{"id":1318,"date":"2015-10-08T19:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T02:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2015-11-20T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T04:25:28","slug":"the-orchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/the-orchard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>

The Orchard<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m starting to get the hang of this sketching stuff. My proportions are getting better and I’ve developed a process I like. I start by framing an area in my journal with blue tape, and then I lay out the scene using an orange erasable highlighter.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Orchard – Layout<\/p><\/div>\n

I divided the frame in half both vertically and horizontally and sketched in the major shapes in each quadrant. Then I drew the blackest blacks with a brush pen.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Orchard – Brush Pen<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally I added detail with an extra fine nib pen mainly drawing the darks rather than the contours.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Orchard – Extra Fine Nib Pen<\/p><\/div>\n

This is a small sketch – 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Here is what it looks like on the journal page.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Orchard – Journal Page<\/p><\/div>\n

I then used a hairdryer to heat up the drawing which erases the orange highlighter.<\/p>\n

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

I’m starting to get the hang of this sketching stuff. My proportions are getting better and I’ve developed a process I like. I start by framing an area in my journal with blue tape, and then I lay out the scene using an orange erasable highlighter. I divided the frame in half both vertically and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-pen-and-ink","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xTIN-lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","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=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}