The INKspired Life - architectural sketching

Hey, hello, how you guys doing? Um, welcome to Friday night's Inspired Life. Hope you're doing well. My name is Jason Nicholas of The Inspired Life, and I love sketching, especially architecture, and especially after a long crazy day— a good day, but my brain's like in so many different places right now. And sketching is a great way for me just to kind of settle down for the night, unwind, get a little focused. Um, yeah. Yeah, so that's— those are just a few of the reasons I love sketching. Hope you're all doing well. I see Linda out there on YouTube. Linda, great to see you. Hope all's well. Really, really nice to see you out there. Um, so this is a sketch I worked on last night, and I just figured I'd do a couple more things to it while the show was getting started here. So thank you for tuning in, and, um, It's always great when you guys kind of stumble in here into the, into the socials, the interwebs, the live streams, however you want to say that. Um, I like the store, it's pretty cool. I do want to add one thing to wrap it up. I want to break out some colored pencils on here, just pop a little more color, and then we'll do some sketching tonight. Let me know where you're watching from, if you have any questions. Maybe let me know, you know, what did you do today? I hope you had a great day. All right, I'm gonna grab and go. I have some of my favorite colors and pens in here, um, great little travel kit. I'll zoom out for a sec. I did a video on this, I think last week or the week before. If you check out my YouTube channel, um, I go through some of my favorite pens that I like to use. And well, not only pens but colored pencils. So check that video out and yeah, you can learn a little bit more. But I feel like I want to break out some light aqua and throw down some color on this door just to pop some of it out. Um, it was too wet last night, so I had to let it dry overnight to come back. And I'm zoomed in tight, so just so you could see how I love using these Prismacolor pencils. They kind of glide on like butter. Yeah, everything always comes back to food with me. I don't know why, but these glide on like butter and they're very, very, very vibrant. So here we go, let's just throw some on here, put some music on. And, uh, Linda says, all's well, hope you've been well. Thank you. Yeah, I have been really, really good. I've been kind of crazy busy. I have a few different types of projects going on besides, um, school, my teaching, and that's my priority. And I love, love, love teaching high school architecture and CAD so much. But, um, yeah, and I also love doing this stuff, as you know. So thank you for asking. It's been really good. All right, let's throw down some colors. I'm going to pop on a little bit of music, and then I'm going to go into a a quick video I just made. I did show it the other day. I want to play it again just to take you guys with me along on a little urban sketching I did at the Brooklyn Bridge a couple weekends ago. Let me— let's throw down some color. So I'm in the process of mixing up my playlist. So, um, let's go to this one. It's called— I called it Beats 24. A little bit of maybe a little bit of rock and roll-ish type music. So, uh, I know I said like to wind the day down sketching, but I love music, all kinds of music, and I just— I'm kind of like in a little rockish kind of mood. Let's play it. Linda's like, don't forget the Barbie pink. Oh yeah, we got it in here. Always carry the Barbie pink right here. I know that's one of your favorite colors. Cool. All right, let's play some tunes. Let me add some color on this and then we'll, uh, keep moving forward. You guys are amazing. Please let me know where you're watching from. Say hello. I have to actually go click the Go Live button over on Instagram because I realized I forgot to click it. So I just hit the Go Live, so we'll be on Insta as well. All right guys, and I did not do my my hair today. It's been a— it's a bad hair day. We had a pep rally at school outside. It's cold, a little bit windy, so I'm gonna blame my, my, uh, bad hair on the wind today. But this show isn't about my hair, it's about sketching, about creativity. All right, let's put this music on. I'm talking way too much because I'm having too much fun. Is there such a thing as too much fun? No, since Linda popped on and she mentioned it, I'm going to break out some of that pink. Got to always add pink, it's kind of a signature on my sketches. There you go, you can see it better. That was fun. Had a cool beat to it. Yeah, Coldplay, Five for Fighting. Um, love— I love both of those bands. Yeah, I wish, I wish I could play that kind of music. If I start playing that stuff, I get copyrighted. And Facebook and YouTube do not like that. They'll shut me down. The music I'm listening to, I have to pay a monthly— I pay for a subscription to use this music. So it's a music service. Yeah, trust me, there's so many types of music I would love to play for you guys. I'm throwing down some light aqua watercolor, really I'll show you guys. I'm just layering it on super thick, super duper thick, and I just— I really just want to brighten up some of these areas where I threw the aqua last night. I don't want to go crazy and cover it all, but just some touches here and there. This door is weathered in reality, so I think this is just helping to layer and just to, uh shows some of the weathering. Now the colors of this door are not— this is not the colors in reality. This is a door, um, I saw in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. So this is just kind of my way of taking you guys along with me to Maine and seeing through my eyes a little bit. It's not always just about overall buildings, but I like details of buildings, parts of buildings, windows, doors, stairs. So sometimes it's fun just to focus on a piece of architecture and not the overall building. I feel like a lot of— I feel like a lot of us