The INKspired Life - Tree in the City 3 - Architectural Sketching - Livestream

Hey everybody, happy, um, December 25th, Christmas Day here. I hope you're all doing well. Yeah, it's about 3 o'clock PM, sun's out. I hear myself talking in my AirPods, so something's up with the audio. So, I am actually going to go audio only. You can or you can't. So, yeah, I'm gonna continue working on the sketch I started a couple days ago. Zoom in a little bit so you can see some details.

I'm gonna—

I am actually streaming to Instagram Live for the first time, so bear with me. I'm clicking some windows here. Um, I see Sue. Sue, happy holidays! Sue is in the house, that's so great. Um, awesome, so happy to see you. Let's click that. All right, Linda H is in the house. Linda, great to see you as well. Merry Christmas, happy holidays everybody. So let's continue with this, uh, the scene here. I'm gonna add some inky details here with a Sharpie. And then let's see, I have some watercolor. We're going to throw some watercolor on here. You know what? It's Christmas Day. I just woke up from a nap. Feeling a little run down, so I've been kind of resting a lot, but I wanted to get up and do something creative. So here we are. Nicholas— I see Nicholas Leto joined us on Instagram. That's so cool. Let me know how things are on the Instagram end. This is my first broadcast on Instagram, so hopefully it's going well.

Sketching.

I'm going to sketch some really loose lines here to create the idea of bricks. So let me know how the sound is. Are you hearing multiple soundtracks playing at the same time like I am? Something's up with my audio, but we'll figure it out. So we have this building here on the right with a clock. Got some bricks going on, so let's throw down some inky details. We're going to keep it loose just to indicate there's some brick happening here on the building.

Cool.

I like it, like it. And then I am going to break out some watercolor, like I said before. I'm going to zoom out so you guys can see more of that. Let's open up some water. And I feel like using like purplish kind of colors for the shadows. Linda says Merry Christmas, Jason Nicholas Nicholas, and every— thank you so much. I always appreciate that. Linda is always so positive out there in, um, chat land, comment land. I always— I love it. All right, so I'm gonna dip in here. Let's go crazy and not too crazy, but we're gonna make our own purple. You can see I have some purplish colors happening in here, so we'll just dip into there. You move my water on the left. That's where it usually is. There we go. Um, I'm going to grab some red, kind of throw it in here. I'm going to grab some blue. Red and blue make purple, I think, if I remember correctly. There we go. Yeah, so kind of a, kind of a nice purpley color happening, and I'm going to use that Just throw down some, some shadows here with that purple. Hope you guys are having a great day. If you're, uh, if you celebrate Christmas, that's awesome. If you don't, that's awesome too. I just hope wherever you are and you're just having a nice day in your Feeling healthy and happy. Cool. There we go. So you can see I'm throwing down that purple. Zoom in so you can see it better. I'm going to leave a lot of white space here. I don't want to color all this in. I'm just trying to create the idea we have some kind of glass happening there on, on those doors. We'll do the same thing. Maybe on the front here. Under this cornice, just give a little bit of— looks like there's a little bit of overhang with the shadow. So, I'm imagining the sun is kind of coming from this direction, like, came across, it's like coming down this way. So, I want this area to be kind of bright. The sound is good on YouTube now. Hey, that's awesome. I'm so glad.

Thanks for telling me.

Mixing up, mixing up some more purple. I actually like that color. There's a little more red in it than the other side, which I don't mind. And I think I'm going to give this building a kind of a wash to darken it up a little bit. I'm imagining this to be a sign here. I'm not sure what it's going to say. Maybe it's the name of a store. So I'm going to leave that area white. We'll fill it in with something. Pretty cool, I'm liking it. I'm gonna throw some of this down here as well on the street. "A quiet Christmas family day." There is nothing wrong with a quiet, quiet day. I actually, the older I get, the more I'm appreciating quiet days, so I get it. All right, cool. I like where this is headed. Let's add a little more interest to this tree in the background, and I think I'm going to break out a yellow highlighter. I have one here if I can get it out. I got it. Ta-da! So let's break out some— it's a Sharpie highlighter pen marker. Hey, Kaleidoscope Beatrix joined! Thank you for joining. And let's just throw down some highlighter on this tree. Zoom in. I love using Sharpie highlighters on sketches. Kind of fun. And maybe we'll even pop a little bit here on this. Imagine this to be a clock face. So, this is just a scene from my imagination. It's a continuation of my series. Here's another one. I call them Tree in the City sketches. This was one from a couple weeks ago, and I figured I would do another one. And we're actually gonna— let's try, um, green highlighter on here too, on this tree. Let me know if you guys have any questions or comments. I'm going to zoom in here as I'm going to do on the tree. I'm just going to kind of blot it, blot the highlighter here just to add a little more texture to this tree. So my style is quick, it's loose, whimsical, not going for detail. I'm just trying to kind of capture a scene that's in my brain.

