The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, I'm back. I got booted. I think my internet kicked off for a minute there. Sorry about that. My internet decided it wanted to take a nap. But I'm back. Thanks for coming back. I don't even know how long I was booted for. I just looked up and noticed it said internet connection was lost. So I'm sorry guys, little tech glitch. So I don't know what the last thing you saw was, but I did add some blue on here. I found this marker, haven't really used it too much, and I just wanted to— I just saw it in my container over there, I just wanted to pull it out and see what it did, what it looked like. Let's see, what else do I want to do to this? Let's break out Mr. Sharpie. I'm just adding some lines in here. I just want to add a little bit of shadow or some something underneath these roof overhangs just to give a little depth to it. I'm going to flare this roof out, kind of curve shape to it. There we go. So we got a little curve going on. Boom. So welcome back, guys. I'm sorry, we got Booted! Internet said I need to take a break, but we are back. It's all good. I'm just putting some hatching lines on here just to give a little shadow play to it, rough it up a little bit. Add some texture to it. I like the idea of this gate. I think this gate's kind of fun concept. I like the circles. It almost, to me, is an abstract— abstract flowers maybe kind of growing. So there you go, we have our Got a castle going, guys. Hey, hey, no, it was— I think it was me, guys. I think I got booted. So hopefully the recording saved. We'll find out if Facebook saved it. Hey, Don, I'm glad you like it. Yeah, it was your idea to do a castle, so thank you for that, that inspo. I appreciate it. Okay, I'm liking this one. I don't think I'm going to add too much more to it. I do want to put a date. So when I look back, I remember when I sketched it. Sign up here. All right, there we go. We have a nice little castle. Who lives in this castle? Hmm, I wonder who lives here. Who lives in this castle far, far away? I kind of want to extend this out onto the next page. Cool. Yeah, I think this one's good. I don't really— I don't know if I want to add any more to it. I like the way it's kind of just a blue roof, roofs, roofs, and the castle shape. Hey Chris, castle looks great just as is. To me. Thanks, Chris. Yeah, I think it's good. I like it too. I don't want to overdo it, right? That was a fun little sketch tonight, guys. All right, cool. I'm gonna take a look at the first thing we worked on and see if that dried, and then we're gonna wrap up. So this was that other sketch we did tonight, the perspective. It's dried. I like this too. I'm not gonna do any more to this one. Then, um, where's the other one? Here we are. So this is what we started with. This was kind of the warm-up tonight, playing around with some graphite, some sepia, some watercolor markers, and I think that was it. Yeah, I think that's all we used. I have my binder clip, let me just clip this down. Cool. So I just— I think I want to add just a little bit more to this one, and I'll call this one a day. Um, my brush— take my water brush. Actually, I want to take this, my 3/4-inch brush. I'm just brushing water on there and then take my graphite stick, just kind of run it over where I put the water, and it's just going to dissolve, you know, like watercolor paint. It's just going to kind of dissolve, and I just like the effect it leaves behind. Just to make— try to make like a little horizon line. Something across there. My horizon does kind of dip off a little bit. That's okay. I didn't use a ruler to make it perfectly straight. It adds to the wonkiness. That looks pretty good. And I think I just want to pull out maybe the shape of the boat a little bit more in the foreground, so I'm going to just darken around the edges just to pop it from the background. Sorry, while I'm doing this, uh, I'm trying to put— Alright, so I'm just gonna darken or pull out the sail, sailboat. And we'll use that, I think I'll try the sepia brush for this. Right, just kind of by darkening it, it's just pulling that out from the background a little bit more. I don't want to be a perfect line. Just trying to create some ripples. Just to indicate that this is water here. A little bit of movement to it. Mm-hmm. I like the title. I don't remember who said, um, like, the end of the earth or something. That was— that, that's sticking in my brain when you guys were talking about this earlier. End of the earth. I like that. It really resonated. Something about it resonates to me with this piece. You know, is this a sailboat that's gone off course? Is it headed on out on a new adventure? Is it sailing to the end of the earth? Maybe Venturin is leaving this city port headed out to new territories, or I don't know. All kinds of stories could be made up about this, right? What's your story? What would you think is happening here in the scene? I'm gonna add a little touch of yellow to this cell, maybe just a little hint that the sun here is kind of hitting this shape. I don't want to cover it all— I mean, color it all orange, orange-yellow. I should know my colors by now, right? Orange, yellow. It's kind of orangey yellow in there. Yeah, so you see I just wanted