{"id":4614,"date":"2026-10-21T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:51:00","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2026\/10\/sketch-of-the-week-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"bang bang &#x1f4a5; (Sketch of the Week for Week 42 of 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5513-593x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4615\" width=\"297\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5513-593x1024.jpeg 593w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5513-174x300.jpeg 174w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5513-768x1325.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5513-890x1536.jpeg 890w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5513.jpeg 1129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 85vw, 297px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Extreme foreshortening is a really important compositional tool\u2014it brings hella drama with little effort. It&#8217;s also hella mindbending: getting that sketch remotely right requires getting your brain to disregard all of the stuff it knows (<em>A FIST IS WAAAAAY SMALLER THAN A HEAD!@!!!!1!!!!&#x1f631;) <\/em>and just let the hand make the pencil scratch out what the eye sees. It&#8217;s fun, once you get past tearing your hair out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qgDrpWWxuto?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme foreshortening is a really important compositional tool\u2014it brings hella drama with little effort. It&#8217;s also hella mindbending: getting that sketch remotely right requires getting your brain to disregard all of the stuff it knows (A FIST IS WAAAAAY SMALLER THAN A HEAD!@!!!!1!!!!&#x1f631;) and just let the hand make the pencil scratch out what the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2026\/10\/sketch-of-the-week-bang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;bang bang &#x1f4a5; (Sketch of the Week for Week 42 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":[113,1228,1026,1229,904,572,1025,1024],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/117479420746145040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614"}],"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=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}