Tuesday Night Sketch and Chill

Hey guys, um, Jason Nicholas Nicholas here from The Inkspired Life, where I love sketching architecture, urban sketching, sketching anything.

I just—

I love art, I love colors and being creative, uh, and fun and playful. Hope you're having an awesome Tuesday. It is, uh, October 7th. I gotta cheat and look at the calendar. Yeah, October 7th. This time of the year goes so fast. I don't know about you guys, but it just flies by. Um, yeah, so it's hard to keep track of the days. So I thought I'd pop on tonight. Um, I've been sketching some kind of scenes kind of inspired by fall colors, um, and they're ending up being like barn scenes. So I thought I'd sketch maybe another barn tonight. With some fall colors. Um, and I'm actually going to be doing an online barn sketching workshop, um, towards the end of this month. So stay tuned, um, for some announcements about that. I'd love for you to join me in the workshop. Be like a 2-hour online workshop. We'll, um, I'll walk you through my sketch framework, how I like to approach sketching um, with some techniques and some mindset tips as well. So let's, let's sketch a barn. This is the sketch from last night, and I think it came out kind of cool. Um, I love the colors on here. So we're gonna go to a blank page, and we're just gonna, we're just gonna sketch. I'll try to talk my way through it a little bit so you can get, get into my brain. Um, so let's do it. Let me know where you're watching from. Let me know if you have questions. And also let me know, what is your favorite fall food? Do you have any favorite fall foods or fall treats? Um, I love apple cider donuts. It's one of my favorite fall things. All right, let's do it. So I'm going to start with my sketch with a Sharpie tonight. I love using Sharpies. They're awesome to start with. That way, if I go and I add color or watercolor or ink afterwards, the black Sharpie ink is not going to bleed. So it's a really good starting point. This is just for my imagination. Usually when I start— usually when I sketch architecture buildings, I tend to start with the roof or the top first. Um, so let's just do it. We're gonna make like a wonky kind of barn. Sharpie's kind of dying out, so I have a backup. Always keep a backup Sharpie. And have a backup for your backup because sometimes the backup doesn't work.

Oh boy, let's go, let's go and let's grab another Sharpie.

I have been having the worst luck with Sharpies. I don't know why, and it's not— I'm not dissing Sharpie. Could be, I don't know, the humidity, the conditions, the temperature in my room. I have no idea, but my Sharpies are like drying out super quick. Let's go for this one. Oh, this— no, I don't want that one. All right, all right, when all else fails, we got a Sharpie roller or ball pen, so let's go for that. Oh boy. So barns are known for this kind of shape roof. It's called a gambrel roof. Gambrel. So I kind of have the roof shape down. These are really fast, kind of quick, loose lines. Not going for perfection, just going for kind of wonky on this. Your barn comes down here. Um, we'll just kind of show maybe the ground doing something like that. Alright, cool. So I think I'm just going to leave the lines like that for now. So I have the roof, just some walls on there. And I just want to throw down color. So I got some watercolor here.

I'm going to dig into, um, some fall colors.

I'm going to start with orange. So I'm just put some water on my brush, going to dip into the orange paint. We're just going to throw some on the barn here. Um, so this Sharpie rollerball pen, it bleeds. You see how the black ink's bleeding a little bit, whereas the marker doesn't bleed like that.

But it's all cool, we're just having fun throwing color down.