It on paper.

So you can see as the Sharpie is getting absorbed into the paper, it's just creating a little bit of texture on that tree. That's all I want it to do. So there you go. Let's break out— let's go for Sharpie. I want to add some ink lines to this, add a little more patching here, darken some areas.

Pretty cool.

Sharpies do not like to work on wet areas, at least the Sharpie markers. I have a couple Sharpie pens here. Let's try this one here. So I have a Sharpie roller pen. I think it's a gel pen. This I should be able to get down some lines on top of the wet areas.

Here we go.

You know, just adding these small hatch lines here just to create the idea of shadow. Maybe this is a stone course that's going across the base of the building here, and it protrudes out a little bit from that brick underneath. So those hatch lines just help to create the idea of shadows there. Hey, I see you! Alas, it's Alison. Hey, thank you! And Jason. Hey, Jason, I haven't seen you in a long time. Hope all is well. Happy holidays to everybody. Alice, it's great to see you. Hope all is well. Merry Christmas to you and your family. So I think this is coming along nicely. I really love the way this is drying. So these are called hard edges. Let me zoom in. Boom. Right here, this hard edge. That's one of the things I love about ink and watercolor. You get these cool hard edges happening. For me, that's a lot of fun to see. And how's this drawing here? I like the way this tree is kind of drying up in here as well. So it's coming together pretty cool. Pretty cool. Is that proper English? I have no idea. That's why I teach architecture and CAD. I would not be a good language arts teacher, that's for sure. I'm lucky to be teaching something I love doing, which is a blessing for sure. Cool, guys. I'm going to just kind of run some lines on the sidewalk just to— I want to kind of create the idea of perspective. More depth on here. So I'm going to just throw in some more horizontal lines. They're going to be further apart here and get closer as I go back. So I'm going to just kind of leave that, right? Just kind of really scribble them in as it gets to the back. That just kind of creates a sense of, hey, the sidewalk, the view is actually going that way. It's a fun song. It's like crazy, crazy Santa music. All right, I might put this one aside and we'll maybe do a quick NYC inspired sketch, see what it said. Inkspire. Uh, I feel like I'm getting to the point where this one might start getting overworked. Still don't know what I want to write here on the sign, so I'm going to leave it blank for now and I can always come back to it. Part of me saying to pop out this canopy with a bright red. I don't know if I'm going to do that because my tree series, Tree in the City series, I've been like this with the buildings being kind of black, white, and gray, and the tree is really the only place where there's color. So to continue that, I think— yeah, I don't think I'm going to add red on this. I don't know, what do you guys— let me know in the chat, should I add red here? Hey, Alice says red would be nice. Alice, for you, let's throw some red on here. Let's live on the edge today. It's Christmas Day. Look, it happened. I messed up. Santa will come back and fix it. There are no mistakes in art, guys. Just for me, it's about being playful, fun, creative, trying things. And I think I'm going to use— we're going to throw down red with the Pilot Precise Pen. Instead of doing watercolor, let's use this red Pilot pen and we'll bleed it, bleed the ink, see how it looks. Thanks for your words of encouragement, Alice. I appreciate it. Harley Guy is in the house. Harley Guy, hope you're doing well. This is fun. This is my first stream, livestream on Instagram. So I'm on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram right now at the same time. Kind of cray cray. Thank you guys for watching. Feel free to put your comments in. Let me know if the quality is good on Instagram. And Facebook and YouTube. All right, so there we go. I threw down some red. Let's bleed that ink. I wet my brush here. Now let's see, it's gonna bleed some of that black ink too, but that's okay. What I may— might do is after this dries, come back with more red to Red it up, brightened up more. Um, so what do you guys think of the red? It's adding to like a Christmasy vibe. We have the green and reds going on. I kind of like it. You know what, I'm actually going to dip into some of the red watercolor and throw it on here really, really super thick. You can kind of see the brush there. It's really It's red. Oh yeah. Holy moly. Um, I just, I just reddened it up majorly. Yeah, yeah, Santa's outfit has nothing on this red, let me tell you. All right, cool. I'm going to leave it like this and let it dry. I actually— I'm loving the— loving that red. I do want to do a little more work on this tree, so I'm going to dip in. I'm going to grab some sap green watercolor. I think it's sap green. I don't really memorize colors, to be honest with you guys. I kind of paint from— I just kind of grab and go with the gut. I'll throw some of this green on here. Hey, Aaron's in. Aaron, great to see you. Hope all is well. So for this tree, I'm just dabbing into the watercolor. I'm actually going to lift some of this off, I think. Just want to give a little more texture. Actually, maybe not. I'm gonna let it dry like that. And I want to grab— I have, um, my other Lamy pen. I have a kind of a brownish color ink. It's like a caramel color ink in here. I'm gonna throw some down here at the base of the tree. It'll be really subtle. If it comes out. Since it's not coming out of the pen, I'm gonna dip the pen in some water, see if I can get the ink running. That worked. All right, so you can see I'm adding this brown color, and I'm gonna— I want to pull it down a little bit. I'm trying to create the idea of me You know, maybe this— we have sidewalks, maybe this is in the city and this could just be maybe a green, kind of a little green walkway or green pathway, green garden way in between these buildings here. I'm also going to dab some on the tree here as well. I really like the way this red is drying. Take a look at it close up. I feel a wet asphalt vibe with reflection. Yeah, so I'm glad you said that. That's my original intention with this sketch here and the ones I've done in the past. That's kind of what they were. So, Alice, you bring up a great point. What I love about keeping my sketches kind of really loose is that you guys looking at them can kind of use your imagination, fill in the blanks and see what you want to see.

