The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, hopefully I'm back on. My internet said, hey, I need a break. So I don't know why, maybe it's tired today, but I am back. I think sometimes the internet just has a mind of its own. So let me know if you can hear me, let me know if I'm back online. And, um, Deborah, I hope, I hope I answered your question about the arch. So I'm just playing with this piece a little bit more here. So I'm just using the same ink, and what's cool about this ink is, um, when I go back over it, Sometimes it'll change colors. I mean, look here, you have some yellowish kind of hues going on here. I'm getting some purples out of it, so it's a lot of fun to play with. Hey, I'm back on. Awesome, thank you for telling me. Yeah, my internet conked out on me. I'm glad to help with the arch. I know it was a very quick, loose kind of sketch, and I'm glad I could help you. Cool, so what are you— I'd like to know, maybe you said earlier, but what are you trying to create? Are you sketching or painting an arch? I'm just curious if you want to share. That would be so cool. I'd love to know. So maybe we'll turn this into— maybe there's some kind of a, I don't know, bridge structure going on. It's an old ruin. Let's get some kind of a window opening here. Maybe I'll just bleed the ink just to create the idea of some kind of openings here. I like doing these sketches where you don't know if it's modern or old. It's a— it's a combination of both, right? Think about, um, cities and the history of cities and how they change over time. If you think of New York City, you have old buildings mixed with the new buildings, layers built upon layers. That's one of the things I try to replicate in these cityscape sketches. Not all the time, because sometimes I like to do that. I like people to wonder, is this old? Is it new? Um, and all these are from my imagination, so I'm not really— I'm not trying to replicate something that's out there most of the time. Sometimes I will do New York City and/or specific buildings. While I'm inking out loud, I just like to go with the flow, see what happens, just having fun with the process. It's not always about the end result. I would say 95% of time it's not the end result on inking, out loud here. It's about the act of creating. "I was working on Tischer Creek Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota.

Ooh.

In the west porch was a view facing the creek and I struggled with drawings over the weekend but it's okay now. Finished a project." Ooh, awesome. I'd love to see it. I don't know if you are— are you on our Inklings Facebook group page? If you are, I'd love for you to post it there. I can take a look at it. I can find the web address and I'll put it in the chat. Just look it up. Let's see, Facebook. You think I would know it? So I'm just going to pull that up. No, no, no, not yet. Okay, anyways, I'm going to put the link here if you want to. It's free, just a— it's a Facebook public group. Uh, if you want to join, that would be so cool. Let me just get the thing here. So I'll put it in the chat.

This is interesting. Hmm.

Interesting, interesting. It's not letting me. Let me go on Facebook here. I'm just gonna go join the livestream and post it on there. For some reason, usually I can add comments right from my other interface, but it's not letting me. It's easy enough to do. Just gotta click here.

Boom.

Turn the volume down so I don't hear myself talking. All right, so in the So I just posted in the chat the link. Feel free to, yeah, to join the group. I'd love for you to post, you know, if you want to post your artwork there, it'd be cool to see. It's a great group. You probably know a bunch of the people in there. Very, very friendly. Yeah, and check it out. That'd be so cool. I'm gonna break out some graphite stick now. You can't see, it's off camera, but I do have some water here. What I do— I like to do with the graphite stick is dip it in water. I kind of sketch— I call it sketch painting— kind of sketch paint with it. It has a nice loose feel to it. I love the texture it leaves on the paper. Or you can use it dry as well, and you can always brush over it like here. It's just fun to play around with. Yeah, thank you for the arch idea. I kind of like— I like this arch here in this, uh, sketch. It's almost like a key— looks like a keyway looking through, leading to somewhere. Where could this arch be going to? I'm gonna grab a 3/4-inch flat brush, and why I'm doing that is it just— I'm trying to be too focused and detailed with the narrow brush. I like the 3/4-inch brush. I can keep looser with it lots of times. Ooh, there's some dirty water. I actually like the color. It's like orangey. That's cool. But I can do quick strokes with this just to indicate maybe some buildings back here in the distance.

Here we go.

Cool. Yeah, I like the color of the dirty water. Has a, like, a sepia, very light sepia. Kind of tone to it. Actually, I like it so much I'm going to pop it in here. So that's one of my tips is I do like to use dirty water on these cityscapes. I like the grungy kind of look, the aged look it has. So you'll see me use dirty water often. I mean, here's what it looks like. It's not probably dirty right now. It has a nice kind of sepia tone to it. Hey Becky, good to see you. Hope all's well. I think I did get on and send out picture of porch and bridge. Oh cool, awesome, definitely check that out. Becky says the piece is really coming together. Hey, thank you Becky. Yeah, this is a fun one. I'm gonna put it aside in about a minute and then I have another piece I've been working on I want to show you guys. And I want to add a little bit of detail to it. I think this is at a point where I think I want it to start drying a little bit, otherwise it'll get too mucky and too muddy. I think I'm at that point now. Let me just throw this— some of this down here like that. The bottom bleed a little bit.

