{"id":626,"date":"2011-05-05T21:08:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T03:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=626"},"modified":"2011-05-05T21:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T03:08:37","slug":"no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"no one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/no-one1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-628\" title=\"no one\" src=\"http:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mysketches.net\/2011\/05\/no-one1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/no-one1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/no-one1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mysketches.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/no-one1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><strong>Day one hundred and twenty-five: <\/strong>When I started this sketch-blog project, I had hoped to become better at creating something from scratch. I&#8217;ve always been pretty good at mimicking something else, especially if I work at it for a while. Erasers are very helpful too. This evening I thought I&#8217;d see what happened if I just started sketching a face without looking at anyone, a photo, or an artwork. This is what happened: a sketch of no one in particular. As for drawing skill, I actually think I may have picked up a few things over the last 125 days, especially shading techniques. But it&#8217;s too bad this fellow turned out so glum. Next I&#8217;d like to develop the ability to deliberately render emotion and action. Of course, that would require more practice than I can get through a quick sketch per day. More than anything, this project has taught me to really appreciate artists&#8217; achievements!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day one hundred and twenty-five: When I started this sketch-blog project, I had hoped to become better at creating something from scratch. I&#8217;ve always been pretty good at mimicking something else, especially if I work at it for a while. Erasers are very helpful too. This evening I thought I&#8217;d see what happened if I [&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":[59,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysketches.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}