The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey Cameron, hope you're having a good night. Good to see you. Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday. Hey there, hope everybody's having an awesome Thursday night. Thanks for tuning in. I am doing my daily bridge sketch here. Just looking at a photo of the Brooklyn Bridge, just trying to do different viewpoint of it, kind of feeling like you're inside the, uh, all the support wires and things. So just a fun take. I always like, I like Chinese bridges from different viewpoints. So we'll see what happens. Happy holidays! I am on break. Break is officially— has started. Today was our last day and we're off for I don't know, 10 days maybe, which is awesome. I am gonna rest up. Cool. All right, so we got some perspective happening here. Let's see, we'll just bleed some ink on this. I just want to lay out kind of some wires. Actually, let's just sketch in some boards across here. There we go. Just to give a little extra depth, I want to just sketch these kind of wooden planks across here. They're getting closer together as we get further into distance, just help create the illusion of depth.

Cool.

Let's throw down some ink. I'm not sure. What do we want to use? Well, I'll use my Lamy. I have my Lamy right here. Awesome. Hey, feel free to say hello if you're watching. It's always great to know who's on, who's out there. Appreciate you guys. I just want to open a window here on my screen. I forgot to open. Where the heck is it? There it is. Boom. So Cameron, hope you're good. Hope you— I don't know if you got your results back from your— you're waiting for your final exam result or results. Let me know. I hope you did well. Uh, let's see, I want to actually take out— we have some ink here in the bottle we might use as well. I want to put it— let's put it here, maybe. No, I want to put it somewhere where it doesn't spill. I'll put it down here. Perfect. All right, so we got some holiday tunes on. Let's add some ink. It's always one of my favorite parts. I'm just gonna use my Aqua Brush and we'll just bleed some of it. Shake this up a little bit. All right, there we go. Actually, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna dip I'm gonna actually take my brush and just put it right into the ink. Let's just paint with it. So you can see I'm just literally just dipping this in here, and I got some water here. All right, let's do it. I'm just giving it a quick, just a quick, fast kind of wash on here. I'm not being really careful, and I just want to kind of just want the colors of this ink to shine through. I love this. I think this is probably I have to say, this is probably in my top 3 favorite ink colors. It's called Apple Snail. Um, I love it. Has apple colors, almost like the apple's oxidizing. We got kind of the brownish colors happening. I love using it for bridges, for industrial sketches. It's pretty— it's a pretty awesome color. So you might have noticed I sketched a box around here with my pen. I like to do that sometimes, um, when I'm sketching perspectives. I like to set a frame. That way I'm not worried about kind of filling an entire page or a blank sheet of paper. If I make a frame, it kind of establishes a couple things: the proportions of the view I'm trying to sketch It also makes it easier for me to kind of focus and not worry about filling the whole page because I know I want to keep it mostly in the box. I do like to extend my sketches beyond this frame. You can see a lot of these lines are coming up past it. It's almost like breaking the fourth wall. It's just something I like to do in my sketches. I just think it adds another interesting layer to it, and I don't mind if You guys see this frame here. I like that. I like for people to be able to see how sketches are constructed. I love leaving these lines on here, whether they're pen or pencil. I rarely will erase them. So you might notice that my AirPod just went out. My internet is— my wireless is— now it's back. I don't know if you guys lost audio, but my internet Wireless thing just went out. Anyway, so you'll notice that a lot of my sketches, you'll see a lot of kind of the underneath line work, which I don't know if that's because I'm an architect. And when I started architecting, I think that's a verb, architecting, drawing floor plans and blueprints, we would lightly draw guidelines on our drawings and then come back and darken lines. I think that kind of has translated to how I sketch today, is keeping the construction lines and just working on top of them. So it's an aesthetic that I really like to use and embrace. This is looking really, really, really cool as it's drying. I love— I love here some dark, some