{"id":4123,"date":"2025-04-04T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:37:41","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-luchador-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/04\/sketch-of-the-week-luchador-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loneliness of the Groundling Luchador (Sketch of the Week for Week 13 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sorry again for the long break; I was sick, and then I was at a conference in Florida, and then I was on vacation in Michigan&#8217;s UP, and now I&#8217;m back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My son was emphatic that this was the sketch of the week, because he liked the composition and the implied narrative and the fact that there was dialogue:<\/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\/04\/luchador-1000x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"A luchador (&quot;Mexican wrestler&quot;) leaping from the ropes to smash down upon his opponent outside the ring. That opponent gazes back up at his imminent ass-whooping and mutters &quot;oh damn&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-4124\" width=\"500\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/luchador-1000x1024.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/luchador-293x300.jpeg 293w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/luchador-768x786.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/luchador-1501x1536.jpeg 1501w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/luchador-1200x1228.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/luchador-50x50.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/luchador.jpeg 1911w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not so sure. From a technical standpoint, I think this sketch of a single stone on a Lake Superior beach just outside Porcupine Mountain Wilderness Area is the better sketch:<\/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\/04\/beach-stone-1024x814.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a stone on a sandy outcrop over water. The stone is brightly lit, and its shadow is sharp and deep.\" class=\"wp-image-4126\" width=\"512\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/beach-stone-1024x814.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/beach-stone-300x238.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/beach-stone-768x610.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/beach-stone-1536x1221.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/beach-stone-1200x954.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/beach-stone.jpeg 1880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have the grit on the sand all wrong (I got sloppy, and the technique was no good to begin with) but I feel like I got the depth of the shadow right for maybe the first time ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s not really my call which is &#8220;best&#8221;; that&#8217;s for you. I get what I get out of them in the drawing, and in sharing them with my son. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry again for the long break; I was sick, and then I was at a conference in Florida, and then I was on vacation in Michigan&#8217;s UP, and now I&#8217;m back. My son was emphatic that this was the sketch of the week, because he liked the composition and the implied narrative and the fact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/04\/sketch-of-the-week-luchador-rock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Loneliness of the Groundling Luchador (Sketch of the Week for Week 13 of 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":[113,1089,1026,1093,1091,1090,1092,904,572,982,940,1025,1024],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/114280394665775795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123"}],"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=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4128,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/4128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}