The INKspired Life - Architectural Sketching - St. Patricks Cathedral

Hey there, guys. Happy, um, Friday, January 19th. Hope you're doing well. Keeping warm, safe, dry, cool, wherever you are in the world. I know it's crazy out there. I'm on for a few minutes tonight. I'm going to do some sketching. I think I have— I think we do something inspired by St. Patrick's Cathedral. So let me check in, see who is tuning in, say hello, and then we'll get sketching. Hey, D-Ray, good to see you. D-Ray says, what? Be doing? Be doing a sketch of, uh, of St. Patrick's Cathedral. This is why I do not teach language arts. I have not mastered the art of speaking. Um, yeah, so we're gonna be sketching an interior shot, and what gave me the idea was this here. This was a sketch inspired by the Biltmore, and it had kind of these Gothic arches happening. And I'll show you the picture of St. Patrick's. I'm going to bring it on screen. Hey, Linda S is in the house! How the heck are you? The S stands for spectacular. It's, uh, so great to see you. So let's bring this on screen. Um, here's an interior shot of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan, New York incredible, incredible, amazing, beautiful structure. I have a lot of pictures inside and I just picked this one for tonight. So, our sketch is gonna be really loosely based upon this. So, let's have fun and do some sketching. If you haven't been to St. Patrick's, it's— I know I said it before, but it is gorgeous, incredible building. Happy Friday. Thank you. I was at St. Pat's beautiful. Yeah, let me show you some other images, guys. It's sketchy. So Linda, I'm so glad you were there. Um, let's see, here's some really— here's a really cool perspective shot. Like it, like it. I have to say, there, there is one thing I don't like about the interior, and I'm wondering if there was a better solution. Can you guys guess what is something— just look at this picture— what is something you feel like does not belong on the interior? Let me know in the chat. We're doing a little, uh, little Arca speak before we do some sketching. Why not, right? Oh wow, that's going to be awesome sketch. Uh, yeah, it should be fun to work on. So yeah, let me know, what do you think? What is something maybe you that kind of pops out as not really belonging. Hey, Donna's in the house! Donna, great to see you. Yeah, Donna, you got it. Um, so these black— I don't— I'm guessing these are speakers. If they're not speakers, there's some kind of monitors, like TVs maybe, to So the verse that's being sung, I'm not sure. So speakers or monitors, they really— I kind of wish they had a better architectural solution than those big black panels. Anyway, I'm being a little critical. Let's see, I'm gonna look, see if I can find another image, then we'll get sketching. Actually, here's a close-up. Of those. There, show it. So it looks like they're monitors or TV screens just based on the glare and reflection in the picture. Kind of ugly, right? Hey, Jason Nicholas, great to see you. Hope all is well. The far right window. Yeah, so for— I was— it was a speaker. So I'll show you one more image. Like I said, I could spend an hour just showing you pictures of this building. When I went, I was really lucky, it was very empty inside. I love, love, love this view. This is such— you know what, let's go for this sketch tonight. I'm going to use this as inspo. Why the heck not, right? This is just really Magnificent viewpoint. Look at those arches, look at the stained glass windows. I can't do it justice. All right, let's shrink it down. I'm going to be brave and leave it on screen. Usually I turn off the pictures only because people tune in and they're expecting me to sketch exactly what the picture is showing. That's not how I roll. It's just there for inspo. All right, guys. Those are monitors to watch what you are doing. Security. Oh, interesting. That would be— that could be what they're for. I love the design of the columns. Look like trees. Oh yeah, right. It's almost like being in a forest. Check out Barcelona. Google. La Familia Sagrada. La Familia Sagrada. Google the building, um, designed by Antoni Gaudí. It's been under construction for over 100 years, slated to be finished in 2026, I believe. Check out the interior. Well, the ex— they're both beautiful, but check out the interior. It really has a forest-like feeling in there. So cool. All right guys, I'm doing a lot of talking. I'm sorry, I should be sketching. No, I'm not sorry. All right, um, let's just go for it. Some music here. Just gonna start with a Sharpie, see what— see where it goes. This is This is by no means an easy, easy interior to sketch, and that's why I'm sketching it. Just wanna see what I can capture in a few minutes. I'm gonna force myself to be really quick with this. See if we can do it some kind of justice. So let's talk, um, creative mindset a little bit. I hope you guys are up for that. So right now, this is an inspired life. I like to ink out loud or think out loud with you guys. My brain is too focused on the photograph. And you heard me right, I did say I'm too focused on the photograph that I'm sketching, and it's really not making me feel loose when I'm sketching this. I'm feeling kind of really uptight mentally, and that mental uptightness is