{"id":168,"date":"2012-11-25T22:31:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T03:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=168"},"modified":"2012-11-25T22:32:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T03:32:21","slug":"not-the-grinch-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/not-the-grinch-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Grinch (WIP)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nNot the Grinch (WIP)<\/a><\/div>\n

Ink and watercolor pencil on cheap watercolor paper. I digitally darkened him down a bit. Questions:<\/p>\n

* Should I apply water to the colored pencil? It tends to smooth and saturate the coors (good) but I have a heck of a lot of blending of colors (and two brands of watercolor pencil, Staedler & Faber-Castell).<\/p>\n

* What background? Cut him out and make a collage on some abstract-but-with-perspective print pattern? Figure out how to put in a snowy village? Help!<\/p>\n

* Should there be a trail of presents? Where and how to lay those out?<\/p>\n

Done more or less for Sketchfest and might become one of our holiday cards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not the Grinch (WIP) Ink and watercolor pencil on cheap watercolor paper. I digitally darkened him down a bit. Questions: * Should I apply water to the colored pencil? It tends to smooth and saturate the coors (good) but I have a heck of a lot of blending of colors… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87,8],"tags":[88,29,20,44,6,42,89,25],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-wanted","category-art","tag-christmas","tag-colored-pencil","tag-critters","tag-dragon","tag-experimental","tag-mixed-media","tag-oswoa","tag-sketchfest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakBUO-2I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":142,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/star-geese-wip\/","url_meta":{"origin":168,"position":0},"title":"Star Geese (WIP)","author":"Kir","date":"23 September 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Star Geese (WIP)I did a fast pencil-and-paint sketch on totally the wrong paper for Sketchfest today. 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