{"id":4206,"date":"2025-06-13T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T22:37:55","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-flex-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/06\/sketch-of-the-week-flex-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Flex and the Water Bottle (Sketches of the Week for Week 23 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was another week of sketches more about shading and volume than form. My son slightly preferred this first sketch (the model was wearing crazy long-fingered claw-gloves):<\/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\/06\/IMG_3299-1024x985.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a scantily clad woman with long frond-like claw fingers\" class=\"wp-image-4207\" width=\"512\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3299-1024x985.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3299-300x289.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3299-768x739.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3299-1536x1478.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3299-1200x1155.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3299.jpeg 1981w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But he also really liked this water bottle 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\/06\/IMG_3300-920x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a steel water bottle, its shadow reaching toward the viewer\" class=\"wp-image-4208\" width=\"460\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3300-920x1024.jpeg 920w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3300-270x300.jpeg 270w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3300-768x855.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3300-1380x1536.jpeg 1380w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3300-1200x1335.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_3300.jpeg 1792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 85vw, 460px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I recognize that the top sketch is more compelling (scantily clad women in powerful poses are a crowd-pleaser!) but the bottle was a bigger victory. The &#8220;Flex&#8221; sketch was from a two-dimensional image on my phone; I sketch that way a lot, and have gotten accustomed to translating two dimensions of pixels into two dimensions of graphite on wood pulp. The water bottle was just sitting on the table IRL. When you are sharing actual real space and time with an object, it&#8217;s much harder to fight the brain&#8217;s need to tell stories about what the &#8220;actual&#8221; shapes are, and instead let the eye tell the hand what it sees where.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was another week of sketches more about shading and volume than form. My son slightly preferred this first sketch (the model was wearing crazy long-fingered claw-gloves): But he also really liked this water bottle sketch: I recognize that the top sketch is more compelling (scantily clad women in powerful poses are a crowd-pleaser!) but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/06\/sketch-of-the-week-flex-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flex and the Water Bottle (Sketches of the Week for Week 23 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":[113,1124,1123,1026,904,572,1122,1025,1024,1105,717],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/114676758261791231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206"}],"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=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}