Tuesday Night Sketching

Hey, Jason Nicholas from The Inspired Life. Take 2, my internet I think, uh, I think it was internet, and I also think my computer needed an update, so it was trying to update while I was live streaming before. So I am back. Hope you guys having a great day. Let's continue with this, uh, Rockefeller Christmas tree inspired sketch. Hope you're doing awesome on this, um, Tuesday, November 25th. Getting so close to Thanksgiving, which is awesome. Uh, Pastor's Pal, I see you on Instagram. Great to see you as well. Uh, let's see. Hopefully my stream is better this time around. Unfortunately, my computer decided to update just as I was live streaming before, so I couldn't plan that timing any better. All right, so I love this, um, I love the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. It just embodies the whole New York City Christmas vibe, which is so cool. So we're going to just take this up a level. I'm starting to add another layer. We're going to start off with some Sharpie creative markers and add some kind of almost like lights or ornaments on the tree. So we're not going to draw them in detail, we're just going to kind of allude to the fact that there's stuff happening on, on the tree. So let's do it. Feel free to leave questions, comments. I will check the comments as I'm streaming tonight. For sure, and I am excited. So let's put some music on and let's do some streaming. Again, please let me know if I'm lagging, not lagging. I always appreciate your input and your feedback. Just gotta roll with the punches when it comes to tech. Have a backup plan. All right, so we have some blue on there. I'm gonna grab, I think, maybe some orange. Um, I look kind of like the yellow highlighter, how it actually— I'm sorry, it wasn't a highlighter, yellow, neon yellow colored pencil, kind of a back glow happening behind the tree, which I find to be pretty interesting. Zoom in even a little bit closer, I think. I'll get a little tighter. There we go. To that tree, it's gonna be my main focus for tonight. Let's see, I'm gonna throw, uh, maybe do some purple and grab some yellow next, maybe.

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Hope all is well. Good to see you.

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All right, so, um, I just added some watercolor. I'm just— I want these buildings to look like a backdrop. Um, I'll eventually add some probably white Creative Marker on top of, um, to create snowflake or snowfall. Add some white Creative Marker on top after this dries. I added some more watercolor to the tree itself. I just wanted to give a little bit of depth, so I made it kind of darker at the bottom so it's sort of in shadow a little bit. Um, these are very abstract kind of people in the front, so actually I'm going to pull out my red Creative Marker and we're going to just kind of color in some of these shapes to indicate some people maybe in the crowd. And again, the idea of this is really, um, I just want abstract shapes here because I, I want the main focus to be the tree itself. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. I'll just say hello to some of you guys.

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All right, I'm gonna let this dry. I think I kind of like where it's headed. Um, Chip has a question: what determines the buildings you choose to add color? Random or a plan all along which buildings you choose? Um, that's a really good question. Let me zoom out a little bit more on this. We'll take a look at it. Thank you for asking that question. I always appreciate your questions, Chip. Makes me think about what I'm doing because I don't always know why I do it. Um, so what determines the buildings you choose to add color? Is it random or a plan? Um, I have to be honest with you, I think it's random in this case. I did know when I started that I just wanted the buildings to be a backdrop to the tree. For me, the tree is kind of the star. Um, I'm trying to create 3 layers on the sketch. So the closest layer to the viewer, to us, is the row of people in the front. The next layer back is the tree, and then behind that I want the buildings. So I randomly am kind kind of picking the colors, which ones I want to color, based on gut feeling. I also want to leave a lot of white space in here as well, because if I— I feel like if I start coloring in every building in the background, um, it's going to be distracting. It's gonna be too much happening. And again, I want the tree to kind of be the star, so Yeah, so it is kind of random. Um, I did want some of— I did definitely want to color some of the buildings behind the tree instead of leaving that white because I think that kind of has a nice little contrast, the darker background with the tree, especially the white— I'm sorry, the yellow highlight there. So I wanted that contrast of color, so that I purposely placed. Um, upper right. Now I think about it, I think my gut was saying in the upper right to color this building in to kind of frame what's happening here. So we have a frame between that colored building and that color building. It's framing around the tree. Um, could I have left that one off? Maybe. I probably could have left that one off. So it's a really, really good question. I, I like that you make me think about what I'm doing because lots of times it is— it's either intuition or just a gut kind of feeling. Hopefully that, that helps. Helps me. Um, yeah, I like this. I think I'm gonna let it dry. I think I might wrap in a minute. I have to get to bed, it's 10 o'clock. After this dries, let me show you the finished one I did last year. Then kind of— I'm using this one as a model. So this is the one from last year, which is available if anybody out there watching wants the original, let me know. Um, but you can see what I did. I added white Sharpie creative marker there just to create the idea of some kind of snow happening. I'm just trying to get a little bit of mood, a little bit of atmosphere in that background. Let's put these side by side just to see. Be curious to see how they're kind of comparing. Yeah, this is interesting to see last year's and this year's. I like— I still have— I like how this edge of the tree pops out. More with the really dark. Um, what did I use for that last year? I don't think that's Sharpie. I don't remember what I used for that. I like that dark edge. I might do the same thing on this tree as well. I also like the star over here. I'm gonna— I'm not done yet, so I'll do something on the top. Uh, the glow here is more watered down. Here it's kind of more like, yo, it's in your face. Um, yeah, it's cool. It's always fun to compare like another one sketch you've done to another sketch. And I'm not trying to duplicate them. This isn't about being a copy machine. It's about, um, not being about— not about being a copy machine. It's about being a creative. Machine, and it's okay to use past inspiration to fuel your creativity for today. I like that. I think it's a good one to wrap with. I'll have to go back and listen to the replay because I don't even know what I just said. Um, it's not about being a copy machine, it's about being a creativity machine. Uh, I'll go back and listen to the replay. Hey, you guys are awesome. I appreciate you all so, so much. I will probably be on tomorrow night, Thanksgiving Eve. Um, I'd like to sketch on Thanksgiving, maybe Thanksgiving Eve as well. And, um, I'm working on a lot of things, guys. A lot of things happening with this and other stuff. I always have ideas going on, and we'll see. Um, just stay tuned, stay tuned. There's, uh There's, there's some changes, uh, in happening. Um, good stuff. It's all good stuff. All right guys, I appreciate you all so much. Thank you so much for watching. I'm Jason Nicholas Nicholas with The Inkspired Life. Until we meet again, sketch boldly, live creatively, and inspire endlessly.