are afraid to sketch architecture because when we look at a building, it could be overwhelming. So much to take in. A lot depends on the building, right? Some buildings are really detailed. Focus on a part of the building you like. It could be even a doorknob, just a detail. Don't always— don't think we have to sketch the entire building. I love mixed media sketches, ink, watercolor, colored pencil. There's so much fun to do. Because each one brings a different feeling and a different vibe. So now I'm liking this. I'm going to put— I think I'm going to put down— actually, I want to splatter. Let's splatter some of this aqua on here. We're going to mess this up, grunge-ify. I love grungy industrial look. Splattering for me adds just some energy and fun, and it also messes up everything on my desk. So I just got some paint back there on my camera. You should see the walls in here. I have somehow, you know, 3 feet away from me, 4 feet away from me, on the wall over there, I have paint splattered there. I don't know how it got there because I try to aim the splattering down. I also don't want to overdo the splatter, so I think that's Enough. Hey, DB is in the house. Great to see you. DB's over there on the Facebook. Um, DB, I, I sent a link out for tomorrow's workshop. I posted it on Facebook. So great to see you, and please let me know if you did not get the link, or let me know if you did get the link. Either way, it'd be great to know. I'm excited about our workshop. I'm host— I'm hosting, um, an online workshop, 2 hours tomorrow night, and the theme is sketching architecture that's inspired by New York City. So we're gonna do a few exercises and, um, get it— you guys taking workshop are gonna get a deeper peek into my sketching brain and we're going to go through what I call the sketch framework. S-K-E-T-C-H. I'll get S. The S stands for seek inspiration. The K is keep an open mind. I have my notes here. E is embrace imperfections. Embrace. T is for take a loose approach. C is a couple things. C stands for comparison trap and capture personality and energy. And the H is just have fun. But, uh, we'll be walking through those tomorrow in more detail. But it's kind of a cool way or a cool framework that I'm going to start sharing more just so you guys watching can kind of get into my brain and follow along with me. A little bit more. This one might be done, guys. I don't want to overdo it. I wasn't even actually planning on adding color. I kind of like it where it is. Let me sign my name and we're going to move on. We'll do another sketch tonight and I think we're going to go— I'll save that. I'll save my journey there in a couple of minutes. I'll tell you where we're where the sketching is going to take us today. And it's not New York City. Let's just sign. I like signing my name on the side of sketches. I don't know why. This is just my thing. Um, and I'll write here, this is Boothbay. Let me know what you guys think of this music. I know it's different. I think it's fun. Uh, this is in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, which is— it's probably in my top 3 favorite places I have, I have been to so far in my life. Love, I love this place, and I hope to get back there next year. We were thinking of going this summer, but our plans have changed, and, um, I think we're headed to Disney this summer. Take a Disney trip. All right guys, cool. Here it is. Check this out. We'll do some close-ups. You can see how things are looking as they're drying. So you can see here where I kind of layered some of the things together, and it gives the door— it gives it a weathered kind of look. It's not a smooth color or a smooth texture. So that's if you want to create maybe aged look on buildings or on doors, on wood, um, you could add layers. It's just one way to do All right, that's our visit to Booth Bay. Again, thank you guys for popping in and joining me, uh, on tonight's sketching journey. All right, what do we got? DB says I'm cutting in and out. Am I? Let's change the music. Am I cutting in and out? Oh no, I'm spinning. Hey, let me know if you guys can hear me okay. Apparently I'm having some tech issues. What the tech is going on? Just give me a thumbs up in the chat or say hey, okay, or not okay. I have no idea. Hopefully I'm live here. Uh, DB, oh wow, I am DB. I'm glad you're out of the hospital. Yeah, and I hope you're doing well, and I'm so happy you're gonna be able to join us tomorrow night. That is awesome. Um, yeah, I, I too like it just the way it is. Cool. DB, I owe you a sketch of something. You can feel free to remind me today or tomorrow. Was it a barn? We sketched something a couple weeks ago and I forgot what, what it was. I have it somewhere. I apologize, I, I can't remember what I, what I was going to mail out to you. Was it the barn? All right, cool. All right, we're going to move on. Let's put this over here. Um, we are going to sketch in my Lockabee field journal because I want to continue a series I've started in here. I'm going to do a check on Facebook and see if I am still streaming. Tech check time. Let's see if I'm live on Facebook. It's kind of weird sounding. Am I live or am I frozen? Hello, testing, 1, 2, 3, am I live? Hmm, it looks like I'm live. I have no idea. You are live. All right, thank you, DB. All right, let's keep moving forward. That's— I'm not sure what's going on with the internet. I apologize, I'm not sure. Uh, D-Ray, looks like D-Ray was in the house. D-Ray, great to see you. Hope all's well. Always feel free to put in the comments if I'm lagging or spinning or there's tech issues. I appreciate you guys letting me know. Alright, so I'm gonna pop on a short video. I want to take you guys along with me as I sketch the Brooklyn Bridge. So yeah, enjoy this little video with some music and you can get a glimpse of what it's like for me when I go out in the field and do some urban sketching. So let's play that video. Here we go, grab your popcorn. Alright.

