The INKspired Life - architectural and urban sketching

Hey. Hello. Hope you're doing awesome on this Friday evening. I'm on fairly late 10:32pm here in the Garden State. I'm looking for my button here. Where. There we are. Haha. Camera. All right, cool. Now I can see if there's any comments, reactions. Yeah, Hope you're doing great. I'm gonna do some sketching. Don't know exactly what, haven't really thought about it, but I wanted to pop on before I head off to bedtime. Sketching is sometimes a great way for me just to wind the day down. So if you've had a busy, crazy, hectic day. Yeah, sketching is for me, very therapeutic. It's like journaling kind of. So let me know if you're watching, where you're watching from if you have any questions, comments or let me know how your day was. I had a really good day. Just a lot of. A lot happening. But good stuff. All good. Alrighty then, let's just sketch. So I have a workshop next Saturday sketching wonky fishing shacks. Let me show you the last thing I worked on and maybe we'll sketch a fishing shack. So here's the last thing I did. Just kind of a little fishing village. See some buildings in here. This was fun. This was ink and also acrylic paint. So I just kind of threw down some blocks of color for the buildings. And this one looks really cool framed. I don't have the frame out here, but. So that was a lot of fun. Alright, let's just do some sketching and see what happens. So I am listening to music here. I can't let you guys hear what I'm listening to because it's copyrighted. But I could play music. If you want to hear some, let me know. I can play tracks that I pay to use. Here we go. Sometimes my brain has to warm up, loosen up my hands loosening up a little bit. So you might just see my hand kind of dancing around, not even drawing anything yet. It's kind of how I get into the groove. You know, sometimes we got to change our state of mind if we're doing one thing and kind of change it to get into the next thing. All right, let's sketch. It usually helps when you're. There we go when your marker or pen works. Maybe we'll do a, maybe a two story kind of. Let me zoom in structure here. So I want this to look really loose and a wonky building. So when I say wonky I'm picturing it very whimsical, not a Lot of clean, straight edges. So if you'll notice, I'm taking the roof. I'm kind of bending lines here. You'll see I'll do the same thing with the wall on this side. I'm going to kind of just bend it a little bit, and it just helps keep it really loose. So step one is I like to take my Sharpie and just draw some kind of outlines of shapes. Don't have to get into a lot of detail. Let's see, we'll get. We'll set this on maybe some kind of a. Maybe a dock or something here since it's a fishing shack. Right. Some kind of sliding barn door, maybe. It. I'm actually going to pull this roof out a little bit more to give it some more character. There we go. So don't be afraid to go back over lines, especially when you're trying to make loose sketches. You'll see I go over lines many, many times. It looks kind of scribbly. And I like to say sometimes if you can scribble, you can sketch architecture. And I'm kind of showing here. Right. Quick, fast, loose, scribbly looking. Hey, I see D. Ray and Linda are in the chat. Great to see you guys. Hope all's well. Really, really great to see. See. What else do we want to throw on here? A few more lines and we'll add some color on it. All right, cool. I think that's enough line work. So let's throw down some color. What are we gonna play around with? I have. Well, let's grab and go. So I always have these out. So let's grab some watercolor. And I want to put this up at an angle so the water runs down a little bit. Tada. This is where the. The fun really starts to happen. We're just gonna throw down color. We're gonna throw and go. Throw and go. You can see I've restocked some of the paints. I filled up this pan with some turquoise. Fill up this pan with red. I believe this is Cheap Joe's turquoise. And this is red. I forget the exact names. The other colors in here are Winsor Newton watercolor paints. I actually even added some more lemon yellow in my palette. This looks really cool. This kind of mixed with the turquoise, we get an interesting, like, lime green color happening. I just grabbed some red. So let's. Let's use. All right. I feel like I need something kind of more vibrant, so. Let's use this. It. All right. We're gonna. We're gonna use some watercolor pencils here. It. I'm really loving these watercolor sticks. The more I use them, the more fun I'm having with them. All right, cool. I like the colors. I really. You may have seen me kind of blowing the paints here, and I was trying to just. I like the texture and pattern. I want it to look weathered and maybe paints dripping down the building. Maybe it's weathered metal. So I have that kind of runny look happening there. The green came out, so I don't know if we just went from fishing shack to barn structure. It doesn't really matter. I grabbed the green just for the heck of it and threw it on there. But I'm going to let this dry and I want to come back and I want to add some detail. So I'll use my Sharpie or probably my Pilot precise here, and we'll add some materials and texture. So we'll add some kind of siding on the structure, define the roof a little bit more as well, and we'll see what else happens to this. Hope you guys are enjoying this. Let me know if where you're watching from if you have any questions or comments. It's always fun for me to go in the chat and take a peek and see what's happening there. I am trying to talk a little less during these sketches so you guys can kind of watch the process happen a little more. I do want to throw in some red here. Hey, D Ray is right. D Ray, I like. I love Dray's always taking notes on there for me, so thank you so much. It's always fun for me to go back and. And look at the things you wrote to see what I said. So thank you. So whenever I find myself needing to add red, I like the. The red pilot pen. I don't really use the red watercolor as much. I just love the way this color comes out of the pen. It bleeds well. And when you don't bleed it, I just kind of see it happening there. Also, take a look at the texture and how the paint's drying. Really some fun colors. This I love. What's happening right up here. Let me see if I can get a better light on that. Maybe. Maybe there. Hopefully you guys can see that this is drying really amazingly. If I zoom in, it'd be better because it won't shake as much. Let's do that. I'll just leave it there for a sec. So check this out. How this is drying. Yep. I'm that weird dude that likes to watch paint dry, And I feel like you guys you guys get that? It's. There's just something magical, especially when watercolor is drying and the things it does, it just transforms. It's just so cool. So I really like the way this is coming out. Starting to take some good shape. Let's throw down some more lines on it. Maybe some more detail. Hopefully it's dry enough.