The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, Becky and Deeby, good to see you guys. Hope you're doing well. It's awesome, awesome to always see you guys in the house. Hope you're having a great, great night. I'm just popping on before Mr. Roo pops on a little bit later. Wanted to get some sketching in. Hope you guys are feeling well and keeping warm. I'm excited to be seeing you guys in our workshop starting— what is it, a week? A week? Two weeks? It's getting closer. Hey Kim, good to see you. Music is fun, kind of reminds me of The Incredibles. Yeah, Becky, it does. I agree with you. This is fun music, I like it. Thank you guys, I'm so glad you're watching for a little bit here before I got to see Mr. Brew tonight. So I'm sketching a scene. I was just watching an episode of— I love Star Wars, I was watching the new book Book of Boba Fett series, and I was inspired by the architecture in the movie tonight, so, or the TV show. So this is, you know, just what I have in my brain of kind of the flavor of what I was watching. Throw down some color on here. So I'm actually using Arches watercolor paper. This is what I did the other night, it looks kind of cool. I like the way it dried and the texture on it. So I wanted— always wanted to give Arches a try, and this is— I really love it. It's not cheap paper. Thank the Lord for gift cards. But it's fun. I just cut it into small pieces to play around with it. So you guys are awesome. You can kind of see the palette I have here. I'm gonna go for some rusty orangey yellowy kind of hues here that you might see on the planet of Tatooine on Star Wars. Tatooine is kind of a desert planet. I often dream of being— having a career where I was a production designer for television and for movies. Being able to help design and create these really cool worlds that we see in film. So doing these sketches is one way for me to Kinda get that out of my system a little bit.

Just have fun with it.

I like watching movies more than once because some— first time I watch, I just kinda kick back, take it all in. Next time I watch, I'll focus on the architecture, design. And then the third time I watch the movie, I'll actually focus on the music in the movie. So if it's a movie I like, I'll watch it at least 3 times and kind of focus on different things.

That sounds kind of nerdy.

I just love doing it. Let's pick up some blue. I'm gonna throw some blue in here. Just keeping it quick and loose. Doing a little bit of dry brushing technique here so the texture of the paper really shows through. I should have had this at an angle. I like to put the watercolor paper at an angle so the water runs down. It's too steep of an angle. Just use my little sketchbook here. Hopefully it's not off screen too much. Move this a little bit. Trying to work a little quick here. So just shuffling, rearranging some So just bear with me. Zoom in a little bit. See some of the details as it's worth drawing and stuff. Cool. Arches, yeah, I'm getting fancy schmancy, you know. Yeah, I want to step up and play. I really love rough textured paper. So I wanted to give this Arches a try. I'm really loving it. You had me at Star Wars. Awesome. Yeah, that's so cool. I love, I just love Star Wars and the whole universe, and I am not hip on all the storylines going on, but the ones I am following, I really enjoy. I really enjoy this new series, that's all.

I'm sorry it's been slow.

Sometimes I'm pretty slow moving. All right, cool. Um, been using the water brush, definitely takes some practice. Hey DB, that's awesome! Yeah, yeah, the water brush does take practice. I use it two ways. I will use it with water in it, right? The more you squeeze, the harder you squeeze it, the more water that's going to come out. But I'll also just dip it in water when I have water nearby.

So it's so cool that you're using it.

I hope you're having fun with it. I see a paper towel. I just want to blot some of this out a little bit.

There we go. I'm gonna lay this flat because I'm just gonna do some pen work on it now.

Um, you have a great eye for color combos. Oh, thanks, I appreciate that. I love messing around with color. I, uh, I'm so happy to hear that because I have to be to be honest with you, color, I avoided putting color on sketches and paintings for a long, long time because honestly I was afraid of putting color down. I just kind of adopted an attitude, just do it. You'll hear me say throw down color or throw down ink. It's kind of a mantra I say to myself, just kind of throw it down and see what happens. So I appreciate that. I love this, the way the pen scratches on the paper. Let's throw some detail on here. What's happening here? This is kind of entry or doorway here. Throw a— some kind of spire on top of this dome shape we have going on. I don't know, maybe this is— I don't know if this is a small— maybe it's a palace type of building. And I'm just kind of moving around. I want the water and the color to flow a little bit Here. Of course, you know what color I need to break out next. I gotta throw a little pink on here somewhere. Um, what I like with the color is that it is unexpected and fab. Oh, thanks! I appreciate that, Kim. That's really cool to hear. Maybe I'm developing my own kind of color style or palette. I know I'm definitely working in this pink color as a signature. So I have some right here, I've put a lid on this container. Let's throw some down in here. I'm not gonna get too crazy, so maybe just a touch of it somewhere. I don't want to put the pivot in the middle because it'll draw your eye right to the middle too quick. Just, just throw a touch of it over on each side.

