The Inkspired Life - Sketching & Painting : Inking Out Loud

Hello, happy Thursday night. Hope you're having a great, great night. Just cutting a couple of pictures here that I cut out of my— or tore out of my sketchbook. Awesome, so that's good to go. Hope you're having a great, great night. Let's do some sketching. Not sure what we're gonna sketch. Got a bunch of stuff out here. Let's see, I have some scrap watercolor paper. Maybe we'll do something with that. Looking for—

this is what I'm looking for.

So I just have my little sketchbook here. I'm gonna do something on here, a little scene, maybe a building. Let's just play around for a few minutes. Thanks for watching. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to put them in the chat. As always, you guys are awesome. Hey Becky, good to see you. Thanks for popping on. All right, I'm gonna— this is just a, it's a regular basic sketchbook, very thin sheets of paper, not really meant for watercolor Really meant for just kind of sketching with pens or pencils, colored pencils. Let's just do a little loosey-goosey kind of warm-up thing on here.

You guys can see that okay?

Let me zoom out a little bit more. There we go.

Cool.

Weird, it says preview mode on my screen. I hope you guys can see this okay. It's got a message that says preview mode. I'm not sure what that means, but I'm gonna keep sketching. Let's, uh, let's see her other ones. My Sharpies have been acting a little wonky lately. This one's dried out. I think I left that cap off that one last night. Here we go.

This is a good one.

So, let's do, uh, maybe a little thumbnail sketch here. This is a ultra fine point Sharpie. It's working really well. So hope you guys are having a great Thursday. Hope your week has been going— been a— ooh, easy for me to say. Take 2. This is unscripted, unrehearsed. I don't have any cue cards, so I will make mistakes when I am speaking. But anyway, hope your week is going really well. I'm gonna break out some Sharpie markers, highlighters. We have the jazzy playlist going tonight. We like the jazz music. Hey Kim, good to see you. Thanks for tuning in. Fine pour Sharpies, certainly fine by me. I love that. That's awesome. That's so funny. Got the jazzy tunes going. We got the Sharpie highlighters going. Life's good, right? I always think of Toy Story when I hear this song. I don't know why. Here we go, so just a quick little lighthouse sketch using some markers and a Sharpie. Maybe it's a lighthouse. Some kind of building, maybe at the edge of the peninsula here. We've got some water in the background. A sunrise, sunset, Peter Max-ish inspired kind of sun there in the background.

Hello.

The artwork of Peter Max. I love his bright, vibrant colors, his whimsical figures and stuff. So this kind of— this sun area kind of reminds me of maybe, maybe something he would do. Not quite to his caliber, of course. Cool. Hey, Chris, good to see you. Thanks for popping on. You guys are awesome. Hey, Kim, just when I thought I had all art supplies under the sun. I need to make current for highlighters. Yes, absolutely. Highlighters are viable, viable creative supply for sure.

Cool.

So what I wanted to do tonight is actually that's a quick little warm-up is I wanted to break this out. So I've had this. Let me zoom out. There's a lot of glare on this. Let me see if I can get some of the glare off. This is actually sepia. I spilled my sepia paint one day. You can see it in the mess right here. So I spilled my sepia paint, my ink, this right here, Daler Rowney Sepia Ink. I spilled it on my board and I said, okay, what the heck? So I scooped it up and I managed to get enough to cover a sheet of 140-pound watercolor paper. Paper. This is a block, it's glued on the top and the bottom edge. So this has been set aside for a couple weeks maybe now, and I thought it'd be fun just to do something on the sepia background. And I'm thinking white is going to work the best on here, so I am going to break out— I have a few different white pens. We have the Signo gel pen, which this is almost empty. I don't know how much is left on this. I just ordered a couple more. I also have a couple other white things as well. If I can find them in my bin over here. I have this. I have a white Art Crayon, which I've only used once before. And then I had something else. I had a— where is it?

Is it this? Hmm. Oh yeah, right here.

I also have this Posca white— I don't even know what it is. What do you call it? It's like a marker pen? Paint? I think it's a paint pen. It's a paint pen. So I have these. 3 things. I thought it would be fun just maybe to try to do some kind of a scene on this sepia background. And I'm not sure what I'm going to create, so we'll play around with these different mediums, see how they work on here.

