Sketch Something Saturday - 03/15/25

Hello, happy Saturday, March 15th. Hope you're having a great day. Welcome to The Inkspired Life. I'm Jason Nicholas Nicholas. Um, I am an architect, an artist, a teacher, a creative, and I have a passion for sketching architecture. Yeah, so welcome to my channel if you're new here. I'm gonna be on just for maybe 10 minutes tonight, and I'm just calling this Sketch Something Saturday because I'm gonna sketch something. Um, sketching is a great way for me to unwind from a busy day, um, really can change my mindset, which is really cool. So let's sketch. I'm gonna— I haven't sketched the Brooklyn Bridge in a while, so I'm I'm gonna kind of go back to one of my favorite views of the Brooklyn Bridge, and we're just gonna do a real quick, fast, loose style sketch. Um, that's what I like to do. I like to sketch loose style architecture, kind of take my own interpretations of what I'm seeing and not replicate exactly what an object or a building looks like. All right, so I have my Sharpie here. Let's just do some sketching for a few minutes. Feel free to say hi, ask some questions. I will check the chat in a few. And if you're on YouTube, um, yeah, I'd love for you to like and subscribe if you are enjoying the show. All right, let's see, I'm going to zoom in. Let's see, maybe I'll zoom in a little bit. There we go, that's a little better. We're gonna get a nice tight shot there. All right, the Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge is— wow, I can't talk today. This is unscripted. Um, I love the Brooklyn Bridge. I have— I've been across it, uh, twice now in the past couple years, and it's just a magical bridge to walk across. Incredible views of New York City. Um, just really Amazing. It was something on my, uh, kind of my bucket list for a long time, and I finally got the courage to, to do it. It's pretty amazing. I'll be sketching in Brooklyn next Saturday at one of my favorite buildings of all time. The, um, the Domino Sugar Factory. So I'll be taking a lot of pictures and showing you guys what I'm sketching from there. Maybe I'll do a live stream or two. All right, so this is just really quick, fast. We're going to create the idea of the illusion of perspective happening here, so it's not a straight-on view of the arches. I'm kind of looking at it off to the side a little bit. Let me know in the chat, do you— have you been to the Brooklyn Bridge? Have you been to Brooklyn, New York City? If so, what are some of your favorite places, your favorite iconic buildings or structures? If you haven't been there, that's cool. Let me know what what some of your iconic buildings are that you like. I'm always wanting to explore and sketch other subjects. So, are my proportions perfect? Nope, this should be narrower. And but that's okay, I'm just trying to create the, um, capture the overall shape. You have some kind of railing happening here. So I'm just trying to create the idea of a quick perspective, a one-point perspective. It's all kind of going back to one point back in here somewhere. I'm going to pull out some colors. We'll sketch the, the cables and mishmash happening on here. Mishmash is a great architectural word. No. Alright, cool. We also have a— there's an American flag up in here, kind of on top of that. Alright, cool. So we have kind of real loose rough outline. What's iconic about this bridge? Um, definitely these Gothic arches here. When you see those, you know it's the Brooklyn Bridge. All right, let's grab some colors. I'm going to use— let's see, we're probably going to go for some Sharpie creative markers I have here and have some colored pencils as well. All right, let me check the chat, get a quick drink of water. Hello Chip, how are you? Good to see you, hope all is well my friend. Jody, hey from— hey there from Tennessee. Hope you're doing well. Great to see you also. Briefly from a distance, I actually thought it was quite beautiful. Oh, awesome, so you got to see the bridge. Um, it is incredible for sure. I have tons of pictures. I have some video walking across it. I'll, uh, I'll post some of that stuff. Paula Loves R, hey Paula, how are you? Long time no see. I love that you guys are on here. This is so fun. Let me just grab a quick drink of water. All right, awesome. All right, cool. 9:05. I'm gonna wrap up at 9:15. All right, so, uh, let's get some of the rails on here— not the rails, the cables. And let's just pull out— I'm gonna We'll use some yellow maybe. I'm loving it. You guys have probably heard me say this so much recently, I'm loving this Aqua Color marker. And we'll grab some— I don't know, let's grab some orange. All right, let's just have fun. Are the cables really yellow? No, they're not. In my world, they are. You know what I might do? I might throw— let me just throw it down, throw them down in Sharpie to start with. And when I add color, these will start to pop out. And I kind of want this to look busy because in real life when you're walking through— I'll, I'll put the picture on the screen that I'm looking at actually. Here, let me show you guys. Here's the picture I'm looking at. It's a picture I took last time I was there. Um, it's really busy, right? You see all the kind of cables and structure happening. So I'm trying to replicate the busyness with all the lines you see me sketching right now. Hopefully that makes sense. Trying to shrink the picture, it's not letting me shrink it, but so you get the idea. That's kind of what I'm going for. We got some verticals here. All right, I'm going to throw down some hatch lines, just give a little depth to the arch. I'm literally just kind of scribbling