There we go.

So I just threw a little bit of pink down there. What I really should have done is taped this down and put my board up at an angle. If I was thinking, I can still do it this way, I think. Yeah, it works. So I just put a sketchbook under my green board here just to tilt it up a little bit. We are winging it. Pick Elephants on Parade. That's what the music sounded like, didn't it? That was an interesting song. Always good to face your fears, leads to growth. Yeah, Becky, I love that. That is so true. That is so true. Well, well put. See, I want some, uh, let's do some yellow on here. I want a nice pop of it. This is cool. I like the way this is turning out. Yeah, I like the way this is looking. It's kind of cool. I'm gonna let it dry a little bit. I want to throw down some more ink.

Details.

My logo is kind of in the way here, so I'm going to turn it off for a second.

Boom!

You see it better.

I want—

definitely come back and add some ink plus more details on this building in the front for sure. I like the gray in the background. I just love the way the grays look. Let me zoom in, you can see some of the details. Hey Jeannie, good to see you. Welcome, it's always great to have you in the house. Um, anyone that could do horse as well as you? Yeah, Becky. Becky is— Becky is the horse whisperer. I love your horse stuff for sure. DB, you are our gray master, so there's some gray on here. DB does amazing, amazing pencil.

I love your pencil work.

I aspire to do pencil work like you, and of course, like Becky and all of you guys. I love seeing what you're posting.

So it's just so inspiring.

Inspirational room. I'm just panning so you guys can see some of the coast. This is a good shot here.

We'll leave it for a minute.

I love, I love the way it's drying, the texture here. I love the colors that are mixing right in this area. This is going to dry really awesome. I do. I love watching paint dry. I really do. I admit it, I have a problem, addiction to watching paint drying. This is actually cooled down here too, my canvas. So I love the way this is drying.

This is looking really awesome.

Good stuff. Hey, I love the drawing tonight. Hey, thanks, Jeannie. Yeah, so I know you just joined us, so this is actually— I was just watching Star Wars show tonight, Book of Boba Fett, and I was just kind of inspired by some of the architecture texture. I saw it tonight on the show. This isn't— this is not even meant to be close to replicating it, but just the feeling of it. So that's kind of what inspired me tonight, is a TV show. But this is only the first crack at it. I'll be back. Let me know if I'll be working on this piece a couple more times, I'm sure.

Just wanted to pop on, um, Rose, Mr. Pops on tonight.

Oh yeah, I like that on it.

Dark, that touch of Rose, awesome. Throw down some orange.

So I'm just pulling colors off my little Winsor Newton travel watercolor kit. So you can see this is what I'm working with right here. These are not all the original paints. Some are still the original pans, but others have been replaced. But you can see I'm just pulling colors out of here.

I'm gonna get some orange. Pop some orange in here.

You know, watercolor, it's really good for cool effects by building up layers.

All I do is quickly watercolor wash tonight. I'm sorry, Jason Nicholas.

Sketch— I call them sketch paintings or washes. I'm just sketch painting tonight here.

I do—

I am going to pop some more pink on here at some point after it dries because A little more bright, brighter. And I'm just grabbing some yellow and I'm just going to pop some down here.

I'm going to pop it.

And I have some iron oxide acrylic ink color I really love. I'm gonna throw this with iron oxide. On here, just touch it in some places.

I think the rest of the iron oxide is going to look good with this palette.

