Wednesday Lighthouse Sketching - 03/12/25

Hey, happy Wednesday, March 12th. I had to look at the calendar. 2025. Hope you're having a great day. I am popping on for a few minutes tonight to do a quick lighthouse sketch. Working on practicing for my upcoming workshop on April 5, 2025. Be sure to check the link out that's on description here. I'll put it in the comments as well. Let me know how you're doing and where you're watching from. Hope you're having a great day. Let me just put something in the comments here. I love. I love sketching lighthouses. They are just amazing structures. And this sketch you're looking at here, this is actually of Pemaquid Point lighthouse in Maine. Been here quite a few times. Love, love, love this lighthouse. Love the location. And in the workshop, we'll be talking about it some more. I'll show you some pictures of the lighthouse in the area around it as well. Workshop is for beginners and intermediate, so, yeah, I will guide you through the process of creating a cool lighthouse. All right, let's do some sketching here. Make sure I can see. I might zoom in a little bit here. All right, There you go. So I want to zoom in so you can see it better. So when I sketch architecture, I sketch any buildings. I like to start with kind of overall shapes as a good place to begin. So I'm gonna. This is gonna be a really quick sketch tonight because it's pretty late, so let's just go for it. I'm using my Sharpie pen. I am being extremely, really loose and wonky with the. The lines here. I love loose, wonky sketches. For me, it just adds a level of character and interest to my sketches. It also frees me up because I don't have to worry about being perfect. I'm not looking for accurate lines. I'm not looking for detailed proportions. I'm just trying to capture the feel, the essence, the character of a building. And sometimes in architectural sketching, I like to exaggerate that character of a building. And you could do that by using wonky lines or angled lines and exaggerating proportions and things. So you can see I have the main body, the lighthouse here. We have a window here somewhere happening. And around the base of this lighthouse, there's actually a. We have a fence kind of happening here somewhere. So we'll just sketch a quick, loose fence in here. In my workshop, I definitely will be going slower, breaking down the process. I have what I call the sketch framework that we'll be taking a look at and walking through. So here you can kind of see what's happening here. Boom. There's actually a little building back here as well. This is. This is a. I'm trying to remember what this is. I have to look it up. I don't know if this is a belt. A little bell tower building. Not 100. Sure. I kind of forgot. But in the distance, we have a building here, and the ocean. Is right back in here. To make this look rounded, I'm going to add what I call contour lines. Contour lines add shape. So I'm just curving these lines, and it just helps the building to look curved a little bit more. Let me see if I can zoom in on that. Let's go. We'll try that. See how that looks again. This is really a real fast sketch. Also, to help add that curved look, I'm going to add these vertical lines here. And watch what I do. So you can see I have these. These kind of hatch lines here. Shorter, and they get longer as I go to the right. They also get. They get closer together as I get to the right as well. This helps to create the idea of this looking kind of curved and rounded here. I like to go back over lines a lot. That just helps create that loose look I like. It also gives me a chance if there's a line that I kind of want to go back over, maybe correct. Correct in quotes, because there's really no mistakes. But I want, let's say, adjust. We want to adjust some lines a little bit. We can go back over them. We have a fence post here, maybe. There you go. That's a really quick, loose style sketch of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. You can see the one I did yesterday. I actually added some color on here. The color was done with Sharpie Creative markers. I took a white one. I'm really liking this. This is cool paper. I just really started getting into it not too long ago. Soho Craft. I like the craft paper because it has this brown paper bag kind of color to it, and I'm finding the Creative markers really, really pop on that. So that's some color. I mean, here, I'll throw some on here as well. You can kind of see what I'm talking about. So you're going to notice. I'm going to. Actually, I'm going over those lines I just sketched. The marker is. Has a. I guess a translucent quality. You can see through it, but you can layer it up to build it up if you want to make it bolder. So you can just throw a little bit on there, just like that. And then I'm going to go back over again with my Sharpie and we're going to bring those lines back that I took out with the white. So we got these vertical sort of hatch lines happening here. Oops. Not fully. These markers dry pretty quickly, but just a little damp. Sharpie doesn't like to write on the damp area, but it's drying up now. So there you go. So you can kind of see how I pulled that shape back out. Let's check the chat, see if there's any questions or comments. Hope you guys are doing well out there. Deborah says, hey, great to see you traveling now. Can't watch till later. Hey, no problem, Deborah, Great to see you. Safe travels to you. Hope all is well. All right, there you go. So that's a quick sketch of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. A couple things. Number one, I'm having an auction on Friday night the 14th, which is this coming Friday night, 8:00pm Eastern Time. I have tons of sketches here that I would love to go to someone's house and different homes. Right now, they're just kind of sitting in my drawer here. So I'll be auctioning off sketches. They range from, I have wonky fishing shacks, I have New York City sketches. I have some barn sketches as well. So hopefully you can join in. 8:00pm and I think I'm going to try streaming on YouTube and Facebook for the first time for an auction and we'll see how that goes. And the second thing is, feel free to check out. I'll post in the links. Check out my upcoming Lighthouse Sketching Lab workshop on April 5, where I'll be walking you through a slower process of how to sketch a lighthouse. All right, thank you so, so much. I appreciate you. Have an amazing rest of your day. And yeah, keep putting positivity out there using your creativity. All right, guys, have an inspirational day.