The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, D-Ray and Dawn, good to see you guys on. Hope you're having a great, great, great night tonight. Happy Monday. Double-check. It is Monday, right? Good to see you guys. You had an awesome day. Becky, good to see you. You guys are awesome. Dawn says, I'm getting a shipyard vibe. Ooh, that's cool, Dawn. I love that. I love that shipyard vibe. I could see that. Yeah, let's see where this one goes. I have no idea where it's headed, if anywhere, but You know what? It doesn't matter. It's just about creating. It's fun. It's the process of going from A to Z. Not really always about getting to Z for me, because I don't know what Z is. So less pressure. It's just about having fun. Right now I'm just throwing down some graphite using some water. Oh, you guys are awesome. I always love seeing you guys pop on here. Hey, Becky! Becky is in half states. Big winner, Becky! Did you win something today? If so, that's awesome. What did you win? Love to know if you want to share. That's, that's awesome. So, so cool. Oh cool, Becky won Ruth's giveaway. Congratulations, that's awesome. So, so fun. Congratulations! So super exciting. Good stuff, Dawn. I hope you are feeling better and doing well today. Let's see, let's see. I got this little graphite thing going. Do I wanna add? I think I'm gonna add some color maybe. Like, let's see what I have here. Graphite stick. I have my watercolor stick. Just trying to go for something that's close by. I have some sepia, sepia brush. Actually, let's play with the sepia brush pen maybe. And I'm feeling some red, red, red, red. I'm gonna break out some red over here. Or actually, what else? This will be my magic cart of colors here. Magic cart of colors.

We'll see.

We'll see. We'll see. This is what I was looking for. I'm gonna break out some red oxide. So I'm using— this is a Pentel brush pen. Right now I have sepia in there, but you can put different colors in. So these are cartridges that come out, and this is sepia. I can't find the sepia cartridges individually. I had to buy replacements. I had to buy like the whole pen, so it was like $12 for the pen and 2 cartridges. I'm not sure why I can't get the sepia individually. So I'm just kind of letting the music take over. I don't really know what I'm sketching here. I feel a little bit tired. A lot of fresh air today, which was awesome. So I really like the sepia brush pen. I can get really fine. Fine lines, or I can get thicker lines if I want.

And I love—

I just love sepia in general. You can be really loose with it, which I like as well. All right, Dawn, you said shipyard vibes, so I'm kind of feeling that.

Maybe there's some kind of a ship here.

Maybe it's a shipwreck happening. Not really sure. Cool. Hey, D-Ray says a burnt-down forest. Yeah, D-Ray, I could, I could definitely see that as well. I could see some, uh, charred wood, some trees kind of leaning over. Definitely could be a burnt-down forest as well. I like, like how you guys see things in these. That's awesome. Hey, hello Dana, good to see you. Thanks for tuning in. Construction site. Becky says maybe it's a construction site. Could be Golden Gate Bridge construction. I like that. A ship. So maybe this is a shipwreck in a burnt-down forest while they were constructing the Golden Gate Bridge. We'll just put all your— we'll like do a mashup of everybody's ideas. I love it. I love you guys when you see things and you see things differently and everybody's come up with different thoughts and ideas. It's so cool to see that. So I'm just going to keep sketching with this brush pen and then I'm going to break out— I have some red oxide acrylic ink. Just throw down some color and see what happens. So now let's break out some color now. I just want to keep it loose, abstract, kind of just fun. Definitely don't want to create any kind of a technical drawing right now. All right, cool. So I have this Red Oxide. It's Liquitex. I really love this color. I'm going to take a couple drops. I use this lid here. I just put some drops the ink on here. Almost knocked the bottle over. That's not cool. There we go. I always make sure to close the bottles up and move them aside because you guys have seen a couple of spillages going on here. All right, cool. Let's— I think I'm going to just use my Aqua Brush. This is the— this is a bigger tip one, and then I have a medium tip one. See the difference here. The one on the right is thicker. So actually, I'm going to go— I like using the medium size as my go-to. So let's go with the medium. We got red oxide. Yes, we do. Hey, if you guys are watching for the first time, thank you for tuning in. This is so cool. This is Inking Out Loud. I'm Jason Nicholas, artist, architect, teacher, father, Lawn cutter, all that fun stuff. But basically I just come on here and for half hour, an hour or so, and I'll just do some random sketching, painting, just inking out loud. And I kind of just talk about what's going through my brain, the creative process. And you guys in the chat are awesome, you Inklings, you know, Becky and Dawn and D-Ray, you guys are always popping in here and I always appreciate that. If you're just lurking, that's cool. I like lurkers, hang out. It's just about having fun. All right, so I'm going to mix up— I'm actually going to change the music. We have the Hero track song, but let's put something fun on. Let's go to some jazzy stuff on the playlist. I'm going to switch. It's just a jazzy playlist. Sometimes changing the tunes up will just kind of change the way I paint. Add some energy. Sometimes I talk too much.

So if I'm talking too much, it's okay.

It's my microphone, right? I can talk as much as I want. There we go. Just kidding. All right, so you can see I'm just throwing down some of this red. I actually have a different camera view here. Let me see if I can pull this up too. Another camera view I was going to throw on here while I was doing this. I don't know if this is going to be distracting or not, but you guys can let me know.