All right, cool.

I mean, to Alice's point, if I want to make it more asphalt-y, what I would do is use my Art Graph stick and literally let's just throw some on there and we'll, we'll wet it, which is— this is water soluble, which is awesome. Because when I put water on it, I could basically paint with it. Or I like to call it sketch painting because I feel like I'm just sketching with the stuff. And to create that reflection look, I go— I like to go across and then pull it down a little more on top, maybe. Awesome. All right, guys, I'm gonna let this one dry. I'm gonna do one more sketch. I think I'm gonna do a bridge sketch. I haven't done one in a while, so we'll go back to— I'll show you my inspiration. Um, where's that post-it? There it is. So, here's a little sketch I did. I think it was last year or the year before. I did it in school while I was subbing for a class. Had a Post-it note and a pencil and sketched kind of this perspective bridge. So, I've been doing a series of these. I haven't done one in a while, so let's break one out. Yeah, let's do it. Why the heck not? We'll let this dry a little bit. But I'm gonna— you can kind of see the reflections kind of happening here as it's drying. Hey, Kim's in the house! Great to see you, Kim. Happy, happy Christmas. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. You guys are awesome. This is fun. All right, let's grab— I gotta So we're going to grab, uh, here's an 8-inch by 8-inch, 8-inch by 8-inch square. That is the right shape, square. It is not an 8-inch by 8-inch brownie cooking pan, though that's a good size for one. They're usually 9 by 9. I don't— I forget. Alright, so let's do this. I'm going to start with the sketch, start the sketch with a Sharpie. Why I'm using a Sharpie first is later when I go to add colors, the Sharpie black ink is not going to bleed all over the place. If I want ink to bleed that's black, I can grab my Lamy pen. I have some other pens and I could do that. But to start off with, we'll just use the Sharpie. I'm just— I keep looking over here, I'm looking on my wall to see if I have a bridge I can show you. I have 40 sketches based, inspired by New York City over here on this wall. Um, do you guys want to see the wall? Let me know, see if I can show you the wall.