going down to my hands, and it's really not as loose and quick and fun. That's kind of— that's the thing. I'm not feeling fun sketching this. I'm feeling like it's a chore and for creative mindset, for me personally, I never want to feel like it's a chore I'm doing. This is my fun downtime. This is, you know, my passion and why am I feeling that way? Because I keep— I was kind of I'm putting in my brain, and you heard me say it, how difficult this is to sketch. And once I start putting that into my mind, it's like, all right, you're not going to get this right no matter what you do. So self-talk is a really important, um, thing, whether it's creating art piece or whatever, anything in life. But how the words that you say to yourself can be very powerful. They could put you in a positive state and negative state, a tired state and energetic state. So, just kind of watch the words that you're using when you're talking to yourself. Getting a little deep here, but a lot of what I do is a lot of has to do with creative mindset skills and I just want to kind of share what I'm thinking with you guys. I'm not hating it, but I'm not loving it right now. I'm going to keep working on it, we'll see what happens. Another thing I usually will do before I start a sketch is I'll set an intention, some kind of mental intention, like what is my result, what am I looking to do, you know, am I just going to play with color on this, am I going to focus on maybe the columns and see how I can capture the idea of a column. Is that going to be the perspective? So sometimes before I start a piece, I'll put that in my brain, like, where, where do I want to head with it? And I didn't do any intentions tonight either. So hopefully that makes sense. Hope you guys are cool with kind of the mental, the mindset part of creating. It's not always just about the technical, it's about how we're thinking and how we're approaching our artwork. So now I'm actually starting to feel a little bit looser. I'm going— for me, quicker speed lots of times equals looser, more flowing type of sketching, and that's my vibe. Kind of, kind of like an Now, creative mindset. Yeah, thinking outlook right now. That's right. Thank you, D-Ray, for kind of paraphrasing me. Hey, Janice is in the house. Janice, how are you? Oh my gosh, long time no see. Janice and I, um, we were chat buddies back on The Urbanist. Um, check out Ariel The Urbanist on YouTube. He's awesome. But, uh, you know, Janice was in the chat there, and I think you would say hello in the chat, so it's great to see you in here. It's been a while. Deep breath, yeah, something you could definitely do. So those of you guys have taken workshops like Linda, um, we talked about deep breaths. We talked about an exercise I like to do sometimes is I'll close my eyes. I call them med incitations, med incitation. Take a blank piece of paper, close your eyes and a minute or two, listen to music and just kinda— you see my hand, my eyes are closed, my hand's just moving. It kinda just frees you, puts you in a clear mindset, a blank slate kind of mindset. So, you can do exercises like that. Good point. You guys are awesome. Every sketch painting has an ugly stage. Yeah, you have to work through it. Yep. So, I've talked about that. I call that the ugly duckling syndrome. Every work of art has— every creation has an ugly duckling syndrome. So, that's awesome that you said that. I always— excuse me. I often talk about Bob Ross and when I was a kid, I'm still a kid at heart, but when I was growing up, I would watch Bob Ross on PBS. Religiously and for me, Bob Ross always had that moment where his painting just transformed in an instant. It went from the ugly duck to a beautiful swan or whatever birds you like. Yeah, so, be patient. There are the ugly duckling stages of artwork. You guys are awesome. I'm loving the chat and the sketching tonight. All right, I'm adding elements. It's coming, it's cool. I'm happy with it, guys. I'm enjoying it. You know, this mindset stuff really also applies to what I like to call blank paper syndrome. You know, we'll look at papers, a sheet of paper sometimes, and not know where to start with our drawing or painting. And a lot of that goes back to mental creative mindset. You'll hear more about my mental mindset stuff, creative mindset. I'm working on that constantly and I want to share it with you guys. And I'm going to turn what I do into creative coaching. I'd like to be a creativity coach and help creatives like you guys, myself, to kind of break some of those barriers like blank paper syndrome or being frustrated with your work, comparison trap, you know, comparing your work to others can really freeze you up. So, cool. All right, we got some ink on. I like— I'm actually liking the really looseness. Let's have fun and throw some color down. And I use the word throw color down because we're literally gonna throw it down. I'm not even gonna really think. I have my watercolor paint here, uh, I have some ink here. I'm gonna open it up. We're just gonna grab and go and paint and sketch and see what happens. I have a red pen. Let's just be really playful. So now I'm setting an intention, what I want to do. My intention is be really fun, fast, loose, throw color down. So our attention is to throw color down.

Cool.