Put in the upper—

I'll put down here. It's just a different view of the— you can see what I'm kind of sketching part. I don't know if it'll be cool or not. Never really tried it. My hand might be too fat. Hello. So I love this color, Red Oxide and Sepia. I love rusty things, kind of grungy effects. This really These colors really help to create a grunge kind of look. Can you guys guess what other color I'm thinking about using on this? What's another— what's another go-to color that I like to go— I like to use with sepia? Ooh, I'm seeing some colors on there. I'm seeing yellow, chartreuse. You guys are on the same wavelength. That is an awesome color I like to use. I'll give you 5 points. 5 points for that. This is a color I like to go to. It's not the one I'm thinking of right now. But awesome, awesome guesses. A couple.

Let's see.

Did I win painting and two— yeah, Dawn said, did I win a painting and Yasutomo brushes? What? Did you win today too? Also from Rue. Orange, D-Ray says orange. Good guess. It's not orange though. Brushes, I see brushes. Becky, you want brushes? So cerulean blue, I think Becky said it. That's what I was thinking of. Cerulean blue is what I'm going to break out. So I have some cerulean blue. I'm breaking out the Liquitex acrylic ink tonight. I like using the ink because I can get it really strong and vibrant when I want to by just adding less water to it.

So that's why I'm playing around with the ink right now. And I can't get the cap off.

So let's break out— let's see, what do we have? Where's my brush? I want to keep using this brush. And you know what? Yellow will be making an appearance, guys. I'm gonna throw some yellow kind of in the background. So you guys are right for saying yellow as well. Get 10 points. 10 points for saying yellow. Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. Inkish kind of music playing. Who saw Monsters, Inc.? Anybody?

I love that movie.

Monsters, Inc. 2 or the college one? I think it's Monsters University. Not so much. Regular one, original Monsters, Inc. was awesome. I think Netflix— oh, not Netflix, whoa, sorry Disney. I think Disney+ has a new Monsters, Inc. like short series that's on now or coming out soon. So if there's any Monsters, Inc. fans, you have Disney+, check it out. Let me check it out. Yes, the original one was great. Oh, you won the dragonfly painting. That's awesome. Super, super cool. Congratulations, that's awesome. That's totally awesome sauce. So this has like a lot of energy happening in this sketch here. You guys feel like a lot of movement and energy with all these lines? It's just part of it, you know, this music. I'm just doing abstract loose line work sketching, painting. I call it sketch painting. Just keeping it fun.

Cool.

Let it sit, let it dry. Hey, if you're just tuning in, welcome, thank you for tuning in. I see Patty is in the house. Hey Patty, good to see you. Just got back to the computer and saw that Jason is live. Looks like he's grooving to the music. Hey Patty, I am grooving to the music. I'm not a great dancer, but I am grooving, you know what? For me, part of creating is I need the music. I love the music. It keeps me going, puts me in different moods, gives me energy. I can play quiet and soft music too when I want. So I love just having the music on. I'm just feeling kind of energetic right now. I do want to break out a little bit of yellow on here. Really crazy. I'm adding— usually I don't like to do more than like 3 colors, but I'm just feeling some yellow.

You guys, what do you think of this other camera view?

Do you like it or not really? Is it doing anything? Is it adding anything? Let me know in the comments. Say yes, yes camera view, no camera view. It's this one right here I'm pointing at. Hello. I don't know if it's really— I'm just trying to show you maybe a close-up as my hand is sketching, drawing, painting.

Yeah.

Yes, I have. I don't get kicked off of Facebook. I use a service called Epidemic Sound that I pay for. So I did pay for this. I just use this music. Let's throw down some yellow. I'm actually doing something dangerous. I am actually taking it right out of the bottle. I don't usually do that. Fear of spilling the paint, but I totally forgot to, uh, pour some out before I did that. That's all right, just be careful. Just loosely filling in the background. I just— the reason I'm adding yellow is I just want to pop out some of the shapes I have here, and I think adding this background yellow is making things pop out a little bit. Yeah, I like the way the yellow is popping out some of the forms and shapes. I'm not going to put it everywhere. I think I'm going to leave the yellow at that for now, and I might actually let this dry. Hey, it's Cool Painting! Hey, Chris, good to see you. Thank you. She's just going crazy, just playing around. Lines, swishing, swashing. So I am, I don't know what you guys are seeing in this. I am seeing part of a boat or a ship here, front. I'm seeing very abstract bridge forms kind of happening in here. The tower here, maybe that's the Tower of London, kind of. London Bridge here, very abstract. Some buildings in the background. And that's what's fun about doing these quick, loose kind of sketches and paintings, sometimes we all see different things. Hey, Dana says it's almost like a cityscape. Hey, Dana, I totally You can totally see that. Yeah, it's almost like a cityscape in the background, some high-rise buildings. That's so cool that you saw that. Linda, hey, good to see you, Linda. Welcome. This is so cool. You guys are awesome. So I'm gonna put this aside, let it dry. It'll be back again. So after it dries, what I'll do is I'll come back with my Sharpie or one of my Pilot Precise pens right here. This is my go-to sketch pen. And I'll add more lines and details to it, but I want it to dry because I don't want to get too muddy right now. I do have something out here. Let me show you guys what I have. So I have— I had this. I don't even know which way it goes. It's abstract. This was something I did maybe a couple weeks ago, playing around, doing a background. This is— what kind of paper is this? It's not watercolor, I think it's acrylic paint paper. It's like 140-pound, but it does have texture on it. I don't know if you can see that. It's almost like canvas texture. So I pulled this out of my scrap drawer and I thought maybe I'd play around with this for a little bit tonight. Break out some acrylic inks and maybe some acrylic paint on here and just play around with it. See what comes of it. Sometimes I like just going to my drawer and grabbing some scraps I have and playing around.

