The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Cool, so I'm just working on this little reflecting pool in this courtyard or this piazza space. I'm using watercolor paint for this. So this is kind of the water areas in here. Actually lifting some of the paint out a little bit. And I'm going to paint— there's kind of a wall in front of this reflecting pool that goes, goes around actually. And I'm going to use some of the red that I've been using on the buildings, right? I have some of my cap here.

Dip my brush in here.

The wall kind of down here.

It's pretty intense.

The wall wraps around in the back, comes along the side here. And it's a little too intense, so I'm going to blot some or remove some of this paint.

There we go. There we go.

I didn't want to be too, too red there. Hope you're having a great, great night. Happy Thursday. Hope the weather's nice where you are. We have thunderstorms coming through right now here in the Garden State. I have to admit, I do love thunderstorms and a lot of rain. I like sunny days too, but I I don't mind the rainy days. Sometimes I feel more energetic on a rainy day.

It's kind of weird, I know.

Let me know if you're on and where you're watching from. Just feel free to say hello. And there you go. See this wall here. So this is just an abstract city kind of location I made from my imagination.

It's not a real location.

This is watercolor ink that I'm using. This color is called, I think, Sunshine Yellow. There you go. So that's the basic shape of what I'm trying to sketch here. After it dries, I'll come back with, uh, probably a Sharpie or another pen. It's kind of go over it with some lines and add some details to it. Feel free to say hello if you're watching, or wave or something. It's all good. I'm just over here trying to— this camera setting here, I'm trying to figure out how to change it.

Let me see. There you go.

I'm just changing it so that's That looks very similar to what I have on screen. It was a little bright before, so I wanted to change it. And while I have this yellow out, I'm just going to add some more yellow in places on here, some of these window doorways. Let's put a little more on my brush, I think.

There we go.

And I'm just putting some yellow, just kind of some of the lights kind of spilling out from these doorways onto the, uh, terrace area there.

I'm just touching yellow.

Just kind of randomly in places. I don't want all the— I don't want a lot of yellow. I kind of want it spotty here and there just to add more visual interest to what's going on. If I start putting too much yellow, it's gonna take away from what else is happening. So hopefully you can see that. Let me zoom out a little bit.

There we go.

That's a better view there. Hey, D-Ray, good to see you. Hope you're having a great night tonight. Thanks for popping on, always appreciate it.

Here we go.

I just had to turn the volume down on my computer because I have Facebook on my computer and I was kind of hearing myself twice. That's— I can only handle hearing myself once. Hearing myself twice— Yeah, it's kind of creepy. You guys are awesome. I always appreciate you watching and tuning in. Cool. Yeah, so this is coming along, so I'm just adding some details. Details here and there. I actually really like the look of this. I don't know what style to even call it, but obviously it's not realistic, which I don't really do.

I'm gonna zoom this way to make it better.

There we go. I kind of like it. It reminds me of an old, old type of drawing somewhere. I'll have to look into it a little bit more. But I love the real loose sketchy dark black ink lines on here mixed with the watercolor. It has a real, I think, an interesting mood to it. Something I'd like to explore more, maybe in other paintings and stuff. But enough about me, let me know how you're doing. Hope you're having a great day. Yeah, I'll definitely be adding more detail when this dries with the pen. So what I did to lay this out, I actually put some tracing paper on here yesterday. I kind of did a sketch of something I thought would look cool here, a little reflecting pool, a statue coming out of it. So this was kind of my rough Jason Nicholas sketch, and I'm just translating that onto here. So this will have more character once it dries. I can add more to it. But that's how I laid it out. Sometimes I'll lay things out on trace paper before I put them on the actual drawing or painting. It's just a good way to test out some quick ideas. Another way is you could sketch with a pencil and erase, right? That's another way to quickly to check out your ideas as well. I'm gonna cover this because apparently I'm gonna spill it. So if you're afraid to just lay paint to paper or pen to paper, you know, feel free to sketch with a pencil first or do it on a scrap piece of paper or a sheet of tracing paper. So you'll see me do that once in a while, the tracing using paper kind of a mockup.

