Sunday Sketching : July 13, 2025

Hey, happy Sunday, July 13, 2025. I'm Jason with the Inkspired Life where I love sketching architecture and urban sketching. Just thanks for joining me on Sunday. Sketching. I'm just popping on here at a very random time, which I seem to be pretty good at. And I just felt like sketching St. Patrick's Cathedral so you'll see a little image on the screen. I have my sketchbook here, so I'm sketching it just so you if you want to follow along. I am sketching with Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper, cold press. Got me trusted Sharpie, some color pencils and watercolor and a graphite stick. So this is what I have out. We'll see what we use or don't use. Yeah. So hope you're having an awesome Sunday. I will be checking the chat. Feel free to look in. I'm also going to be playing some music so you'll be hearing more music than me talking, so might be a welcome change. You guys are awesome. All right, let me do this. Let's put some music on.

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Hey Laura, Good to see you. Hope all by awesome. I'm glad you're taking a break. I and you're having a creative weekend. That's awesome. Thanks for joining.

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I'm spending today trying to get through the rest of the artist lessons from the Maker Express weekend. That is awesome. I'm sure you're. You're learning a lot. What a great environment, right? To be able to do something creative and push your limits. Maybe learn something new. So awesome. Hey, DB says wow. Looks great. DB Hope you're doing well. It's great to see you.

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All right, so this is a St. Patrick inspired just kind of sketch. I'm throwing down some colors on it. I'm going to add some different layers. I'm just going with colors. I feel like going with. No, St. Patrick's is not yet yellow or red. But that's why I just love adding color and adding color to adding color with whatever I'm feeling. Trying to mute myself on. I'm streaming on Instagram and YouTube and I have Facebook and I hear myself on Instagram. So I'll figure out how to mute myself on Insta. On the Insta, as the kids say. Let's see. What the heck. Bizarro. Usually I can. Usually I can see the u. The mute button, but I can't see it on here. Let's see. Mute sight. All right. I just muted myself on Instagram. I was Hearing Echo, it was driving me crazy. I mean just hearing myself talk once is enough, but like two, three times, like an endless. I was like stuck in the mate. Is it the Matrix? No. What's that movie with the dream within a dream within a dream? Oh yeah. Inception. I was like hearing myself in inception mode and it wasn't stopping. But I think we're good now. Let me know if you can hear me. I feel if you can hear me on the socials right now. I lowered the music. I had the music on kind of loud. I haven't streamed with music in a while. Let me know if you're watching live. Does music really make or break the video? Would you rather hear it or not hear it? I'm just curious, just curious to know what you guys think. I want to make this enjoyable for you. I'm getting crazy here with colors. I was originally going to keep just this black and white, you know, just a sharpie. And then, and then. You know what? I kind of just felt like being really playful. So it's always fun to break out colors. Be experimentive, be playful. I'm not expecting any results other than I need to come on and actually just have a little fun. Change my mindset. I've been really tired today and I needed a little creative energy and this is the. Is fueling me up. I should have done this hours ago. Today I gave in to the nap monster and decided to take a nap. I've just been drained. It was a really busy week last week. Appointments, unexpected appointments and not complaining, just saying it was busy. So it all just kind of hit me. Today never happened to you. Sometimes you're so busy and then you find a moment, a break and it all just kind of boom. It just piles on you, right? Kind of just knocks you out. So I, I got knocked out today for two to. Two to three hour nap maybe. Of course I didn't do the things that I really need to be doing today like paperwork and bills and all that fun stuff, the real world stuff. But we'll get there next weekend. I'm gonna be going into NYC and doing some sketching, so that'll be fun. I love this pop of. I don't know what color this is, guys. I'm not good with color names. I just kind of go with what I like, what I see. It's a yellow orange. I call it Taxi cab yellow. It reminds me of taxicab yellow or school bus yellow. I like taxicab yellow because when I hear taxi cabs I just think more Adventure. But I just layered on a lot of that paint on the brush and less water. And I just like the intensity, the pop of it. So it's a really cool way to. Instead of adding layers and layers on top of layers, you can really intensify your watercolor by just going really thick. Less water, thick paint. And then you'll get it. You can kind of see it happening there. I should zoom in a little bit. Where's she? That might be better. All right, all