light lines going on. That's— I don't want to overdo it with the ink right now, so I'm going to actually cap this up so I don't spill it. Hey, Jennifer Thistle's in the house! Jennifer from Arizona, how are you? So grab some water. Hope you're doing well. Jennifer says cheers, received your parcel. Hey Jennifer, Merry Christmas to you! You do not need to mail anything back to me, it's for you. Happy holidays! Um, it's a Christmas holiday gift for you. Please do not send anything back, just enjoy. And, uh, yeah, hopefully you enjoy the artwork. So thank you, I appreciate it. Merry Christmas. Cameron says, I got a 60, but I'm happy with it. Okay, Cameron, if you're happy with it, it's all that matters, right? Um, we'll try to catch up now that I'm off, and maybe you're off as well. We can probably maybe catch up one of these days, maybe next week. We'll see if you're around and have lunch together. That'd be awesome. Uh, Linda says, hey y'all, love the color. Linda, I'm so glad you love the color. Linda, Linda, I'm glad you're on. Linda, this— I, I have time to go to the post office tomorrow, so I'm gonna pop this— this is going in the mail to you tomorrow. So congratulations, Linda. For winning the bid on this really awesome piece. This is actually probably in my top 3 favorite ink wash sketches, so I'm honored it's going to a loving, caring, and sharing household. So I hope that you and your family enjoy this. Um, if you frame it, I'd love for you to take a picture and show it. I think this would look really beautiful framed. So Linda, thank you again, and again, I'm so glad it's going out to someone I've come to know over the past year and a half or so, and you're an amazing person, Linda, and this is a hard one for me to part with. I got some comments about that, which was interesting, but it would sit in my drawer, and I'm so glad it's going to someone special. So thank you again. Enjoy it. I'll mail it tomorrow. You'll get it sometime next week. Very, very cool. Do I owe anybody else any paintings? I think I've mailed everything. That's the only one I see back there. Let me grab a drink of water. It is dry in here. Ah, water! That's refreshing. Uh, Jennifer, that's very nice of you. Thank you so much. Um, thank you, I appreciate it, and I hope you're, uh, hope you're doing well. So I'm— let me zoom in so you guys can see this closer. There we go. You don't want to see my arm. I'm just, just literally dabbing the brush down. Lots of times you think when we have a paintbrush in our hand, we got to do this, right? We gotta paint with it. There's so many other techniques like dabbing. And I don't mean like, you know, dabbing. You can't see the whole thing, but I'm dabbing here. The move, the dance move. I'm just dabbing the brush down, which can create some interesting effects. Let me zoom in. I'm grabbing some of that ink on there and I'm just dabbing it. Just to darken some places. I don't want to do a brush stroke. I kind of like the the splotchiness of kind of just dabbing this down. So don't be afraid to use your brush in different ways. You don't just have to kind of do typical brush strokes. I actually think I find myself dabbing the brush down more than painting with it. Hope that makes sense. So this is looking awesome, you know. I'm I'm debating whether I want to add a background color. My hesitation is the ink will— hmm, I know what color I want to throw down, but I just don't want it to bleed into this really beautiful apple color here. But I would love to use— this is I actually just got this. What is it? It's called cerulean hue. I don't know if you guys can see that. Cerulean hue. Might be blurry. It's watercolor ink. Let's see what it looks like. I'm gonna just do a little test swatch down here. We'll see what it looks like. Liz says, "Aww, you're too kind. I know you'll take care of it 'cause you're awesome." Thank you so much. Love that you— love that you dance that brush. Yeah, you gotta dance it around. Don't just brush it off, dance with it, right? I was trying to be— that was not a good pun. That was horrible. Maybe Santa will bring me some new puns for Christmas. If you guys are in favor of that, put it in the chat. Give me some hearts, thumbs up. Let me know if Santa should bring me some new If my students were listening and watching, we'd have a lot of thumbs up right now. I would love for them to watch. I think it'd be so cool. Um, yeah, let's see. I'm just gonna put some of this watercolor ink. I'm just gonna literally use this lid as a little palette. Cap it up. Always cap your inks up when you're not using them. You have seen me spill them on air a couple times. Ooh, I need a paper towel. Uh, paper towel is down here.

Perfect.

