Wednesday Sketch & Chill: Capturing Travel Memories

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Hey guys, happy, um, Wednesday, April 15th. Tax day, enough said. Um, it's good to be here. Hope you're having an awesome day today. Yeah, hopefully you got that stuff done that fun paperwork and all that jazz, but we're not going to dwell on that. I'm Jason with the Inspired Life, where I love sketching architecture. Sketching is a way of life for me. It's a way of capturing a moment in time, changing my state of being, um, living in the moment. I just love, love, love it. Love throwing lines down on paper. Thanks for joining me. We're going to hang out for a little bit tonight. Um, We're gonna go from Rome to New York City in about— we'll stay around 45 minutes-ish. We'll see. But thanks for joining. Feel free to say hello in the comments if you're on YouTube and you like what you're seeing. Thumbs up, smash that like button, all that fun stuff. Let's get tons of people watching. All right, uh, I have some nice tea here. I'm gonna drink a little bit. We are drinking the lemon. What are you having? Lemon ginger tea. Oh yeah, gotta love it. All right, it's good to see you here. Great to see Edie in the house. Edie, how are you? Good to see you. Yeah, hot and gorgeous NYC. It was hot today, right? I think it hit about 85 here in, in, uh, New Jersey. I know the city was kind of baking today as well. Um, I know it is 11:59 PM yet, but have you filed your taxes yet? I got mine done yesterday. I procrastinated way longer than I needed to. I was so stressing. I should have got it done before I went away, but I didn't. But those taxes are in now. We're just sketching and chilling. Um, yeah, so hopefully you guys are doing great. We had that heat wave today, and I like the warm weather, so it felt really cool. Well, cool as in like awesome cool, not cool as in temperature cool. I'm confusing myself. Am I confusing anybody? I'm confused. Um, all right, so this is a quick throwdown here of, um, the Colosseum in this kind of the heart of Rome. Built, I think it was 72 AD-ish, 72 AD-ish, somewhere in there. It's constructed of travertine, marble, there's some cement on here, there's some brick-faced concrete as well, wood, wood was used in the construction also. It's a pretty incredible structure to see in person. Uh, pictures don't do it justice. Here, here's a picture I took that I'm sketching from. So we'll use that one. So that's one of the pictures I took when I was in Rome. Uh, let me just tell you, um, I gotta go back. I still can't process everything I did in 10 days in Rome and Spain— I'm sorry, Italy and Spain. Um, and I felt like I missed a lot because there's so much to see. So definitely a reason, excuse to go back. And next time I go back, I am taking my sketchbook. Well, I had my sketchbook, but I'm going to take the time and do sketching. I just didn't really have time on this trip. I did, I did only a few No complaints though. Anyway, let me know how you guys are doing. Let me know where you're watching from. It's always great to check in. And I could put some music on here in a sec. I don't know what to listen to. I've been I don't know, I've been kind of fussy about what music I want to listen to lately, and sometimes I just don't decide, or I'll put like, uh, just some interest instrumental stuff or some just techno. I haven't listened to techno in a while. I like techno music as like background beats. There you go, kind of a quick loosey-goosey sketch of the Colosseum. And hopefully you guys are watching, hopefully you can identify it as the Colosseum because that would mean that I'm doing my job, um, as a sketcher. My job here is not to sketch detail but to capture the vibe of a building, a structure, a moment. Cool, I like it. Awesome. Uh, the online filing is a godsend, no more paperwork. Yeah, I used TurboTax this year. I, I was— I've been paying someone for years and years to do my taxes, a couple different people. It was so expensive last year that I'm like, I want to try to do it myself this year. And I think I did a good job. The software really helped walk through steps, you know, having a business and, uh, you know, my architecture business and then working for as a teacher. It was a lot of information. I did learn I need to be much better organized next year. All right, let's sketch some peeps here, give a little scale of what this building is. And then, uh, I'm also looking for suggestions of NYC buildings or structure, maybe something I can sketch tonight. That'd be amazing. All right, so that is the Coliseum. I'll throw some people on there. I just want to put some music on. Why am I being so music fussy these days? I have no idea. I was listening to the James Bond music before, but I'm not feeling Bond-ish right now. Um, I, I don't even know. I could put some café con leche. Yeah, all right, I'm gonna put on some café. It's a café. If you guys want to listen along, here's what I'm listening to on Spotify. I'm going to put on the café con leche. Playlist. Um, the architecture they had in the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago is amazing. 