{"id":1357,"date":"2011-10-12T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2011-10-12T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T01:15:48","slug":"study-on-my-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"study on my own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/michelangelo-slave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1358\" title=\"michelangelo slave\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/10\/michelangelo-slave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/michelangelo-slave.jpg 429w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/michelangelo-slave-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day two hundred and eighty-five:<\/strong> I decided today that with only 80 sketches left, I might want to do less copying of the work of master draftsmen, and more creating of my own. Early in the year, I toyed with the idea of learning how to draw human figures well, but I never really sorted that out. Tonight&#8217;s quick sketch was an attempt to draw a detail of one of Michelangelo&#8217;s so-called &#8220;slave&#8221; sculptures at the Louvre by using my own lines and shading. It is clear to me that I need practice translating a real object onto the page without mimicking someone else line for line. I flailed about with no effective plan, adding different media in a variety of shades, hoping to strike upon just the right thing to bring it all together. Meh. Since I only make one drawing a day, I am going to have to accept a bit of trial and error, and let some drawings truly be studies and not finished products. One thing is for certain: they will be all mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two hundred and eighty-five: I decided today that with only 80 sketches left, I might want to do less copying of the work of master draftsmen, and more creating of my own. Early in the year, I toyed with the idea of learning how to draw human figures well, but I never really sorted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[56,37,29,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357"}],"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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}