{"id":962,"date":"2015-05-18T16:57:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2015-05-18T16:57:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:57:53","slug":"sketchbook-monday-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/sketchbook-monday-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook Monday #96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I played around with a ballpoint pen a bit, which is fun because it forces me to actually sketch instead of mucking around for a half hour just trying to doodle the underlying constructing shapes. I have a tendency to do that, which usually leads to me going over a sketch multiple times as if I were inking it. I probably need to loosen up like this more often and have more fun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2015\/96-01.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch\" class=\"artwork\">Granted, without an initial underlying sketch to guide me, I kind of reverted to a really cartoony style for most of these, as you can see here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2015\/96-02.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch\" class=\"artwork\">Mister moon face here has quite the chin-beard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2015\/96-03.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch\" class=\"artwork\">One side of the page is blurred when I scan these, because I&#8217;ve been using a hardcover sketchbook. I can&#8217;t lay the whole thing flat without physically ripping the page out. Which would, of course, defeat the purpose of having a hardcover sketchbook in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2015\/96-04.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch\" class=\"artwork\">Eyes are fun to draw no matter the medium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/artwork\/sketch\/2015\/96-05.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch\" class=\"artwork\">I don&#8217;t know what time it is right now, but this appears to be Jake the Dog and Finn the Human from some popular television program that&#8217;s on the cable box these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I played around with a ballpoint pen a bit, which is fun because it forces me to actually sketch instead of mucking around for a half hour just trying to doodle the underlying constructing shapes. I have a tendency to do that, which usually leads to me going over a sketch multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}