Wednesday Night Sketching

Hey, happy Wednesday, February 21st 5th, 2026. Hope you're having a good Wednesday. It's been a long, long Wednesday here. But you know what? I'm not going to give into the long Wednesday. I'm going to continue with one of my words for 2026, which is consistency. So I'm on here. I've been going straight on Facebook live for, I don't know, is this 15, I don't know how many days now. It's been a while. So let's continue the streak. If you don't know who, who. If you don't know who I am, you probably figured out this is unrehearsed. This is off the cuff. My name is Jason and I am an architect, a high school teacher. I teach architecture and cad, kind of like a product design class. And my. One of my passions in life is sketching, especially sketching art, architecture. So on the inspired life, I like to live stream, come online and sketch something. Most of the time architecture related, off the cuff. I don't usually plan ahead. It's just kind of a time for us to get together. I can share some of my creative process mindsets. We'll talk about positivity and just encourage each other in the chats. We have a lot of friendly, friendly people that join us. It's a long introduction, I know. So thanks for bearing with me what we have on. On the desk here on my studio desk, which is a mess by the way. Let's just talk about that for a sec. If you go into like someone's workspace or a studio or workshop and you see it's kind of trashed, like this is really messy for me right now. That's a good sign. It means they're actually doing something in their space. They're kind of living and breathing their craft. So I do like straighten up and get the clutter out once in a while. But it's, it's an active work area. So that's why if you see some of the things around, you can kind of see what I typically use and how I work. I think it's kind of just a little bit of insight into like the creative process. Right. So last night we did. Let me zoom in. I have gotten so many positive reactions to this sketch, which is really cool. Not an egotistical way. I'm just surprised that people really like this one. I mean, I like it too, but I never know what's going to connect. So it's fun to sketch different topics and see what you guys resonate with hey, Gigi, how are you? It says I have another stream waiting for me again. What the heck does. Gigi, it's awesome to see you. First of all. You're an amazing human being and I appreciate you and thanks for that tip. What is. I don't even know what that means. If anybody's on Facebook and I know you might be shy, that's okay. Just put it in the chat. Facebook or something. I want to know if I'm on Facebook. This is crazy. I don't know what it means. Another chat is another live is waiting. Huh? I guess I'll keep moving ahead with this one. Gigi says I need to learn how to sketch like that. I can definitely show you and I'd love to show you. Anybody can sketch like this. It just takes a little practice and it's like anything we do in life, any kind of routine, it's habit, it's practice, a little bit of consistency every day. So thank you and I know you commented on this. You like this. Jen is in the other stream. Oh, man. I'm gonna log in here on YouTube. I don't understand why it's doing this. It's so weird. This could also explain why been hit or miss with my audiences. It says thank you for bearing with me here. I see the live stream that's happening. Let me see. Let me go to my channel. Oh, I see where it says upcoming. I wonder if I could make that one both live at the same time. So let me check this out. Thank you so much. You can't link anything. I wonder, wonder why. One waiting. Hey, Jen, I see you. Thanks for coming on over to the other side here. You're awesome. I am perplexed by. I don't know why it's trying to stream to do different things. It says two people waiting. How do I make that on people unweight? You guys are amazing. Thank you for your patience. I'm going to go to yt YouTube studio for a sec. Hope you guys can share. Chill out and bear with me for a minute or two here. I want to go to my YouTube studio and see if I can get the other the other stream going. I don't know why it's trying to stream to two different places. Like I didn't set preset a stream so it's automatically presetting a stream. How the heck do I do that? This is kind of story of my day. I was trying to get into one of my online accounts to do some tech stuff. It locked me out. Tech support was trying to text Me a code number to verify it was really me. The code. Text messages weren't coming through, so I was never able to get through and get that done. So tech is tech, right? Got to make the best of it. I don't know. Let me go. Dashboard here. Content. Live. Oh, wait. It might be getting closer while I'm doing this. Let me know. What would you like to see me sketch tonight? Put some ideas in the chat of some. Something you'd like to see me sketch. Preferably a New York City building. It doesn't have to be. I can always Google up pictures. But I'm curious. What would you like to see me sketch? I found