In this informal livestream, the host sketches a quick, impressionistic rendition of Budapest's Liberty Bridge using a Sharpie for initial blocking, a Lamy Safari fountain pen with black ink for line work, and ink wash techniques. He narrates his workflow, including bleeding ink, adding water‑soluble graphite for subtle shadows, and experimenting with a sepia watercolor marker. The artist references a series of daily bridge sketches (Bridge Sketch 35) and reflects on his disciplined practice of drawing at least one bridge per day since December. Throughout the stream he engages with chat, responding to comments—particularly from a viewer named Jason Nicholas—about bridge design comparisons, pen models, and encouragement. He discusses the Lamy pen’s refillable nature, the challenges of sketching on wet paper, and his stylistic choice to keep lines sketchy and layered rather than precise. The session concludes with a brief wrap‑up, gratitude to viewers, and a reminder to keep creating positively.
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Hey there, hope you're all doing well. Happy Wednesday. Just popping on really, really quick, just do a quick sketch. I'm having some tech issues with my sound. I don't— I'm not— I don't think my stream's connecting for some reason. I don't see any chat. I know some people are watching, but yeah, hopefully you're doing well. If I miss any comments, I apologize. I don't think I'm seeing them all. I hope you guys are doing awesome. So this is a, this is a Liberty Bridge inspired by the Liberty Bridge in Budapest that crosses the Danube River. So it's Again, it's just an inspo. I like to look at some reference pictures as an inspo, as a starting point, and then I'll just kind of wing it and just have fun and create, you know, stuff based off of what I'm looking at. Right, cool. So I'm just using a Sharpie pen, just kind of blocking this out, put some sketchy lines on here, and then I'll probably do some ink wash on top of this. All right, I'm just gonna use my, uh, Lamy pen with some black Lamy ink and we'll bleed, we'll bleed some of this here. I thought I had water in there. I got Seasoned, uh, some regular water here. There we go. Awesome. All right, let's just bleed some of this ink. Cool. Hey, I see Jason's in the house. Jason, good to see you. I am seeing some comments, really cool. Jason Nicholas Nicholas says, you have me looking at bridges. Have you noticed the Chain Bridge in Budapest looks similar to the Brooklyn bridge. I wonder if the design was taken from Budapest. That's really cool. Yeah, that's a good question. I'll have to look into that. Cool observation. Where did you get the black pen? This is a Lamy pen. L-A-M-Y. Lamy. I don't know if you can see it. Let's see. Let's see. Lamy. It would be hard to— Lamy. You can get them right off of Amazon. This is the Lamy Lamy Safari. Lamy Safari. They're really cool pens. I have another one as well. This one I got like in 2015. It was a special limited edition one. I really love the color of it. This is just, I think, the black one. I'm sure you can get the black one still today. They're refillable, which is nice. Which is cool. I just— you can use Lamy refill ink or you can get a— oh gosh, what do they call these? I forget what they call these things where you can just dip this in an ink bottle and fill it. Dang, the name's escaping me. I know what— I should know what they're called. I do know what they're called, but my brain shuts off after 8 o'clock. My memory usually turns off. Creativity is always on. But after being in school all day, my memory brain shuts off lots of times around 8 o'clock. It's really weird. It's been like that for years. I'm just sketching some more lines on here just to indicate some ironwork. Uh, the— if you were to look at the actual Liberty Bridge, my proportions are way, way off with my sketch. This should be narrow and more vertical, but I'm just having fun. I'm fascinated by just kind of the shape that happens right in here. I kind of love this piece. It's interesting, it's almost like an eye. Turn it sideways, it's almost like the shape of an eye, which really interests me. So I just really wanted to kind of capture this idea here in the background. And I'm having fun. So this would be Bridge Sketch 35. I think we're on Bridge Sketch 35. So I've been sketching bridges straight now since beginning of December, at least one a day. Which is a really— for me, that's a pretty amazing accomplishment to be so disciplined to keep sketching. So it's okay to pat yourselves on