Um, ch-ch-ch-ch.

Cool mistake. Yeah, Kim, it was a cool mistake. It was an awesome mistake. So turned a mistake into a blessing and did the best I could with it. So I was able to salvage the paint, some of it. Exciting experiment time. Yeah, it's experiment time, right? Creativity is about being playful. That is a golden, golden mindset for me, is to always be playful. This is what it's about. The act of playing and creating is the fun part for me. It may look horrible in the end. I have no idea. But you know what? We're going to have a lot of fun just playing around doing it. Um, yeah, so I applied it to a watercolor block paper. So yeah, so Chris, this is watercolor paper.

It's—

I don't even know the brand because the brand got stuck and I ripped it off the back, but it's a watercolor block paper, 140 lb. Cool. Hey, D-Ray, good to see you finally. Am I here? You are here, D-Ray. I see you watching from YouTube. That's awesome. Thank you for tuning in on the YouTube side of things. All right, I'm going to switch the tunes up a little bit. We're going to go to, uh, we're going to go some dramatic, what I call the Hero Tracks playlist. I just feel like doing some kind of dramatic thing here just for the heck of it. So let's switch up the tunes after this one's over. I might turn the light off to get some of the glare off and see how this looks or turn it down down. Maybe too dark. I'm just dimming the lights a little bit. It's going to be hard to show this because of the glare, but let's just play around.

Zoom closer.

All right, so I'm not sure what I'm going to start with. Hmm. So I'm going to start with this Art Crayon. I've only used it once before. I have not used it on watercolor paper. I actually used it on black paper, which I have somewhere. Let's try it. It's pretty thick. Feels like, you know, like a wax crayon. I think it advance— how do I get to advance? Like if I turn the cap, I could advance it out. I'm sure there's a way to sharpen it, but I don't have a sharpener. But that's okay, we'll work with it. Thanks for telling me I'm on YouTube, wasn't quite sure. Hey, D-Ray, you're on YouTube and I love that. That's so cool. I'm streaming to YouTube and Facebook at the same time, hoping to get a wider appeal from both places. All right, Hero Tracks, let's play it. It's gonna be a little dramatic here. Again, this is just an experiment with the white on the sepia. Building up suspense. Is it working? See how I'm procrastinating? Just gonna let the music start and get into it. Are art crayons the same as gel mixed media sticks? Ooh, Becky, that's a great question. I don't know the answer, to be honest with you. It just feels like a waxy crayon, if that helps. You can actually see it rubbing off my fingers a little bit. Which way do I want to do this? It really glides very nicely on this paper. It's super glidey. Wow, so slick on the paper. So I'm going to try to use all 3 different mediums on here, see how they work. I love the way this is gliding on the paper. So it is a very broad tip, so it's hard to get fine detail lines with it. I could probably rub it a little bit.

Let's see.

You can blend it if you want. So I'm gonna do the right side with this, and then I will switch to the left side maybe with the Posca paint.

Marker.