Cool!

Patty says I use my water brushes. Ignore my music, I feel like I'm shouting. "I used my water brushes the other day when I sketched that marsh and trees. So it was full of dark green water. It fell off the table and I didn't see it on the floor. I stepped right on it. Green water squirted out and onto the carpet." Well, I'm glad it blended in with your carpet. That worked out for you. Good thing your carpet wasn't like white or something. Um, awesome. Yeah, so this brown spot you see here on my kind of board area, canvas area, area. This is— this was brown sepia ink that I spilled all over the board.

Cool.

All right, I'm just thinking of what we're going to break out. I might break out— I'm going to pull out some acrylic paint. I think I want to use some blue. I have some light blue I'm going to use. I'll have my pink color here. Do something bright.

I don't know, let's play around with these colors and see what happens.

So I have some water and a cloth to wipe my brush off. So let's just throw down some acrylic. I was just looking for something.

What was I looking for?

Oh yeah, I was looking for a— I'm just going to use this lid as a palette. Throw down some paint in here. So this is just Liquitex acrylic ink. I love using Liquitex brand. That is not a That was not a sponsor— paid sponsor advertisement.

I can't get the lid open.

So this color is Fluorescent Red.

Holy cow.

Alright, we got the Fluorescent Red out. We got some Fluorescent Pink. I love fluorescent colors. Again, I don't know what we're gonna do with this, what's gonna happen with it. I do want to pull out one more color. Light blue violet color. We just had a light blue violet explosion, and guys, guess what? It's not art unless what? Wear it. I'm wearing it. This is officially art. All right, cool. Let's throw down some colors and have fun. I'm going to use a 3/4-inch brush. You see my fingernails kind of painted there.

Here we go.

What happens lots of times with these scrap pieces is they'll end up becoming backgrounds for other paintings. And I just like to lay down the paint in an abstract— in a pattern. So painting isn't always about adding layers, it's also about taking things away. So I did add on top of here, but I'm actually going to come over here and scrape My brush is fairly dry, I'm just gonna pull off some of that paint because I want some of the pink colors underneath to show through. So basically I'm just kind of wiping it off. And I could take a paper towel too, or a cloth. But, I mean, we could— painting is a, you know, you could subtract things out. I wanted some lines, I could just kind of do this. That way what's underneath will shift her a little bit. So down here I'm just dragging the brush lightly because I want the texture of the paper to show through.

I'm just dragging it very lightly.

I might pop in some heavy areas of red. I'm actually liking this red color. I'm actually kind of drawing with the brush right here. So I was just drawing in some lines. Maybe an homage to the watercolor— I mean, to the Waukegan Castle and Cottage Workshop. Maybe homage to some kind of castle. You guys are posting really awesome things on the workshop page. I'm seeing some really cool castles for your homework this week. You guys are amazing. I hope you're having fun creating wonky castles. Maybe this won't be a castle. I don't know. I'm not really sure where it's headed. I'm just having fun throwing down color.

Sorry.

To let that dry for a second, I'm going to add some darker colors in there. Hey, let's see, what are you guys talking about in the chat? So cool you could pick up a painting from a few weeks ago and start working on again. Yeah, yeah, Patty, that's something I love doing, just finding old paintings and just going over them. Just, you know, everything's a work in progress for me. It's just having fun playing around. Chris says, "So true though, I think every piece of clothing I own has some sort of paint on it." Chris, it might be time to invest in a smock. Do they still make smocks? I think I need a poncho when I paint. Sometimes, especially when I do real abstract splatter stuff, definitely use a poncho. Yes, Linda's Tree Castle, wicked cool. Oh, I saw that. That was so— such a creative idea. I love how you guys are taking the castle idea and you're just going to town with it. It's so fun. We'll be doing wonky cottages this Saturday. Yeah, this is kind of wacky. This is, uh, the colors in this are really funky. Definitely not my usual type of color palette. Just needs some yellow, something bright.

One of the things I like to do with acrylic is—

I was talking about removing paint and taking colors out. So if you look at this, uh, let me zoom in. If you look at this kind of yellow circle I made, one of the things I like to do— I usually use a toothpick or a skewer. I don't have a I don't have one, but this would probably work. I'm just gonna take an end of a paintbrush, and I wanna see the colors underneath. So I'm just gonna kind of go around in a swirly pattern. And then you can kind of see what happens when you take the paint away.

Here we go.

So you've got this kind of cool swirly effect going on there. You can see if I do the same thing kind of down here, just scraping away the paint. It's like scratchboard. If anybody's used scratchboard, you know, it's, um, I wonder what is the material of scratchboard, like a black wax? And when you scrape away the black wax, you can see the white underneath it. I did a project in college, in architecture school, where the entire drawing is 24 by 36 inches. The entire drawing was done on scratchboard. And you know what I used to draw with? I'll show you. I didn't use pastels. Pen, because I didn't use markers. I used, I used, oh, it was here somewhere.

I used this guy.

Going through my magic drawers of supplies. What the heck? How could they not be here? Someone come organize my drawers for me. Where is it? Now I'm totally going crazy.

Oh well. So weird I had them out today.

We pardon this broadcast for a temporary interruption.

The artist came.