We're good to go. I just want to see what this blue looks like. I haven't actually used it yet. So it might have a little bit of the apple mixed in. That's okay. And I'm just going to put it down here. Just playing around. Yeah, that's, that's cool. It looks a little different in person than on screen. That would be a really, really cool color. It goes well with the background. If I was to mix it with the Apple color I can get a really— I think I can get like a coppery, a patina copper kind of color. Where's the— where'd I put that ink? I put it back like a good boy. I did something good today. Let's see. That's not it. Here it is. Let's just mix this in a little bit of— just want to see what it looks like when I mix the two colors. Put that there. Yeah, let me zoom in. You actually— excuse me— you get a kind of a cool— I think if I add a little bit more of that brown, it would be better, but I think you can get a coppery patina effect. Right now it's a little, little too green for that, but, um, it's always fun to play around, right? What do I want to do? I'm supposed to do some more sketching. I, I need a bigger Need a bigger work area here. All right, cool. All right, there you go. So playing around some colors. Linda says nothing like bad dad jokes and puns. Linda, I know you guys, you and, uh, you and Guy are masters at the puns. I cannot compete with you guys. That Sharpie, I think, has, has bit the dust. So this, this would be a cool perspective on a bridge. This is the pedestrian walkway part of the Brooklyn Bridge. I just learned they used to allow bikes up here with pedestrians. Now the bikes are not allowed to come up here. It's strictly for pedestrians, which is really a good idea because the bikes and pedestrians don't always mesh well together, especially with bikes flying across here. On my bucket list is a trip to cross and walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. I would, I would love that. I believe the bridge is about a mile long, just over a mile, I think. So it's definitely very walkable for me. It's just me gaining the courage to actually go to somewhere I've never been. I watched some videos and streaming from this area, so I kind of know— I would know how to get to the bridge, but I'm not one for driving into the city, so I would have to go in and take— I would take a bus in and then take some trains in the city. So I am working up the courage to do that one of these days, and we'll explore the Brooklyn Bridge a little more in detail. But that's why I love sketching, because if I can't go there, I can sketch it. And I can sketch it in my— how I imagine it, put my own twist on it. I'm going to leave a lot of white space here. I like the way this is looking, so I'm not gonna— I'm gonna leave that white. I just wanted to put a little color, a little wash around the edge. Just to kind of make this area pop a little more. You'll also notice on this frame, not only do my sketch lines go outside the frame, I also have the color coming below the frame. Again, the frame is just a reference to get my mind and brain— mind and brain, the same thing— to get my brain focused on a small part of a larger page. This is— I like the way this is drying, actually. It's looking cool. So maybe I might come back and add some blue after this dries. We'll see. I probably should have thrown down— I probably should have thrown down like an acrylic ink. Alright, here's what I should have done. So I have acrylic ink that's cerulean blue, I think. I probably should have did a wash of that, let it dry, and then come back and do the bridge on top of it. The acrylic ink will not bleed once it's dry, so it's, it would, it's good for doing a background with that. So I wasn't, I wasn't planning ahead, so now next time I know what I would do. So this might just stay this way. I'm kind of liking it, guys. I'm almost thinking this might be a done piece. Might just add some more diagonal or some cables on here, I think, on this side. I don't want to overwork it, and I am— I overwork these sometimes. Uh, let's break out my Sharpie. And I actually want to pull out kind of— I want to pull the vertical pieces of the railing here. I'm going to turn the page because I don't want to get my hand in my palm on the wet areas. So I'm literally just going to turn this and work with it this way. I just want to pop this out a little bit more. Yeah, there you go. So you can kind of see these vertical, uh, balusters Showing better. Connected, I think, or my Bluetooth. On wet areas, so that's