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Ink and watercolors on this smooth paper of some kind.<\/p>\n

Done for Sketchfest #45 (December 2013) but the scans were terrible until May, when I borrowed a better one.\u00a0 (You can see the bad scan at Sketchfest: http:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/sketchfest\/sketchfestart.php?id=13267<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Submitted it for a comment by a Real Live Art Director on twitter (more out of curiosity than anything; I knew it was just a rough thing), and got back this feedback: be sure the underlying drawing is good.<\/p>\n

Fair enough. Especially since the perspective is particularly off, but not purposefully\/to good effect. And the shading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ink and watercolors on this smooth paper of some kind. Done for Sketchfest #45 (December 2013) but the scans were terrible until May, when I borrowed a better one.\u00a0 (You can see the bad scan at Sketchfest: http:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/sketchfest\/sketchfestart.php?id=13267.) Submitted it for a comment by a Real Live Art Director on… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94],"tags":[17,69,14,99,25,46,228,43],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sketches","tag-ink","tag-ladybug","tag-mouse","tag-sketch","tag-sketchfest","tag-sleep","tag-teddy-bear","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hibernating_Mouse_otherweb.jpg?fit=600%2C488&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakBUO-5m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":259,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/transmogrification-ink\/","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":0},"title":"Transmogrification Ink","author":"Kir","date":"12 August 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Transmogrification InkFor Sketchfest #39,, prompt \"Mermaid Witch\".Trying to work out an idea in my head... 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