Hope you guys are enjoying this. Let me know if I'm getting too deep with the mindset stuff. Here's something I haven't done in a while. I haven't used a, um, Red Pilot Precise Pen. Let's throw some red on here. And I really like— I like bleeding this red Pilot pen. I love the red color it gives. Sometimes I like using it more than like red watercolor. Let's do it. Let's just bleed some. This is just a red Pilot Precise Pen, a V7. Yes, I love— let me zoom in. This is what I'm loving. You probably— did you guys notice like a change in my voice? I'm like, I am pumped now. Just throwing this color down just brought me to a whole different place. I love this color, what's happening with red. Um, you know what, hold on a sec. I was gonna use turquoise watercolor, but I'm actually gonna— let's use our Varsity, Pilot Varsity. And D-Ray, I think this is what you had used in the— on your onion dome you did, was Was it the Pilot Varsity? Um, I loved— I really loved that, that painting you did. It was very, very cool. If I remember, I think you did bleed some of this, this ink on there. Oh yeah, look at that. I actually did— I also— I actually just See, now I'm excited, I really can't talk. Um, I did something, I don't know what they call it in watercolor or mixed media, I call it bridging. Um, I just bridged two colors together, this apple snail color and the blue, and I'll show you what I'm talking about. Let's just do it over, um, do it here. I'm going to zoom in. So I'm going to throw down some of this turquoise, and I'm going to bridge the two colors. And what I mean is just take my paintbrush, it's got water on it, and I'm literally just going to kind of dab where the two colors were close to each other and let them mix on the paper. So I just call that bridging because in my brain it's like we're connecting the pieces together with the water, which is like a bridge. Hopefully that makes sense. Yeah, this is fun, guys. I'm really— this is cool. And then I'll come back after it dries like I always do. I'll throw down some details, and you're here for the journey, so you'll see how it ends up. Whether I finish it tonight or not, I'll definitely post the finish. Hey Becky, it's good to see you. Uh, Becky says you made a nitty— oh, a nifty, sorry, a nifty green. Yeah, look at that, right? Got some nifty greens happening also. Do you— did you guys see something? So this is inside St. Patrick's, right? Am I yelling? Sorry if I'm yelling, maybe the music's too loud, um, or I'm just getting old. I, I'm seeing a cross shape. Does anybody else see a cross here happening? That was totally not planned, but my brain's saying there's a crosshair happening. So it's really cool. You know what? We're really— we're doing a lot of different things. I'm going to grab a yellow Sharpie highlighter with smear guard. Let's see. Actually, let's see how the smear guard works because we're going to throw some highlighter on here. I was going to dip into the watercolor paint, but let's go with this instead. I actually, I actually want to see if I can bleed some of this yellow. I'm just throwing some water on here. Let's see if this bleeds. So it is bleeding with water. I guess it didn't dry long enough, and that's cool. So you can bleed these highlighters while they're still wet, I guess. Uh, let me zoom out a little bit.

Yeah, cool.

We're really throwing a lot here, so we have some highlighter happening. Um, also have this out. Got a Preppy. I love the Preppy yellow in here, such a great color. But I love the color even more right out of the tube. It's more vibrant. So we have some yellow— it's actually gonna look orange— and, uh, we're gonna just splatter some on here. We'll zoom in and I'm going to take my brush and just going to— check out that color. Pretty awesome, right? So that's the Preppy pen. This is the Preppy Yellow. To me, it has a yellow-orange-ish color. I do have to be careful not to color in too much. I want to leave a lot of white space on this, kind of balance the color out. Pretty cool. You guys, you guys liking this one? All right. Let's see, I'm missing some comments. Sorry if I missed your comments. Janice says, oh, I see now, cathedral. Yeah, so Janice, this is, um, inside St. Patrick's. This is roughly using this photograph as a starting point, an inspo point. Obviously St. Patrick's is not this vibrant inside. It is very elegant. Ethereal building inside. Um, paper has an interesting texture. So Becky, this paper is right here. This is the Fabriano 1264 watercolor. I'm really loving the Fabriano. I'm using it a lot these days. So you can see the texture here if I kind of do this. So yeah, I do like this paper. I love it for these quick sketches here. You can see kind of here how it skipped here in these white spots. Hopefully that makes sense. Great comments, guys. Thank you guys for joining. Um, I appreciate I appreciate all you say and all your feedback, so thank you. Um, Deray says yes, Varsity. All right, cool. So it was the Varsity pen. Yep. And that's the blue I just threw down. Let's try something with the Varsity. We have the Varsity and then we have the Preppies. Um, I have a dark blue Preppy. No, actually, yeah, let's try that. I just want to see how well this bleeds on a wet damp area just by tapping on it. So I'm just tapping the Varsity pen down. I tap it down here also. So the Varsity pens really bleed nice in a wet area. I think they bleed better than a Preppy pen. Try the same thing. I don't know if this one— is this one even working?

