Tuesday Night Sketch + Chill

Hey, it's, um, Tuesday, October 14th. Yeah, Tuesday, October 14th, 2025. I'm Jason with The Inkspired Life, where I love sketching architecture, design, urban sketching. Yeah, just, uh, really cool stuff that I, I love doing. I hope you guys are doing great today. Uh, I'm gonna work on this barn sketch I started last night. You can see if you were watching last night, um, you remember the process of how I kind of created it up to this point. And I'll zoom in so you can see it. I really, I really like the colors, the way, um, they dried. And if you didn't watch live last night, you can go back and catch the replay on— go to my YouTube channel at The Inkspired Life, and you can definitely see, um, the replay of it there. You might have to go under the live videos on my YouTube channel to see it. So yeah, let's do some sketching. Let me zoom in. I want to add some detail to this. Um, I see Kiko and Ed on Paper over on Instagram. Good to see you, hope all's well. Thanks for tuning in. So now this is all dried, I'm going to come back with my Sharpie. I just want to add some details on some hatching lines and maybe pull some things out a little bit more. So I'm going to work on this for a few minutes and then I'll do a do some other sketch tonight. I'm not sure what we're going to do. If you do like this barn you're seeing, I have an online workshop coming up on October 26th from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM Eastern Time, um, where we'll be sketching barns, or at least a barn similar to what you see here. Just same kind of loose style I'll be throwing some fall-inspired colors on it as well. So I'll just have you join the workshop. There's a link on the upper left of the screen or in the notes, comments, description, all that fun stuff. All right, so let me— I'm just going back over some of these with Sharpie, some of these lines. I want to pull them out a little bit. And that's one of the cool things about just adding layers. You could come back after this dries and you can definitely, like I'm doing now, just go with a Sharpie and add some lines just to create a little bit of shadow there. If you're watching, be sure to say hello in the comments. I'd love to see who's watching and say thank you. I appreciate you spending some livestream time with me. It's always an honor to have people watch and follow along. Plus, it's just fun. It's more fun for me if I can interact with you guys because, you know, I get to hang out with me all day and it gets kind of tiring. Just saying. So, um, although I get to hang out with like 80 different kids every day too, and I love it, it's awesome. But it's fun to hang out with you guys too. Cool. So I kind of like adding this hatch line here. I think it kind of just pulled this piece out a little bit more. This is supposed to be bumped out or cantilevered out past the main past the main foundation. So I'm going to add some shadows underneath here so it looks like it's kind of coming out past the stone wall underneath. And same thing with this little piece, is kind of bumped out as well. So we're going to add some hatch lines there and pull that out. Hey Kiko, great to see you over on YouTube. Hope all is well, man. Great to see you on the YouTube side of things. Hope you're doing well, my friend. Kiko, is it better watching me on YouTube or Instagram? Which do you like better? I'm curious. Is YouTube— is YouTube a better viewing experience, or is Instagram Cool. Yeah, I'm loving this. This is looking really awesome. Bring it on, bring it on. This one might be almost done. I don't know what we're gonna sketch next. I don't know, do I want to do another barn? I might not. I might not do a barn. We'll see. Yeah, I, I don't know what else I'm going to add to this. I think this is done, guys. So here you go, I'm going to get kind of get closer. I'll hold it here so you can see it zoomed in. Ta-da! All right, all right, let's go back. Let's see, how many barns have I sketched in the past week? We got one. Boom, boom, shakalaka! We got one. This is like Sesame Street. One, one brightly colored barn. Two brightly colored barns. I like this guy in this one. It came out kind of cool. Yeah, let's go back. So if you notice this one, I— oh, I did do a sky, silly me. I kind of like the fall colors. This is like a gray fall day. Kind of like it, like it. This one I did two little sketches of, like a farmhouse, and then we have a barn here as well. Barn there, done that. Barn there, done that. Dad jokes will forever be part of my DNA. I can't help it. This might be my favorite one of the bunch. I love the colors. I especially love this vibrant door, is so fun. Oh, and I stopped, I stopped counting, guys. Holy cow. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Do we have more? This one's kind of cool, like the perspective kind of looking back. This, I imagine this being maybe a covered bridge back here. 6. We got 6, 6 brightly colored barns. Pretty awesome. And if you like what you're seeing with the barns, you want to learn how to get into my brain, my mindset when I'm sketching these things, these, uh, barns, check out the link in the upper left. I went in the chat as well for my upcoming workshop on October 26th, which is not that far away. Hmm. All right, let's do a sketch. What do I want to do? I have not— I have no idea. Do I want to play around this? I don't know, should I see if I can make something out of this? You know what, I know we got a bunch of scribbles here, but let's just, um, this is creative playground time, right? Actually, you know what, I am— I'm going to change my mind. Let's get a— we'll do a fresh piece of paper. I'll just do it on the back side here. There we go. What should I sketch? All right, we're just going to throw some lines down and see what happens. All right, all right, I'm feeling something now. Maybe we'll do some kind of just castle. Maybe we'll do a wonky castle type of structure. I haven't sketched a castle in a while. Cool. All right, so I'm getting some castle vibes going here. There's some towers going on. We have, um, these pieces. I think it's called crenellation, maybe. Kind of looks like a crown. Got the crenellations going at the top. Got our turrets here. We need our, um— oh my gosh, who's that? Who's a princess that was in the tower and she let her hair down? My gosh, I can't think of her name. We need— we have her little balcony here. What the heck? Who was that princess that let her hair down? Yeah, anyway, that's her balcony. I can't think of her name. Rapunzel? Rapunzel. Yeah, Rapunzel. So that's Rapunzel's kind of balcony there. You guys see that? I'm at the zoom out. There we go, let's zoom out a little bit. All right, we got some castle shapes going on here. Um, what else? What else does a castle have that I need to show? How about— oh yeah, we need to do the, the, uh, drawbridge, the gate, the port— the portcullis. If there's any castle aficionados, let me know if I'm using the right terms. I think the portcullis is the big kind of metal gate at the castle entry. Yeah, cool. Let's throw some color down. We're just kind of messing around, just having fun, being playful tonight. All right, let's do that. Let's just go for it. Let's just grab and go with, with, uh, some colors. Just for fun, I think I'm going to use the same fall colors I've been using and put it on the castle. Yes, cool. I'm liking the colors on it. I don't know if you have any questions and/or comments. I let this dry for a sec. Um, this will be fun to come back and add some details. I'll pull out some of the— I'm thinking some of the stonework on here. Definitely come back, we'll add some hatching for some shadows. We'll make the kind of the turret here, the tower, look round. So it's just like the beginning, and it's always fun to see how these things transform from a blank sheet into something. And that's my goal, just to have something on the paper. I'm not looking for anything specific. I don't have expectations other than, um, just to have fun doing it. And that's what it's all about for me, really. Just kind of the creative playground. Just have fun and go for it and throw stuff down on papers. So, uh, this is going to dry really, really nicely. So let me— I'm going to flip back to the barn sketching for a second just to show you. Let's see, I might mess this up, but that's okay. So if you just look at how some of these barn sketches dried, we'll go to this one here. This was about adding just different layers on there and different colors, and it just kind of— the vibrancy and the pink really popped when I came back and added more onto it. And the ink details, just pulling out some of the lines like on the roof area and some of the shading. That's, you know, that's what we'll do with this fun kind of whimsical castle sketch. Same thing, it's got to start somewhere. Um, and go for it. Hello, Mink Tuchinda, how are you? Good to see you on Instagram. Hope all is well. I'm so glad, uh, that you're following me. That's so cool. It's good to see you. So yeah, this is kind of drying really nicely. I'm going to throw down a really fun color. I love this color, guys. Um, if you want— if you like bright orangey colors, this is cool. It's called Inferno Orange, and I don't know if you could see in there at the bottom, it has— it has like gold flecks in there. I'm not sure, I don't think it's real gold, I don't know what it is, but Um, when it dries, it has like a shimmer to it, and it's just a really fun color. I use this a lot on when I do Statue of Liberty torch sketches. Actually, you know what, let's, let's do it while I'm talking about it. I have a sketch here I started on the bus. Here, let's do it. Um, we'll let this dry. So this is a sketch I started, I did on the bus past— this past Saturday when I was going to New York City. I like to sketch torches when I'm on the bus, and then I try to give them out in the city. So, um, this one I didn't give out that day. But let's throw down some of that Inferno Orange, and you can kind of see what I mean by the color. I'm going to zoom in on the— look towards the top here. Yeah, I, I love sketching these torches. I've given a bunch out, and one of the most fun things I did giving this out was I gave it out to, um, a guy that works at a donut place, and it's called Dough Donuts. Shout out to Dough, a bunch of locations. This was the one by Rockefeller Center, and it was just so cool giving the sketch to him. He was so happy. Uh, we made a We made a connection, and so whenever I go in there now, he remembers me. Um, it's just fun just to be able to give away some art. And