{"id":12373,"date":"2023-07-01T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=12373"},"modified":"2023-07-01T02:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:00:02","slug":"maybe-i-just-need-to-be-a-little-less-picky-about-my-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/12373","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I Just Need To Be A Little Less Picky About My Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my drawings I have always worked to very well defined lines like the cartoonists I&#8217;ve admired most (Howard Cruse for example). It&#8217;s only lately that I&#8217;m discovering that if I let my lines get a little scruffy, like in my roughs, the finished artwork seems more lively.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s easy in Procreate, to simply make a duplicate layer of the rough blue lines instead of just inking over them in a fresh blank layer, and then changing the line color from blue to black. I will still tidy things up a bunch, but not to the point I&#8217;m taking away the scruffiness. That most recent drawing I posted the other day is, I think, the beginning of a new(ish) style for me, though I did it once before. But that one happened because I was feeling too tired to do my usual ink lines so I just copied the roughs and made them look inked and low and behold it worked. That last one was a deliberate attempt to duplicate the effect of that other one and it worked too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to stick with it&#8230;at least for a while&#8230;and see where it goes. At least for the one-offs if not the multi panel cartoons. I&#8217;ve got another I&#8217;m working on I&#8217;ll post about later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my drawings I have always worked to very well defined lines like the cartoonists I&#8217;ve admired most (Howard Cruse for example). It&#8217;s only lately that I&#8217;m discovering that if I let my lines get a little scruffy, like in my roughs, the finished artwork seems more lively. And it&#8217;s easy in Procreate, to simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-12373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-the-art-kid-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}