There you go.

So that is the Brooklyn Bridge. Um, that park in front of the bridge is where I was sketching. You can see me there. Very cold, very windy day. Didn't stop me, but I did— it did make me sketch really fast. Really, really fast. It was so cold. It was like 40 with the wind. And this is sped up. This isn't real time. I did speed up the film. Shout out to my friend Sifat, who shot this video. Sifat of the NYC Walking Channel. This video does not do it justice. This setting is astonishing in person. I could spend hours and hours and hours right here. It was very cold out, so it was actually pretty empty this day. Normally this place is packed on a beautiful day on the weekend. Alright, so there you go. That's just a little taste of me out there sketching in the field. Um, one of the things when you go— when you do like urban sketching is the weather. You never know what kind of weather you're gonna get, and you got to be prepared. All right, cool. Linda says, I am spinning on YouTube. OMG, what the heck is going on with my internet? I don't know what's going on. That's not good. I'll have to take a look at it. All right, so, um, we're gonna do a quick sketch tonight. We're gonna go to the power plant in Spokane, Washington. Um, I'll put a picture on screen. Hold on. So you guys can kind of follow along and see what I'm sketching tonight. So— oh, I said power plant, I'm sorry, the steam plant. I always do that. This is a steam plant in Spokane, Washington. Really cool building. It was an actual steam plant that powered Spokane. Um, it has since then been refurbished into a pub restaurant with office spaces. Really amazing example of architectural, um, reuse of a space. So really, really cool. So I thought it'd be fun, let's just maybe do a sketch of the outside of the steam plant. I'll pop it over here. Um, there you go. Awesome. Yeah, I wish this tech thing is driving me nuts. I wish I wasn't spinning and stuff. So hold on a sec. I am now going to YouTube land. This is an inside peek of you guys. You can see what actually is going on during a recording here, a live streaming. But you know what? That is all right. This is actually— I'm actually glad this is happening. There are no tech issues when you carry paper. Well, I shouldn't say no, but there are no high-tech issues with me carrying paper and a pen or pencil. Yeah, your pencil lead might break or your ink might run out, but there are no tech issues like, uh, glitching and getting hung up. So one of the reasons I love kind of old-school manual drawing sketching is for that very reason. My paper's not going to crash, um, you know, I'm not going to get any, any viruses on my paper. So there's a lot to be said about doing things by hand the old-school way, and that's exactly what I'm doing in school with my high school my high school kids in CAD class, we just took a break, a 2-week break from using the computers. I have them drawing old school using rulers and T-squares and triangles and pencils, drawing boards, paper, tape. Um, it's a great, great exercise for them and for me to learn what is the advantages and disadvantages are of tech and hand drawing, right? Um, so I think that's cool. The reason I'm showing this to you guys, this is— these are sketches that were inspired from the inside of the steam plant. You may have seen me sketch some of these live. Um, you can go back on my YouTube channel, check out some of those videos. So let's do one of the outside. I really like this. This actually. I also have some NYC stuff in here. It's kind of a mixture, but we're gonna go to a blank page. Pro tip: binder clips are great to carry around with you. Um, definitely had this out on that windy day in the video, helped to lock the pages down. All right, let's put some tunes on while we're sketching. We're gonna go to Uh, we're gonna hit this playlist. I'm gonna try to— I'm gonna try to get you guys inside my brain a little bit as I'm sketching this, as we do some— love this music. This will be fun to sketch to.

