{"id":161,"date":"2020-02-09T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/?p=161"},"modified":"2021-06-19T15:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T15:41:29","slug":"jan-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Jan 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;m back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I resolved for 2020 to pursue 3 tracks &#8212; art, writing, and music &#8212; and produce one tangible product for each track <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">each month<\/span>. Aggressive I know, but without a challenging stretch goal, I know I&#8217;d just sit around and not accomplish much of anything. Across all 3 tracks, I&#8217;m progressing at 50% of the heroic pace I chose &#8212; which isn&#8217;t that bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s my January art: a digital painting. I&#8217;d show you the original from which it was drawn, but it would just make mine look bad. I tried an exercise that I discovered online, which is to split a face down the middle, and try to draw the other half. I did this for each half of the face, combined it, then cleaned it up. Note that this is entirely freehand &#8212; nothing from the original photo was included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could keep polishing\/refining it forever, but it&#8217;s time to move on. (Actually, now that I&#8217;ve posted it, I see that I could blend the skin a bit better &#8212; which I may invest maybe another 15 minutes to do. Ok, I&#8217;ve improved it &#8212; yes, it was worse.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jan_2020-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jan_2020-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jan_2020-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jan_2020-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jan_2020-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jan_2020.png 1126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>2020 \/ Procreate app (iPad) + random stylus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;m back. I resolved for 2020 to pursue 3 tracks &#8212; art, writing, and music &#8212; and produce one tangible product for each track each month. Aggressive I know, but without a challenging stretch goal, I know I&#8217;d just sit around and not accomplish much of anything. Across all 3 tracks, I&#8217;m progressing at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}