100%. Romans were true inventors and engineers. They invented— they're credited with inventing the aqueduct system for transporting water. They're credited with inventing, um, streets, streets, concrete as well, I believe. This is a weird song, but yeah. So when you— when I was in Rome, this— the sense or the feeling of history is so palpable. I like that word, palpable. I mean, you can't escape it, and that's not a bad thing because it's, it's a museum city. So everywhere you look is some kind of ancient artifact. Um, really, really amazing vibes and just a sense that you're walking, you're walking amongst these ancient ruins, this ancient civilization, kind of puts your life into perspective a little bit. Um, I kind of walked around Rome— a lot of these cities I walked around in awe, like, like, pinch me. This is the Colosseum. Whoa, un— unflippin' believable. Cool, I like this sketch. Matthew, I see Matthew watching on Instagram. Hello Matthew, I hope you're doing well. Hope you're doing well. Very cool. And I always spell Colosseum wrong, but let's see if I spell it right now. Let's give it a try. C-O-L-O-S-S-E-U-M. Did I spell it right? Colosseum. For some reason, I would always spell it C-O-L-L I-S-S-U-M. It's actually C-O-L-O. Colosseum, Rome, 2026. I have a question on Instagram. What was your favorite new style of architecture when you visited Rome? That's a really, really good question. Um, I have to think about it because I— it's so hard for me to pick out anything new. Everything is, is just ancient everywhere. Um, that's a really good question. I have to think about it. I guess I saw some modern, modern architecture in some of the shops and cafes had a taste of modern kind of clean lines, you know, metal surfaces, glass. Um, Matthew, that's an excellent question. I love that. But yeah, most of it was just old. We went to Vatican City. Vatican City is incredible as well. The architecture there is astounding. All right, thank you for the question. I appreciate it. All right, so we got the Colosseum. Maybe we'll, uh, let me find another— I don't know if I like this playlist. We're going to keep it going. Let me find another picture, dig into the Rome archives here. I'm just scrolling. I want to find some pictures here. Wow, I'm not sure what sketch. I have so many things here. Piazza Navona was interesting. Here, let's pull up— what do we got here? This is, um, this is one of the buildings in the Piazza Navona. So, um, you'll do a quick sketch of this building. And dang it, I should remember the name of it, of this building, and I don't remember. I'm so sorry. This information— tell me, let's see. This is, um, here, I'll just show you. Saint Agnès, Saint Agnès in Agone Church in Rome. Bad pronunciation, I'm so sorry. So that is— that's the church. Um, let's do a sketch of this. Why not? Besides the architecture aspect, what was one of your most memorable experiences in Italy, Mr. Nick? Besides architecture. Matthew, you are on fire with these questions. I'm Thank you. Uh, I love thinking back to the trip. I think one of my favorite experiences in Rome, or, or in Italy, um, this is going to sound kind of basic, but, um, part of traveling and culture is food, right? Is definitely food. But one of the foods I had was gelato. I mean, we hear a lot, maybe we don't, or— but gelato is like kind of like an ice cream, right? Um, but what made it really special is just eating, eating a local food in a local area gives it a deeper sense of meaning. Like me eating pizza here in— or pasta here in New Jersey is very different than eating pasta in Italy just because of the location. And actually, one of my most memorable things we did, we did a, we did a food, a walking food tour, which was really cool. It was a guided tour. This was in Rome, and we walked down, um, one of the areas in Rome. There's a section called the, the Jewish ghetto area. It's not kind of what we think of ghetto today. Different meanings. Uh, we did a tour of that area, and it was a food tour, so we followed our guide. She gave us a little bit of history of the area, and we would make these stops and taste different foods. Um, so it was really a fun way to get a tour and to experience some food. So I think that was one of my most memorable experiences. It was that walking food tour. We also had some really— we had a really cool tour guide when we were walking around the Colosseum area. I think his name was— oh man, I think his name was Simon. Um, this guy was so cool, so energetic. He loved what he was doing. His passion came through. So part of the fun for me traveling was living, um, or touring these cities through the eyes of people that live there and seeing their passion about talking about where they're from really added to the experience as well. Great questions, thank you so much, sir. I appreciate it. All right, so I'm just sketching this church here. I love sketching churches and cathedrals. I, I love the architecture of the domes, the domes I saw in Italy. So here's a dome on this church. I got to see Il Duomo, Brunelleschi's dome in Florence. Amazing, amazing feat of architectural engineering. Hey, Gigi's in the house! Gigi, how are you? Always, always, uh, Awesome to see you. Hope you're having a great day today. I hope this blue pen is showing up on screen okay. It's, it's kind of light. Um, I like using this color for architectural sketching. It's kind of fun, like an old, like a, like a blueprint kind of vibe. But let me know if you guys are having issues seeing this on camera and I know my hand's in the way. Oops. Uh, the food and gelato there is an entirely different atmosphere and vibe. Yes, 100%. Sometimes what makes food better is the location and the people you're eating it with. I could have the same, you know, if I had the same bowl of ice cream here and, you know, somewhere exotic like, I don't know, Florence, it would have to be a totally different experience even though it's the same exact food. Uh, let's see, I got like a pediment kind of— pediment kind of doorway here. Pediment is like this triangular area, has columns on the side in this case. This café con leche playlist on Spotify, um, I'm liking it. It's just different music. Sometimes it's cool just to mix up the vibes, guys. Step out of your norm, try something different on for size, and you You might end up liking it. Or not. And you don't know until you try. Welcome to the hour of cliché. 