The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey there, guys. Hope you're doing well tonight. Hope you're having a great, great Great Thursday. Happy Earth Day. Every day should be Earth Day, but today is the official Earth Day. So I hope you did something eco-friendly, environmentally friendly. I'm just looking for the cap for this. Yeah, so maybe you picked up some litter somewhere, or you made sure to throw your stuff in the trash, planted a flower, did something to celebrate our beautiful planet we live on, right? So hope you're having a great day. I was so into it, I don't know where I put the Captivus. That's okay, I'll find it. It's here somewhere. So I'm just randomly sketching, drawing, painting, whatever comes to my mind. Nothing in particular, as always. So hey, Don and Janice, Barbara, Donna, good to see you all. I appreciate you popping in and taking a peek at what's going on. Put that here for now. So I'm just gonna add— I'm just playing around with some lines, some different colors on this piece. I want to do some drawing on it. I don't know, it might be too wet for my pen, so break out a little sepia brush here and play with it maybe. Little sketch, I don't know, maybe some kind of a water scene with Maybe some kind of a sailboat or something here, some buildings in the background. Yeah, I'm just, just playing around, just having some fun here. Cool. A little piece. Hey, good evening. So, sailing into sun, maybe. Yeah, maybe sailing into the sun could be. Definitely Janice. Um, the end of the earth. Yeah, maybe, maybe Heading to the end of the earth. I love your adventurous minds, guys. Hey, Linda, hello! Special shout out to Linda. Thank you, Linda, for that awesome, awesome, awesome times infinity surprise I received today. Thank you so much. I don't even know what to say. My heart is pounding right now. Thank you so much. You made my day, you and Izzy. I love Izzy's sketches, her drawings, they were amazing, inspirational, and your flower you sent, I'm looking at it right there, is incredible. Thank you. Plus your other little special gift, I am going to make sure that goes towards the kids in school, so I really, really, really, really appreciate it so much. Thank you, thank you from my heart. It meant so much to me. Wow, incredible. You guys are all incredible. I thank everybody for tuning in and always being supportive and polite and fun. So it doesn't get better than this, guys. So thank you. I appreciate it so much. So, so, so much. Pay it forward, guys. I love what I'm seeing. I'm seeing people paying it forward with your creativity. Positivity, just your kind words. It's all about paying it forward in positive ways. And I can't think of a better group of people, better community that exemplifies that. Incredible, incredible stuff, guys. And that's what keeps me coming back. You know, I pop on more and more than I used to. I owe a lot of it to you guys for inspiring me, so thank you so much. This is cool. I kind of like some of your titles, your ideas on there. The Sun, The End of the Earth. That's kind of a feel to it, maybe. It's a cool little piece. I'm going to let it dry a little bit and I might add some more to it. It's kind of a little damp right now, so I'm going to put this aside, I'll come back. So I'm gonna wrap at 8:30 tonight. 8:30. Oh, so I got like 23 minutes. Just looking around, what do I want to pull out here? I have my— I have a sketchbook. I'm just gonna do some, maybe just some simple, simple— we'll keep it a little simple, maybe some pen sketches tonight. I'm gonna let this dry, so let's move that. I have a nice I have a sketchbook next to me. One of many sketchbooks. I have sketchbooks scattered all over. I gotta really organize this place. So this is my Batman sketchbook. I am a huge Batman fan, in case you guys didn't know that. This is a project I actually had laser engraved with a laser cutter at school. One of the projects that we do in school is I give all my architecture students— get a sketchbook. This is actually last year's, we have a different one this year. But— and they get to design their own cover and they get to use our laser cutter engraver and they can laser their own designs on the COVID of the books. It's really cool. Unfortunately, the laser cutter is out of operation right now, but we'll get it fixed up and running. And we really didn't actually get to do this project this year due to virtual learning, hybrid learning. It's just been such a wonky, crazy school year. But I am hoping we're back to normal in September and we'll be back in my regular classroom where we have access to all this cool tech. Let me just clear some things out here. Let's just do, uh, let's just do some sketches. This is a cool little marker. This is a fun little pen marker sketch I did one day of a fish at the bottom of the sea somewhere. This is from 2019. Little Beauty and the Beast type of sketch. Some little interior perspectives. Here's some cool little buildings I sketched in here. This is some just kind of abstract scene maybe. Oh, I think it's an abstract desert kind of scene. There's some cactus, cacti in here. And there's some other things here. Nido! Hello, hello, Janice. Thank you, Nido. Yes, Donna, awesome, good question. The class, the first class is going to be on May 18th. 1st. That is a Saturday, and it's going to be at 7:30 PM. So I'm going to be sending an email out early next week, probably Monday. Um, it'll have information on how to access it. We're going to have a private Facebook group, uh, so I'll send you an email and I'll let you know the schedule and how to get into the private Facebook group. Facebook group. So it's not up and running yet. I'm gonna open it up a few days before we get rolling. Hopefully that answers your question. Melinda, yes, is there a supply list to your class? I'm probably missing— yeah, Melinda, there is a supply list. Great, great question. I will— I'm gonna make a note right here and I will make sure you get it. It's a PDF download. And the supply list is only recommendations. As long as if you bring a pen, pencil, paper, we're gonna get a little bit into color, you know, a little bit of that. So I'll make a note and I'll make sure you get the PDF for that. Cool. Yeah, if you guys have any questions, let me know about the workshop coming up in May. Feel free if you wanna invite friends, that would be awesome. So let's see, Melinda, I'm gonna put MMPDF just so I remember.

