The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hey Linda, good to see you. Hope all's well. Phone call, BRB. No problem. Hey, Deborah, good to see you. Hope all's well. Good to see you. Have to run, we'll watch a rerun. Awesome, no worries. Yeah. Catch the replay. Hope all is well. Enjoy the rest of your evening. Hey there guys, happy Sunday, January 8th. Hope you're doing well. I am on, uh, really, really briefly, just till 8:30. Just, I wanted to do my daily bridge sketch, so I figured come online and do some sketching here. Hope you guys are having a great weekend. Uh, so I'm sketching— I'm actually using a sepia-colored marker. I don't even know what brand this is. Permanent Marker Graphics something. I just happen to have it here, and I've been wanting to sketch some sepia tone stuff. So I figured I'd break this marker out and instead of using my black Sharpie, we'll give this a try. I think I'm also going to do a coffee wash. I have some coffee in a jar here, so we'll probably bleed. This, this ink is like Sharpies, it won't bleed. So I'm just using it kind of to sketch in some shapes here. I want to thank Linda for inspiring this bridge sketch. This is the Mack— Mackinac Bridge in Michigan. Mackinac Bridge, I think I said that right, in Michigan. First time I've ever sketched it. So I thought it'd be fun just to kind of play around with it and see, let me see what happens. Let's see, we got the side here, we got some guardrails on the side kind of happening here. This is just meant to be just a quick sketch just to get overall shapes down. Cool. Let's see, it's a suspension bridge. I looked at the stats, I forget how long it is. Oh boy, 3,000 feet. Long, I think. I think it's the longest suspension bridge in the Western Hemisphere, if I'm getting my, my, uh, stats right here. All right, we have some cables coming down from our suspension, suspension bridge kind of happening in here. Some on this side as well. There we go. Cool. So this marker has two sides. It has a thin point and a thicker point. I'm just using the thin point to sketch this out. Let's do some ink bleeding. I also have a Sepia brush marker here that I've used a few times. So it'd be fun just to play with these different sepia brownish colored tools I have here. So maybe we'll play with this here and just kind of bring out the outline of the bridge here. This stuff will bleed, I believe. Let's see if it does. So Put this in some clean water. Wah wah wah, this stuff does not bleed. Well, now I know. I guess if you hit it right away as you put it down, you can bleed it a little bit. Hey, Laura's in the house! Laura, good to see you. She's like, oh my gosh, actually caught you live. Evening, Jason Nicholas. Hey Laura, it's good to see you. Hope all's well. It's been a while. Yeah, I am popping on kind of a random time on Sunday here, but I wanted to do my daily bridge sketch. I figured I'd come online and do it with you guys. Real quick sketch. This is a coffee— this is coffee in here. Actually, it's espresso. Instant espresso. It'll be fun just to paint with these brown colors and do some washing. Not washing my clothes, but we're washing this coffee. Smells good. Smells real good. In reality, I believe this bridge— I can't tell if it's a white color or a grayish color. I know Linda would know, she's been across it. But wow, that is some strong espresso. This smell is waking me up. Ah, let's see, I'm gonna break out my sepia. I have my sepia watercolor marker in here. So Laura, hope you're doing well. So I broke it— I broke out the sepia watercolor marker here just because I wanted some darker browns going on. I didn't put enough espresso powder in here to make it— which is okay, you can always layer it on as it dries. Lourdes says doing little bits of artsy here and there. Oh, that's good, awesome. Try to start 2023 drinking Thinking and doing like an artist. Love that. That is so cool. As our friend Ru says, think like an artist. So cool. A lot of it is mindset. It's just kind of getting into that frame of mind and blocking out time. You know, you just got to block that time out and just, just get to it, even if it is for 10, 15 minutes. This is kind of a down-and-dirty sketch. I'm liking the way it's looking. It's kind of rough, industrial-ish. Let's see, we have some— I have to wait till it dries because we have some lines for the road here. Which I'd like to show is just to get— let's see if I can do this. No, I'll have to wait till it dries. But yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, I mean, Laura, I always love seeing what you post. Laura, you're, um, I love all the heart stuff that you do, so keep up the creativity. I also have this graphite here, which is sepia colored, in this, in this lead holder. I love this. It has such a nice weight and heft to it. This goes way back to my architecture school days, I believe. I could be making that up. I know, I know, I've had her for a long time. And I'm just going to add some of this graphite on here just to darken some areas. So this graphite is water soluble, uh, so I kind of love what it's doing here. It's kind of melting on the wet areas of the page, adding some texture. Laura said, saw someone else using one of those recently. We'll have to add one to my window shopping wishlist. Yeah, so this is really cool. It's a Koh-i-noor. I could post, post it for you. Where's my camera? There it is. It's upside down. Let's flip it this way. Koh-i-noor, Hartmut, Hartmut. I don't know if that's a German word. Oh no, it's scratched. Some of the blue scratched off there. Hartmut, it's a lead holder, so these leads come out. You can refill them with all different colors and types of leads. It has a built-in pencil sharpener, so if you unscrew this end, which is kind of cool, let me unscrew it that way. There's a sharpener built in here. Actually, you know what we're gonna do? We might actually sprinkle some of the graphite on here on this sketch. Actually, some came out already. Anyway, you can just put this in here, turn it, you can sharpen your point, and then the lead collects in here. I have some Omi, I'm just gonna sprinkle it down a little bit. Getting a little cray cray, but that's okay. There we go, just kind of grunge it up a little bit, add some interest to the sketch. There we go, cool. I'm gonna put some down here, just let it bleed a little bit, add some texture for the roadway. See how it— we'll see how it dries. Yeah, so there you go. I recommend it, it's really cool. It had, like I said, it's Has a nice weight to it. It's kind of thick, which I like. Sometimes it's, you know, gripping pencils like this, my wrists hurt