The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey Cameron, good to see you. Hope you're having a good night. Good to see you. Cameron's okay. Just got back from taking my physics final. Ooh, Cameron, hope you did well. That's awesome. Hope you did really good. So I guess you're— I don't know if you're on break soon or you should be headed towards your winter break. That's great news. Hey, Denise is in the house. Denise, great to see you. Hope all's well with you. Thank you guys for watching and tuning in. I'm popping on here really, really quick tonight. I didn't, I just got home not too long ago myself and I didn't do my bridge sketch yet today. So I wanted to pop on, do a quick bridge sketch here. 10:02. So I'm gonna wrap up at 10:10. I just wanted to sketch online and see who's out there and who I could say hello to.

Tonight.

I know I'm definitely getting ready for break. Yes, love your bridges. I'm doing fine, winding down. Oh, that's so cool. Thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying my bridge sketches. That's always fun for me to hear. I always appreciate your feedback, so thank you so much. I'm having fun with these sketches as well. Thank you guys for your positivity, your feedback, your encouragement. Thank you for sharing, tuning out there.

Thank you, man. I appreciate it.

Also, let me know if my music is too loud. I do have it up a little bit here just to— I don't know, I just feel like having it a little loud. That's a good reason, I guess. Um, It's not so much about me talking, it's about me sketching. So, hope you guys are enjoying this quick sketch I have happening here. This is an industrial building. I'm not going to get into the details of these buildings on the side. I just kind of want to outline for now, uh, the bridge. This is a view of the Brooklyn Bridge. I believe it's a view of the Brooklyn Bridge. Iconic, an iconic view.

Cool.

So I'm just using a Sharpie right now. Quick, quick sketch there. Chip, hey, good to see you. Hope all's well. Chip says, "Unfinished, love it." Yeah, yeah, me too, Chip. It's one of the cool things about doing quick, fast sketches is they're often unfinished, and that's how I love it. I'm not even gonna— these buildings are beautiful on each side, but I don't have time to detail them. I'm not going to do it right now. I think I'm actually going to just shade them in, hatch them in, because I kind of want this to pop out. It's the first time I've ever sketched this view. Just playing around, having fun. I was going to use my Lamy ink, but I wanted to use black. There's brown in here, so I didn't have time to change it. All good though. Let's just— you know, actually, I'm going to use graphite and just shade these in. Where's my graphite? Where is my graphite? Here it is. Just shade the shoes with some graphite. And the reason I'm doing this is I want to just kind of— this to pop out for now. I don't want people to worry about the details of these buildings. I'll probably just brush some water on this graphite. Kind of paint with it a little bit. And we'll call it a day on this one. Let me just add some water. One thing I didn't do is I kind of like to darken some of the lines on the outside of the bridge, but I'll save that for another day. Um, I have some dirty water. Let me just grab that. Guys are awesome. I hope you're looking forward to the holidays coming up. I def know I'm looking forward to it. This is Dirty Water, actually happens to be kind of a bluish color. I don't know if you can see that. I'm just using what I got right now. I'm going with it. I'm looking for my 3/4-inch flat brush. Where are you hiding? Where's my brush? Oh, here it is. I probably just took it out. And I just want to brush this graphite on here, just kind of— well, you'll see what I'm trying to do, I think. Just want to kind of gray these buildings out. I'm being quick, loose with this. I'm actually gonna add just some—

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You can see that's the color dirty water. It's a blue color. I'm just going to add some down here and where the road, where the street is. And I got some up there. Just blot it back. That's fine. Hey, DB, good to see you. Cameron says, uh, want a simple bridge sketch. Do the shortest drawbridge in the world located in Bermuda. It's practically two 2x4s. It's just wide enough to fit a mast through. That's cool, Cameron. I'll have to Google that. Very cool. Who would ever thought we could paint with dirty water? Yeah, I, I paint with dirty water all the time. Um, especially like the grungy kind of look. I do like to do industrial and grungy kind of, uh, cityscapes. So I keep dirty water nearby. When it starts growing funky things in it, or it starts smelling pretty bad, I'll dump it. Some of you guys may remember I had a solution of dirty water and some acrylic sitting here for about a year and a half. I had to get rid of it. It was growing stuff and it was smelling really funky. I'm not really digging what I just did with the buildings, which is fine. I guess my brain— I just want to capture this piece of it. Boom. The frame needs to be a little bit taller, but I would kind of— I would kind of matte this here with a little larger opening. I think that would look cool if I just darken the edges. Pull out some of the details on it, call it a day. I would leave it black and white. So that would be the finished product. So in my brain, I colored these in because I wanted to block them out, but in reality, I probably would end up just cropping the final piece if I was to sell it. I don't have a bigger— oh, maybe this one. This one might be a little bit bigger. Yeah, it's a little taller opening. I probably crop this out kind of off-center, I think like this. So what you're seeing in the frame would be the final image. Pretty cool. I like it framed. Dirty water. Oh, you mean tap water? Um, actually, I mean dirty It starts off as clean tap water, but then as I clean my brushes off, like, as I clean these brushes or my aqua brushes off, it just gets dirty from the different inks and paints I use. So that's, that's what I mean by dirty water. Hey, Lydia's in the house! Good to see you, Lydia. Hope all's well. Cameron actually said, I actually like what you did with the sides of buildings. It makes them look industrial. Oh, thanks Cameron. Yeah, cool. Cool. Yeah, I definitely— I think it's a— so Cameron, I think it's really cool as a kind of a study piece. I don't think if I was selling it would look cool like this. I could be wrong. I would definitely— I feel like I would need to crop it. I'm really digging this. I don't even care if a little bit of that blue dirty water shows on the bottom. I think I would crop this here because I like that lamppost. Uh, let's see, it's 10:14. I was going to end, but let me— I think I just want to pull the edges of this bridge out before I wrap up. I wish I had the black. I don't have black Lamy ink in here. You know what we're going to do? Here we are.