Do it.

See if I can do this. I'm I'm moving the camera. All for no extra charge. Let's see if you guys can see this over here. I don't know if you're gonna be able to see it. That's my computer. Oh, rats. Can't really see it. All right, I'll take a picture. I've posted pictures of it. But I have a really cool wall over there with all kinds of sketches. But I don't see the one I'm looking for. All right. Enough talking, let's draw. [FOREIGN] This is meant just to be quick and loose and fun. These sketches usually— I'll usually have 2 or 3 layers. Ink layer, put on some color, and I'll come back and add some more details. So, let's make it into a perspective view, kind of coming back like this.

Draw an arch.

So, I'm a— I'm a huge fan of the brush Brooklyn Bridge. I think it's incredible. Um, this is not based on the Brooklyn Bridge, it's a sketch, but as I'm sketching this, I'm imagining walking across the Brooklyn Bridge right now. I've only done it once, and it was this past year. It was a bucket list item. Let me tell you, I cannot wait to do it again. It was just magical walking across This is just over a mile, I remember. You kind of have a bridge, another one in the distance, and I'm just going to rough it out. Show some cables maybe here. I'm going to just have fun and throw down Just basically random colors on here. Looking in my magic drawer here, so I want to pull out— driving me crazy, I don't know where these sketches went. The man says as he looks. It's so weird, I have— where they went.

It's all good.

So now it looks really kind of rough and sketchy. It'll start coming together more as I add more stuff to it, more colors. Cool. Hope you guys are doing well out there. Again, happy holidays if you're just tuning in. All right, we're going to just dip into the watercolor, run out a bunch of colors and Have fun. Actually, you know what, I'm gonna dip into some ink first. So the— this ink is— the color of this ink is Apple Snail, so it has a kind of a caramel color happening to it. Unfortunately, the manufacturer or the company is no longer— hasn't had this color in stock for a long time. I hope they bring it back because I'm really being, uh, not greedy. What's the word? What's that word when you're conscious about touching something? It's my pup. That's my pup Olivia. This is her first Christmas with us. She's awesome. Merry Christmas, Olivia. All right, cool. All right, so we threw down some ink on that.

Here's where we'll do—

we want to kind of recreate asphalt kind of look on this reflections. And I'm going to dig in. I'm going to grab some turquoise watercolor, which might be— might be almost out of it. Let's see what we got in here. I just love the color turquoise with this apple snail color. I'm going to have to get more of this turquoise paint at some point, which I can get on the brush.

Cool.

Let's throw down some orange. You guys have any questions, let me know. Hopefully you guys are doing something fun today, just hanging, relaxing. Anyway, we're home today, taking it laying low a little bit. Jason got a cold or something, or I don't know what it is, touch of the flu. I have, I have no idea, so I just need to really kind of rest up. I like that. I really like being home and quiet. Cool, I'm liking the way this is coming together. So this is like a railing on the side here. We're going to do another one here. Normally I would do these with the paper at— tilted at an angle so that water is running down.

I can't do that, but I should see if I just—

me, if I just kind of tilt it up. Let's try that. See how the water is running down? It's kind of puddling down here. I like that. This is going to dry really nicely. You can blow it down if you want. I'm gonna move them a little off to the side. Um, I want to throw down some yellow. I need a— I wanted some freshness to this. So when I think of yellow, I think of lemon, I think of cooking zest, right? Lemon just adds that kind of brightness to your dish. I do love cooking. Um, so I'm gonna grab some— this is lemon yellow, I think. Load the lemon yellow up on here. And you'll see as this dries, it'll start just kind of transforming.

There we go.

