Sketching Final Touches on Holiday Inkspired Scene

It, It, It. All right, guys, I think this one is done. So this is three, I think video three of the sketch I've been working on on this amazing holiday. Happy Holidays. Merry Christmas. It is. Yeah, it's Christmas day and I'd do some live streaming. Just do some sketching today and nice, peaceful, kind of relaxing day. I like the way this turned out. This was inspired by a photo I took of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. When the heck did I take that? Last Saturday. Last Saturday. So kind of my take on the tree and really I wanted the main star to be the tree itself. So the background, the buildings are kind of there, but not there. Right. Not a lot of detail. I'll zoom in so you can get a close up of it. We'll see how it's. How it dried. ICD Ray over on Facebook. Hey, Merry Christmas to you also, hope you're doing well. Thanks for tuning in live. So let me zoom out. So this is kind of. That's as far out as I can go, actually. Just bring my camera up a little bit, get a sense of it. So this is mixed. Mixed media paper and it's a mixed media sketch. We have everything from. Let's see, we have a little roll call here, a little checklist. So we use Sharpie, of course. Always use Sharpie. Right. Watercolor as well. So you want from Sharpies. We have some watercolor. We splashed on a little bit of this Inferno orange ink. Just a little bit on the tree. What else do we break out? Broke out the Sharpie creative markers. We broke out the Windsor. Let's see. We use a sepia Winsor Newton watercolor marker and a SAP green, I think. And some water. Not watercolor pencils. Correction. These are just regular color pencils on here as well. It's a little bit mixed media. I'm really liking this. It has a cool vibe to it. It actually goes with this one here. Kind of a series I did this year. These two trees, NYC inspired trees. This is the Wall Street. The Wall Street Christmas tree. And then we have the Rockefeller center here as well. Let's zoom in and see how it looks even closer. There we go. You may have noticed I was throwing on some white somewhere. It's over here somewhere. Some white creative marker. And just trying to create the idea of maybe some snow falling. We'll just kind of tap in some of this here. I love these creative markers. Probably one of my. I don't want to say best finds. I guess I didn't really find them, but one of the best Tools I used this past year for sketching. There we go. So you can kind of see the snowfall there. I like the sepia background. I wanted to create kind of a very gray, wintry kind of day feeling. I'll pan up a little bit. I really like how the tree came out and I loved kind of the back lit look with the neon pink. You'll see I did the same thing on this one as well. It just adds a cool kind of subtle vibe to the tree, gives it some, some dimensionality to it, a little more interest. And then these are heads of people kind of in the foreground here looking at the tree. There's some color onto some of them. I really love these, these gray, blue, brownish kind of colors I used on the buildings. So I was just mixing up my own watercolor using brown and blue. And I got these kind of interesting kind of colors happening here. Just a fun way to treat the background of the buildings rather than. I didn't want to add windows and any details, really. I want them to be a total backdrop to the tree, which I'm hoping is popping out on the final sketch. Come down a little bit here. Get a little tighter on it. Awesome. All right, so that's going to wrap up the 2024 Christmas tree sketches. Normally I do one. This is. I still have 20. This is2023 here. This is totally for my imagination. And it's kind of fun to see the styles from 2023 to 2024. Big difference from last year to this year. I still love this. I still love the black and grays and the green tree popping. But also I'm feeling kind of fall. These are more fun for me. More energy, more movement, more color. That's it, guys. So thank you for joining me on December 25th here. Christmas Day. Whether you're watching live or you're watching a replay, if you're on YouTube, I would love for you to hit that thumbs up button. Subscribe to my channel if you haven't still time to reach a thousand subscribers before the end of the year. Although it's getting really close. And I just want to express a heartfelt thank you to everybody that watches me live or watches the replays who comments, says positive things. I had a couple of donations, which was really nice. Thank you. And I, they were anonymous, so I'm gonna put it out there. So on buymeacoffee.com I had someone leave me a little donation yesterday, or maybe it was this morning. But I really, really appreciate that. That money is great. Because I can put it back into buying more paper or paint or markers. But my end goal here really is just to spread a moment of joy. Whether you're relaxing watching me or you're following along. Maybe you're learning some creative tips. Tips or sketching tips? Maybe just here to chill and hang out. Doesn't matter. If I can bring a little bit of positivity into your day, even for just a minute or two, my job is done because that's my goal. Thank you guys so much. I appreciate y'. All. I will be sketching today, 25th. I might be on tomorrow again. We'll see. And maybe New Year's Eve I'll do a sketching marathon. We'll see. I got a little idea in my brain. We'll see how that goes. All right, guys, thank you so much. Enjoy the rest of your Christmas, your holidays. Take a moment for yourself. Relax and chill out. D Ray, thank you for watching live and commenting. You're always so positive. You're so positive and I appreciate that and I appreciate you. You enjoy your day as well. All right, guys, take care. Keep using your creativity for positivity. This is Jason with the inspired life. I'll see you guys real soon. Back here with paper and a pen is all. It's where it starts, guys. Starts with a piece of paper and a pen. And you don't know where your imagination will take you. Don't hold back. Give it a try. Because if you can scribble, you can sketch and you can sketch architecture. Peace out, guys. I'll see you soon, maybe even later tonight. We'll see how the day goes. Take care. Oh, I'm looking for the mouse button which is buried under the sketch over here. I always love these awkward sign offs. Yeah, and I'm wearing a hat. Why? Well, my hair doesn't look too good underneath. Alright, guys, take care. We'll see you. Peace, love and joy.