The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey guys, how are you? Hey Becky, hey Kim, good to see you guys. Hope you're having a great Saturday. It's not over yet. Hope your Saturday is going awesome and you did something fun. Maybe you got some fresh air today. Yeah, I hope you're having a great, great day. Thanks for tuning in. So I'm just doing a little warm-up sketch. My Sharpie out, I have some graphite out. I'll just add some water to this. I gotta get some clean water, which I have right here. Actually, I'm gonna use my brush pen, I think. Make sure I have water in it. Ooh, it's almost out of water. Hey, Chris, good to see you. Hope you're having a great, great day today. So I'm just playing around with the graphite a little bit here. Just a quick warm-up, loosen up, and then I am going to be working on creating an Inky Inky Night sketch after I do the warm-up. So that should be fun. I hope it's fun. Nah, how could it not be fun, right? Creating is always fun. It's not always easy. It's challenging sometimes. But the journey, the journey part of it's always fun. Always learning, exploring. Here we go. Cool. So I'm just darkening it up a little bit towards the buildings. It gets a little lighter as it goes away. I could probably— let's see, maybe I can switch cameras to get closer. Hold on a sec. Oh, that's me. Hey guys, that's a little too close to me. There we go. Boom. So you can see it a little bit closer. There we go. So I'm just trying to add different layers of darkness in the background here, just to make it a little more interesting. You know, um, I'm picturing this is almost a rooftop cityscape type of scene. Water tower here on the left. Some silhouettes of buildings in the background. I do want to pull this shape out a little bit here. So I'm gonna add graphite. Just to round this. There we go. So I'm just trying to pull out this water tower shape on the left side. Cool. Yeah, I like the way that looks. Just a quick sketch, very loose. Different layers of graphite in the background here. You can see it's pretty dark. I didn't water this down over here. So this nice little warm-up piece, I just want to add— I want to add something else to it. So let me just grab my Sharpie. I don't know what I want to add, but I feel like I want to do a little more to it. So just picking up the Sharpie and seeing what happens. Let me zoom out a smidge. There we go. I kind of want to define this shape here a little bit better. So what did you guys do today? Did anybody— did anybody have nice weather? It's been It's cold and damp and dark out here all day up in New Jersey where I am. We went for a dinner walk, well, after-dinner walk, and it was cold out. It was like a fall night. Nice and crisp. I'm ready for a little bit more sunshine. I mean, I don't mind— I love the fall, but bring on some sunshine, man. Let's do it. It's hiding. There we go. I'm just adding some window type of details on here. Just wanna make some of these buildings pop out. I feel like my Sharpie's running out of juice here. Uh-oh. There we go. It's weird, sometimes if I hold the Sharpie too low, it doesn't— the ink doesn't come out, so I have to hold it at a certain angle to get it to come out a little bit better. It's one of the reasons I like using this Uni-ball pen or the Pilot pen, I can hold them at lower angles and the ink will still come out. There we go, this has a lot of ink in it, it's coming out better. I think I just have to get another Sharpie. This water tower is not reading, so I'm going to darken the roof area. The rough, as they say. Boom! So we got that. Maybe some structure down here, some beams. So you'll notice in my sketches, I do repeat a lot of forms. You'll see a lot of water tower forms. I always have spires in my buildings. You can see some spires here. It's just kind of a vocabulary that I carry through from drawing to drawing. One of the cool things about that is if you hold these drawings next to each other, you'll see the vocabulary of images, of symbols or shapes, and it'll pull these different sketches together. So when you're creating a series of stuff, it's a great way to tie— for me, it's a great way to tie the artwork together. At least through the vocabulary of forms and shapes. You could do it through subject matter, you can tie themes together through colors. I mean, there's all different ways you can tie different collections together. This is awesome. I like the way this looks. I'm not gonna really even detail what's going on on the roof here. I like it kind of abstract. I might just draw like a little parapet wall or something back here. Yeah, I like that better. See, just by adding some more ink on top, it kind of pulled it. Which camera? There we are. Awesome. So that's my warm-up for tonight. Hey, Barbara, how are you? Good to see you. "Do you think you could pull off the background using Payne's Gray?" Yeah, Chris. I do think you could pull it off using a Payne's Gray. Great question. Let me switch to— we definitely don't want the close-up of me. Hit the right button here. Boom, there we go. You can use Payne's Gray. The only thing that won't happen that I don't know how to get to do with just gray is I like the effect here. Where you can see the lines of the graphite. So with the Payne's Gray, you'll get more of just kind of an even, or you can get different layers of Payne's Gray, but different grays or darknesses of grays on it. But yeah, good question. Pretty cool. I don't have Payne's Gray, otherwise I'd try it. I don't think I have any. Hey, Barbara, thank you so much. Nighttime or stormy, Becky says. Nighttime or stormy. This scene, this scene, I'm picturing kind of, yeah, like a stormy scene here, you know. These graphite lines coming down, it's almost like rainfall. So, I'm trying to— one of the things I'm trying to do or work on with my loose sketching is, you know, we always talk about story in art but I'm trying to create more atmospheres. Or having it appeal to your senses and more of an environmental kind of a twist to drawing. So I'm glad you picked up on that. You know, awesome. Good job. 10 points for you. Practice animal drawing. Yeah, crappy weather. I hate that. We need the sun. Bring the sun out. Missouri too. Sun is hiding and cool. Where is the sun? It's like on vacation. It snowed all day yesterday and hasn't all melted. What? It's supposed to be in the 60s tomorrow. Yowch! Snow! I hope we don't see any snow in April. We have before here. We've seen snow in May here in Jersey. So that's a warm-up sketch. I'm ready to break out some Inky Inky Night stuff and play