We kind of have our cable up there. Lots of times people will ask me or say to me, hey, uh, what you're painting isn't really an accurate color of what's out there. And I take that as a compliment because I'm not trying to recreate anything photorealistic. There are amazing gifted artists that can do that. I'm not one of them, so I really paint based on just kind of feeling. So these colors are what I'm feeling right now. That's cool. I feel like we do need some darkness, some, some kind of blue or some kind of dark color. So let's dip in and grab some, some of this blue body here. And this is the kind of sketch that I'll have to let dry and come back to it, add some more detail. I kind of feel like I want some along the edge here. Whoa, that is, that is strong blue. Holy moly. A little too— a little too much. I'll make it work though. Actually, I don't mind it. So it's starting to take shape, guys. Quick fun sketch. Hey, Chip's in the house! Great to see you, Chip. Merry Christmas. Alright, um, let's see, I might let this one sit and dry. We'll see how the other one looks, the one at the tree in the city that we started with. And there's one last thing I want to try before I end— I was gonna say end this call— before I, uh, sign out. We are not Zooming right now, although it would be fun to Zoom with some of you guys. I didn't do my hair today, so Not a good zoom day. Love the blues. Hey, Linda, thank you. Yeah, I think I'm agreeing with you. I think it needed that blue to kind of make the other colors work. Does that make sense? Hopefully that makes sense. Makes sense in my brain. All right, um, ta-da! So after this dries, I'll come back in with my Sharpie. We'll add some more more details to it. I'll post pictures of it or possibly even finish it live later today or tomorrow. We'll see. I'm gonna let it dry as is. Now let's take a look at the first one we worked on today. Put this over here. Zoom out. Ta-da! So this is how this one's looking. You know, I really, I'm really liking the red on here. So thank you, Alice, for backing me up there, throwing that out there. I like it. So when I look at this, of course my eye is going here, which is okay. I might need to put a pop of red somewhere on the side just to balance it. I think I'm gonna do that. This is, uh, this sketch is getting near the danger zone, the zone of we, um, going overboard with stuff. You know what, I'm having fun, so it's all good. Good with me. Love the red, really made it pop. Yeah, right? So cool. I love your comments, guys. Hey, Joyce is in the house! Merry Christmas, hope all is well. So we're gonna throw a pop some red over here, really subtle. I just need to balance it somehow diagonally here. At least that's what my brain says, and my brain sometimes crazy.

Creative.

We have creative brain. And it might be as simple as just this, just dabbing the brush on here. You know what, I think that's all it needs. We have some red and red. I don't want to— I'm going to stop right there before I get too carried away. "The red changed the whole feel and your acceptance of changes through art is pretty cool. I would have crumpled it thinking I made a mistake." Yeah, I get it. So something I really, really try to work hard on is creative mindset where there are no mistakes. I know that sounds kind of cheesy, but everything happens for a reason. You know, do I love this? This is not my favorite sketch I've ever done, but what I love about it is the takeaway. The takeaway today is, hey, go for it, you know, throw some color on there that you weren't expecting. You know, always— you can always take away something from even sketches or artwork you don't like. Kind of a life lesson, right? Cool. One thing I do feel like I need is some texture on here. So let's pretend this is a stucco building. Um, so I'm just gonna do some stippling. Stippling is really therapeutic. If you guys don't know what stippling is, it's basically this scrap paper. I was gonna try something this later. Stippling is just literally doing this, just creating dots. Time to get the ASMR video going. This is very therapeutic, by the way. It's a great way to damage the, uh, tips Sharpies. So, um, in architect world, that's one of the ways we like to show stucco on buildings is to stipple it. So I'm just going to do some stippling. I'm going to rotate the paper because I almost did, uh, the infamous left-hander trick— put my palm in the red paint. That would not have been cool. Although it's not art unless you wear it, right? So I am definitely wearing some art here on my palm. It's officially artwork. Hey, Eagle Scout Kiko's in. Kiko, how are you? Great to see you. Happy, happy holidays. Merry Christmas, my friend. All right, let's throw some texture on this building. Like I said, I'm going to rotate it. There is nothing wrong with your computer or your phone right now, the drawing is upside down. Unless you had too much eggnog today, then it actually may look right side up to you. Anybody that could drink something with the word egg in it, kudos to you, my friends. Yeah, that's all I'm gonna say.

I can't—

I don't— I can't do eggs.

Especially—

is there actually eggs in eggnog? I have no idea. Let me know. I feel like when I was a kid I had it. So I'm just going to have some of this stippling. I don't want to get too carried away. It's a little too dark, so I might switch it up. Maybe— I have a pencil here. Don't be afraid to use different tools. So I'm breaking out the pencil so the stippling is a little bit lighter, if you can see.

