{"id":4837,"date":"2021-02-06T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2021-02-06T02:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:00:59","slug":"day-042","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/06\/day-042\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 042"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1-small-600x788.png\" alt=\"Sketchy Porsche\" width=\"600\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1-small-600x788.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1-small-300x394.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1-small-768x1009.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1-small-640x841.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1-small.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A deliberate attempt to just sketch in pencil and not ink. I decided to sit down and methodically start working through Wizard&#8217;s How to Draw: Getting Started, working on roughs, when I noticed that one of the things I like about the book is that it has a mental model of artwork.<\/p>\n<p>That inspired me to dial it back even further and to try to generate my own theories of art. I measured a Green Lantern figurine and a drawing dummy looking at proportions (hips are about midway in the figure), then examined old Superman comics and sketched one trying to see what I&#8217;m doing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Since I cut my chops inking my own webcomic, as fast as I could manage, wherever I draw it, I got in the habit of inking right over my own pencils, trying to get a good rendering in one go, which is a thing people do. But I&#8217;ve noticed many great artists use roughs to plan for success in their drawings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4839\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1b-small-600x788.png\" alt=\"rough of superman\" width=\"600\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1b-small-600x788.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1b-small-300x394.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1b-small-768x1009.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1b-small-640x841.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/day-042-v1b-small.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These roughs often have several levels of shading, which right there is an improvement over my &#8220;everything is an outline&#8221; style, when in reality, outlines are mostly in our minds, not in reality. So I sketched out a few figures, with shading, in greater detail than I normally would in pencil.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how hard it was to NOT start inking.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8230; drawing every day.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deliberate attempt to just sketch in pencil and not ink. I decided to sit down and methodically start working through Wizard&#8217;s How to Draw: Getting Started, working on roughs,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,227],"tags":[48,15,40,260,87],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artworks","category-sketchworks","tag-across-the-transfinite-canvas","tag-artworks","tag-centaurs","tag-drawing-every-day","tag-the-dresanians","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","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=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4840,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}