So that was the Signo gel pen I just used for kind of the back part. And now I'm going to switch over to the Posca Uni Posca White. I'm going to call it a paint marker. Gotta shake it up a little bit. So this is the paint marker I'm using now. This is really wet, so we gotta be careful because it'll smear pretty easily. I love that. It's one of my favorite pieces of music too, sketch too. Oops, it's not art unless what? Unless you wear it. And guess what? I am now wearing some of the paint marker. So there you go. You can kind of see the 3 different, uh, pens or supplies I used, right? So we have the paint pen on the left here. We have the art crayon on the right, and then I have the gel pen kind of in the middle here. 3 different very results. Very different, very, very different results. We'll take a look at it. Hey Anthony, good to see you. Welcome. Hope you're having a great day. Anthony is one of my fab students. Always good to see you, Anthony. Thanks for tuning in. Becky says, I like the way the gel pen looks on your special sepia paper. Yeah, you know, I like the gel pen also. Let me zoom down a little bit, a little bit closer. So I like the gel pen because I can get fine lines with it because the tip on it, right? Just a basic pen tip. So I like it from that point of view. I like the color of the paint pen. I like the bold white lines you get from it. Again, this is a real quick sketch, just playing with different— turn it that way so you can see it— just playing with the different ways to get white on here. And then the Artcrayon, I love the feel of the Artcrayon, the way it drags on the paper. I'm sorry, it doesn't drag, it glides. It's like ice skating on the sepia paper. It's, it's just so smooth. It feels, it's really cool the way it feels as you're sketching with it. So I'm sure there's a way I could sharpen this if I wanted to, to get lines more detailed. It just has a nice, I guess, a nice feel to it. It is something you have to be careful with though, because it does rub off pretty easily. I'm just going to purposely kind of grind it in here a little bit just to see how white I can get some of these areas. So they all have different, you know, advantages and looks. Let me see if I can get the glare off of there a little bit. That's better. I'll hold it this way so you don't see the glare so much. You have that gel pen. I like it a lot. Hey, Chris. Yeah, Chris, I love the Signo gel pen very, very much so. If I had to say there's one downside, for me with it is I find there's not a lot of ink in them. Maybe I burn through it, maybe I'm just too much sketching with it, but I'm finding the ink really goes quickly in these pens. And you know, I think they're like $3 or $4 each or something, they're not cheap. I could be wrong about the price, but I love using these, definitely my go-to gel pen. So that is the Uni-ball Signo. You can see it's a little blurry on this camera. Yeah, so if I had to pick one of the three to sketch on a sepia background or a black background, I probably would go with the Signo, Uni-ball Signo pen. Let me see if this is drying, just a little dry test. So this is actually dry. The paint pen dries pretty quickly, which is is good. Unfortunately, I don't know, you know, I have some black paper. I may break out some black paper and play around with that for a little bit. Just add some more— let's go add to this. You know what I'm going to do? I want to actually break out some pink acrylic paint. I want to see what the pink would look like on the sepia background. So I'm just breaking out some Liquitex acrylic fluorescent paint, and I'm just curious to see how it looks on the sepia. So let's play around with that for a sec. Hey, you guys are awesome! Thanks for watching. Please be sure to give me some thumbs up and all that fun stuff and hearts so we can share this out there. It helps to spread the love, the creativity. Um, that would be so awesome if you guys are enjoying this tonight. Just looking for my scrap paper here.

I have some scrap here.

So I just want to mess around with some of the acrylic pink. I'll just kind of go outside the borders here a little bit and see what it looks like. Actually, you know where I want to do it? I want to do it in the sky. See, there's a sky on here, right? So this is just straight up acrylic paint. I didn't dilute it with water. I just want to put on thick here. That's cool. I'm liking the way the The pink is looking on the sepia background. And I'm just— I'm adding a little bit of water. I want to thin this out and just kind of brush it on the bottom here where the— where a street would be. It actually looks kind of cool where it's going over the white here. Cool, there you go. Hey Chris, good to see you. Thanks for popping in. The pink should really pop. Yeah, I think it's popping. D-Ray, you're welcome. Hey, it's nice and bold. Yeah, Becky, it is definitely nice and bold, the pink on there. Hey Janice, always good to see you. Thanks for tuning in. Hope you're having an awesome day. Yeah, so the pink is pretty vibrant. I may actually, after it dries, I might even come back and add some more in some places on, on it.

Oops.

There we go. I think that's enough pink for now. So I might add some another time after it dries a little bit. Hey Janice! Yeah, so this was, uh, This is fluorescent pink paint. Fluorescent pink. Let me turn the saturation up a smidge. There we go. Good question. Sepia is reminding me of gingerbread. Yeah, it has that kind of gingerbread kind of color to it. I wish I could eat it. Right? These look like gingerbread houses or something. Yeah, that's pretty cool, Becky, that you said that. Let's see. Doesn't smell like gingerbread. I'm not about to taste it. Pretty cool. So that was just a fun, playful piece just using a sepia background and using some different white media on here. Is it media or medium? What's the right word? How do you say that? And then adding some fluorescent on there. Cool guys, so I'll do another sketch and I think I'm just gonna do a very— just a pen sketch. See where it leads.

