{"id":385,"date":"2011-03-13T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=385"},"modified":"2011-03-13T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T23:37:45","slug":"standing-male-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"standing male: back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/standing-male-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-387\" title=\"standing male back\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/standing-male-back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/standing-male-back.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mysketches.net\/2011\/03\/standing-male-back-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This sketch is the seventy-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day seventy-two: <\/strong>My friend Christopher has been encouraging me to practice figure drawing at a local artists&#8217; coop where one can sketch a live model all Sunday afternoon. I spent a couple of hours there today working with vine charcoal, white and gray conte crayon, and occasionally pencil. This sketch is the best of the dozen or so I walked away with. Aside from the fact that the man&#8217;s left arm looks more broken than foreshortened, I liked how it turned out. It was drawn in about 10 minutes. I have to admit that sketching a real person (fast) and not a figure in a book is a lot more challenging, but a lot more fun too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch is the seventy-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year\u2026 Day seventy-two: My friend Christopher has been encouraging me to practice figure drawing at a local artists&#8217; coop where one can sketch a live model all Sunday afternoon. I spent a couple of hours there [&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":[59,66,37,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"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=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}