What's he doing? Oh yeah, he's just looking for red paint pens.

The cat one. Silly me. Yeah, I think once this dries I'll add detail. I don't know, I don't think there's too much more I'm going to do to the actual buildings. I think I do I really want to sketch in almost like a grid pattern or some kind of stone pattern or something.

Plaza area in there.

I'm gonna probably use my graphite pencil, my graphite stick to do that first, and then I'll come back in later with a pen on top of it. Hey, thank you for the thumbs up. I see some thumbs up out there. I see a couple people watching. You guys are awesome. I think I just scared someone off. I tend to do that. I know I'm pretty scary. I am the, probably the most scariest thing on Facebook right now. Just warning you. I don't think I'm scary.

That's my opinion. I'm just, uh, nervous right now.

Cool. Just sketching some lines here. So you can probably see these lines really lightly here, and that's using a throw line. This is just the idea of where the grid might be for some kind of, uh, slate marble terrazzo flooring there. And I'll just come back with my water brush and just darken those lines. You'll see as I put these on here—

this fun music, adventurous music.

It's going to be like from some kind of picture, like I saw in a movie taking place here, or some kind of action scene running through the plaza, just kind of fighting scene or thing happening here.

Here it is.

You can see the lines now as I—

darker.

And graphite will dry lighter, so As dark as a scenario. But as our perspective's going back, the lines are getting closer together. Just create the illusion of depth. This isn't a true perspective, it's just to get a sense or an idea that there's some kind of depth happening, some kind of— your eye's kind of being drawn back into the distance here. Back to— I have a staircase So there's a stair up here, and up these stairs are these buildings on top of kind of a platform area.

I like that.

I think that gradient helps to add a little, uh, sense of the depth I was looking for.

So that worked out.

Things don't always work out, but that's the fun. Fun is just playing around, seeing what happens, creating, right?

That's for me.

Maybe that's what it's about, just the act of creating. You know, we want our own little world here. And no one's gonna know if it's wrong or right because, why, you know? This place doesn't exist. I'm not trying to make something that's there. They don't know what's up. Just throwing down some more blue on this reflective area here. Pretty dry, not a lot of water on my brush here, on the paint. I'm dry brushing here, want to be a little more intense. Cool, I think it's looking pretty good for now. So maybe a good stopping point for this one. Yep, I think so. It's a little crooked, so let me just zoom in and give you a close-up of it, and then I'm going to wrap up, I think. So this area here I'm going to work on more after it dries. I like the way this hedge dried over here. This looks pretty cool. So we're just getting a little panning action here, see what's going on. Get closer with it. I like the texture of the tapping here. It's not a continuous solid line. You can see through to the paper underneath. It's pretty— it's kind of interesting what's happening in that area.

Oh wow, this is interesting.

I just saw a face on here. It was like a statue. Let me see if I can zoom in on it. I might be good. Let's see. Does anybody else see like a face on here? Or almost like a— it's almost like a bust statue.

Bust statue, is that what they're called? Get a little closer on it. This is so weird.

This is what I'm I don't know what kind of fit in this, like, kind of space, right? This Italian Palazzo sculptures. But I am seeing right here, I am seeing a kind of a profile, like a bust happening. There's like the eye, nose, mouth. Chin with maybe like a little goatee or something happening. Neck here. Left totem pole, yeah. And then here, so I see the bust. The dearest is a left totem pole. This could be, this could be like a totem pole type of thing here happening. I can almost see like a face in here, a nose. I also almost see a sculpture happening here too. Maybe the deer is what you're talking about. In red.

Oh, red totem pole in red.

Oh yeah, over in here, right?

Definitely.

I almost see a silhouette of a figure here as well, the head.

And here's like the body.

It's pretty interesting what happens when you look at paintings from far away, then you look at them close. Sometimes things pop out. Interesting, interesting.

I'm gonna see if I can work on pulling those shapes out a little bit more somehow. This way.

Figure and body, yes. Hey, thanks, T-Ray. I appreciate your comments and feedback.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, pretty interesting piece. There's my trace paper. I want to sketch over that so I don't forget it.