I don't—

again, I'm playing, I'm having fun. This is— I love having fun and just practicing and playing around. So I'm just going to use a watercolor stick and kind of just paint the outline of where I want to, which will help again with that kind of industrial grungy vibe I like. Let's see, I think I'm gonna use this water. So, I'm literally just dipping my watercolor stick in this water to dissolve it. And I'm just gonna sketch, kinda sketch with it. See what happens. You guys that know me, it's just all about playfulness, having fun. Trying different things out. You can see by adding this— this is, I think, a graphite color water stick, watercolor stick. Graphite gray is the color and the brand is Daniel Smith. I like watercolor sticks. They're fun for me to sketch paint with. A bunch of different ways to use these. I'm literally just dipping it in water and sketching with it. I don't care if the lines are wonky. It's a quick— it's a sketch. Definitely want to pull out the arches on here. So let's do the same thing. This stuff is messy, so I have to be careful not to dip my palm into it. I've done that many times. You can see just how the arches are being pulled out here, and I think I want to grab kind of the underside of the bridge here. This actually comes in front. So I love the way this is popping now. One of the things I love about watercolor sticks is I love that it picks up the texture of the paper with a fairly dry, not totally dry, but a fairly dry watercolor stick. It allows for the texture of the paper to come through, which I really like.

Cool.

I'm digging it. I think that's good for the outline I want to show. And then I have a Sharpie. I have a couple. Here's a— here's a cool thing for anybody that likes to use Sharpies. Something I noticed, I guess earlier this year— let me grab two different ones here. I don't know if this is an old thing or a new thing Sharpie does. I have two different— one is called an Ultra Fine Point. The one on top here is an Ultra Fine Point. This one is called Extra Fine point. And when you uncap them, there are two totally different tips on here. The top is the Ultra, bottom is Extra. Um, I prefer sketching with the bottom one, the Extra Fine Point. It isn't as pointy as the ultra fine point. It's kind of confusing, the naming system they have. They're very, very different. So I love sketching with this one. It's fatter, feels more comfortable. I like to do skippy lines or lines that are not continuous. Like, I can do that with this much easier. The ink doesn't come out as fast on this one. This, the ink really comes out fast and it's more fine. So again, I don't know if this— if Sharpie changed their lines along the way. I don't know which one's older, which one's newer, but, um, my preference would definitely be the extra fine. Just a tip, just a little pro tip. Kind of drying out. The music is not drying out, getting louder, which I like. I'm just going to hatch this in. The bottom of the bridge is a little bit darker. Sharpies do not like to write on wet areas of paper.

That's cool.

I like that. And I just want to pull out some of this structure a little bit darker. These kind of finials on top here. Cool. Dun dun dun. What if you were just use a little bit of motor oil in a painting? So motor oil, good question. I've never used motor oil. I think first thing that comes to my brain is the smell. Of it. I don't think the smell of it would be really pleasant on a painting. The second thing is you're really messy and hard to clean off hands and things. I'm sure it's been done, Cameron, so it's really cool. I love that you're thinking outside the box. It's just one of those things I wouldn't know unless I did it. So that's a cool idea. Also the wearability, like how long would motor oil last, you know, on paper? You might have to use a different medium to paint it on. All right, cool. All right, keep sketching. So there we go. I think I would still like this framed. Look how it pops in the frame. I would pull out the lamp fixture a little bit better. And I would call that a day. Hey guys, let me know if you have any final questions before I wrap up. This young lad has school tomorrow. Yes, I just, I did call myself a young lad. In the countdown, in the countdown, 2, 3, wait, Tuesday, Wednesday, 2 and a half more days of school till break. Not that I don't love school, but I'm kind of looking forward to catching up with quiet time just to refresh. Guys, thank you so much for watching. I appreciate you all. Hope you enjoyed this quick bridge sketch tonight. I will catch you soon. Have an awesome, awesome rest of your night and week. I will be on again before Christmas Eve. I'm sure. Um, take care, peace, and live creatively. See you guys soon.