to put a little bit of orange in there, pull it out. Cool. Yeah, so this was the warm-up sketch. I'm actually, I'm really, it's growing on me. It's interesting because when I first started painting tonight, I believe I had the sketchbook oriented in this direction. If you watch the replay, you'll see I started in this direction and as I was working on it, I like to look at things from different perspectives, viewpoints. I just kind of rotated it. And when I rotated it, that's when I saw this and I'm like, "Oh, maybe this is some kind of a sunset or something happening here." And that's what kind of developed— how this developed from that shape being here, circle, turning it sideways, and then doing the horizon and sketching buildings and something like that. I'll have to go back and watch it. Cool. All right, let me check in with you guys in the comments. I think this piece is— I think it's in its home state here, its final stages. I don't know if I want to do too much more to it right now. Kind of like it the way it is. Awesome. Alright, we're gonna leave that one as is for now. Sign it though, the date, so I don't forget to do that. Lately I've been forgetting to put dates on things. It's always fun to come back and look. Sign it over here. I always like to put a little heart and then I write my name. I just put the year so we have that piece signed so I can just come back and take a look at it. Cool. All right, let me look at the comments and we'll get ready to say goodbye because I'm definitely logging out at 9 tonight. Why does time go so fast? Because it's so much stinking fun. Yes, I just did say that. Alright, let me see, what do we got on the screen here as far as comments go? I used, Heather saying, "I'd like," hey Heather, "I'd like to know too, I use gel pen but not thrilled with it for white." I have to scroll up a little bit. No worries, so, okay, these guys talk about the white. What I'm using to do white— I don't know if I'm answering, if I'm joining in the right conversation here or not, but I'm going to put my two cents in because I want to. So when I, when I did these sketches, this is my, um, this is my waiting in the COVID vaccination line sketch. They took over the Sears in one of our malls over here and Cause here's closed up, that's where the vaccination site is. So I was outside sketching. But anyway, when I created this, I used— I think maybe I just saw someone write that on there. I used the Uni-ball Signo pen. So I'm really, I really like this pen a lot for doing white stuff. I also— what else did I get? Because Michaels is right there by where I got to get— before I went to get my shots, I went to Michaels right there and said, "Let me buy some stuff because I'll be in line for a while, maybe." So I bought this pen. I love it. I also bought this one. What is it called? This is a Pentel Milky Pop. I love the name. Milky Pop. Um, let's see, I have a little test piece I can kind of do here. So on this test piece, this was a pretty decent pen as well, the Milky Pop. I also bought an Art Crayon. Which I played around a little bit with on here in the background. The last thing I bought— yeah, you know, I had a gift card. Most of the gift card covered this, which was good. The other thing I bought was a paint pen, Uni Posca. It's a paint pen, you gotta shake it up, and that's what this line work is done with here. Comes out very intense. So I use that as well, but I have to say my favorite white pen so far is this one. It's the Uni-ball Signo. Hope that helps. Hope I was responding to the right comments. Uh, ch-ch-chew. Jelly Roll, yeah, I haven't used that. I heard Jelly Rolls are okay. I haven't used them. Yeah, so this does take a few minutes to dry when you put it down, so just beware of that when you're using it. It's easy to smudge. I'm gonna find Jen Pal, Jen— gel pen. Try not to talk too fast. Uniball, this glop— so are you guys talking about this one glopping? I'm curious. I've had— so far I've had luck with this one. I've only used it honestly just a couple of times so far. Cool, there's something happening here. What is— ain't exactly clear. I know that song. What's that song? There's something Stop something, look around. Stop everybody, look around. Am I right? Am I on the right song? Stop. Something like that. You guys are awesome. Hey, Don, I think Posca makes an ultra ultra fine white paint pen. Oh, cool. I didn't know that. Yeah, this is not the fine one by any means. Yeah, this is the— it just says bullet-shaped on it. That's cool to know. You bought it but it was a brush tip which could make tiny dots when I didn't want them and dots the size of M&Ms when I didn't. Well, I like dot size, you know, that are M&Ms. 