I cannot find his X-Acto knife. Yeah, I don't know where they are. I had a couple out. So I used X-Acto knives in college to draw this entire building project. It was a farmer's market design, and that was actually really a really fun thing to do. I'll have to find it sometime and see if I can show you guys some pictures of it. I think I still— I think I kept it. Alright, so this is abstract fun here. Just throw down some more of this red. I'm gonna put this one aside and we'll go back to doing a— just do a nice sketch. Bring out our Sharpie sketch pens. This is the kind of thing I'll keep coming back to and just playing around with it. Adding different colors and textures and layers. It's kind of just about experimenting and just seeing what colors look good together, what doesn't look good together, playing with different textures. I love acrylic paints because you can get 3D textures. You see here, there are people that paint paintings using spoons, and they get amazing texture on their paintings by just using like like the backside of a spoon and pushing it into the paint. Something I have not tried yet. I am intrigued by it. So don't think every time, you know, if you sit down to create a drawing or painting, it doesn't have to be something that you're going to hang on the fridge or give away. You know, just do it as playtime. Experiment. See what you like. What medium, what materials you like using, what colors What colors look good? What patterns look good? What textures look good? Right, it's the only way we'll know is by trying. I think my light just went off behind me. So here it goes, this is just quick, just playing around with this piece a little bit. We'll come back to it again. I'm starting to see, you know, some kind of building emerge back here. This is my kind of funky sun on there.

Alright, let me check the chat out and we'll get another sketch going.

D-Rage using crayons. Crayons are awesome to use. Oh, I pulled this wrong. Crayons are awesome. Take care, someone's leaving, so have an awesome day. Nice. Dawn's leaving. Dawn, take care. Feel better, Dawn. Thank you for popping on. You're awesome. Hang in there. Hang in there. So here's a couple of castles I was working on. These were actually done with the sepia brush pen. This one here was done as the sepia brush pen was kind of running out of ink. This one had more ink in it. I am liking the one that was running out of ink better, the one on top. Which one do you guys like better? Do you like the one on the top or the one on the bottom? Let me know. Top or the bottom?

See them? There you go.

Top, top. You guys are gonna top the— yeah, I'm agreeing with you guys. I definitely top one better. There's something really interesting. Let me zoom in for a sec.

This is the top one here.

I'll get closer if I can. There you go. I really love the turret here on the tower on the left. I really think the line work on here, it's very loose, And you can see I did use an aqua brush here and I kind of blended, you know, some of the sepia ink. But it just has a nice kind of soft quality, almost a fuzzy quality to it, which is interesting. You know, sometimes you think lines have to be harsh, right? But they don't have to be.

They can be—

it's very soft.

I'll just line out a sketchbook here.

So that was a fun Castle sketch. Right, sometimes you think lines have to be so— and it can be, we've talked about this in some of the workshops, you know, different line types. Right, it's always good to kind of revisit some of the topics.

Topics.

Zoom out a sec. Fun music. You know, we have line types. We have, um, Line A, B, C, I know I'm probably missing some, let's see. D, right? There's all kinds of line types. A is very kind of formal and straight, very kind of precise, you know, think of an architectural blueprint, it's really well-defined lines on it. C is kind of just kind of calm, wave-like, kind of peaceful. D is what I like to call kind of hidden lines or mystery lines. Kind of start, stop, start, stop, start. There's some blanks in here, so it's not continuous. And the blanks help just to, uh, you know, for the viewer to kind of fill in the blanks with their own imagination. Even these spaces in here. We have E. I don't do E. E is probably what I'm going to see when I go to my cardiologist on Wednesday for my quarterly checkup. Um, E is right, like the heart, boom boom boom thing, EKG. Um, but E is like, could be your energetic line or angry line, right? If I'm listening to heavy metal, Metallica, go. Lots of lines like that. Or if I'm angry, if someone ate my last scoop of Ben Jerry's, I might be like drawing lines that are like this, angry. While I'm eating Ben Jerry's, I'll probably be more like this, peaceful, calm. And then B, I mean, you could do all kinds of combinations. B is kind of a combination of hidden lines. I got some angry lines on there. We can add some peaceful lines. So lines can really tell different stories based on how you're sketching. I'm drawing. So I know some of you guys have heard me talk about that before, but to really— it really does come back to this kind of language. And there's all many other line types, but these are kind of the ones I go to. Let's do a— I think I'd like to do like a little perspective sketch, a little thumbnail type sketch. Hey, hope you guys having a great night. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. I do, I have some decaf. Really cold coffee here, I was gonna get a drink. Patty likes them both. If I had to pick one, then the top one.

Cool.

Top feels more vintage. Yeah, Becky, I— let's go back to this. I think you're right, I think the top one has more of a vintage kind of feel to it. I agree. I like how the blending creates the shadows and defines your lights. Hey, Patty, yeah, so if you look on— that's a good point. If you look on the tower, usually I do more exaggerated but to get it curved. Yeah, so some of this blending is kind of indicating, you know, this tower, you know, giving it some depth, depth to it. Yeah, D. Lee's interpretation. Sally Ann Smith, thumbs up! Hey, Sally Ann Smith, good to see you. Hope you're having a great, great night.

Cool.

All right, let's do a— I appreciate you guys watching so much. Thank you. This is always a treat. All right, so let me do— we're going to change the music up a little bit. We're going to go to what I call the international mix. Every hurts. It's just gonna be a little silly here. So I'm using my Sharpie pen. This is an extra fine point Sharpie.

I can use this camera.

A little blurry. Got a little scene going there. A capital sketch. Becky says a capital sketch. It's capital, right? The capital S for sketch. Yeah, so maybe some kind of a capital building in the background, maybe, uh, Maybe some kind of religious structure going on. Cathedral has more of a capital type of dome.