I think it's off camera.

Here you guys, you definitely can see it now. Cool. All right, so I'm going to put this one aside, let it dry. I kind of like it. I like this. This looks— so maybe this is not— I don't know. I don't know if it's a bridge or not, just the top of a building. I see some columns happening here. Awesome. Nice depth. Thank you. It's not art unless what, guys? Not art unless you wear it. And I am definitely wearing it right now. All right, let's put this aside. I'll show you what I want to work on for a few minutes. So this is a piece I've been working on and off for, for a little bit in the past couple of days. Originally, the cool thing about this is it actually started when I first was sketching it. You have to go back and watch the video from, I think, 2 days ago. It may even have been last night on Inking Out Loud. I started just doing my Inking Out Loud thing and sketching the lines, and at one point I said, you know, let me turn it sideways. I like to look at the artwork from different angles, different views. I turned it sideways and I saw these building shapes on it. So I was really fascinated by that, and I've been trying to play with it and pull out these building shapes. Uh, it's maybe an old dilapidated building somewhere that's been hobbled together with scraps of metal or materials here and there. So I'm not sure where it's going to end up, but I want to add some ink lines and some more detail on it. Tonight, but I think it's coming up pretty cool. Awesome. So nice to have— thank you so much. All right guys, let's change the tunes up. We're gonna switch the music a little bit and we're gonna— I have my Lamy pen here and also my Pilot Precise. I probably can use my Pilot, I think my Pilot pen or even my Sharpie. I want to use a Sharpie because when I go back over it with water and watercolor, the Lamy pen will bleed. So Sharpie will not bleed, and the Pilot won't bleed after it sets in for a while. So I'm gonna use those two. That's making sense. I really like this Either way, ah, thank you so much. Yeah, this is so cool. So I'm gonna add a little more detail. I don't know if I'm gonna add more color yet or not. And I'm gonna switch up, we're gonna go to some, I have a whistling cowboy playlist here. I usually end the show with the whistling cowboy sketches, Becky knows, but I'm gonna just play the playlist and paint with it. And let's see, I might zoom in a little more. All right, all right guys, you may lose me for a few when I get wrapped up in sketching here, but feel free to post any comments or questions. I want to keep it loose. So you'll see I'm actually letting a lot of where the paint areas have happened. I'm kind of using some of those to fill in some shapes, helping to define some edges on here. I'm gonna use my Pilot pen here a little bit because I want I want to bleed some of this just to fill in the window areas with some gray. Just want to touch it like that. Cool. A picture of this being a, uh, good old sliding barn door or something right here. Maybe a metal, corrugated metal type of sliding door.

I'll zoom in so you can see some of the details.

Now we got some kind of a track that the door is going to slide on. I still want to keep it loose, so I'm not getting incredibly detailed, just hints of— there's a hint of a track, maybe. If you notice on the door, I use my broken lines technique here. I like to use— they're not continuous, I like to break them up. It has a little more visual interest.

Maybe they're—

I don't know, maybe they're rivets on the door because this is such a riveting painting. You can just call me Deb or Debbie. That's awesome, Becky. Becky is a long time Inkling. Becky is one of the originals. She's awesome. So I love that you guys are talking and connecting. That's so cool. Good stuff. I want to pull this edge out here, so I'm going to use a watercolor stick, I think. I kind of want this to look like a gable roof shape. It's getting a little bit lost with all the darkness, so my watercolor stick right here, and I just, just dipped my brush with the cap on in the water. That didn't work so well. Alright, so I'm just gonna actually go over the area here. I wanna pull this edge out too. I might not even need the watercolor stick. I just went over the ink line and I actually just pulled it out. Zoom out, you can see that edge. So I don't even need the watercolor stick. I just went back over the Lamy ink and now I kinda defined the edge and pulled it out. Which I like. I love this, this is a real fun piece that's coming out here. I just want to be careful, I don't want to stick my hand in that wet paint, so I'm gonna— let's move over here and add some texture to the roof. I'm just gonna like, again, just go with my Sharpie and pull out some line work, kind of trace the outline of where the paint dried. It's one of the things I love about watercolor and letting the paint flow and just dry wherever it dries. You can use, use those shapes to your advantage. I want to create some shadow under this. This is a roof Ferrantin here, roof edge. Let's do some vertical hatch lines just so it looks like there's a little bit of shadow going on there.