Here.

I like that better. Let's do some— uh, something just popped into my brain. Let me sketch here. I don't know, maybe a sign here or something. Give some life to that.

Very cool.

Merry Christmas, it says. Thank you so much, guys. This is a real treat. Thank you for tuning in on Christmas Day. And especially, this is fun being on Instagram Live. Yippee! So cool. So, uh, on YouTube I'm at 552 subscribers. Not that it's number that matters, but it's cool. My goal was to get to 600 before the end of the year. So, I'm getting pretty close to that, just a personal challenge. But for me, it's really about the quality of person watching and commenting. You guys are stellar, so thank you. I'll flip it over. So, you can see we just add a little bit of texture to that, so it's just not a totally white. I was sketching in, you know, like restaurants or sometimes— will sometimes have a sign Maybe this is a restaurant here. I don't usually sketch with pencil first. I usually go right for the ink. So, Alice, that's another mindset thing for me is when I'm sketching, I would say 9 times out of 10, 9.7 times out of 10, I will start with ink. I'll start with a Sharpie. That way my brain isn't— how do I say this? If I did— if I sketched in pencil, I would know I have an eraser available to me and I would sketch something in pencil, want to erase it if I didn't like it, redraw it, erase if I didn't like it. When I have a Sharpie, I know I'm stuck with it. So, what I'm throwing down, that's it. I can make it work. Um, or the challenge is making it work, not being able to erase any. So comes back to the whole mindset thing. And I did put my palm in the red paint, as you can see. Um, so it's all good. So, you know, that's just another kind of trick, mindset. Just try different mediums. Or if you're me, you would be a large because I don't wear a medium. Alright, I know, I know. Leave the puns. Leave the puns somewhere else. Uh-huh. Linda says, "I love eggnog." You do? Awesome! That is so cool. I don't— what is— guys, can someone tell me what the heck is an eggnog? I have no clue. Maybe there's a menu here with some kind of writing or something going on. And I want to pop that out a little bit. I'm going to throw down some highlighter on here. I just want this to kind of, I don't know, I feel like popping this out a little bit. Aight, so it might be done, guys. Yes, the man got red here. I'm gonna just sharpen up some of this red that I put my palm in. There we go. Ta-da! I think this one's done, other than maybe writing something here. And maybe it's a marquee. I'm not sure what to write there yet, so I'm not going to force it. All right, cool. So let's hold these next to each other. You can see this is Tree in the City 3-ish because I can't remember if it was 3 or 4. I did this one a couple weeks ago, so this one I guess will be Tree in the City 4-ish. Um, the more I'm looking at this, the more I'm really, really loving that pop of red. Let me zoom in so you can guys see it. So you've got again That's why I don't teach language arts. I can't speak. But I don't care. Just be yourself. Just do you, right? It's going even closer. Check this out. I want you guys to look at that for a few seconds as I drink some cold tea now. Book it! Book it! Linda says, book it! Buch Ei Tee. This is very nice ginger lemon tea. I think it's Bigelow brand, so maybe. Yes, Bigelow tea. Ta-da! You can see it. Anyway, it's good. I'll pan around so you can kind of see a little more of it. Yeah, I'm liking it.

Pencil.

I want to add a little More squigglies in the tree here. Let's squiggle it up a little bit. I'm using a pencil just to keep it a little bit lighter. I'm going to pull this trunk down, smudge it a little bit. Must be Christmas Day. I'm using using a pencil, which is something I rarely do. Christmas has given me a creative confidence boost. This— that was actually cool. Look at the texture that came out when I was using my pencil. You can see the texture of the paper underneath. It almost has a, a cobblestone type of feel to it. That's just the texture of the paper coming through. As I put the graphite on there. That was kind of a cool surprise. I love old cobblestone streets. There's just something magical about them. And I know there are some— where are they in New York City, cobblestone streets? Down by South Street Seaport, maybe down that way. It's just a whole nother world charm.

Cool.