Cool.

Let me throw down some color to pick up some The bottom one is a leaning tower at the top with a face that's sort of peeking around. That was, uh, that's right, the castle, right? Yeah, look at that, right? So there's— this one has some personality going on here. I was picturing like a wizard or something here, like the kind of the robe flowing. With that. Hey, hope you guys are having a good night. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. If you like this, give me a thumbs up. If you don't like it, still give me a thumbs up because I just like thumbs ups. Um, you guys are awesome. Always appreciate your time. Alright, let's just add some— breaking out my Sharpie highlighters. Always the highlight of the night. Get it? Highlighters, highlight. That was, that was bad. I know, that was bad. This music makes me feel like I'm in a different world, different place. I think that's what kind of Inspires, inspire this. I always like just adding colors on these little perspective sketches. It makes things pop out a little bit easier. It helps you get the sense of depth easier. I know he's doing it, he's putting pink on the door.

What am I thinking?

What I like about the, uh, Tyler This is when the yellow and the pink combine to get a nice orangey kind of color happening. And when the blue and the pink combine, you get some nice purpley hues going on. There's like a flag happening up here on top of this building. Right, let's continue over the yellow. You got some green happening. Do some foliage or something climbing up the building wall. I don't— I think I'm gonna leave this kind of white back here. I like the way the whites look for this piece. Kind of pops out, staying white. It's all white with me. I know, I'm gonna roll now. It's all white for me.

There we go.

Just want to pop some color in this. I think these are stained glass windows happening, these arch areas. Zoom in, zoom in so you guys can see that. There you go. I'm just popping in little bits of color here, so maybe there's some stained glass happening in these little arched windows. These are my favorite kinds of, uh, sketches to do, these little perspective views. Saint Paul's Cathedral, yeah, possibly. It has that dome on it, right? "Bought some highlighters today, adding to my pen hoard." Becky, what are we gonna do with you when your pens are— your pen collection is growing and growing and growing. Honestly, I'm actually really jealous. That's awesome. I can't wait to see what you do with those. Can't have enough pens. That is for sure. Sometimes I feel like sketching depends on pens. Oh yes, we got highlighter action! Neon ones. Yeah, yeah, I have a problem. I love that. Over these cars, I want to walk here. Oh hey, Linda, that's so cool. That's awesome that you would want to walk down this street. I feel a sneeze coming on, so part of my nose wiggling. Like a rabbit over here. Yeah, this— I love that you said you'd want to walk down the street. That's fun. That's cool. And as the person sketching this, you know, that's awesome to hear because I'm trying to create a sense of place. And if you want to be in a space like this, that's fine. Awesome.

Thanks for saying that. It seems good.

I don't know if I want to add anything else to it.

Do I?

Actually, I'm going to add a little bit of texture. I'm going to zoom in. Just going to add a little texture to these buildings and just kind of stipple. Stippling is just kind of dotting in some dots. Just add a little bit of texture on these buildings. Maybe it's some kind of plaster on the facade here. So one way to show plaster is to add some kind of stippling effect. You do that in architectural drawings as well to indicate sand or concrete or stucco. It just gives a little bit more interest to the— kind of this wall area. Nice.

I love this music.

Maybe on this walkway, I'm just gonna go just darken some of these lines, just create a little more visual interest down here. There's this kind of old cobblestone streets here.

Cool.

I think this one's done. I like the flag up here. That's fun. Yeah, it's a European vibe for sure. Hey, Linda loves the colors. Thank you, Linda, that's awesome to hear. All right, guys, should I do one more sketch? Let me know if you guys want me to do another perspective sketch. I'm gonna let you guys decide. Perspective sketch, I can come back and work on this and kind of add a little bit more to what we started with tonight. Add some Sharpie maybe on top of this. Let me know if you want to see a perspective sketch, if you want me to work on this. I don't even know what to call this. We'll call this our sketch painting for the night.

Sketch painting.

Thank you. From a simple rectangle, yeah. That's how these little I call them thumbnails.

I mean, it's kind of more than a thumbnail.

I think it's a sketch, actually. Actually, I don't know why my Sharpie is so— it's driving me crazy. I haven't been tuning it up today. So this is actually 4 by 2.5 inches by 4 inches. I can do even smaller thumbnails as well.

Let's just do another one down here.

We'll change it up a little bit.

We'll do a—

instead of doing such a vertical view, I'll do a more horizontal type of view. I was actually looking at this one here a few months ago, maybe.

All right, going to the drawer.

So a little bit— here's a little bit of show and tell, guys. A little bit of show and tell. Sally bought neon watercolors at the store, Five Below. That's awesome! That's cool. I don't think I've ever been in a Five Below. Does that mean it's like $5 and lower? Like a dollar store type of thing? Or is that the actual temperature in the store? Is it 5 below? Because that would be pretty cold. So Patty says, what kind of sketchbook am I using? I am actually using— this is a ProArts Artist Tool Supply Sketchbook. So it's lying flat, but what is helping Patty is I have my favorite office supply besides paper and pens is a binder clip. So I have a binder clip that's actually helping to add a little bit of weight to keep it down flat. The paper in here is, it's a decent quality. I don't know the weight. You know, it's really not meant for adding a lot of watercolor and things like that. You can do quick light washes, but It'll buckle, but it's really nice. You can see it kind of coming through the other side here. Yeah, this is a nice sketchbook. This is a— I think I showed you this— this is the laser, laser engraved cover that we did in school.

Some good questions.