I like this music.

There's also a roof edge here I want to pull out. Let me see if I can pull it out with the water. I'm actually seeing this area as a— I can make this into a chimney, I think, on the building. So there's this piece that's kind of popping up here. I'm gonna somehow make that into a chimney, I think. That's what it's look like— looking like. Uh, OG Inkling, yes, you are an OG Inkling. Love that. Do you have your OG Inkling badge? Loving your added details, ripping sketch life. Thanks. Yeah, I hope it's adding another layer of detail and interest. That's always— that's a good thing. I'm not sure I'm gonna do in the back— on the background of this yet. Part of me is thinking I want to do— zoom out some more. I was thinking I want to do blue on the background, a cerulean blue. I think that would pop the building out even more. Hey, if you're just tuning in, say hello out there. It's always good to see who's watching. If you're new, like Deborah, say hello and I can say hello back to you. Otherwise, I don't know who's watching. I could see like eyeballs, like there's an eye icon that says 4, so I know at least 4 people are watching. But feel free to say hello, and if you don't want to, that's okay. It's all good. Um, yeah, so what was I just gonna do? Oh, the chimney. I think I'm gonna turn this into a chimney up here. I'm gonna sketch it with my Lamy in case I want to bleed it a little bit. I want to get a paper towel for a sec. Very cool. I just keep putting my hand on this wet part of the painting here, so I just want to kind of COVID it a little bit and just dry it maybe. So you might notice I'm being a little more careful than I usually am, but I think I'm at a point where to drive this home I have to start being a little more careful with what I'm throwing down. On here. So yeah, this is what I'm picturing, is kind of a chimney structure, but I don't want to be a beautiful square chimney. So let's, let's make it a stone kind of chimney, maybe some kind of river stone or something happening on it. There we go. Almost kind of finished the top of it. Maybe there's a piece of, uh, I want to finish this. Maybe there's a flue just kind of sticking out here a little bit. Oh, there we go. So there we go, just have a little chimney. And I'm gonna bleed a little bit out with my Aqua Pen, but actually I'm gonna use— this is a medium tip Aqua Brush. It's kind of worn out, it's pretty old. I have a smaller one, I usually— here's a finer one, you can tell this is much pointier. It's 'cause it's new. So I'm just gonna use this new one. Just so I can control the bleed of the water a little bit better. Actually, you know, it'd be cool if I pop in some of those bright colors for the stonework. So maybe after it dries, I'll do that. There you go. So you got some kind of chimney mask coming out the top there. I like that it's kind of big, a little out of scale. Hey, we have some YouTube people watching, leaving really random comments on there. So if you're gonna leave really random comments that don't make sense, I'd appreciate it if if you did not do that. This is a fun, positive community for sketching, creating, painting, and not for— I don't know what the heck is going on in the chat there. I feel like I'm teaching my high school class here. Alright guys, phones away. Put your phones down. Focus. Put your phones down. All right, let's not play games. Let's—

yeah, no.

All right, anyway, back to what we're doing. That was a fun sidetrack.

Cool.

So yeah, let's pop, uh, I'm gonna pop some turquoise maybe in one of those. See these stones up here? I just feel like I want to add some color up here. And I'm going to blot out—

there you go.

I just want to dull that down a little bit there. There we go. Cool. Phones down! That's right, phones down. Guys, put your phones away. Don't even get me started with phones in school. That's one of my— my students know I have two pet peeves. One are phones in class, and the other one is working on other schoolwork when you're in my class when they're working on their other class work. Other than that, other than that, I'm pretty easy to get along with. I think. Just a little— putting some dots on here like these are some kind of rivets. This is a metal panel maybe attached to this house, the structure, this barn. Cool. YouTube peeps getting rowdy. Nah, do not get rowdy. I'm actually surprised, uh, I'm streaming to YouTube and Facebook tonight. Hoping to maybe get a YouTube viewership going. Somebody's working on that. Seen something like this in Phuket Town. Saw something like this in Phutthakana, and the Thai came up to the door each night. Really? That's so cool. I love that this is reminding you of a place you've been. That's so cool. Yeah, I love when— I love when these abstract buildings remind people of locations they've been to. It's always so fun to hear that. I'm taking some turquoise and just kind of dry brushing in places here. Just because I want the color to be a little more intense and vibrant in places. I could get lost in this world here for hours. I love— this is so much fun. Not sure what I want to do with this. This area up in here right now. Or is that rainwater in the foreground? Ooh, yeah. So, Deb, I love that you're saying that. So my answer is going to be yes. It's what— right now, it's whatever your imagination is seeing is what's happening. Right, so it could definitely be rainwater. It could be actual water coming up to the structure. So cool that you're seeing different things in this. Actually, I do— I like the idea of the water in the foreground. Let me throw down some— so there's some turquoise and see what happens. I actually want to prop this up at an angle so the paint runs down. Put some here just to kind of define where the building meets the ground or the water. I love the idea of turning it into water.