shout out to Roo, my creative mentor and friend, Michael Han, for, um, kind of pushing me and encouraging me to do that kind of stuff. All right, let's throw some of this down here. Let me know if you need me to zoom closer. So this is called Inferno Orange. Ooh yeah, I'm actually loving it already. Sometimes I'll actually even just touch it down here. Maybe we'll put some— kind of add it some other places as well. I love the Statue of Liberty. I I've only been there once. I definitely need to go back again. Just a really— it is so cool to see in person. And there's that color. Look at how, how much that pops. Um, it'll I don't know if the camera's picking it up because of the lighting, but in person it's awesome, and it's going to dry even better. Actually, I'm liking this. Maybe I'll keep working on this torch for a little bit more. So I have the Barn Workshop coming up on August— not August, October 26th. Check out the link on the screen, also in the comments. I'd love for you to check it out and sign up. That would be cool. Um, I have nobody that signed up, to be honest with you. Nobody signed up for it, and it's okay. I'm not taking it personally, it's just— it's all good. I'd like to have people— someone sign up. All right, if no one signs up, that's good too. It's all good. But anyway, boom. Maybe one day I'll do a torch sketching workshop. So we'll let this dry. I'm going to come add some more stuff to it. I need a drink of water. There we go. Okay, let's break out some color pencils, I think. They're over here. Let's put down some neon yellow. This is a fun color. It literally looks like a highlighter color. It's so fun. Let me put the cap on this before I spill it. Uh, let me— let's grab some Sharpie creative marker. Yeah, I like the way this is looking. Maybe some red. We need some red on this. Oops. Yeah, I like the way this is looking. Let me zoom out. So there you go, you can get a good overview of the torch. Um, this Inferno Orange is drying really nicely. I don't know, let me see if you can see some of the golden flecks that are happening on there. Let me get close. If you kind of look at the top here, it's probably hard to pick up on camera, but there's some gold flecks happening in that So I think you can see it when I kind of shimmer it, right? Hey, Alan, nice, thank you for joining me on Instagram. Great to see you. So you can see that kind of shimmering orangey color happening there. I, this, I will never get tired of sketching the Statue of Liberty torch. Never get tired of sketching St. Patrick's. Never get tired of sketching the Brooklyn Bridge. Um, probably my top— those are my top 3, and the Copper Building, top 4 favorite NYC, um, structures, architecture that I love sketching. Yeah, this is cool. So yeah, so this, this was started on the bus ride last week. Going to the city, and, um, it was fun to come back and add a little bit to it tonight. I think this one might be a wrap. I don't— I kind of like— I kind of like it the way it is. I was— I could add more color. I like a lot of white space. I think we'll leave it. And then a shout out to my friend Chip, who— when I met up with him in North Carolina back in, I think, April I forget when it was. Um, he had a suggestion of signing these torches that say— with the saying 'Be the Light.' So thank you, Chip. Um, I appreciate you for, for that inspo. Pretty cool, right? All right, let's see how the— you guys want to see how the barn— let's see how the barn looks, the one we added some details to, and then we'll show you the castle. So here is my fall-inspired barn that worked on a little bit. We've kind of wrapped it up tonight. How is it looking? Here it is. So here is our fall color-inspired barn that we wrapped up tonight. Um, I like, I like how the details came out. Let me zoom in. Just a really simple trick. My cameras might be a little wonky with the zoom. I want you guys to see, see the hatching. So this hatching here, a couple things. One, I like to hatch in my shadows rather than doing like a solid color because the hatch lines help me to keep that loose style I like so much. It's kind of scratchy looking, right? So these are the hatch lines right here, these kind of black angled lines. And so it helps to give a little bit of depth and shadow. I did the same thing on the side here of this piece that protrudes out from that side of the barn, and also you can see some here as well. And I also like to do the hatching under the roof eaves and overhang areas. So it's just a kind of a pro tip if you want to keep this things looking loose, that's a great way to do it. I think it's fine. I was just thinking about adding some more, but this is another example of leaving white space. What I like about white space is that it allows the imagination of the viewer, of you, to kind of fill in the blanks. So hopefully people will look at my sketches a little bit longer, they'll linger. On the— trying to be deep here— they're going to linger on the nothingness of the sketch. That's kind of cool. So linger on the nothingness of the sketch, right where there's nothing happening, the white spaces. Cool. So that is the nothingness of the sketch. I don't know if I should— should I use that again in the future? Try to make it sound deep and technical. Not technical, just Fun. I am not a technical