{"id":4215,"date":"2025-06-25T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:04:15","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-gods-and-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/06\/sketch-of-the-week-gods-and-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"A God and a Bar of Soap (Sketches of the Week for Week 25 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My son voted for this god as the sketch of the week, primarily because he really liked how the reflections came out on the water. There’s actually a lot I dislike about this sketch (the major one being that the gesture is wrong: her body is too stuff and vertical, and doesn’t capture the motion I wanted to imply. I wasn’t trying to draw a god idly gazing at the horizon; I wanted to show one treading off to capture it). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as I’ve said before, powerful naked women are a crowd-pleaser, and so they lead when I’ve got ’em. Besides, I really am pleased with that reflection, and with my first attempt at a diaphanous cloth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The runner-up is this bar of soap, and probably the better sketch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I write for a living, have terrible penmanship, and struggle mightily to “unsee” text as text: when I draw something with a prominent hunk of text in it, it’s devilishly hard for me to draw<\/em> what that text looks<\/em><\/strong> like <\/strong><\/em>instead of writing what it says.<\/em><\/strong> I’m working on that, and this is the first attempt that got anywhere close to right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My son voted for this god as the sketch of the week, primarily because he really liked how the reflections came out on the water. There’s actually a lot I dislike about this sketch (the major one being that the gesture is wrong: her body is too stuff and vertical, and doesn’t capture the motion … Continue reading “A God and a Bar of Soap (Sketches of the Week for Week 25 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":[113,1026,1129,1128,904,572,1130,1025,1024],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/114744330119384556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215"}],"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=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4218,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}