this. I might be able to. Yeah, it says upcoming, right? How do I change the upcoming to active? Or should I delete it? Maybe I can delete it. Strange. I'm trying to figure out how I can. I found this. I found it in my studio. I'm going to delete it. Boom. Upcoming edit. Let's go down. Hit more actions. Delete. Yes. Delete forever. All right, I think I just deleted one that said upcoming. I think we got this. Let me know how your day is going. What are you guys doing today? What was the highlight of your day? I'd love to hear that. Any shining moments today? Anything stand out? Anything cheer you up? Did you do something kind. All right, it says. It says it's deleting that video. So we'll keep moving ahead with this one. YouTube is being hangry. Yes. Hey, Becky. Good to see you. Flat bit. Becky said the Flat Iron Building, please. Oh, we did that the other night, Becky. But I could definitely redo it. Grand Central Station. Oh, I like that one too. All right, maybe we'll do both. I think. Let's start with Grand Central. Then we'll hit Flatiron, I think. All right, guys, I tried to delete the other one. I'm gonna put a message in there just in case. I think it's gone. Yes. Ah. All right. So the other YouTube is gone now. So you guys that are on YouTube, if you. Are you able to see another stream or not? I hope not. And am I still on Facebook? I wish you could sketch the twin Towers even though they no longer exist. Maybe. Yeah, I can. Have you guys seen. Look, let me bring out. Let me grab this quick here. You know what? All right. You guys are awesome. I love all of your suggestions. So I kind of. Let's. Let's pull this one out here. Thank you for bearing with me in the tech department. You guys are amazing. Here, let's pull out my favorite sketch. I've shown this before quite a few times online, but this is one of the reasons I love sketching. This is why this stuff sticks in my brain. And Gigi mentions Twin Tower. So here. This is my Twin Tower sketch I did back in 1993, right here. 1993. Young Art. I was a young architect wannabe. I was in college, had an internship in Hoboken for an incredibly, amazingly talented, gifted architect, Dean Marchetto, who was like a mentor. And his company has grown and grown and grown. And I. One of the regrets I have. We all have some regrets, right? But I kind of wish I had stayed working with him over all these past years. He's just an amazing person. I had a chance to revisit with him two years ago on a field trip with my architecture students. We went to his. His firm. It was a real special moment. I'm going to cry. But anyway, so here's the World Trade Center. This is ingrained in my brain. I remember the day sketching Stevens Institute. I would go there during my lunch just to walk around from the office I was in, and it was a rainy day. Had my sketchbook, and I sat there and did the sky. This is the first time I actually ever sketched the New York City skyline. And the Twin towers are there. So maybe let's riff off of this quick. Maybe we'll do a quick sketch of this. And then here's another view from the same day. Empire State Building, Chrysler Building. This is my number one favorite, favorite sketch of all time. If I had to take only one sketch with me and abandon every other one I ever did, this would be the one. Cool. Hey, M. Good to see you. Hope you're doing well. It's good to see you over there. All right, let me put some music on, guys. We're going to sketch the Twin Tower scene here. I love that suggestion because it's bringing back these memories. Of course, I'm. I'm looking at this as a young architect who was excited and had the world ahead of him and wanted to design and change the world. And part of me still wants to do that in similar and different ways. But also, this is a very solemn reminder of a. A day that so many of us will never, ever forget. So I would like just take a moment of just a minute here and be quiet and just kind of remember 9, 11. So let's just take a minute of kind of silence and reflection. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, guys. All right, I'm back. I'm just Putting on some music now. Oh, my gosh. This is not a good tech day. Now my phone will won't let me log in. What is. What is going on? What? All right, we're back. All right, guys, so let's do a sketch. Feel free to leave questions, comments. I will definitely check the chat. And let's sketch in. You know what? Let's sketch in the CR on the craft paper tonight. All right, cool. You zoom out so you guys can see. All right, so again, just leave some questions, comments. I will take a look after I sketch. All right, so that is a really quick rendition. You know, this is the original from 1993. I literally have goosebumps as I'm talking about this. A little choked up, be honest with you. So sketching for me is a really powerful way to. To capture the heart and soul of a place and a time. It can really ingrain those memories inside me. Like, really, really powerful. I just went back to the. To 1993. And I'm also blessed. I am really blessed to have been able to have captured this. This