sometimes, or this part. I don't know what you call this part of your hand. This hurts a lot for me. Yeah, it does hurt. It just gets— anyway, and gripping something small makes— adds a lot more pressure. So to hold a wider pencil this doesn't hurt as much in that area. Cool. Zoom out a little bit. You guys can see overall I'm just kind of running this coffee wash back up here. And we'll— my board is tilted, so It'll run down a little bit more. Cool. There's a railing on this side. I kind of pop it out a little bit. I like this graphite stick and the way it just picks up the texture of the paper. I just dipped the graphite in some water, so I'm gonna sketch paint with it. I love the openings on this, this bridge here. Really cool. I'll have to read about it and read about the history of it. So right now I don't know too much about it. I just wanted to sketch it, give it a try. And it does smudge, so you got to be careful of that too. Us lefties know very, very well about the smudging world. You got some smudging going on there. That's cool. Again, just playing around, having fun tonight. Hey, Cameron's in the house! Cameron, good to see you. Hope all is well. Hope all is well, Cameron. I responded to your email, so hopefully you got that message. Um, hopefully you got the message. So I'm looking forward to seeing you this week. That's going to be fun. Just imagining kind of cropping this a little bit. I think this would look kind of— look good kind of cropped. Frame. Chris is looking forward to it. Oh good, I'm so glad you got the message. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we'll, um, we'll talk a little bit more about it, but I'm looking forward to you coming in and doing a little show and tell of just talking a little bit about what you've been doing and Architecture School. I think it's gonna be really cool, and I really appreciate it so much. Awesome. There's a, there's a light fixture here. You can just use the brush pen and we'll draw it, we'll sketch it in here. And here's some more of that coffee wash. Alright, cool. Hey, I hope you guys are doing well. I'm gonna wrap this up. I just wanted to be on here really quick just to throw down a bridge sketch today. First time I've tried sketching this bridge. It's the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan. Really cool suspension bridge. I just keep— I keep in my brain framing this out. I actually want to throw some yellow. I want to add some color before I wrap up, just for the heck of it. Let's play around with some sepias. Let's add some yellow. We'll pop this a little bit. Where are my paper towels? Here we are. Very cool. Um, there's somewhere I want to do this, but it's too wet right now, so I'm going to let it dry, put it aside. Cool. All right. I have this. I've been using this as kind of a test scrap kind of book here. I love some of the colors that are happening on here. So I was thinking about this little bridge I had sketched, which, which I kind of like. It's very simple. Not a lot. Going on with it. But I did want to add just a little pop of yellow on here while I had the yellow out. And that's— I think we're going to do this and we'll wrap up. Okay. I just wanted to pop some more yellow on this little bridge sketch. So there's not a lot of detail to this. It's very loose, very, very sketchy. Um, I like it because it really— I feel like it captures the overall feel and structure of the bridge without a lot of detail. And I'm just adding this— let me zoom out— I'm just adding this yellow because I just want to pop it out a little bit in front of the bridge structure. Get a little too fussy with this sketch. There we go. I just wanted to pop it out in front a little bit. I think that's good for that one. So there you go. So just a cool little quick bridge sketch. This one I did a while back, but I just— the yellow made me think of it. So I've been playing around with bridges since the beginning of December, doing really quick things like that, and then doing a little— not detailed, highly detailed, but a little more finished looking stuff like this. So it's really fun just to play around and try different styles. Styles, see where, you know, see what you like doing. I've been getting some really good reactions to these, this one here and this one here actually. So it's always great to get feedback. And if you look at this one, there's not a lot of detail. I think what helps to make this is the hatching. Lines for shadows. I think that adds a little depth to it. So don't be afraid to sketch. If you're sketching the same subject, look at it in different ways. Sketch more detailed things, very, very loose abstract things. And, um, yeah, just be playful. That's what it's about, guys, for me. Just coming out here and being playful and trying it out, whether it's the way something looks, whether it's a different tool, you know, colored pencils, markers, watercolor markers, sepia brushes. I mean, you name it, there's all kinds of stuff you can use. So just have fun. I'm gonna wrap tonight. I have school tomorrow. Um, you guys are awesome. Thanks for popping in today. This was kind of just me showing up just to get my bridge sketch done today. So I did my homework. I can go to sleep peacefully now. Well, Well, I did my sketching homework. There may be some other homework I didn't do yet. You guys are awesome. Thank you so much for watching. I will see you real soon. Yeah, keep paying it forward with creativity. Don't fall into the comparison trap. Don't compare what you're doing to other creatives, other artists. That could be a mental block from even starting something. Just compare what you're doing to yourself. And that's all I'm doing. I'm just trying to have more fun, trying to get more creative, trying to get better at certain things, and learning things that I don't want to do or things I don't like when I'm creating artwork. And I'm just comparing me to myself. Guys, you're awesome. Keep creating. I'll see you real soon. Peace and live creatively. Have an awesome rest of your night tonight and an awesome start to your week tomorrow. Take care. Hey, Sally Ann Smith, good to see you in the house. Cameron, thank you for popping in. I'll be seeing you. Cameron, check your email maybe tomorrow. We'll just confirm a couple things. There's a slight chance we might have to shift our meeting time based on when I get my observation. But I will let you know. Laura, it's great to see you. I'm glad you were able to watch live tonight. Lindo started— was in the house with us at the beginning, so Lindo, it's great to see you. Take care, guys. Have a great night. Peace and live creatively.