sketcher. When I do my architecture, yeah, that's— those are technical, precise drawings. This is my, uh, other side of the brain working. This one dried pretty well too. I really— looking at the colors on the roof, I'm thinking if I were to draw hay on these Sketch some hay. These would be great hay colors you see on the roof. This is a fun technique too here. I call these growies. Think of them as, um, grasses growing up or weeds kind of growing up or flowers growing up around your buildings. So this was just wet paint that I kind of just blew and got that cool little kind of spikiness happening there. Basic same color palettes. So these are all fall-inspired colors. Um, and actually these are pretty much my favorite colors I use all the time as well, but they happen— they happen to lend themselves really nicely to the fall. And if you guys are interested in learning how I sketch like this and getting into my brain a little bit more, check out the workshop coming up on October 26th. It's online. Love for you to join me. There's a link in the upper left, um, also in the chat, in the comments, or should you want to— this here, actually, here you can see the Inferno Orange I used on this as well as we just used on the Statue of Liberty torch. Here. You might be able to see it there, kind of the gold flecks happening. It's got that little bit of shimmer to it. Awesome. And then we did— we were starting a wonky, whimsical castle, and this is how this is drying so far. Let me zoom out. This definitely will— I'll come back and add some more layers. This is just Step 1 is throwing down some Sharpie, quick, fast, loose. Step 2 is starting to throw down some colors. We have some ink and some watercolor on here. I like— I actually like this color here that's happening. I like a couple— I like the colors that are happening on this kind of turret. And it's sometimes it's hard for the camera to pick up the fluorescence. But I kind of like the fluorescent pink. Let's— we'll put some detail on. We'll add a little bit of detail and then, um, call it a night on this one. So again, these, these castles are just loose, kind of wonky from my imagination. Let me show you how to make this turret look round. So give you a All right, so I want this piece to look round, so here, here's how I'm going to do it. And I'm going to sketch some contour lines on it. Contour lines, think of them as lines that give shape or give form. They contour. They— it's like, um, wrapping a belt around your waist. When you wrap that belt around, it gives, gives some contour. That was a bad analogy. Um, so my contour lines are just kind of curving here a little bit. I'm thinking too much. I want to be a little looser with it. Sometimes if I think too much, it stops me from sketching or adding color. I just want to kind of grab and go. So it's starting to look a little bit rounder. I would— I'll come back and add some more color. It'll be darker on this side and lighter here, so that darkness will make it look kind of round as well. Starting to take shape a little bit there. I do that here. Did I do on this lighthouse? Yeah, you can see I was— I did on this lighthouse here. You can kind of see some contours happening as well. This actually looks cool. This is a scrap, scrap piece of paper, but I like the way it's actually shaping up. I've been wiping my paintbrush off on it. You can see a coffee cup ring happening. This is actually— turned out to be a cool piece. Awesome. All right guys, I think that might be a wrap for now. If you have any questions or comments, let me know before I head out. And also let me know in the comments, just put down, um, in the comments, do you What do you like if you're— what do you like to see me sketch? Would you rather see me sketch Liberty Torches, wonky castles, barns? Uh, here's a St. Patrick's inspired sketch here. I'm always curious to know what you guys like. Um, yeah, just let me know. Cool. I wish I could show you my desk. Here it is. Any other artists out there have messy desks? Messiness for me is a sign of, of creativity. It's pretty— I'll zoom out, see how much you guys can actually see. I don't I don't know how much it'll get on camera, but not that much. There's a whole heap of stuff going on to this side of the screen. Oh yeah, mucho stuffo. I can even rotate this a little bit. There you go. Yeah, so this is kind of a behind-the-scenes shot. I got a bunch of stuff piled up here. It kind of goes back this way onto the desk as well. You can see I got bottles of ink happening. So yeah, reality. This is reality, and this is, this is reality TV that's scripted. This is, this is like Jersey Shore scripted reality television. This is just real life here. The clutter, the chaos, the mess, the creativity. Clutter and chaos equal creativity. All right, cool. Hey, you guys are awesome. I appreciate you also so much. Um, thank you. I had Kiko over on YouTube. Kiko, always great to see you. I know some people are watching incognito or ninja mode, which is always appreciated. Um, no worries. I had Alan and, uh, Mink and Ed and E and Kiko also popped over on Instagram as well. Yeah, you guys are amazing. Appreciate you all so, so much. Until we meet again, I would like you to go out there and sketch boldly, live creatively, and inkspire endlessly. Take care, see you soon.