Cool.

Yeah, it'll be a fun workshop. So the workshop's gonna be 4 sessions and it's gonna be about loose style sketching, but the main subject's gonna be architecture. So, you know, well, here's an example just in this book. You know, I'll be, you know, showing you guys how to create loose style sketches, architecture. So we'll be doing some of this. The first class will be basically some mindset stuff, some how to loosen up. We're gonna talk about lines and how different lines tell different stories. You guys may have heard me talk about that a little bit before. And then we're going to get into creating architectural buildings, just talking about the forms and shapes. The third session, we're going to get more into adding details to the sketches. So details like windows and doors and lighting and materials, you know, stonework, wood siding, metal siding. So that will be the third class. And in the fourth one, we're gonna do some perspective. I'm gonna explain to you, you know, how I like to create quick, loose style perspectives. We're not gonna get into any technical mathematical proportions or anything. That would be an entire course unto itself. But I'll give you just some tips about perspectives. So it's just a general overview of what we're gonna be doing in these four sessions. Cool. Awesome. So, uh, great, Don, I'm glad to hear that. So, um, yeah, of course the workshop should be fun. Um, I also have the chance, if anybody's interested in the workshop, during the workshop— sorry, I'm plugging this, but hope you guys are cool with that. Not plugging, just want to talk about it. Um, during the workshop, I have the opportunity to maybe, um, invite on screen I think up to 4 people. So I could give you a link, and if you wanted to come on screen during our, our workshop, our session, and maybe talk and show what you're doing, you can do that live. I would just have to invite you on to the live Facebook Meet. So, uh, we'll be talking more about that as well. So that's— that would be fun. I haven't done that before. It'd be worth— it'd be kind of cool to do. And of course, we'll have the private group Facebook group page where you can post your work. Everybody can see it, everybody can comment it in a positive, inspiring, creative community. Be yourself, no experience needed. We're there to have fun and just, uh, promote each— not promote each other, inspire each other. So that's it. So that's the workshop, guys. If you have any questions, let me know. It'll be fun. Right now we have a nice number, small group. We have about 10 people signed up, so it'll be cool. There's plenty of room for more. Yeah, hi Kim, how are you? Yes, the classes are in the evening. They're going to be at 7:30 PM starting Saturday, May 1st, and then I think it was 7th to the 8th, so May 1st, May 8th, May 15th, and the last one is May 22nd. They'll be recorded like Facebook Lives. We'll have the recordings in the group. I'm going to leave that group page open for, I don't know, maybe a month or so after. It'll be up and running so that recordings will be in there. You can always go back and watch them. Keep posting stuff and If it becomes very active and popular, maybe we'll keep it up even longer. Cool. So thank you for you guys signing up. I'm excited. It's kind of the first workshop I've ever done. I do these things all the time, you know, live, but I'll try not to be so scatterbrained. Although that's kind of the fun, right? Jumping all over the place. But I'll try to be a little more instructional, let's say. It's not going to be very rigid. And uptight because that's not my style. It's going to be very loose, just relaxing atmosphere. Cool, guys. Hey, I talked so much, I think this is dry. So what do I want to do on this? I wanted to add a little more, I think, blue or something down here. Actually, it's still too wet, so let's bring out the sketchbook. So I have my little Batman logo sketchbook. Linda, you're having a crazy school year as well. Yeah, right? It's been interesting to say the least. I could talk all night about it. I'm sure you could too. It's been interesting and ups and downs for parents, for teachers, for students, for everybody. It's been a real roller coaster ride. All right, so I just have my sketchbook here, regular sketchbook, pretty thin paper. It's not really watercolor paper. More just for drawing, pen and pencil. So let's do some sketching, guys. I'm sorry, I'm so— you know me and music, I always love it. One of these days I'll play it on air and I can afford to buy the rights to some of the stuff. All right, let's sketch. I don't— I'm I'm thinking if I want to actually—

what do I want to do?

