{"id":2527,"date":"2020-07-15T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2020-07-15T21:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:36:34","slug":"drawing-for-15-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/drawing-for-15-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing for 15 July, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, Flickr explore was full of wildlife photography, and short on street photography. So I decided to do something new: an insect. This one:<\/p>\n

\"Soldier<\/a><\/p>\n

Since it was my first time doing an insect, I was more worried about doing it at all then about doing it right. This is what I came up with:<\/p>\n

\"20200715\"<\/p>\n

I have the beetle’s head in line with its body more than the downturned position that the photo has; and using a 2H pencil as shading to represent the red head hasn’t worked out that well – it’s looking a little ghostly and faded. But overall, I’m pretty pleased at having done it reasonably well and in a short time.<\/p>\n

Looking at it closer now, there are subtleties to the beetle’s head that I left out of my drawing – something to pay attention to the next time I do an insect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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