around. So we put this aside. So in case you haven't watched or seen this, Inky Inky Night are these sketches I do with marker. Here's an example of one I did. And basically it's a sheet of— I just, I use yellow tracing paper. I'm sure you can do it on white tracing paper, all kinds of different things, right? All kinds of different tracing papers. So we're gonna use some yellow trace paper tonight. Um, and the black you see on here is basically Sharpie. So I have some Sharpies here. I usually use a thicker Sharpie. You can use black marker as well, any kind of markers. I have this huge Sharpie. Um, so that's all the black you see is Sharpie in the fill. And then all the other colors are markers. So I like to use these markers. Here, I have a bunch of different colors. I just restocked on some of them. I use AD markers. I guess the brand is Chartpak, called AD marker. I think it means maybe architectural design marker, I'm thinking, because I know these are really popular for architectural rendering. I have violets, I have purple sage, Space Blue. Some of these colors I have not used in Inky Night, but we'll try it. So we have some markers there. What else? Let me just pull out the typical colors I usually go to. Chrome Orange. Banana. I thought I ordered an extra Banana, but instead they sent me a flesh tone, so that's not really gonna cut it. So I have Banana here. I'm not gonna eat it, I promise, I promise. And then, you know, lots of times I just grab and go. Dutch Blue is a color I like to use. What else do we have here? Slate Green, no, I don't think I use Slate Green too much. Purple Sage, this one's dried out, I got a new one. Oh, Bright Orchid is another one. So we'll keep these out for now. I'm just gonna move this here to get more room. Clear the space. So this can be a messy process. You could definitely end up wearing the marker because it takes a while for it to dry on the tracing paper. So I'm just warning you, if you ever try this, it is a little messy, but it's fun for sure. And it does take layers. It's not something that's gonna be done right away. It's something that we'll do— I'll do a layer tonight, then I'll have to come back and do another layer to it, even maybe a third layer as well. So let's get rockin' and rollin'. Is that good art speak, rockin' and rollin'? Let's get sketchin', let's get creatin'. So I have a couple of different sizes of yellow trace paper. I have What is this, a 6-inch roll? Yeah, I have a 6-inch roll and a 12-inch roll. I think I'm going to use the 12-inch rolls. Actually, I'm going to use the 6-inch roll. I like the proportion of the 6-inch roll. I'm just going to tear out a piece. I don't know, it's about 18 inches long. Oh, here you guys go. Ready? You're not— you get this for the price of admission tonight. The old tear the tracing paper technique trick. Boom, done. You can go back and watch that in slow motion. 5 years of college and I mastered something. I mastered that technique. Huh, it's all good. Put the ruler here. So I'll try to keep it on frame here. Hopefully it doesn't go off camera. So the first step is to just— you take a Sharpie and just draw a skyline or townscape or some kind of cityscape, whatever you want to draw. So basically I'm gonna— I like to just create these silhouettes of buildings as a backdrop, and they don't have to be perfect because you can always come in later and add more Sharpie to it if you want to change the forms up a little bit. Alright, let's do it. So I might be in my zone a little bit, so if I'm not chatting, I will definitely check in with the chat with you guys. Sometimes when I do this, I get into like the zone, the inky, inky zone. We need like Twilight Zone theme music. The inky zone. I don't need my pen out, brush pen. I don't need my graphite, just making some room up here. Alright. So I'm just gonna take this fine point Sharpie and sketch a skyline or something. We'll see what happens. Sometimes I'll mix it up. I'll have some small little buildings and then I can pull it up to a taller building. Maybe that's some kind of a church building there. One thing I don't like what I did already is I should have left more sky area up top, but that's okay. It's just a little practice piece just to show you guys kind of the concept of it. So it's just a little skyline there. I'm not going to fill the black in yet. I usually do that last. So I'm just gonna leave the outline. One of the things I do like to do is when I'm doing the sky stuff, I like to do on the opposite side of the black. That way the marker— I'm not mixing the black and the color. I kinda like to keep them separate on different sides of the paper. This paper likes to curl up, you'll notice. So let me just put something down here just to kind of hold it down a little bit. So let's just do it. I just pick up colors. I don't really have an order of colors, so I'm just going to grab and go. I would tape it down, but I like to flip the paper sometimes, so I don't want to actually physically tape it right now. Cool. Looks like your buddy's EKG from today. Nice, yeah, I saw something similar to this when I was at the cardiologist last week, so I know what EKGs look like very well. I have had my share of them done with my— I had a heart— had a stent put in about 2 and a half, I guess 3 years ago, maybe. So this might be a little hard to see on camera, and I'll try to hold it up so you guys can see it, but right now I'm just laying down some of the— this purple in no particular order. I'm just coloring it on here. Not everywhere. I apologize if it's not really looking dramatic on screen, but it'll get there. This is a process that does take some time and it does take adding a bunch of layers. You'll notice also sometimes when I'm— I was just going to say coloring, I guess when I'm coloring or adding the marker, I'll kind of tap it. And by tapping it, it creates this cool bleeding effect or mushrooming effect. Let me hold it up. I don't know if you guys can see it better. Yeah, you can't really see it. When I get to the darker colors— actually, I'll switch to darker color, you can see it better. And what happens is these markers will mix together, you can blend the colors together. So this is kind of just a base I'm throwing down. I'm going to break out some of that Space Blue. I've never used it before. It sounded interesting. Let's see what Space Blue looks like. This is it, Space Blue. These markers are They really have a strong smell to them. Holy cow. This one actually looks like— I'm gonna wipe this off— it looks like maybe it was bleeding on the inside of the cap.