I don't know if I want to be loosey-goosey, like crazy crazy, or do I want to try to do something a little more focused. I'm just looking around my room, looking at books or things maybe for inspiration, for images. You know what? I'm feeling kind of loosey-goosey, guys. But I'll try to be a little more— well, you'll see. We'll just draw. I'm talking way too much, I apologize. It's because I'm hyper and excited and I had that— it's just been a great day. It's been a really good day. Actually, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to just do a little of my little perspective sketches I do. Let's see if I can get this a little closer for you guys. So I'm just gonna draw a frame. I like to draw— do little frames for perspectives and keep it pretty small. Not that I stay in the frame, just gives me kind of a starting point. I don't know what I'm gonna draw in the frame yet. I'm just playing around with some shapes on here. I'm listening to Batman music, so my brain is in Gotham City right now. That's kind of where my pen is going. Just thinking some kind of skyline, city building-ish, maybe. Sorry, it's really small, guys. Let me get down a little closer for you. There we go. My hand is, my hand is probably huge right now on screen. Sorry about that. I'm just a little perspective here. I got some line work. Going on, and we'll see what comes together. I'll check the comments in a sec or two. Alright, I'm gonna add some, maybe some sepia in the background just to pull out some shapes. Yeah, yeah, uh, no, don't teach a thing about your style of teaching. Thank you, Don. Do a castle. Oh, I could do a castle thing. Yes, you know what, Donna, since you asked, I'm going to ask some CP here and I will do a castle. I'm going to do a little castle. That'll be fun. Oh, this is the fine point. This has a really small point on it. I like to use the wider one. If I use this really fine point, I start thinking in too much detail. I like to go with wider brushes because I really just want to add a wash on here. So this, this paper really isn't meant for like watercolor or acrylic painting, but you know what, I'm gonna do it anyway. Just don't— I can't make it too, too wet. I did have a sepia marker I could use.

It's okay.

So by adding this color, the sepia, in the background, I'm just kind of— you can probably see I'm just pulling some shapes out. So things are starting to pop out here and there a little bit. Here we go. So you can kind of see things popping out. I have some building kind of silhouette in the background. This is actually some kind of a rooftop sign going on over here on the left. At least that's kind of what I'm picturing in my head. There we go. I like doing these small vignette type of sketches. Not a lot of detail. It's more about forms and shapes. Letting your imagination wander. You want to add a little bit more on here. I'm just gonna add some black in here just to maybe pull out some window kind of shapes going on here. We have some windows going on over on this side. I'm not— you can see I'm not drawing like all the window frames or anything. I'm just I'm putting black, black lines on here just to kind of pull out some rectangular windows, just to give a hint of what's going on. You know, I'm not worried about the scale right now or the size of things. This isn't really an architectural detail study. It's more of a, uh, conceptual idea. There's a piece that comes across here, and we're actually looking at There's a piece of a rooftop in here. I'm gonna put more CP on here. I want to pull the shape out a little bit more. I just want to extend this, this kind of building down more, so I'm adding sepia around it. So the eye kind of makes it look like it's going down more. Oops, I'm trying to put my marker cap on here. That doesn't work. Silly me. Some horizontal lines, some, you know, a picture, maybe there's a roof. Top or something that comes across here. I'll just put some horizontal lines just to indicate there's just some kind of a surface going on here. Yes, this paper gets wet really easily because I put a little hole in there. It's not really meant for adding water. Cool. So there we go, we have just a little perspective scene. Buildings, something taller in the background. This is— the idea for this is maybe there's some kind of a rooftop sign going up here on top of the building. There you go. Uh, ba ba ba ba. Hello everybody, just looking at the comments. Duke Castle, watching but not listening at the moment. Hey Jason, everyone. Hey Patty, how are you? Watching but not listening, that's okay. Hey, if I could take one, that's okay. I'd rather have one than not both. That makes sense. I'm so glad you're watching. Tambralee, hey, good to see you. Kim, sepia is so classy. Ooh, Kim, I like that. Sepia is so classy. I love sepia. Sepia, sepia. Absolutely. So I love that comment. Actually, it sounds like it could be like a t-shirt or something. Sepia is classy. I like that. Abasipia Design Studios. I like that. Janice, 7:30. Hey, Janice. 7:30 PM. Yes, that's the workshop time. Yeah, on Saturday, starting Saturday, May 1st, will be 7:30 PM. I can always tell when it's like after 8, my brain like starts ratcheting down. It's pretty fun. "You need to take your artwork and make a calendar for next year." Donna, ooh, that's a cool idea, a calendar. What kind of calendar? Should I make a calendar with urban cityscape stuff? Or should I do a, this will tie into what we're gonna do next. Should I do a calendar that has more of the cottagey type things? Just pulling out a couple here. Cottagey type of calendar. These are my two go-to things right now. Skyline city, urban stuff I love, and cottagey stuff I'm working on. Right, we had this castle from the other day. Got this one here as well. So these are— I'm hoping to create a book with these. I'm working on it. That's why I'm creating all these pieces. So let me know. Yeah, that's a great idea. I'd love to make a calendar. I'd be interested to know what topic you guys would like. Nice, nice. Melinda Eastern. Eastern Eye. Eastern. I know Eastern, like West, is Eastern as in opposite of Western? Sometimes I like jump in on conversations or comments late in the game. So if I'm, I'll have to go back through and read them. It's always fun to go back and read what you guys wrote. Hey Chris, good to see you. Donna, you love the house, it's good. Linda, mix both type of sketches. So maybe some urban stuff and some of the cottage stuff. That could be really cool. I like that idea. Eastern time zone. Oh, Melinda, thank you. Yeah, Eastern time zone. Yep. Perfect. I appreciate you telling me. There was another question. Registration closed, Kim. Registration is open. I will leave it open till you can literally register till like 2 days before the class if it starts on May 1st. 1st, 2 or 3 days before. Yeah, so you have some time. So the class is— I'm charging $40 and doing $10 a class. So hopefully I feel— hopefully that's a reasonable price for you guys. Mix— yes, I'll mix both.