is basically my first urban sketch where I sketched out in public in New York City. But I was really blessed to have been able to have captured this scene before 9 11. So really special. I gotta really. I gotta rebind this or I gotta put this sketchbook and I gotta repair it somehow. You can see it's really worn out, but yeah. So here's our new twist, and what I'm going to do is let's throw some color on here. I was inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge with the yellow on it. That. Oh, it's here I'm looking for. It's in the same sketchbook. Duh. Here. So let's throw. Let's throw some colors on this. Let's kind of bring some life to the sketch. Let me also check in the comments and see how you guys are doing before we do that. All right. So I see Jay, JLM's in the house. Good to see you. Thank you for coming back again. Appreciate that. I'm going to scroll back a little bit. Juanita, good to see you on Instagram. Hope. Hope you're doing well. And M, if you're still on Instagram, always great seeing you as well too. All right, I'm just going to scroll back a little bit. I might miss some comments, but sorry. So, yes, I did the Flatiron. I say gct. So, yeah, I'll do the Grand Central Terminal. If you guys stick around, we'll do a quick. I'll show you how I kind of sketch GCT classic inside view. Awesome. 1993. Yeah, that was from 1993. You guys can do the math and figure out my age. Let's just say I was a. Let's see. I graduated college in 90, 94. So I. I will not do the math in public, but, yeah, it's a long time ago. Not an easy memory. But your kindness helps mitigate old reactions. Oh, thank you. I'm a. I do appreciate that. Where were you? Where were you that day, everybody? Oh. So I personally, I was working. I was working for an architect in Bernardsville. Bernardsville, New Jersey. Bernardserville, New Jersey, is a very wealthy area. So I was working for an architect, and that's a whole. That's a whole other story. Very talented architect, but let's just say guy was really, really talented. I would say he was like creative genius. But the very first day I showed up on the job, Let me start off, let me go back. He was a. If I remember correctly, he was a West Point graduate. So West Point is a military academy. So he was very. How would you describe military? Very. Yeah. Anyway, first day of job, I go to the door. I go to open the office door to go in the office. He looks at me. He looks at me, and he doesn't say hello. He doesn't say, welcome to the office. He kind of stares me down and he says, your tie is not tight enough. Your tie is not tight enough. So we had to wear ties at the office, which is fine. I have no issues with that. But that is how I was greeted at this job to set the tone. So I was working at that office during 9, 11, and I forgot how we heard about it, but we had a TV in the office and we just turned it on and. Yeah, I'm sure you guys are posting stories and I'll see where you were all at. Check out that. This. This yellow is magic. Two colors. Two colors I was always afraid to use in my sketching. First color was red. I was so terrified of throwing red down on paper because red is just so. How do you say? It's just like, so bold, so permanent. It's. It's red. Right. So I would. I would shy away from red big time. The other color is yellow. I would always kind of stay away from yellow. And then I kind of. And also stay away from using yellow and red together because, well, it kind of looks like ketchup and mustard. Yeah. But I just kind of had to get over it and just kind of throw it down Check. Check out how that yellow is popping out that skyline. I know this is the kind I geek out. I geek out on this kind of stuff. I know I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to doing this and that's just my jam, but I don't think I would do anything else to this. Maybe, maybe bold the outline of the buildings a little bit. But how cool is that background, Right? Once you guys look at it? Let's see you watch National Geographics 911 emergency documentary. I have. I have not seen the doc, Jen. I should watch it sometime. Yeah. I don't know if I could bring myself to watch it. Yeah. Gigi feels anxious. Gigi, I. I think we're all vibing with you on the anxious part of it. 100 normal. 100%. Yeah, I get it. I get it. Yeah. It makes you cry, right? Yep. Yeah, sorry. Hopefully we're not going in a depressing direction and it's okay to be sad, guys. And it's. We're in the chat so we all have each other and be positive about it. It's all good. Hey, Jeff Anderson, you're. You're in the house. Good to see you, Jeff. Hope all. All's well. I seen Rip. I'm not sure who that is, but I do send my prayers and blessings for. For your loss. You were drawn towards NYC initially and during COVID you fell on NYC walk stream have fell for nyc. Yes. You know, NYC has always gone such a bad rap and there are. There are definitely are parts of it that are bad. Are bad. But I. I was drawn to end. But I was drawn to NYC by this. The skyline we're looking at here. This was my first intro to the city. Was seeing it