The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey, D-Ray, hope you're doing well. Thanks for popping on. Hey Deborah, good to see you. Dear, good to see you guys. I am popping on really, really late here on a Friday night, just, uh, winding down before bedtime. And inking out loud, just throwing down some ink on paper. I don't know what's gonna happen, but, uh, just want to do some, uh, fun sketching before I go to bed tonight. Let me change a couple things on screen, make this smaller here. There we go. Boom. So I appreciate you guys watching. So hope everybody has had a good Friday. As we wind down this Friday here in New Jersey, at least had a, uh, crazy day. Wet rain, sleet, ice, crazy weather. And unfortunately we didn't have school today, which was a good thing. And no snow, which is another good thing. No shoveling on a snow day. I like that. So I'm just using my Lamy pen with black ink right now. I was using a graphite stick. Uh, I'm actually gonna open up— I have some of this really awesome ink I loving lately. It's Walnut colored ink. Yeah, I'm gonna throw some of that down. Uh, happy Friday here too. Snowed yesterday and last night, but in the low 20s. Yowch, that is— that's cold. I think our temperatures— I don't know what they were actually, to be honest with you. I think they were up in the upper 30s here today. Walnut, yeah, walnut. This is a walnut, um, ink, walnut drawing ink by Daniel Smith. Um, just started using it this week actually, and I'm loving it. I just realized I got some acrylic paint on my graphite stick. I'm trying to figure out why it's not sketching because the acrylic ink is on there, so I'm gonna just scrape some of that off with a knife. I mean, I do have the other side I could use, but I like using in the side is kind of jaggedy. I'm just grabbing X-Acto knife and we'll just carve off some of this acrylic ink on here. I'll show you. There we go. I think I got some of it. Let's try it now. Hey Linda, good to see you. Hope all is well. We'll go nutty over this walnut. I love that D-Ray's breaking out the puns. Gotta love it. And I know Linda's in the house and Kim. Oh man, uh, D-Ray, Kim, and Linda, this is dangerous. The puns are going to be flying left and right. I don't even think I'm going to step into the competition, not tonight. You guys are, you guys are awesome with your quick whip. Yeah, just so fun. To hear you guys, see your words going back and forth. Had a lot of fun yesterday with the whole, I think it was the baking puns, the bread puns. That was fun. So when I did improv, when I was with the improv troupe, I guess we did it for like 6 years or something. That was my my shtick was the, the pun guy. I was definitely the pun guy. I'll have to dig up some— I think I have some footage on YouTube somewhere. If you guys want to see some old footage on YouTube of me doing improv, I was not the best one in the group. It was all new to me, but it was still fun. Let me know, I'll see if I can pull up some links sometime. You guys can watch some improv skits. Used to have a lot of fun doing that. So I'm sketching this. This is looking like maybe some kind of ruin, temple, maybe somewhere. I'm gonna blot some of this out a little bit right in here. I think it's looking kind of cool. Uh, did I miss much? No, I— so Kim, I just popped on really late, maybe 10 minutes ago, so I'm on very, very late tonight. Linda reminds me of the Harding Memorial here in Mariam. Oh, interesting. That is so cool. I have to take a Google. Take a Google— is that even an expression? I'm gonna have to take a Google to see if I can see the monument. I guess it's an expression now. It's all good, we're amongst friends. I don't teach— I don't teach language arts, so it's all good. I love this music. It's all kind of random tunage going on here, epic pieces. Um, yes, let's see the footage. Yeah, all right, Kim, you got it. I'll break it out. I have to find it. It's, um, oh yeah, I think we had a few things on YouTube. I'll have to look. It was off— we were called Off Book Improv. Off Book Improv. I honestly don't even know if it's still up there or not. I'll definitely try to post them up. Oh my goodness, the bread baking puns, yes, that's so funny. No, he's just cooking sketching. I am— now I am cooking sketching, there you go. It's one of the reasons I stopped doing improv is it took so much time, a lot of rehearsals and meeting. And I wanted to do more of this stuff, sketching and painting. And that's one of the reasons I stopped doing it. It just became a lot of— it just took up so much time. If anybody does performances or sings in choruses or does plays or is in a band, I mean, you can appreciate how much time goes in behind the scenes. To do, you know, let's see, like a 2-hour show. It's crazy. I didn't have time to do everything I wanted to do. You guys are like enjoying the sketch? It's looking cool. Add some more ink lines to it. I'm trying to just create kind of a loose or an aged building here. Has a curve to it. I'm just taking some water now and going over my— this is black Lamy ink. I'll just lay down on here. I'm just bleeding it a little bit. Move this over. I keep feeling I keep moving this paper to the left, sorry. We have some drifting sketching tonight, it's just drifting to the left. Maybe I should move to the left instead of the paper.

There we go.

I am using dirty water again tonight. Just to keep the old kind of grungy look. I like the color of it. It almost has a, uh, very light tea color to it. Zoom out for a second. I'm gonna put this at an angle. I just want the water to run down, so I put the sketchbook at an angle here. It's actually— actually want a little bit higher. There we go. There you go, you see kind of water just running down— the ink running down the page a little bit.