Let's see.

Yeah, yeah, it's— it is. So if you want to use, like, bleed these types of pens in wet areas, um, I think the Varsee does a better job than the prepping. I always feel like I'm in college when I talk about varsity pens and prepping pens. I don't know why, it's kind of weird. Just gonna bleed this a little bit, mix those up.

Cool.

Hope you guys are liking this one. Um, it's really going to come together even more when I start adding some, just some details with a Sharpie on, on top of it. Oh wait, did we miss a birthday? Becky, happy belated birthday to you, guys! Let's give some thumbs up or some hearts out there in the chat. Um, looks like Becky Happy, happy bladed birthday to you. That's so awesome. Very cool. I hope you had some delicious cake or cupcakes or something. All right, let's go, um, I actually brought out my graphite stick. Let's use the graphite on here a little bit just to give some dark areas. I could do it with black ink. I can mix some shadow colors with my watercolor paints here. I was going to mix shadow colors. I like to take blue and brown to mix my shadows. You can kind of see in here, but we're just going to throw down some graphite tonight. It's just— we're going to throw it right down on paper and we'll wet it. This is water soluble, so we can wet it and move it around and stuff. Read that, might be blurry. And I am, I am also using dirty water. I haven't changed this in about 2 weeks, and I just, I like the aesthetic of the dirty water. I just dipped this in water. I'm gonna kind of sketch paint with it. So Becky was talking about texture of the paper. I'll zoom in, you can see One of the things I really like about using graphite sticks is they're really awesome at picking up the texture of the paper and you can really see here what's happening. Well, you can even see here in the wet area, right? See how that graphite's picking up the texture here also. I like the way this is coming together. It might look a little crazy and busy, but that's fun. It's fun. Maybe it's a reminder that, um, sometimes life is crazy and busy and we can go— we need a quiet moment. We could step into a structure like St. Patrick's Cathedral and slow down and reflect on things. See, see what I just did there? I hope you guys are enjoying this. Hope you're getting some— getting something out of what I'm doing tonight. Love it, love it, love it, love it. Yes, the cross. So, D-Ray, you do see the cross. Very cool. Probably way behind on the chat. You have a lot of bright colors going on there tonight. Yeah, Linda H, great to see you. Welcome, Linda H. I do, I do. One of my intentions was just to throw down color and have fun. Um, we're gonna throw down some dark blue now. Good observation. Texture must be good, it's showing on the camera. Yes, that was for dramatic effect. Did it work? Let's try it again. Yes.

All right.

That was, that was my drama for the night. I love when you guys say hello to each other. You're awesome. Love your granite work. Awesome. Whoever's doing granite work, it must be pretty awesome. All right, so I feel like I need some cool colors on here. We're going to cool this down. We're just going to throw down some blue preppy here. I did not, I did not prep. I did not prepare for tonight. I have to be honest with you, I rarely, I, I rarely prepare for coming online. Other than I will have usually an idea or photograph what I want to do lately. Other than that, I just kind of just going with it. If I was to prepare for these shows, I would feel like it's work, and I don't want to take— I just don't want that feeling to happen. It's meant to be fun. Fun, spontaneous, loose, out of the box. That's another reason I don't really have a fixed schedule, um, because then I'm not stressing like, oh yeah, I gotta be on tonight at 9 o'clock, what am I gonna do? What if I'm really tired? I'm like, oh, I gotta go on, I'm really tired. Um, check out the blue. I'm, I'm loving this blue preppy. And I really am loving the, the blue contrasting with these more vibrant colors. It's kind of bringing them down a little bit.

I think—

I feel like we need something up here also. Throw some in here.

Oops, you guys can see what I'm doing.