Here we go.

Just don't want to get it all over the place. Alright, let's try some Space Blue. We'll see why they call it Space Blue. Looking kinda cool. Looking spacey. Not like, not like the actor, what's his name, Kevin, Kevin Spacey. There's some really cool things happening already where it's kind of mixing there. And I'll try to hold it up again so you guys can see it. I wonder if I zoom in closer. Let me try that. I'm gonna zoom in. This is— so these sketches are really hard to photograph. They never look the same as they do in real life. Like, I could tell this is really being washed out by the light. I might even try turning off this one light here and see what it looks like. Maybe it'll look better on camera. Or maybe I'll turn— I have a big light on overhead and I'll turn that off in a sec. Sometimes I'll just mixing— mix on the fly here. I'll sometimes just draw some squiggly lines on here as well. These have a, a chisel tip, which is cool. So you can do wide strokes, you can do some fine strokes if you want. Gotta create a little swirlies for our Inky Inky Night homage. It's okay if you get some of the marker on the buildings, it's because you'll be coloring them black anyway, so it won't show through. So I'm laying this down here, and again, right now it's just looking like, what is going on? This is one of those types of artwork that has the aha moment. Like, all of a sudden things will just kind of click in place and it'll just transform. Just like when you're watching, or for me when I watch Bob Ross, there's always that point where his painting just magically seems to transform from nothing into amazingness.

Use some of the—

this is the Dutch Blue color. Cap is sonntag. Yeah, Dutch Blue really is nice and dark. I like it, and it's blending with the purple underneath here. So you can, you can see the colors are starting to blend together. Oof, I had like some ventilation in here. These are strong. You can see it's starting to come together a little bit, right? On the screen. Let me hold it up. I should get a piece of white paper and do that. Let me just try this. Here. I'll just hold this up here so you can see it a little bit better. So you can kind of see how some of it's starting to come together and bleeding together a little bit in here. Colors are mixing. These are the areas where I was tapping the pen down. You can see how it's kind of blooming or bleeding a little bit. Down here, I like to actually— this is kind of cool what's happening down in this area. Scroll over here, see what's going on. So you can see this area, how it's starting to mix a little bit. So it is coming together. I'm going to get a drink and check in. "Are they permanent ink markers?" Yeah, um, Patty, are they permanent ink markers? That's a great question. I'm gonna say yes, they are. They're AD markers, Charpak AD markers. Let me see if I can read anything on the back. Warning, blah blah blah. This product contains a chemical known— some kind of warnings on there. Yeah, I'm going to say that— I mean, I can mix them with other markers, the same type of marker. I can dissolve it. I never tried it on an old one to see if it stays. It does wash off your hands, I know that. I'll see if I have a piece here we can test it on. Actually, I'm curious now. This is a piece I did online one time. Just curious to see if I can mix what's on here with that. Yeah, so it looks like I can actually mix— I can mix it with this, and this has probably been around for a month or two, this one. This is a better example— not better, but you can see it's a little bit bigger. I'm gonna put a little more color on and then I'll flip it over and do some of the black. I'll let this dry a little bit. Which color is this? Bright work. I think I'm gonna break out some of that purple in a sec. So when you go over an area that's already been— already has color on it, it's almost like you can wipe it and erase it. Or it's— or kind of lifted off. Get some of that purple. I like to make sure I put the COVID back on these because I think they can dry out fairly quickly. Did I use purple sage? Did I try the violet yet? Yeah, the violet. Violet is very subtle. This is a very therapeutic kind of artwork piece. You find yourself really getting lost in the colors and making colors bleed and mixing colors together. That's one of the fun things for me about it. And I'm not picking colors in any particular order, I'm just kind I'm just kind of letting my gut go with whatever. I'm just picking stuff up that's calling my name. It's like saying, "Hey, you, pick me up. You gotta put me on the page. You don't have enough of my color on there yet." Come on, I know your markers, I know your paints talk to you guys. I'm not the only one, right? Or am I? Am I the only one that has their Their markers and their pens say, "Use me, use me, use me." Um, here's— I was looking for this one here. Me see if my banana— me see if my banana works here. Banana. Banana marker. Wish it smelled like a banana. I think my banana marker's kind of dry. Alright, I'm gonna let this sit for a minute on this side. I'm gonna flip it over. Make sure the cap's on, we're getting a drink. Uh, it's hard to comment when you are following along and creating, but we are indeed here. Thank you, Kim, I appreciate it. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. And you guys are always there, I know. You guys are awesome. Thank you so much. Yeah, sometimes it's hard to Definitely hard for me to comment sometimes when I'm doing this, and if you guys are drawing along, yeah, don't worry about it if you can't comment. I want you to be creating, having fun. That's what it's about, right? This is just a piece of— by the way, this is just white foam board I put down on here, and that's what I have this mounted on. This paper is very fragile. That's one of the challenging things about this is having it last. But I try to mount it on a piece of white foam board. Right now I just have clips holding it on, my favorite office supply, binder clips. Can't live without them. Love 'em, love 'em. Let's, we could talk about office supplies all night long. I love office supplies. But yeah, so, yeah, I have it just on a board right now. I haven't ever tried to spray like a fixative and permanently mount it. The one I did sell, we had framed and matted and put in glass on a white background, and it came out pretty well. But I would be afraid to spray some kind of adhesive or fixative to mount this onto the board. I might try it with a scrap piece sometime. So let's just flip it over and take a break from color and just put some Sharpie on it. So let me flip it. Thank you, Barbara. Jeanne, hello. Thank you, I appreciate it. Tom— uh, Tombow water-based brush markers. That's cool, Patty, that you can blend them together. Um, I haven't used Tombow markers. I know they're really popular. Yeah, I'd love to see what you, you know, if you want to share what you have, that would be awesome. So I have a feature, guys, when I do these streams, I can actually invite, I think, up to 4 people, 4 guests. If anybody ever wants to try it, let me know. I could always send you a link before I get started, and you can just use your iPhone or whatever. You click the link and it'll bring you in here. And I can control like when you come on camera. If you ever wanted to come on camera and show what you're working on, you could do that. I'm definitely gonna be doing that in the workshop in May, having people come on and show their stuff. It'd be cool. Hey Donna, good to see you. Dawn, hello, good to see you as well. Alright, so let me flip it over and let's just put some black on here. You know, it's really what I love about these also, and I think we talked about it once before, is that I know, what side is the front? These you can flip around. I just— let me try turning the light down a little bit. Let me see if that helps show this on camera. Just bear with me, guys, for a sec. I just want to, uh, let me try dimming this light, see if it does anything. Let me know if that looks better. I just dimmed the light a little bit. Let me know if you can see the colors. I feel like they were being really washed out before. And I'm going to zoom in a little bit closer. Let me zoom. Dun dun dun. Aha! Ooh, there we go. Let's get closer. That looks cool. I'm thinking the light off is better. Yeah, the colors are brighter now. Thanks, Jeannie. I think I'm gonna— yeah, I'm gonna leave that light off. I think it was kind of washing things out. And I know my big head's in the way. I can even turn my head off. Let me turn my head off so I'm not covering the picture there. Alright. Turn off my head. There's a little button here I can turn off. Hey, there we go.

