{"id":4081,"date":"2025-01-29T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:39:21","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-buck-watches-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/01\/sketch-of-the-week-buck-watches-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the Week: A Four-Point Buck Watches the Inauguration (Week 4, Jan 21 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is one of those situations where the title says it all: my mom was watching the inauguration, livid, and looked up to see this fella watching alongside her. I&#8217;m sharing it because my son found it funny, but the sketch itself didn&#8217;t sit will with me. In reality, the deer looked gravely concerned about the future of democracy, where-as in my sketch he comes off as mildly outraged that humans have once again stepped in it and tracked it all over the rug. I imagine that maybe this was a case of the artist&#8217;s feelings tainting the clarity of his vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I included the quick thumbnail I sketched afterward in the bottom left, because I felt like it more faithfully captured his true posture in Mom&#8217;s snapshot. That said, he still looks pretty angry. Or maybe not angry, precisely, just disappointed. He expected us to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Be_Best#Criticism\">Be Best<\/a>, and we fell far short. Sorry, m&#8217;man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2846-1024x618.jpeg\" alt=\"A couple pencil sketches of a four-point buck (male deer) looking in through my mom's living room window.\" class=\"wp-image-4082\" width=\"768\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2846-1024x618.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2846-300x181.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2846-768x463.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2846.jpeg 1114w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those situations where the title says it all: my mom was watching the inauguration, livid, and looked up to see this fella watching alongside her. I&#8217;m sharing it because my son found it funny, but the sketch itself didn&#8217;t sit will with me. In reality, the deer looked gravely concerned about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/01\/sketch-of-the-week-buck-watches-trump\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketch of the Week: A Four-Point Buck Watches the Inauguration (Week 4, Jan 21 2025)&#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":[95,113,869,1026,904,572,53,1025,1024,56],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/113913059194363956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081"}],"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=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}