{"id":4515,"date":"2026-07-31T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:20:37","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-clownification-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2026\/07\/sketch-of-the-week-clownification-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Further clownification (Sketch of the Week for Week 30 of 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of the benefits of clownification<\/a> is that it helps me chill out about trying to sketch attractive people. When I go to sketch someone who is actually good looking, I generally make myself miserable worrying that it will turn out grotesque, and thus guarantee it turns out absolutely grotesque. Meanwhile, if I go into a sketch knowing I’m just going to paint on grotesquery, it’s a lot easier to chill out about the base sketch, and end up with a suitable approximation of a normally attractive human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My son liked the above clown because it was the clearest and most legible at a glance. I preferred this one, as it most competently combined the vibe of the reference photo and the Das Unheimliche<\/a><\/em> of the clownification:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, my daughter requested I do a sketch of our dog Schnitzel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I like that he brings a certain gravity to his role of clown and light-bringer<\/a> to these benighted and uncertain times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the benefits of clownification is that it helps me chill out about trying to sketch attractive people. When I go to sketch someone who is actually good looking, I generally make myself miserable worrying that it will turn out grotesque, and thus guarantee it turns out absolutely grotesque. Meanwhile, if I go into … Continue reading “Further clownification (Sketch of the Week for Week 30 of 2026)”<\/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":[113,1211,941,1026,904,572,403,1213,1212,1025,1024],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/117014980915372909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515"}],"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=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4519,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}