not going to happen yet. All right, cool. I have some vertical cables coming down in here. Let's see, how do I want to do this? If you notice, I'm kind of doing this move with the pen and nothing— I'll zoom in— nothing's coming out Put the cap off. What I'm trying to do is if I go up in vertical with the pen and draw straight down, I think the line's gonna be too dark. So I'm trying to find an angle where I can just sketch it lightly. So you'll see I'm kind of just doing some guidelines and I'm raising the angle slightly just as I'm doing it just to get the guidelines to show. If I would only get a scrap piece of paper. If I was to do this and hold it vertical, you're going to get really heavy lines. So I'm holding the pen at an angle and I'm just kind of pulling it down to get lighter lines. So that's a, that's a technique that I like using sometimes. And again, I don't care if these aren't perfect. Straight. As we're getting further in the distance, just to create the illusion of depth, I'm gonna bring these vertical lines a little closer together. There we go. So you can kind of see that if I did it this way, they would have been too dark. For me, I don't— I didn't really want them to pop out too much, otherwise it would start looking really busy with a lot of dark lines happening. Let's do the same thing on actually the other side on the photo. I'm not really seeing a lot of vertical lines, so I'm going to leave that kind of cleaner. I want to pull out the railing top, so I'm going to Another way to get darker lines with a Sharpie is just to sketch slower. Slower and steadier and you get darker lines. Do the same thing here, just slower and steadier. Not going for straight lines, but just darker. I'm kind of going slow and steadier just to pop that out. So there you go, you can, now you can kind of see the rail, the rail. I might pull out some of the deck boards across here, make them a little darker. I like the perspective on this because it's off-center, right? So we're kind of focused back here, my pen is, but it's not on the center of my box, right? I don't have it here. It's kind of shifted to the right, which I like. So you get to see more of this side of the bridge, which it makes it a little more interesting than having everything always centered with your viewpoint. Hope you guys are enjoying this. Let me know. Chip's in the house! Chip, hello! Hope you're doing awesome tonight. It's always great to see you, Chip. I'm gonna— I will be sketching the Golden Gate Bridge bridge, um, probably Saturday, I'm thinking. That's Christmas Eve. I'm not sure, maybe next week. I'll let you know because I'm gonna use the pictures you sent, or one of the photos. I'll give you a heads up. If you can't make it, then you can always watch the video, which is cool. But thank you for the pics. I'm just pulling out these deck— decking boards a little bit more here. All right, cool. I like that because now you can kind of at least see them a little bit better. Notice that they're not solid continuous lines. I haven't kind of broken a little bit. I didn't do this. I didn't do this for the boards, right? I did, I did this. I love having scrap paper here, it's so cool. I did lines that are kind of like this. I call those broken lines. To me, they're just more sketchy and loose looking. Less technical. You kind of see the difference. So for me, this is my sketching style here most of the time. This for me is more of my architectural, I would say, technical type of line. So the way you sketch lines can really have an impact on the final result. So I'm kind of going for that more of a broken kind of line here. Cool, guys. I hope these tips are helping you guys, um, trying to get better at explaining my process and what's in my brain and how I'm creating what I'm creating. So hopefully these tips are making sense. I need a drink of water. Chip says, "Perfect." Yes, Chip, you are perfect. No, I know you meant perfect about the sketch. We are all perfect in our own way, right? We're all made to be who we are. And to me, that is perfection, being the best version of yourself that you can be. Man, I am so thirsty. Uh, this is how this color is drying, guys, if you want to see. So we kind of have that almost copper patina-ish colors going on. I'm really liking it. I am— I'm just gonna step away from this. I'm gonna stay here, but I'm gonna set this aside because I, I'm thinking this is done. I'm liking it. Do I have a frame? Let's pick out a frame. Turn the heat off here. A little heater in here.