the back sometimes, guys. So yeah, it's really cool. I'm loving sketching these things. I'm just taking my Sharpie and kind of lightly dragging it across the paper and picking up some of the texture of the paper. This also helps create the perspective depth a little bit. As I get towards the background here, I'm going to sketch these lines a little closer and even closer just to help create the idea that this is going back a little bit here. Sharpies don't really like to sketch on wet paper. I'm trying. I know I keep trying. I know they don't like to do it. One of these days they might give in. I'm not giving up. Let's see. Sorry, my paper keeps shifting off screen a little bit. Oh, nice. I'll have to look for it. Yeah, Jason, definitely take a look for it. There's a railing back here in the distance so that people don't fall into the river. It's probably a good idea. Looks like there's a flag, a little flag or something Kanmei-bi in here. Yeah, so I'm just looking at the sketch. I might be done with this. I just want to do a quick bridge sketch. I do want to pull out— I think I just want to darken these lines here a little bit, just to pull the edge out. So let me just take my Lamy and we'll just— I'm just going to run it over this edge. I'm not trying to trace it exactly over the line that's there already. I like having multiple lines. If you look close, I have a lot of lines kind of happening, and that's just how I like, um, my style, kind of very sketchy looking. So that's intentional. I'm not trying to retrace over the same exact lines to darken things. And I'm just going to bleed this here, which is going to help darken it a little bit and soften at the same time. So you can see how this edge kind of just popped out. I'm not going to do a wash on the back. Sometimes I'll add a color wash, kind of like a sky area, but I think I'm just going to leave it like this. I have my sepia watercolor marker that is kind of calling my name. Right now I'm restraining, I'm resisting the temptation. I think that looks good for the black ink. Zoom out a little bit. There you go. Jason Nicholas says, I don't mind that it is not in proportion. Looks great. Thanks. I appreciate that. You get better each time. Oh, I appreciate that. I like this type of sketching. I used to do 30x40 drawings from imagination using reference based on Greek architecture. Oh, that's awesome. Columns. And I like inside architecture of churches, castles. You're really inspiring and always like when you come on. Look forward to your bird sketching. Hey Jason, that is really kind of you to say. I really appreciate your encouragement and your, your kind words. So thank you so much. I appreciate that. That's so cool to hear. I'm just trying. I'm just having fun. It's really about here. Here. I'm here having fun and I am looking to bridge this too. So thank you. Cool stuff. I'm still going to sketch other things as well, so stay tuned. I love churches, as you know. I think you've seen the St. Patrick's Cathedral. I did a really cool— I'm trying to think where it is. I don't know if I can grab it. I've done some interior perspectives of cathedrals, kind of from my imagination. I'll try to pull those out one day. Actually, I'm, I'm actually going to throw down some graphite, just a little bit. I just want to put a little edge here under the rail. So I'm using graphite because it'll dry very lightly, and I don't want this to be too dark under here. So I'm just using some water-soluble graphite just to add a little kind of shadow where that railing hits the sidewalk here. Alright, I think that's cool. So guys, thank you so much for watching. I appreciate you. So a quick bridge sketch, probably just under 20 minutes or so. Um, I appreciate you watching, Jason. Thank you for being in the chat and your comments. I appreciate that as well. Have an awesome rest of your evening, guys. I, uh, I need— peace out, Cub Scout. Does anybody say that anymore? Peace out, Cub Scout. I don't even know why I said that. The man says as he picks up the graphite, I'm officially putting the graphite down, walking away. Again, thank you guys. This was inspired by the Liberty Bridge in Budapest. Proportions are wonky, but that's okay. I was really just trying to capture the idea of what's happening back in here. So really cool. Have a great, great rest of your day. I will hopefully see you guys back soon. Take care. Peace and live creatively. Keep paying it forward with your creativity and your positivity out there. Thanks guys. Take care. Have a great, great night.