from across the Hudson River. As an architect, creative brain, coming from a small. I have. I live in a small town, guys. I think. Isn't that a song? How do I. How does the song go? Melon camp, small town. I think my town is like 20, 25,000 people. It's pretty small. So coming from a small rural town, seeing this was like. It was mesmerizing. I'm like, what is. I have to go there. And I love going here, as you guys know. I love going here. I like to go at least a couple times a month. So I'm. I am drawn to the city. No pun intended. Becky, your eldest child was 9 months old, so you were at home with him. Oh, wow. Wow. Love the contrast. Thank you. I'm so glad you like the contrast on there. Yes. Never forget all Right, guys? So there we have it. Our World World Trade center sketch for today. I. I think I'm gonna leave it at this. Unless I see in the comments out of color. I was talking about. You know what? I'm going to do it. I'm not even going to ask you guys to add it. I was talking about not really using yellow and red together because it looks like ketchup and mustard, but should I. I was going to outline the buildings in red. I'm thinking it. I'm rethinking that. I am. I am not listening to my gut, which is opposite. I usually always listen to it. I am. I'm leaving this. This is a statement. I think it says what it needs to say in the most simplest way possible. And as a creative, as an artist, sometimes just knowing when to stop is key. Yeah, you could always come back and add more, but this is the stopping point for this one. I feel like it's powerful enough. I really, really love the way it came out. So we're going to step away, guys. And this could be. This could be maybe the 1K sketch giveaway when we hit 1K subscribers on YouTube. Maybe this is sketch we'll give away. Cool. All right, Grand. I had a request for gct. Grand Central Terminal. Omg. I love gct. Try saying those initials fast. We're going to. Let's keep using this. The craft paper. I am digging it. Do I want to pull a ref? I think I'm going to pull ref sketch out reference. So I think in my lock B. This is my lock B folio, guys. This is what I take in NYC all the time. Take it pretty much everywhere. But I think I have some GCT sketches in here. Or at least one. This is when I went to the Met. There's Flatiron. So, Becky, you're asking what the flat iron. So this is the Flatiron sketch we recently did, by the way, Becky. Becky has. Becky sent me a mean, mean sketch of the flat iron. Becky. I still have it and love it. But here's my. One of my first cracks at the Flatiron. I kind of like it. Really sketchy. Not sketchy in a bad way. Sketchy in a good way. Wait, is GCT in here? Am I lying to you guys? I'm lying because this is a fairly new sketchbook. Is it in this one? Does anybody want to come to my house and organize my sketchbooks for me? Label them, number them? I think I have a five guy sketch. Sorry, I'm off track. I have a thing for five guys and obviously Shake Shack. But the man's going down the rabbit hole. This is JP Morgan Chase. JP Morgan Chase. This is a bus station right adjacent to the nypl. Of course. One of my torches. Hey, guys. Oh, dang. Wait. I did it. I did it on a. No. Whoa. I know what I'm looking for. Anybody else have, like, squirrel syndrome? Squirrel. Squirrel. Where the heck is it? Oh, it's got to be here. I am here, I swear. I'm just looking for another sketchbook. It's time for our new segment of the night. What the heck is he looking for? If you can put in the chat. What is he looking for? Make your best guess. Well, if we. Let's imagine the Jeopardy. Theme going right now as I'm trying to find what I'm finding. I gotta find it. Oh, my gosh. Do I have to get up? I have to get up. Pardon me. You're going to see me on camera wandering around. Tim Burr. We got an avalanche of sketchbooks. Oh, my gosh. This is cray cray. Oh, you know where it might be? In my sketching bag. No, it's not in my sketch bag. Is the Jeopardy. Song over yet? Am I. It's my time up. How could I have misplaced a whole sketchbook? All right, time's up. I can't find it. I had a really cool sketch I did of gct, but it's nowhere to be found. Should I cry now or cry later? All right, Let me pull up one of my sketches. I'm curious. How many. How many viewers did we actually lose by me when I was in my search mode? Hope you guys found it entertaining. Oh, my gosh. This is really driving me crazy, guys. What the heck? I seriously need. I need to organize. All right, let's just sketch Grand Central Terminal. Amazing piece of architecture. Let me show on screen. Let me pull up a photo I took. I am just. Sorry, I'm just cracking myself up because I. I just am. I just am. All right, New York. I'm doing a search. This. I need. I need a production assistant here. Tech assistant. All right, well, here's a picture. Let's put this on screen. Raise your hand if you're just here for the chaos. If you're here for the chaos tonight, raise your hand. I'm glad I'm fulfilling the chaos factor. Oh, my gosh. I need a vacation. Guys, This is a Ben and Jerry's kind of night, and I do not