The INKspired Life - Loose Style Architectural Sketching

Alrighty, I think I'm moving some windows around here on my screen. Hey guys, hope you're doing well. Happy, um, January 2nd, 2024. And I hear myself talking. That's always not a cool thing. So we'll do that. Hope you guys are doing well today. Happy Tuesday. Let me know if you can hear me okay. Are you hearing two of me? 'Cause I'm hearing me there and here. It's kind of cray cray. So I think I just gotta shut this down here on this tab and we'll be cool. But yeah, I hope you guys are doing well. I see Linda S is in the house and Linda H is in the house also. Great to see you guys. Happy New Year. It's off to a great start for you. I'm going to be on just really briefly tonight and just changing things up. We're going to go from New York City to Orlando, Florida. And yeah, just going to— I'm going to do a sketch here inspired by the Dolphin or Swan. Which one is this? This is the Dolphin Hotel or the Swan. I always get them mixed up at Disney World. Disney World. It's one of their resorts there, designed by one of my favorite architects of all time, Michael Graves. Really cool building. I'm going to do a very small sketch. This is a 4x8 sheet of paper, but I think I'm only going to sketch on half of it. I know Linda S loves doing mini sketches, so I thought I'd give it a try just for the heck of it. Anyway, let me know how you guys are doing. Hey, I see Pause for Camera over there on the Insta. As the cool kids say. I think it's Insta. Hope you're doing well. Kind of surprised that you are on. Yeah, I'm on a little bit late. I didn't do any sketching today. I really wanted to do some, so that's why I'm on late. I don't know why. I'm just trying to figure out why I'm hearing two of myself. What the heck? What do I have open that I need to close? I don't mind it so much. The only thing I do mind is I can't listen to my music. So it's kind of weird. I don't know what this kid's doing here. You guys, I hope you're doing great. Let me start sketching. I do a lot of talking. No one wants to hear me blabber. "I'll watch the replay as it's my time to end my day." Linda H, thank you for tuning in. The replays are always available. Hope all is going well. Thank you for tuning in and all of your positivity. All right, let's start sketching this bad boy. Linda H, take care and I hope everything's well again. Happy New Year. All right, let's sketch this. Kind of weird sketching without music, but we'll see what happens. And just do this really quick, loose. I know I sound like a broken record when I'm on, but it is just— it's my style, just capturing kind of the essence of the building or what I'm feeling about it. Linda S, we may have sketched this in one of my workshops, this building. I think we actually did. I see I'm thinking too much and here's— so, here's a really great example of how I know I'm thinking too much. I'm really gripping, starting to grip the Sharpie tight and I'm losing that loose feeling, that flow because I'm like plotting this out. So, we're gonna flip this over but yeah, I'm kinda holding it tight. I'm kinda dragging slowly, forcing the lines here. And I don't want that to happen. So, alright, we'll stick on this side. I'm just going to intentionally loosen up my hand. I could have shaken them out before I started. I think also the fact that there's no music here for me to hear, it's affecting my state of being because I'm so concerned about it. Here, so let's just keep going with this here. I'm just kind of breaking this out into shapes I'm looking at. I'm not going to capture the entire photo you see on screen. So Linda S. is really great at doing tiny, um, sketches. I am really lucky to have a couple of her mini paintings, and it's not easy to scale things down, especially huge architectural buildings. So my brain is kind of saying, all right, how do we take this photo and just break it down a little bit? And I guess, I guess one of the keys scaling things down is you just have to really pull out the main shapes that you see. Don't focus on the detail, but focus on just the overall shapes that are kind of jumping out at you. We have this kind of curved piece here, that's some kind of windows happening. See, now you can see I'm going a little faster, so I'm loosening up, feeling more in the flow. Hey Linda! Yeah, Linda is awesome, Tanya, she definitely is. Thank you, Paws for Camera, it's so awesome to see you on Instagram. And as we have this kind of little kind of shell structure happening. There's a walkway here, a canopy over it. It's kind of— do the edge of the land kind of here, something like that, maybe. This building is really cool. I, I have taken at least 100, if not 200 photos of this. So