{"id":4188,"date":"2025-05-21T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:33:54","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-odd-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/05\/sketch-of-the-week-odd-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloak, dagger, sword, sorcery (Sketches of the Week for Week 20 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My son is into D&D and Magic and martial arts, so he sorta loved all of the sketches from this past week, which was all fantasy topics. He thought “Cloaked” was the standout, because the shadows gave it the best depth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He also liked the rightsized detailing on the “Herald of the Odd God” and the gesture of the man she struck down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also liked how this shaman wailing for her demon lover<\/a> came out. The technique isn’t great\u2014she almost drifts into Ninja Turtle territory, for godsake\u2014but it’s really legible: It catches the eye from a distance, is easy to immediately read, and worth giving a second look. Honestly, should I really be asking for more? It’s sorta like last week’s deep sea diver<\/a>: a reminder that composition and technique and artistry aren’t the goal on their own, but at the service of catching someone’s eye and making it worth looking twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My son is into D&D and Magic and martial arts, so he sorta loved all of the sketches from this past week, which was all fantasy topics. He thought “Cloaked” was the standout, because the shadows gave it the best depth: He also liked the rightsized detailing on the “Herald of the Odd God” and … Continue reading “Cloak, dagger, sword, sorcery (Sketches of the Week for Week 20 of 2025)”<\/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":[113,1110,1113,1114,1112,1026,1085,30,904,572,1115,1025,1024,1111],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/114546483379074248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188"}],"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=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}