{"id":1332,"date":"2023-05-26T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T01:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/digital-sketchbook-mermaid\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:31:21","slug":"digital-sketchbook-mermaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/digital-sketchbook-mermaid\/","title":{"rendered":"digital sketchbook \/\/ mermaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more for MerMay, my friends!<\/p>\n<p>Working in my scribble-sketch style in Procreate on the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>I like it when I lose track of time and just get into feeling the shapes and volumes. I like how for digital sketching I feel less constrained by space (I can move things around and change relative sizes). (On the other hand, in my paper sketchbooks, I feel like I know what a pencil <em>does<\/em>, what a pen <em>does<\/em>, and I <em>still<\/em> really don&#8217;t feel that way digitally yet.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/ff39a0df68a209aec49b38d82f3f3c7a.jpg?fit=820%2C1025&amp;ssl=1\" data-media-id=\"165954022\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital scribble sketch of mermaid on mangrove or cypress roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,298,10],"tags":[338,95,256,386,99,252],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-patreon","category-shows","tag-digital","tag-mermaid","tag-mermay","tag-patreon-post","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-lu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1335,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-mermaid\/","url_meta":{"origin":1332,"position":0},"title":"sketchbook \/\/ Mermaid","author":"Kir","date":"3 June 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A mermaid sketch (for patrons).","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\/fd99e62d3da573c81f95999f0e77ca6c.jpg?fit=820%2C953&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/fd99e62d3da573c81f95999f0e77ca6c.jpg?fit=820%2C953&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/fd99e62d3da573c81f95999f0e77ca6c.jpg?fit=820%2C953&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/fd99e62d3da573c81f95999f0e77ca6c.jpg?fit=820%2C953&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1329,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-purrmaid-goes-fishing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1332,"position":1},"title":"sketchbook \/\/ purrmaid goes fishing","author":"Kir","date":"19 May 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I hope they catch just what they want: a nap, a boot, a fish. 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My Instagram feed is full of beautiful art today\u2014so wonderful! This is a bit of one of the #tinytinseries of ink drawings* I\u2019m doing. #mermay2018 (This was first posted on my Patreon with the tags ink drawing, mermaid, mermay, tiny tin series) * Did I say this already?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"swirl-maid by Kir Talmage","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/swirlmaid-IG-crop-from-photo.png?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/swirlmaid-IG-crop-from-photo.png?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/swirlmaid-IG-crop-from-photo.png?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/swirlmaid-IG-crop-from-photo.png?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1768,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-mermay-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1332,"position":5},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ Mermay 1","author":"Kir","date":"3 May 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Noodled about in my planner\/journal\/whatchamacallit book. Had fun with her, seaweedy and all. That extra bit is part of the letter M in May.Need more anatomy practice. 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