All right guys, let's sign this one, call it done. We're gonna sign it. I like to sign on the side, but I didn't— you know, actually, we're just gonna sign here on the edge of the building. This is very nice. Hey, thank you. Al says there are less and less of them. Yeah, I know, sad, right? Alice, am I right? Is it down by South Street Seaport? That is one part of city I have not really explored. I am in love with Hudson Yards and the High Line. That is— and I'll be there probably Wednesday or Thursday this week. I'm just in love with that part of the city. 12. I like to put the month and then the year, so 12/23. Do the cool artist thing where you put your signature or a date or something in the square. Cool, there you go. Ta-da! Um, so I'm— let's see, so I'm gonna make So as always, my originals are available if anybody's ever interested in letting me know. Um, also you can get— sorry, there's a little marketing plug, but I've had people ask me— this is available as a, as a print, mugs, t-shirts. Go to JasonFineArt.com. Um, it's on there. I don't have this one yet there, obviously. I'll put that on as well. Everybody's looking for a cool idea, wants to If anybody has any ideas, what should I write here in the sign? I think this is awesome. Yeah guys, this came out really cool. And then the last thing I was going to play around with today, if you still want to watch, that would be so cool. Just be real quick. I'm bad at saying goodbye, especially when I'm creating, sketching. This is my world, I love it. Um, I just threw down some colors on here randomly, some ink, watercolor, and I just wanted to break out my— where's my light aqua? So I love this light aqua color. It's just a regular colored pencil. I don't know if we use the pink today or not, but I thought it'd be fun just to maybe sketch with the colored pencil on here, just kind of see what it looks like. I'm really just I just want to see how the colors are going to go together. Always looking to create industrial, grungy kind of vibes in my architectural sketching. I love old industrial buildings, so I'm trying to always— I'm always trying to play around with different colors and effects for those industrial type sketches. All right, talking a lot today.

Sorry.

I'm just gonna randomly just draw.

I don't know what—

maybe we'll just throw a cityscape or something. I don't know, figure it out.

What I like about the Prismacolor Color pencils.

I just love the way they go down on paper. It's like so smooth, like butter. Some water towers up here. As I was sketching this, the Domino Refinery building just popped into my brain. So, um, I'll have a reference somewhere. We have a reference. I know it's basically— there's a kind of a curved roof on it. We got the chimney coming up here. And the music is over. Signs over here. Eh, let's just sketch. You can see I'm loving the colors here. This light aqua against These rusty background colors is working really well. I need music when I'm sketching. 55 minutes I've been on. Holy moly. All right, we'll round it out at an hour. So 5 more minutes. Uh, let's just play this playlist. Even if you guys— can you guys even hear the music? Yes, South Street still has. Oh, awesome. Something in French. Oh, there's something in French on that sign. That's a cool idea. About, uh, chez Crayola. Let's all put that sign. We'll say chez Crayola. I don't know what that means in French. All right, cool. Um, so there you go. So I just want to be playful, try these colors out. I'm really liking it. I also love that just the texture that's been shown. Tada! There we go. All right, enjoy your evening, Jason Nicholas Nicholas, everyone. Hey Linda, take care, it's great seeing you. I'm definitely going to be wrapping up here, guys. Thank you so much for your kindness, your joy out there on the chat, your inspiration, your encouragement. Um, awesome, awesome stuff. Here we go, the final look at this. I like the idea of something in French here. It has to be written in kind of like a cursive, you agree? This is what I might have to actually practice on scrap paper. Oh, here's a— anybody's been to Dumbo down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass? Here's that classic view. This is a really quick sketch I did of it. It's on scrap paper. What should we write? Shay Crayola. I can't fit that all on there. How do you spell Shay? C-H-E-Z.

I don't think we'll do this one.

Anybody know how to write in cursive? They're not teaching it in school anymore. That is— does that look like Che, that does not look— I forgot how to make a Z in cursive. C-H-E. What do I do with Z? My gosh. One thing I don't do is calligraphy. I wish I did. Aren't Z's like that? Aren't Z's like this? I don't know. Looks like Chen. C-H-E-N. I'm gonna have to Google that one. It's not as exciting. This is not exciting.

I do that.