Cool.

Alright, let's do a little castle sketch. Okay, so you can see this paper is really, it's thin paper meant just for sketching and I, uh, missed a hole in there. It's good, it adds, the hole adds to the grunge effect. I'm gonna grunge-ify this one. Alright, so continuing our Batman sketchbook. I am going to sketch a castle. I have my favorite office supply besides pens. The binder clip. Why do I love them? Because I can do this. Just clip my page down. I'm gonna put this up a little bit. Alright. Alright, let's do a little castle thingy. Put some castle music on. What would be good castle music? I have no idea. Oh, you know, let's put some, um, Soundgarden. It's not really castle music, but I like their music. Cool. I figured Earth Day, Soundgarden, tie it together somehow. I'm gonna do sketch with, I'm gonna try to start with my favorite sketch pen, is a Pilot Precise.

V7.

I also have my other favorite, which is a Uni-ball Vision Elite.

Alright, here we go.

Chris did an awesome castle sketch. I'm sure you guys saw her post. Chris, you're Your castle was awesome, I loved it. Nice job. So, I'm just making a wonky castle here, or they've been planning it. When I think castles, I think turrets. I think turret with, you know, these steep roof lines on them here. So I'm almost starting with kind of a roof form on here. I'm going to show a bunch of little tall pitch roofs, maybe. We'll add another one. I'm just going to keep— I'm going to add a bunch on here just for fun and see what happens. So you can see I'm thinking about it because I'm not being as loose as I usually am. Sometimes I like being this way, sometimes I don't. Here we go. So when I think castle, I think roof form, right? I think towers. I think for me, in my brain, I always like to step the walls kind of out a little bit. The base, they flare out. Picture a sandcastle, right? When you look at a sandcastle— did I just say sand? When you look at a sandcastle— it's like I said it weird. And some people are amazing. The sand sculptures are amazing. But think of a sandcastle.

Right?

There's not usually tons and tons of detail. It's about form and shape. You know what, I'm just gonna draw— let's just draw a big— like the Disney castle has that big portcullis archway gateway on it. I'm not looking at the Disney logo now, but I know it has something like that going on in the base. Let's do some kind of cool pattern in the gate. Maybe we'll do something like this. We'll do another arch at the bottom. Maybe this kind of ironwork, some kind of circles here.

There we go.

So we have some kind of cool gate going on. There's more ironwork coming in like here. Right, it's our world, our imagination. I love castles, fairy tales. We can let our imagination go wherever it wants to go. Let's exaggerate like a keystone on here. Let's just draw some big keystone, just— Another thing I like to do to make my castles and cottages is to make them wonky. Is exaggerate the proportions of things, you know? Make it fictional, make it unbelievable. I almost said ridiculous, but not ridiculous isn't the right word. Make it just fantasy, right? Just play with it. I'm not trying to recreate one of the beautiful castles in the Rhine Valley, although I'd love to go visit it sometime. That would be awesome. This is just kind of a castle in my imagination. Alright, so I have some forms. You can see, right, kind of the shapes. Hopefully it looks like a castle on your end and you can see the pointy roofs or roofs. I'm going to add a little bit of— I have a sepia marker. I'm going to add this to it. Actually, no. You know what, I'm gonna go a little, I'm gonna go a little Disney on you guys. I'm going to go a little Disney. I'm going to pull out some blue and add some blue to the roof turrets here. I'm just going to sketch in some kind of stonework at the base. Again, I'm exaggerating the shapes because I really