{"id":2606,"date":"2020-08-08T07:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2020-08-08T07:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:13:11","slug":"drawing-for-4-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/08\/drawing-for-4-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing for 4 August, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I decided to continue with animals, but a more challenging animal than an elephant. Flickr explore had this wonderful photo of a baboon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mihoff55\/50176965362\/in\/faves-51921757@N00\/\n<\/div>
Don’t Look Back in Anger, by Michael Hoffmann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is what I made:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I did most of the hair by lightly shading with a 2H pencil, and the darker patches by adding HB or 2B shading over that. Unfortunately, my scanner hasn’t quite picked up the lighter hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The face lines are also not as naturalistic as they should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But overall, I’m happy with what I’ve done here. I think this is one of my first drawings where I’ve managed to show the depth in a face properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said when I started that I didn’t want to be good, I just wanted to stop being terrible, and I think I’ve managed that in this drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to continue with animals, but a more challenging animal than an elephant. Flickr explore had this wonderful photo of a baboon: This is what I made: I did most of the hair by lightly shading with a 2H pencil, and the darker patches by adding HB or 2B shading over that. Unfortunately, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","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-G2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}