{"id":1320,"date":"2023-02-24T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-rose-practice\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:10:16","slug":"sketchbook-rose-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-rose-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook \/\/ rose practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to do some roses for a commission. This rapidly became difficult. I didn\u2019t have a good feel for how roses work, how they are constructed, how they grow, how the petals grow and bend and fray.<\/p>\n<p>So there\u2019s a practice challenge I saw over on Instagram about drawing a thing (or type of thing) 100 times. Here are the first three. Onward!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1420\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-rose-practice\/rose-practice-sketchbook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?fit=955%2C1552&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"955,1552\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 13&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1673712740&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rose-practice-sketchbook\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;three penciled roses drawn on a sketchbook page&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?fit=185%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?fit=630%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1420\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?resize=630%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"three penciled roses drawn on a sketchbook page\" width=\"630\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?resize=630%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?resize=185%2C300&amp;ssl=1 185w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?resize=768%2C1248&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?resize=945%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 945w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?resize=600%2C975&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?w=955&amp;ssl=1 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to do some roses for a commission. This rapidly became difficult. I didn\u2019t have a good feel for how roses work, how they are constructed, how they grow, how the petals grow and bend and fray. So there\u2019s a practice challenge I saw over on Instagram about&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[8,94],"tags":[398,386,397,159,252],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-sketches","tag-100-things","tag-patreon-post","tag-practice","tag-rose","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/rose-practice-sketchbook.jpg?fit=955%2C1552&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakBUO-li","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1493,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-practice-koalas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1320,"position":0},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ practice koalas","author":"Kir","date":"7 August 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I signed up for access to some art lessons. 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This was more useful. I got lazy at the eybrow stage (and more so with the knitted beanie). Also, reflections are strange.Who else do I have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/8f1818867469ee350f17f3c4380f98a4.jpg?fit=820%2C1093&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/8f1818867469ee350f17f3c4380f98a4.jpg?fit=820%2C1093&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/8f1818867469ee350f17f3c4380f98a4.jpg?fit=820%2C1093&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/8f1818867469ee350f17f3c4380f98a4.jpg?fit=820%2C1093&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1681,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-axolotls-appendages\/","url_meta":{"origin":1320,"position":3},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ axolotls, appendages","author":"Kir","date":"28 February 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Thinking about the ways different fleshy or tentacular appendages might grow out of a head.Those griffinish beastie I was doing in October\/Inktober -- those maybe were more keratinlike-- sort of a stiff structure somewhere between rhino horn and feathers. 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