I'm gonna let this dry.

Actually, do I have scrap paper? Uh, do something different. I think.

I'm gonna have this.

This is actually, actually, you know what, let's play with this. This is, I don't know if I can get a good view of this texture. This is acrylic ink, I think it's acrylic paint paper. I found a piece of this in my drawer. It has almost like a canvas type of texture on it. It's probably 140 pounds. Um, I think it's acrylic paint paper, so let me just play around with this since I have this pink paint out. Let's just see what we can do with it. I'll have to look in my drawer. I might have the whole pad in there. For now, we'll just kind of mess around with it. Again, I think it's acrylic paint paper. It has a— definitely has like a canvas kind of quality to it.

I'm just going to light it so you can see texture.

You can kind of see the texture I'm talking about. So let's just throw down some color. This will probably serve as like a background for a future sketch. So I'm just going to break out, um, some of my go-to acrylic colors that I have in my drawer. Haven't used magenta in a while. Janice said magenta earlier. So, Janice, since you mentioned magenta, I'm gonna break out some magenta on this, I think. Again, I'm not trying to create any images. I'm not doing a building sketch or anything right now. I'm just gonna make a background that I can come back later and do a sketch or something on top of. And we're gonna switch the music up. We're gonna go to our Les Cafés something-something mix. Wanna do some fun, peppy. Just gonna throw color down, guys. Let's break out some of this magenta. How can you not have fun listening to this music, right? I feel like I need a pop of something bright. Maybe this cadmium yellow will break out. I'm gonna grab a different brush here. Ah, who brought croissants? We need croissants right now. I love that. Já vou deixar secar um pouquinho, eu não quero fazer muito sujo, então vamos until it's dry. First minute or two here. I'm liking the texture of this paper. I have baked goods on the brain today. Yes, you do, Becky. Baked goods, can't go wrong with baked goods for sure. D-Ray, acrylic with a linen finish, something like that. Almost bought some today. Hey, that's cool, D-Ray. Yeah, this— I'll have to look in my drawer later to find out exactly what the paper is. I like the texture. Let me zoom in, actually, and do this. You can see, uh, you kind of see the texture happening there. Janice, how does it feel against the brush? Janice, that's a great question. So the brush glides fairly smoothly, but there is a little bit of a kind of a little, a little, a little bit of a bumpy road as you're going over it. The lighter you drag it, as you can see down in this area here, the lighter you drag it, the more you feel the little kind of ridges as you're bringing the brush across. If you're going fast and furious like I was here, you don't feel it quite as much. Great question. You guys are awesome. Love, love, love the questions you guys ask. Love your comments. Love when you chat with each other. It's always so fun. Alright, alright, so it's drying up a little bit here. I'm gonna, I'm gonna break out some fluorescent, more fluorescent pink, I think.

Bad luck, bad day. What should I do? Bad life, bad day, what should I do? Bad life, bad day, what Jason Nicholas, Jason Nicholas.

So I'm purposely kind of dragging the brush lightly in some places because I want the color underneath to kind of show through. So I'm not grinding the color down. I'll show you over here. I'm just going to kind of drag it really kind of lightly, and you can see the color underneath popping through a little bit. Oops, well, you did see it. I could also come back and wipe some of it off if I wanted. I have a dry, totally dry brush here, and I could pull up, lift up some of the paint if I want. I'll do that sometimes with acrylic paintings is I'll lift paint off so you can see what's underneath. I'm gonna lift off some of this blue in here. I want to see some more of that pink underneath. So don't be afraid to kind of almost erase some of the paint off, you know, before it dries too much. There you go.

So you can kind of see—

I'm trying to get better lighting in here.

Jason, so you can see it.