All right, this is going to take some practice. Anyway, we could put something like that on the sign here. Who the heck knows? Make it look like words but not really. Break up the script. Oh, all right. Ding ding ding ding! 10 points for Alice. Alice has her creativity cap on. Love it, love it. Break it up. Oh man, you're probably— you guys are probably sitting there cringing right now, like, what the heck I still— I don't know how to do the Z. I don't know why I keep doing Z's like that. I don't— All right, guys, this is going to take practice. We have discovered a weakness of mine, but that's fun. Now it's something I can look up and learn and figure out how to do. So I love a challenge. Yeah, CHEZ. Thank you, Alice. Yeah, this is— should I go something different without a Z in it? How about café? Wait, is that French? Café? I just put café. Let's keep it generic. Draw like a little coffee cup or something. I love this song. This song reminds me of Batman. All right, that is not a great coffee cup, but we can do the— kind of like the we do something like this? Is this better? All right, let me know before I head off, guys. Do we go with option 1 or we go with something more like option 2? Hey, Agents in House, Merry Christmas! Hope all is well. Great to see you, man. All right, Alice's Cafe is perfect. All right, so we'll go with cafe in here and maybe we'll do a little coffee cup logo. No cup. Wow, this is like no cup or is that too cheesy? Am I getting too cheesy? Alright, should I do it on air? I'm afraid to do— this I actually might do in pencil. I'd say I was afraid to try sketching, drawing. I'm not afraid. But I might do it in pencil and go over it with ink. Or we might just let it sit like that for a while. Here, we'll do it on tracing paper. This is how I sometimes practice, guys. Trace paper. This is— trace paper is the gift to architects all over the world. I have definitely seen more trace paper than any other, any other kind of paper around my career. So guys, if you are working on something with artwork and you are afraid to throw it on the original thing, don't. Two things. Number one, take pictures as you're working on something. Take pictures of your work at different stages. That way you always have a photo you can go back to. So, for example, I'm recording this, which is great, so I can go back to any part of it. So, before I added the red, I could go back to, you know, just black and white. I didn't like the red. Second thing is don't be afraid to use trace paper. So, we have— I can kind of play around and sketch in here. Zoom in so you can see it bigger. So, we were going to do café. It's gonna be a little tricky. It's on an angle, kind of an angle. I don't know if it'll fit the whole thing. I'm actually gonna kind of give myself some guidelines here. See, E, I'm starting with here, so I know what I could fit in. I'm gonna go F here, right? F. F. Yeah, I might have to go back and look at my cursive. F. So I don't think we can fit the C, but we'll get the A in. So it's F.A. How's that look? I don't know if you guys like the F.A. I'm not going to fit the C on here because the C would be like way— It'd be off my paper or something. So we're only going to fit AFE. I think that could work. Then we got to do some, some kind of lights here. Marquee has— I love marquees. So if you don't know what a marquee is, it's a sign typically associated with like theaters. So if you're walking around the city, you have those big signs outside of theaters announcing the name of the show or the movies. Um, I think that's French. Marquee, I think it's French too. All right, so we'll put the lights up there. Am I getting— now am I getting cheesy again? I don't know. Hey, you guys are awesome! I'm topping off here, 105. So, um, thank you for joining me live today. Thank you guys on Instagram. This was fun. First time I live streamed to Instagram, but, um, love it, love it. I'm also on YouTube at the same time and Facebook. So, um, thank you guys for watching on Facebook. I know Chip was over there, and I think, uh, Linda H was over on YouTube. That was so cool over there. I have a bunch of you guys here on Instagram, so Aiden and Alice, thank you so much. Uh, A bunch of you guys are on here. If I forget your name, I'm sorry, but thank you all for tuning in. I really, really appreciate it. I'll be back on again real soon, and feel free to leave me comments. Let me know what you think about the sketch, or if you have any questions or suggestions. I think I'm liking it. Guys, enjoy the rest of your day. Have a merry, merry, merry Christmas. Maybe on either later today or maybe tomorrow, we'll see how the day goes. Take care, everybody. Peace. Live creatively. See you guys real soon. And I did— yes, I did not do my hair, so pardon the hair today. All right, guys, it's one of the cool things about break. Peace out.