{"id":1351,"date":"2011-10-11T18:54:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2011-10-11T18:58:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T00:58:51","slug":"figure-study-after-rockwell-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"figure study after Rockwell Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/rockwell-kent-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1355\" title=\"rockwell kent v2\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/rockwell-kent-v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/rockwell-kent-v2.jpg 505w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/rockwell-kent-v2-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/rockwell-kent.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and eighty-four:<\/strong> While helping my colleague, Brooks, set out artwork for a visiting class studying illustration, three small original drawings by Rockwell Kent caught my eye. They were made for the title pages of three volumes of Herman Melville&#8217;s <em>Moby Dick. <\/em>I became fascinated with the skill with which Kent was able to create these figures with only a few carefully painted lines of white. It took me more than one attempt at nearly every line in this sketch, and in some cases my &#8220;real variable pen&#8221; wasn&#8217;t variable enough to render the width and narrowness necessary within a single stroke. Regardless, I&#8217;m delighted that I was better at emulating Kent&#8217;s style than I thought I would be. Of course, if I wasn&#8217;t copying, I&#8217;d never be able to pull off something this sophisticated and simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and eighty-four: While helping my colleague, Brooks, set out artwork for a visiting class studying illustration, three small original drawings by Rockwell Kent caught my eye. They were made for the title pages of three volumes of Herman Melville&#8217;s Moby Dick. I became fascinated with the skill with which Kent was able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}