Alright.

There we go. Now my head's not covering the picture. You can see this better. Thanks for sticking with me, working out to tech stuff. I love it. You guys are awesome. Yes, and what's awesome is Mr. Tom Petty just came on, random shuffle. Love it. So for the black, couple options. You can use Sharpies if you want. You can also use any other marker. I do have a black marker here, AD. It's called AD Super Black Marker. Maybe I'll try that. Let's— Sharpie, I'm sorry, I'm gonna put the marker— I'm gonna try this marker for a second. Nothing personal, Mr. Sharpie. And then maybe I'll— I got this flesh color that they sent me by mistake. I don't know if that'll work well on here, but I'm looking at my other color These are all the markers I have. All the ones with numbers are different shades of grey. Maybe we'll take some shade. I think the higher the number, the darker the grey is. I don't know, maybe we'll throw some grey on there.

What will it look like?

Aqua? Maybe we should break out some aqua. Ooh, Process Blue! That's the color I like to use. We're gonna use some Process Blue. So I'm breaking my rules where I usually like to stick to 3 or 4 colors. I'm not even gonna count what I have. This is one of those— this is one of those times where you just go for it and have extra, extra, extra fun. All right, I'm gonna do some of the buildings. I'm not gonna do everything, I don't think. But I'm trying this AD marker. These caps— oh my gosh, it's really on there. Holy cow, I can't get the cap off. There we go. I don't even know if I've ever used this one.

Let's try it.

So again, I'm doing this on the back side. One of the reasons is if I say I want to change the shape of this building, here, okay? So maybe I want to come up here, maybe I want to make it kind of do something like that. It's easier— I can just do it on the back side. I just don't want to mess up the color side. I hope that makes sense. It makes sense in my brain, which is sometimes scary. And the black will also go down in a couple layers as well, so I'm not expecting to fill all, all the black stuff in on one pass. These two buildings look kind of similar, don't they?

That was not intentional.

So I think this is— this would be Inky Inky Night Number 5?

3?

No, it's not 3A. I think it's number 5. The first one, um, the first one my friend, she bought it and she put it in her— she had like a spa that she had put it in, which was kind of cool to have it hanging up in her studio. And I actually taught watercolor classes in that studio for a year or two? Two years, I forget how long. So it was really fun, we did these watercolor classes with about 10 or 15 people. First time I ever even tried to teach anything art related. I have a lot to learn about how to teach art. But it was a fun experience just seeing people paint and what was really cool is everybody was trying to copy what I was doing But the end results were so different, it was so cool to see, and I think people really got a kick out of seeing what they made and how different it was than their friends. So it was a lot of fun.

It was a lot of fun.

It was a lot of work too to set it up and clean it all up and stuff, but you know what? It was awesome. So maybe one day I'll get back into doing something like that. She was actually also really nice and let me hang some of my artwork up in her studio to put on display, so it was really fun too. But she, unfortunately, she moved locations No more workshops. But I guess COVID would have probably stopped that for a while anyway. Cool. One of the cool things I do want to show you that I like is, you know, if I want to add another building or something— I'm actually probably going to sketch mountains or something in the background. But if I want to add another building, Say I wanna do a real teeny little house that was here before the city was being built and it still stands. I could just pop on another little building like that. Just like that. I'm just gonna put another row of black down here and then I'll let it sit for a second and I'll flip it over, go back to doing some more coloring. I just wanted you guys to get kind of the effect of what it's starting to look like. You know what might be fun? I was just thinking if I could pop in I could pop in some— almost like lights on in these buildings. That's something I haven't tried. So to do that, right? So it's starting to come together. Hope you guys can kind of see the effects of what's going on. Uh, yes, can see the colors and the blended spots. Awesome. Is there a backside to the yellow tracing paper? I am looking at it like this. That's a great question. That is a great, great question. I— that's a really great question. I don't really have an answer. I've used this for like 20-something years. I never even thought of a front or back. I'm going to say they're basically the same on both sides. I'm trying to feel the texture. This front side feels a little bit rougher than the back, but they're basically— I'm gonna say they're basically the same. There is a little more tooth to the front side, which is this side here. If I flip the roll over, this feels a little smoother. Sorry, I don't know if I have a camera. This feels like a rougher— this feels smoother. Great question, by the way. That's so funny because in school we would just rip sheets of paper off like crazy and just start sketching. I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah, I know, like watercolor paper, right? There's a front and a back side. One side usually has more texture to it. Awesome question. Let me see, I was gonna see if I can poke in a little bit of light. What I was gonna try, I'm just gonna take this banana Not the, not the fruit marker. And I'm going to see if I can carve out the black. Ooh, this is working, guys. Hello! Why didn't I think of this before today? Yeah, so basically, maybe it's good I didn't use the Sharpie, because if I used the Sharpie, I don't think I'd be able to do do this. I'll get a close-up in a second. The Sharpie, I don't think I'd be able to wipe away. So sometimes, you know, artwork, when we add layers, sometimes you can subtract layers to create effects, right? I know watercolor— watercolor is about adding layers and adding layers. Acrylic painting, adding layers, adding layers. But, you know, don't be afraid to subtract things off your drawings if possible. The marker does get dirty, so you gotta kinda clean it out. I know they make blending markers which are made for blending. I guess that makes sense, right? Not made for coloring. You can just blend colors. It's like a blending stump. I don't know if you've seen blending stumps. It's kind of like paper that's really— or material that's really tightly rolled together. Use it for blending like pastels or colored pencils. Yeah, I have to keep wiping this off. I should actually do this with a permanent marker. That's kind of not working. There we go. Just want to put some circular windows here. Actually, I'll throw one there. I'll flip it over and you guys can see it. Or let me know when we get closer. I'm going to zoom in. So you guys can, you can see, right? I wiped away the black and it has almost like a little kind of lights or something going on in the buildings, which is kind of fun. Donna, yeah, there's different widths to choose from. It's 12-inch. So 12-inch is a great size. I have 12-inch roll right here as well. What you can do with the 12-inch roll is Let me zoom out to the other camera for a sec so I can show you. Actually, let me zoom out. So this is a 12-inch roll, right? I'm sure you've probably already thought about this. This is 12, but I mean, you can just kind of— if you want smaller sheets, just roll it this way. And then you can tear it off, right? So I just tore this, this off the 12-inch roll. So it's a small size sheet. That's so cool that you got tracing paper. That's awesome.

