{"id":584,"date":"2006-12-29T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2006-12-29T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T22:23:19","slug":"my-cat-style-cartooning-technique-is-unstoppable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"My Cat-Style Cartooning Technique is Unstoppable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I ever get around to writing a how-to cartooning book (something I <em>have<\/em> actually considered), one technique I&#8217;m going to champion is learning how to pencil and ink with a real, live&#8211;and often moving&#8211;cat on one&#8217;s drafting table.\u00a0 My thinking is that this is kind of like those &#8220;heavy hands&#8221; things that some folks go running with: if you can pencil and ink with a cat moving around on your work surface, then you should be <em>really<\/em> good at it when there&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> a cat moving around on your work surface, right?\u00a0 I recently drew and inked&#8211;and inked with a brush pen, in fact&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2006\/12\/terrapin.png\">a drawing<\/a> while I was in a moving bus going up a mountain in a rain storm.\u00a0 I credit this cat-style cartooning technique.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"cat_drafting.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2006\/12\/cat_drafting.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cat_drafting.jpg\" id=\"image583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2006\/12\/cat_drafting.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I ever get around to writing a how-to cartooning book (something I have actually considered), one technique I&#8217;m going to champion is learning how to pencil and ink with a real, live&#8211;and often moving&#8211;cat on one&#8217;s drafting table.\u00a0 My thinking is that this is kind of like those &#8220;heavy hands&#8221; things that some folks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=584\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[11],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-9q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}