Oh, much better.

It's getting too hot. All right. I don't have a big enough frame, but I always like to see how these things would look smaller versions. Ooh, that's looking awesome. Let me show you guys. I'm getting— I just got excited. Dang, I'm actually loving this framed vertically like this in a mat. I think that looks really cool, actually. I'm pleasantly surprised. I don't have a big— I don't have a big enough opening in my mat here, but let's just kind of play around horizontally. Could pull it up a little bit. Actually, this is looking pretty nice horizontally as well. I really love the dark colors on the right and the light on the left. It's kind of like yin yang, right? It's balancing out with the dark and then the light here. And I love the gestures of the cables. Just a quick, like, gestures. I'm imagining Zorro with his rapier, just I know it's not a pleasant image, but I'm just imagining someone kind of just boom, boom, boom, just kind of getting these on here quick. Just a slight gesture. Let's see, let's, let's take a look. Now, if I went here, see, it's really not as— for me, this is not as exciting. Definitely not. I'm definitely— I'm drawn to keeping the I'm keeping it like this. Something like this. Dang, that's so cool. There's a white frame. I definitely like the black frame better. Let's see if I do it vertically here. I think I like cropping. There we go. Now I kind of like shifting it here, maybe up a little bit. There you go, something like that. Cool, loving it. Yeah, I'm not going to add the blue on this unless, unless I did it with colored pencil. Maybe I just don't want to make these muddy by adding more ink or a wash on top of these. If I did it with colored pencil I wouldn't have to worry about that. I don't have the color. I mean, I have my light aqua. Let's just do a little test down here, see what it would look like. So I'm just, I just want to put the light aqua down and see what it looks like on here. You definitely would see the texture of the paper through the colored pencil, right? Unless I kind of come back and really push down on it, I can get rid of the texture. I, I don't know if I want that. Let me just— let me just— let me do this here. I'm just going to do a little swatch and then hold it. I mean, I love the color combination. That is definitely not a question. How would it look cool if I colored that? What do you guys think? Let me know. What's your opinion? Should I leave it just the way it is? I think that's where my gut is going. Or do you think it would look better if I added this light aqua as kind of a background here. Let me know what you guys think. Um, Linda says, I like the very light shading on the left. Yeah, thank you. So I did really light shading here intentionally just because I wanted the white to pop out even more. So I kind of framed the white area with that light shading and then the dark. Cool. Um, Jennifer says, how about some Christmas ornaments or tree? How about some— how about some Christmas ornaments or tree? Oh, you mean like on the bridge? Maybe in the background here we did like a little tree. Where's my trace paper? Where is my trace? I'm looking for my trace paper. It's always here. It's right here.

Aha.

I mean, it's yellow, yellow, but we can look at it. We did something in the focal. I mean, let's see, let's do kind of a quick little— we do like a tree in the background. And then we could, we could break out Lindsay's favorite green color. It's not in here, actually. We do like a little tree back there. Actually, I think I'd pull it down a little bit. I think, I think I'd pull it down to maybe here somewhere. Uh, oh, on— yeah, on the bridge, ornaments on the railing. Yeah, yeah, we could totally like bling this up. Bling it up Christmas style, right? Put a tree here on the bridge, show some ornaments. You could pop out some colors, like some— throw some up. Actually, here's what we're gonna do. Jennifer, I love this. Thank you for the idea. I'm gonna break out some white tracing paper, lay it over it, and we're gonna do a sketch on top of the sketch on tracing paper. How fun will this be? I'm just grabbing some white paper. It's in one of my magic drawers down here. There we go. Let's just break out some white trace. Alright, you guys are in for a treat. I don't know if Cameron, if you're still on, I don't know if you learned this technique in college yet. Here's the reason I went to college for 5 years and worked for an architect for many years, just to master this technique. I will show it to you. I'm going to take a ruler. Can I zoom out more? Let's see. There we go. Zoom out. Got my straight edge here. I'm just going to hold it like this. Boom. And I'm just going to tear this, get a clean edge on it. Thank you very much. I am not charging extra for that tonight. That is included with admission. Merry Christmas, guys. I'm being silly. Yeah, so that's a good technique though. If you want to rip tracing paper, just use a straight edge and you can kind of just tear it. Alright, let's go watch that back in slow motion. Do the replay. If I was very sophisticated, I probably could do that somehow. If I had a technical director here, I'm sure they could whip it up for me. All right, so we got some trace. We'll throw it down on top. I'm actually going to grab a piece of tape and we'll tape it down. That's a big piece of tape. All right, let's throw some tape on here just to kind of hold it in place. I don't mind if it wiggles a little bit. All right, cool. All right, let's do a sketch on top of a sketch and see if we can incorporate some of these ideas and see how it looks. Uh, so let's take our Sharpie. So let's sketch that tree. So we have a tree. Let's see, I'm just gonna go with my gut here. Let's just kind of get a little bigger. Maybe we have a tree kind of here happening. Just kind of zigzag it a little bit. So we got a tree going on. Boom. Jennifer's like, some ornaments. I'm— how about— yeah, I mean, if we just kind of keep it simple. What if we did some like Christmas kind of balls hanging on here?

Here.

I'm going to break out a color— some colored pencils in a second. I'm just going to sketch these here quick. And, uh, let's see, let's break out a red colored pencil. Uh, no, I don't want to use Rouge. I like— let's try this color. This looks like red, red. Let's see. Yeah, let's just do red, red. It's fine. We got some red going on, some red happening. Could have also— I could have broke out some markers as well. Got some red. Let's do our standard red and green. Actually have green right here also. I just alternate them. So we got some red and green happening on there. Let's use this. I like the color in here. It's more like highlighter yellow than green, but it's all good. We're just playing around.