Awesome.

So I just ripped that off and probably made it what, About 5 inches I cut it. All right, let's flip it over and add some more color. So I'm going to wrap at 9 tonight. I am watching the clock, so we'll see how much we can get done by 9. If you guys have any questions, let me know. Hope you're having a good time. Hope you're learning something, you're being inspired, or you're just sitting around having fun. Maybe taking a nap. Some people say, you know, I have a good napping kind of voice. I could get much more dramatic and energetic if you'd like. So I'm using Process Blue. Let me see if I do this. And again, so here's the reason I do the black on the other side, because now, you know, I'm adding color on the back. If I was doing it on the same side as the black, I would be you know, smudging that black, blending with the black, and I want to keep it separate. Especially since I used an AD marker for the black. The Sharpie probably wouldn't smudge. Actually, let's test. Let me test that theory before I keep saying it. Test it out. Alright, just do a little test piece here. So let's just draw a little Building, blah blah blah. I guess it depends on how long— if it sits here and dries, it blends. But right now it's still wet, I could probably smudge it. If I do it on the same side, yeah, because it's smudging now. But I'm going to come back later after it dries and see what happens. Break out some of that gray. Let's see, do some— do a test piece of paper. Very, very light. Yeah, I can't even see the gray on here. I'm just doing some swirly kind of motions on here, add a little bit of energy to the sky. So it's starting to come together as I add more layers on there, right?

I think I think you can see it.

Oh, cool. Crayola markers, that's awesome. I love Crayola stuff. Colors are pretty vibrant, like the sky is on steroids, but I did get cool effects. Ah, Kim, that's cool. I'd love to see it. Yeah, I love Crayola. Crayola stuff. When I was a kid, I went to the Crayola factory. Actually, I wasn't a kid. I was in my 20s, 30s. I don't even remember how old. No, wait, I think we took our son. I don't remember when I went, but I've been to the Crayola factory. It was a really cool place to go visit. I believe it's in Pennsylvania. It's funny, I don't remember when we went. Oh cool, yeah, this is starting to really have some really nice things going on with it. I'll definitely give it a close-up or hold it up to the camera before we're done tonight just to show you where we're at. It's actually coming together a little faster than I thought it would be, so that's good. Throw some more blue on here. I'm really loving this, this Dutch Blue color on here. It just bleeds so nice. It's pretty dramatic. Go back to the Space Blue for a second just to compare them. Yeah, Space Blue is brighter. It's kind of cool having them both on here. I'm just dragging my pen lightly. My marker lightly across a little bit just to create, create some horizontal streaks going on. So they do make paper that's specifically made for markers. It's not transparent, But it's designed for markers, and you can blend the markers on them. I think I'll break that out one time. I think I do have some. I'll break it out on a different Inking Out Loud. Another Inking Out Loud episode coming up on Inking Out Loud. Same inking out loud time, same inking out loud channel. I got that, I have Batman on my brain. Yeah, TV series Batman. Same bat time, same bat channel. All right. Ooh, I'm doing some vertical streaks now. Ooh, this is really creating an interesting effect by doing the vertical streaks through here.

Let's see.

I'm gonna put some peppy music on here to wind down. I know that sounds ironic or contradictory.

Here we go.