I had scrap here, scrap pieces.

Let's see, my Sharpie. Let's do a sketch on here. The sphere is 3D in the center. Yeah, that's cool. I'm glad you're That's so cool, you're picking up with almost like a 3D look to it.

That's awesome.

I'm just gonna sketch on top of— Especially with the finger there, and when I see down here, this is—

wow, this is really small. Let's get over it.

Ah, there's my Pilot Pen, the point's a little finer, smaller. So that's kind of what I was seeing happening over in here.

Jason, I don't—

let's see. I never traced this area like what I saw, but let's see.

More of a head shape, kind of a head looking down.

So that's kind of what I was seeing happening down in the area. Zoom out. Boom. I took this off.

There you go.

That's what I was talking about, right in here. Figure, and then almost figure here, and then the bust here.

Fun stuff.

I love— that's why I like doing this abstract kind of work, because sometimes you just see really cool shapes. I'll see, like, D-Ray saw something totally different than I saw, the totem pole area over here. So I love how you guys see different things in these, and that's exciting for me. Um, I love that. So thank you for always sharing what you're seeing and your comments, uh, participating. So thank you so much, you guys are awesome. I love everybody in the Inkling Chat Group. You guys are awesome, awesome. So So this I'm going to let dry. I'm going to come back and work on this sphere statue area here. And I might try to pull these figures out somehow. Do something a little bit more with them. Maybe I'll pull them out. I mean, this is kind of a space, like this European kind of palazzo or plaza type space, lends itself to having sculptures. Statues and things like that in them, so that would fit well. And I love Trace Paper. Alright, so I think I'm going to do one quick little sketch and I'll wrap up. So we'll put this aside for now, let it dry. And we'll just end with a quick sketch in my little book here. I've been doing these little sketches when I end up at night. Just these little quick sketches. I play the Whistling Sunset Cowboy outro music that I like. And we'll see what happens. I'm just sneaking in some nice little doodles and sketches. This is what I did last night.

Quick little—

actually, I'm going to use that again. I used a brush pen.

I have a pen for that. Right here.

It's a black brush pen by, I think, Pentel. It was fun just to play around and sketch with it a little bit. So, use that and I'll do another sketch as I get ready to play that cowboy outro music that we all have come to love so much. If you like the cowboy outro whistling sunset tune, let me know in the comments. Or give me a thumbs up. Let me know, would you like to hear the Cowboy Whistling Sunset outro music? I have a way of overcomplicating things sometimes. Let's see, this is fun music also. So this is a black brush pen. They have replaceable cartridges in them. Oh, I lied. This whole barrel is actually disposable and you can buy a new barrel. It sounds like there's a little cartridge that goes in there, but this is the ink cartridge. It goes into this little brush tip. I would have I have to look into the cost and see if it's actually economical to keep doing that or even environmentally friendly. I don't know if you can take these barrels off.

I'm checking it out.

So I bought this one day, just wanted to try it out. So let's play around with it a little bit tonight. Alright, let's go play some sombrero. It's called My Sombrero for Your Gun. That's what this piece of music is called.

It's called.

So it's a good trade-in. Take away people's guns and give them some rare herbs.

And how about pens and pencils and crayons?

Let's use creativity for positivity.

Alright?

