{"id":1572,"date":"2011-11-30T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T01:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2011-11-30T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T01:51:12","slug":"a-study-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"a study of me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/11\/self-portrait-study.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1573\" title=\"self portrait study\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/11\/self-portrait-study.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/self-portrait-study.jpg 523w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/self-portrait-study-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day three hundred and thirty-four: <\/strong>A discussion among students visiting the study room this afternoon about self-portraiture in prints reminded me that I haven&#8217;t sketched a proper self-portrait yet this year. At least not that I remember being any sort of serious attempt at a realistic representation of myself. This self-portrait was made in brown pencil for those of my artistic friends more fond of brown than black. I think it looks mostly of like me, but is still a bit off. I had to work and rework the ears and nose a few times to get even this close. Even so, since I haven&#8217;t really practiced portraiture at all, I&#8217;m generally pleased with the result. When I have more time some day in the future, I may try again, and see if I can improve myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day three hundred and thirty-four: A discussion among students visiting the study room this afternoon about self-portraiture in prints reminded me that I haven&#8217;t sketched a proper self-portrait yet this year. At least not that I remember being any sort of serious attempt at a realistic representation of myself. This self-portrait was made in brown [&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":[40,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572"}],"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=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}