Peppy music to wind down, that's interesting. So I'm not putting Yanni on right now. I do like some of Yanni's stuff, I think. I just wanted some peppy music just to kind of get my hand moving a little bit quicker here because I'm starting to think too hard about what I'm doing. I just want to do it. Alright, let's see, let's put a little more color on and I'll flip it over. I'm wearing it, guys. It's officially art. I'm wearing it. It's officially art now. Love it. We're gonna slip it over. So what happens when I take, uh, the Pentel marker and I'm trying to wipe off the black is that I have to keep cleaning the marker out. I probably could use a Q-tip or something to do this, but I don't have one. Throw down a little bit more black, and then I think this is gonna be a wrap on this one for now. Where's my black marker? Alright, I was thinking about doing something in the background with a mountain, but I'm gonna leave it. I'm not gonna do it. Alright, let me hold this up closer. Actually, let me let it dry for a second. You've been to Mr. Rogers. Oh, that's so cool. I didn't know Mr. Rogers. I don't remember that one. I'll have to check that out. I love Mr. Rogers. One of my favorite scents is the smell of a new box of crayons. Yeah, I hear you. You've been to Crayola factory twice. I agree, Crayola crayons are absolutely the best crayons out there, for sure. Windows really add another dimension to your piece. Thank you. Yeah, you know, it's the first time I've done the windows. I don't like what I'm looking at here though. I'm going to clean this up a little bit. Yeah, it's so cool that I tried that. Alright, let me hold it up closer. Just want to put some of this— some of this over here so I don't knock things over. There we go. Alright, so we have it this way. I'm gonna have you guys vote. Pick a side that you like better. But let me just hold it up close. Show you guys some of the detail of it. Which camera are we looking at? Let's— let me switch to this one. So as I hold it up, I'll just kind of pan around a little bit. So you can, you can see in here, right? You see how it's all kind of bleeding a little bit? Um, got some swirly stuff going on. You can see where I was tapping the marker down in those areas. You get a better sense of where I wipe some of the black away to create almost these kind of lights on in these windows. I'll just pan across I like what's going on here. This is kind of a cool effect. It almost reminds me of like a stained glass window or like those Tiffany stained glass windows. I can picture like the light fixtures, the lampshades. It almost reminds me of of that for some reason. Right? You could probably create cool stained glass. Actually, that's not a bad project. Maybe just take a sheet of Trace and just take it— just inking out loud. Had to work that in there. Just inking out loud. Maybe you can create just like stained glass window, right? Just draw little boxes, or it can be whatever shape— triangle, elliptical, circles. Just create a little frame and then just take your colors. Instead of doing a whole cityscape or townscape, just flip it over. Just start adding some colors like in here and create like a stained glass. I mean, you could just sketch out a whole pattern if you wanted to and lay it out. That would be cool. Or you can just randomly pop some colors in. Again, I'm just thinking out loud, so I haven't done this, but it makes sense that it would work. I'm just throwing this down here really, really fast to see what kind of effect happens. But we should know, right? It's basically the same thing we were doing for the sky. Sorry, I'm off this— I know this is off the page. I just want to show you this little window thing. You could really just take your time if you want to sketch out a scene or some kind of cool pattern. If you don't want to be random, you could go for that. This paper does like to curl up. You could buy tracing paper in pads, so you don't need to buy it on the roll like I have. You could buy it in pads and just tear it off. Oh my gosh, this is so therapeutic doing this. This is awesome. I'm like, this is so zenful. I know, wacky, wacky, right? This is actually so much fun. Maybe the marker fumes are getting to me a little too much. It could be the marker fumes. They are strong. Wow. We're gonna chalk it up to creative energy. This is creative energy. You know what, I'm gonna pull a color out. This one looks cool. It was in my thing over there. This is Brick Red. Let's throw down some Brick Red. I know it's 9:03. I said 9 o'clock. Uh-oh.

It's all good.

So this is Brick Red. I haven't used it before on this application. I'll hold this up close so you can see it. I'd say this is looking pretty fun. Ah, let's see, am I getting crazy here? Let's grab I'm gonna grab this color, Slate Green, Slate Green. I'm seeing some kind of whimsical abstract lambs— lamb? Landscape. Not a lambscape, that would be bad. A landscape. Guys, this is really fun. Let me add some more blue up here and I'll show you. Cool. Let me hold it up closer. Alright, so here, this is what it looks like a little closer. So that's a fun little piece, right? So you can maybe create little mini stained glass pieces or something. I think it looks really neat. I mean, if you wanted to come in, I would probably use a Sharpie if I wanted to sketch like the, what do they call it, the lead, the caning. So I'm just sketching this in. Let's say this is some kind of lead caning in your stained glass window. I've always wanted to make a stained glass window, by the way. It's on my list. No, no, maybe, or maybe it does something like this. Uh, I feel like I want something here. Oh, you guys know what color I didn't use tonight? The chrome orange. I totally forgot to put it on here. I guess I know the next color I'm going to break out. It's Chrome Orange. I totally forgot to use it.

Oops.

There you go. I just drew— just kind of represent maybe, you know, very abstract and quick, but maybe stained glass window. This is the lead caning around there. See, I mean, that's another potential project you could do with this kind of Idea. Cool. All right, I got to break in some of this orange now that I forgot to use it. I knew, I knew the sky was missing something. So this is the side with the black. This is the side I want to put the color on.

Oh, there we go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is going to Brighten up sky a little bit. Awesome, there we go. Just want to throw a little bit of this down on here. So that was some, uh, Chrome Orange. Alright guys, so let's take a look. This is the side with the color on it. I'm gonna ask you guys to vote. Let me know which one you like the best. Hey Andrea, how are you? Good to see you. Yeah, yeah, definitely there will be replay, buddy. Stick around, we'll be on for a few more minutes. Thanks for joining. "Genie, water drop look is really wonderful." You know, that is a cool effect on here. Let me just pull this out. Right? You could definitely have tons and tons of fun playing with that.

Good call.

"Beautiful window." Thank you. "Wait till you see my loose abstracts thing I did tonight while being here with you." Oh, kind of different for me. Chris, can't wait to see you. That's going to be awesome. I'm glad you're doing something different. Trying something outside the box. It's like me sketching giraffes. Totally outside the box. Something I need to practice and practice. I love that. Becky, can't wait to see. Yeah, Chris, it's going to be awesome. Definitely show it. So yeah, this is the side with the color marker, so we'll call this side A. I'm looking on camera to see what looks better. And this is side B. Chris, you did a giraffe earlier, nice! I'm sure your giraffe is like a zillion times better than my giraffe and it's in your style, which is awesome. Yeah, I've got to practice my animals. I just— I'll do it. I got to do it. I got to push myself out of my comfort zone. I did work on an elephant today that I started a year ago. Um, so this is side B. We have B, A. I know where my vote is. While we're thinking about that, I'll come back. I'll be right back. Where's my elephant piece? Can't be far. I didn't go far today. I have to really sort out all of my paintings and stuff. I have stuff everywhere in here.