right, you guys can hear me now. I like hearing it, but you need to find the balance. Yeah, you're right. But then I'm not one of your most prolific watchers. Laura, any second you watch me is valuable. And I always appreciate your time, so. And your input is really, really appreciated. Indian yellow, maybe? Yeah, maybe it's Indian yellow. Here, I'll hold it up closer. So this is what I'm talking about here. I call this lemon yellow. This is like the taxicab yellow. We got turquoise. We got. We have a blue, we have a brown orange. I know that's SAP green because I'm pretty fussy with green. I don't really like mini greens, but I do like SAP green. Yeah. So I am not one of those. Those creatives, one of the sketchers, one of those watercolor guys. I am not technically minded. No formal study. This is just all grab and go, gut creating. Grab and go, gut creating. I just kind of pick what I like, and for me, that's the joy of it. And I admire everybody out there that can memorize colors, and that's amazing. My brain capacity. Yeah. I am lucky to remember what I ate this morning, which was what I have this morning. Yogurt. I had some yogurt. Some cocoa. It's called Cocoa June Yogurt. Am I saying that right? Coco June. It's like a coconut yogurt. Non dairy. I love it. It is so good, but so you can see how that yellow really pops. Boom. I'm loving it. So cool. Dinosaurs under the sea. Sounds weird when I say Donna DB DV under the sea. Green is a favorite of mine. Awesome. By the way, DB thank you for signing up for the Rust and Render sketching workshop. That's on July 26th. I might end up changing the date. I will keep you posted. And I'm not having many people sign up for it. I think I picked a bad day. I've had some messages where people are away, and actually three messages. People are just not available. So I might switch today. But I'll talk to You DB through messenger. And I can either. If I change the day, I can give you your money back, or. Or we can still go do one on one if you still want to come online. That's cool. We'll figure it out. But, yeah, anyway, the workshop is still available. I'd love to get people to sign up. There's a link on the screen. We're going to be sketching, but we're going to be taking structures like this one here. Let me just pop it on screen. Steel stacks. Boom. I love the steel stacks facility. It's crazy. A lot of shapes, a lot of colors. Old industrial. And my idea with the workshop is to take this structure as inspiration, and we're just going to break it up into to shapes and colors. And really the idea is just to have a playful couple of hours together where we see something that's very, very busy, a busy structure, and we could simplify and break it down. So that's what the Rust and Render Sketching Industrial Workshop is. It's virtual via Zoom 26. That's my anniversary, July 26th. Wait, I'm so confused. Yeah, July 26th, 2025, from 8pm to 10pm Eastern, a standard time. Yeah, there's a link there and also in the comments. All right, I am loading this up with lemon. I call this lemon yellow. We're going to get a little pop of freshness on here. Notice I'm just hitting this in certain places. I am not trying to fill in complete areas. It's looking like it's. Oh, it's looking like it's backlit now. Yeah, I love that. I love that. With the. What you're seeing, with the lighting there, we can close this image. I'll make this a little bigger actually, too. That's so cool that you're seeing that. Love it. That's fine. Just whenever you can make it happen. Keep the fiends all the time. D.B. you're awesome. We'll. We'll make it happen. Don't you worry. You are amazing. All of you guys that watch me and comment and say hello and show your work are inspiring. I love seeing what you guys are making. All right, I got enough watercolor on there. Let's break out. We're gonna break out. Got some colored pencils here, but I think we're gonna take some creative markers. All right, what I'm about to show you, if you're watching, I'm going to show you my new secret sauce for adding color onto sketches. All right, so here's the secret sauce. I am going to. Let's see. I am going to shut that music off. I don't want you guys to miss this. I'm just gonna play music that I can hear. I can't play this out loud. There we go. All right, here we go. My secret sauce for adding color is within this really cool Lock B. Love this color Lock B. If you're watching, it's called honey. Oh, yeah. Love it. There's a link in my comments to Lock me stuff. You can save 10% if you use my discount code. And it's a lock me plug. I know. I just plug them because I love, love, love, love them. But inside, I have the secret sauce right here. Sharpie Creative markers are the bomb. I love these things for adding pops of color that dries quickly. Holy cow. Let's just pull out. Yeah, we got to pull it out. This is my favorite, absolute favorite color is turquoise. That is. Hold on a sec. Don't want to use that one. I'm looking for one I've already used. Go for it. Just break into it. All right, we'll break into it. All right. So watch how this color just kind of. It'll just pop off the page. I love it so much. So this is the