{"id":4118,"date":"2025-03-13T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:03:40","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-shrouded-lady-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/03\/sketch-of-the-week-shrouded-lady-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the Week: Shrouded Lady ii (Week 10, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I didn&#8217;t post a sketch last week because 1) I was absurdly sick with influenza A and 2) wasn&#8217;t really happy with anything I drew that week. I&#8217;m less sick this week, and more satisfied with my work. My son voted for this sketch:<\/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\/2025\/03\/IMG_2963.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a shrouded lady\" class=\"wp-image-4119\" width=\"493\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_2963.jpeg 657w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_2963-271x300.jpeg 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 493px) 85vw, 493px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The reference image here is a sample from a reference image pack I found online. I originally took a run at it specifically because I figured it would be basically impossible for me to capture: the cloth&#8217;s draping was so complex, and my eyes really had trouble following it. I couldn&#8217;t conceive of how I&#8217;d communicate a figure I could hardly see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, this was a super revealing exercise for me: having all those familiar landmarks (eyes, ears, shoulders, hips) gone forced me to simply do the thing I&#8217;m always trying to do, and failing at: to look at the subject and draw what I&#8217;m seeing, and the feeling of seeing it, not my ideas of what a woman (or whatever) looks like, and what it takes to show one to someone on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d thought it would be maddeningly frustrating, but it ended up being super relaxing. &#x1f937;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t post a sketch last week because 1) I was absurdly sick with influenza A and 2) wasn&#8217;t really happy with anything I drew that week. I&#8217;m less sick this week, and more satisfied with my work. My son voted for this sketch: The reference image here is a sample from a reference image &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/03\/sketch-of-the-week-shrouded-lady-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketch of the Week: Shrouded Lady ii (Week 10, 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":[113,1026,1087,1088,276,1086,904,572,1025,1024],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/114156170208416841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118"}],"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=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}