There you go.

Just gonna tilt it up so it runs down a little bit. There we go. It's looking pretty cool. Uh, Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Awesome. Sounds like a— I've never been there. Sounds like a beautiful Beautiful place. You might recognize this as the whistling cowboy music that I— one of the songs we typically end the show with. But we're not ending right now. This is looking pretty good. I'm not sure what else I want to add to it right now. Let me zoom in so you guys can see some of the details. I'll pan around a little bit. I kind of want to work in this area here. I'm not exactly sure what We're gonna morph that into— you can see where I used watercolor stick, how it kind of picked up the texture of the paper underneath. It adds to the gritty, grungy kind of look. I like to grunge-ify buildings. I love old old, rusted metal, dilapidated structures. So grungifying, it helps with that. D-Ray's in the house! What's up, D-Ray? Good to see you.

Let's see, I was looking at this. I should—

there should be a line here, maybe a darker edge right in here somewhere.

There we go.

I like how this roof here is kind of curved. Looks like it's worn out, it's kind of sagging a little bit. So I just want to define the edge a little bit more and take some of that dirty water. I'm dipping my brush in the dirty water over here. Actually, I think I I have some iron oxide color as well in this little, uh, cap I have, this little palette.

So I'm going to pick up a little bit of that.

And I'm just going to bleed this ink a little bit here at the top. I'm just going to pull this roof edge down so it's a little contrast more against the background. Hope you guys are enjoying this. Let me know. Thank you for spending this— it's almost— it is almost Sunday morning, 11:58 PM here on Saturday night. I am really late tonight, so I am actually— I am just pulling colors out of my lid here. I like, I like, I like how they're looking pretty rusty. Some orange, I'm picking up some orangey colors as well. I'm gonna mix, uh, use them out so you guys can see what I'm mixing here a little bit if you want. So I'm taking a little bit of turquoise and mixing it with this lid color that's happening. I'm gonna put a little bit of orange in it too. I don't know, there's some kind of structure or something I see kind of forming or happening here. I just want to pull it out, some of these colors. So cool, it's kind of an interesting grass color there. That was, that was an accident, but I like it. We'll go with it. Happy little accident here, we got some grass. Maybe against the edge of the building there's some grassy stuff happening.

Actually, I like it.

This is kind of a sap green, sap green color that I mixed up by mistake. Stick, but I like it. Uh, Russi Russ D-Ray says D-Ray likes the grunge. Thank you, D-Ray, I appreciate that. So many cool things to look at in this one. Thank you, Becky. Uh, this is one of my faves I've done recently. I'm loving this one. Really, really loving it. Uh, maybe lightning rods on the roof. Looks really amazing. You guys are so nice, I appreciate that. Lightning rods on a roof. Yeah, I like the idea of making some kind of finials. We're gonna do it, Becky. I'm gonna call these We call these Becky lightning rods. Um, yeah, I could see doing some kind of finials. Finials are also used for lightning rods as well. Let's see, I'm going to change the music up a little bit. I want— I love this cowboy music, but I want something a little happier. Then I'm going to wind down down. I don't know if this is peppier.

Let's see.

Yeah, I like this one a little more different. All right, maybe we'll do a Yeah, let's do, let's do one over. Maybe something, maybe something happening here. This one is a double line. I'm gonna see if I can block that out a little bit. Just want to hint at what's going on. There we go. Actually, this one's cool. I like the way this came out. That looks cool. There you go, I got some kind of vertical structures there. Awesome. Ooh, wind gauges. You guys are like so creative. I love this. Lightning rods, wind gauges, all kinds of fun stuff happening. It's actually— I'm going to work with this piece. This could be a structure, maybe an old timber that's kind of popping out of the building, a ridge beam that's popping out a little bit. I'm just— again, I'm just working with how the paint and the ink were bleeding, trying to incorporate them somehow. I want to add a little bit of— there we go, this will be a good color, I think. There we go. So there you go.

So we kind of have the timber, the ridge beam sticking out of the building there.