24/7 cliché on theinspiredlife.com. No, I'm kidding. Of course. Alright, cool. These are some of my favorite kinds of sketches. Really, really super loose. Not a lot of detail. For me, this— I like— this is called mark making. For me, I'm just throwing down marks, and not anybody named Mark. Um, throwing down just lines and scribbles and hatching some things in here, give a little depth and interest. And I like— here, I just love the little blips happening. And it's fun because this is my thinking, me thinking out loud, thinking with my, my hand here, just putting spots on paper. Um, it's kind of fun. GG. Yeah. Oh yeah, it was hot, guys, right? Hot in the city. I think I'm headed there Saturday, so it shouldn't be too, um— I think it'll be nice. Things be like 70, so it would be perfect. Any fun stories with Señor Lopez or any experience you could look back that gives you a chuckle? Oh, Matthew, there we had a lot of fun stories. I'll, uh, thank you for asking. I'll, I'll, I'll relay some stories in school to you, but it was, uh, a lot of fun moments with the trip, and, uh, it was just a really awesome time. Hey DB, I see you on Facebook. So awesome to see you. I miss you, my friend. DB is in the house on Facebook. Um, hope you're doing well. It's always, always a pleasure to see you online. DB says, and you do those drawings so very well. Oh, you are You are a kind soul. All right, so let's do a quick rewind and we're going to jump to— I need an NYC suggestion from you guys. Put a couple in the chat. I want to sketch an NYC building, uh, in our yellow sketchbook. So if you have any ideas, feel free to put in the chat. Um, so we started off with a quick Colosseum sketch. Colosseum. I'm trying to think of a pun. Can you see them? Colosseum. I, I'm out of puns. Um, boy, you know I'm tired when I don't have any puns or dad jokes. This is cool. I'd like, really like this. It's very gestural, just a lot of gestures. Oh, I gotta write what it is. What did we say this was? So this is in the Piazza Navona. Very cool place, and I had to look up the name because I didn't remember. It is, um, landmark. I had to click that. All right, this is Saint Agnese in Agone. Pardon my pronunciation. Saint, which I think means saint. Agnesse, maybe Agnes. Agnesse could be Saint Agnes in Agone. I guess that's the name of a place. This is a church in Rome. Let me put a Piazza Navona. It's in Piazza, not pizza. Piazza. Navona. Cool. All right guys, so we have a couple of loosey-goosey sketches. Um, we're going to close up our little Lockbee folio here for now. Time for me to give my Lockbee plug, guys. If you're looking for like an everyday carry journal or sketching gear, definitely check out Lochbie. Yeah, I, I'm plugging them because I love them so, so much. I'm also a Lochbie ambassador. Um, if you guys use my discount code, which is INKspired, I-N-K-spired, it's on screen, in the notes also, um, you get I think a 10% discount on items Rules apply, and I get a small little teensy-weensy out of that. But thank you guys who have been using my discount code on Lockbee. Um, yeah, love their stuff. All right, now back to our regularly scheduled show. All right, the infamous— let me tell you, I got some pro tips from two students today. I brought my sketchbook in, um I respect, I respect these students and their advice, both very artistic. One is incredibly, incredibly artistic, and they gave me some feedback on this, my sketches, which was amazing. And they made a suggestion to me which I never thought of. They said you should try using palette knives. When I'm throwing down these colors. So they like the color of the texture and they're like, oh, maybe try palette knives. So I, I have some here. I haven't used them in years. Um, maybe we'll play around some palette knives and throw down some color and see how it goes. But you know, I'm always looking for feedback on my work as an artist, as a creative. I want to grow in my skills, and I'm always open for advice and feedback from other people, especially people I respect. And I really respected these students, so it was really cool to— this was one of their favorites, by the way. Very cool. All right, NYC sketch. What are we going to sketch tonight? Uh, the dome in Florence is 400 years old. Yeah, El Duomo, right? Brunelleschi's dome is an incredible— I think it is the largest. Is it the largest dome in the world or the largest stone dome in the world? I would— I did not go inside. I wish I did, but it is spectacular. We'll be sketching that building. We'll be sketching it at some point in time. How about doing the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows? Or do you mean a building building? Um, let me, let me Google the Unisphere. Can you believe that? I'm not sure what that is. Is that from the World's Fair? Is that the build— one of the structures from the World's Fair? Let me— let's—