Yes, $5 and below. Thank you, Sally, I appreciate that. I love— I'm glad it's not Five Below. 'cause it'd be kind of hard to shop all bundled up in a parka. Alright, let's do another horse. Let's do another little perspective. Oh, I was gonna get my drawer. I wanna show you something. I'm all over the place, sorry guys. You know how things go. Alright, so this is my, so I found this, this I had done, I don't know, 4 years, 3 or 4 years ago. This was my, I was trying to do like a retro dog type of sketch, and this is actually markers. Just on regular computer paper. So I thought that was kind of cool. But actually what I wanted to pull out was this too. This is Retro. This is Retro the dog. He's pink. I could definitely see him in some retro-style house. So that's Retro. And this is a perspective you guys maybe have seen me done, but this is more of a horizontal type of perspective sketch. This was Cornfields and the railcar over here as well. You guys love Retro, no way! This is Retro's first public public appearance. I've never shown Retro to anybody, but I don't do animals, as you know. When I do them, I try to make them a little stylized, a little bit to maybe something I would do. Does that make sense? So yes, thank you. I'm glad you guys like Retro. Retro is all markers. You can see it bled through here. That's actually kind of cool, that red. Oh, this is the other side.

That's interesting. On which side do I look better?

Yes, it's my pet retro! Dog needs to hang out with Fun Mustache Guy. He does! So, it's funny you said that. Where is Fun Mustache Guy? I don't know where it is. I have Fun Mustache. If you look at the horse with Fun Mustache Guy, who we need to give a name to. We'll have a contest maybe. If you look at the horse that's with the mustache guy, you will notice the horse has very pointy features, like retro.

So that's interesting.

So next time you see the horse, take a look at If I can find a sketch somewhere, I'll show you. I don't think I have one right here. That's a little perspective sketch. You know what, for, uh, just for fun, I'm gonna throw down some of this acrylic paint on here. Bridge, the water here. I like that song a lot. Oh no, it's Whistling Cowboy time.

We're not there yet.

This isn't our last sketch. We'll come back, we'll have to play this again after the last sketch.

I gotta learn how to whistle.

Hey, you at home, you guys at home, give me a whistle. Feel free to turn off your volume.

So you got some kind of little bridge, maybe happening on this one. Cool.

There we go. I like that little bridge. It's kind of awesome. Bridge over the Rio Grande with the whistling cowboy. Yes, that would be quite dramatic. I love that. That's awesome. Love pink plus blue equals purple. Yeah, you know, it actually turned out really well up here. You can see it. I have to say, I love— I love sketching with these Sharpie highlighters. They're fun, they're quick, colors can blend together, they're vibrant. It's like, it has, it ticks off all the checkboxes. Did I say that right? Ticks off all the checkboxes, which is one of the reasons I love using them so much. They're just fun. Love the bridge. There's a bridge like that on Lake Winnipesaukee. Hey, did I say that right? Lake Winnipesaukee here in New Hampshire. When the bridge is lower, the boaters have to tuck their heads. Oh boy, could you imagine that? Don't tuck your head, that would not be good. I just realized you have 3— yeah, I have 3 cameras, so I was just playing around with this funky kind of angle here tonight. I don't know if it's really doing it or not. You guys can let me know in the chat. It'd be interesting just to see some close-ups maybe of some of the things I'm doing. Um, like that, like this, that's coming. Hey, thanks, D-Ray, I appreciate that. Yoga Lady, oh my gosh, Becky, you remember Yoga Lady? Holy cow, I forgot all about Yoga Lady. That's, that's so funny. Trying to think back, Yoga Lady, I think, wasn't she the Yoga Lady? There was a Yoga Lady in the park. I think there was one like by a bell tower. It was the same one. I forgot about it. That's so funny. They would look great in a frame separate but together. Oh, cool. That's a great idea. I'll cut them out and try it.

Cool.

So we got a couple of perspective sketches going. And I'm gonna do one more thing and we're gonna wrap up. Let's put that aside. There's some bookmarks. There's a couple bookmarks in here. Actually, I can just put the binder clip to mark where I left off.

That works.

You have me thinking of Retro Dog here. I have to pull that again. You retro the dog. Retro is filling in for me as I'm just looking through my drawer here. Say hello, Retro. So Retro was done with these Sharpie markers. Um, you can see actually the marker kind of streaks here, but it was really fun to play with this and just try to get the colors to kind of bleed a little bit. I don't know what this red is, but I can't figure out why. It's like red paint, maybe. What I want to do— the last thing I want to do tonight is I have, uh, some of this really cool paper that TVB sent to me. It has a real nice of texture to it. And I want to play with the sepia brush pen on here. I haven't tried it yet. Retro, retro's going away for the night.

So let's—

so I'm going to use the sepia brush pen and let's just play around with this. See how it works on this textured paper. Retro is a retriever. Retro's a retriever. Possible. He could definitely be a retriever. Retro, come fetch me my ice cream. Retro. Retro, go fetch some Ben Jerry's. Retro would look cool on a t-shirt. Hey, that's a cool thought.

Oh my God.

Imagine having a retro line of t-shirts. I've been trying to come up with a logo for the Inkspired Life for a long time. I still have no ideas for a logo. I wonder if retro could somehow be a logo for the Inkspired Life.

I don't know.

All right, let's do a sketch on here. I think we're gonna just do— let's do a little wonky cottage. Move this, see— let's try a little view like this. I'm just playing around with different camera views, trying to make the show more fun and interesting. If you guys have any suggestions, let me know. Just appreciate all your comments and thoughts.