This is— this song is called The Dark Wizard. Was there a wizard that lived in this building? Or maybe still lives here? Maybe, maybe this is the wizard's place. I want this piece to look like it's a bay window kind of popping off the building. So I'm going to create a heavy shadow underneath. Maybe some of this brown color and bleed it with the ink. So I'm trying to make this look like it's popping a little bit, so it's almost like a bay window sticking out. So you can see this piece, I was trying to give a little depth to it. When it dries, I'll come back and put hatching lines on it to create shadows using hatches. I think I'm gonna leave this one. I think I'm done with this one for tonight. I don't want to do too much more. Time to walk away. That's what it's looking like, guys. Yeah, this is cool. Becky says fabulous colors. Yeah, thank you, Becky. The colors are really, really cool in this one. Really, really cool. I'm going to leave a lot of white space on here as well. So if you see any more color, it's not going to be too much more added. Maybe I would just brighten up some spots. My next step on here is to come back and add just some more details with probably a Sharpie pen. Maybe I'll put a figure on here, a figure or two, just to give a sense of scale of the building. I'll add a couple of people maybe on here. Awesome, guys. Yeah, hash lines. The hatch— yeah, hatch lines. So when I say hatch lines, I mean— I'll zoom in. I'll show you. Let's put one more song on, then we'll wrap up. Let's go— I don't know, this one's called— let's see, this one's called "As History Unfolds." So if you look in this area here, I'll zoom in. So when I say hatch lines, I can do diagonal hatch lines like this. They're a great way to indicate shadows. If you look, so I have the hatch lines on there, uh, and let's throw some underneath this. Kona Glass is up there.

There we go.

So if you can see on there, I threw some right underneath kind of the guide rail for the door. You'll see me add hatch lines underneath roof areas as well, as well to create shadows. It's a fun piece of music. This is the fun part where I'm just focusing, kind of doing this, put my blinders on, focusing on parts of it, getting lost. In the pieces here. This is where I could spend hours just literally just adding fun little details here and there. I'm having too much fun to stop. All right, it's cooldown time. I think this is cooldown music. Maybe not. Zoom out. I'm sorry if I'm off camera a little bit, guys. I mean, this wasn't cooldown music, but it's fun. We'll go with it. That was interesting. All right, cool down time. That made the area push Toward shore. Oh good, yeah, cool. So I hope you guys are enjoying this. Thank you for watching. Um, it is cooldown time. One more cooldown song, then we'll do Whistling Cowboy and wrap up. I appreciate your time tonight, or this morning. It's early morning now. Hope you have an amazing, amazing Sunday.

Oops!

Just throwing down some yellow down here. Yellow was a color I was always afraid to use. I had a fear of it. I don't know why, but the more I use it, the more I'm actually liking it.

Very cool.

All right, let's zoom out, see what it looks like. That's gonna be a wrap on this one for now. Clean up my station here. I mean, if any questions or comments as we wrap up. Deborah says looks great. Thank you, Deborah, appreciate it. And thanks for joining us tonight, that's awesome. Hope to see you come back again. I know it's tough because I don't have a regular set time. I should start doing— I'm thinking Wednesday nights are gonna be a regular time. Wednesday nights around 9 o'clock, that's what I'm toying around with. I need at least one day with some kind of regular time for sure. All right guys, there you go. That's a wrap on this one tonight. I'm gonna do some Whistling Cowboy songs, so give me a number from 1 to 20 and we'll wrap up with our last song. And still thinking about the background. I'm thinking I'm going to do this color, guys, the blue, the cerulean blue back here. But we'll see. Put this away to dry. And we got our Whistling Cowboy sketchbook here. It's almost time for a new one. This, this I'm pretty far in this book. So we last left, I actually added the pink after we ended last night. It was just black and white, and I don't usually add stuff to the cowboy piece, but last night after I ended, I'm like, you know what, I want to throw some color on it. So that's what it ended up looking like. Alright, so let's see. First one to give me a number from 1 to 20, that'll be the number for the song we listen to. Thank you for liking this. Thank you for sharing it. Thank you for being here. Thank you for sharing what you guys are making and creating. I love to see your stuff. Really, really cool stuff. Number 7, D-Ray, you got it. We're doing number 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. This is called In the Wild West. In the Wild West. All right, thank you guys for watching. Have an awesome, awesome Sunday. I don't know if I'll be on tomorrow. I have a lot to do, but we'll see. I might take a creative break at some point. All right, here we go, song number 7. Thank you guys, take care, have an awesome, awesome Sunday. Peace and live creatively. See you real soon.