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I just dropped my palette knife. Um, let me Google the Unisphere. I think it's— if it's what I'm thinking of, I can definitely give it a shot. Why not? Let me— let's Google it up. Unisphere, Unisphere. Let me pull it up online. Thank you guys for the comments I'm seeing on Instagram. We got a couple questions from Matthew DB, thank you for your feedback on Facebook. And my YouTubers, thank you as well, of course. All right, Unisphere. Pardon my arm if it's in the camera here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking of. It is from the World's Fair. Okay. Come on, internet, you're going super slow. Am I— am I— oh my God, I was gonna say, am I locking in? I am locked in. Am I— am I getting hung up online? What is the word I'm thinking of? Oh, let's play a game. Let's play a word game. I'm thinking of a word when you're online and the computer— you get the circle of death on the computer. When I'm live streaming. This is how tired I am. So tired, guys. Um, what is that word? Not hung up. Oh my God. Anyway, how's my stream tonight? Can you guys see it okay? I've lost my mind. Yeah, let's— we can sketch the Unisphere. Um, why not? I do need a picture of it though. Again, don't be shy, guys, when it comes to sketching, look at reference pictures. Why not? There's no way in the world I'm going to remember all the buildings I see. I look at pictures all the time. I'm going to pull it up on my phone, it'll be easier for me to see. All right guys, I apologize if I'm a little— if I'm goofier than usual. I am My brain is jet lagged today. Um, what am I looking for? The Unisphere. Oh, ay, chihuahua, ay, chihuahua. All right, I think I got it. I think we can function now. Okay, Unisphere, let's go for the Unisphere. I don't know which of you do we like. We'll just click this one. Let's give it a shot, why not? And I'm gonna do it right on— we'll do it on this page right here. I found this pen before, I don't know if it's white or not or what it is. Maybe we'll mess with it. All right, I need my white, white, white, white, white. Boom, boom, boom, boom. That is not what I want. I need my white creative marker in my Lockbee Quattro pouch. Boom. All right, okay, where am I? Uh, the largest wooden dome in the world. Thank you so much, Edie. I like how you did the people in white, great idea. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I think it just pops them out a little bit, right? All right, so this reminds me a little bit of my— probably my second favorite statue in New York City. First is Liberty, Lady Liberty. Um, I love the Atlas statue in Rock Center, but I'm thinking of Atlas because of the globe here. So let's do this because kind of do— I have never sketched this before. So what I'm doing is I'm just kind of looking at the, at the global shape kind of happening there, right? And then we have North America and South America in this picture. Um, here's what we'll do. I'm gonna do this first, then I'm probably— can you, can you guess what other color I might use on our sketch tonight? What other color, color do you think I'm going to break out? Let me know in the chat. All right, got North America, we have part of South America going on. What is that random sound out? I hear random sounds. Um, this would be really cool. I've never been to this, um, the site. I think it'd be really cool to go see some of these World Fair structures that are still there, but I don't— I wouldn't know how to get here. My comfort level in the city is, um, I'm still kind of limited to where places I can get to. Like, I'm really comfortable with places I can walk to from Port Authority. Um, haven't done the subway. I know Gigi said that she could help me with the subway sometime, so I haven't done the subway. I haven't taken any buses in the city. I've only walked to places or walked to the ferry and then taken the ferry to places. So that's just me and a comfort zone kind of thing. It's like I wouldn't even know how to get to where this is located. Was it Flushing? I am buffering. Oh man, see, I knew that's the word, buffering. Am I buffering, guys? Yes, St. John's Cathedral. Um, isn't that the largest uh, largest cathedral ever. I definitely want to go visit St. John's. Remind me where that is again. I think it's, it's, it's north of the end of Central Park, right? I don't know the numbers, but that would be amazing. Yeah, I definitely need to go in there and I hear it's incredible inside. I know they give tours sometimes inside there. Yeah, always feel free to tell me, guys, if I am buffering. I appreciate it. The Unisphere is made of stainless steel. Really? I didn't know that. Thank you for that That pro tip. Yeah, I'll get here one of these days. Thank you for the suggestion, Edie. I hope you're still with me. I know buffering drives you insane. And I don't, I don't, I don't blame you at all. I think I have a coin somewhere from this World's Fair. I think my grandmother had given it to me. I wish I— hope I'm going to try to find it sometime. She, um, my grandmother was born in New York City and grew up there, and she lived in, um, the Little Italy section on Mott. I think she lived on Mott Street. Mott Street is where she grew up. So we used to hear a lot of stories about that. This is kind of the shadow on the other side of the building— I'm— of the globe. Here's what I'm going to do. I think I'm going to color this purple and I'm going to go back over it with white. Uh-oh, the purple's dying. Purple's dying, guys. No, don't die, purple. I need you. Dang nabbit. Oh good, no buffs. Uh, Saint John the Divine Cathedral. Yeah. I