{"id":1949,"date":"2010-01-16T15:28:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2010-01-16T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T19:28:36","slug":"sketchbook-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook 1\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I struggle with the most with my drawing is the level of of abstraction, of &#8220;cartoonyness&#8221; (for lack of a better word) for my characters.\u00a0 The sorts of comics I enjoy reading most tend to be almost exclusively ones that one would describe as &#8220;cartoony,&#8221; but for whatever reason (most likely a youth heavily steeped in <em>How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way<\/em>) when it comes time for me to design characters I find myself always fighting the urge to base my characters on the generic egg shaped head.\u00a0 To fight this tendency, I sometimes do sketchbook grids of heads and faces like this and try to push myself to distort and exaggerate things more.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t usually wind up with a very favorable usable to unusable ratio, but it&#8217;s good exercise I think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"sketchbook_011610\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sketchbook_011610.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1950 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sketchbook_011610.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"sketchbook_011610\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I struggle with the most with my drawing is the level of of abstraction, of &#8220;cartoonyness&#8221; (for lack of a better word) for my characters.\u00a0 The sorts of comics I enjoy reading most tend to be almost exclusively ones that one would describe as &#8220;cartoony,&#8221; but for whatever reason (most likely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1949\">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-vr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"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=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}