{"id":3623,"date":"2020-01-01T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2020-01-01T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:32:03","slug":"daunting-graphic-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3623","title":{"rendered":"daunting graphic skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an example of what I aspire to in clarity of line and presentation:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/images\/Habichtadj.jpg\"><br \/>\n(Clemens Habicht, in Jan\/Feb 2020 <i>Atlantic<\/i>, pg. 82)<br \/>\n(Ida Tarbell, pioneer of investigative journalism)<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8230;but no idea how to get to such fluency. I have been working with Adobe Draw on the iPad, using the iPencil as a tracing tool with some success (see <a href=\"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3603\">back at Drift Inn<\/a> from a fortnight ago) but the next step to interpretive drawing is a high one. Two more examples, working from<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/49295609777\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"29xii01\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49295609777_c5f0fdf84d_z.jpg\" width=\"417\" height=\"640\" alt=\"29xii01\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/images\/Dalis.jpg\" width=30%> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/images\/Mephs.jpg\" width=35%><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nAnd yesterday the Brown Truck brought Raymond Briggs&#8217; absolutely brilliant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Time-Lights-Out-Raymond-Briggs\/dp\/1787331954\/\"><b>Time For Lights Out<\/b><\/a> (&#8220;an extraordinary exploration of old age in words and pictures&#8221;) and I ran across this illustration about halfway in:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/images\/Briggscollageadj.jpg\" width=75%><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nI ought to know how to do this sort of digital collage, and I think I almost do, but once again getting to fluency is daunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an example of what I aspire to in clarity of line and presentation: (Clemens Habicht, in Jan\/Feb 2020 Atlantic, pg. 82) (Ida Tarbell, pioneer of investigative journalism) &#8230;but no idea how to get to such fluency. I have been working with Adobe Draw on the iPad, using the iPencil as a tracing tool with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-ot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}