Oh, here.

Yeah, so this is the elephant. This is my, uh, I started this about probably a year ago, very abstract. I found it in my drawer earlier today and this afternoon I came on just really briefly and yesterday or today and I added, I think it was yesterday, I think it was today, I added some fluorescent pink to it just to pull out the elephant form on it. So that was kind of fun. Alright, got some side Bs. Alright, so Side A, so side A, we got Patty says B, Teresa says A. Cool, you made a rose window in one of your buildings. Oh, that sounds awesome. I would love to see that. Side A, we have 2 for side A. Oh, I didn't, I don't think I saw the rhino. I'll have to look for Mr. Rhino. Side C, I like them both. Thanks for— hey, I'm glad you like the elephant. So I'm liking side A. I'm liking side A, and that's the side with the color on it, right? So I'm liking this side better. I just like something about the way the sky is laid out going in this orientation versus flipping it to this side. That's the only reason really. Actually, I also like— I'm not always crazy about the line work for the black. It's kind of mottled. I mean, it's not finished yet. I can come back and add to it. But this way it looks a little more flat, a little more cleaner. I kind of want the sky to be the star of the show. So I want the black to be a little more flat. It's more shiny this way. So I mean, either way. But I would go this way for now. Cool, yeah, so that's a wrap for this one for tonight, for this piece. I'm going to let it sit and I'll probably add more layers, another layer or two tomorrow to it, play around with it. So let's do a little recap. Recap, recap. Sorry I'm going over, guys. I know I said 9, but I'm over by 15. So let's take a look at this. So we started off with— this is our quick loose sketch from tonight. Yeah, I'm left-handed. Seems like the structures look better, Side A. Thank you. "I'm agreeing, side A." Andrea: "Looks like a great little town." Yeah, this looks like a fun place to visit. So this is Inky Inky Night number 5, I think. Number 5. Got a bunch of— I should take them all out and look at them all at one time. It would be fun. "It's 9 o'clock somewhere." Is that true? I'd have to Google that. Is it 9 o'clock somewhere? Could be, could be. I don't have my watch on, so— I do have my computer screen. So this was Inky Inky Night. I hope you guys liked the process of this. Let me know if you enjoyed it. I definitely would be up to doing it again, but maybe trying something more different. Maybe let's do some of these stained glass type of pieces. I think this could be a fun little project. So that's kind of neat. This was the sketch we started with, quick loose sketch, skyline. No surprise there, right? Skyline. More of a rooftop kind of view, water tower, some buildings in the background. And I was playing around with the sky and the background is in graphite. Created, and Becky caught this, created kind of like a stormy kind of scene. Maybe there's rain coming down in it, right? So that was fun to play around with tonight. Is that all I did? Just 2 things? Holy cow, usually I do like 10. Wow, I think that's all I did tonight were these 2 pieces. Talk about restraint. Usually I'm on to like number 4 or something. Oh, we'll count this one. We'll count that as 3. Oh, I did want to test the Sharpie. I wanted to give it time to dry and see what would happen. Yeah, so the Sharpie's dry. It's not blending at all, as you can see. Alright, put down the pen, put down the pen. Actually, I'm putting color on the other side to see if I can make it more intense. I have color on both sides. My brain's like in creative overdrive right now. What would happen if I put color on both sides? Is it going to intensify it? It probably should, right? I'm gonna try that red on here. Oh yeah, it's definitely intensifying it, intensifying it, which is kind of cool. Yeah, there you go. So yeah, I just— this one I just put color on both sides, so it just kind of strengthened it a little bit. So you can definitely just do that as well. All right, so takeaways, guys. As always, leave some takeaways in the box. What did you take away from tonight? Anything fun? Did you learn anything? Any inspiration? Any creative ideas, any tips, anything about life, liberty, and the pursuit of Ben Jerry's. Not just from me, but from you guys, from each other. I'd love to see your feedback and what you got out of our session tonight. It's always fun to look back. My big takeaway is So, well, the one thing, my takeaway with this was the windows on this. I hadn't tried that before. So, you know, just kind of playing around and the idea of sometimes when we're creating art pieces, we talk about adding and adding. Let me show you an example here. We talk about adding and adding layers. If you look at this, this piece I'm just playing around with, I'm adding layers and layers and layers on top. On top of layers, right? So I don't know what it'll become, if anything, but this is about adding layers. But in this case, you can also subtract layers, take things out of your paintings, out of your drawings to create. And that's what we did with these windows. We took the black out. You know, I could have left those spots and not colored them originally. I didn't think about that, but I didn't want to be careful. I didn't wanna be careful and have to draw around each one of those windows with the black. So I just did it all black and erased it out. Kind of, well, kind of wiped it away. So subtraction in art is just as valid as adding and adding layers, right? What markers are you using besides Sharpies? Yeah, oh, yeah, so Andrea, I'm using, these are called Chartpak AD marker. I think the AD might be architectural design, I'm thinking. I could be wrong. If anybody is sensitive to smells and, you know, with materials, these have a very, very, very strong odor to them. Just giving you a warning. Very intense. Becky, never be afraid to experiment with art materials. Yeah, Becky, good one, awesome. Becky, you're always experimenting, trying things, and I love that. Keep moving forward with that. Kim, try more art pieces on tracing paper. Yeah, Kim, give it a shot. I'd love to see what you think. Again, I guess I would say the only drawback with tracing paper is it is really thin and delicate, so you gotta be really careful. So that's the only— my only warning about tracing paper. I'm just looking at this