Alright.

Alright, again, this is the steam plant in Spokane, Washington. As I'm looking at this, I'm going to sketch the stacks first. And I'm probably— I'm actually going to do, I think, maybe a small sketch in this area. Sometimes what I'll do is I'll sketch a frame. Wobbly kind of loose frame. 9 out of 10— a 9 out of 10 chance that I will sketch outside this frame. It's just there to give me a visual, plus I like the way it looks on a sketch. And I'm not trying to aim— I'm not aiming to fit this entire photograph. Into the sketch. I'm just going to pick out the stacks and we'll see what we can get from there. I'm just, uh, I'm, uh, I'm kind of cracking myself up here in my brain. Here's what I'm thinking. I love this music, but I'm just thinking how this music It has really nothing to do with the environment that when I was sketching here. I think it's fun to put the contrast together of the music and the architecture, the location. It's so fun. I'm going to exaggerate this. I think I'm actually going to bring this up here even higher. I'm going to let it go outside the frame. We're going to throw down some color on this, so don't be afraid to exaggerate things. This is definitely not to scale. I'm sketching more just to capture a feeling or a vibe. Yeah, let's see, the building comes out of here like that a little bit. Um, there are these train cars in front. There's a train track up here, so let's just sketch, uh, let's sketch one of these train cars or maybe a couple. So it's an active railroad here. Very, very industrial area. Spokane's a— it's an interesting city. Um, I think the architecture is very interesting. Industrial. As you can see from this building, there's a really cool riverfront park with waterfalls, some really amazing old buildings, historic buildings in the city. And unfortunately, there is a lot of homelessness going on in that city, but That's nothing. I'm not going to really talk about that, but it's just— it's there. It's a vibe. It's sad. It's sad. But as I'm sketching this, I'm just remembering being there, and I just love architecture, and I just imagine stories of the things that have taken place in these buildings.

Cool, right?

So you can kind of see the stacks going on there. We're gonna leave it at that. Let's throw down some color. So you can see where I went outside that frame, but I like it. I like breaking through the frame. I think it just adds interest to it. Yeah, sorry for anybody on YouTube. I, I don't know how I got cut off there, but I did. That stinks. Alrighty, cool. So let's, uh, throw down some color. Notice, right, my proportions are off. If you look at the photo, you look at this, heights are off, spacing's off a little bit. It doesn't bother me. I have that photograph. If I want the exact thing I saw, it's in the picture. This is my interpretation, my fun, loose sketching. As I'm sketching this, I remember— I'm remembering being there and the things I saw and conversations that were had. Sketching for me really is a way of capturing moments and feelings in time, just like a photograph does. But for me, sketching, I retain things better. All right, cool. Let's, uh, throw down some ink. I have some Apple Snail. I've talked about this color so many times. I hope I can talk about it a lot, a lot more times. I think I'm a third of the way through the bottle. They are not making this color currently. I don't know if they'll ever make it again.

Again.

