{"id":4297,"date":"2025-10-30T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:57:31","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2025\/10\/sketch-of-the-week-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Dark is the Dark (Sketches of the Week for Week 43 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Week 43 was “Chiaroscuro<\/a> Faces Week.” Deep shadows are fun, because the visual and emotional impact is often inversely proportional to the effort. This is definitely a realm where knowing when to take the drawing away from yourself<\/a> pays off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My son thought this was the sketch of the week: “I like the way middle right seems to lean in a little. Makes it look the spookiest.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I sorta preferred this one from earlier in the week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This sketch was the hardest\u2014in that I erased everything and started over several times\u2014and the easiest, once I stopped listening to a brain that was telling me “this is an eye! this is a nose! those are lips, you idiot!” and just put black where I saw black. I sorta love how the lighting make so clear that there’s a skull under that skin and meat. If anything, my failure here is that I didn’t go for blacker blacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you can turn off your brain and just let your eye tell your hand where the black goes, hardshadowed, dramatic chiaroscuro actually almost makes for the easiest sketches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Week 43 was “Chiaroscuro Faces Week.” Deep shadows are fun, because the visual and emotional impact is often inversely proportional to the effort. This is definitely a realm where knowing when to take the drawing away from yourself pays off. My son thought this was the sketch of the week: “I like the way middle … Continue reading “In the Dark is the Dark (Sketches of the Week for Week 43 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":[113,1157,1026,904,572,1025,1024],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/115463636427892675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297"}],"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=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}