have any Ben and Jerry's here. Just saying when I. When I need to Stress eat. Ben and Jerry's is my go to. For those of you that know me, you know, I'm slightly obsessed with ice cream, especially Ben and Jerry's, but I've been very good lately. Ta da. Found the picture. Check the other lock. Be pouch. Ooh, that's a good idea. All right, Grand Central Terminal. Here it is. The classic kind of you. And that's the sketch I was looking for, which looks so much better in person than the photograph. I wish I could train Olivia, my pup, to help me, like, search my sketchbook. Chaotic world. Here, a sketch. I'll leave the image on screen as I'm sketching. How many of you guys have been to Grand Central? And if you have, what do you love about it? I love, obviously, the architecture of Grand Central. I love the energy, the hustle and bustle in Grand Central. One of the coolest things about San. San Jose. I was gonna say San Jose, Grand Central. I love when people are coming off trains and meeting their friends or relatives or their lovers and they're meeting each other and you see them connecting and meeting and the joy of that connection and the smiles, the hugging going on. It's. You know, we talk about NYC and people see the negative parts. That is a really positive thing to see in Grand Central. People connecting, reconnecting with each other. It is, it is. Adds such positive vibes to this. This incredible gargantuic. Is that the word? No, gargantuan. Big. You know, it's just. It's just so fun to see those vibes. All right, so this is kind of a quick down and dirty sketch inspired by Grand Central. We're just going to fit a small piece of it on here. I'd love to do a meetup in Grand Central and just get together with with and sketch with people. If anybody ever wants to meet me in GCT and chill for a little bit, let's do it. Bring a sketchbook, a pen or pencil or whatever you want. I don't care. Let's chill and just hang out and sketch wherever we can. Because it's sometimes hard to get a good spot, but. And you can't sit on the steps there. How fun would that be to meet in gct? I am down for it. If anybody's interested, let me know. Could be a fun spring or anytime activity, right? It's indoors, so not really weather dependent. And we got these kind of arches down here. Boom. Again. This is. This is a very quick kind of down and dirty sketch. Only because I'm looking at a very Small photograph of it. I just opened a bigger one up here. I think maybe, you know, maybe we'll throw some color on this too. We have, we have the stairs kind of going up in here. I think we got stairs, boom, stairs, boom. Some kind of arch here as well. Archway, another archway. We have this barrel vault ceiling. It's epic, epic, epic. We got these epic kind of clear, clear story windows up here on the sides. Where's the clock? We got an epic clock thingy in here kind of somewhere in here. Like a round kind of carousel area with a. I forget how much the clock value is, but is it the most expensive piece of public sculpture in nyc? I believe is the clock in Grand Central. And of course we have some people. So let's just sketch in some peeps here. And if you want to, if you want to see color on this, just put in the chat color. We'll add some color onto it. So I'm just sketching really kind of small architectural kind of peeps on here just to give it a, like a vibe that there's people in the terminal hanging. We have some signage going over here, some ticket windows. I don't know if they're active ticket windows or they're just kind of historic and they left them here. I think they're just historic. But if anybody knows, let me know. Just like kind of ticket windows here. All right, we got a GCT inspired sketch. All right, let's catch up in the chat, see what's going on. Hope you guys are enjoying tonight's live stream. You know, I'm a little erratic, but you know what? What? Wouldn't be me if it was a little. If it was non erratic. Just do you guys. Just do you. All right, I'm going to go back a little bit and we'll see. Remember the Smucker's birthday guy from the Today show? H that I'm not. I don't know who that guy is. He sounds cool. Smuckers is the jam, right? The jelly. I love, I love seeing comments when I don't know what they're about. That's so fun for me because I can guess. Yeah, I see Squirrel. Yes, Jeff, I am Squirrel. Jason, can you share a simple way to learn perspective? I can. Jlm. Yeah, I'll do that. Next I'm going to show you my quick, loosey goosey guide to perspective. And it'll be a quick like 1 minute and 32 second dive into it. I'll show you. Great question. Sharpie, Sharpie. Oh, you were guessing what I was looking for. Yeah, no, I was looking for the sketchbook I had. The one that's in the picture with the grand Central bicture picture. I can't speak when I'm tired. Okay. This is me looking for my glasses when I'm wearing them. That does happen, right? That's a normal thing. It's a very normal. It's all good. It's all good. You got this. We all got this, guys. Hey, I gained a sub. Thank you, Jeff. Three more to one K. I love that. Thank