definitely want to get there, 100%. Dang nabbit, my purple died. It's okay, we're going to keep moving forward. What is— I want to know what this one is. I, I found this in a bin earlier today. Let's see if it works. It says white. All right, so it's white, but— oh, what the— whoa, you guys seeing what's happening? This is very strange. Look at this, let me zoom in. This is interesting. So I'm drawing, sketching, and the white doesn't show up. It takes a few seconds. Watch, I'll do like a tic-tac-toe board. Do you see what's happening? This is really bizarre. The white is showing up a few seconds after I sketch it. What is that about? It's like one of those invisible ink games I had when I was a kid, those books. Came with a pen and there were puzzles inside and there was like invisible ink. Um, I used to love doing those. That is really interesting. Okay, all right, that was fun to play around with. I think the song I'm listening to is called Panama. So again, this is— I'm listening to the Café con Leche playlist on Spotify. It's very fun. Can't really see those rings. I'm going to pop them out with another color. This is a very cool structure. I don't know, I can't see what the base is of it in the photograph, so I'm not sure what the bottom looks like. So I'm going to make it up. I want to kind of give this like motion, so I feel like it's kind of spinning a little bit. It's definitely been a tricky sketch. There we go. Boom shakalaka, we got it! That pen, Gigi, is called— I'll show you, hopefully the camera will pick up on it. Focus, focus. It's not focusing. It's called Fuden— Fudenosuke. Fudenosuke by Tombow. It's a water-based pigment ink brush pen, color white. So it's by Tombow. It's a Fudo— Fuden— Fudenosuke marker pen. I hope that helped. Sorry, I'm sorry if I'm not pronouncing— pronouncing anything right. Wowzers, this man needs a vacation. This man needs a vacation. Um, this was a fun suggestion, so thank you. I'm trying to figure out how big people— I don't see any people in the photo, so I don't know what the scale of this is. Let me see if I can find a picture with people. Let's see. Whoa, this thing's huge! Holy moly, I didn't realize this thing was that— this thing is mega, mega big. All right, I need new gel pens. Note to self: new gel pens. I'm thinking people are like this big. These are the people I'm sketching compared to the sphere. This thing's huge. That is not what my brain was picturing. Cool. All right, thank you for the suggestion. Hey Tim, good to see you. Of course, Edie, thank you for the suggestion. That was a cool suggestion, I appreciate it. Uh, 9:30, I'm gonna do one more quick, quick thing, guys. If you have any other suggestions, let me know. If not, I can definitely come up with something. I don't know if the sphere— I don't think the sphere is going in the calendar, um, but it's definitely fun to, to sketch for the first time. Um, you know, actually what I'm gonna do, let's— no, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna use any— do any blank pages in here, any with color or no? Did I use them all? Hey Danny Papa or Andrew, I don't know if you're still on, but always great to see you. Hope you guys are well. I see one person on Insta, but I'm not sure, it might be Andrew. If it's you, Andrew, hope you're doing good. Mr. Papa, if it's you, I hope you're doing good also. We need to catch up, man. It's been a long time. All right, cool. All right, let's do a little flip through. All right, we're going to do a little flip through together that I'm going to probably— I might use for my TikTok later tonight or tomorrow. So let's do a flip through together. Andrew, yeah, it's good to see you. Thanks for popping on. I had a suggestion earlier today of adding some kind of bright color up here, so, um, maybe I'll do that at some point. I love the colors on this. All right, I got a blank page right here. One more, one more. And just says, I'm swell, I love that BB sketch so much, hope you appreciate it more. You guys are— this is, this is so interesting to me. This is really— let's talk. I didn't do my hair. Let's talk. Let's go back to the BB sketch. Let's chat for a minute or two. I'm, I'm taking your word for it. GG, I know you said you liked it a lot. I think Edu said you liked it. Um, who else said they liked it? Someone else said they liked it too. I don't remember, trying to think. Oh, I think it was Elena. I think Elena said it. She was on a live stream. It was cool having her here, actually. Love her to pop back in again sometime. Um, you guys said you like this, and I don't— I don't like this. This is not— I don't like this sketch, but I got good feedback, so I'm gonna put it in the calendar. But I think I'm gonna crop it because if you can see, I originally was doing a lighthouse here, and then we're like, nope, let's do something New York City inspired, and then we did the bridge. So this hasn't grown on me yet, to be honest, but I'm taking your word for it. My favorite part of this is right here. It has nothing to even do with the bridge. I like the texture. I like what's happening up here, and I kind of like the— call them Wolverine scratches. It's like Wolverine went— so I like the Wolverine scratches. Elena, right? Elena. Why don't I like it? All right. All right, let's have— welcome. Let's, let's spill the tea, literally. I got some tea here. Um, let me verbalize why don't I like it. I don't like it because I'm falling into something called the comparison trap. I'm comparing myself to