Here it is. There you go. Quick little sketch for our outro piece of music. Hope you guys like that sketch. Thank you always for watching and tuning in. I appreciate you guys so, so much. Uh, keep paying it forward with creativity. Have an awesome, awesome Friday. I should be on tomorrow night at 7:45-ish PM Eastern time. I'd love to see you guys on tomorrow night when I'm on. Other than that, thank you so much for tuning in. Maybe I'll pop on again later tonight. We'll see. I'm going to take a little break. As always, I always appreciate you guys. Feel free to— Yes, we got whistling, D-Ray says. We got whistling. I like your little musical emojis, emoticons, symbols, whatever they're called. Hey Dawn! Hey, good to see you. How are you? Good to see you. So yeah, this is the little cowboy guy I just painted on the outro scene. Quick. I don't even know, how long is that piece of music? It's pretty short. Maybe it's just over a minute or so. Let's take a look at some of the ones I've been doing on the— Exit sketch. And then we'll wrap up. Dora, it's always good to see you in the house. This was one from the other night. So these were done with the brush pen that I just put away, which I do like the looks you get with this. This is just regular sketch paper, very thin paper. Get a very loose brushy look with it, which is kind of cool. "Don loves the mustache man." Yeah, so I have that mustache cowboy Don Quixote, I don't know what he is, character. Yeah, this is kind of him, I guess. Put a little mustache. With this brush, it'd be hard to do. Thank you, Don. It's something I'll keep working on developing, that character, for sure. But you can see just how these sketches come out in a minute, like just over a minute from that tune. This was pencil. So sometimes I'll use different materials and medium. I like these pens but haven't mastered control. Yeah, Dawn, I haven't mastered these either. I have to try them on watercolor paper. I'm just using regular paper. It's hard to— the ink doesn't flow out, I guess, as quick as I would like it to sometimes. I agree with you. You can see I try to wrap up doing like these quick little perspective scenes. I'm gonna look at a couple more, not gonna go through all of them. Snoopy is not one of them. You know, here's a— you can see this was done with pencil as well. This I added some color to it. So it's just a fun way, you know, to kind of end the show and do the same exercise over and over. And you can kind of go back and look and see what your different results are you're getting from it. I think this was actually the first one I did was a— one of the first ones I did was here. Really small, see my thumb. This was not part of that series, but this little vibrant perspective sketch there. I guess I got a bunch more here. I'll have to go back through and just do like a collage and take a look at these. Actually, let me show you some of those. They're all backwards now in my book. I think that was— yeah, that may have been all of them. So we have some more pages to do some more in here. We'll get back to it. Hey, you guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. Since Dawn popped in, Dawn, if you're still here, I'll do one more outro sketch. I think you popped in just as I was getting ready to leave, but since you tuned in, you're in the comments, you're saying hello, let me do another quick little sketch. If you're up for it, let me know. Just give me a thumbs up. Hey, Patty's here. Hey, no worries. Went to an exhibit at Peabody Essex Museum. Oh, that sounds awesome. Patty, you'll have to tell us all about it. I'd love to hear more about the exhibit. No worry, Patty. I'm on my way out too. Yay, one more sketch. You got it. Just for you guys, Patty, you tuned in. You guys are awesome. So let's do a— if you don't mind, let's do a repeat of the cowboy music again. And actually, you know what, I have this— let's do something different. I have a purple marker sitting here. Let's just sketch with this purple marker.

Awesome.

Let's get that music going. One more sketch, yes! Hey, Dawn, thank you for volunteering to run the meet or having your own Zoom meet on Saturday. I really appreciate you doing that. I'm so sorry I'm not gonna be able to join you guys for that. I think you're gonna have a lot of fun, especially without me, because I know we all know how boring I am. No, I'm just kidding. Have a great Zoom meet for whoever attends on Saturday. If you guys do any sketching or painting or anything, I'd love to see it. Feel free to post it on our workshop page. It would be so cool to see what you guys come up with. From your party, your party session. You'll be partying. All right, so let me go play that music and do one last sketch. Thanks guys, I really appreciate you so much. I know I was going to bring yellow pen.

Uh-oh.

There's a spur of water here. Alright, there you guys go! Wow, that was interesting. I couldn't find my Chartreuse brush marker pen, so I broke out the watercolor. You guys are awesome. By the way, this was just a sketch— a marker, actually, sketch marker, violet. It's not really sketch marker paper, but you can see it bled through and very soft lines. And there you go. So that was my last sketch for the night for now. Guys, thank you for watching. I appreciate y'all so much. Take care. Peace and live creatively. I will see you soon. I will be on tomorrow night around 7:45-ish and I will do some more inking out loud and we'll see what's in store for tomorrow. Thanks guys. I appreciate y'all. Take care. Have a great, great night.