'Cause who doesn't like M&Ms? Now I'm hungry. I love M&Ms. How do you keep the— that way looks really good on the black paper, Jason Nicholas Nicholas. Thank you, yeah, this was a fun little piece. This paper is from here. It's just a black mixed media pad. Strathmore, 15 sheets of paper in case you want to know. It comes in French and Spanish. Multilingual. Field trip for white pens. There you guys go. Yeah, take a white pen field trip. How do you get the Uni-ball gel flowing? Mine all don't seem to flow well and is consistent across pens. Huh. Hey, Don, that's a very good question. I don't— that's a really good question. I have to say that hasn't happened. Let me try it now before I speak. So here, I haven't used it in a while. Let's try it. Yeah, I don't know. This is coming out pretty easily on here. It's a good question. I'll look into that and get back to you. Sharpie, oil-based, interesting. Yeah, Buffalo Springfield, you're right, I think it is Buffalo Springfield. Yeah, yeah, cool. Glad I didn't try to sing it. I know the song but I don't know the words. I know I can visualize that song on the Muppet Show, I think. For some reason I picture it being on The Muppet Show and the Muppets singing it. Cool. Hey guys, so it's 9 o'clock. I'm gonna wrap up. Yeah, so that's— I'm not sure. I'm actually looking at this little sketch I did. You guys are awesome. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for coming back after my internet dropped out. That was kind of weird. I don't know what happened. You guys are awesome. I appreciate you all so much. If you want, you know, if you can leave some comments or feedback, I mean, or takeaways from tonight, just something you learned or something you enjoyed. Yeah, let me know in the comments. Did you learn something from each other? Were you inspired by each other? I always love to read the comments and see what you guys are thinking and feeling and experiencing, right? So, I don't know, I'm like cleaning stuff up in here. It's weird. You guys are awesome, so I appreciate you so much. I appreciate all your support. If you have any questions or comments, leave them here, or you can always message me here on Facebook. I try to answer stuff. I sometimes do miss comments or questions. I try to do the best I can. Thank you guys, you are awesome so, so much. Oh, it was a Vietnam War protest song. Interesting, I really didn't know that. Didn't know that. Hey Julie, how are you? Am I going to be on tomorrow night? Tomorrow is Friday. So I might come on, and if I come on, it'll be before Roo. I know Roo is on tomorrow night. So he's on, I think, 8:57, right? So if I come on, it would probably be around 7:45, and maybe I'll do like a little warm-up before Mr. Roo has his thing. So yes, I'm planning on being here tomorrow night. Probably around 7:30, 7:45-ish. So thank you for asking. Appreciate it. I'm too young. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate it. I'm not as young as I look. No, I'm kidding. You guys are awesome. We got the ages going here. Should I give a free sketch to the person with the highest number for their age? Hey, that would be kind of fun. That would be interesting. Hmm. I don't want you guys to tell your ages. The opening act. Yeah, Ru does not need an opening act. He is the opening, he is the show, he is the closing, he's the after, after show, the after show party. He is awesome. Awesome, awesome. I can only hope to be be as engaging and inspiring as he is one day. He is a mentor to me for sure. So that's so funny though. I could actually, I could do like a little improv warm-up or something. Maybe he'd go for that. That'd be so cool. Hey Inklins, hey Patty, no worries. Yeah, so I'll be back. Oh, the ages are going in the group here. 68's winning so far, Melinda's winning. 68 so far. I'll check later, I'll check tomorrow. If anybody wants to keep adding your age, go for it. You guys are awesome, I appreciate you so much. So my takeaway, I always like to leave with at least one takeaway. Here's my takeaway, something that I try to remind myself. You know, don't get so set in your ways and keep looking at things in the same perspective, the same viewpoint. The examples with this, you know, when I started this tonight, it was oriented this way. I didn't know what it was going to be. And, you know, I said, you know, let's just turn it around and look at it from a different view. So I turned it. And not that I wasn't trying to create anything. Sometimes I just do abstract and just lines. But I did turn it sideways and then I had this thing that popped into my head, a vision. So always, you know, look at your art, play with it, look at it from different angles, turn it around. You know, look at it upside down. Look at it from different angles. Hold it up to the camera. Hold it, look at it from different perspectives, you know? Different viewpoints. You know, if I hold it this way, it looks pretty awesome. It's a very distorted perspective of it, right? Versus if we look down at it this way. So be open-minded. Look at the world in different ways, not just your artwork. Look at people in different ways. Look at the world around you in different ways. It's Earth Day. Look at how beautiful it is. Even the most mundane, simple things in life can sometimes be the most beautiful. On that happy note, you guys are awesome! I see a 101 in there. I don't know if we need to verify. Do we need to fact-check that number? You guys are awesome. Thank you so much. Have a great, great night. Peace and live creatively. I hope to see you guys tomorrow night. That would be so cool. Take care. Happy Earth Day. I wish I had some Ben Jerry's to celebrate Earth Day, but I just, I don't have any. That's okay. See you guys. Take care. You guys are awesome. Be well. Finish button. End broadcast. We're out of here.