it's called the Walt Disney World Dolphin and Swan Resorts. They're right adjacent to each other, right around— I think this is Lake Celebration. I have any Disney fans watching, let me know. I just love the architecture. Michael Graves is an architect who I really studied in college a lot. He inspired me with his kind of postmodern architecture, these big, large, playful shapes, which really fit well with Disney because Disney is about being playful, right? I've literally spent hours and hours here. And when I go to Disney, for me, it's— of course, the attractions are amazing at all the different theme parks, um, but I love— I just love looking at and sketching the architecture. It's like if I didn't even go on any of the rides, I'd be cool as long as I have a sketchbook or some paper Life would be good. These kind of windows happening here like this, awesome. Hey, Jody's in the house! Jody, good to see you, hope all's well. So last year I really focused heavily on New York City sketching, and I'm going to continue to do that. But this year I'm going to work in Disney, all kinds of Disney architecture. So New York City and Disney are going to be my two kind of focal points this year for sketching. And fortunately, I have tons and tons of pictures of Disney I could use as references. And then New York City, I have tons of pictures, but it's easy enough for me to always get back into the city to do more, take more photographs, do more sketching. Disney, probably. I think we're looking at going back to Disney in 2025, so we got to start saving that money up. Cool. Hopefully you guys can kind of see that just the overall shape that's happening here. You have some windows kind of in here as well. Let me know, do you— can you guys hear music or not? Got these kind of curved, curvy things happening. Just this real quick, loose sketch right there. Kaleidoscope Beatrix is in the house. Thank you for joining. I love seeing people on Insta. You guys are so cool. I love you guys on Facebook and YouTube, of course. All right. So, we did a quick sketch. We're gonna actually— I'm actually gonna do another one of the same building. But I'm going to challenge myself and really shrink it down even more. So we're just playing around tonight. I just wanted to do a little bit of sketching before bedtime. I was going to just do this. All right, let's do another quick sketch here. I'm going to try to shrink it down even smaller. [FOREIGN] So notice I'm starting with kind of that main triangular roof shape. Lots of times when I'm sketching buildings, I'll start from the top and work my way down. Continue back here, come down somewhere in here. We have this building kind of doing this, pull this down, pull that edge across. Boom, we got that. We have this kind of round piece here. Definitely need to work on these kind of shell shape things happening in there. This piece right back in here, I'm really just breaking this down into different shapes I see. Cross here. So this is kind of messing with my brain because I'm thinking small in my brain and, um, my hand doesn't want to go with my brain. My hand wants to make this bigger, so we're kind of fighting. A little battle here. I have to work on training myself to scale things down. Part of it for me might be to just sketch faster. Cool. There we go. So that's just another version, a little bit smaller than the other one, uh, on the other side, right? So there's the first one. And here's the second one here. Let's do one last one, and I'm actually going to limit myself to like, we'll say, 2 minutes. We'll sketch it really, really small. So, hope you guys are having a great day. Hope your New Year's off to an amazing start. All right, let's do this. Tim Eleven, real, real fast. I'm gonna make it so small. I'm really liking the smaller sketch, so So, in architecture school, one of my favorite types of sketching to do were thumbnail sketches. Really, really small, basically the size of a thumbnail, right? So, I'll pull out a sketchbook and show you some of the ones from back in my college days. So, I'm really kind of digging this small sketch here. Here, we'll do this. All right, maybe that was more than— that was probably maybe just 2 minutes or just over 2 minutes. Really tiny sketch. Let's go back to— let's see, trying to find a sketchbook over here. All right, so here, um, here's a little show and tell from back in the good old college days. I like to see how much detail you can get in a tiny— Linda says, yeah, I'm sure that's right. That's part of the challenge. You can kind of see these here, so bigger one, you can see the smaller one kind of down here. So here's a— this sketchbook is from back in— it's pretty fragile— fourth year of college. So we're talking 1993. 