A nighttime sketching session where the creator layers graphite, watercolor, and ink in a playful, low-pressure approach. He narrates his material choices, shares practical tips like keeping paint caps on, and emphasizes treating the work as a creative sandbox rather than chasing a finished piece.
Hello, happy Tuesday! If you're watching, I hope you're having a great, great night, and I hope you had a great day today. Just popping on, doing some quick loose sketching for the night. And I'm playing around with graphite stick and a watercolor stick, and I'm going to break out some color as well. Hope everything's going well. Say hi in the comments so I can say hi back to you. Yeah, I had a nice little wicked storm come through earlier today. Hopefully the weather is good where you are. Everything's good now. A lot of, uh, wind and rain and thunder and lightning. So I'm just gonna— I'm gonna add some red on this. I want to pop some color out. So this is just some watercolor ink I'm putting down. Very loose, abstract. I'm not really trying to create anything specific here. Just kind of just want to play around with just the black and the red and the white of the paper. So it's a very loose, very abstract kind of sketch painting. watercolor as well. I feel like adding some kind of blue maybe. Let's just see, we'll see what happens. Sometimes it's hard to see the colors on here with the light. The way it's on here, the light kind of washes out the colors. If I tilt it up, you can probably see the blue a little bit better. This is a blue watercolor paint. I like the way this is drying over here. Kind of like the color is almost a, uh, It's almost an orangey pink kind of color here. It looks a little different on screen. It's really cool in person. I like the way this color is kind of blending here as well and mixing. One of the cool things about, you know, painting with watercolors and inks is when they dry, you know, your painting and your sketches start to take on a whole different character. And, uh, another expression, it's not really fun to watch paint dry, but I disagree. I love watching paint dry. I think it's pretty fascinating, actually. Um, it just, it does magic, especially watercolors. They really do magical things when they start drying. Again, I don't know what I'm creating. This is just kind of— I just wanted to play around and just get some lines and some color on paper here with really no intention other than that, just being a little playful tonight, not trying to make a specific scene or buildings or anything like that. I mean, I could definitely see turning this into maybe some kind of a cityscape type of scene. But right now, just, just put the colors down and we'll see what happens. You know, not every artwork, not every sketch, not every drawing is meant to be a masterpiece. Very few, if any, that I've ever made are. They're not really masterpieces, they're just their plate. It's like playing in the creative sandbox. That's what I call it. Just playing around in the creative sandbox, having fun, just enjoying, you know, some downtime. A crazy week, a lot going on. I like sketching and painting at night, especially just to change my state of mind, just to getting kind of relaxed, getting into like a zen mood before bedtime. So we all have different creative zone times, right? Some like to create in the morning, some in the afternoon, some at night. I tend to be a night creator. Just clicking on some buttons over here. Alright, let's see. I'm gonna throw down some more blue, I think. One thing with watercolors and watercolor inks or acrylic inks is you add in layers on top of layers. Create really interesting effects. Cool. I think I'll let that one dry for a few minutes. Hey, if you're on, don't be afraid to say hello so I can say hello back to you. I always appreciate you guys watching and tuning in and sharing this. It's always fun to create live. Because we never know what's gonna happen. This is a watercolor stick. Sometimes I'll dip it in water and I'll kind of sketch with it. Always remember to put your cap back on your paints because they will spill. I have done it too many times. Cool. I'm gonna let this one dry, I think, for a little bit, and I'll just do one more quick sketch and wrap up for the night. So here's what it looks like. I'll just hold it a little closer. I like the texture of the watercolor stick here. The way it looks, you can just see the texture of the paper coming through underneath because I didn't really grind the watercolor stick on here. I kind of dragged it across because I like the texture of paper to show through. You know, I'm almost picturing this could be a— some kind of a perspective, maybe some kind of a building in the foreground here and a perspective that comes back. And then I could, you know, transform these into different high-rise buildings and skyscrapers, make it into a kind of a cityscape, sky— it's a— skyline. So it's almost kind of what I'm picturing this will turn into. So after it dries, I'll come back and I'll start adding more layers and detail. Probably some more watercolor stick. I might add some more graphite. That's what I started sketching with. And I might even, after it totally dries, come back with a Sharpie or another pen and add some details. So this is just one layer of many. So Sometimes you have to let things dry, come back to them, and see what happens. This is looking kind of cool here. I like what's happening in this area as it dries. Awesome. Let me put this to the side. I'm going to come back and we see another sketch. I'm actually going to reconnect, I think, It looks like I'm having some internet issues here on my screen, so I'll make sure I restart it and see what happens.
