{"id":314,"date":"2011-02-28T21:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T03:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-02-28T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T04:08:15","slug":"human-proportion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"human proportion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/02\/male-figure-proportion-study.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315\" title=\"male figure proportion study\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/02\/male-figure-proportion-study.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/02\/male-figure-proportion-study.jpg 394w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/02\/male-figure-proportion-study-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This sketch is the fifty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day fifty-nine: <\/strong>Today I undertook a fascinating exercise to draw a male figure using a technique that maps out anatomical proportion relative to the size of the head. Apparently a whole person is about 7 and a half heads tall. The book I have on how to draw people informed me that I should &#8220;memorize the corresponding points at each level.&#8221; I can see how mastery of this could really improve my figure drafting skills. Who knew at the start of 2011 that I&#8217;d be slowly (very, very slowly) teaching myself to draw? I&#8217;m amazed how much fun I had figuring this out today (no pun intended).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch is the fifty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026 Day fifty-nine: Today I undertook a fascinating exercise to draw a male figure using a technique that maps out anatomical proportion relative to the size of the head. Apparently a whole person is about 7 [&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":[37,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}