{"id":1220,"date":"2008-12-11T09:18:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T13:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2008-12-11T09:18:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T13:18:56","slug":"sketchbook-121108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook 12\/11\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As per my &#8220;vow&#8221; from last post, I&#8217;ve switched here mid-page to pencil&#8211;and I&#8217;m not really sure I like the results.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s something sort of stiff and labored about the pencil sketches, I think because the maleable nature of pencil&#8211;somewhat counterintuitively&#8211;tends to make me more fussy about putting down a line.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also pretty much using the pencil as if it were a pen, laying down dark outlines and then shading in areas.\u00a0 In short: I&#8217;m fighting the tool I&#8217;m trying to use.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll soldier on with other tools, but I&#8217;ll likely have to return to using My Precious (by which I mean, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickblick.com\/zz208\/19\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rotring art pen<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"sketchbook_121108\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sketchbook_121108.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1221 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sketchbook_121108.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"sketchbook_121108\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per my &#8220;vow&#8221; from last post, I&#8217;ve switched here mid-page to pencil&#8211;and I&#8217;m not really sure I like the results.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s something sort of stiff and labored about the pencil sketches, I think because the maleable nature of pencil&#8211;somewhat counterintuitively&#8211;tends to make me more fussy about putting down a line.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also pretty much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1220\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-jG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}