{"id":2490,"date":"2020-07-12T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T02:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2020-07-12T08:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T02:54:28","slug":"drawing-for-6-july-2020-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/drawing-for-6-july-2020-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing for 6 July, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 July, feeling confident after the previous day&#8217;s cat, I decided to try a human face again, and found this portrait:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brianjdavies\/50076255642\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50076255642_b4a40589a8.jpg?resize=385%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amber\" width=\"385\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is what I came up with:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2491\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/drawing-for-6-july-2020-2\/attachment\/20200706\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200706.png?fit=781%2C1056&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"781,1056\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20200706\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200706.png?fit=222%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200706.png?fit=450%2C609&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2491\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200706.png?resize=450%2C608\" alt=\"20200706\" width=\"450\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200706.png?w=781&amp;ssl=1 781w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200706.png?resize=222%2C300&amp;ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200706.png?resize=757%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 757w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200706.png?resize=768%2C1038&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; it&#8217;s not <em>as bad<\/em>, and less distorted than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/10\/drawing-for-1-july-2020\/\">the last time I tried to do faces<\/a>, but it&#8217;s still in an uncanny valley. Shivani told me that I had made her bald &#8211; and yep, there&#8217;s a fall of hair on the left side of the forehead and around the ear that I simply forgot about. And the nose is also off in a way where I don&#8217;t even know what I did wrong.<\/p>\n<p>But again,\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited that I could get shapes across with not too many lines; in the torso and the neck.<\/p>\n<p>I seem to have tilted the subject&#8217;s head the other way in the drawing as it is in the photo, while\u00a0<em>mostly<\/em> getting the shape right. But again, I seem to have made the head bigger than the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 July, feeling confident after the previous day&#8217;s cat, I decided to try a human face again, and found this portrait: And this is what I came up with: So&#8230; it&#8217;s not as bad, and less distorted than the last time I tried to do faces, but it&#8217;s still in an uncanny valley. Shivani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-Ea","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}