myself, and I know what I can do, and I know how I can sketch the Brooklyn Bridge in a way that I love. So I'm falling into the comparison trap saying, hey, this is not the view like I normally would do, and the view I just love sketching, which is the straight-on perspective. Maybe I'll do that in here. Actually, we'll do a version. Um, so that might be the reason I don't like it is because in my brain I'm always picturing the same view of the bridge that I sketch all the time. So I think, Gigi, I think that's my issue, is that comparing. Um, I do like that this is simple. These backgrounds have gotten really cray-cray. This is a much cleaner, simpler background, which I like and appreciate. So that is something I do like about this. Hopefully that— hopefully that answers your question. Um, the Apollo Theater. What is— uh, I don't know what the Apollo Theater looks like. Let me Google it. Wait, do you want me to sketch the Apollo Theater? Let me check that out. I think I've driven past the Apollo Theater, the one of the like 5 times I had to drive into the city. Is that in the Apollo Theater in Harlem? Harlem area? We had a project in Harlem years ago when I worked for an architect, so I remember driving through Harlem a couple times. Apollo Theater. Hope you guys don't mind doing some research here. Let's see, Apollo 2 Ps, A, P, P, O, L, O. Oh, this would be awesome to sketch. Do you know why? I love marquees. Yeah, if you were suggesting to sketch this, I really love the marquee. This reminds me of— let me bring the sketch over. Um, I love marquees in the theater. They're amazing, beautiful. This is a marquee for the Hotel Carter. Near the theater where Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is playing. So here's kind of the El Carter marquee. By the way, this, this isn't paper. This is called Yupo. Well, they call it Yupo paper, Y-U-P-O. It's really like plastic. So this is like sketching on plastic, but look, I love the layers. I gotta do these again. I love the layers on here, just building up layers. It takes a while to dry in between layers, but I love the effect on this paper. And then here's a, here's a marquee for the Booth Theater. These are probably two of my favorite sketches. So, Gigi, I love the Apollo Theater. I need to make— I should be writing I should be keeping a Google Doc of all these suggestions. I haven't done that. All right, yeah, Harlem. All right, awesome. Yeah, I've driven past it. Uh, maybe the— maybe the perspective. Yeah, I mean, you know what, guys, let's— we're gonna wrap with— let me do a sketch. I gotta get it out of my system now. Let me do a sketch of the Brooklyn Bridge, the view I like. I don't have any in here I could show you. I'll just sketch one. Uh, we'll sketch in here. So yeah, Tim, I taught Tim perspective. Yeah, that's right. I'm so glad you, uh, remember that. All right, let's sketch in this book and we'll, uh, let's just— I don't know, we're just gonna grab and go, grab and go. So I'm not really thinking colors, we're just gonna throw some stuff down. Let's do a BB sketch real quick, down and dirty. I'm already off scale a little bit with it. That's okay, I just want this to be really quick. Yeah, it's way off. All right. All right, so I'm just kind of doing the view I like to see of the Brooklyn Bridge. This is the down and dirty version. Let's break out a different color. Just gonna grab and go. I don't know, we got yellow. Let's break out the yellow. Where are my other colors? Got white. Boom, boom, red. All right, that's fine. All right, so this is kind of the view I like, just looking straight down the bridge. Right, so that's kind of the view I like, this kind of straight-on type of view. All right, let me know if you have any final questions, comments. I'm going to wrap up in a About 3 minutes. Hey, JLMJ. I was gonna do the whole alphabet. JLMNOPQRS, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z. How are you? Good to see you. I've been thinking about castles and a juxtaposition of old and new. That's awesome. That would be a cool I just got— I just want to do something on here. Just, I feel like, I feel like breaking out red. Um, that's cool. Let me know, should we do a castle livestream? I'm more than— I would love to sketch castles. We haven't sketched any in a while. Um, you know what would be fun to sketch? Hogwarts. I haven't— I don't think I've ever sketched Hogwarts. I'm thinking of castles. So if there's any Harry Potter fans out there, so that could be fun to do a kind of a castle livestream. I did a castle sketching course, um, or classes online a few years ago. That was fun. We've done wonky cottages online class. We did a castle class, uh, we did fishing shacks of Maine class. I kind of miss doing my— I haven't done a Zoom class in a while, so stay tuned. Maybe this summer I'll do some more classes, and I'd love for you guys to sign up. It'd be fun. Uh, you did the Disney castle? Yeah, I did. You want to see? Hold on, let me show you, guys. I'm gonna turn the camera. Pardon any mess you see in my room. In my studio. Can you see it up here? Let me see if I can zoom in. Yeah, so there's— that's the Disney Castle right there. That's the original one I did. I'm lying, that is not the original. That's a framed print. Um, I did the original live. I live streamed it or time-lapsed it years ago. You can still find it on my YouTube channel, so check it out. Um, that was a, that was a fun one to do. Yeah, definitely check it out. Just search Disney Castle or Cinderella's Castle on