{"id":29937,"date":"2017-03-14T01:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T08:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29937"},"modified":"2017-03-13T20:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T03:42:35","slug":"sophia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/sophia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SophiaDrawing-SMALL_031317-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SophiaDrawing-SMALL_031317-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1015\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SophiaDrawing-SMALL_031317-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SophiaDrawing-SMALL_031317-1-450x305.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SophiaDrawing-SMALL_031317-1-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SophiaDrawing-SMALL_031317-1-800x541.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Same as the other day with the &#8220;Maria&#8221; drawing. Colored pencil on black construction paper. So essentially working the light areas more than the shadows. This time I wanted more blending and refinement in the skin. Impossible to get natural skin tones with the black paper showing through, though. I fought green ghoulishness to the end. Still need to work the skin tones on the hand (unfinished as of this scan) on which &#8220;Sophia&#8221; is resting her chin and to smooth out the background a bit. <\/p>\n<p>This color-on-black technique works well for sad, spooky, or pensive. Possibly spiritual. Not a good way to depict smiley faces. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the rare drawings that looks better live than onscreen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Same as the other day with the &#8220;Maria&#8221; drawing. Colored pencil on black construction paper. So essentially working the light areas more than the shadows. This time I wanted more blending and refinement in the skin. Impossible to get natural skin tones with the black paper showing through, though. I fought green ghoulishness to the end. Still need to work the skin tones on the hand (unfinished as of this scan) on which &#8220;Sophia&#8221; is resting her chin and to smooth out the background a bit. This color-on-black technique works well for sad, spooky, or pensive. Possibly spiritual. Not a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/sophia\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sophia<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29937"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29944,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions\/29944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}