{"id":1409,"date":"2009-03-08T21:17:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T01:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2009-03-08T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T01:17:50","slug":"sketchbook-3809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook 3\/8\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d recently made a sort of informal vow to do one substantive post each week and I&#8217;d managed to stick to that for about three weeks&#8230; until now.\u00a0 So, in lieu of that, I&#8217;ll just post a page from my sketchbook&#8211;something I&#8217;ve not done in a while.\u00a0 As usual, I&#8217;m still drawing a lot of hands and drapery from magazine photos, but I&#8217;ve been feeling of late like I&#8217;ve been neglecting drawing from imagination.\u00a0 I decided consequently to do a &#8220;grid&#8221; drawing over the course of the last few days.\u00a0 Basically what I do is divide a sketchbook page into a grid,\u00a0 do a really quick &#8220;blind doodle&#8221; in non-photo blue pencil in each panel of the grid, then use that doodle as a basis to draw some sort of creature in ink over top.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the resulting page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"sketch_030809\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sketch_030809.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1410 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sketch_030809.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"sketch_030809\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d recently made a sort of informal vow to do one substantive post each week and I&#8217;d managed to stick to that for about three weeks&#8230; until now.\u00a0 So, in lieu of that, I&#8217;ll just post a page from my sketchbook&#8211;something I&#8217;ve not done in a while.\u00a0 As usual, I&#8217;m still drawing a lot of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1409\">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-mJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"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=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}