{"id":4662,"date":"2021-01-02T23:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T06:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2021-01-02T23:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T06:44:50","slug":"day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/02\/day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-1-scan-600x789.png\" alt=\"holy testing drawing light on black, batman\" width=\"600\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-1-scan-600x789.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-1-scan-300x395.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-1-scan-768x1010.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-1-scan-1168x1536.png 1168w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-1-scan-640x842.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-1-scan.png 1354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not so successful experiments with light pencils on black paper. A consultation with my wife suggests Cont\u00e9 crayons or oil pastels as an alternative, but really, I think I prefer the brown paper of my other experiments as providing the best midtones. Even Photoshop couldn&#8217;t salvage this one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-scan-600x456.png\" alt=\"Dakota and the Skull, Colored Pencil on Black, Photoshopped\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-scan-600x456.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-scan-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-scan-768x584.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-scan-1536x1168.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-scan-640x487.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-scan.png 1781w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The original came out pretty grainy &#8230; these pencils just won&#8217;t cut it on black paper.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-original-600x456.png\" alt=\"Original of the Dakota and Skull\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-original-600x456.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-original-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-original-768x584.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-original-1536x1168.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-original-640x487.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/black-page-2-original.png 1781w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still, drawing every day.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so successful experiments with light pencils on black paper. A consultation with my wife suggests Cont\u00e9 crayons or oil pastels as an alternative, but really, I think I prefer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,197,227,198],"tags":[15,6,260],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artworks","category-fiction","category-sketchworks","category-urban-fantasy","tag-artworks","tag-dakota-frost","tag-drawing-every-day","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}