Jason Nicholas sketches a New York City Chinatown streetscape on mixed-media paper, narrating his pen technique and material choices. He works through a quick warm-up, draws hanging lights and bustling perspective views of Mott Street, and hints at adding watercolor or colored pencil later.
Hey everybody, happy, um, Friday. Hope you're doing well. There we go, just want to click a button there. Hope you're doing well. Um, on just for like 10 minutes tonight, I want to do just a quick sketch. Hope your Friday is going awesomely well. Oh yeah, let's just do some sketching. I haven't sketched anything other than I'm just doing a quick warm-up here. Sometimes I'll just take a small scrap piece of paper, um, just to get the pen started, kind of get my rhythm going here, get in the mood. I'll just do a little bit of quick sketching. Cool. Anyway, anyway, let me know how your day is going and where you're watching from. It's always fun to pop on here. So I am just sketching in kind of, um, what do they call this paper? I guess like a mixed media paper. It's not really meant for watercolor or any kind of painting, but I thought I'd just do, um, just a quick maybe perspective city type of sketch here. Let's just do it and have some fun. Trying to figure, let's see, we were— we have our street kind of coming back this way here. Then maybe we'll do another— maybe our focal point is somewhere kind of in that area. So I'm actually sketching a streetscape. Kind of inspired by Chinatown in New York City. And this would be, I guess, Mott Street here. And Mott Street's a really cool, pretty cool street. A lot of different restaurants happening on here. And you'll see I'll be drawing some lights that are kind of hanging across the street as well. And it's kind of a, kind of a chaotic, busy-looking street, so that's kind of the feeling I just want to portray is a little bit of, a little bit of chaos on the street. Right, there you go, guys. I think I'm done for the night. So, um, yeah, just a quick city scene here inspired by Chinatown in New York City. I have actually not walked in that area, but it's a really cool place based on pictures I've seen. But hope you guys like this quick perspective sketch, and I hope you have an awesome rest of your your Friday night. Thanks for watching, thanks for sharing, thanks for liking. Keep paying it forward out there with your positivity and your creativity. I appreciate you guys so, so much. And I just saw Jennifer Thistle's name pop up. Jennifer, cheers from Arizona! It is awesome to see you. It's been a while. I hope you're doing well, my friend. It's always fun and great to see your name pop up on on the livestream. So, thank you, Jennifer. So cool to see you. I did— I'm almost done. I thought I was finished with this, but I didn't. I didn't sign them. So, let's sign these. Actually, let's do a quick recap because I did two other ones here, these kind of perspective scenes. One, two. And then I wanted to do a bigger, just kind of a bigger sketch on this section right here. Pretty cool. I think I'm going to add some color. This paper is, like I said, it's kind of mixed media. I might be able to do a light wash of watercolor on here. I'll try that on maybe tomorrow or a different day, but I can definitely do colored pencil, which you see here on this one. I think it'd be fun to try some watercolor. Hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. Take care. I'm out. Hopefully I'll be on over the weekend. I have a lot of stuff to do, but it's all good. Take care, guys. Peace. Live creatively. I'll see you real, real soon. Be well. I'm looking for the finish button. Jennifer, it was great to see your name pop up again. Hopefully I'll catch you again sometime live. Take care, guys.
