'll stay. So probably bring my camera. Um, of course I will bring my Lochbie folio, have to bring that. And I will bring this new sketchbook. Of course I will bring these. I'm already starting to think I have too much here for what I want to bring, so maybe we'll stop at these 3 things. And of course I'll put them in a— put them in a backpack. If I'm— you know what, I'll bring one more thing. So I'm really paranoid about paper when I go. Now you know what, alright, there's paper. I can buy paper if I run out in the city. There's paper around. So I think we're gonna just take this stuff tomorrow inside a backpack. If I go kind of nice and light and because I do a lot, a lot of walking, a lot of walking. Sometimes it's good to travel light. Cool. All right. So I think I'm going to wrap with that. Thank you all. Thank you so much for watching. I appreciate your time on this Friday night. Hopefully you were able to take something away, whether it was a mindset or a sketch technique or a tool. Or you just chilled out and had fun, that's cool too. In the end, I'm just here to spread positivity through creativity. That's my mission. And if I can do that a little bit every day, impact someone positively every day, I'm doing the job I'm meant to do. And I couldn't do it without you. Watching and spending time with me. So thank you so much. Until we meet again, sketch boldly, live creatively, and embrace imperfection. And we have one last note I see from M. I'll read this one. Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles was designed by Frank Gary. Yeah, you're on fire. I love that you're looking this stuff up, or maybe you're remembering it. Either way, I love that you're, um, contributing to the conversation and you're talking architecture and buildings, which, you know, I love. So I'm really impressed and honored. Thank you so much for participating in the chat. M and DB, thank you so much as well. You are a creative soul and inspiring. You guys are awesome. And Emily, I'm going to end with Emily's quote. It says, "Sketch with love." I'm going to put it on screen. Oh, I can't. It just says, "Sketch with love and positivity." Thank you, and that's a great way to end tonight. Until we meet again, until we sketch again. Be positive, be creative.










