Sketch Something Sunday - 02.09.25

Hello. Happy Sunday. It is February 9th. I had to look. February 9th, 2025. I'm on for a few minutes with sketch something Sunday. I think I'm gonna do a Disney inspired sketch today from my last visit, which was, gosh, last summer, I think we went. So I'm gonna do maybe a sketch inspired by the Contemporary resort at Disney. So join me for a few minutes as I throw down some lines. Yeah, let's do it. Hope you're having an amazing day today. Let's put some background music on. Let's see. So I'm sketching in my Lockby field journal here with the Tomo river paper as well. Got a Sharpie and I'm just going to throw down some lines and just have some fun for a few minutes. Questions or comments or thoughts? There we go. More importantly, we want you to be able to see that page. So I'm sketching part of the interior of the Contemporary resort located right near Magic Kingdom. Get my Sharpie started. There we go. All right, cool. It's a really interesting building. Contemporary in style, very modern. But what I love about this building is I love that the monorail actually goes through the building, which is so cool. It's one of those places I'd love to stay sometime, but it is. It is an expensive resort to stay at. But one of these days we'll get there, we'll stay there. But in the meantime, I'll just keep visiting. I like to hop on the monorail when I'm at Disney. Go. So many, so many different things. Let's see. I just want to play some music here. On a continuous play. I got to keep hitting the play button on there. This just meant to be a real quick, kind of down, dirty sketch. I haven't sketched up sketch in the past couple. Of things. Just need a rest. That's okay. Sculpture. I think this is actually a picture. Perspective. I put the image on screen according to the end. So that's my reference. I like the photographs and really quick references. I'm not trying to replicate what's that. Keeps it freer colors. That's why I take photographs. Photographs provide all that. Just a creative time cut loose with some sketches. Write down some ink. My brain loves it. My. My eyes, my hands love it. My soul loves it. For me, it's a good recipe of capturing ideas, making me feel good, remembering special places I've been to. And who would have thought that the power of a pen and a piece of paper could do that? But it really can be quite transformative. So these are actually skylights up here, Kind of rectangular openings. So here's a kind of a pro tip. Depending on how you hold your pen. My Sharpie here, I'll zoom in a little bit. If I hold it down at an angle, you can see what's happening here with these skylight windows. I'm just dragging it lightly and the pen is kind of skipping. It's very smooth paper, but the pen is still skipping a little bit. And I like that look. The lines aren't really dark and solid and continuous. And that's really just by holding kind of the pen at an angle as I'm sketching with it. If I hold it more upright, I'll do here on the Mickey ear, more upright. I'm going to get more intense, darker lines. So that's one of the things I've learned how using a Sharpie is. Depending on the angle I hold it, I can get different line weights. More upright for me is darker. I do it more of an angle or more parallel towards the paper. I get lighter lines. You can have. You have more controlled lines with the pen. The more you go towards the back, like here for me, it's more loose and flexible and I can get really loosey goosey lines that way. So just practice different holding techniques of your pen. And you could really create different types of line styles with it. For me, lines are everything in sketching. They tell the story. You can have straight lines, you can have jaggedy lines, curved lines, broken lines, invisible lines which are really super light or guidelines. And depending on the lines you lay down is the looks or effects you can create. So don't be afraid to play with different type of line work. And this really, for me, it's kind of the recipe of how to create your style. When sketching, it's about the lines. So here's a kind of a quick perspective. Looking in that space, you can see skylights on the roof here. This is actually a big window area. I'll add some detail back here as well. Here's a kind of half a mickey. We've got an ear. We got kind of part of the head. This leads into a store, if I remember correctly, in the contemporary, in the lobby. Yeah, the Contemporary hotel is just a really incredible piece of architecture. If anybody's out there, you can correct me. But of the year, I want to say it was 19, early 1970s. This was built 71 maybe. I think there's a steakhouse in here called Steakhouse 71, which we, we ate at. Not last time. We Were there the time before. Really, really delicious. It. So you got a big light fixture. Let's see. It's on the ground. Let's see. We'll sketch it here. Kind of comes up here. Some kind of light fixture happening. I also like to use these sharpies when they're actually starting to dry out. For me, it helps create some interesting looks with the lines I'm throwing down. And in some places, it kind of forces me to keep going back over the lines to get the ink out, which I like that look. This one is almost expired. I think it's close, but we'll push and see how much we can get out of it. Sorry. The light fixture there. These are not old bit. See how it's coming together. This is a tile floor. So we'll just sketch. Some tiles happening here. I'm trying to put these lines at angles so it has a sense. Sense of depth or perspective here. Life's all about perspective and how we see things, right? It. This is actually the corner of a wall that's in the foreground, Which I like to do this a lot. It helps. It helps to frame a scene. So lots of times I'll have like a big vertical wall either on one side or both sides to help just frame what I'm looking at. I kind of like this. It's very, very sketchy. Throw some shadow. Throw some. We'll throw some shadow in here. By just drawing hatch lines, I'm almost scribbling these in. That's why I like to say if you can scribble, you can sketch architecture. Sam. It. Sam. All right, I think this sketch is done. Zoom in closer look at it. I'm not even going to throw any color on this one. Leave it black and white. I kind of like the way it is. Very loose. You can see, you know, have lines that like, where the heck is that going? It's just. You can see my process, my thought process, my creative process as I'm throwing lines down. That's why I don't use a pencil. I like to show all that kind of thinking, whether it makes sense or not makes sense. But at the time when I was doing. Made some sense. Some. I don't know if that made. Did that make sense? Silly. But Sharpies forced me to throw the lines down, commit myself, just go with the flow, not even worry about making mistakes. Because each line is a story, is part of the journey. Just like I want lives. Each day, each hour, each minute is part of our journey, right? So let's learn to embrace our journey, whether it's our personal ones or our creative ones. You guys are awesome. Thank you so much for watching. Hope you have an amazing rest of your day. Always feel free to leave comments, questions, or if you like this video, I love for you to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my YouTube channel. If you out. Thank you guys so much. I'm Jason with the Ink Spired Life. Remember to use your creativity for positivity and you too can sketch architecture one line at a time. Thanks guys. I'll be back real soon with another video for you. Have a great, great day.