The INKspired Life - Architectural Sketching

Hey everybody, hope you're doing awesome on this, um, Thursday night. Great to see you. I see you, Mickey, over on Instagram. Hey Mickey, hope all's well. Long time. Got Jody over there on the YouTube. Hey Jody, how are you? And D-Ray on Facebook. Hope you guys are doing amazing today. I'm on for a really, really brief tonight. Um, yeah, I just want to do some sketching, and tonight I'm sketching, um, this isn't This is inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge. It's kind of a different view of it, close-up view, and just part of it as well. So I thought it'd be fun just to try a different angle. I haven't— I have never sketched this viewpoint, and, um, it's a challenge in my brain, and I like it. Hey, Linda H is on YouTube! Great to see you. Linda, hope all's well. I'm so glad you guys pop on. So glad I popped on. All right, like I said, this is a really kind of funky view of the, um, Brooklyn Bridge, but sometimes it's really interesting, good practice, good exercises to sketch the same subject but from different angles, different viewpoints. It keeps things interesting. Keeps your, your creative brain going in different directions. Definitely a good exercise. I think I'm just gonna do this one with a Sharpie. I'm not gonna— I don't think I'm gonna add any color to this one. Definitely not tonight. We have this amazing— the arch of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the arches here. This is interesting. I'm trying to sketch the stones here. That's really messing with my brain. There we go. Something. We'll go with something like that for now. Here is a Sharpie. Oh yes, D-Ray, you know it.

Right here.

Yes, me and my Sharpies. Yeah, just, it's, it's my favorite sketching marker. I call them pens, it's not really a pen, it's a marker. You guys know I love my Sharpies. That's looking pretty cool. Let's do some of these, kind of the stonework here. I'm going to sketch it quick and loose just to give a little texture, a little angle there, a little direction. And we'll do the same thing up here.

There you go.

So just, just sketching in the stonework here, the direction of it gives it a little more depth. Pop sparkle. She doesn't usually bark this late. It's probably telling me— it's telling me it's night-night time. All right, here we go. Oh, and then we have the planks. Planks are kind of coming out like— I'll sketch them like this. So hopefully you can tell that this is part of the Brooklyn Bridge, and I just want to— I'm going to pop out some of these areas. I'm actually going to be bold, live on the edge. I'm going to grab another Sharpie, but wider one here. So let's grab this It says Sharpie fine point.

Awesome.

I hope you guys are having a great day. So because we're going to live on the edge, once you, once you throw this Sharpie down, that's gonna be the end of it. I don't know if that's too close, guys, but Try it. Let's see, do I want to zoom way in or keep it? I'm going to keep it here, zoomed out a little bit, see it better. Here you can already see this edge kind of popping. Notice I'm not holding the Sharpie way close to the edge and pulling it back a little bit just to keep it flexible and keep that loose sketchy look that I like. Um, I kind of want to pull this shape out. Let's see, something like that, just a pulsed opening. Do I want to bring it You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna bring it back to this point here. Let's do this, something like that. And then there is a piece of the bridge that comes down here, but I'm not going to draw the whole thing. I'm just gonna do that. I think it's enough just to give it the idea of where the opening is. And I want to hit the outline. Let's do the outline here. There we go. And then I think to wrap up tonight, we're going to put some hatch lines on here just to give it a little bit of shadowy stuff going on. And we will— let's play around the pilot. Precise. Hey, Linda S is in the house! Great to see you, Linda S. The S stands for Sensational. I just made that up. Um, Linda, you are— you guys are all amazing. I appreciate every one of you for your time, your comments, your positivity. Thank you so much for— it's just fun for me to tune in, have you guys tuning in and watching me do something I love doing. No question about it, I would Do this 24/7, 365. Pretty much do sketch something 24/7, 365.

It's fun to come online.

We're gonna— I'm gonna darken underneath this arch here. Again, I'm just using my Pilot pen tonight. This is a quick Brooklyn Bridge— part of the Brooklyn Bridge sketch. And let's throw some— do some like shadows down here as well where the planks are. I'm just throwing these dark— darken up these, uh, these balusters here.

There you go.

Quick, loose. Jason Nicholas Pilot, I am. Jody says I gotta move my comment screen up here. Looks fantastic. I just don't know how do you put all this together so quickly? Great question. I guess one is I've been doing it for a long time. Two, creative mindset is I'm not sitting here plotting and thinking about every single line I'm drawing. I don't know if that makes sense, but I'm just kind of throwing things down. If I was just sitting here and thinking about every single line, it definitely would take a lot of time and I can get more detailed and I— I can definitely draw detailed sketches. I just like the fast, quick, loose look. I really want to create— there's more depth over here that I'm not really capturing. So I'm gonna— to capture that idea, I'm just gonna throw this here. I guess another way I do this so quickly is, uh, just the lines. Like, I have different line types sometimes for different things, like this hatch. Hatching here. It's pretty quick to throw down. I'll zoom in. It's pretty quick to throw down these hatch lines like this just to get the idea of shadow and depth. Sometimes people think when they're doing shadows, they gotta really— well, here, I'll do it here, right? Really gotta color things in and make it all black and dark. And you can do that, it'll take more time. Actually looks kind of cool on the edge here. Um, But don't feel like you need to shade in or color every single piece of your sketch in. Leave a lot of white space. White space is a time saver. You know what I might throw down on this? Maybe some graphite. This might be fun just to do at a time.

