{"id":4646,"date":"2012-12-31T12:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2012-12-31T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:53:00","slug":"sketchbook-123112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook 12\/31\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted anything from my sketchbook lately&#8211;mostly, that&#8217;s been because a lot of my evening sketching time over the last few months has been consumed by the AlphaBooks project. Now that that&#8217;s over, though, I&#8217;ve been back working in my sketchbook on some non-alpha project things. With these sketches I was trying to work on giving figures a strong, discernible &#8220;action line&#8221; and also really trying to make sure that the hips and shoulders were angled off the center in a dynamic way.<\/p>\n<p>Original sketches up top, cleaned up versions below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sketchbook_123112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4647\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=4647\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sketchbook_123112.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,2833\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sketchbook_123112\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sketchbook_123112-158x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sketchbook_123112-542x1024.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4647\" alt=\"sketchbook_123112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sketchbook_123112-158x300.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sketchbook_123112-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sketchbook_123112-542x1024.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted anything from my sketchbook lately&#8211;mostly, that&#8217;s been because a lot of my evening sketching time over the last few months has been consumed by the AlphaBooks project. Now that that&#8217;s over, though, I&#8217;ve been back working in my sketchbook on some non-alpha project things. With these sketches I was trying to work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4646\">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-1cW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646"}],"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=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}