you so much. Love it. Flavor. Ah, my favorite. That's. That is an easy one. My favorite, Ben and Jerry's flavor. Chunky Monkey. Hands down, Chunky monkey is my absolute fav. Fav. Fav. Flavor. Oh, man, I want some now. We're praying for the Guthrie family. Oh, yes. Prayers, please. We could always. A tropical vacation. Becky, you're right. Nice. Nice. Reminds me of a cathedral. Yeah. Jen, you know what this is? I'm gonna now go look for another sketchbook. This is very cathedral, like, inside. When I do my cathedral sketches, do I have one here? You might be in luck. Maybe I picked up a good sketchbook. If anybody wants help me with my sketchbooks and organize them. I think I already put that out there. Oh, my gosh. I need, like, a reference library. Yes, it is like a cathedral. 100%. Oh, wait. Maybe in here. Oh, here. All right, so this is kind of a interior sketches inspired by the interior of St. Patrick's Cathedral. So. Right. Check that out. I think we turn off this picture. So check this out. And then here's our. Right, the ceiling. The ceiling. It's that ceiling. The dome. This is like a gothic pointed arch ceiling. This is more of a smoother, curved barrel vault ceiling. But you're right. GCT Grand Central Terminal is almost. You can consider it like a cathedral for transportation. Why not? I've yet to go to gct. Closest when it was Penn Station. Juanita. Yeah, Penn Station is a cool, cool building. I need to explore Penn Station a lot more and do sketching there. I haven't sketched there yet, and there's a shake Shack there, so I'm down with it. I'm down with it. Love the ceiling. The echo of voices. Yes, Gigi. Yeah, it's like the echo. The murmur of the voices in. In here. I love. So here's. Here's what hits me. I know your love of music, so I love how you're thinking in sounds, how sounds inspire the world around you. I'm more visually oriented. And you're more sound oriented. Right. We all are oriented to our environments in different ways. So it's really cool to. To think about that. Right. Color. Okay, we'll throw some color on here. So do yellow again. Love sketch. I don't know how you do it so fast. From memory. So clever. Hey. LL rolls on. Good to see you on Instagram. 20 million dollar clock. Is that how much it is? Holy moly. Thanks for joining me over on Insta. Thank you. So I was actually looking at a reference picture for this. Thanks for joining us. I love that GCT is one of the remaining venues that connects old and new technologies a hundred percent. That's a great way to put it. They have the whole brand new wing, new I call a wing of GCT with, you know, the modern renovated areas, which is really cool to see. In contrast with the historic part. Smucker's guy would Hallmark centurions or seniors birthdays on the Today show. Oh, my gosh. I am so out of the loop on that one. Bluebell ice cream? No, I don't think I ever had a bluebell. I see some Cherry Garcia in the house. We've been saving Amazon brown paper packing material to hang on the wall and just slap paint on it. Bam. That's amazing. Love that. Love it. Gotta see. We gotta see the paint you throw down. That'd be so cool. I love it. All right, let's do a quickie lesson in perspective. You guys down for that? And let me see if I can find in here. I think I have something I want to show you about perspective, by the way. Check. I think I showed this the other day, but this is probably one of my favorite sketches in here. This is the Beetlejuice house. I love how it pops on this paper. So Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. I am not going to say it three times. I do a pretty mean Beetlejuice impersonation, but I won't do it now. Yeah, so that's a cool sketch, but that is not the perspective. I think what I want to show you is a just a one point perspective. My down and dirty unofficial. Here you go. This is kind of a. So I'm going to show you guys how to make a one point perspective. So one point perspective. Everything is coming back to one point. An even better example is we started off with the Brooklyn Bridge. Why don't I just go to that one first? Silly me. So my Brooklyn Bridge sketch, this is a very kind of simple one point perspective. I have the guardrails coming back at these angles to Give it the sense of depth. The wires are also kind of doing that here too. So let's create a simple, simple perspective and I'm just going to talk my way through it. So this is the part of the show where you may want to go grab a snack and come back so you don't have to hear me talking. Wait, I've been talking the whole night. All right, here we go. Let me take a drink of water. We're gonna do. This is my. What is. What is that? Online university master class. Master class. This is my non, non master class in the non Fine art of perspective. So what I'm about to tell you is not going to be technical. We're not scaling, not measuring. We're not going to use rulers. We're. We're going for IM. Imperfection. Imperfection. I am perfection. So imperfection starts with I am. Right. So I am perfection. That's kind of deep. Think about it. So I just want to