All right.

So we just kind of added some— a little bit of holiday feel to it. Some kind of star up here maybe. Star or cross or something. Can't really see it. I'll just actually just draw that in with— yeah, some kind of star or something on top. There you go, just blinged it up a little bit. What do you guys think? Well, it should be like this. Uh, I gotta move the tape for a sec, just want to take a look at it. There we go. Um, Magic Green, presents under the tree, presents under the tree. Of course, of course, we always need some presents happening, right? So we got some presents kind of happening here. Add some shadow lines just to give them a little bit of depth. I'm not really good at sketching bows, so I just kind of do kind of like this, I guess, for a bow. So we'd have some kind of packages under there. Obviously, you could also have some lighting going around the tree. Um, let's see if this shows up. I don't know if it'll show up. Not really. Let's see, how about blue? Maybe I got a blue. Let's try to throw some blue on here, maybe. It's odd, but I kind of like the blurriness of the background due to the tracing paper. Yeah, Cameron, that's cool that you noticed that. It's like a portrait shot, you know, where you're just focusing here. This is kind of clear and the background's blurry. Yeah, that's a cool observation. Oh, I should use this for the red. Here, throw some red lights on here. There we go. There we go. I like this red. I am so silly. I have all these pens I could use for the different colors. Oops, I just actually, I think, broke this pen. Eh. Did I break it? There we go. Just throw some more like green on here. There we go. I somehow pulled this part of the pen out of the casing. What the heck? I think I cracked it. Oh boy. I think I cracked it. I did. These, uh, these— I have to— these Preppy pens, the casing cracks so easily on these. This is like the third one that's cracked. I don't even use them that much. So the casing cracks like right in here, and then you can't screw this back on tight. So I end up taping them back on. I mean, it's not a huge deal, but it's just— I like the pens, but they're very, very— I hate to say, I don't think it's the best quality. Plastic's very thin on them. This is the third one it's happened to, and I literally just kind of was pulling it out of the pen holder here and it cracked. Darn it. Anyway, life— that's a minor thing in life. Um, cool. There you go. Christmas scene. What do you guys think? I think it's cool. Let's, uh, let me come back and let's just sketch some lines on here for the bridge. Oh, is my Christmas— I think my Christmas playlist is done. Yep, let's put this one on. So Jennifer, thank you for the idea. I think it was a cool idea, actually. I probably wouldn't do it directly on this one because I really love— I'm loving this one the way it is. I mean, I would probably end up doing another version of it, a separate holiday version, which could be really fun. Maybe do that and have it, you know, sell it as a Christmas card for next year. So thank you for— I love, I love the input. Thank you so much. Do I want to sketch a person? Just going to— let's see, is there a person here somewhere? Maybe we got some other person kind of hanging out. Maybe the whistling— maybe the whistling cowboy is visiting our Christmas tree. Got the whistling cowboy happening here. And then we have retro, of course. I wonder if we put retro. I don't know. Yeah, I want it retro to be like— I don't know, maybe Retro's just kind of chilling over here somewhere. Kind of retro off to the side here. Some cowboys kind of here hanging out. Very cool. Alright guys, I think I'm gonna wrap up in a minute or two, so if you have any other questions, let me know. Thank you for liking. Sharing and commenting here. I appreciate you all so, so much. Um, love when you pop on, especially when I just randomly pop on. It's always great to see, see you guys here as well. I'm not very good at being disciplined and scheduling my times. I'm on, uh, and so I appreciate you more for taking the time out of your schedule to hang out with me, even if it's just for a little bit. Santa, Santa Whistling Cowboy here. Retro is very hard to see, I just realized that, but he is here, trust me, Retro is there. I actually love— I love sketching with pens and doing it on tracing paper, adding multiple colors. It's a lot of fun. The only issue with tracing paper sketches is just preserving them, right? It's so thin. I do love sketching on trace, very much so. Let's use blue, maybe bring out the The diagonals here on the round. All right, we're gonna get even a little crazier and throw down a little bit of water on the tracing paper. Water and tracing paper don't— they get along, but you can't put too much water. It buckles like crazy, but you can definitely get it to bleed. So I love how the red and blue are mixing. They're making a nice purple kind of color. And I'll take this off of here and you can see what it looks like when it's not over the other sketch. Pull this down a little bit. Pull that down. I like to make— I like to make reflections. So to make a reflection, I'm really literally just kind of pulling these colors down. Alright, cool. Alright guys, you want to see what this looks like off the other sketch? Let me know. Say yes please, or give me a thumbs up, and we'll see what it looks like. Just looking for my cap to cap that up. Done. I don't know where I put the cap for that. It's here somewhere. Got a cap here. I've been, I've been losing stuff lately. I've lost my AirPods, my like fairly new ones. I— the only place they could be is in my house. I have lost 2 AirPods, one the other day, one today. This is actually an old one I have in here. Now I'm losing caps. It's crazy. Um, let's see what it looks like. Oops, I got tape that's got stuck to my pens. Put some of this stuff away. That can go away. That can go here. Let's put this pen back. Uh, this pen can go away. Just making some room. Take that off. Let's take this off. There we go.