So this is the area I was talking about, like right in here. It lifted some some of the blue off. So I'll probably end up doing with this is after it dries, I'll come back with it, maybe a Sharpie, and do this kind of a sketch on top of it. You love the purple in the middle. Yeah, this purple here. This in here. It's a beautiful color. Hola, Mitchnikolor and Ericson. There is, there's a lot of interesting things happening with this piece here. Kind of pan around slowly so you guys can see. I'm already picturing a— some kind of a skyline on this, so it'll turn— eventually turn into do a skyline painting. I can, you can almost see buildings kind of forming, right? Maybe it's just me, but I see building shapes kind of forming here. You know, in here, right? I see a building. Sorry, I'm moving a lot. Skyscraper here, another Kind of one happening up in here. So, it'd be fun to try to pull those shapes out a little bit more and emphasize them. There we go. I'm trying to zoom out when I could just do this.

Here we go.

There you go, you can see the whole thing now.

Cool.

Yeah, it does, it has a very modern abstract feel. I agree with you. I'm going to let it dry, I don't want to do anything else to it right now. I don't want it to turn too mucky, although acrylic paints do dry fairly quickly. It's just, it's still damp. So I'm going to let it dry before I play around with it anymore.

Just gonna pop these in a drawer.

Cool. Where's our CPU? Let's break out the CPU one we were playing with earlier, and we're gonna wrap up and a few minutes here. Let me leave that there. Actually, let me throw a little bit more pink, I think, on this. See you on—

oh, I just put it away.

That's okay.

Woo!

I just turned everything upside down.

There we go.

So if you'll notice, I'm actually leaving the brush strokes here. So you can see the brush marks kind of in the background. It's one of the things I like about acrylic is you can make it thick, kind of just show the brush strokes. I think the brush strokes add a kind of— shows movement to the painting. I've seen people that use, you know, those painting knives or palette knives to paint with. Something I'd love to try. You can get some really awesome texture with palette knives. It's on my list of things to give a try one day. Just kind of dabbing the brush down, dabbing and drag, drag and dab, drag, dab, drag. Try saying that fast. Dab, drag, dab, drag, dab, drag. Dab and drag, dab and drag. I'm gonna sketch I'm just gonna sketch some fluorescent pink lines. I'll show you what I mean.

I'm just gonna sketch some lines down here.

So I'm drawing, drawing with the paintbrush. Here we go. I think that's enough on this one. So I think that's enough on this one. I, um, yeah, so it was fun playing around with this guy using the sepia background, the 3 different whites on here. That was cool. This was fun, so this would be a great background, and I'm gonna eventually, I think, pull some kind of skyline out of this background piece. This is acrylic. I'm gonna look, find the paper. I think, pretty sure it's acrylic paint paper based on the texture of it. So we're gonna let these dry. I'm just gonna wrap up with a quick sketch, and I'm gonna do it right here in my little sketchbook. Zoom in. And we're going to wrap up with— I love playing this kind of Western sunset whistling song. We'll wrap up with this. You guys are awesome. Thank you for watching. I always appreciate you guys so, so much. I know I randomly pop on here and there, so thank you for tuning in when you see me on Facebook. It means so, so much. Keep sharing your creativity. I'm seeing awesome, awesome paintings and sketches and drawings and crafts and all kinds of photographs. So guys, keep sharing your creativity here and on all the other forums. I see you in other pages. You guys are awesome. Keep paying it forward, right, with creativity. Creativity, positivity with creativity. I forget, I always mix it up. Creativity with positivity, positivity for creativity, creativity for positivity. That's it. Creativity for positivity. All right, I'm gonna hit— find this, uh, hit this song here and do a quick sketch. Let me get my Sharpie ready, some markers, and we'll see what happens. Actually, you know what, I'm gonna do it on black paper. We're gonna use a white gel pen. So just give me a sec here. Here's what we're gonna do. I have this black mixed media paper. So since we were talking about the white pens earlier, let's just do a sketch on this and wrap up the show. Alright, pan out, pan out, zoom out. Perfect. And I think I'm going to use my Signo pen while I still have some ink in it. Alright guys, you were awesome. Enjoy the rest of the show. As I wrap up, peace and live creatively. Have an awesome rest of your day and have an even better Friday. I almost said Thursday. Thursday. Need a drink of water. All right, let me find this tune. I know it's called Sombrero or something. That's not it. It's called My Sombrero, I think. All right, I love this. This is my favorite thing to wrap up with.

Have a great night, guys.

Take care.