show you how to get the sense of depth in a one point perspective. That's refreshing. I love this kind of this water apple is my favorite apple. But this is. If you guys haven't drank this, this is good stuff. Alrighty. All right, so I like to start with a box or just a frame. Step one, just create a box. Step two, I'm just going to put a point somewhere. Imagine we're standing and we're looking at something in a distance. And this point is going to be where we're looking. I'm going to, I'm going to exaggerate so you can kind of see it. All right, so that's where we're looking. And then the one point perspective, everything we sketch that's going back in the distance is going to have an angle to it. So let's. We're going to just create a make believe street scene. Almost playing. Connect the dots here. I like seeing the lines. Some people like to erase lines out and be clean it up. You're going to see all my lines in here. And that's just my style. But I. Sweet. So let's imagine this is our road going back in the distance we have a road happening and on the side of the road we're going to do a little sidewalk. We're going to do another line here for a sidewalk and then we're going to show a building. So anything that's going back in the distance will have an angle going to our. It's called the vanishing point or vanishing point here. Anything that is like the height of a building or the wall of a building is going to be vertical, up and down. So like this, let's say that's the edge of a building. It's going to go against the sidewalk like that. And I'm going to add a color so it pulls it out better. Maybe we have another kind of building here, but maybe it's building shorter. We're going to see kind of make it a flat roof. So here's our point. Since the roof of the building is going in the distance, we're going to angle it. So I'm going to kind of do an imaginary. Well, you'll see like that. And I'll add color, and it'll pop out even more. And we'll do some more on this side. We'll do another kind of sidewalk. Maybe have a building here. Maybe let's do another building here, kind of. Again, I'm going back. This probably looks confusing, but when I add the color, it'll make sense. And then in the distance, let's do an arch. So we're looking down, and we're looking at an arch. Maybe it's a bridge. We have an arch. Maybe a bridge comes across here. Let's break out the color. Let's see. And I didn't add color to gct. That's okay. I just realized that. All right. I'm just grabbing some creative markers. All right. All right. So here's one edge of a building. Again, we're going back at an angle towards that point. Let's do that edge of the building. We'll make this kind of just a red wall. So pretend this is a building. I'll show you how to add a door on here. Let's just color it so you can see the shape. All right, so we have kind of building there. This is our sidewalk. Sidewalk. Let me just throw down here. So we'll just do. These are lines in the sidewalk. Here's in perspective to get the idea of depth. So you know how sidewalks sometimes have, like, the lines here where the concrete is, the closer it is to us. So say we're standing here in the foreground. That's a line. The further we get in the distance, these lines are going to get closer together. So let's just say that's our sidewalk kind of happening. So these lines are getting closer. Notice these lines. Let's do blue. Let's do yellow. So here's my box frame. These lines are following the same angle as this. And we have another building here. I'm looking for my favorite color. Let's say this Building is going to. We'll just make it this color so it looks different. And if you could look at the shape again, this angle. We're going back to that point. This angle. See, we have a flat roof on this building. It's coming to that point, more or less. That vanishing point is our key to play Connect the dots. Hey, Metallica. Metallica just came on. Cool. All right, so we have another building. Let's do the other side and grab some colors. All right. And I'm just going to sketch and you guys can watch. See how I kind of pull it all together. Looking for my orange. I don't see my orange one. All right. It's probably hiding with that sketchbook I can't find. Again, this is the wall of the building. So I want the lines to be vertical up. And. Building here. It. It's. All right. So now I'm just kind of throwing down some shapes for windows and doors. All right. We had to break out some pink on that one. Let's just show maybe a detail at the top of this building. We have the kind of the roof edge here. The cornice. Cornice is kind of like the top of the building. Like a little hat. Just draw some windows. Maybe. Gray. Do I have a gray? We'll do like a gray road. Actually, you know what we're gonna do? Let me show you some perspective on the ground. We're gonna draw like cobblestones. Maybe it's an old cobblestone street. So try it with Sharpie, see if it shows up again. We're gonna do the same idea where it's gonna be bigger and get smaller as we go in the back. So kind of look at how I do