these lines. I often like to say, if you can scribble, you can sketch architecture. And I'm literally just scribbling. See how they made a difference? It really added some depth to those arches just by scribbling along the sides there. You got a little bit of shadow happening here. Boom. This is like rapid fire. Rapid-fire sketching. All right, let's throw down some colors on the cables here, right? You can see how those cables are kind of popping now with the color. And then we'll grab, uh, let's do the verticals maybe. We'll use that light aqua— not light aqua, the aqua color. I called it light aqua because I have a colored pencil right here. My favorite colored pencil color is light aqua. Um, to help to create the depth of illusion, I'm going to sketch the vertical cables closer together as I get further away. Those cables are going to be further apart. And I'll do that, and you can kind of see what I'm talking about. I'm going to exaggerate this so you can really see. So they're getting closer together as I go back a little bit, and I'll exaggerate that here also. On this side. We'll exaggerate it. I'm actually going to do it this way. Cool. All right, so we got— we got kind of, uh, the busyness of those cables happening. I lost a little bit of the bridge in the background, but we're going to bring it back to life. And let's see, how do I want to do that? I think we're just going to use a Sharpie. I'm going to pull it back out, pull the lines back out. Don't be afraid to go over the same lines. For me, it helps to add that loose sketchy look I like because I'm not going for really clean lines, but I do want to pull these arches out a little bit more. There you go. I think we have a quick Brooklyn Bridge-inspired sketch. Maybe I'll show some of the stonework here. I want to pull that out. Let's— you know what, I'm gonna use a color pencil. Why not? Let's go for this color, Sunburst Yellow, right? Yeah, this is called Sunburst Yellow. Can use it just to sketch some stones on the bridge, just adding some texture by adding another layer here. This is going to pull out those vertical kind of pillars pilasters a little bit more around the arches. And I'm just going to leave it at that with those lines. I'm not going to get too detailed. I'm liking it. You know what, let's put a person on the bridge. Feel free to leave any questions or comments for me. I'm going to definitely take a look at the chat before I wrap up. In 3 minutes. And I'm going to add color to these people so they pop out a little bit better. So I have a, I have a lighthouse sketching workshop coming up on April 5th. If you're interested, check out the link you see on the screen. There's a QR code also, and also in the, um, description for the live stream you'll see a link too. Love to have you to check— love to have you check it out. Maybe be in the workshop. I know a few of the people on tonight are actually in the workshop. I appreciate you guys signing up. How cool is that? Please, orange, pop out to people. Yeah, but I'd love to have you guys on board. It'll be fun. We're going to spend a couple hours sketching some lighthouse stuff. I'll walk you through my sketch framework and a step-by-step approach about how I like to sketch lighthouses. Beautiful thing about art and creativity is there's so many endless interpretations, endless ways to create something. There are no wrong answers. So when I'm sharing my style and the way I like to do it, it's just my approach. You don't have to follow it at all. Cool. I like— I just popped those people out with orange. I think it gives the bridge a little bit of scale. So I like doing that, and I think we're going to call this one Done. We'll just write on here— it's going to write Brooklyn Bridge. I also added a new sketch shop on my website, so I'm posting original sketches there that you can buy. So the link for that is in the streaming comments or description. Feel free to check it out. I only have, I think, 5 posted right now. I'll be adding to it. Um, yeah, so I spent a lot of time working on that today. Today's what, March 3rd, 2015? 2, 5. And we'll just sign it. I usually like to put a heart, boom, and my name. All right, there we go. Brooklyn Bridge sketch for tonight. All right, I think that's a wrap. Let me see if there's any final questions or comments. Love the bridge and the art. Hey, that's cool. Awesome. Thank you, Paula. I appreciate that. That's so awesome. All right, well, thank you for watching. Hopefully, uh, you had some fun. Maybe you got some ideas, or you just chilled out. I'm here to serve and help however I can. All right, guys, have a great, great rest of your night. Again, I'm Jason Nicholas Nicholas from the Inkspired Life. I love sketching architecture. And you too can sketch architecture one line at a time. Keep using your creativity for positivity and have an inspirational rest of your day. Jody says, please post your website again, please. Yeah, I will. Um, I'm gonna post it in the chat right now. Thank you, Jody, for asking. Let me— if you just give me 10 seconds here. I was going to copy the link. If you do happen to visit this link, please just let me know if it's working or not working on your end. I tested it, it seemed like it was working for me okay, but I'm just curious. All right, so this is my link. I just put it in the comments. That's the link to go to my gallery shop on my website. And then I'm going to post the link to the Lighthouse Sketching Lab as well. Let's put this here. Boom. Thank you for asking me, Jody. I appreciate that. All right, cool. All right, appreciate you. Take care, have a great, great rest of your night.