 How are you today? All right, so we are gonna do another sketch in the Messy Sketch Journal. And we're gonna just do it in real time. First, I wanna tell you about our inspiration photo. So my husband has a friend who he works with that is a photographer, besides doing what they do for a living in technology. He's a professional photographer and every year my husband gets calendars from him of his photography for his desk at work. And I've been bugging him for a while. Can you please save them and bring them home? And so he finally did. He's been saving them up for a long time. And I said, by the way, can you also ask Brent? That's his name, Brent Frazier. Can you ask him if it's okay for me to use them on YouTube and to do inspiration paintings and artwork from them? And he did and Brent of course said yes. So here we are and these are some of his calendars. Now, if you're inspired by any of these photos and you'd like copies of some of these works or maybe you'd like the 2016 calendar, which I haven't seen. I only have, let's see, I have 13, 14, 15. And I think the one we're gonna work from is 2012 maybe. I haven't seen 2016. I don't know what 2016 looks like. Let's see. Yeah, this is 2012. So I don't have 2016. If these are anything to go by, 2016 is beautiful. But you can find them at Brentfrasierphotography.com. So go there. I'll try to remember to put the link in the description below. And these are just filled with beautiful images that we will be doing some of these in upcoming Watercolor Wednesday episodes. I've got to tell you. So if you follow my Watercolor Wednesdays live on Periscope and I have to edit one from yesterday to post to YouTube right now, but we'll be doing some of these in upcoming episodes. Maybe starting as soon as next week. There are just some, I mean, can you not see that as a painting? Like, honestly. There are some just some beautiful pieces of work in here. So I went through the stack of calendars and I found this really pretty picture of some dogwood flowers that he took in Yosemite National Park here in California. And I thought some of these flowers would make a really interesting drawing or little sketch in our book. So I thought, why don't we do that? So I'm actually gonna turn it this way because I think that we're gonna, I was thinking, I've been thinking about this and I think we're gonna just do our drawings on one side of each page in case our pen does bleed through. But I think that's what we're gonna do. I mean, there's no guarantees. I could change my mind later on, but I think for right now. So this is just a Moleskine Cayet and I've gone through and quite a few pages and I've stained them with some watered down acrylic inks just so that the background page is not clean and crisp and clear. Let me turn off the speakers on my devices and I'll be right back. Okay, so let's sketch our dogwood blooms. Now I've got a lot of different kind of drawing pens and as I said in the first episode, my new favorite one is this Sharpie marker pen and this is a Sharpie stainless steel marker pen which is refillable. So you can get refills for these and the body just unscrews and the refill consists of more ink and a new tip and then you just screw back in and you're good to go. And because it's Sharpie, it's waterproof. So if you use it with watercolor paints or acrylic paints, it's not gonna smear. In this case, we're just gonna sketch with it but you could do other things with it. So I'm going to try to do this where you can see it. All right, so I wanna draw this flower and maybe this one in the stem. I don't intend on doing the whole thing. We'll see how far I get but I'm gonna just, I'm always telling you guys, just draw the shapes and this is called messy sketch because we're not looking for perfect lines. It's a sketch. So I'm looking at this petal right here. Now I'll have to guess on some of the shapes of these leaves because it's taken up against a dark background and so some of the edges and some of the outer leaves are not in the photo. So I'll have to guess at their shape. It's okay, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're inspired by his photography. That doesn't mean we're gonna try to copy it exactly. We're just gonna be inspired by it. We're gonna create a pretty piece of artwork based on his photography. You know, I don't do lots of realism because you really can't, I get frustrated because it doesn't look exactly like nature and I would rather, if I really love an image would rather have that natural, the photograph. So I have the natural, that image, the real image. Looks like there is a shadow of a leaf or something over here. So just loose sketchy lines. Let's put this other flower over here. Just loose and sketchy. You notice, I'm not drawing solid lines. I'm lots of light, loose, sketchy lines. I'm gonna try this on things like flowers and fruit before you try to do a face. So I'm just following the image in the photograph around trying to sketch the shapes of the petals that I see. I'm not worried about if I put a line in the wrong place because that just adds texture and interest to my sketch. Don't treat it as anything too precious. Just have fun with the process. I am gonna add extra lines in areas where I see in the photo, there's some shadows. There are these lines or prominent veins in the flower petals. So I am gonna make sure to add some of them. Looks like there's a leaf hanging down. It looks like there might be two of them but the other one's really in shadow but I do wanna draw one of them. It does look like there's another one right here though. I can't really see all of it so I'm gonna guess. All right, I'm gonna put a few lines for some of the leaves that I can see. I can't really see all of them so okay. So now we're gonna come in with a fatter pen and let's see, I kinda like this one. So this is a Tombow pen. This is from JetPens and it just says WS-BS. I don't know what that means. Oh, it's a calligraphy pen but it just says WS-BS but it's by Tombow it says. And it's got sort of this hard plastic brush tip. So I'm gonna use this wider pen to emphasize some of the more important lines in our drawing and make certain things stand out from the sketchy lines and basically make it look more, the shape look more refined. But I'm going to refrain from doing lots of solid lines. I'm going to keep the darker lines loose and sketchy just like the thinner ones. I like to have different sizes of pens hanging around so that I'm doing my sketch with black ink. I'm just doing it with all different shades of black ink. I have a fatter pen here somewhere, is this it? Yeah, that's one of them. So this is even, this is a traditional brush tip pen, more of a traditional brush tip anyway. And see, none of that bled through so I do test my pens, these piece of paper I was testing things on. Okay, I like that a lot. I'm gonna come in with my, like I did last time, these are the AccuGel Highlighters, the Bible, yeah AccuGel Highlighters, the Bible Highlighters. And this is a green one. And do I wanna add another color? Maybe a little bit of the yellow. Yep, I like that. Okay, I wanna take our Sharpie pen and I want to write Dogwood Blossoms on here. I really liked, and it was a last minute thought to put oranges and the date on here. But I really liked the way that looks. So I wanna do that to this one. The question is, where do I wanna do it? That's always the question, isn't it? And I'm gonna go over it twice and I'm going to date it. Let's see, today's the 21st. There we go. I really like that. I love the way that turned out. Just a messy, quick sketch. It doesn't have to be perfect. The most important thing is to have fun with it but also to practice your drawing. And anyway, yeah, I look forward to doing more in this little book. This has become one of my most favorite things, I think, to do. So there you have it, Dogwood Blossoms. Go ahead and look up Brent Frazier, his photography website, Brent Frazier Photography. And this was out of the 2012 calendar. All of his photographs are absolutely amazing and I'm sure you can get loads of inspiration and ask him how much they are. Maybe you can get the 2016 one. All right, I'll see you all later. Don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself, because you deserve it and I'll see you later, bye.