Dropped my pen.

So I like the way this, uh, I love this paper. So I'm just playing with the Cepia pen to see how it bleeds, how it feels on the paper. I'm actually really liking it. Yeah, this, this CinePen works, working really nicely on this paper. I like how it's leaving some kind of dry, I'm gonna try some kind of white spots underneath. Right, you can see that texture showing through.

In other places you can see it's more solid, like that. Down here.

And some of that has to do with the amount of pressure I'm putting on the pen as well, how slow I'm dragging it.

It's pretty— looks pretty cool. You can do really fine lines.

Let's see, if I just kind of do some hatching in here. We'll have some rocks kind of at the base of this building.

Stonework.

Curvy wood siding going on here, make it playful rather than like straight.

Points, just do some curves on here. What do I want to do here?

I want to do like a, a little bit in here, the door.

I'm not sure, not sure where I don't know how to do this part.

It hasn't come into my brain yet, so I'm gonna skip it. I always like to do these little growy things kind of on the landscape here. So you got some growies kind of happening. It just kind of creates a little bit of age going on in the scene. Maybe it's a little overgrown. Wow, the cowboy music came on again. I didn't play that, guys. It's weird. That's weird, isn't it? I think my computer's telling me it's time to end. Hey, Janice, good to see you. This one's a Japanese feel to it. Yeah, you know, I think it has to with the brush pen. Basic paper looks elegant with sepia pen. It does, it does. Rustic rural, I like that. It does have a rustic rural look to it. You guys are awesome, thank you for your comments and support. Janice, good to see you as always. Janice, you've been posting some really nice photos. I love when you post photos from around, around, uh, And would— where you are, it's so just awesome.

Keep posting those photographs.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do here, so— maybe just some vertical boards kinda happening in there. What I like about this is—

what do I like about this?

I think Patty said Japanese. It has, you know, kind of a very simple— what's a good way to describe it? Simple lines. There's not a lot of lines in here. I just like the character. There's like the character of the way this looks, like the wavy lines. I have some straight lines going on here. Um, I think that a lot of it does have to do with the paper and just texture showing through. It has kind of the aged look to it, which is really nice. And I'm not even gonna add any color to this. I like just the sepia. And the paper is kind of a— I don't know, would you call me an ivory type of shade of white? It just seems to work well together. All right, we're gonna put one more piece of music, then we're gonna head out after this video.

Just wanna put—

This is a little piece of music that I actually created. I call it— it's called "Everything Is Beautiful." It's a very short piece of music. It's very short, as you'll probably hear it repeat over again. If I want, I can actually take my aqua brush and maybe and just give some— let this bleed a little bit here and there. So you can kind of see how this will bleed. I mean, after it dries, it won't bleed, so it's still a little wet enough where I can at least get some shadow tones going on here if I want. You can see up here where it's more fresh, the ink is bleeding a little bit easier.

Let's just make the ground bleed a little bit here with the ink.

That would be so cool. There we go. Right, so you can kind of see the ink bleeding, especially down here. That's just a nice way to create some of a, like, a ground happening here.

There you go.

I think I'm liking that where it is. Actually going to take— let's turn this camera off here. Just realized it's making shadow on the page. There we go. Oh, got some epic choir music going on. Hey Kim, good to see you. Welcome. It's been a long time. Yeah.

Welcome.

D-Ray, long time no see. Oh, that's Kim. Yeah, good to see you again. D-Ray says, "Great lines on the wonky cottage." Hey, thank you, D-Ray, for all your positivity and your awesome feedback and comments. Janice. Yeah, Janice loves the photos too. CP is cool. You guys are amazing. It's such a fun group. Nice effects. Yeah, thank you. I like this piece a lot, actually. Actually, I'm gonna add a little bit more to it. I don't feel like it's quite done. Turn it down a little bit. Why did I hit the Epic Choir soundtrack by mistake? It's very ethereal.

I'm just gonna put some more peppy on it and we're gonna wrap up.

I'm just gonna randomly pick something. All right guys, give me a number from 1 to 12. First number I see in the chat from 1 to 12, that will be the next piece of music that we listen to. Number 1 through 12, but you guys can help me select the next music track. I wanted to add just a little bit of Wavy lines up here, kind of in the peak area. 11! I see 11 first. All right, let's see what Janice picked out. Thank you, Janice. Number 11. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. You picked a track called Catastérism. Cat- Cat asterism. C-A-T-A-S-T-E-R-I-S-M. Cat asterism. It's in the Hero track playlist. Let's hear it. Thank you guys for putting numbers in there. You're awesome. You guys should all play those numbers in the lottery right there. Oh, we noticed. Cool. I had so much fun with this. I think I have one more sheet of this cool paper. Let's do one more. Aha, here we go. Let's do one more wonky cottage sketch. You guys up for that? If you guys are up for another cottage sketch, let me know. Give me some thumbs up or some hearts just so I know if you would like to see one Uno más. Uno más. Mmm, I could definitely see that Patty right here. A woman in a shoe. Totally see that. Sure, uno más. Absolutely, Kim Says. You guys are— just getting a drink here. You guys are on fire. All right, cool. Let's do another one. I can see the old woman in the shoe. Also notice the perspective of this. This is a wonky perspective. It is not precise and it's not meant to be, right? Wonky is just loose. Things are distorted, they're twisted, they're exaggerated. And that's what helps to create the wonky kind of feeling. So let's grab another sheet of this Akumapaper. Let's do another sketch. And what I'm going to do is— I'm going to do your numbers you put in here. So we're going to get to song number 7 next, as soon as this one ends.