That's really the name of the game. Here we got some orange happening. I like going outside the lines, it just keeps it looking looser. Uh, let's dip into some There we go. So I'm just picking up some— for me, what I'm imagining fall colors are, you know, we got oranges, yellows. Uh, let's grab some green. We'll put some green maybe on the ground for now. I like to think of this as kind of sketch painting. I'm just really keeping it quick and loose here. All right, let's throw some really cool pops of color. Um, let's look at some of this neon— what they call it, is it neon orange? The official name of this is fluorescent. We got fluorescent orange here. I'm just gonna go for it. I'm just gonna throw it on the paper and see what happens. I think I'm— I think I'm just gonna drop it, drop it and go. Put a little bit on there. Hasn't been used in a while. So it's kind of, it's kind of clumpy. We'll unclump it. Yeah, you can see it's kind of a little clumpy there, but check out how vibrant that is. Like super bright. I don't know if it's showing up on camera that well, but it's just super bright. Even throw some on the yellow. All right, so I just scribbled some kind of rocks on the bottom here. Hey Mark on Instagram, good to see you, hope all's well. So maybe an old kind of wonky barn. We have a stone base there. We have our door. I don't want to show this, um, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to show it— I want to show it kind of open, so I'm actually going to pull it out past the corner a little bit. So we'll cover that up, no worries. Again, this is quick, loose, wonky, just having fun. I know there are no mistakes when you're just throwing stuff down, when you're really not setting out to make something perfect. That's why I love sketching like wonky style, loose style buildings, because you're not setting yourself up to be perfect, perfect, uh, straight lines, right? Wonky can be crazy, the lines can be, um crooked, bent, broken. So it just allows a lot of freedom. All right, let's throw it on Probably my favorite watercolor color is turquoise. So we're gonna make— we're gonna, um, we're gonna say this barn has like a— we'll give it like an old rusty metal roof, and we'll just start with by throwing down some turquoise on it.

It's kind of mixing with the ink underneath, which is cool.

I'm going to mix some red and blue. I want to make my own purple color, and I'll show you where I want to put that. Let me just mix some up here. I'll bring it over so you guys can see me mixing it up. So I'm just dipping into the red. Boom. Some blue. I'm pretty messy, uh, with my watercolor palette. I am not a— I am not a professional watercolorist.

Um, I can't—

I have— you could see I'm mixing paints here, I'm mixing the colors here. It's, it's messy, but you know what, sometimes messy equals fun. All right, so I have kind of a purplish color happening. Let's throw down some of that, that purple. And I kind of— I'm imagining it in here just to help create some depth or shadow. And we'll throw some— maybe, let's see. Maybe the sun's coming from this way, so maybe we have a— we'll have a shadow kind of under this part of the roof. Just want to create the illusion or idea of some depth happening, and I'll come back, add more to it. I'll add even some ink some hatch lines. It'll make it look even pop out even more. Actually, I just dipped into a little more blue. There we go. I'm gonna wrap up in 5 minutes because I didn't know it was after 10.

I'm gonna get, get myself to bed. Yeah, I like the color combos happening. Cool.

I think I'm gonna throw some red on here. Definitely will come back after it dries with a Sharpie and add some— pull out some details. We're kind of in rapid-fire creation mode right here. Let's see, I think I have a— do I have it here? I'm gonna have like a hair dryer thingy to help dry this quicker. I'm trying to think, um, trying to decide what color I want to do the barn door. I, I think, I think I know what I'm gonna do. That'll be the last thing I do tonight, and I'm gonna be really, uh, really brave. I'm gonna go for it. All right, all right, um, the last thing I'm going to do tonight, we're going to end on a really brave note. I'm going to use fluorescent pink for the door of the barn. No other reason than it's just kind of what I'm feeling right now, to be honest with you. Just going for it.

Pff pfff! Pfft— All right, I'm going to zoom out—

zoom in so you can see how it look— how it's out looking. And we're going to wrap up, blot some of that off there.

Cool.

Loving these colors, really fun. So after it dries, I will come back, I'll add some details. I want to call out some of the, um, roofing, metal roofing, a little bit better. Pull out some of the lost details from all the colors happening, pop the outline of the, um, barn out a little bit more as well. Um, maybe we'll hatch in some of the stonework, and I'll do hatch lines also where the overhangs are to make it— make it have a little more depth to it. All right guys, thank you so much for watching. This has been the Inkspired Life with, um, me, um, Jason Nicholas Nicholas, where I love sketching architecture, urban sketching, and just sketching in general. All right, until we meet again, sketch boldly, live creatively, and inspire endlessly. See you next time.