{"id":2493,"date":"2020-07-12T08:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T03:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2020-07-12T08:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T03:03:21","slug":"drawing-for-7-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/drawing-for-7-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing for 7 July, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two days of copying close up portraits, I wanted to try something different, and found this archival photo of a steam engine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/irishswissernie\/50077382528\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50077382528_b13f02c045_n.jpg?resize=320%2C205&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"69100 Tanfield Lea  22 10 57 021 Howard Forster\" width=\"320\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is how I reproduced it:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2494\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/drawing-for-7-july-2020\/attachment\/20200707\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200707.png?fit=1120%2C761&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1120,761\" 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=\"20200707\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200707.png?fit=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200707.png?fit=450%2C306&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2494\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200707.png?resize=450%2C306\" alt=\"20200707\" width=\"450\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200707.png?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200707.png?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200707.png?resize=1024%2C696&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200707.png?resize=768%2C522&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200707.png?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had watched the two-point perspective tutorial by this time, and tried to apply it, but it didn&#8217;t work. I started in on the train, and found out that by the time I had done the engine and two wagons, I had run out of page.<\/p>\n<p>And despite lots of effort trying to replicate the landscape, it ended up looking really, really flat and without the clear presence of depth that the original photo had.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I bit off more than I could chew and that landscapes are really hard (or at least something where I need to learn something I haven&#8217;t learnt yet), or if this is a photo that exposed my lack of skill.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, onward with both practice and with watching tutorials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two days of copying close up portraits, I wanted to try something different, and found this archival photo of a steam engine: This is how I reproduced it: I had watched the two-point perspective tutorial by this time, and tried to apply it, but it didn&#8217;t work. I started in on the train, and [&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-2493","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-Ed","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","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=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}