my YouTube channel. Oh, I'm too big. You guys don't need to see my big head. All right, it's better. Cool. GG says yes to castles. Tim seconds the motion. All right. Oh, that's right, Tim was in the class. Thank you, Tim, I forgot. Not a foodie, but there are a lot of well-appointed restaurants Brick and mortar, food trucks, hotel spaces, high-rise locations. There's an architect, his name is Carlo— Carlos Scarpa, Italian architect. Carlo Scarpa, S-C-A-R-P-A. Um, he— let me just show you. I was hoping I was near some of his projects when I was on— when I was in Italy, but I wasn't. I'm gonna share my screen. Let me find an image. You know what, I'll just— I'm not gonna share my screen because I don't want to buffer. Let me, let me show you what I'm thinking of. So he did a project with a castle where— why can't I close this? Um, he inserted like modernism into the castle. Really cool. But I think this was like in the '60s maybe. Um, Carlo— I have a book of his, or a couple books. I love this architect. I think it was called Castle Vecchio. Castle Vecchio. Maybe not. Let me see. Yeah, Castelvecchio. Here it is. I hope I can find some good images. All right, here's an example. Um, Carlos Scarpa. I love this guy's work so much. His drawings are beautiful. I will do a show and tell sometime. Note to self. Um, here's how he inserted like some modernism into the castle. Look at the glass windows. Um, here's kind of another— not a really great photo, but he kind of inserted like modern, modern doorways. Um, here's another example. So this is a really cool example of fusing the old castle with something a bit more modern. This is why I love you guys, because you make me think about all these different ideas and architects and things I have loved but have forgotten. So thanks to you, you're reawakening my creative soul in different ways, and I really appreciate it so, so much. Sometimes we all need a creative awakening, um, and I really love the infusion. Here's an example too of the outside of something he did with the castle. I think it's the kind of architect that you'll either love or hate his work. I particularly love it. Here's another example, right, kind of old and new. I love, love, love, love this stuff. One last one here. Yeah, I love it. Um, pretty cool. Uh, love these pics. Oh good, yeah, check out Carlos Scarpa of Castelvecchio. You guys are amazing. So I just came back to this one we did earlier. So thank you again, Edie, for suggesting, uh, what this was, the Unisphere. Let me write it, Unisphere. And I don't know, I just felt like adding some color to it. Unisphere. That's not going to cut it, so let's do it this way. I can't believe I ran out of this purple. This, this one went quick. No, that is so sad. Into the trash you go, into the trash you go. Unis— hopefully I'm spelling this right— the Unisphere. Flushing, right? That was flushing. Oh, where's my red pen? Let's just do it in red. What am I thinking, guys? Is it Flushing or Flushing Meadows? Can someone let me know? So what I decided to do, I decided to write red over the purple like it was going to pop out. That didn't happen. I'm so silly. All right. Oh yeah, so I'm super excited. I'm planning to go to NYC on Saturday. It's supposed to be 70°. I feel like going walking around. I think I'm going to hit Central Park. I'm, I'm toying with going to the Met in the morning. Walking around the Met a little bit, um, and hitting the park for a little bit. I'll see, uh, it'll be fun. That's my plan, at least. This is definitely an interesting playlist I'm listening to. I got to redo that. I'm going to have to find another purple. I think— wait, I think I have more. Oh, hold on a sec. I might have some here. Do I have purple? No purple. All right guys, I'm going to start wrapping up. Flushing Meadows, Queens. Thank you, GG, so, so much. I appreciate that. Cool. I like it better that I added some other colors to it. Um, there's an architect who does modern structures that unify people experiencing light. Can't remember his name, but he's done outdoor installations in rooms where people can sit and inter— interact with the sky. Architecture does modern structures that unify people experiencing light. Yeah, I'm trying to think. No, no, nobody's coming into my, um, my brain for that one. Yeah, if you ever think of the name, let me know, or see any pictures. I'm curious who, who that could be. Very cool. You guys are awesome. Let me pull out the first sketch we did, and I always like to do a quick recap. Quick in quotes. I know I, I gotta start— I gotta really start sticking to time and valuing people's time because I think it's the only fair thing to do. Let me put these back and we'll take a look at where we started. And now's your time to put any last questions or comments in. If you're on YouTube, please hit the like button, thumbs up. I would love it for you to subscribe if you haven't. Let's share the stream out there. We're at 1,020— 1,020 subscribers. It's getting up there. I would love— how cool would it be? I would love to hit like 3K. 3K in a month. All right, let's do this. I'm back. All right guys, so tonight on our live stream, we went every— we went everywhere from, uh, from Rome, Italy to Flushing Meadows in Queens. It's been really fun traveling with you using nothing more than paper. Pens, markers, um, and good old-fashioned chatting. Sketching for me is a way of expressing things, and it's a way of connecting with you. I'm a shy— I'm an introverted person, believe it or not. So sketching