There we go, it's out of the frame there a little bit. Sorry, I'm just throwing some over here. This is kind of what I was talking about with the, the preppies, trying to resketch or add ink on the wet area. It's not really coming out so well. I have a dark— I do, I have a dark blue varsity here. See how that works. Yeah, so this is working better for me. What I'm really amazed at is I haven't used these in a long time and they're actually kind of working right out of the box. So to speak. They're not all dried up and stuff, so that's a good sign also. Loving it. Oh, the graphite work. Graphite work. Thank you. Got it. Nice blue and orange. Yeah, thanks. This is a cool color combo happening. They work really well next to each other. This is so fun. I think I'm getting to a point where I definitely have enough different colors. I think I'm getting to a point where I want this to dry so I can start adding some details on. Oop, I smeared it here a little bit. It's all right, it's all right, we can just cut this off if we need to. All right, let's let this dry for a second, do a quick recap of all the stuff that was used on here. In no particular order, we threw down some of our Preppy Yellow. I'm gonna throw some more down, why not. Um, so we have some crappy yellow. Got the spy music on. Uh, one of the things I will say about Preppy pens is the barrels crack really easily. You can see a crack right here, maybe. Um, so I can't tighten this, and so the barrel doesn't stay on the pen. So be careful with Preppies, they do crack pretty easily. We use the Preppy. We had our turquoise Varsity. Should put the line up, do a lineup here. Let's do a lineup here. Dark, maybe just regular blue Varsity. We also had a blue Preppy. One of my faves is a Pilot Precise. I love the black pens for sketching, I love the red pens for sketching and bleeding. We used Sharpie highlighter. Holy moly. Of course, started with a Sharpie as usual. Graphite stick. Stick, brush, no watercolor, so we did not throw any watercolor down tonight. Close that up. I think that's— oh no, we also did throw down some ink as well. So a lot of stuff is on this one sheet of paper. We don't want prep, we like those loose, non-stressing visits. Thanks, D-Ray, I appreciate that. Yeah, that's kind of how I roll. I agree. I see Joan Saramala just joined us on Instagram. Welcome, Joan, hope all is well. Uh, this time of night I'm lucky it can— I can spell anything. D-Ray, you're funny. So this is what we use so far, guys. I maybe went a little overboard, but it was— when I say we're going to throw down some color and play around with some different pens, that's exactly what happened. Um, very cool. I do want to throw some more ink down as I'm looking at this. Becky says, I am terrible at spelling. Becky, I hate to break it to you, man, but you actually spelled that sentence correctly.

You.

So kudos to you. Um, and if you— I'm looking at the microphone like it's actually looking back at me. Very strange. Um, dry time. We're going to let it dry a little bit and then we're going to throw down some ink. So if you guys want to stick around till like 9, I'm going to be on till 9:30. I'm going to wrap at 9:30. 9:30. I just want to liven up some of these areas in here. Again, we don't want to get too cray cray, so I think I'll stop with that. Throw down some ink, and we're going to change the music playlist in a second. Janice says nice. I like like it, guys. If Janice likes it, we're in good shape. Janice, how, um, how much snow did you guys get by you? I was watching, um, CFOT tonight, or earlier today, so I saw it was— you had some snow over there in NYC. Playing with color is always fun. Yes, it is, Linda. Guys, you know what would be fun right now? Throw down— throw down in the chat. Can't throw it down. Could try. In the chat, just let me know, what are your favorite colors? What are some of your favorite colors? I would love to know from you guys. Throw it down in the chat. Um, yeah, it'd be fun for me to see. All right, I'm going to switch up the playlist a little bit. We're just going to click on the one that Jazz, jazz. I'm throwing down some of this highlighter just to brighten it up. You know what I didn't break out yet? I'm sure you guys all know. What didn't we break out yet? Let's, uh, running out of room. Let's throw this here. I'm going to close this image.

Ta-da!

I was talking to one of my students today about color pencils, and we were both— we're agreeing how, um, Prismacolors make a kick butt, kick butt color pencils. I'm gonna sharpen this. Sorry guys, the sharpener's gonna go on. By the way, I'm going to plug this sharpener just because I like it. I've had this, I don't know, 6 years. Never had an issue with it. It's really awesome at sharpening colored pencils. This pulls off here. You can dump it out. Batteries seem to last a long time also. Pretty good pencil sharpener. Uh, if you go to my website, inspiredlife.com, or theinspiredlife.com, you'll see a page in there of all the things I like to use. I need to update it. Um, and I think there's a link for that sharpener on there if you, if you're interested. And you went to the link, it would take you to Amazon, and if you bought it, I would probably get through my link. It's the same price whether you use my link or not. And I think I get like 2 cents if anybody buys anything using my Amazon links. Um, and like I said, the price is the same whether you did it on your own or you use my link. It doesn't change. Sorry, just a little, little plug there. All right, so I'm throwing down the pink. Usually I only throw it down in 3 places. Like, if we look at the, uh, Copper Building: 1, 2, 3. I wasn't even thinking. I'm just— I threw it down in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 places. I'm really, really living on the edge. You caught me at a good— on a good night tonight.