So Birmingham Pen Company, if you're listening, I love your inks. Bring back Apple Snail, please, so I can stock up on it. Just gonna grab a paper towel. Behind me, to the right of me. 9:23. I'm gonna wrap up at 9:30. 9:30. D-Ray, thank you. D-Ray says looks great here. Thank you so much. Same thing goes with the colors as the sketching. I'm not, I'm not trying to replicate the colors there. There are times when I do, but most of the time it's just— I'm just grabbing and going with colors I have here. And quite honestly, just colors I like, especially when I do industrial grungy kind of vibes. There's certain colors I tend to gravitate towards. I love, love, love this color. Oh my gosh. Ah, yes, you just heard a grown man swooning or sighing over a color. It does happen. Some of you guys out there might get it. I'm sure you do get what I'm— get why, right? It's just paint drying, colors mixing, colors, pens. Paper. I just love this stuff. I love, love, love it. And I love what you guys do. I see your artwork posted, um, I see your comments, your feedback. So thank you so much for, for joining me as I work on these sketches. All right, let's dig in. Let's go for We're going to grab some turquoise here. You can tell my palette is well used, yeah, by the colors on here. I'm a very, very sloppy painter. I mix not only here, but I'll mix here, and I don't always wipe my brush off. So there are amazing, incredibly gifted watercolor artists out there doing astonishing work and are very meticulous. I'm not one of those guys. I'm kind of fast, frantic, just going for it kind of guy. So everybody has different styles, and that's what makes art fun. That's what makes it unique. We can all just bring our own voice to what we're doing. Oh, I love this. I'm going to zoom in so you guys can see this. Um, and that's where the C in my sketch framework, S-K-E-T-C-H, um, the C, the comparison trap is something that I work on all the time, is not comparing what I'm doing to other architectural sketchers out there. Everybody's unique. Um, I admire other sketchers, I love what they do for sure, but I'm work— I work really hard not to compare what I'm doing to what they're doing, because when I do that it kind of shuts me down. It freezes me. It freezes my creativity. If I start comparing myself to, uh, Xavier— I just made that name up— Xavier the Excellent Artist, it's gonna make me feel kind of inferior, and inferior is confidence, and low confidence is going to stop me from creating or halt the creative flow or process. So, um, try not to fall into the comparison trap, right? And if you are, you can do a couple things. If I'm comparing myself to Xavier, excellent artist, I like that name, um, I could do one— I could shut myself down and be like, I'm not good enough, forget it. I'm done sketching. But another way to spin it is, hey, Xavier's doing really cool stuff. I'm gonna use that fire to fire me up to bring my A-game to the next level. What would be the next level of A-game? Your A+ game? I don't know. So you can use it to kind of fuel yourself and fire yourself, fire those creative neurons, and, and keep propelling yourself forward and growing, right? We all need to grow. Growing equals life. If we're not growing, we're stagnant like a swamp. I do like Kermit. I know he's from a swamp, but keep growing. All right. As I was talking, I kind of want to let this dry a little bit. I'm going to zoom in even more. I absolutely love and hope the lighting is picking this up. I'm loving here the color is mixing, the hard edges where the paint's drying, looking super cool. I don't know if this is being picked up on camera, just underneath the turquoise you can see the outline of the Apple Snail Ink peeking through. It looks really, really cool in person. Just like my hair. No, no, that, that was a joke. Um, all right, cool. Let me look at the comments, see if there's any questions out there in Facebook land. Um, if anybody's watching on Insta, hello Insta people. I don't know if anybody's watching there. If you are, fantastic. And YouTube, I hope that you are streaming me again and it's still not hung up. All right, um, yeah, DB says, are those train cars in front of that are white? Let me zoom in, I'll show you. So here's the big picture, get a nice close-up. So yeah, those are train cars. Pretty cool. Hey, D-Race looks great. Thank you so much, I'm glad you guys are liking this. What's the name of that ink company? Here, the ink company is, um, I gotta move this so you can see the camera. Let's make that smaller again. Actually, maybe let's put it here. Is that helpful? I'll leave it here. Um, here we go. It's called the Birmingham Pen Company in Pittsburgh. I probably have, let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15 to 20 different colors of ink. Love their ink. Not cheap. It's not cheap, but getting some good, um, use time out of it. Great question. Excellent. I'm hearing grunge, sloppy clean, not creativeness to others. Awesome question. Oh, you found your paintbrush? Yeah, D-Ray, it's so funny. I found my paintbrush. I love using this brush. It's a, it's a bamboo brush. I wish I remember the company. I think it wore off. Yeah, this actually rolls underneath my, my drawing board that this is all set on. So it rolled underneath. I found it right before I came online. All right, let's zoom in. We're going to add some more colors. And as we travel to— what kind of music is this? I like it. Where in the world would this— would you hear this kind of music? I'm dipping in here, I'm grabbing some orange.

Orange.

