{"id":275,"date":"2015-12-28T21:14:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T21:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/?p=275"},"modified":"2018-12-15T18:55:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T18:55:31","slug":"imitate-and-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/2015\/12\/28\/imitate-and-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitate and Improve!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ann-compose1-small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ann-compose1-small-1280x546.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ann-compose1-small-1280x546.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ann-compose1-small-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ann-compose1-small-768x328.png 768w, https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ann-compose1-small-1200x512.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ann-compose1-small.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imitate and Improve! &#8211; Sometimes when I go into <em>The Internets<\/em>,\n I find cool pictures\/art that I\u2019d like to be able to draw. I save those\n and try to imitate or reproduce by tracing or drawing \u201cside-by-side\u201d, \nalso putting my characters in such poses.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously the \nresults are far better than me just sketching from zero, as I left my \nsenses of proportion and symmetry at work. An important thing to keep in\n mind when imitating from real (or even drawn) pictures is that \n\u201cfurries\u201d have bigger head-to-body proportions so they become more \ncartoonish, escaping from the \u201cuncanny valley\u201d effect. I spend big time \nadjusting the size of the head to not seem stupidly big or disturbingly \nhuman sized. Further, sometimes the result must be plumped or rounded, \nfor the same purposes.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The originals were found in 4chan boards, 1 and 3 from \u201ccasual girl\u201d photos and 2 from a drawing of an artist called Kasutaso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imitate and Improve! &#8211; Sometimes when I go into The Internets, I find cool pictures\/art that I\u2019d like to be able to draw. I save those and try to imitate or reproduce by tracing or drawing \u201cside-by-side\u201d, also putting my characters in such poses. Obviously the results are far better than me just sketching from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/2015\/12\/28\/imitate-and-improve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imitate and Improve!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,7,2,79,3,96,97],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anne-squirrel","tag-anthropomorphic","tag-furry-art","tag-jrs-characters","tag-sketch","tag-tracing","tag-trying-to-improve"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiuscomics.com\/sensetomaquet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}