Cool.

So we'll throw that down. This will be a fun picture to take with all the stuff we use. All right, let's see what you guys are writing down in the chat. Um, I love your rainbow interior. Hey, Thanks. It's fun. I'm loving it too. It's really cool. It'll be even cooler when I throw down some hatch lines. We'll make some— add some texture or detail with the Sharpie. Awesome. Almost no snow, Janice got. That's good. I'm glad to hear that. Janice likes deep blue and purples. Awesome. I just happen to have a purple Varsity pen right here. Just, just for Janice, we're gonna throw down some purple. What do you think, Janice? Should we do it? Let's just throw down some of this purple Pilot Varsity. Pal. Hey, pal, let's— hey, pal, let's play with some purple Varsity Pilot pens, perhaps. I love alliteration. Here we go. Let's throw down some purple. I don't know where. Should we do some? I want to leave a lot of white space there. Hmm. All right. My brain's saying just dab a little bit here and I'm going to bleed it so you can see it. Where'd my brush go? Here it is. Over by my teacup. Retro's in the house, guys. I'm using— got the retro cup happening. Sketch Happens with our friend Retro. Now I have a real, a real pup. The other room— whoa, that looks brown! What the heck? That does not look purple. That's because I hit the purple with the orange. It's just turning it to brown. All right, let's throw it up here where it's— we'll see it better. And also the water is kind of dirty. There you go, you can see it now. So that's the purple. Ta-da! We got some purple. That's a purple in the house. The man's losing his mind, singing about purple. Um, yes, we're living on the edge tonight. Yeah, loose cannon. That's a— that's a great way to describe what's happening here. Becky says Prismacolor pencils are the best. Yeah, Becky knows Becky knows what she's talking about. Becky says turquoise, lime green, purple, and magenta. Awesome. Um, whenever I hear lime green, I love lime green. I'm looking around, I have, I have my electric line here. You have— this is the Precious ink from 2015 that's no longer made by Lamy. This color I think was called Electric, maybe Electric Wine. For Becky's birthday, we're going to use some of it on here. All right, Becky, here we go. Happy birthday. Dipping into the reserves. Um, all in the name of Art. I have used this on— you guys know my City in the Tree paintings? City in the Tree? Tree in the City paintings. I think Linda has, has one of them. This color was definitely used on those trees. I don't know if it's showing as lime on your screen, but it has a kind of a limey thing going on. So, there you go, Becky, we got some line for you. "Yay, Retro!" Yeah! "Sketch happens," said Retro. He did. I thought this was kind of fun, this idea. I really wanted to take Retro further, the character, and do a lot more sketches. So, we did the whistling cowboy with Retro. I was imagining he could have his own own. I mean, Whistling Cowboy could have their own like storybook.

That would be great.

What else? Ta-da! Purple. Linda says lime green, your absolute favorite. Linda loves lime green also. Well, there you go. For Linda and Becky, we have lime— some lime green happening. And I'm not liming about that. It's right here.

Got it?

Liming. Lime light. Back on the shelf. All right, zoom. You want me to zoom? Okay, you got it. Here, I'm zooming. We'll zoom in for you guys. Let me sip some more tea here. It's good, has elderberry. This is Bigelow tea, elderberry tea. I love— I'm loving elderberry. It's supposed to really be, um, help you with preventing like getting colds and stuff. Cool, man. I do have a tree painting front and center in art room. Thank you, Linda. I know you do, and I love that you do. It's in a great, great home with an amazing family. That makes me happy. Um, that's so cool. You know, if it's ever looking for a partner, a roommate, I have, I have another one here.

Ta-da!