Very cool.

Put the cap on. My ink here because I will spill it if I don't. There you go. Just want to zoom in, you can kind of see the ink running down the page. I just like the way it looks, it makes the drawing look a little messier. That's not the technical word. It's just kind of the aesthetic I really like with these sketches. Uh, hey, Deborah's in the house! Good to see you, Deborah. Hope all is well. Grungy. D-Ray's like, grunge! Yeah, I want some grunge. I want this to look like an old— maybe an old ruin somewhere. So that's why we have some grunge stuff going on. Watching you on my laptop, much easier to view, looks fabulous. Hey, Deborah, I'm so glad I am on your laptop. That's awesome. I'm so honored. You can just kind of pick me up and carry me, carry me around, bring me to the kitchen, get a snack. Like it. Take the dog out for a walk, you can carry me on your laptop outside. Actually, that might be kind of hard to do, walking your dog and carrying your laptop. That's awesome though. That's— I love that. Uh, love the runs. Yeah, thanks. The runny mess, it is definitely running. Trying to indicate maybe some kind of base to the building. There's some kind of stairs, some sketching right here. I'm actually just dipping my Graphite into the puddle of ink down there, almost using it as a paintbrush. There you go. This is cool. I like the way it's looking. I found one of my books. I keep drifting my sketchbook to the left. What's up with that? I always love the random YouTube messages that pop up from YouTube spammers. So, thank you YouTube spammers, I appreciate you so much.

Not really.

All right, this is cool. Maybe this is set— I don't know, I don't want to pull green out. I'm thinking about using that green color that I know Linda really likes, just doing— maybe there's some kind of trees in the background here. All right, this is fun music. I'm just gonna break out my Pilot pen. I just wanna— sometimes the Lamy ink doesn't really work too well on wet, wet areas, so I'm gonna break out the Pilot pen. That was a fun, uh, kind of— reminds me of like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs kind of song. And I'm just kind of drawing some growies here on the bottom. Zoom out down here. So maybe just— maybe this structure has been sitting here a while. We have some growies happening around it. Cool, I like the way it's drying. Um, oh, Deborah just positive for COVID second time around. Oh no, Deborah, I hope you are okay and you're feeling all right. Hang in there. Hang in there. Wow, that stinks. Um, what color— what do you use to erase the charcoal? Ooh, so that's a great question. I, I'm not— I haven't erased the charcoal, but I have blotted it out. So it's when it's wet, you know, like watercolor paint, we can blot it out with a paper towel. So I'm just blotting it to remove some spots, wet spots I don't want. But I am not sure how to erase charcoal. It's a really good question. I don't know if it can be erased. I don't know if you can scrape it off with an X-Acto knife blade, just kind of scrape some areas off. So that's a good question. I don't know the answer to that one. Um, oh, would you use erase charcoal if you need to? Yeah, so Once it's on there, it's pretty much on there. It's not like a pencil where I can erase it with an eraser. Let's do a test. I have a scrap piece here.

Let's actually try this.

I don't know if you can erase it with an eraser. I think I have, I have some here. I have an eraser right here. Let me see if I can— yeah, if I just try to erase it, it just kind of smudges it. So I don't think you can really erase these graphite sticks. Oh, I'm lying. Hold on, I'm lying to you. I just erased something. Let me show you. So while it's dry, that is my Big Bird. I was doing a Big Bird sketch the other day, inspired by Jim Henson's Big Bird sketch. Anyway, so I just put some here. You can actually erase it. I don't know if you saw that. Most of it's getting lifted off. I just have a Faber-Castell dust-free eraser here. There we go. So you can erase it when it's dry. It's after it's wet, I don't think it's gonna lift off. We could try that. Let's just throw some down here, we'll see. I'm gonna have to let it dry and come back to it and we'll see if I can erase it. Good question. I'll zoom in so you can see how this is drying. I like the way this area is looking here, it's pretty cool. I like the hard edges happening over in here, definitely just getting that old kind of look to it. This is drying pretty nicely down here as well, so it's coming together pretty, pretty cool. Uh, keeping the step 7 dwarfs Yeah, right? Doesn't it sound like the Seventh Dwarf, that whistling song? Uh, Linda sent the Harding Memorial to you. You can share it here. Uh, you can't— I can share it here. Did you send it? If you sent it to me on Facebook, I can put it on screen here. So Linda, just let me know if it's— if you emailed it to me or if you put it on like my Facebook, because I can go online and I could probably pull up the image. Ah, I was drawing, got behind. D-Ray, I'm glad you're drawing, that's awesome. I love if you guys are drawing and painting along with me, doing something creative. You know, I know I don't— this isn't really a show where I'm telling you to, you know, draw this line, put this color here, add this. This is just kind of a freeform show, but if you're creating something along with me, I love that. And I know D-Ray, I saw, I saw your post, and when I was doing skylines, I saw yours and actually was really awesome. So I'm so glad you did that, you posted it. You guys are awesome. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.