Creative marker. Boom. See how I'm just adding that pop? So this is really. This is really the secret sauce. If I'm out urban sketching, which you guys know I'm a huge fan of and I'll be doing next weekend in nyc, I bring these creative markers because I love adding watercolor, but you have to wait for it to dry. These things, you don't have to wait to dry. You just throw them on and they dry pretty much instantly. So I just. I'm just going to throw in some touches here and there. If you've been watching from the beginning, you can see this is kind of about layers, right? We started with a Sharpie layer, some watercolor. Now we're doing some creative markers. It's fun just to build this, this up. Hey, Sketches and some, if you're over there on Instagram. Great to see you, Mel. Hope all's well. Mel is. Mel inspires me, guys. He's an amazing, amazing sketcher. Check him out. Sketches and Some is his Instagram name. Thanks for popping on, Mel. I appreciate you so much, man. Right. So you can just see I'm just kind of pulling out different pieces of the cathedral with this. I just wanted to do a demo for you guys with the Creative markers. They come in so many. So many different colors. I Stocked up on them. They were on sale. I think I got like 50% off months ago, so I bought tons of them. What's another good color? I actually like to use the yellow on this red. All the colors on these orange, you know, we don't have on here. Let's pop some orange on. So if you guys join the rust and render industrial sketching architecture sketching workshop, I'll be using these different medias on there. Definitely a Sharpie. I'll break out the creative markers. I'll break out colored pencils as well. We'll do that here on this sketch, too. And it's just. It's fun to mix and play with different media and sometimes I go overboard, which is okay. And it's fun. Yeah, that's. That's why I'm doing this, guys. I'm not feeling orangey too much right now. I'm actually feeling red. So let me grab my. For red, I like to use pilot precise pens. I'm gonna go to red color. Hey, Janice. Good to see you, Janice. Hope you're doing well. Janice says my happy place is Rockefeller Center. Yeah, right. I love the rock. Oh, my God. I could hang in that area for hours and hours. St Patrick's I love the Atlas statue. There's just something about that sculpture, that statue, that fascinates me. And I. I've tried sketching it many times. Not great, but it's. It's fun to try to capture it. So, Janice. Yeah. I love Rockefeller Center. Great location. Jennifer Thistle. Hey, Jennifer, how are you? Great to see you over there. Hope you're doing well. So what I like to do with the red is sometimes I'll. In my sketches, I like to do a continuous line, almost like a ribbon around the sketch. Not always red. It's different colors, but I'm using red today. I feel like I just visually like the look of having this kind of outline around part. It doesn't have to go around the whole sketch, but part of it at least. And I'm going to bleed some of this red and show you guys how the color when it bleeds. So my definite go to for red is the pilot precise pen here. I'm just bleeding some of that red so you can kind of see it. Can you guys see this okay. Or should I zoom in closer? Let me know. Cool, right? It's looking good. I don't think I'm going to do too much more in the way of color, but I do want to pop some things out. So we'll. We'll either Come back with Sharpie. Sometimes I like to use a Sharpie gel pen. This is a roller or Sharpie roller pen. Just to pop out some details. Let's actually I'll show you the roller pen. I am just rediscovering the love of ballpoint pens. I just ordered a bunch. I. I'm going back old school and I think I'm going ballpoint pens for a lot of upcoming sketches. So stay tuned for that Genesis. Closer, please. You got it. Let me zoom closer, guys. Oh, there we go. I should have done this a while ago. Is that better? Now you can kind of see what I'm talking about. You see that red edge is added there. Prometheus statue is great too. Yes, Janice, I agree with you. D.B. says pink. Oh, yeah, D.B. we gotta add our signature neon pink. Absolutely. I am never without my neon pink. You could even see in the industrial sketches here. Boom, pink. I got some pink there as well. So 100% pink. I want to pull out some. Just some details. And when I say details, guys, this is not a highly detailed sketch at all. When I'm saying details is I want to just pull out maybe some of the window shapes, maybe some of the doorways, maybe do some hatch lines to add some shadows, create some depth. Actually, we'll do that right down here. So you can see I'm doing hatch lines. For me, it's a great way of creating depth. I love this song. I'm actually going to turn off this image too. There we go. I'll use photographs as a starting point, just to lay out something. And then I rarely look at them. As I'm sketching, I have a photograph. If I want things to be exact, I'll look at my photo. It's a reference, It's a starting point. I want this here to be me, not a photograph. So that's the difference for me between photography and sketching. Hopefully that makes sense.

