{"id":1144,"date":"2014-12-30T14:42:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T22:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2014-12-30T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T22:58:21","slug":"slp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/slp\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Line Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Straight<\/a>

Straight Line Practice<\/p><\/div>\n

I decided to practice drawing straight lines. Mine are wobbly. (See the next post for examples).<\/p>\n

Drawing is both a physical and a mental activity. You need to practice to gain physical strength and dexterity \u2013 to make that muscle, bone, nerve, spinal cord, brain connection and turn that conscious action into an automatic one and make it a permanent hardwired path. You need to form good habits and strengthen the right muscles. You also need to relax with a goal to draw effortlessly.<\/p>\n

I spent the last four weeks practicing drawing straight lines. I collected and scanned all my practice drawings and created this PDF<\/a> to document my process and findings.<\/p>\n

Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to practice drawing straight lines. Mine are wobbly. (See the next post for examples). Drawing is both a physical and a mental activity. You need to practice to gain physical strength and dexterity \u2013 to make that muscle, bone, nerve, spinal cord, brain connection and turn that conscious action into an automatic one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-pen-and-ink","7":"category-traditional-art","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3xTIN-slp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}