In this brief livestream excerpt recorded on Saturday, April 27, 2024, artist Jason Nicholas uses the session as a technical test for his newly updated streaming software and on‑screen layout. He asks viewers for real‑time feedback on audio, video quality, and the arrangement of on‑screen elements such as the reference photograph, his webcam, and promotional graphics (Buy Me a Coffee QR code). While testing bandwidth, he gives a sneak preview of a Brussels building photograph sent by a friend, explaining that he will later produce a full sketch of it. Jason walks through his spontaneous sketching workflow: starting from the roof, laying down perspective lines, using a Sharpie, and repeatedly drawing over lines to achieve a loose, sketchy aesthetic. He contrasts this approach with a more precise, ruler‑driven style, emphasizing that the current method is therapeutic, music‑driven, and serves as a visual voice for introverted expression. He mentions a 3D printer running in the background and signals that he will revisit the sketch later that night. The stream ends with a request for viewer feedback on the technical and layout aspects and a friendly sign‑off.
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Hey, hello, happy, uh, Saturday, April 27th. Hope you're doing well. I'm on just for a quick sec here. I just want to see if the updates— updated software is working, a new layout's working, all that tech behind the scenes tech jazz stuff. Um, yeah, so I'll just be on 3 to 5 minutes or so and we'll see how this is going. If you're on there, please say hello. Let me know if you can hear me, if it looks okay, all that fun feedback. Thank you guys, I appreciate Thank you. All right, let's see. Yeah, sometimes when you get those software updates, you update things and then it offsets some other things. It's like a domino effect. So I just want to make sure everything's up and running, um, because I will be streaming tonight. And if you're watching now, here's a sneak preview of what I'm going to be working on later. This really cool building in Brussels. Photograph was sent to me by my friend Ray, and I thought it'd be cool to tackle this one. And I haven't sketched it at all, but, uh, we'll sketch it later for sure. Let the test go here and we'll see how it's working. All right, one thing I'm noticing So this is kind of a sneak peek behind the scenes look at how a content creator, like an artist like me, what goes through our brain, what do we have to set up. So hopefully you find this a little interesting. What I'm looking at now is my on-screen layout, and the box where the picture is is kind of covering this. So I guess my main goal is a couple things with the layout is one, I definitely absolutely must and want to show what I'm sketching, right? That's priority. Um, I'm debating whether or not I want to show the photograph references while I'm sketching. So if I do, I'm trying to figure out where to place it. Um, the other thing is, do I need my face on here? Is it better or not? And the promos for Buy Me a Coffee and the QR code and that stuff. So yeah, so it's kind of things I'm looking at for the layout. I want to make it the best experience for you as you're watching. So if anybody has feedback, let me know. We'll keep it where it is for now. We'll just sketch. I'm also testing bandwidth and making sure all that's working. All right, let's, uh, sketch this, this really cool building in Brussels. I, I have to be honest with you, I don't know what building it is. I didn't look at the history of it. And I'm just going to do a— throw in a little bit of this cool— it's like a horse statue up there on top of this piece I just sketched. Whenever I sketch architecture, I do like sketching usually from the roof. I'm doing an entire building, I like to sketch from the roof and work my way down. And if I don't pre-plan, which a lot of times if I'm sketching fast, I'm not pre-planning, I might not capture the whole building, and that's okay. My goal really isn't right now to capture the entire building. I could map that out better if I wanted to. Now I just want to throw down some of these shapes I'm looking at here. We got some perspective lines happening. So any of the kind of lines that help with perspectives, I'm gonna— I like to sketch in also. So we have a horizontal here, we have an angle that kind of goes back here. I'm fat doing it kind of quick. I'm not getting bogged down in proportions. I'm not getting bogged down in exact lines or angles. And most— I am actually looking more at the photograph than the the paper. My Sharpie might be dying a little bit, which I like that look, so that's cool with me. And you'll notice I sketch over the same lines many, many, many times. And for me, that's kind of just my style. Keeps it quick, keeps it loose, keeps it sketchy. I like the sketchy look. If I wanted really clean, precise, technical, which is a beautiful look also, then I would break out rulers and triangles and things. This is just a kind of a therapeutic, get into the music, let the pen go with the music, feel the vibes, listen to the 3D printer behind me, which you may hear on camera. I'm 3D printing something right now. This is just a few minutes for me to escape the daily grind, although it's Saturday, so it's been a really awesome day, but just to bring me into just a little, just a peaceful world where, where the lines can express what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling. I'm not always great at words, and if you've watched me, you know that. So for me, I let these lines do the talking most of the time. It's the sketch lines, it's the drawing, it's the capturing of a building or a place. And I think that's one of the things I really do love about sketching is sketching can be a voice for people that are sometimes introverted, right? Kind of shy, reserved, hard for them to express their feelings. Alright, I think this is good. So again, this was just a quick test. It seems like things are working. I'm gonna revisit the sketch probably tonight, start over. But yeah, there we go. Thank you guys if you're watching. Awesome. If you're watching a replay of this, let me know if the tech looked okay to you, if it sounded okay, and if— yeah, if you have any suggestions or feedback about the layout of the screen you're seeing over here. You got the picture, my head, and my, uh, Buy Me a Coffee thing. Let me know if that's okay on the screen. All right guys, take care. See you later. Appreciate you watching. Peace out. Peace and live creatively.