1993. And you can see here, here's some really small sketches. And this was a concept design for a— trying to remember way back. Yeah, 1993. Oh, this was, I think, for a farmer's market building. So it's a little tiny concept sketch. And then we'll flip through some more. I'll find— oh yeah, here's some of the ones I really like. Um, check out this one here. You guys see it? I don't know on you— I don't know on Instagram if it's cutting off. Let me know on Instagram, can you guys see my entire sketchbook here? Are you just seeing part of something on the screen? I have no idea right now. You should be seeing kind of a rectangular frame with an orange building in it. So, this was an interior perspective of a courtyard. Let's zoom in on it. This is a thumbnail sketch. It's only about 2 inches by 3 inches. So, Linda talks about getting a lot of detail and this I think Turn off this here. Get rid of this. This, I think you can get the idea of what I was trying to sketch in the concept of it. So, this over here is kind of amphitheater type of seating, stadium seating here, big overhang. In the background, we have a building and there's a square in it with blue, that actually is an open hole in the building with sky in the background. Um, pretty cool. If I scan up, you can see here's another— again, these are really small. There's another concept sketch, a perspective drawing, another one. I'm just going to go through a few of these for you guys. This is probably one of my favorites in the sketchbook right here. I love this concept sketch. So, uh, Ramp with Forest Perspective. So, we have kind of perspective view, this overhanging roof area. I love this sketch. This is from April 1993. I'm so glad I kept my sketchbooks. This sketch is only 2 inches. By 2.5. Really fun. So if I had to pick my favorite size of sketch, would be small 2x2 or 2x3 sketches. Um, let's see, here's kind of a really small— there's a little interior kind of vaulted ceiling looking back towards a clock and a really funky looking statue. Oops. I should get this book bound somehow. What else? Any other ones? This book, yeah, I definitely have shown this before. This is my favorite sketch— sketches I have ever done are right here in this book. 1993, when I was working in Hoboken for an architect. This is my World Trade Center sketch. So I had a lunch break, I went over to Stevens Institute right on the Hudson there, and this across— looking across the Hudson, this was my— this was sketched in 1993 when the Twin Towers were still there. I get goosebumps just thinking about it. And then the same day, I sketched this view as well of the Empire State Building, and you see the Chrysler Building way back there. But if you look at these, they're really quick, small, loose, and I just love that. Let's see, any other ones in here? Let me flip through. I don't want to bore you guys, but I thought it'd be interesting for you to see. Here's a— I have a small sketch for a house design, black and white, very simple, no color. Um, let's see, show you that one. Showed you those. And we'll kind of wrap with this one. This is a really, really small sketch. It's the concept of a pen bridge building that you can walk under here. And here's my thumb next to it. So, you don't always have to sketch big. You can go down, shrink it down. Jason Nicholas Nicholas, you should resketch it, the one you really like. Yeah, so, that's funny you said that. I've actually resketched this. I have resketched this scene and it never comes out better. It always never comes out better than what you see here. But yeah, maybe I will try again. Be sketching this year. Excuse me. Awesome, awesome. Hey guys, that's gonna be a wrap for tonight. I really appreciate you so, so much for watching. Thank you over on Instagram world, appreciate you guys. It's fun to be on Insta and actually have people tuning in. Linda over on Facebook, thank you so much, I appreciate you. You're awesome, and I really do want to do an Inklings reunion. I know I've said it 25 times, but it really needs to happen. Um, so we'll see. Um, Linda H, thanks. I know you're on YouTube. Anybody else watching, thank you so much. I appreciate you guys. Have an amazing rest of your evening. I'm heading out because I do have school tomorrow, and yeah. Peace, live creatively, and just keep paying it forward with your positivity and creativity. Happy New Year! I'll see you guys really, really soon. Linda said, "Yeah, Inklings!" I know, I miss— I do miss our Saturday Zooms. That was really awesome. Take care, guys. Peace and live creatively. See you soon. The button's covered up. Where the heck is it? There it is. Take care, guys. See you. Have an awesome Wednesday tomorrow.