I could be wrong. We'll see what happens. Oh, this is cool. I like the way it's coloring. Coloring. I like the way it's coloring. I like the way it's drying. Um, oh my gosh. Um, colors you used tonight are awesome. Thank you, Jean. I appreciate it. Becky's like, oh shucks. Yeah, Becky, you were, you're of course. Your stuff is awesome. Um, these colors are melding together, is amazing. Ooh, melding. I love the word melding. There's just something magical when I hear melt. I think of— I think of melding. I think of gold, these precious metals being heated up and just kind of oozing paddling together and mixing together into a beautiful, beautiful shimmering delightful object. Trying to spin the words, trying to spin the words. I better just stick to sketching. I am not the wordsmith. I love writing, I love creative writing. Creative writing is a really awesome thing. I haven't done it in such a long time, but I used to love writing these, uh, these short stories, fictional stories. Um, you've been watching The Book of Boba Fett too? Oh cool, yeah, the set design is incredible. Um, so when I went to Disney Hollywood Studios and we went to Galaxy's Edge, otherwise known as Star Wars Land, I was so inspired by the way they designed that place. It was incredible. I did some livestreams from there. I spent a few hours there one morning just photographing and doing sketching. I was in heaven that day. So yeah, set design is really incredible. Sets and backgrounds of The Mandalorian. Yeah, The Mandalorian also, right? So I won't, I won't spoil Book 5, or no, what was it, 7? Whatever chapter we're on, I think it's 5. All I can say is I watched today's episode.

I won't give anything away about this. I loved it.

Absolutely loved it. That's all I can say about it. Wow, Jason, this is gorgeous. Oh, thank you, I appreciate that, Becky. So this is a, this is kind of a rare example on Inking Out Loud where I'm kind of coming to the plate or to the paper with a preformed idea in my brain and trying to get that out on paper. Most of the times I'm inking out loud, I'm just really off the cuff creating on the fly, but here I did start with an idea in my imagination, so that may have an impact, you know, it might make for better artwork in the end, I don't know. I'm glad you guys are enjoying this one. So thank you for the awesome positive feedback. Really, I really appreciate it so much. I think I'm gonna pop some more pink on here. Clean the brush off a little bit. I want the pink to really pop.

It had—

it mixed in with the, um, Lamy ink before, so it got kind of muddy looking. That's okay, I can come back and add some more on top. Yeah, I don't think I'll throw pink anywhere else. I'm just going to leave it up in this one area. Uh, maybe I'm lying. I may throw some down over here, some splashes of it. I'm splashing kind of the ink the pink ink over in that corner. I— oh my God, this is awesome! Check out the way this is drying right in this area. So I just threw some of that pink over my— the oranges I was using. What else was I using? Yellow, oranges. This is going to dry really, really cool, this area here. Awesome.

Cool.

Um, yeah, so Kim, yeah, this is Arches paper. So I haven't used Arches a lot. It's maybe the third time I've actually used Arches paper, and I just bought a pad of it, but I cut the sheets down into like 6x8 pieces. This is by far the favorite— my favorite paper I have used to date. I love Arches. This is what I practiced with last night. I just threw something on here quick to play around with it. I'm all about rough texture papers and watercolors and ink drawings, this really hits the spot.

This is perfect for me.

So this is Arches. If I zoom in, you can see some of the details. And I know when you guys have to split, don't, you know, I know 857 is coming up close, but I'll just zoom in to show you guys the detail here. You can see the texture of the paper. You can see that my loose, quick, loose kind of line work on here. See how this is drying. I love the hard edges that are happening here. Pink going on up there.

There you go, a little close-up action.

Uh, seems like it stays wet for a while. Yes. So the Arch is staying wet. I do have a lot of water on here, so it is kind of saturated. It's buckling a little bit as well. So yeah, it's still wet. That's true. But what I like about it, it has a nice thickness about it. It's a good feel in the hand. Very— has a kind of ridged— it's rigid, so I like it. It's not buckling too, too much. Excellent work, thanks for the close-up. Hey, you're welcome. Hey, you guys are awesome. I'm gonna let you go. I'm gonna pop in and watch Ru for a few— stay for a bit. I'm gonna keep playing with this while I'm watching. You guys are awesome, I appreciate you tuning in and watching and commenting and sharing your thoughts and sharing your artwork. Thank you so much, guys. You are the best. Peace and live creatively. I will see you guys soon, and don't forget to head over and watch our friend Roo. Say hello to you guys over there. Thanks, guys. Peace and live creatively.