{"id":3975,"date":"2024-10-31T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:24:39","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-old-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/10\/sketch-of-the-week-old-skull\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the Week: Old Skull (Oct 23, 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;Tis the season! &#x1f480;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sketch-skull.jpg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of an old human skull.\" class=\"wp-image-3977\" width=\"400\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sketch-skull.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sketch-skull-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sketch-skull-768x781.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sketch-skull-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My son really liked the depth on the skull, but his actual vote for this week&#8217;s Sketch of the Week was this one of Mr. Hori from the film <em>Noroi: The Curse<\/em>, noting &#8220;the expression \u2026 is incredible&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sketch-MrHori.jpg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a terrified Japanese man, Mr. Hori from the horror film &quot;Noroi: The Curse&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-3979\" width=\"424\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sketch-MrHori.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sketch-MrHori-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sketch-MrHori-768x721.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 85vw, 424px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I personally was unhappy with how I elongated the face; Mr. Hori&#8217;s face is fundamentally round, but my hand kept wanting to regularize him against Munch&#8217;s &#8220;Scream,&#8221; I guess &#x1f937;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do feel like I get at least close to the extremity of Mr. Hori&#8217;s terror in that scene. (The actor, Satoru Jitsunashi, is pretty amazing in that role; he totally makes the movie for me.) Here&#8217;s the reference image (more or less; I was working from several stills I grabbed from the movie, because his whole face wasn&#8217;t ever in frame at once):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr.-Hori.png\" alt=\"A still image of Mr. Hori from &quot;Noroi: The Curse&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-3980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr.-Hori.png 560w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr.-Hori-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tis the season! &#x1f480; My son really liked the depth on the skull, but his actual vote for this week&#8217;s Sketch of the Week was this one of Mr. Hori from the film Noroi: The Curse, noting &#8220;the expression \u2026 is incredible&#8221;: I personally was unhappy with how I elongated the face; Mr. Hori&#8217;s face &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/10\/sketch-of-the-week-old-skull\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketch of the Week: Old Skull (Oct 23, 2024)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1021,1022],"tags":[113,1026,398,954,30,885,150,904,572,1025,1024],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/113402436067524004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}