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I'm loving this. This is looking actually really cool. Hello, Prometheus statue. Yeah, the Prometheus statue. Yes, I knew what you meant, Janice. All right, let me zoom out just a little bit so you can get the whole thing. This one might be done, at least for now. The man says, as he's still sketching. Yeah, I'm. I like it. Alright, guys, let me know if you have any final questions, comments or thoughts before I wrap up this sketch of St. Patrick's Cathedral. What's really cool is every time I sketch it, it's always. It always comes out different, which is so fun. I'm not done. You know why I forgot the pink? Let's throw some pink on here. I do like leaving a lot of that white space on there. So we'll leave. Leave that. Let's see. We'll pop some there. Boom, boom. We'll do another little pink right down here. I usually like to do it in three different areas. There's something magical about the number three in sketching an architecture. Don't, don't, don't. We got the pink on there. It's official. Let me zoom in. We'll pan around. You guys can see all this stuff close up as we wind down. All right, so let me zoom in. And you can see everything really close up. See how the colors are kind of mixing, matching, blending, melding, being wonky, being fun. I just want to keep describing this. This is fun. How they're playing with each other, dancing with each other. All right, you get the point. All right, you get the point. I'm being silly. All right, let's zoom. Actually, we'll do it the old school way. We're going to use my hands, lift it up. Boom. And let me just change. Hopefully the lighting's okay. You guys can see it closer up. Oh, my gosh. This almost looks. Do you guys see what I'm seeing? This is so funny. Let me get. Let me just point this out here. Look at this kind of round window. I almost see like a pigeon or a bird sitting there. Just. Just the way it came out. It looks to me. It looks like a bird. It's kind of funny. Let's get closer. Let's get closer to that bird. Sorry if it's a little shaky, guys. I'm. I am holding this with my hands. You can really get a sense now about just every. All the different media just kind of playing. Playing together nicely in the sandbox of creativity. I just made that up. I kind of like the sound of that. Laura says old school is always good. Thanks, Laura. Right, Boom. And we'll just kind of go down a little bit and you can see the whole image. Ta da. I almost want to do something with the white background, but not now. And this is in the city, so yeah, there are buildings surrounding this. If I bring that image up again. Was that the image I used? I have a couple of St. Patrick's I'm not sure if that's the one I used or not originally, but. But yeah, there's. There are buildings surrounding this. I use creative license and I. I just wanted to show St. Patrick's I didn't. I Don't really want to show all the context around it in this sketch. And that's one of the cool things about urban sketching. You don't have to show every single thing that's around your subject. Sketch what you want to sketch. Even with the building here, maybe. Maybe I only wanted to do a part of it. The window or the lower part or a doorway. Doesn't matter. Don't feel like when you're looking at buildings, you have to sketch everything. Sketch what resonates, what connects with you. What do you find interesting when you're looking at a piece of architecture? Is it a door? Is it a window? Is it the roof, a stairway? Is it the overall shape of the building? Is it a color, a texture? So whatever connects with you is what you should be aiming to capture. Don't feel overwhelmed that you need to capture an entire building. Cool. All right, guys. This has been so much fun on this Sunday. I'm so glad you were able to watch me. I know it was random sketching. Changed my state of being from that tired, tired, tired person I was hour ago. I'm energized now. Gotta go. Yeah, it's about dinner time. Get that turkey out of the oven. I think it's out already. Yeah, get some dinner going. I appreciate you guys so, so much. Remember, I do have an upcoming online sketching workshop July 26th. You can see the link on the screen. I don't know if I could. I'm not trying to point to it there. It's also in the comments. I also have a really cool sketch survival guide. If you guys have not checked out this sketch survival guide, I love this. I printed out copies. Let me zoom out. Let me show you guys this real quick. I'm not one to kind of plug what I stuff I create, but I, I. This is fun. This is fun. Let me zoom out. All right, cool. So this is called the Sketch Success survival guide. It's printed out on computer paper. It's a PDF file you can download. And basically what it is, it's kind of a mindset, creative mindset guide with sketch prompts. It's not really a how to sketch. It's more of how to approach sketching, how to think about sketching, how to think about creativity and kind of and things kind of like that. So creative mindset. Think I love this. Well, here's one page. It says how to use this guide. I'm not going to read it all, but you can kind of see some of the things on there. So I created a map with six different areas based on the word sketch. So this is my sketch framework. Each one of these locations has different activities to inspire you in different ways. So for example, the comparison Free coast. Sometimes we compare ourselves too much to other people and it stifles, it stagnates our creativity. Right. So we want to be comparison free. And then I have each one of those locations has a little one page with prompts on. It talks about mindset things you can try and as a journal prompt. So this is a really fun guide. You can download it. I have a link also in the comments to Sketch Survival Guide and I hope you take a look at is $9.97 but I think it is worth it. It's going to help you to sketch boldly, live creatively and inspire endlessly. Have an amazing rest of your day and have an amazing week. I'll pop on during the week at night and hopefully we can connect again online on YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. And if you haven't already, make sure you like subscribe all those cool social media things because let's get the word out there. My mission, one of my missions is to spread creativity or use creativity to spread positivity. Thank you guys.