Orange you glad I'm doing that? Yeah, I'm just so full of dad jokes. Of course I feel— I do feel bad for my students. I, yeah, I'm always laying, laying on the, uh, laying on, putting on, saying the dad jokes. Look at how cool, look at this orange, how it's popping off the page, pal. Notice I brought it up in here because I just want to tie it together a little bit. So that was intentional, tying these colors in. I'm going to throw a little bit more pink down in here. We'll tie these in. Yeah, yeah, this looks really fab. I really like this white here, so I don't think I'm going to throw any more color on that chimney stack. I'm— let me raise this. I like to paint at an angle or add water at an angle so everything runs down. It's just a look I like. Um, I'm just gonna throw this under here and just put it at a slight angle. I just like gravity do some of the work. Gravity is a really good tool in our artistic magic toolkit. Let gravity play around with your sketches. All right, cool. I think there's enough orange for now. Can anybody guess What color is my brain saying that I want to throw down next? You may have seen a pattern when I do this type, these types of buildings. Let me know in the comments what color do you think I'll throw down next on here. Um, Mickey's in the house. Trouble with the network on Facebook, catch the replay. Yeah guys, this is frustrating. I'm so sorry. I don't know what's up with my internet. No es bueno. Okay, what did you do by zooming in? Hmm, I'm not sure what the question— that question is. Thierry, I'm not sure what you mean, what did I do by zooming in? You could let me know, that'd be awesome. Oh, is my— when I'm zooming in, is that messing up Facebook? Yeah, I'm trying to think in my brain what's happening. I wonder why nobody's watching on YouTube. What the tech! All right, if you guessed I'm going to be using some Lemon Yellow, you were correct. I just want to throw a bit of a pop of freshness or a bit of zestiness on this. For me, this kind of lemon yellow color has— adds that freshness or brightness or zestiness, um, to these sketches. I'm liking the white spaces on here. I feel like I'm going to do something in the background. Let's get our zesty— zestiness happening here. I keep— yeah, no, I don't want to do anything. I want to leave this. You can kind of see the water running down now since I tilted the book up. Oh, you lost me too. Yeah, what is— I don't know. I'm not sure what's going on with the tech. It's kind of Insane. I'm going to take a tech check here, let me see what's going on. Um, I wish I had people on Insta because I would like to know if Insta is freezing up also. I'm going to YouTube, let me see what's going on in YouTube land. YouTube's on. It looks like it's working on YouTube. I know there's a delay, so let me wave there. I'm looking on the Insta online. We'll see. I'm not sure if anybody is on YouTube. Let me know in the comments. So, uh, I want to know how it's working over there. I'm actually going to log out of that, maybe save some bandwidth. All right, all right, you guys are awesome. So yeah, we threw down some lemon yellow. We're working on the power plant here in Spokane, Washington. I'm going to flip back so you can see the colors. I'm trying to coordinate the colors. I want this to be a series, um, of sketches. I would love— I have some ideas in the future of this building and some projects I'd like to do, some art projects. Um, so here's the first one. There's a second one I did. So just take a look at the colors. So you can see a theme with the colors happening, and that's intentional. D-Ray is like, huh? Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna wrap up in a couple minutes, guys. I hope, uh, I hope you're enjoying this. I think we might actually be at a good stopping point for this tonight so I can let this dry. I'll come back tomorrow, add some colors, some more ink. I'll pull out my Sharpie or my Pilot Precise Pen and we'll add some details. It's a fairly small sketch. You can see my pen next to it. So don't feel like you always need to sketch big. You can sketch small. You can sketch smaller than this, paint smaller than this. Linda, who watches a lot, Linda S. Over on Facebook. Linda does amazing miniature paintings, really cool stuff. Awesome. All right guys, I think I'm gonna wrap. Um, sorry about the tech. Hopefully the replay is kind of smooth. If not, we'll try to figure out what's going on. I appreciate you guys so, so much. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for supporting me with your positivity and your comments. Yeah, it's just so much fun for me to be able to do this. Keep using your creativity for positivity out there in the world. D-Ray says, that's what I was getting to, yellow. You got it, D-Ray. You knew I was going with the yellow. Ding, ding, ding, ding. 10 points for D-Ray. But yeah, guys, keep using your creativity for for positivity or put positive vibes out there. Just do something nice. Our world, we need a little more niceness. We need manners back in the world, and, uh, that's a whole different conversation. We need empathy. That's another conversation. Guys, you're awesome. Thank you so much. I will not be live tomorrow night because I have a workshop going on. Um, so some of you guys will be in that. It'll be cool. Take care, have a great, great rest of your Friday night. Um, peace and live creatively. I'll see you guys real soon. Take care, and maybe next time I'll get my hair done. Take care, guys, have a great day. Finish buttons right there. D-Ray, see where I'm pointing? That's where the finish button is, right down there. All right, peace, live creatively, see you guys soon.