the same stones kind of big here. And as they get back, they're going to get smaller and smaller. So maybe it's like an old cobblestone kind of street happening. Sorry. I keep sliding this down, so hopefully you can kind of see this perspective coming together. Let's just throw some green on here. Could. Why not? All right, so that's kind of just a down and dirty. Quick guide to perspective. Excuse me. One point perspectives. Thank you. Perspectives looking good. I appreciate it. Yeah. So I didn't measure anything. Right. I'm kind of eyeing heights of things. The real important key guys, if you want to do one point perspectives, I'll use purple is really kind of this vanishing point here. And having. These lines aren't going to be perfect because that's. I don't want them to be perfect. I could. I could sit here with a Ruler and kind of use a ruler and straight edge and kind of make sure everything's the right angle. Boom. I don't have. I can take this. You can kind of see if I take this edge. Here's that dot, that point. So you see how that's edge is going back to that point. If I kind of spin it, the doors. Top of the doors are kind of coming to that point. The bottom of the windows are kind of coming to that point. I know the roof's off. I can definitely tell that the roof really should have been more. It's off here. It's not matching, but it's close. This one's way off. Like, this roof should have been at of an angle to follow the paintbrush. But it's okay. You get the idea of depth. That's all I'm going for. Hopefully that helped. Tre. Superb. Superb. How do you say superb in French? Tres. Super superb. Did you say the B? This is a silent B. Is it a silent bee? It's kind of like a spelling bee, but you can't really hear the people spelling. I need to put. I need to do some color. And let's use white. We're gonna just do white in the background because I want the sky to pop. All right, guys, I'm gonna head out in about three or three minutes or so. Let me know if you have any final questions, comments, requests. I just say request. Do you guys have any requests? I wish I. One of my dreams is to. I'd love to play an instrument. Guitar. I'd love to play the guitar. That's a dream of mine. And I love for someone to come up to me and be like, hey, I have a request for this song. Can you play it? And I'd be like, yeah, no problem. Whip out my guitar and start playing. One of the song. One of the songs. I don't know why, but one of the songs I'd love to learn to play on a guitar is My Sweet Lord by George Harrison. I can hear this. I can hear the guitar in my head right now. I would love to learn to play that song. My sweet. I know. All right, so this is cool. Look at this white. And then you can. I'm going to put it in the archway and you can see it pop out. Starting to look like mx. Mx, Mexico. Yeah. Gg. So I may have mentioned this architect's name before. So when I was sketching this, I was looking for orange. Orange and pink. Louis Barragan. Luis Barragan. I was thinking of him when I was Sketching this because of the colors. I love the architecture of Luis and you can probably say it much better. Barragan. I'm trying. I can't. I can't roll ours, unfortunately. Check out Louis Battragon's architecture. I think his house is in Mexico City, the one he designed for himself. He has these walls of amazing colors. I love his architecture. So I love that you said that. It popped into my brain when I was sketching this that I think, you know, similar kind of vibes here. Like in this again, you can see this one point perspective, the same concept we just talked about. You see the box I have on the outside. You can see kind of the street lines coming back. I have an arch bridge, very similar concept. This is more depth to it and I love. I just love seeing the box. I love seeing the construction lines. I. For me, each line tells a story. It's a layer of emotion, a layer of feeling, a layer of what I was thinking when I was creating. And for me, that documentation is really fun to think about. The Brooklyn Bridge one perspective. So it's the same tools over and over again. All right, here. Oh, here I was doing a lesson on perspective for an online workshop. I think Becky was in this workshop. We were talking about one. And this is a two point perspective, which we'll talk about in a. On a different day. Brooklyn. This is. Yeah, here's a two point perspective. This is the Brooklyn library. All right, cool. All right, let's see if there's any final comments. We're gonna wrap. This kid's got school tomorrow. You're welcome. Thank you. Yes. Louise and Battergon, that is. That's him. Guys, I want to thank you so much. This was a lot of fun tonight. I went from a creepy kind of day to a really fun day. I really appreciate all so much. Appreciate your time, your positivity, your encouragement. Thanks for talking in the chat and participating. It really. It means the world to me. We're getting closer to 1k. That's exciting. So I can't wait for the giveaway from my heart to yours until we meet again. Sketch boldly, live creatively and inspire endlessly.