We have this one right here. Here you can see the lime green probably better. This is mixed with a few different types of greens, but you have the lime green happen. Or is that yellow? That's yellow actually. Lime green is in here. Immune system. Thank you. Is that what it was? Immune system. Fabulous work, Jason Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas. Thanks, guys. All right, we're on for 7 more minutes. Let's— I think I could throw down some Sharpie. Let's just button this up a little bit. Oh geez, uh, here's a pro tip: when you're putting your caps on your pens, make sure you actually put the point of the pen inside the cap. Otherwise you might miss and jab yourself with the pen like I just did. That is a bonus tip for you guys for hanging out so long, uh-huh, free of charge. All right, let's move that stuff around. I know I'm all over the place, but I have— here's a quick show and tell. Um, this is a— um, I didn't design this, but I printed it, 3D printed it here, my printer. It's meant for kitchen utensils, but I'm just throwing down some pencil or some pens on here. Kind of cool. All right, let's do some sketching. I'm going to go into silent mode for a few minutes. Wish me luck. I said you might have to PM me on the price. Oh, Linda, we'll talk. We'll talk. Um, all right, guys. When you don't see my head on the camera, I'm in focus mode, or you might just see the top of my head. I'm gonna zoom in so you can see what I'm doing there. A lot of these kind of ribs happening. I like this music, it's groovy. Let's pull down some of these lines here on the column. I want to really pull this edge out because it's kind of close to us. I'm actually going to break out— I think I'm going to use a Tombow marker. It's going to make it really dark, but that's okay. So, I'm going to use a Tombow brush pen. It has two sides. We'll use the brush— use the brush side. So you can see, I just— I pulled this edge out a little bit. I want it to be here closer. I folded it up. It actually can be bolder now that I'm looking at it on screen. There we go. I kind of like— I don't know if you noticed, but when I— since I bolded the outline, these— I mean, I'm actually going to bold this in a little bit too. It's going to frame this. By just darkening that edge, darkening this up, it's gonna make a frame of what's happening inside our perspective view here. Just a little tip. Actually, we'll use— we'll use the brush pen, we'll do this side also. Digging this music, guys. Very cool. I'm gonna zoom in. Notice— just want you to notice that I'm not drawing this line here solid and continuous, like a hard edge. I'm not doing this.

Let me get the scrap paper.

I think I have scrap paper.

I know I do.

No, here we go, scrap paper. All right, so I am not— I'm not drawing that edge like this, I'm drawing it more like this. Big difference, right? This one here keeps the loose sketchy style I really like. This one here for me is more technical, precise. So, in this case, we'll give this one an X. We'll go with this one. That's something I talk about in my workshops, how lines, different line types can tell different stories, convey different feelings. So I'm going to finish this one here. So that's why you'll notice I'm lifting my pen up a little bit. I'm squiggling my hand a little bit.

There you go.

Let me zoom out. Then you can kind of see now how this— these two lines are framing what's in there. At least that's the idea. Sharpie equals details. Um, purple. Linda says purple. You love purple, awesome. So hope you enjoy. We can throw down some purple on here. Hey, Jethro says groovy. I think it is groovy, the music and this. This is feeling groovy. Um, add in and add some Barbie pink. So we have Barbie pink on here. We have 1, 2, there's a little in here, it's hard to see, 3, 4 right here, and then here I have added 5 places. Usually I'll do only 3, so I'm glad that you caught that, Linda H over on YouTube. You guys are awesome, great comments tonight. Did I miss anything? Let me know if I missed any important comments. All right, let's go back to our Sharpie and throw down some more details. We'll zoom in. Uh, if you're just joining us, thank you so much over on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. YouTube broke the 600 subscribe— subscriber barrier. We're at 601, so thank you guys so much. Really, really cool. My goal was to hit 600 by the end of January. We're there.

Awesome.

My next goal is 1,000 subscribers by the end of February. So thank you guys for all your support, sharing this, liking the videos. It really helps. Watching the live streams. Um, YouTube really values how much time people spend watching videos, which is something I just recently learned. My intention is really just to reach more people, um, just to show that it's sketching architecture. I guess I like to say, if you can scribble, you can sketch architecture, and there definitely is some truth to that. I mean, look at my lines here, very scribbly, very sketchy, but I hope you guys can still understand, or it can be— people looking at it can see that I'm trying to create a space. Now, my perspective is, is off on this one tonight a little bit. They're usually very loose, which is fine, but I could have done a better job with the angles here, but I'm cool with it. All right, let's go down the bottom. We'll just wrap up. We're just gonna wrap up. It's 9:33. I want to show some vertical lines in here, some hatch lines. Just to show there's verticality here. These are actually back of the pews, and all these lines here just add another layer, another layer, layer of interest, the layer of texture. So let's go back to it, to the ugly duckling stage we talked about. You heard my frustrations when I first started tonight. Just wasn't in the right mindset. I was trying to— I was focusing too much on a photograph, wanting to be perfect. That's not who I am when I sketch. And it just threw me off for a few minutes. So we kind of refocused, got back in the creative mindset and got past the ugly duckling phase. And I actually really— I'm really digging this sketch, to be honest with you. I don't think there's much more I want to do other than— what do I want to do? I think I need to do something up in here. So I'm just, I'm throwing some diagonals in there. Because there are— these are— there are stained glass windows back in here. This is kind of my homage to stained glass, just some diagonals. You spend hours and hours and days and weeks just recreating a beautiful stained glass window. I know a lot of you guys out there watching could definitely do that. I don't— I wouldn't have the patience to draw that and paint that, so kudos to you guys. It just creates a sense of depth that this edge here is kind of overhanging a little bit.