here, I'm like, what can I make out of this? Cool. Learned how my brush pens work on tracing paper, so cool. Tombows don't blend at all, but I have some pastel brush pens that blend in nicely. I make two inky night drawings, one with each type of pen. "Added windows with a silver metallic marker." Ooh, Patti, that sounds fun. Silver metallic marker. Looking in my— I don't have any metallic markers, but that sounds like a cool thing to try. I do have a blender. I actually just pulled out a blender pen. I didn't even know I had this. So I can blend colors together with it. Cool. Hey, Patti, you're welcome. Alright guys, so I am gonna head out of here. Thanks for watching tonight, I really appreciate you all as always. Feel free to spread the word, let's get more people watching. Share the Inky Inky Night Love. Share the Inking Out Loud sessions with everybody. And I will see you, not tomorrow, I'll be back on, I'll pop in during the week. I'm trying to do Wednesdays as a regular time at 7:45 PM Saturdays, so that's where I am right now. But I'll pop in somewhere between now and then. You guys, Tombows blended with the paper, cool. Becky, have a great night too. Hey guys, take care, have a great, great night. Appreciate you all so much. Peace and live creatively. I'll see you real soon. Take care. Have a good one. Now I gotta, what am I gonna do with this piece now? I always have like 2 or 3 things going at the same time, which is cool. Hey, I'm still on, I know. Yeah, so my brain, guys, I'm like always, I always have different things going on. So it's always fun 'cause I switch around different techniques. It's all good. Andrea, what is a Restream bot? I don't have a wrench, LOL. What? Restream bot? I don't have a wrench, LOL? Andrea, that's, that's cool. That's a YouTube thing, right? What is a— I'll have to look into that. Actually, if you, if you can hold on a sec, I have Restream open. Let me see what that means, if I could figure that out. Andrea, I love that you're on YouTube. That's so cool. Let's see if we can get more YouTubers out there watching. YouTube viewers, that would be so awesome. If you could make sure you hit that like button on YouTube, that would be so cool. And maybe we can start getting more YouTube followers. Everyone else has it. Really? Are there other people watching on YouTube that I don't even know about? Hey, if you're on YouTube, give me a shout out, say hello, post a comment, because I can't see how many people are on YouTube. That's interesting. Oh, the tech worlds. I'm actually logging into YouTube right now to see if I can see what you're seeing. Cool. I'm also working on this really big abstract piece. You may have seen me on today for a few minutes working on it. Kind of a drip painting. I have a vision for what I want to turn it into. All right, so I'm on YouTube, YouTube Live. Let me click on here. Oh, I see what you're talking about. Restream bot. Oh, that's interesting. You know what that is, Andrea? The Restream bot is showing you all of the comments It's just an indicator that those comments are coming from Facebook, so you know where they're coming from. I'm pretty sure that's all it means. I use this thing called Restream to broadcast, so it's telling you that Facebook people are commenting and that's where it's coming from. Does that make sense? Thanks for telling me. Yeah, so that's what it is. Is there a way you would rather us watch to build your audience? I can watch anywhere. Hey, Dawn, no, that's a really great question. No, if you guys can just share this, that would be— I would more than appreciate that. Make sure you, you know, if you haven't liked my Inspired Life Facebook page, make sure you like it. And you could also, when I'm live, there should be a bell icon on the screen now. If you click the bell, get notifications to me. Yeah, just share it out there. That'd be great. I think the more likes and stuff I get, the more people might start to see this in their feed. So thank you for asking. I appreciate that. You know, I started on Facebook, but I've been wanting to play around on YouTube as well to see if I can get people from there too. So it's all fun. It's not really— honestly, it's not really about the number of people. It's just the quality of— you guys have been amazing. I can't ask for more support than you guys have been doing and your positive comments. I just hope I'm contributing back to that and feeding into that as well because that's my goal. I just want to have fun and just create some— just do something positive and share something positive with the world. I think we're all doing that together, which is so much fun. I don't feel bad. You don't feel bad anymore. Yeah, so that's what it is. I think you are the only one on YouTube though. That's okay, but I'm so glad you're out there. Yeah, stay on YouTube, and I'm glad you can see the comments. Hey, everybody on Facebook, can you see Andrea's comments? Andrea? I'm going to keep mixing it up. Andrea? Andrea? I think you can see her comments, right? That's interesting. So this piece, while I have it out, this is acrylic ink and acrylic paint that's kind of just mixed on top of each other. This is kind of just a play with different color combinations. My favorite part— I always like to pick out a favorite part of each piece. My favorite part right now is what's happening in here. Happening here and kind of what's happening down in this area. Pretty fun. Hey, Becky, have a great night. Take care. I think I said that. Am I off with the comments? Yeah, no, I'm sorry, I'm reading old comments. I'm all over the place. How did I get back up there? The comments just scrolled up. Don't know. This is like the meeting after the— yes, I know, I'm going on. It's like the meeting after the meeting. For sure. Oh, okay, so you guys cannot see Andrea's comments. All right. All right, that I have to figure out. So Andrea, you can see everybody's comments, but they all cannot see yours. All right, thank you for telling me, guys. I appreciate it. Peace and live creatively. I'll see you guys soon. Oh, this is so much fun. You guys are awesome. I got down the tech path. It's because I'm drinking decaf coffee. I feel hyper.

Bye guys.

Thanks again. I'm just trying to find the off button here. Yeah, the after party. Woohoo! I so wish I could play music that you guys could hear. Alright, take care guys. I found the finish button. I'll see you soon. Enjoy your Sunday.