Let's see.

Uh, I wasn't gonna do this, but let's do it. Let me just throw some graphite on this to give a little, a little more interest to it. So I got some graphite, get my brush. Let's do it. I'm going to actually just take my graphite stick, water— it's a water-soluble graphite stick, Art Graph. Dip it in the water, dip it on in. It's going for a swim. That's going to soften up that graphite and I'm going to sketch paint with it. What? Sketch paint? Yep, I said sketch paint. Here we go. You'll see it's kind of coming off on here, and I'm going to— this is going to grunge it up a little bit. I like the grungy look. Let's just grunge this up, add some— it's called character— and add some character to this sketch. Let's throw some down the edge here. And I'll take my brush and let's just, uh, let's just spread some of that around a little bit. Quick, loose, fun, grunging it up, just adding some character. Bridges are like people, they need character too. I should say they have character. We all know some characters out there, don't we? There we go. Let me zoom out. You can see it better. Right. So just throwing that graphite down, add a little bit of grunginess. T-Ray's like, oh boy, here comes the grunge. Graphite. Grunge. I love grunge. Yeah, I love— you guys know I love the grunge look, the grit. And then here's one of the things I love about graphite. As I'm weighing close— oh, I think I just went upside down by mistake. There we go. Um, I just love the way the graphite here, you can see it shows the texture of the paper. Get some really cool patterns. The graphite will dry lighter. I'm even going to just hit some of these tension wires here.

There you go.

It's kind of cool looking. I also have some verticals. Let's— I didn't sketch them in here, did I? I kind of did. Never mind. Sister, smart graphite. We'll do a little bit over here. It's enough, and I'll just pull it with the brush. All right, this one might be done, guys. Quick, fast, loose, fun, grunge. What more could you want? What am I doing? My hand, my hand won't stop. It wants to keep sketching, so let's do it.

Might be the music.

This one may be done, guys. Yeah, you can quote me on that. Great angle after all. I wasn't sure when you first started. Uh, thanks. Yeah, it was definitely a different angle. This is really, this is really funky in here. I'll sketch this angle a bunch of times and get, get cleaner, a little bit cleaner. A little too wavy, but that's, you know, wonky. Wonky's good. Uh, I am going to throw some ink down. What the heck, why not? I have until 10. Um, I'm just gonna change the playlist a little bit here. Hey, D-Ray says I like it. Thank you so much. I am so glad. Do I dare throw something on it? Yeah, this is just a fun piece. Oh, he did it now. He did it now. What was the crazy guy thinking? He was thinking, let's just have some more fun, why not? It's down there, paint. Why not? He says, yeah, why not? All right, time to put the brush away. Here we go. Let gravity be our friend and just let that ink roll around a little bit. I'm actually going to— next, I think we'll leave it like that. And there you go. All right guys, time to put the brush away and get Gravity VR friend. Yes, you're right. Thank you so much for always capturing what I'm saying. I really appreciate it. Good stuff. All right, guys, I think we're gonna— a part of me wants to just throw some turquoise down and just throw tons of color at it, but I'm just gonna leave it for now. There you go. And now I got paint on my fingers. Um, guys, thank you so much for watching and commenting. The— do you guys say zoom in? Oh sure, I'll zoom in. Zoom in here. Thank you for the reminder. I'm gonna pull this up so you can see how the ink's looking. Cool, right? And these will dry pretty nicely. I might come back and throw some more ink or something on top of it. Splendid, splendid. Thank you, thank you. All right guys, there you go. That is the bridge. Inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge as we listen to the party tunes. Thank you so much. By the way, this is music that I had fun making with the GarageBand app. I know nothing about music, as you can probably hear, but I had fun just throwing down some tracks. I need a theme song for the Inkspired Life. I'm trying to create a theme song. All right, guys, thank you so much for watching. Have an amazing, um, Friday. Tomorrow is Friday. Enjoy your day, and I'm sure I'll be on sometime over the weekend. Appreciate you. Take care. Keep paying it forward with positivity through creativity, and I'll see you guys soon. Hey, my light went off, so I know it's 10 o'clock. Take care, guys. Be well. Where's the camera? There's the camera. I will find it. I will find the finish button. There it is. Good night, guys.