That's why we're doing that.

Um, I'm gonna do—

what do I want to do here?

I'm gonna do some more of those. We do— it's called cross-hatching. I'm gonna do this cross-hatching pattern. Cross-hatching really is this. Let's go in one direction and go the other direction.

That's cross-hatching.

And how appropriate is it to do some cross— Hatching inside a church. Now that worked. All right guys, I'm feeling like we're done with this one. Break out the frame. It's gonna be too small. I'm gonna get some bigger mats, I think. I love doing this, as you know. I'll get some bigger mats so we can frame the whole thing, but here it is. Let's look at some pieces inside a little frame here. Even just look at this little piece framed. Keep it there for a minute. How cool would that be? Let's just nudge it over like this. How cool would this be as just a little framed sketch? I love it. Let's move it around. How about if we did something like this? Oops, sorry. But like that. Um, very workable, Linda says. Awesome. Becky says congratulations. Linda's like, Jason, I say that right? Yeah, I— woohoo! Yeah, I just— my voice doesn't go that high. Um, I love that. Jason, you have— Jason, have you been to the new or redone Greek church by the World Trade Center? Janice, awesome question. Um, I have not. I have to be honest, I have not even been to the World Trade Center. Since they opened 9/11 Park. So I need to get down there, and that's on my NYC bucket list for my next visit, is to go check out that whole area. That Greek church, I've seen pictures and livestreams of it. It's incredible. It glows at night. It's just, it's spectacular. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava, the same architect who did the Oculus Building, which is right there as well. So, I definitely want to get to the area. Good question. Yeah, just showing you guys— just showing you guys a trick of mine. So, sometimes we do big pictures, big sketches, big paintings, but this is cool, but sometimes they're even more interesting if you zoom in on small pieces. So create larger, you could always frame smaller or crop out areas. Does that make sense? It's just something I'd like to do. Um, big time congrats, Linda says. Awesome. I don't, I don't know who you guys are congratulating, but I'm going to congratulate them too. I think I missed something in the chat, but congratulations out there. I'm sure you did something awesome. I see Eagle Scout Kiko Mina had joined us on Instagram, and Xavier Neff had joined as well on Insta. But I know, you know why they call it Instagram? Because people, I see people logging in on Instagram and they're gone in an instant. It's so weird. I see people log in and then it's like They leave. I'm so sad. That's why they call it Instagram. They're instantly gone. What am I doing wrong? What am I doing wrong? Am I doing wrong? Um, all right guys, having a lot of fun. It's time to say goodnight. Thank you so much. Let's do a zoom out. You can see— let's look at this messy desk area. You guys want to see Let's see how far I might zoom out. I don't think I can zoom out any further. I have stuff everywhere. We got all this and all this here. We have some ink. We had the lime ink. I'm not going to grab that. We have some water. This, this is what it took to make this tonight. It also took you guys as well for patience, hanging with me, having fun. Without you, I probably would have ended an hour ago. You guys keep me going and I love it. Uh, then it says congratulating you for— oh, 600 subscribers! Thank you, that's awesome, I appreciate that. Thank you so much. Um, Janice says thank you too. Guys, have a great, great Friday night. I'm gonna try to be on every night this weekend, Saturday and Sunday. Uh, whoever just joined us on Instagram, thank you for joining us. And they're gone. See, it just happened. They were there and they're gone. I see like a little eyeball icon and a number 1 will pop up, then it goes to 0. Anyway, I'll be on. I have a busy weekend. I have a big deadline I need to get done. Architecture, real-world project. I'll share more about that if you're interested later this week. Take care, guys. Have a great, great night. Keep paying it forward through positivity and creativity. Yeah, just keep paying it forward. Um, yeah, good night, guys. Peace and live creatively. I'll see you soon, hopefully tomorrow night. Take care. D-Ray, on purpose, I'm going to keep waving till D-Ray makes a comment about finding the, uh, finish button. So I'm going to do some awkward waving for about 5 minutes. I'm going to change the music while we're waiting. So I'm trying to create music on using an app I'm not a very good musician. I don't have any musical skills. I'm having fun making music. So you're listening to some of it right now. Oh, I see the button comment. I don't know if you guys like this tune. I forget what I called it. And please, Facebook, Instagram, don't flag me for copyright issues. This is— I just actually created this. I keep saying they're like copywriting me for stuff I'm making. Good night, guys. I found the buttons right there.