Cool.

Move this up. And I think— there you go. So that's kind of— that's what it looks like without the painting underneath. I should actually just throw on a piece of white paper. You would think I'd have a piece of white paper. I do. There you go. That's better. So that's kind of what that looks like. You can see how nicely the ink does bleed on tracing paper. Again, you have to be careful because it could get wet and tear really easily. The man says as he adds more water. Let's push it to the limit. All right, cool. Do a top rail here. There we go. All right. Hey, so this is, this is the holiday version. I actually like it. Kevin says it's odd, but I kind of like the blurriness of the back. Oh, I read that already. Oh my gosh, my bad, my bad. I read that comment. There you go, guys. So that's what it looks like. Let's bring out the other version. We'll put them next to each other and we'll wrap up. See, we're just over 11 o'clock here. And I, my brain is tired and I'm so excited that I could sleep in tomorrow a little bit. Yes, that's exciting. But then I always feel guilty. All right, here we go. Zoom out. No, I have a note that popped up here. Not now. I don't. See, can I fit these both in camera? I don't know if I can fit them both. Yeah, I can. I do this. All right, cool. So here are the two versions we did tonight. Um, they're both, both very different, same subject. I think it's the best I'm going to get it. So I really am liking this one. It's very simple, very unfinished. When I say simple, I mean, yeah, I just mean it's unfinished. It's not a lot of detail to it. So this looks really nice. I love the colors. This would look good, really, this would look really nicely framed like I was showing earlier on the stream. And this is fun. This actually turned out to be a fun sketch on tracing paper. I'm going to hold it close so you can see up close. There you go. Hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much for watching. I hope to be on tomorrow night, Friday. So, um, if I'm on, I hope to see you guys. Thank you so much for watching and for sharing and liking and commenting. Um, we're slowly growing the, the followers, which is really exciting for me. The more people I can reach and kind of impact in a positive way, it's just another way to serve. And I, I hope I'm serving you guys well and, um, hopefully not too boring. I feel like I'm kind of monotone, a little too boring. So It's because I'm tired, but I love what I'm doing. I hope— hopefully it shows through. And thank you guys for all the— your support. Thank you, I appreciate you. Linda said, had a— Linda said, fun time. Cameron says, have a good evening. Yeah. And Jen says, uh, cool Christmas card idea. Thank you, Jennifer. I, I thank you for the suggestion. I appreciate it. This is just a rough idea. I'm sure I could spend time refining it. Although I love this kind of sketch though. See you tomorrow. Jennifer says see you tomorrow. Oh, that'd be great. Hopefully you're back again. Um, usually, you know, I pop on 9 o'clock Eastern time, 10 o'clock, somewhere in there. Thank you guys so much. It's always hard for me to say goodbye when I'm having fun, but I gotta cut myself off and go to sleep. Thanks guys, have a great, great night. Appreciate y'all. Peace. Live creatively. I'll see you soon. Take care. And the finish button's right here. Ooh, and I just, I just hit my light. That was pretty funny. All right, good night guys. Take care.