And I think I'm going to do this one in sepia as well.

Alright, this is number 7.

It's kind of back on my list.

We'll do this one.

Uh, we'll do this one.

It is so hard for me to not be drawing the Eiffel Tower right now. I don't know why. I am really resisting the urge to draw some kind of a tower or something in the background. Told you I was resisting the urge. This one you can see bleed a little bit more since the— I'll put some fresh ink right here and you can see it, how it bleeds when it's fresh, right? Or dries too much. Cool, there you go. It's a fun little sketch. Even wonky foliage. My hand's dancing to the music. Paris Ratatouille music, yeah. Definitely have some Ratatouille going on. Only I could draw a little rat somewhere. You know, draw a really small rat.

He's so small you can't see him.

Now we got tiny rat going on here. There's a man with a tiny teeny rat. Here we go, we got a little teeny tiny rat happening right there. That's Ratatouille. Remy? What's his name? Remy?

I can't remember. His name was Remy.

Don't hear much accordion music, but it's so nice, right, to hear that kind of French. This is called the Les Cafés de Paris. Now I have a B-52s. B-52s! Love Shack. Love Shack. Baby Love Shack.

I love that.

I'm not gonna sing the B-52s, but I do love them.

They're awesome.

Or do you have Rock Lobster in your head? Let me know. Rock Lobster or Love Shack?

There.

That's kind of a fun little cottage. Like me, it leans. D-Ray says, like me, it leans. That's funny. Oh man, that's a good one, D-Ray. Like me, it leans. Yeah, I hear you. You guys are so funny. Peggy loves the rat. Hey guys, awesome. I'm gonna put— we're gonna put our Sunset Western whistling song on and we're gonna do our final sketch of the night on the way out. Thank you guys all for watching. I appreciate you so much. Let's take a look at both of these kind of together here. Boom. I have to zoom out again.

Hold on.

There we go. Now we can see them. Right, so they're both done with sepia pen, both on the same kind of paper, both wonky, but two different style buildings, which is kind of fun. I like them both. I think they both have a— actually, you know what I just thought?

This needs—

I want to do some kind of shutter on this.

That's already coming out like I wanted it to. That's alright.

That's okay, we can just blend it. Just add more shadows underneath. This is supposed to be an overhang and it's got like a little bay window under the overhang.

Turn these numbers a little bit. There we go. Cool.

Alright, let's bring out the sketchbook. We're gonna do our Western whistling cowboy exit song for the night. Let these dry. So you can actually— this is actually a good example. Look at the sepia pen. You could really get it intense. Look at that rich sepia color on there. It's so beautiful. All right, so guys, before I play this last song, I just want to say thank you. I appreciate everybody watching and tuning in. Just thank you so much. It's always fun to be sketching and painting and talking to you guys, creating and sharing. Hopefully, you know, let me know if you have a takeaway from tonight, something that inspired you or you learned, whether from me or the chat and talking to each other. Let me know, what did you like about tonight's show? I think it doesn't have to be necessarily anything I did. Let me know. I want to keep that vibe going and keep this thing growing and keep paying it forward with positivity. I always get this wrong. Creativity for positivity. I got it. Creativity for positivity. So keep paying it forward, guys. You're awesome. Keep sharing your stuff. Thank you. Thank you so much. I will be on Wednesday, I'm sure. I'm just gonna look through this as I'm flipping through to find a blank page. Let me zoom in. And so this is the sketchbook I've been doing the Cowboy Exit sketches in. You guys, I know you guys have seen me do these. So it would be fun one day just to go through all these. I'm not gonna do them all now. This has a kind of loose style. This was done with a brush pen. Not the sepia one, this is a black brush pen. I really like the loose sketchy quality of these brush pens, they're fun. Here's the whistling one. Here's a quick version of the mustache cowboy guy. What is he, the sharpest pen in the West or something? We got a bunch— this was kind of— this may have been one of the last ones. I just usually grab and go with what's on the desk and draw something. Alright, here we go. Let's put the whistling music on. Hey guys, thank you for watching. I appreciate you all so much. Um, feel free to leave comments and questions. I'll go through and look at them. Yep, Remy. So it was Remy. Thank you. I got that right. Yes. 10 points. Um, and giraffes. I see something about giraffes. Jason could draw dogs and rats very well. And giraffes. Oh, thank you. I don't know about the giraffes, but thank you. I don't know about the rats. I'll take bunnies. You could put bunnies in there somewhere. I can draw bunnies okay. You guys are much more better at drawing animals than I will ever, ever, ever be. But thank you for that. You guys are awesome. All right, it's time for the whistling cowboy song.

Whistling. All right.

Sombrero, here it is. Thank you guys so much. Peace. Live creatively. I'll see you guys soon. Let's do it.

Here it is.

Oh, wait. Do-over. I need timeout. Timeout. This is funny. Alright, this is— alright, timeout. Technical issue here. So somehow my Spotify is playing at the same time this whistling music is playing. So right now I hear Nirvana coming through my earphones at the same time as the whistling music was. So I gotta switch off Spotify. Spotify kicked on. Let me do it here. All right, Spotify is off. Let's do this again. Take number 2. All right, that was fun. It was weird. I heard— I started hearing Nirvana. I'm like, what? How did that happen? Whistling Nirvana, that would be interesting. That would be awesome. I love that.

Alright.

Good night, guys. Take care. See you soon. Have a great, great Tuesday.