for me is a way to connect with people, um, in a different way. I'm the kind of guy that I, I don't, I don't like going to like parties or clubs or bars or anything like that. I, I'm very introverted. I love people though, but if I go, if I go somewhere Let's say maybe a wedding. Maybe I went to— I'm going to a wedding and, you know, I have to be there. I'll take my sketchbook with me. It may seem rude to people, but I will take— it's like a safety net for me. I'll take a sketchbook with me, especially in places I'm uncomfortable, and it's a way for me to exist in a place I don't necessarily want to be or I'm comfortable being in. So it's really a valuable tool for me. And also on that note, it's a way for me to— I'm shy, I can't— it's hard for me to go up to a stranger and start a conversation. But when I have this and I'm sketching, this happens in New York City, I'm sketching, people will come up to you and they may ask you a question or just look and see what you're doing. Most people are nice, some are jerks, but I connect with people through the lines on a sheet of paper. It's an icebreaker, it's a connector, it's a storyteller. And for me, an introverted person, that is powerful. Really powerful. All right, cool. So we have the Colosseum. Thank you, Fab. Yes, I love this marker, guys. This is a Sharpie. I wish Sharpie would put colors on there. They don't have color names, you have to look at the cap. So I'm just going to call it light blue. This is my, my one of my favorite Sharpie colors to sketch with. So the Colosseum, and then we went to the Piazza Navona. We, we sketched Saint Agnese, um, church in Piazza Navona, and that's all we did tonight on there. This is Toledo. So I guess I'm using this, this, my Lockbie folio, and this right here, this kind of sketchbook in here to capture some of my experiences while I was traveling. So Toledo, another Toledo-inspired sketch. Familia Sagrada. This, these sketches do not do it justice. This is just me playing around shapes. We need to talk seriously about this. Another live stream. Idea. Um, I record myself when we're doing these, so I, I'm making notes as well. Um, so another live stream idea: let's focus on Familia Sagrada, talk about the building, the architecture, the history. Most incredible building I have seen and ever been in is Familia Sagrada in Barcelona, where I have to go back to And then these are actually sketches I did in Rome of the Colosseum while I was there. All right, let's see if there's any final questions, guys. Um, if you ever write a book, these sketches should be included. It's funny you mentioned that. Yeah, there will be a book on the way. There will be a book on the way, um, definitely. So there will be a book on the way. Also the calendar, guys. I'm plugging it now because the more I plug it, the more I'll actually maybe do it. I'll get it done. Be on the lookout for the New York City Inkspired Sketch Calendar Edition 1. Maybe I can even do some signed copies. How fun would that be? And you guys have all been a part of this, watching it come together before your eyes. What a journey this yellow sketchbook has turned into on many levels. Aight, great being here. See you guys next time. Edie, thank you. I appreciate you so, so much. Thank you. You're always coming up with a great facts. I love that you add facts to what we're talking about. Thank you so much. Um, take care, Edie. So much drama going on. Sketches like these are a record others may need. Yep, I, I'm not a drama queen. I stay away from all the drama. I am— I don't go down the news political paths at all, so this is my way to capture things. Hey, you're welcome, Tim. Thank you for hanging out, and I appreciate you. Um, I actually did improv exercises with my Architecture 2 kids a couple weeks ago to prep them for a really cool meeting that happened today. They did a huge, uh, really important presentation today to some Board of Education, to some administration members. They nailed it, and improv was a big help. We did some improv exercises to work on communicating and thinking off the cuff. So Tim, shout out back to the improv days. Um, cool. GG, you're awesome. I appreciate you so, so much. You're amazing. JLM, thank you. You're awesome. I appreciate your, uh, your insights and ideas. All you guys, um, you guys are amazing. Till we meet again. It's Wednesday, right? I'll be on. I'm gonna try to be on every night this week, and then Saturday maybe I'll do a quick livestream from NYC. All right guys, until we meet again, sketch boldly, live creatively, and inspire. Steve said all of your students love you. Oh, that's— thank you for feedback. I, I I wouldn't say all my students love me. There are kids that don't like me, and that's okay. I'm not there to be the popular teacher. A lot of kids don't like me because, um, I'm one of the few teachers that actually follows the cell phone rule in school where you're not supposed to use cell phones, and kids don't like me. And my reason is, hey guys, if admin walks down the hallway and they see you on your phone in my classroom, who is going to get in trouble? Get in trouble? Me. And I love my job so, so much that I don't want to lose it because you're on your phone. So not all the kids love me, but I have some that like me, and there's some kids that are just incredible, and I'm blessed to be a small part of their lives, just like you. I'm blessed to be a small part of your lives. All right guys, we meet again. Sketch boldly, live creatively, and inspire Endlessly.